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  • June 2024
  • Wed 26
    June 26, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT

    Lynda Mugglestone on Samuel Johnson’s Garret Lexicography

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club for a live webcast lecture by Lynda Mugglestone, Professor of the History of English and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, in conjunction […]

  • July 2024
  • Mon 1
    July 1, 2024 @ 5:00 pm PDT

    The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945

    Sponsored by The Book Club of California America’s suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes suburban realities. Today they […]

  • Mon 1
    July 1, 2024 @ 8:00 pm EDT

    A Rare Book Summer Picnic: Conversations on Food, Cultural History and The Dining Table

    Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Live, Free Webinar Monday, July 1, 2024 – 8:00 PM Eastern , 5:00 PM Pacific (US and Canada) Presenters: Christine von der Linn of Honey & Wax […]

  • Sun 7
    July 7, 2024 @ 2:00 pm PDT

    Movable Mayhem: Pop-Up Books through the Ages

    Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Prepare to be captivated by these print wonders that move. Volvelles, flaps, and pop-ups, oh my! Renaissance pop-up book expert Suzanne Karr Schmidt […]

  • Mon 8
    July 8, 2024 @ 5:00 pm PDT

    Al Martinez in the Korean War: A Future Columnist Hones His Craft

    Sponsored by The Book Club of California For more than twenty years, the Los Angeles Times columnist Al Martinez (1929-2015) delighted, and enriched the lives of, thousands of readers across […]

  • Mon 8
    July 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm EDT

    FABS Handpress Era Zoom: First Edition Hoyle on Whist and 18th Century Open Mic

    Sponsored by FABS July 8: Handpress Era (second Monday of the month). This month we will hear from David Levy about a trip to Aberdeen to visit one of four known copies of […]

  • Mon 15
    July 15, 2024 @ 5:00 pm PDT

    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 […]

  • Mon 15
    July 15, 2024 @ 7:30 pm EDT

    FABS Bindings Zoom: The Prince of Binders: Joseph Altemus and the Apex of Publishers’ Bindings in the Nineteenth Century

    Sponsored by FABS The Prince of Binders": Joseph Altemus and the Apex of Publishers' Bindings in the Nineteenth Century" Todd Pattison. July 15, Monday, 7:30 Eastern, 4:30 Pacific. Zoom Todd […]

  • Thu 18
    July 18, 2024 @ 6:00 pm EDT

    David Pearson: Looking at Bookbindings from Cambridge and Elsewhere

    Sponsored by The Grolier Clubng Renowned scholar David Pearson will lecture on findings that culminated in his recent book, Cambridge Bookbinding 1450-1770 (The Legacy Press, 2023). It provides an overview of the […]

  • Thu 18
    July 18, 2024 @ 7:30 pm EDT

    FABS 19th Century Zoom

    Sponsored by FABS July 18: 19th Century Group (third Thursday of the month). Congenial conversation on all things 19th-century and bookish. You are welcome!

  • Mon 22
    July 22, 2024 @ 5:00 pm PDT

    The Material Culture of Advertising: Treasures from the Winterthur Library’s Collection of Trade Literature

    Sponsored by The Book Club of California Before Amazon, before big box stores, and even before mailboxes sagged under the weight of catalogs in the mid-20th century, customers and shop-owners […]

  • Tue 23
    July 23, 2024 @ 6:00 pm EDT

    Hardly Harmless Drudgery: Landmarks in English Lexicography

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join us for a Virtual Tour and Curator Q&A Join the Grolier Club for a pre-recorded video walk-through of the "Hardly Harmless Drudgery" exhibition followed by a […]

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