It was February of 2013. I walked into the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California, following the signs to the “Codex Book Fair and Symposium”… I had just handed in my resignation notice to my then-current employer, where I was selling software – and hating every moment of it. I had made the decision to make a career leap. A rather HUGE career leap – from selling software to being a bookseller. So I wanted to check out what this “Codex” thing was all about. The hall was a cacophony of sights and sounds: the glass wall with a view of the Harbour, soaring skyward, let in so much natural light it was like being outdoors on a warm spring day. Thousands of voices were talking, exclaiming, sharing, filled with delight and the joy of the discovery of the unexpected. As I walked down aisle after aisle of “artist books” I was o... [more Discovering Artists’ Books]
Blog posts by Laurelle Swan
Laurelle Swan was drawn to old books as a child. Having completed a successful career in business and corporate sales, Laurelle decided to share her love of fine books with others and thus Swan’s Fine Books was born.
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The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and ArchaeologyFirst Editionby Finney, Paul Corby (General Editor)
Eerdmans , 2017
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Nature's Metropolis; Chicago and the Great WestFirst Editionby Cronon, William
New York : W.W. Norton & Company , 1991
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![Ästhetische Grundbegriffe: Historisches Wörterbuch in sieben Bänden [Basic aesthetic terms: Historical dictionary in seven volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/650/411/1668411650.0.m.jpg)
Ästhetische Grundbegriffe: Historisches Wörterbuch in sieben Bänden [Basic aesthetic terms: Historical dictionary in seven volumes]by Karlheinz Barch, Martin Fontius, Dieter Schlenstedt, Burkhart Steinwachs, Freidrich Wolfzettel (Editors)
Stuttgart, Weimar : J.B. Metzler , 2010
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The Omnibus Homo Sacer; Meridian, Crossing Aestheticsby Agamben, Giorgio
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press , 2017
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The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asiaby Sinor, Denis (Editor)
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1990
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Rummy, That Noble Game; Expounded in Prose, Poetry, Diagram and...With an Account of Certain Diversions Into the Mountain Fastnesses of Cork and KerrySignedby Coppard, A.E.; Gibbings, Robert (Illustrations)
Waltham Saint Lawrence : The Golden Cockerel Press , 1932
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