Six weeks to go to apply for the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman, aged 30 or younger. See details & past winners on our website! This is the tenth and final year of the prize, so if you’ve been holding off on applying, seize the day.

The deadline for submissions this year is July 1, 2026.

It's that time! lithub.com/announcing-t...

February new acquisitions, including a set of ten promotional posters for the first year of M’lle New York, a downtown little magazine that ran from 1895 to 1899, inspired by the sophisticated, satirical French weeklies of the day. Check it out! www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Feb2026...

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!

William Reese, Honey & Wax, and Peter Harrington on the Move www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

Alexandra E. LaGrand Wins 2025 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

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...

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

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

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!

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

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

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...

Talking bookselling with @nybooks: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

One week left to see The Morgan's ambitious Belle da Costa Greene exhibition, well worth a visit! www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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.

Deadline for submissions is July 1, 2025.

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?

February short list of art + design, from Honey & Wax: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Feb2025...

@bookcoverlove.bsky.social @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social 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 caxtonclub.org/news

It's that time -- please share! lithub.com/submissions-...

New year, new books! 12 recent acquisitions at Honey & Wax: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/January...

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...

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).

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!

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...

Unhinged art direction . . . but maybe also genius?

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...

Who was NHLT? Variants of this modern bookplate (often with the initials more prominently featured) appear throughout auction and dealer records, but no one identifies the collector. 20th century, probably British . . . someone out there knows.

Repost with a cool song that’s under two minutes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t6RR...

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

Hello to everyone joining us here! Here's a short list of new acquisitions at Honey & Wax, focused on illustration and graphic design: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Nov2024...

20 New Acquisitions at Honey & Wax, a short list of literature, illustration, and ephemera: www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Oct2024...

The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) is turning 75! To celebrate, we’re joining more than 200 fellow booksellers in a Virtual Book Fair, opening today, September 25, running through Friday. Swing by the Honey & Wax booth: fairs.abaa.org/exhibitor/22...

It's that time -- give it up for the winners of the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! themillions.com/2024/09/meet...

On my desk today: an un-assembled paper armillary sphere from c. 1935 Madrid! From @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social 🐝 📚

What news from France?

New children's list for June! 20 items, including a group of original illustrations by Palmer Cox for the very first Brownie book. www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pdfs/Jun2024...

June 15 is the deadline for submissions to the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! $1000 for an outstanding collection built by a woman aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Good luck to all -- we can't wait to read about your collections! honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

One week to go! Submissions open til June 15 for the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding collection built by a woman aged 30 or younger, anywhere in the US. Apply here: honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

Early 19th-century board game, apparently unrecorded, tracing the history of the world from the Garden of Eden through the Napoleonic Wars. This tribute to the printing press is my favorite part.

Auroura is at work on her own book of botanical illustration: “I didn’t consider myself a collector until I heard about the contest and thought, ‘that’s me, I want to participate!’ Finding a community with shared interest in books has been a surprising and delightful experience.”

Submissions open til June 15 for the 2024 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! This week, we're celebrating our first seven winners. Today: 2023 winner Auroura Morgan, for “Hybrid Botanicals: A Modern Tattoo Artist’s Reference Collection.”

Now a grad student at EHESS in Paris, Melanie’s collecting continues to shape her geopolitical studies: “Thinking of myself as a collector has completely changed the way I think about books and publishing history, about the irreproducibility of specific copies.”