Sponsored by FABS The Living With Books group meets via Zoom on the fourth Tuesday of the month for convivial chat about home libraries. This month's topics are Book Audits and Lending Books, with The Bedside Table if time permits. To join the list, contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org
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 with our public exhibition "Hardly Harmless Drudgery," co-curated by Grolier members Bryan A. Garner and Jack Lynch. This registration is for the live webcast: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-lynda-mugglestone-on-samuel-johnsons-garret-lexicography-tickets-916652431097?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Professor […]
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 house a more typical cross-section of the nation—rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. Stories of […]
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 Booksellers Lizzy Young owner of Lizzy Young Bookseller With feet firmly planted in both the book and culinary worlds, Christine von der Linn and Lizzy Young […]
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 will walk us through her most recent Newberry Library exhibition and related recent acquisitions, in a look at the long history of the movable book […]
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 southern California. An Oakland native, he attended San Francisco State College. Later, he was a reporter for the Richmond Independent and the Oakland Tribune before […]
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 the first edition of A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (1742), bound with other works by Hoyle on backgammon and piquet. In a talk illustrated with […]
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 hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the […]
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 will talk about the commercial bindings produced by the firm of Joseph Altemus, a Philadelphia bookbinder who produced the widest range of commercial bindings between […]
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 development of Cambridge binding through the handpress period, including the evolution of styles and materials, customers, and binders. This illustrated talk will present highlights and […]
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!
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 alike turned to a wide variety of media to select their purchases, and to aspire to grander lifestyles. Trade cards, trade catalogs, advertising ephemera, and […]