Virtual Tour & Q&A: Zoe Anderson Norris, Queen of Bohemia
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join Curator Eve Kahn for a pre-recorded virtual tour of "Zoe Anderson Norris, Queen of Bohemia," followed by a live Q&A. “To Fight for the […]
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Dennis Duncan on Index, A History of the
Sponsored by The Caxton Club May Midday Program Now we take search for granted, asking Alexa or Siri to race through the Internet to find (though not always on the […]
The Oscar Lewis Awards: Book Club of California
Sponsored by The Book Club of California The Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992), author, historian, and […]
Novelist Susan King on Lady Macbeth
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Our Thursday, May 18 (ZOOM) program features novelist Susan King. She will tell us what motivated her to write a very different (from Shakespeare) version […]
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric — and What It Means for America’s Power Grid
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In […]
Dave Richards: “I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library, 1656-2022”
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolier member David Alan Richards (Stamford, CT), retired lawyer and literary, social, and legal historian, will give an illustrated talk on his new book from […]
Manuscript Monday – History in Your Hands: A Passion for Collecting
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Presenter: Dr. Stuart Embury Moderator: Brian Kathenes John Sloan Letter – collection of S. Embury It’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, […]
Henry Voigt on “A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus, 1841-1941”
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Menus can transport us back to the everyday life of the past, whether to a lavish banquet in the Gilded Age or a food-relief eatery […]
Tara O’Brien on Book Arts in American History: Printing, Binding, and Illustration
Sponsored by The Caxton Club We’re hoping that our June speaker will have enough material to draw on in order to fashion a presentation. After all, she has access to […]
David Ruggles Prize for Young Collectors of Color: Deadline
The David Ruggles Prize is an international book collecting prize created to support and encourage young collectors of color: https://rugglesprize.org/ The prize honors the legacy of David Ruggles, an early […]
Frank Ingerson and George Dennison: A Bay Area Love Story in Arts & Crafts (1910-1966)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California The Splendid Disarray of Beauty (2023) tells two intertwined stories, one of love, the other of art. In 1910, the San Franciscans Frank […]
Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize deadline
The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize confers a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman. The deadline is June 15. […]