Kent Bicknell on Louisa May Alcott
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Bibliophile and historian Kent Bicknell will explore his Alcott Family Collection, winner of a recent collecting prize from the New England-based Ticknor Society. Among the […]
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FABS Living With Books Group
Sponsored by FABS All are welcome to join this lively discussion group that explores the pleasures and paraphernalia of home libraries (Acquisition; History of Collecting; Cataloging and Photographing of collection […]
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Jean Pfaelzer: California, A Slave State
Sponsored by The Book Club of California California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter […]
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Language, Decipherment and Translation
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join Curator Deirdre Lawrence for a pre-recorded tour of her Grolier Club exhibition "Language, Decipherment, and Translation," followed by a Live Q&A via Zoom. The […]
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The Clements Library Collections and Buying Books in Nineteenth-Century America
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington We are delighted that Paul Erickson, Director of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan, can join us in Seattle to make […]
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The Oscar Lewis Awards of The Book Club of California
Sponsored by The Book Club of California 2024 Oscar Lewis Awards Monday, May 6, 2024, 6-7:15 PM (Pacific) In-Person and Virtual Presentation 5:00 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific […]
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Manuscript Mondays: “The Original Wikipedia: Siku Quanshu”
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society “The Original Wikipedia: 18th Century Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s Siku Quanshu Project” Free, Live Webinar Monday, May 6, 2024 – 8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00PM Pacific (U.S. and Canada) Presenter: […]
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Aaron Pratt on Shakespeare and Spencer, Secondhand
Sponsored by The Caxton Club May Midday Program You probably misheard it over the radio. Barbra Streisand wasn’t singing about “Secondhand Rose” … she was belting out “Secondhand Prose.” Just […]
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Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles Monday, May 13, 2024, 5-6:15 PM (Pacific) Virtual Presentation 5:00 PM Pacific […]
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FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group: Decorated Paper and a 16th Century Book Collector/Surgeon/Poet/Spy
Sponsored by FABS May 13 (second Monday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The Handpress Era group (“printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800”) is hosted by […]
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From the “Battle of the Books” to an Internationally Known Special Collection
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles From the "Battle of the Books" to an Internationally Known Special Collection. Baltimore Bibliophiles presents a virtual tour of the Gordon W. Prange Collection at […]
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Altered Book: Véronique Plesch on The Many Paradoxes of Tom Phillips’s ‘A Humument’
Sponsored by The Baxter Society The Baxter Society - May 15, at 5:00 pm eastern - at Glickman Library in Portland Maine, and on Zoom. Véronique Plesch, Professor of Art […]