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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鈥檚 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鈥� 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 4.40 avg rating — 954 ratings — published 2025 — 6 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 (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) (Contributor), Amy Landon (Narrator) 3.88 avg rating — 891 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 (老虎机稳赢方法 Author), J.P. Romney 3.83 avg rating — 596 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 (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) (editor), Margaret Dunlap (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) (Contributor), Carlos Hernandez (Contributor) 3.58 avg rating — 36 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
	Native Tongue Trilogy by Suzette Haden Elgin, Leni Zumas (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) (Foreword), Rebecca Romney (老虎机稳赢方法 Author) (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“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.”
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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.”
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“It is a poor mind that is never in conflict.”
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