
Rebecca Romney
@rebeccaromney
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Rare book dealer @typepunchmatrix; author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF; the book specialist @PawnStars; co-founder, Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
Joined April 2009
@RealGDT “the material nature of a handmade piece of animation” - the way you talk about materiality’s effect upon aesthetics here is so great.
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One of my favorite items in the new @typepunchmatrix catalogue is an elaborate Victorian scrapbook in the form of a sequential tour of a house. Literally every one of us here fell in love with this book.
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I should have given a warning in the @FatedMates episode about collecting romance — collecting is addictive! In it I talk about $10 as my spending limit for adding to my Ace gothic romances collection. I’d been very good about that… Until I found the original cover art for one.
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Romancelandia: I’ve decided. This is happening. Do you collect vintage and rare romance books? . I’ve made a dedicated mailing list just for all the great romance first editions that are passing through the shop @typepunchmatrix. (Signup link in next tweet)
Romancelandia: if I were to create a special mailing list at my rare book company @typepunchmatrix just for announcing the availability of newly acquired vintage and rare romance books, you would sign up? . Emails would be once a month at most. Price points prolly $15 and up.
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It’s finally pub date for JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF! My most heartfelt thanks to @MSRBooks @simonschuster @SimonAudio for making it real. (Links in next post.)
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One of the best parts of being an adult for me has been learning to embrace unabashedly the things I like — regardless of whether they seem “boring” to someone else.
as you approach your 30s it’s very very important that you acquire a “boring” interest that will develop into an obsession as you age. local water policy, shipping containers, composting, amateur geology, metal detectors, collecting old coins.
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The first time readers in English saw Don Quixote tilting at windmills: this is the 1687 first illustrated edition of Cervantes’s book in English. #OnMyDeskToday (and on its way to a new home)
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Telling another rare book dealer your price code is like telling someone in Earthsea your true name.
fun fact, a lot of rare booksellers will pencil their books with the price they bought it for in a personal cipher so that they can check their margin at a glance but so no-one else will be able to figure out how much profit they are making.
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Delighted by this 1909 proto-steampunk science fiction novella by Kipling, set in a dirigible-filled year 2000. The binding design is spectacular, but what really does it for me are the FAKE ADS at the rear for sf tech and futuristic book titles. #sff #steampunk
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Cotton Mather’s account of the Salem witch trials, first London edition, 1693. #OnMyDeskToday
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After the pre-holiday move, we are finally starting to feel a bit settled in our new offices @typepunchmatrix. The transformation isn’t yet complete, but at least we are beginning to resemble a bookshop again. (Also, that’s Mary Mapes Dodge presiding on the coffee table there.)
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Turns out moving a company with 10,000+ rare and collectible books is a lot of work. @BookstoreMovers living up to their name helping us in this multi-day move 😅
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Well this feels seasonably appropriate. I was going through a box of early 19th century children’s books we acquired and came across … a skeleton praying? #OnMyDeskToday
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French science fiction author and illustrator Albert Robida imagines a future New York City in 1925. #OnMyDeskToday
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This uncorrected proof of Samuel R. Delany’s 1984 novel comes with an internal Bantam letter to the sales force from editor Lou Aronica: “please pass this along to a bookseller who loves science fiction or majestically lyrical prose” #OnMyDeskToday
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@PublishersWkly Don’t care about Fabio’s opinion even a little bit; do care that not a single cover artist is credited in the article, like Elaine Duillo, who created the cover art for the book shown and captioned as Fabio’s debut.
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Check out this first edition of Ray Bradbury's Illustrated Man in a tattooed binding. We specially commissioned it from artist A. von Hemmersbach. (This one has already sold, but I had to share it as another favorite item from the new @typepunchmatrix catalogue.) #SFF
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An ABC of dragons, created by a pretender to the Stuart royal line! . Last week the Curious Objects podcast indulged my obsession with an odd 19th century manuscript we have at @typepunchmatrix —. Listen on Apple or Spotify (links below)
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Sherlockians! We’re starting to catalogue this material & there is a HUGE range. Not just high spots, but every nook & cranny of Sherlockiana. We are creating an email list just for this. Contact @typepunchmatrix if you’d like to be added & hear about material as it’s processed.
These boxes represent my whole life as a collector of Sherlock Holmes/Doyle/vintage Baker Street Irregulars material. 1st editions, Strands in original parts to pb pastiches and more. Now in the capable hands of @rebeccaromney: Sherlockians contact @typepunchmatrix for updates.
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Romance readers! Interested in beginning a rare book collection, but not sure how to go about it? On October 15 I’m doing a virtual class on romance collecting basics hosted by @oldtownbooks. Join us:.
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