Manuscript Society: Reading Marks on Silver Free Webinar

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society ‘Reading’ Silver – How to identity those marks. Sterling or silverplate? Domestic or foreign? Free – Live Webinar, Special Date – Tuesday, September 6, 2022 8:00 PM Eastern , Question and Answers at the End Hosted by Brian Kathenes Great Grandmother’s Silver. Now it is your silver, and you don’t […]

A Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton, featuring Stanley Corngold

From the Friends of the Princeton University Library A Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton, featuring Stanley Corngold Wednesday September 7:00 at 4:00pm Eastern time On September 7, the Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk series returns with Professor Stanley Corngold, an emeritus professor of German and Comparative Literature, and a discussion about […]

Alex Johnson & James Oses on “Rooms of Their Own – Where Great Writers Write”

Sponsored by The Caxton Club Sept 9, noon Chicago time “Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.” – Dorothy Parker A blunt assessment indeed … but Hemingway would not have stood for sitting while Proust would gladly have taken her injunction lying down. Where and how fifty writers wrote (and write) […]

Bookplate Collecting in America

Sponsored by The Book Club of California and The American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers Sept. 12 , 6:00pm Los Angeles/Pacific time A celebration of the centenary of organized bookplate collecting in the United States. An in-person and virtual presentation via Zoom by William E. Butler, bibliophile, editor, and exlibrist. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LElQfNxlRBOqAEuJxEl90A?mc_cid=e039041088&mc_eid=55809a2ee8  

Jennifer Larson on Little Books and Big Ideas in the Seventeenth Century

Sponsored by The Baxter Society. On Zoom, Wed. Sept. 14 at 7:00pm Eastern Time Jennifer Larson, Chair of FABS, will give an illustrated lecture on her collection of miniature and small format books printed in the 17th century, their relationship to the intellectual currents of the time, and the reasons for the production of tiny […]

Outlaw Printing: How Discontents, Troublemakers, Organizers, and Visionaries Published for Social Change

Sponsored by The Book Club of California and The Northern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America Sept. 19, 6:00pm-7:15pm Los Angeles/Pacific time Every movement needs a voice, and ever since Gutenberg systematized the concept of movable type posters have been one of the media of choice for discontents, troublemakers, poets, organizers, and […]

Jane Austen Mondays at the Rosenbach Library and Museum begin September 19

Presented by the Rosenback Library and Museum Selected Mondays September-November, 7:00-8:30pm Eastern Time “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!" A continuation of our Sundays With ... series, our new Austen Mondays series will focus on Pride and Prejudice by […]

Virtual Lecture on Photographer George Platt Lynes

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Allen Ellenzweig will speak on photographer George Lynes. September 20, 6:00pm New York time About this event Virtual talk by Allen Ellenzweig, author of George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye . Lynes (1907-1955) was the lover of, and collaborator with, Grolier Council member Monroe Wheeler, an exhibition curator and art book designer […]

Virtual Salon on Black Bibliography

Presented by the Bibliographical Society of America The June 2022 issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) is devoted to the traditions and futures of Black Bibliography. Join guest Editors Jacqueline Goldsby and Meredith McGill, together with authors and contributors to the volume, for a Virtual Salon on September 22, 2022 […]

The Intimate Art of Altered Books with Phylis Brody

Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Sep 22, 7:00pm-8:30 New York/Eastern time Phylis Brody is a life-long experimenter and doer of arts and crafts, including dimensional quilts and textiles, encaustic painting, assemblage, and altered books. In her words, “Each book is a small and intimate work of art that compels the viewer to pay attention […]