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Flyer for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, featuring a woman reading a book.

Flyer for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, featuring a woman reading a book.

Deadline July 1 for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Explore the collections of past winners on the Honey & Wax website! www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

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Congratulations! Wonderful news.

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text: 10 days left to reach our fundraiser goal, we need you ! Indiegogo and Locus logos and Cluso alien

text: 10 days left to reach our fundraiser goal, we need you ! Indiegogo and Locus logos and Cluso alien

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN!
We have 10 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!!

Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!

Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

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If anyone's curious, my 18C Novel Course will be reading:

Haywood, FANTOMINA (1725)
Fielding, THE GOVERNESS (1749)
Burney, EVELINA (1778)
Austen, EMMA (1816)
Anonymous, THE WOMAN OF COLOUR

With @rebeccaromney.com JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF as guide to an additional novel adoption.

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I consider this one of the most important donations I can make. To be clear, the Paving the Way fund supports the legal expenses.

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It’s so beautiful

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This is well said. In the humanities, often the process itself is the point. The field of AI is results focused. AI will not be of much use to the humanities as long as its function (and branding) is to eliminate process — to eliminate thinking and experience-based learning.

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As one working on a big Sappho project, I feel your pain.

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As a rare book dealer I think a lot about which books survive the centuries to continue to be read by subsequent generations.

Among the books of the 20th century I most believe should continue to be read in 200 years: Goodnight Moon.

It is a perfect book.

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Got a want match for a rare book and can’t remember why I made the want in the first place: The Rebecca Romney Story.

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Photo of a wood-floored gallery with a large floating gray wall filling most of the frame. In the wall are large red vinyl letters: “10 × 10 for 10” in different styles, and “Ten years of Letterform Archive. One hundred objects of typographic design.” in smaller text. A stack of posters on a pedestal is in the foreground, and people looking at art in the gallery in the background.

Photo of a wood-floored gallery with a large floating gray wall filling most of the frame. In the wall are large red vinyl letters: “10 × 10 for 10” in different styles, and “Ten years of Letterform Archive. One hundred objects of typographic design.” in smaller text. A stack of posters on a pedestal is in the foreground, and people looking at art in the gallery in the background.

We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary with an exhibition of our most beloved artifacts—100 objects selected by the 10 teams who steward the collection.

10 × 10 for 10 is on view until October 2025.

Thu: 1:00pm–8:00pm (free!)
Fri–Sat: 11:00am–6:00pm

Visit: letterformarchive.org/visit/?utm_c...

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The process is the point :)

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Eeeee I love this book so much and I am utterly delighted by this

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And on top of that you were amazing at the event!!

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a woman in a blue dress is reaching for a book on a ladder ALT: a woman in a blue dress is reaching for a book on a ladder

There are 5 independent book stores within 2 miles of me—Da Book Joint, Call & Response Books, 57th Street Books, Seminary-Coop, and Powells— and I am looking forward to visiting all of them this Saturday on Independent Bookstore Day.

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Thank you!

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I finished this book over the weekend and it is *such* a great read! For Austen fans especially, but it’s more than that: about book collecting, women writers, and how writers become part of “the canon.”

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Press image for Author Events Presents, April 24th at 7:00pm, Rebecca Romney in conversation with Allie Alvis, in person at thr Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia, with headshots of both people and an image of the front cover of JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF

Press image for Author Events Presents, April 24th at 7:00pm, Rebecca Romney in conversation with Allie Alvis, in person at thr Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia, with headshots of both people and an image of the front cover of JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF

This Thursday 4/24 come to Philadelphia to hear @book-historia.bsky.social and I geek out about book collecting and discuss my new book, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...

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Today in Cleveland!

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Events: Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend The Author Events Series presents Rebecca Romney | Jane Austens Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collectors Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend REGISTER In Conversation with Allie Alvis Ja...

Philly & Wilmington people! Are you interested in Jane Austen and the women she read? Have I got a book event for you! 🤩 THIS THURSDAY, come to the @freelibrary.bsky.social author talk for Jane Austen's Bookshelf with @rebeccaromney.com in conversation with ME! libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...

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Promo image for Rebecca Romney in conversation with Allie Alvis

Promo image for Rebecca Romney in conversation with Allie Alvis

Next Thursday, come to the @freelibrary.bsky.social to hear @rebeccaromney.com in conversation with little ol’ me about her FANTASTIC new book, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf! ✨ Register here: libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/aut...

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Austen Chat: Episode 22

Had a lovely Janeite conversation on the JASNA podcast about Austen’s favorite books! Listen here:

jasna.org/austen/podca...

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The Science Behind Old Book Smell #rarebooks #bookcollecting #oldbooks
The Science Behind Old Book Smell #rarebooks #bookcollecting #oldbooks YouTube video by Rebecca Romney

The Science Behind Old Book Smell

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First Edition vs Book Club Edition: How Do You Tell The Difference? #bookcollecting #rarebooks
First Edition vs Book Club Edition: How Do You Tell The Difference? #bookcollecting #rarebooks YouTube video by Rebecca Romney

Identifying a first edition vs. a book club edition:

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Thank you!

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JANE AUSTEN'S BOOKSHELF is a read that keeps on giving—
At Jane's (& @rebeccaromney.com's) recommendation, I've now read BELINDA by Maria Edgeworth, & EVELINA, by Frances Burney—
in case you are in the mood for stories in which cads are mercilessly ridiculed & get their comeuppance. #booksky

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Absolutely delighted to hear it!

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Correct. They’re interesting as bibliographic curiosities but not much sought on the collectible market place.

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Ugh, autocorrect: *piracy

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Taiwan Book Pirates Seem Outflanked (Published 1971) Chinese Nationalist Govt, which normally tolerates book piracy as profitable business, issues order to confiscate all copies of unauthorized facsimile ed of I Wallace's book Nympho and Other Maniacs, ...

Yeah that’s likely a Taiwanese privacy. A big thing in this time period: www.nytimes.com/1971/08/27/a...

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