Philip C. Salmon

Phil began his bookselling career in 1994, the consequence of a collecting interest in the poet Robert Frost. He spent many years working as a freelance cataloger and book scout, and operated his own internet bookselling firm before moving to Portugal in 1998. In June of 2000, Phil Salmon joined Bromer Booksellers as Manager. In his time with the firm, Phil became an integral part of the company, attending auctions, exhibiting at book fairs, and handling other key responsibilities. In 2013, he helped shepherd the Albion press that printed the Kelmscott Chaucer to its current home at the Rochester Institute of Technology, acting as their agent at auction. He also performed numerous appraisals for institutional customers, including a significant portion of the Gore Vidal archive, and the State Library of Massachusetts' copy of Audubon's Birds of America double-elephant folio. Phil co-founded Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books in 2024 and considers it "an honor and a privilege" to do what he loves for a living.