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
Congratulations! Wonderful news.
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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
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.
I consider this one of the most important donations I can make. To be clear, the Paving the Way fund supports the legal expenses.
It’s so beautiful
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.
As one working on a big Sappho project, I feel your pain.
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.
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.
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...
The process is the point :)
Eeeee I love this book so much and I am utterly delighted by this
And on top of that you were amazing at the event!!
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.
Thank you!
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.”
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...
Today in Cleveland!
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...
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...
Had a lovely Janeite conversation on the JASNA podcast about Austen’s favorite books! Listen here:
jasna.org/austen/podca...
The Science Behind Old Book Smell
Identifying a first edition vs. a book club edition:
Thank you!
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
Absolutely delighted to hear it!
Correct. They’re interesting as bibliographic curiosities but not much sought on the collectible market place.
Ugh, autocorrect: *piracy
Yeah that’s likely a Taiwanese privacy. A big thing in this time period: www.nytimes.com/1971/08/27/a...
