Who We Are

Rebecca Romney

Rebecca Romney co-founded Type Punch Matrix in 2019 after over a decade in the trade (at Bauman Rare Books and Honey & Wax Booksellers). Since 2011 she has appeared as the rare book specialist on the History Channel’s show Pawn Stars;  she was also featured in the documentary The Booksellers, which premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Rebecca is the author Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History (HarperCollins; with JP Romney) and The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999. Her latest book is Jane Austen's Bookshelf (Simon & Schuster), chronicling her efforts to build a book collection of Austen's favorite women writers. Rebecca is the co-founder of the Honey & Wax Prize. Her work as a bookseller or writer has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Forbes, Variety, The Paris Review, NPR, and more. Rebecca is on the board of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA), the Council of the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA), and on the board and faculty of the Antiquarian Book Seminars (CABS-Minnesota). She is a member of the Grolier Club, the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie (AIB), the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), and the Baker Street Irregulars (BSI). (Photo credit: Donnamaria R. Jones.)

Brian Cassidy

Brian Cassidy has been a bookseller in one form or another since 1994. After graduating from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop and working in a series of independent bookshops, he launched Brian Cassidy Bookseller in 2004, specializing in the Beats, the Mimeo Revolution, and countercultural movements. With Rebecca Romney, he co-founded Type Punch Matrix in 2019, and in 2020 BCB officially joined TPM. For almost ten years, Brian was on the faculty of the Antiquarian Book Seminar, and now teaches a class on the history and identification of 20th century duplicating technologies for Rare Book School, a subject on which he has lectured at NYU, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, and elsewhere. His work as a bookseller has been featured in many publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Barron's, The Guardian, The Pitchfork Review, and The Village Voice, where Richard Hell once described him as "an enthusiastic, soulful dealer." Please put that on his tombstone.

Embry Clark

Embry Clark spent thirteen years as a bookseller and manager at Bauman Rare Books before joining TPM in 2021. She reads mostly true crime, queer romance, poetry, and non-fiction about interesting weirdos. As a collector, she's devoid of all discipline. Her degrees (from Beloit College and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas) are in poetry.

Cloud Guillén

Cloud Guillén is a bookseller and sequential artist with a BFA in Communication Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. As a reader, she loves consuming history on Latinx mythology/culture, queer historical fantasy, webcomics (along with making her own!), and anything veering toward the occult.