Times Literary Supplement —  The hands of the clock in the Park Avenue Armory are stuck in an impossible position... 

The New Yorker — A group of rare-book dealers and collectors explain their specialized language...

The Economist — They are hunters and pack-rats, guardians of the unusual and obscure. Rare-book dealers sound like an obsessive breed you might have thought was long extinct (inevitably, the phrase conjures an image of a pipe-smoking gentleman in tweed). Yet as a delightful new documentary makes clear, today’s dealers and collectors are much livelier than the stereotype...

The Magazine Antiques — More than two hundred dealers in rare books, maps, photos, memorabilia, and such have gathered for the sixtieth annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair—the most important event on international book dealers’ calendar—at the Park Avenue Armory...

The Guardian —  The annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is a maze of glass shelves and display case lighting, a bounty of time portals in the arrangement of a sprawling jewelry convention...

LitHub —  Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the fourth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1000 to an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman...

LetterShop Books  —  Tucked away between Whole Foods and a craft microbrewery, I found Heather in the office and bookroom of her business of eight years, Honey & Wax . . . 

Fine Books and Collections —  Earlier this year, we invited hundreds of antiquarian and rare book dealers to tell us about a unique or noteworthy recent sale. Here’s an illustrated sampling of their submissions . . . 

Rare Book School Lectures at Soundcloud: complete recording of the 2019 Malkin Lecture at Rare Book School, delivered by Heather O'Donnell and Rebecca Romney.

Seattle Review of Books —  Three years ago, antiquarian bookstore Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn founded the Honey & Wax Prize, which Rebecca Romney, over the phone, explains is “an annual award for an outstanding book collection that was formed by a woman in the United States, age 30 or younger” . . .  

Forbes —  On Sunday, I took a break from my regular sports collectibles beat and spent two-and-a-half hours at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair's Discovery Day. The hosts invited guests to “bring up to five treasures to be evaluated by our experts"...

Book Post  —  A cheer went up on our block this week when we learned that the local used bookshop, Left Bank Books, was returning... 

LitHub — Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the third annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which will award $1000 to an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman...

Journal of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies  —  Back in June, we had the opportunity to interview booksellers Heather O'Donnell and Rebecca Romney about the Honey & Wax Prize, engaging young collectors, and what's next for the Brooklyn bookselling firm . . . 

Book and Paper Fairs Blog —  Heather O’Donnell and Rebecca Romney of Brooklyn-based Honey & Wax feel the historically male-dominated profession of antiquarian bookselling needs to be more welcoming to women and have suggested a few ways such change could come about...

The Paris Review —  In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Dalloway picks up the phone and receives a solo lunch-party invite intended for her husband, from another woman...

CrimeReads —  My love for Raymond Chandler's work has been tested over the years...

AbeBooks — To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, we asked Heather O'Donnell and Rebecca Romney of Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn, New York, about the current situation for women in antiquarian bookselling...

Mental Floss — If you’re like me, you see books the way others see their closest friends and family...

The New Antiquarian — We asked ABAA members to let us know which items they were particulaly excited about bringing to the upcoming Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair and they responded with a breath-taking selection of truly spectacular association copies, signed books, art, and idiosyncratic ephemera from all corners of the globe . . . 

Book Riot — Sure, you can research and buy rare books online, but if you’re itching to browse and discover something truly special (or prefer an in-person chat with an expert while looking for something specific) there are plenty of wonderful antiquarian bookstores all over the United States...

Melville House —  Is there an award for “Best Award?” Because if so, the clear winner would be New York City’s Honey & Wax Booksellers...

Fine Books and Collections — Last week, New York's Honey & Wax Booksellers announced the winners of their inaugural book collecting prize for young women . . .

Fine Books and Collections — As promised in yesterday’s post, here are some underappreciated women writers to spot at the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend . . .

Book Riot — Recently I came across a notice for the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for young female book collectors...

Fine Books and Collections — Exciting news for young female book collectors: Brooklyn’s Honey & Wax Booksellers has announced an annual prize of $1,000...  

LitHub — The New York Antiquarian Book Fair just left town after three days of bibliomania in the Park Avenue Armory...

The Paris Review  — The Park Avenue Armory is a vast reserve of air and space on a cramped island...

Fine Books and Collections  — On a clear day in 1928, a plane flew over Manhattan leaving a trail of smoke reading MURDER? It was the Roaring Twenties...

Fine Books and Collections — Be sure to visit stall A33 and welcome Honey & Wax Booksellers to its first New York Antiquarian Book Fair...

New York Times — My mother said the book would be valuable one day. Her only regret was that over the years of reading it to me and my sister, she had been careless about pulling it off the shelf and had torn the delicate red leather of the spine...

Wall Street Journal — Digital disruption notwithstanding, book collecting appears to be alive and well...

The Book Collector — More discreet, more elegant, and just as convincing -- but without the taurine testosterone element -- is the pretty, small-format third catalog from Honey & Wax...

The Brooklyn Paper — What's better than receiving a new book for Christmas? An old book!...

Vanity Fair Holiday Gift Guide — Go to one of your favourite book shops and pick up a book of Yeats poetry, or try this one from Honey & Wax...

Brooklyn Paper — Come on down. The Greenpoint convention center is opening its doors next month for its first event, the Brooklyn Antiques and Book Fair...

DNAinfo — Ever wondered whether your grandfather's dusty copy of To Kill A Mockingbird was worth something?...

Fine Books & Collections — From Honey & Wax Booksellers, this extraordinary, fine first edition of À la recherche du temps perdu, inscribed by Marcel Proust to fellow writer Marcel Prévost, includes the scarce first issue of the first volume...

Los Angeles Times — Events like this weekend's California International Antiquarian Book Fair and an online presence are key to the new generation of book dealers...

Brooklyn Quarterly — Tucked along a stretch of Park Slope's Fifth Avenue most known for brunch spots and sports bars, the Old Stone House is a postage stamp of American colonial real estate...  

Gotham Magazine —Katie Ridder: By The Book. Honey & Wax Booksellers has a charming selection of titles that make the most thoughtful gifts for book lovers...

Americana Exchange — Last month I found myself reporting on a local event, and noticed I was the only member of the press with a pen and pad...

Brooklyn Magazine — Heather O’Donnell, founder of Honey & Wax Booksellers, came to Brooklyn in 1997 to finish her dissertation...