1/2/2024 0 Comments Origins of the book collector![]() As a collector you want to avoid books with remainder marks. DJ - Slightest edge wear bottom edge.) If the book has a remainder mark (a mark, usually on the bottom edge, placed by a publisher selling off books at a discount) that must be stated. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here. If there is any flaw to a book or dj labeled Fine (F), the bookseller needs to describe it. ![]() “Oh, you can’t help that…we’re all mad here. “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. Our evening includes dinner, a silent auction (including copies of Rebecca’s book), and a hands-on display of books, selected especially with bibliomaniacs in mind, from the Rare Books Department. She is a member of the Grolier Club, the Philobiblon Club, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and Rare Book School, and serves on the Rare Book School Scholarship Committee. Since 2011, she has appeared regularly as the rare book expert on the History Channel’s show “Pawn Stars.” Now settled on the East Coast, Romney joined Honey & Wax in the summer of 2016 in 2017, she and her partner Heather O’Donnell established the Honey & Wax Prize, an award for an accomplished book collection created by a young woman. She became manager of the gallery two years later, eventually moving to Philadelphia to manage the central operations of the firm. Romney first joined the rare book trade in 2007, when she was hired to help launch the Las Vegas gallery of Bauman Rare Books. Romney) of Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories in Book History (HarperCollins). Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer at Honey & Wax Booksellers and the author (with J.P. This is the story of five books which demonstrate that the printed word is glorious, but it’s also nuts - because we are gloriously nuts. Our predecessors who lived hundreds of years ago are not so very different from us, and we can’t help but laugh in recognition of our shared folly. But remember: humankind is also full of idiots. Printer’s Error tells stories from the history of print - which all sounds very dignified after all, the printing press has recorded and spread some of the greatest achievements of humankind. Rebecca Romney, co-author of Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History presents “Human Error in the History of Print: A Story in Five Books. Please join us for The Friends of the Library seventh annual Book Collector’s Evening. The printing press is a stage upon which the entire drama of human thought and morality is acted out.” - Rebecca Romney, from Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History “The history of the printed word reveals our capacity for brilliance, but it also reveals our capacity for blunder.
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