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Honey & Wax Booksellers
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Rare books in Philadelphia.

Awarding the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize since 2017.

Use books as bees use flowers.

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Honey & Wax Booksellers @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social · Sep 25
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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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!
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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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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September 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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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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September 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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:

themillions.com/2025/09/meet...
Stylized image of a woman reading a book, adapted from a publisher's binding, with a banner reading "Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize 2025."
September 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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.
August 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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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.
June 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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!
June 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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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.
May 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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.)
May 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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.
May 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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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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May 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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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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April 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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.
April 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Deadline for submissions is July 1, 2025.
April 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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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?
Three copies of Tom Phillips's artist's book The Heart of a Humument. At left, binding by Richard Minsky on the 1986 Talfourd Press edition. At center, the work of an unknown competition binder on the 1985 Hansjörg Mayer edition. At right, binding by Pella Erskine-Tulloch and Jane Rollo on the 1986 Talfourd Press edition.
March 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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February short list of art + design, from Honey & Wax:

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Le Relieur (1965), a deluxe toy bookbinding kit for fancy French children. Boxed set contains manufacturer’s brochure, zinc plate, clamps, vial of glue (evaporated), ruler, bone folder, pencil, ribbon, paper and wooden boards, plain and patterned papers, bookbinding mull, and bookcloth in multiple colors.
February 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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The Caxton Club is pleased to support 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women aged 30 or younger. Submissions are now open. www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

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February 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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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February 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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New year, new books! 12 recent acquisitions at Honey & Wax:

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Uncut nineteenth-century box label for E.S. Curtis's Warranted Superior Blue Black Ink, printed in Boston, circa 1850.
January 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Great interview with Elena Wicker, who won the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for her collection of American military dictionaries: www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Winner Elena Wicker on Collecting American Military Dictionaries, Glossaries, and Lexicons
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Elena Wicker, winner of the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting prize for women collectors aged 30 and younger:Where are you from / where do you li...
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January 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Quiet highlights of this Christmas week's reading: Linnea Sterte's A Frog in the Fall (2022) and Susie Boyt's Loved and Missed (2023).
Cover design of Linnea Sterte's graphic novel A Frog in the Fall (2022), showing Minor Frog embarking on his journey to the tropics in the company of two toad vagrants. Cover design of Susie Boyt's Loved and Missed (2023), a detail of a painting by Chantal Joffe depicting a woman and a young child.
December 29, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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Anatol Kovarsky’s original artwork for the December 19, 1964 cover of The New Yorker, with dozens of tiny cut-out Christmas presents and shopping bags — a craft idea for this week? Happy holidays from Honey & Wax!
Anatol Kovarsky’s original artwork for the December 19, 1964 cover of The New Yorker, with dozens of tiny cut-out Christmas presents and shopping bags. The pattern features Christmas shoppers dashing past a series of Salvation-Army style Santas waving their bells.
December 26, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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First edition of American Folk Songs for Christmas (1953), compiled by composer and folklorist Ruth Seeger, illustrated by Caldecott medalist Barbara Cooney. See this and more holiday gift ideas in our December miscellany, the last e-list of the year! www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Dec2024...
Cover illustration by Barbara Cooney for Ruth Seeger’s American Folk Songs for Christmas (1953), depicting a three children pulling up to a rural cabin in a sleigh, carrying Christmas decorations.
December 18, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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Unhinged art direction . . . but maybe also genius?
December 15, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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Thanks to @finebooks.bsky.social for featuring Elena Ganzevoort and her sparkly collection of Art Nouveau publishers' bindings, an honorable mention in the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Honorable Mention Elena Ganzevoort on Art Nouveau, Jane Austen, and Cranford
Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Elena Ganzevoort, honorable mention in the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for women collectors aged 30 or younger.Where are you from / w...
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December 11, 2024 at 11:23 PM