Finding Your Focus: A Roundtable for Aspiring Book Collectors
2023-01-23 12:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America
Panel with past winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
This roundtable will feature recent winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for young women book collectors. The panelists will share the experience of building their winning collections, with an emphasis on the moments of inquiry, epiphany, and re-evaluation that shaped their projects. Our goal in this roundtable is to demystify the early stages of building a collection, when many aspiring collectors become discouraged or intimidated, by focusing on productive acts of re-direction and pivoting.
Register for the online presentation:
https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/CUUQBypOjUpZtUIE0OM1Pg?t=1669152047

Bibliography Week
2023-01-23 08:00 - 2023-01-27 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America, The Grolier Club and others
Jan 23-27
From Eric Holzenberg on the Grolier Club website: BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK happens each year at the end of January when the principal national organizations devoted to book scholarship and the book arts have their annual meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, since the attention of so many bibliophiles is focused on these few days. Some events are open to members only, but mostly you are encouraged to show up everywhere: get a sense of what is going on in the book world, hear some interesting papers, and schmooze with colleagues.
Select events open to all are listed individually in the calendar, or visit http://bibliographyweek.org/

Adventures in Bookmaking: Tales of a children’s book author, illustrator, publisher and maker of handmade books
2023-01-20 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
Sallie Lowenstein will speak on her experiences as author, illustrator, publisher and maker.
Thursday, January 20, 2022. 7:00 pm Eastern Time via Zoom. To register contact Binnie Syril Braunstein at bsbgc@aol.com

Ticknor Collecting Prize: Preparing Your Entry
2023-01-20 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Ticknor Society
On Friday, January 20th, at 6pm ET, The Ticknor Society will host “Ticknor Collecting Prize: Preparing Your Entry,” a Zoom event open to all who are interested in, or even just curious about, how to craft a submission for this year’s George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, opening March 1st. The purpose of this competition is to encourage New England-based book collectors to understand more deeply what their collection means to them, what they have collected, how it might be helpful to other collectors and researchers, and how they want their collection to develop in the future.
Why do you collect what you collect? What is the scope of your collection? What are your present and future goals? How can you best explain to others why it means so much to you? Preparing an entry for the Ticknor Collecting Prize is an opportunity to think about all of these things and more. Even if you don’t plan to enter, it’s a way to have fun with the books you love. Everyone is welcome to join the Zoom as we brainstorm together, get questions answered about format and technology, and, best of all, get to know other book enthusiasts! Join us on January 20th to help each other think it out and get started!
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcOGvqjgsE9fNC2zzz4YntoWqYVEkhZnT

A Discussion with Gerber-Hart Librarian and Archivist Erin Bell
2023-01-19 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and Chicago Collections Consortium
When/Where: 1/19/2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST via Zoom.
January Daytime Program
Join Librarian and Archivist Erin Bell as she shares an overview of Gerber Hart Library and Archives. Founded in 1981, Gerber/Hart’s collections focus on the culture and history of LGBTQ peoples and additional marginalized sexual and gender minorities in Chicago and the Midwest. Gerber/Hart serves these communities by collecting, preserving, and making accessible collection items of individuals, organizations, and businesses, as well as publicly distributed items. Gerber/Hart also provides programming and exhibitions related to items in its collections and on other topics in LGBTQ history and culture. Learn more about the unique archival resources found in their collection in this presentation.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-discussion-with-gerberhart-librarian-and-archivist-erin-bell-tickets-511108989747?lang=en-us&locale=en_US&status=30&view=listing

Bookseller Josh Mann on Provenance and Association Copies
2023-01-18 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
Jan 18, 7:00pm Eastern time via Zoom
Josh Mann’s specialties include Victorian Literature, Modern American literature, and Signed Books and Presentation Copies. He has lectured on the value of signatures and author associations, and is a books and manuscripts appraiser at ABAA book fairs. Although literature is the heart of B & B, his clinical research background in Biology & Medicine has led to an additional focus in the History of Science and Medicine. Joshua is a New York City native, and his favorite book is The Picture of Dorian Gray.
To register please contact Binnie Syril Braunstein (bsbgc@aol.com)

Let's Talk About Animated Advertising: 200 Years of Premiums, Promos and Popups from the collection of Ellen K. Rubin
2023-01-18 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Jan 18, 6:00-7:30pm New York time
Join this virtual webcast of curator Ellen G. K. Rubin in conversation with three collectors and practitioners on movable paper works
Now on view at The Grolier Club, “Animated Advertising” features over 170 unique advertising objects from 200 years that demonstrate how animated and dimensional paper devices are used to promote products, art, entertainment, and ideas. Curated by Grolier Club member Ellen G. K. Rubin from her extensive pop-up and movable book and ephemera collection, the exhibition displays the creativity of advertisers in the areas of food, fashion, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, travel, music, and politics to catch the eye, hold the attention, and inform patrons and clientele about the items that they are marketing.
Exhibition highlights include a pop-up baseball card signed by Yogi Berra, a pop-up “vanity table” package containing make-up, a postcard of a new Wanamaker store that inflates, an annual report for Eskimo Pie in the form of an ice cream popsicle, the first automobile ad, prototypes for prospective advertisements, and a video showing many of the objects in motion. An accompanying color catalogue of the exhibition explores the history of advertising, from the effects of the Industrial Revolution on business, to the birth of ad agencies, social advances, and the application of new printing techniques to advertisements.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-panel-lets-talk-about-animated-advertising-tickets-491774078507?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Panel%3A+%22Let%27s+Talk+About+Animated+Advertising%22&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

Nick Wilding on Forgeries: Seeing Double: Oh Heavens!
2023-01-13 12:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
Jan 13, 12:30 Central Time/1:30 Eastern Time
Nick Wilding teaches a course at Rare Book School called “Forgeries, Facsimiles & Sophisticated Copies” and we’ll be attending for an hour or so as he talks about documents that delighted and then disappointed. To tell the story he draws a remarkable cast of characters. One of the world’s most revered scientists – a person who is so famous that he is instantly recognized by only his first name. Document dealers. Prestigious libraries. Authenticators. Prevaricators. And more. It’s every collector’s bête noire and every attendee’s best bet.
Nick Wilding is a professor of history at Georgia State University. Much published, he has held fellowships at Stanford, Cambridge, Columbia, the American Academy in Rome, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He gave a very popular talk to the Caxton Club years ago; whether you caught it or missed it, here’s another chance! If you like a terrific detective story that takes you from the era of fedoras and trench coats to the study of manuscripts and watermarks, then this program is for you. Please register if you’d like to see this program, even if you can’t attend at 12:30 on January 13. After the program, all registrants will receive an email offering an opportunity to request a link to a recording of the complete program.
Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5088956

Manuscript Mondays: New Year's Party
2023-01-02 20:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Jan 2, 8:00pm Eastern, 5:00pm Pacific
We’ll open the 2023 New Year as a virtual gathering of friends and lively discussions. Get your camera & mic ready (if you wish) – We’ll ALL be live!

Ask questions about collecting
Share a short collecting story
Discuss what’s new for 2023 at The Manuscript Society
Looking for a specific item? Let us know.
Or just hang out with a virtual cocktail and we’ll all toast to 75 years of The Manuscript Society.

All members of FABS societies welcome. Register today at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tDX7wGoES6ao8y_VMDT7UQ
To view past Manuscript Mondays: Click Here

Olya Samilenko on Ukraine: Snow Goose Chronicles: How the Goose Became a Peacock
2022-12-16 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
Olya Samilenko will speak on her book The Snow Goose Chronicles.
A must read for anyone interested in the history of Ukraine, its life, and the fate of Ukrainian peasants during the Soviet period.
In this work, Samilenko takes us on a fascinating ride through 20th century Ukraine and its tragic history, as experienced by two Ukrainians and two Jews. Samilenko’s describes what can only be called the genocide of the peasants. She includes the GULAGs, labor camps in Karelia, especially “Solovki” located in the former “Solovetsky” Monastery on a Northern island where inmates starved and froze to death.
Thursday, December 16, 2021. 7:00 pm. Eastern time on Zoom. To register contact Binnie Syril Braunstein at bsbgc@aol.com

Robin Vose on "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God"
2022-12-13 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Tues Dec 13, 6:00pm-7:30pm Eastern time
Canadian scholar Robin Vose is the author of The Index of Prohibited Books, Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God (Reaktion/U. of Chicago Press). He will lecture on his research for this first comprehensive history of four centuries of the Catholic Church’s notorious “Index Librorum Prohibitorum,” with resonance for ongoing debates over banned books, censorship and free speech.
This lecture will be webcast live via YouTube.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-index-of-prohibited-books-tickets-461983945417?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*1npa53d*_up*MQ..&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj47gyfm1-wIV8RPUAR11yAUeEAAYASAAEgK3ofD_BwE

The Surprising Legacy of Alice Parsons Millard: Antiquarian Bookseller & Champion of Beauty and Taste Description
2022-12-12 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
Dec 12, 6:00pm Pacific time
** The Fourth Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West **
Book trade historian Charles Nelson Johnson provides a fresh look at lesser-known Southern California antiquarian bookseller Alice Parsons Millard (1873-1938)—a role she inherited as much as chose—and her activities as she courageously maneuvered her way through the decidedly male dominated trade in 1920s-1930s Europe and the United States; her personal challenges, creative business innovations and impact on numerous high profile clients, and her surprising California legacy.
Register here for webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6yw3ISaeS6-9KZaFBgMbQg?mc_cid=846715f310&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Benjamin Albritton on Giving Birth to Special Collections at Stanford University Libraries
2022-12-09 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
Dec 9, noon Central Time
There’s an exhibit on at Stanford about The Handmade Book. Its location speaks volumes about benefactors who have helped to build the library. The exhibit is in the Peterson Gallery and Munger Rotunda, Cecil H. Green Library, Bing Wing. (Even if you knew the way, could you resist asking just everyone for directions to the Bing Wing?)
It is easy to take for granted that an institution like Stanford would have very special special collections. But it wasn’t alway so. So how does a special collections library get started at a university that housed only about 3,000 books when it opened in 1885?
Dr. Benjamin Albritton, Rare Books Curator and Bibliographer for Classics at Stanford will spin the remarkable tale that may even include a mention of the silent movie classic The Great Train Robbery. He holds degrees from universities on both coasts and from two countries: Yale, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Washington. A kind man, Albritton promises not to mention Palo Alto’s temperature as we gather in December.
We’re used to hearing about the wonderful treasures housed in special collections at famous libraries. But how does a library fill those shelves? Register today and prepare to settle into your favorite Zoom Room or even join us at the Union League Club for the intriguing answer!
Via Zoom Program. REGISTER HERE: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5031781
Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Zoom attendees will have an opportunity to participate in Q&A. Registration for attendance via Zoom is required.

Virtual Tour of "Building the Book" at the Grolier Club
2022-12-07 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Dec 7, 6:00-7:30pm Eastern time
Join “Building the Book” curators Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge for a pre-recorded virtual tour of this important exhibition at the Grolier Club, followed by a live Q&A with the curators.
Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day offers a carefully curated overview of how books have been produced throughout history and across various regions of the globe. The exhibition walks readers through the unique collections of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. Founded by MacArthur Fellow Terry Belanger, this international institute brings together leading curators, librarians, book historians, curators, and collectors from around the world to teach and learn about books as physical objects. See through their eyes how the book is made, step by step, from substrate to letterform, from printing to binding—and how technological innovations, such as the invention of paper or printing with metal type, developed in various societies.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour-of-building-the-book-tickets-396568496047?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&_gl=1*fajwg*_up*MQ..&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj47gyfm1-wIV8RPUAR11yAUeEAAYASAAEgK3ofD_BwE

Spanish New Orleans and the Caribbean (The Historic New Orleans Collection)
2022-12-05 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Dec 5, 8:00-9:00pm Eastern time; 5:00pm Pacific
Guest: Dr. Alfred Lemmon, Director of the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Moderator: Brian Kathenes
New Orleans is French by name. The popular belief is that Spanish Louisiana was a relatively dormant period. In fact, the impact of Spain upon both New Orleans and the greater region is far greater than frequently thought. Frequently pictured as a “backwater” Spanish province, it in fact reflected the Spanish enlightenment. It was linked from the earlier days of the French colony to Havana, Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Santiago de Cuba, and Veracruz. Spanish Louisiana was a vibrant, critical period in the development of both New Orleans and Louisiana.
In this webinar, Lemmon will introduction us to The Historic New Orleans Collection’s exhibition devoted to the topic. This “voyage” will explore not only the Spanish contributions but the “unknown” lives of the better-known personalities of the period, such as Ulloa, O’Reilly, and Galvez. Surviving examples of material culture, maps, documents, and books selected for the exhibition offer insight into daily life of New Orleans and its constant interaction with the greater Spanish empire, in particular the Caribbean. During the webinar Lemmon will share some of the items from a total of 26 Spanish, Mexican and American institutions drawing attention to the role of Spain in defining the current city of New Orleans that make up the exhibition.
Alfred E. Lemmon is director of the Williams Research Center of The Historic New Orleans Collection. An authority on Spanish and French colonial history, he has been published in numerous books, encyclopedias and scholarly journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His expertise extends into the field of archival history. Among other honors, he has received the l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques from France and membership in the Orden de Isabel la Católica from Spain. In 2013, he received the Lifetime Contribution to the Humanities award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Register for the webinar here: https://manuscript.org/event/webinar-documents-spanish-new-orleans/

Adolph Sutro and the Bradshawe Library Pamphlets (English Civil War)
2022-11-21 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
6:00-7:15 pm Pacific time; In-person and virtual presentation
In the Sutro Library, now housed in the J. Paul Leonard Library of San Francisco State University, are 40 bound volumes containing some 1400 pamphlets mostly from the period of the English Civil War (1640-1660). Each volume, with one or two exceptions, is inscribed with the name “Henry Bradshawe” on the title-page of the first pamphlet. Who was this “Henry Bradshawe,” and how did his invaluable collection find its way into the library of San Francisco’s great benefactor Adolph Sutro?
The Bradshawe library was sold at auction in 1784 by a later member of the family; a century after the sale, Adolph Sutro purchased the 40 volumes of pamphlets from James Crossley, a Manchester magnate who had assembled a magnificent library of his own, and was consulted as an expert on Bradshawe ownership signatures. Documentation concerning the Crossley-Sutro transaction survives in the Sutro Library archives.
In addition to the Civil War pamphlets in the Sutro Library, Professor Nelson will comment on local books from the Bradshawe Library, including books in the Robbins Collection in the Berkeley School of Law, Stanford University Library, a 1632 2nd Folio Shakespeare at the University of California, Davis, and books which he himself has collected and will place on display.
An in-person and virtual presentation via Zoom by Alan H. Nelson,
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z2hWm3rMT0WcvUopQVlk-w?mc_cid=b01d1ff05f&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Virtual Lecture: Black Cartoonist Oliver Harrington
2022-11-15 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Nov 15, 6:00pm-7:30 Eastern time
Georgia physician Walter Evans, collector of historical and contemporary African American art and literature, in conversation with Jenny Robb, Head Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art at the Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, about Black cartoonist Oliver “Ollie” Harrington (1912-1995). Harrington was the subject of an exhibition, “Dark Laughter Revisited: The Life and Times of Ollie Harrington,” at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in early 2022. This retrospective featured work from Dr. Evans’ collection, as well as that of the Museum’s collection, acquired from Harrington’s widow Dr. Helma Harrington. Dr. Evans gave a talk about his collections for Grolier Club members last September.
Ollie Harrington used his voice and artistic talents as a cartoonist to attack racial, economic and social injustice with razor-sharp wit and insight. From the perspective of a cartoonist of color, his commentary chronicled many of the events and issues that defined the 20th century, from segregation and apartheid to war and poverty. His life and career intersected with the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement, the Black emigre community in Paris after WWII, and communist East Germany. Starting in the 1930s, Harrington’s work was widely published in the Black press. His long-running series “Dark Laughter” – later known as “Bootsie” – cast a satirical yet affectionate gaze on Black America through the adventures of an observant African American “everyman.” During WWII he served as a war correspondent and later worked briefly as the NAACP’s PR director. Harrington was an unapologetic activist and critic of racism and capitalism, who emigrated to Paris in 1952 and ultimately to Berlin in 1961, in response to concern about FBI surveillance due to his outspoken criticism of the U.S. government. He continued his career there, publishing trenchant editorial cartoons in the “Daily World” and the German satirical publication, “Eulenspiegel.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-black-cartoonist-oliver-harrington-tickets-440601911177?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Virtual Lecture: Denise Gigante and "Book Madness"
2022-11-14 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Mon Nov 14, 6:00-7:30 Eastern time
Denise Gigante, a professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, will lecture on her new publication, “Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America.” For this fascinating history of American bookishness, Prof. Gigante’s springboard is the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 in New York. At his death, the British essayist owned 60 scruffy tomes, singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, bescribbled by Lamb and friends, and stripped of illustrations. The dispersal of the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors caused a sensation in the transatlantic book world. Dr. Gigante’s studies of Lamb’s volumes shed light on bibliophiles who shaped American intellectual life: booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, and clergymen. Her tales of loss, obsession and spiritual revival bring to life a lost world of letters at a time when many of America’s major libraries were born.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-denise-gigante-and-book-madness-tickets-461979792997?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Jessica Star and Ben Maggs: What It’s Like Being Rare Book Dealers in London
2022-11-13 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
Online Sunday, November 13, 12 pm (PDT)
Register for this event on The Book Club of Washington’s website: www.bookclubofwashington.org
Jessica Starr (Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers) and Ben Maggs (Maggs Bros. Ltd.) will provide a glimpse behind the curtain of the rare book trade in London, discussing how they became book dealers, their experiences of working in the trade, and what a typical day is like for them. Ben will describe the long and distinguished history of Maggs, and both will comment on the contemporary book world in London. Jessica and Ben will also delve into getting serious about book collecting and how building relationships with dealers can improve the collecting experience.

The Literary Archive of Elizabeth Coatsworth and Kate Barnes, Mother and Daughter
2022-11-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baxter Society
Wed. Nov. 9 at 7:00pm Eastern Time
Open to all members of FABS Societies. Email baxtersociety@gmail.com to request a link, which will be sent on the morning of the event.
Jefferson Navicky, Archivist and Sarah E. Baker, Curator, both of the Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England, will speak about the literary archive of noted children’s book author/poet Elizabeth Coatsworth and her daughter Kate Barnes, Maine’s first poet laureate.

Virtual Panel: From Jikji to Gutenberg (Symposium on Cast Metal Type)
2022-11-08 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club

About this event

An international scholarly collaboration, the “From Jikji to Gutenberg” project will culminate in publications and exhibitions related to the origins of printing from cast-metal type, commemorating the 650th anniversary of the Korean printed book “Jikji.” Speakers will include Randy Silverman, Preservation Librarian, University of Utah Marriott Library; Jonathan Thornton, Professor Emeritus, three-dimensional object conservation, SUNY Buffalo; and Jennifer Giaccai, Conservation Scientist, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution. For more information about this topic, see the Atlas Obscura write-up.

Manuscript Monday: The Tile Club (1877-1887) [American Decorative Arts]
2022-11-07 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Manuscript Monday – The Tile Club 1877-1887
Monday, November 7, 2022; 8:00PM-9:00 Eastern
Presenter: Dr. Stuart Embury Moderator: Brian Kathenes

The Tile Club was one of many societies that formed across the United States during the late nineteenth century.
It included well-known artists; Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Edwin Austin Abbey, J. Alden Weir, John H. Twachtman, and many others.
The Tile Club was founded in 1877 riding the growing wave of interest in the decorative arts. Members met once a week and would each contribute to the “decorative age” by painting an eight-by-eight-inch ceramic tile. These meetings became a time to socialize, dine, and enjoy the music performed by guests and honorary members.
Tiles formed only a small part of the Club’s activities. Members took ‘road trips’ to Long Island and up the Hudson River to sketch and paint.
Dr. Stuart Embury shares his knowledge and research about these artists and their decorated tiles.

To Register for this Zoom Webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vNn6dIiuS1aMEE6oagMnJg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Virtual Symposium: "Building the Book: Makers, Teachers, Collectors"
2022-11-04 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Symposium on the themes of the Rare Book School exhibition, “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School & the Book Arts Press,” running in The Grolier Club’s ground-floor exhibition hall from September 28 through December 23, 2022. Symposium speakers and other details TBA.
Free and open to the public via The Grolier Club’s Eventbrite site. Register by clicking here.

Virtual Tour of "Building the Book" from Rare Book School and Grolier
2022-11-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Dec 7, 6:00-7:30pm, Eastern time
A Virtual Tour of “Building the Book From the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School and the Book Arts Press.” Join “Building the Book” curators Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge for a pre-recorded virtual tour of the exhibition at the Grolier Club, followed by a live Q&A with the curators.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour-of-building-the-book-tickets-396568496047?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Tour+of+Building+the+Book&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

Douglas Pfeiffer on The Force of Character: Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts
2022-11-01 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
How did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers’ lives and their works? When did the person of the author—both as context and target of textual interpretation—come to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the development of author centrism back to the scholarship of early Renaissance humanists. Constellated throughout with examples from the works of major contemporaries including John Aubrey, John Hayward, Galileo, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare, this volume resurrects a vibrant culture of biographism continuous with modern popular practice and yet radically more nuanced in its strategic reliance on the explanatory power of probabilism and historical conjecture—the discursive middle ground now obscured from view by the post-Enlightenment binaries of truth and fiction, history and story, fact and fable.
Dr. Pfeiffer earned a PhD at Columbia and is currently the Associate Professor of 16th and 17th century English poetry and Renaissance Humanities at Stony Brook University. Doug is a member of the Modern Language Associates and the Renaissance Society of America. In addition, he has served on the Council of the Biographical Society of America since 2015, and was Chair of the BSA publications committee from 2017 to 2020.
Register today for this program: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5010977
Zoom presentation is free and open to all.
Advance registration required via website.

Jason Chin, Caldecott Winner 2022, in Conversation with Will McCullam
2022-10-27 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society
Jason Chin is an author and illustrator of children’s books dealing with nature and science. His books have won both the Sibert (the Informational Book) and Orbis (writing for Nonfiction for Children) Medals. His most recent book, Watercress (2021) won the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. It is the story of a Chinese American family driving through Ohio, with Andrea Wang as the author and Jason Chin the illustrator. Ultimately, It is the story about remembering your past. For this forum, Jason will be joining Will McCullam, NOBS member and children’s book dealer, virtually, from New Hampshire to talk about children’s books and illustrating.
To join the Zoom meeting, go to:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87981602693?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 879 8160 2693
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Please note the 7:30 starting time.
Hope to “see” you for this opportunity to talk to one of the most exciting young illustrators and children’s authors coming up in our world of books.

Leonard Marcus on Modernist Children's Book Illustrator/Author Dorothy Kunhardt ("Pat the Bunny")
2022-10-24 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
About this event
Leonard Marcus will give a lecture on “The Modernist in the Nursery: How Author/Illustrator Dorothy Kunhardt Made the Picture Book New,” Best known for Pat the Bunny (1940), Dorothy Kunhardt turned the children’s publishing world on its ear as the creator of 40 innovative books whose jaunty game-like narratives and faux-naif art slyly expressed her affinity for modernist provocation and grasp of the latest theories of childhood development.
In this illustrated talk, historian and Grolier Club member Leonard S. Marcus will take a fresh look at this under-appreciated visionary’s legacy, which is also the subject of a new book he has coauthored, Dorothy Kunhardt: Collected Works (Steidl/Meserve- Kunhardt Foundation), with ephemera, drawings, unpublished manuscripts, and more.
This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder.
For those unable to join us for the session, the lecture will be recorded and made available a few weeks after the event on the Grolier Club’s Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/user4535612.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-leonard-marcus-on-dorothy-kunhardt-tickets-412255596587?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Lecture%3A+Leonard+Marcus+on+Dorothy+Kunhardt&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

Xenophile Bibliopole & Armorer, Chronopolis: History of SF and Fantasy
2022-10-23 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
Sun Oct 23, 2:00pm Pacific Time
Book Club of Washington member Steven Woolfolk opened Xenophile Bibliopole & Armorer, Chronopolis with Brian Sheldon in December 2019. We’ve arranged a virtual visit with them to learn about its special contents. The exterior alone suggests that this establishment is something out of the ordinary, with globe street lamps imported from Brooklyn, New York, and five-foot twin gargoyles flanking the driveway.
This store (www.xenophilebooks.com) boasts one of the most comprehensive Science Fiction and Fantasy collections for sale anywhere in the galaxy. Mysteries and history are other strengths, in addition to movie posters, art, and ephemera. There is also a large nuclear technical area and, in the conference room, a micro-museum celebrating the Manhattan Project, featuring letters from General Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer, and Albert Einstein, along with other fascinating ephemera.
The presentation by the proprietors will emphasize the history of Science Fiction and Fantasy illustrated by rare and unique items from the store’s extensive inventory.
REGISTER HERE: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/introducing-xenophile-bibliopole-armorer-chronopolis?utm_campaign=b9bfef5e-5096-4e57-b546-4576f96a88e7&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=1291030c-f5cd-4f28-ac2a-0f1daf7824dd
Steven Woolfolk is a physicist who spent 50 years as a Health Physicist/Radiological Engineer, primarily in the management/disposal of nuclear waste. An avid book collector for decades and a bookseller at various conventions for more than a decade, he transitioned to bookstore owner after he retired.
Brian Sheldon previously owned the local bookstore Sheldon Library, which closed after his deployments as a military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan. Initially, he was an alternative high school teacher but eventually went through several transitions before arriving at project management, all the while collecting books.

National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Prize Ceremony, with Mark Dimunation
2022-10-21 15:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the ABAA
October 21, 3:00pm Eastern time
Please join us to honor this year’s prizewinners of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest’s Susan Tane Prize for Student Book Collectors, via Zoom. In addition to the awards, the Library of Congress’ Chief of Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Mark Dimunation, will interview each winner.
First Prize
Daria Rose Evdokimova (Harvard University)
“Ardis Publishers and the Immigrant Identity”
Second Prize
Francesca Mancino (Case Western Reserve University)
“Reassessing Modernism: Women Writers and Publishers of the Lost Generation”
Third Prize
Austin Benson (University of Virginia)
“The Little Office[s] of Our Lady, 1599-1966: Online Book Collecting During the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Essay Prize
Elizabeth Propst (Harvard University)
“How Much Am I Bid for the Moon?: Collecting Poetry on the Cheap”
With thanks to our colleagues and judges from the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS), the Grolier Club, and the Center for the Book and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division (the Library of Congress) for making the contest happen once again, and to Susan Tane for funding the prizes.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Open to the public. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XhFzukY8TYmnSOiXZ-lcWw

Ed Papenfuse: The Enterprising Roach Family of Baltimore, 1819-1830
2022-10-20 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
A saga of marketing Books, Stationery, Musical instruments, Umbrellas, Printing, and Sign Painting, mixed with Millerites and fisticuffs with the Constabulary!
Wednesday, October 20, 2021. 7:00 pm. Eastern Time on Zoom. To register contact Binnie Syril Braunstein at bsbgc@aol.com
