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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 3d

Check it out! Our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social won the @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Book Collecting Prize for her collection of materials related to Shakespearean breeches actresses! ✨🎩 Points Like A Man even gets a shout-out!

Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 12d

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
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Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American...

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Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 13d

William Reese, Honey & Wax, and Peter Harrington on the Move
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William Reese, Honey & Wax, and Peter Harrington on the Move

After nearly five decades in New Haven the William Reese Company officially opens at its new home in New York City today.The firm’s new home is an 8th floor gallery and office space at 14 East 60th St...

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Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 12d

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize
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Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize

Alexandra E. LaGrand has won the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her archive documenting Shakespearean breeches actresses over the long 19th century.The annual prize, which rewards American...

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 13d

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! Stay tuned this week for more on the fascinating winning collection and honorable mentions:

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Stylized image of a woman reading a book, adapted from a publisher's binding, with a banner reading "Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2025."

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · 20d

How beautiful. 💛

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Aug 28

August short list of new acquisitions at Honey & Wax: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/August2...

Clio, the muse of history, extends an uncut quill to a warrior "saying, that it belonged to him to cut it with his sword; and if that cut well, the pen would write the better.” The moral of the story is that “it was not the writing, but men’s great actions, that rendered them immortal in history.” Wood-engraved illustration on the cover of an American schoolgirl's composition book, circa 1850.

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thyself how wondrous then Unspeakable who sit’st above these Heavens to us invisible or Dimly seen ✨✨✨

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

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

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Jun 9

Three weeks to go: deadline July 1! Submissions open for the ninth annual 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 our website!

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · May 27

May short list of paintings, prints, and illustration from Honey & Wax: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/May2025...

Hand-painted cigarette advertisement, part of an promotional concertina produced for a provincial French stationer in the 1920s.

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · May 25

Congratulations, Jason!

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · May 21

Six weeks to go: deadline July 1! Enter the 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 here! www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

The Honey & Wax Prize 2025 poster, featuring a woman reading a book (image adapted from a vintage publisher’s binding.)

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · May 16

Sending you off into the weekend with a really fun e-list by my 2024-2025 ABAA mentee Maggie Erwin: Early Printers & The Modern Imagination! Contact Maggie directly to order. www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/MaggieE...

A fifteenth-century printer at work on a handpress.

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · May 5

Talking bookselling with @nybooks:
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Joie de Livre | Heather O’Donnell, Lauren Kane

“Offbeat material is where the value lies.”

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Apr 29

One week left to see The Morgan's ambitious Belle da Costa Greene exhibition, well worth a visit!

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Ambition, Discipline, Nerve | Heather O’Donnell

The qualities that enabled Belle da Costa Greene to cross the color line were the same ones that made her a formidable negotiator and collector for J.P. Morgan’s library, which she led for over twenty...

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Apr 21

Deadline July 1! Announcing the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection built by a woman, aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the United States. If your bookshop or library or book club could use some flyers, send us your address and we’ll set you up.

Image of a woman reading a book, adapted from the publisher’s binding on an 1899 edition of Boccaccio, and the title: Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.

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Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · Apr 9

Deadline for submissions is July 1, 2025.

Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Feb 20

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Submissions are open for the 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.

Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the ninth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 for “an outstanding book collection conceived and b…

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Mar 29

Ugh. Thanks. It's a miracle no one died.

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Mar 29

Do you know if the guy with the dog is going to be OK? I was across the street when this happened and it looked bad.

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Mar 28

Design binder hive mind! At the armory next week, we'll have 4 books owned by British book artist Tom Phillips, including 3 copies of his Heart of a Humument. Left + right are in signed bindings. Phillips bought the middle one from an unknown competition binder in 1988. Who bound the green copy?