William Reese is an antiquarian bookseller based in New Haven, Connecticut.
His personal specialty is Americana, although his firm deals in English and
American literature, natural history, and color plate books.  He is a member
of The Grolier Club (served on the Council and chaired the Publications
Committee, 1981-92), the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, and the Old Book
Table.  He is a long-time trustee of the Yale Library Associates, and served
on the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, 1991-2003.  He is a
Fellow of the Morgan Library, and a former board member of the
Bibliographical Society of America.  The William Reese Company sponsors
fellowships in American bibliography and the History of the Book in the
Americas at the American Antiquarian Society, the John Carter Brown Library, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the Library Company of
Philadelphia, the Huntington Library, the Bancroft Library at the University
of California at Berkeley, and the Virginia Historical Society.  In addition, it supports fellowships through the Bibliographical Society of America and the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, where Mr. Reese taught a course in Americana for many years.  William Reese has organized a number of major book exhibitions, most recently "Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books" at the Amon Carter Museum in the spring of 2005, and "American Pictured to the Life: Illustrated Works from the Paul Mellon Bequest" at the Beinecke Library in 2002.  Both have exhibition catalogues which are useful reference tools.  His company has published a number of important reference works, such as Susanne M. Low's "A Guide to Audubon's BIRDS OF AMERICA..." (2002) and Kenneth E. Hill's "The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages at the University of California, San Diego" (2004).  He has lectured frequently on rare book and Americana topics.  Some of these talks are listed in the link provided above and here:
http://www.reeseco.com

Jessica Amanda Salmonson is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award,
ReaderCon & Lambda Awards, and a past guest of honor at World Horror
Con and awards judge at World Fantasy Con. She has written for such
publishers as Doubleday, Ace, DAW, Tor, Allen & Unwin, and Random
House, and is the author of such novels as The Golden Naginata
and Anthony Shriek and short story collections like A Silver
Thread of Madness, The Deep Museum and The Dark Tale. She
has edited of a number of anthologies including Amazons!, What Did
Miss Darrington See?, and Heroic Visions. She wrote the
reference volume The Encyclopedia of Amazons and is the editor
of the "Grim Maids" series for Ash-Tree Press in Canada, consisting of
American women's Victorian ghost stories, including Lady Ferry and
Other Mysterious Persons by Sarah Orne Jewett; The Moonstone
Mass and Others by Harriet Prescott Spoffard; The Empire of
Death Complete Weird Tales of Alice Brown; Sinister Romance
by Mary Heaton Vorse, and so on. This series is expected eventually to
grow to about 20 volumes, each with an introductory monograph. Besides
her bookish website www.violetbooks.com ; she also has an international following among temperate gardeners due to her extensive web domain www.paghat.com ; and she reviews films, especially Asian cinema and horror, at www.weirdwildrealm.com .