Parenthesis: The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association — Where are the young women collectors, and what are they acquiring? These are the questions that led antiquarian booksellers Heather O'Donnell and Rebecca Romney to establish the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize in 2017...
LitHub — In the early 1930s, a bookshop window would have displayed the pretty, pictorial dust jackets of the latest bestsellers, say Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth. A compact wooden bookshelf stuffed with colorful paperbacks might also have commanded space and attention, its slightly off-kilter sign in all caps reading: 50¢ BONIBOOKS...
LitHub — Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the fifth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1000 to an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman...
The Book Collector — You may remember that the beginning of COVID lockdown saw a fair few joint catalogues appear in the rare book world . . .
Recording of the podcast produced by the Yiddish Book Center, featuring Heather O'Donnell of Honey & Wax Booksellers and Miriam Borden, winner of the 2020 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
The Paris Review — In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged thirty years and younger . . .
Antiques Trade Gazette — “Distancing" might be a word to live by these days, but book dealers are refusing to be limited by restrictions and cancellations...
The New Yorker — A group of rare-book dealers and collectors explain their specialized language...
Recording of the webinar co-sponsored by Rare Book School and CABS-Minnesota, featuring Heather O'Donnell of Honey & Wax Booksellers, Clint Fluker of Atlanta University Center, Victoria Forsberg-Lary of Cellar Stories, Katherine Reagan of Cornell University, and Rob Rulon-Miller of Rulon-Miller Books.
Recording of the podcast hosted by Film Forum.
Recording of the webinar sponsored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, featuring Heather O'Donnell of Honey & Wax Booksellers, Athena Jackson of UCLA, Brad Johnson of the ABAA, and Dan Wechsler of Sanctuary Books.
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 Book Collector — Book dealers around the world have adapted to life in Corona quarantine...
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...
New York Times — The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, held every March at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, is the world’s premier gathering of buyers, sellers and lovers of rare books...
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...
Recording of the podcast hosted by Nigel Beale.
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...
Electric Literature — In the spring of 1965, author Shirley Jackson embarked on a cross-country college lecture tour, in a new MG sedan . . .
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 . . .
The Paris Review — In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged thirty years and younger . . .
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 . . .
The Book Collector — The Sol. M. and Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Lecture on 10 July 2019 saw Heather O'Donnell of Honey & Wax Booksellers and Rebecca Romney of Type Punch Matrix speaking on “The Right and Wrong Ways to Collect” . . .
Recording of the 2019 Malkin Lecture at Rare Book School, delivered by Heather O'Donnell of Honey & Wax Booksellers and Rebecca Romney of Type Punch Matrix.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Are you a woman age 30 or younger who collects books and ephemera to learn about a particular subject? You could win a $1000 prize . . .
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” . . .
New York Times — There are countless books at the annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, of course, but also ephemera of all kinds: posters, pamphlets, calendars, playing cards. The price tags can be eye-popping...
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"...
All Arts — Visitors to the Park Avenue Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall this weekend found the vast space transformed into a veritable cabinet of curiosities thanks to the arrival of the New York Antiquarian Book Fair...
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 — A block-long drill hall mustering 200+ antiquarian book dealers from around the world can be daunting — 55,000 square feet of back-to-back booths, ranging in feel from friendly book-shops to mini-museums, from tiny archeological digs to traveling houses of worship...
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...
The Magazine Antiques: complete Soundcloud recording of Curious Objects podcast hosted by Benjamin Miller, featuring Heather O'Donnell and Rebecca Romney.
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 . . .
The Paris Review — In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger . . .
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...
LitHub — Three years ago, Princeton received a $300 million gift — the largest donation ever collected by the institution at that time...
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...
CNN Travel — In a world filled with never-ending conflict and bad news, it's no surprise that many people want to stick their heads in the sand this summer. But I can't stop thinking about the injustices that have been dominating the news cycle...
CrimeReads — My love for Raymond Chandler's work has been tested over the years...
My Modern Met — Photographer Franck Bohbot and author Philippe Unger have joined forces for a project that looks at a niche population of New York City — independent booksellers...
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...
LitHub — Last year, Heather O’Donnell and Rebecca Romney, the booksellers of Honey & Wax, announced a brand new prize honoring the work of young female book collectors. Now, for the second time, submissions to the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize are open...
Mental Floss — If you’re like me, you see books the way others see their closest friends and family...
Mental Floss — Rebecca Romney, a rare book dealer based in Brooklyn, shares some secrets and surprises of this quirky corner of book culture...
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 . . .
The New Antiquarian — This summer at Honey & Wax, we asked young women across the United States to tell us what books they were collecting...
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...
Cool Tools — Our guest this week is Rebecca Romney. Rebecca is a rare book dealer at Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn . . .
Melville House — Is there an award for “Best Award?” Because if so, the clear winner would be New York City’s Honey & Wax Booksellers...
Bustle — If you've ever been told that you have too many books, you can rest easy knowing that someone might one day give you money . . .
Fine Books and Collections — Last week, New York's Honey & Wax Booksellers announced the winners of their inaugural book collecting prize for young women . . .
The Paris Review — Imagine a book collector, a person who has devoted their life to seeking out rare tomes in dusty shops, who arranges their finds, these prized possessions, purposefully and carefully, on a shelf just out of reach. Chances are you will have imagined a man . . .
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 . . .
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers — In his 1930 work on book collecting, Anatomy of Bibliomania, Holbrook Jackson claimed that “book love is as masculine (although not as common) as growing a beard.” Times have changed...
Book Riot — Recently I came across a notice for the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for young female book collectors...
The New Antiquarian — John Schulman of Caliban Book Shop interviews Heather O'Donnell about a new prize she and Rebecca Romney have created...
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 — This week, the women behind Brooklyn rare bookstore Honey & Wax announced a new annual prize aimed at bolstering the careers of the next generation of female book collectors...
LitHub — The New York Antiquarian Book Fair just left town after three days of bibliomania in the Park Avenue Armory...
Omnivoracious — “The New York Antiquarian Book Fair is the most important book fair for rare books in the United States, and possibly in the world,” said Heather O’Donnell, of Honey & Wax Booksellers...
The Paris Review — The Park Avenue Armory is a vast reserve of air and space on a cramped island...
Fine Books and Collections — Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Rebecca Romney, of Honey & Wax Booksellers, and author of Printer's Error, out next week from HarperCollins...
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...
The New Antiquarian — Thanks to the ABAA for hosting the first (but not last) networking event for women in the book trade at this year’s Boston Antiquarian Book Fair...
Fine Books and Collections — Be sure to visit stall A33 and welcome Honey & Wax Booksellers to its first New York Antiquarian Book Fair...
Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
Interview by Michael Ginsberg
California International Antiquarian Book Fair, 2016
Pasadena, CA
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...
Esquire Holiday Gift Guide — A book can withstand the test of time in two ways: content and construction. Honey & Wax Booksellers specializes in ones that do both...
Wall Street Journal — Digital disruption notwithstanding, book collecting appears to be alive and well...
Lapham's Quarterly — This week marks the ninetieth anniversary of The Great Gatsby...
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 Village Voice — In the latest Jennifer Lopez hate-watch masterpiece, The Boy Next Door, she plays a classics teacher...
The Brooklyn Paper — What's better than receiving a new book for Christmas? An old book!...
The Bookhunter on Safari — It may strike you as curious, as it certainly strikes me, that in over three years of blogging about visits to other booksellers, I have never yet had occasion to describe this operation in reverse...
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...
Americana Exchange — A few years ago Heather O’Donnell left her job selling rare books on Madison Avenue to launch Honey & Wax Booksellers in Brooklyn...
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...
NY City Lens — Heather O'Donnell founded Honey and Wax Booksellers in 2011, joining the ranks of rare book dealers in New York.
DNAinfo — Ever wondered whether your grandfather's dusty copy of To Kill A Mockingbird was worth something?...
Brain Pickings — Three of history's greatest geniuses converge around some of the finest satire ever written...
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...
Brain Pickings — Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus...
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 — Photographs by Kristin Oakley from the Second Annual Brooklyn Holiday Book Fair...
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...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle — For the second holiday season, Honey & Wax Booksellers will bring independent Brooklyn bookshops and antiquarian booksellers together, filling Park Slope's Old Stone House with rare, vintage, and out-of-print books...
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...
Designers & Books — This November marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first volume of Marcel Proust's opus, In Search of Lost Time...
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...
Designers & Books — A touchstone for two titans of American modernism, Walker Evans’s personal copy of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” testifies to the special connection between the photographer and the poet...
Brooklyn Magazine — Heather O’Donnell, founder of Honey & Wax Booksellers, came to Brooklyn in 1997 to finish her dissertation...
