About Us

Joe Fay is the proprietor of the Joe Fay Company. He began his bookselling career at Half Price Books shortly after graduating from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas in May 2000. He then worked as Manager of Rare Books at Heritage Auctions for eight years. In 2014, much to his surprise, he was hired by Bill Reese (mainly because he was a Texan, as it turned out). He worked in various capacities in the Americana Department of the William Reese Company until October 2021. In May 2021, he earned an MLIS from the University of Alabama, which he has no plans to use anytime soon.  From October 2021 to the same month in 2025, Joe worked as an owner & partner at McBride Rare Books in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Joe has attended numerous sessions at Rare Book School. He is a member of the Grolier Club, the Book Hunters Club of Houston, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Crew of the Barque Lone Star of Dallas, and the American Antiquarian Society. He lives in New Haven with his wife, Lisa, his twins Austen and Zooey, and a Cavachon named Fozzie.