On Wednesday, April 24, Rebecca Romney will speak to the Baxter Society in our meeting room at Glickman Library at USM, and on Zoom, at 7:00 pm. Ms. Romney is the co-founder of the DC-based rare book company Type Punch Matrix and co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
Since 2011 she has appeared as the rare book specialist on the History Channel’s show Pawn Stars. She speaks and writes widely on rare books and collecting; her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Forbes, Variety, The Paris Review, and more. She is the author of Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History and of The Romance Novel in English. Her upcoming book is Jane Austen’s Bookshelf, chronicling her efforts to build a book collection of Austen’s favorite women writers (Simon & Schuster, 2025). She will speak Wednesday on “Next Generation Book Collecting: How Gen Z is Joining the Centuries-Long Tradition.”