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...
