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 […]
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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. […]
Manuscript Society Digest for May and June 2023
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Digest: May – June 2023 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and […]
ABAA 2023 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Deadline
Sponsored by the ABAA We are pleased to announce the ABAA is accepting entries for the 2023 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest where more than $6,000 in prizes will be […]
From Bookcase to Bender Room, and Beyond: Approaching the Centennial of Rare Book Collecting at Stanford
Sponsored by The Book Club of California In September of 1926, Albert M. Bender turned his philanthropic focus on Stanford University Library. As one of the founders of the Book […]