Reid Byers on Imaginary Books
Sponsored by The Baxter Society Open to members of FABS Societies: contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org to receive a link. Reid Byers, the President of the Baxter Society, is the […]
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Riding Like The Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb
Sponsored by The Book Club of California In 1939, when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation’s collective imagination […]
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FABS Bindings Zoom: Richard Minsky on his Bindings 1968-Present
Sponsored by FABS Nov 18, 2024. 7:30 pm Eastern time, 4:30pm Pacific Richard Minsky will draw upon his exhibition Material Meets Metaphor and talk about choosing binding materials that evoke […]
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Robert McCracken Peck on Botanically Illustrated Books
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for a live webcast as former Grolierite, Robert McCracken Peck, who is Curator of Art and Senior Fellow at The Academy of Natural Sciences […]
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Conversation with David M. Rubenstein on Abraham Lincoln
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club online for a livestreamed conversation with David M. Rubenstein about the public exhibition Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print, which runs until December 28, 2024, in our […]
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FABS Zoom: Living With Books
Sponsored by FABS Fourth Tuesday of the month, 4:00-5:30pm Pacific/7:00-8:30pm Eastern Join the Zoom group that meets monthly to discuss the pleasures and challenges of home libraries. This month's topics […]
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Caxton Printers of Idaho: A Century of Publishing in the American West
Sponsored by The Book Club of California James H. Gipson founded Caxton Printers as a small print shop in rural Idaho over a century ago. During the following decades, Caxton […]
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Andrew Hui on Renaissance Libraries
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club as Andrew Hui, associate professor of humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, will lecture on his new book, The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries (Princeton), which […]
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Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of the Black Literary Canon
Sponsored by The Caxton Club December Midday Program Presented by the Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium August 24, 1949: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks is published. It is her second volume […]
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FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS Join us this month as Dr. Gene Flamm discusses some variations among the incunable editions of the first illustrated work on anatomy – Ketham's Fasciculus medicinae, 1491-1500. […]
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Allie Alvis on Weird and Wonderful Treasures in the Winterthur Library
Sponsored by The Caxton Club December Midday Program A recent Caxton Club program unfolded like an English country house mystery: The Case of the Poison Pigments, in which the Winterthur Library […]
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Abraham Lincoln Virtual Exhibition Tour
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join the Grolier Club for a video tour of the exhibition "Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print" with curator Mazy Boroujerdi, followed by live online […]