Elyse Graham on Book and Dagger
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. Remember why we chose you for this assignment. You’re a reader. September 12 is the day all your training is put to the test. The […]
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Excavating and Reckoning with California’s Sorrowful Past
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Two publications, both published by Heyday, bookend and frame Tony Platt’s talk. One book begins in a remote area of northwest California, the […]
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FABS Bindings Zoom Group: The Allure of Limp Paper Bindings
Sponsored by FABS Join us for presentations and discussions of the craft of bookbinding. To receive links and announcements, email Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org This month: Suzanne Moore on the […]
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FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS Join us for congenial discussion of all things 19th century and bibliophilic! To receive links and announcements, write Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
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Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Sponsored by the Book Club of California In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to […]
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FABS Living With Books
Sponsored by FABS All the pleasures and challenges of the private library: book furniture, bookmarks, catalogues, conservation, and much more. Join us for congenial discussion each month. Hosted by Reid […]
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Collecting Shakespeare’s First Folio in America
Sponsored by The Grolier Club This talk by David Alan Richards, Grolier Club member (and former Council member), will cover centuries of Shakespeare's First Folios arriving in America. The first […]
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Encrypted Books – Mysteries that Fill Hundreds of Pages
Book Club of CaliforniaSponsored by The Book Club of California. The lecturers have studied about 120 books that are entirely or partially encrypted. In this talk, they introduce the most fascinating ones. This […]
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Manuscript Mondays: The Spanish Illuminated Manuscript
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society The Special Collections and University Archives at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is home to more than 20,000 volumes of rare books and incunabula, dating […]
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Vanessa Pintado on The Hispanic Society of America Library and La Celestina
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. October Midday Program Caxtonians do love to go searching after a first. A first edition. A first printing. A first of its kind. Especially when […]
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Decoration of Hebrew Manuscripts after the Invention of Printing
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Through an examination of Illustrated 18th century Hebrew manuscripts and decorated Scrolls of Esther we will explore the fascinating evolution of artistic Hebrew manuscript following […]
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Benjamin Albritton on California Bindings
Sponsored by FABS The FABS Bindings Zoom Group welcomes Benjamin Albritton for a talk on California Bindings. Stanford University Special Collections has many exceptional items in its care and Benjamin […]