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Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer and the cofounder of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book company based in Washington, DC. She is the rare books specialist on the HISTORY Channel’s show Pawn Stars, and the cofounder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. She is a generalist rare book dealer, handling works in all fields, from first editions of Jane Austen to science fiction paperbacks. Her work as a bookseller or writer has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Forbes, Variety, The Paris Review, and more. In 2019, she was featured in the documentary on the rare book trade, The Booksellers. She is on the Board of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) and the faculty of the Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS-Mi ...more

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	Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend 4.33 avg rating — 2,473 ratings — published 2025 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Judas Rose (Native Tongue, #2) by Suzette Haden Elgin, Rebecca Romney (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Amy Landon (Narrator) 3.88 avg rating — 915 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History by Rebecca Romney (Goodreads Author), J.P. Romney 3.82 avg rating — 638 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Magazine Issue 45 (March/April 2022) by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (editor), Margaret Dunlap (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Carlos Hernandez (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Projections 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	About Being a Sherlockian: 60 Essays Celebrating the Sherlock Holmes Community by Christopher Redmond (Editor), Michael Dirda, Tracy J. Revels really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Best of 2020

In a chaotic year unlike anything I’ve ever experienced, books have remained a stabilizing force in my life: they can both calm and intrigue, bring challenge and joy. Here are 15 of my favorite rare books I sold at my company Type Punch Matrix amid the ups and downs of a difficult year.

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1817

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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
by Rebecca Nagle

3 votes, 33.3%

The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
by Paulina Bren

2 votes, 22.2%

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

2 votes, 22.2%

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography
by Ranulph Fiennes

1 vote, 11.1%

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
by Rebecca Romney

1 vote, 11.1%

Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
by Earl Swift

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“The sign that something does matter to us is that we lose our steadiness.”
― Adam Phillips, On Balance

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“We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.”
― Adam Phillips, On Balance

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“[Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

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“Let complication thrive.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

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“It is a poor mind that is never in conflict.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

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