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 […]
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Year of the Cicada: Buzzing with 17 Years of Biodiversity Achievements
Co-sponsored by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, The Field Museum; this notice brought to you by The Caxton Club When/Where: 5/16/2024 2:00–5:30PM CT The hybrid event is free and open to […]
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FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS May 16 (third Thursday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The 19th Century special interest group, co-hosted by Bill Bryson and Richard Kopley, offers "a broad look at the […]
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FABS Bindings Group: Erin Fletcher on Contemporary Embroidered Bindings
Sponsored by FABS May 20, 4:30pm Pacific, 7:30pm EST Join FABS members interested in Bindings for a presentation and discussion with Erin Fletcher, design binder and proprietor of Herringbone Bindery, […]
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Living With Books FABS Zoom Group: Reading Places and Cataloging Redux
Sponsored by FABS May 28 (fourth Tuesday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: Living With Books: Hosted by The Private Library author Reid Byers, this is a group on the […]
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Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy, 1836-1932
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy, 1836-1932 Monday, June 10, 2024, 5-6:15 PM (Pacific) Virtual Presentation 5:00 PM Pacific – Program […]
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Goethe’s Color Theory and Estienne’s Centones: Handpress Era Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS June 10, 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The Handpress Era group (“printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800”). This month you'll hear from both our co-hosts. […]
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Julie Park: Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Julie Park on Containing the Self in Eighteenth-Century Pocket Diaries: Graphic Forms and Formats of Personal Information Storage When/Where: 6/14/2024 12:00 PM CT/1:00 PM ET. […]