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SUMMARY:Dan Freidus on Ex-Pat Cookbooks: Community & Identity While Living Abroad
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS) \nEx-Pat Cookbooks: Community & Identity While Living Abroad \nwith Dan Freidus \nThursday\, August 24th\, 7-8:30pm EST \nNOBS member Dan Freidus has been collecting cookbooks for his entire adult life. He stumbled into collecting expat cookbooks when he found a community cookbook from an Episcopalian church in Cairo\, Egypt. As Dan says\, “I found the genre to be incredibly interesting and diverse – everything from books by and for Peace Corps volunteers in Nepal to families of U.S. occupation forces after WWII in Japan\, as well as clubs of expats in many cities and countries around the world. Even better\, most titles have been quite inexpensive!” Dan’s collection now numbers about 1\,000 expat cookbooks from dozens of countries going back to before 1920. Join us on August 24th to hear about and see examples from Dan’s unique collection! \nThis Forum will be in person at Loganberry Books beginning at 7:00 PM. You may also join via Zoom: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88024420013?pwd=VzhyU3JjZDlrNFU0bFEvdlltV0lOdz09 \nMeeting ID: 880 2442 0013 \nPasscode: 907804 \nMany of you attended our summer outing in July looking at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s great books collection led by docent and NOBS member\, Dr. Laura Martin. It was a fabulous tour highlighting books maybe not as frequently viewed as say the Book of Hours. \nHope to see you either in person or via zoom later this month. We are so happy that the Book Fair is back and already looking forward to next years. Hope you all have had a pleasant summer.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/dan-freidus-on-ex-pat-cookbooks-community-identity-while-living-abroad/
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SUMMARY:The Huntington: Buying and Building One of the World’s Greatest Libraries
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington \nBuying and Building One of the World’s Greatest Libraries\nPresentation by Dr. Vanessa Wilkie\nSenior Curator of Medieval Manuscripts & British History\nat The Huntington Library \nOnline Sunday\, August 20\, 2 pm PDT \nRegister here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/buying-and-building-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-libraries \nDr. Wilkie will take us back to a time when wealthy Americans like Henry E. Huntington could acquire amazing collections formed abroad and build a large private library to house them. We’ll learn about the acquisition in 1917 of the Ellesmere and Bridgewater Collections and the Larpent Plays\, explore some of the high points in these collections and touch on some of the people who built the original collections. Dr. Wilkie will also explain how these early acquisitions continue to inform research in the Library’s collections and influence the kinds of materials that The Huntington still acquires. \nDr. Vanessa Wilkie is the Head of the Library Curatorial Department and curates the Library’s renowned collections of medieval manuscripts and British History. She earned her PhD in British history from the University of California at Riverside and was a visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Redlands before coming to The Huntington in 2013. Her book A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England (Atria/Simon & Schuster) was published in April 2023.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/buying-and-building-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-libraries/
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SUMMARY:Companions of Minds and Books: H.H. and Matilda Bancroft in Their Literary Industries
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nKim Bancroft will discuss the legacy of her great-great-grandparents\, H.H. Bancroft\, historian of the West and founder of The Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley\, and his second wife\, Matilda Bancroft\, a writer and historian in her own right. \nAfter marrying H.H. in 1859\, Emily wrote voluminous letters from San Francisco to her family in Buffalo in the 1860s. Seven years after Emily died in 1869\, H.H. married Matilda\, who composed volumes of diaries and letters from 1876-1910\, along with oral histories. \nKim Bancroft’s book “Writing Themselves into History: Emily and Matilda Bancroft in Journals and Letters” highlights piquant details from these women’s writing\, noting political and cultural changes during those years\, as well as race\, class\, and gender differences underlying Emily and Matilda’s social observations. These women also captured the private life of a man who would become a very public figure through his writing and library. \nIn particular\, Matilda relished her ability to participate in her husband’s book-making efforts. With him\, she traveled to collect documents and stories regarding those who had settled the West and its multitudes of commerce\, cultures\, and government. Matilda learned how to edit her husband’s writing. Her work also found its way into his books\, with both her own writings and the oral histories she took. \nIn her presentation\, Kim Bancroft will focus on this remarkable couple’s companionship of shared ideals and ambitions in telling the story of the West\, though from very different perspectives\, one a public man\, the other a private woman. How these two writers of different natures contributed to literary life in California and beyond—with plentiful challenges and controversies—makes for an engaging story. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Kim Bancroft\, author and editor. \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OVBai0BLQ_edxTBmwWLCeg#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/companions-of-minds-and-books-h-h-and-matilda-bancroft-in-their-literary-industries/
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SUMMARY:John Law\, the Mississippi Bubble and the Settling of New Orleans
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society\nManuscript Mondays: John Law\, Mississippi Bubble and Settling of New Orleans\nMonday\, August 7\, 2023 – 8:00 PM Eastern – Live Free Webinar\nPresenter: Howard Margot                                                    Moderator: Brian Kathenes\nThe Historic New Orleans Collection has built an extensive collection of materials related to John Law de Lauriston (1671–1729). Law was a Scottish gambler\, banker\, and monetary theorist. From 1717 to 1720 he attempted to eliminate France’s crippling national debt by creating a central bank that issued paper currency. The currency was exchangeable for shares of stock in the nascent Louisiana colony. That attempt\, dubbed Law’s “System\,” failed spectacularly. The result was the collapse of the Mississippi Bubble and bankruptcy for many in France’s investor class. However\, it also enabled the founding of the city of New Orleans. \nWe’ll look at this period through the prism of The Historic New Orleans Collection’s (THNOC) holdings. We will highlight its two most recent additions. They provide a rare look at the final days of the bubble. One is a bound recueil (compendium) of documents related to Law’s banking system\, the other a group of 19 arrêts (official state edicts) enacted between April and November of 1720\, during the last eight months of the System’s existence. \nPresenter: Howard Margot\nA native New Orleanian and (approx.) 10th-generation Louisianan\, Howard Margot is a curator at The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) where he has worked since 2006. Educated in his home state and in France\, he has enjoyed working with local French and Spanish manuscripts from his favorite century\, the 18th\, since 2001. \nRegister for Webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zsXEyyhnR7iVJlo4zPfKJQ
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/john-law-the-mississippi-bubble-and-the-settling-of-new-orleans/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230731T200000
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SUMMARY:A Maker of Books: Alec Bolton and his Brindabella Press
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nAustralia has a long history of fine printing\, which is mostly unknown outside of the country itself. ‘Printing is like religion’\, acclaimed Australian book artist Alec Bolton once said\, ‘We live in sin\, but with the hope of perfection before us.’ And while his life circled around books and writing generally\, it was his private press\, the Brindabella Press\, that won him acclaim as an Australian book arts practitioner from the 1970s until his death in 1996. Starting with one-page poems and pamphlets\, he quickly moved on to hardback and then hand-bound titles\, and sought always to print books that were both beautiful and meaningful. His editions of significant Australian writers such as Barbara Hanrahan\, Les A. Murray and Kenneth Slessor are now scarce and sought after. However\, despite these author’s importance at the heart of everything was the distinguished poet Rosemary Dobson\, his wife\, who first suggested he take up letterpress printing and who wrote three of the Press’s most beloved books. \nMichael Richards’s book contains both a comprehensive bibliography of the Brindabella Press\, as well as an account of a passionate Australian mainstream publisher and the hand-printed books he made for himself and his friends in the last decades of the twentieth century\, keeping alive letterpress skills that were being swept away by constant changes in the printing industry. \nA virtual presentation by Michael Richards\, author\, librarian\, historian\, bookseller\, and book collector \nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/a-maker-of-books-alec-bolton-and-his-brindabella-press/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230719T180000
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SUMMARY:Joshua O'Driscoll: Nuns at Work: The Poor Clares as Makers of Books in Gothic Cologne
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJoshua O’Driscoll\, Assistant Curator of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum\, will speak on “Nuns at Work: The Poor Clares As Makers of Books in Gothic Cologne.” A newly-emerged fragment from an otherwise lost deluxe choir book serves as the point of departure for Dr. O’Driscoll’s talk\, which examines the manuscripts of the Poor Clares of Cologne. Between approximately 1320 and 1360\, these nuns—who were by no means poor—operated a prolific workshop that produced sumptuous illuminated books primarily for local monastic use\, but also for wealthy civic patrons. Inscriptions and marginal portraits in several of the surviving manuscripts indicate that the Poor Clares were active not only as scribes\, but also as painters. Women like Petronilla von Scherve\, Gertrude van dem Vorst and Loppa vom Spiegel documented their activities as both patrons and producers of manuscripts\, which in turn formed part of a larger practice of memorialization and devotion. Scholars have even suggested that the nuns used a system of crypto-signatures (small red discs with distinctive patterns of white lines and dots) to distinguish one painter’s work from another. If true\, these signatures may have served a logistical role in the production process\, as the manuscripts were often illuminated collaboratively. Because of their well-documented historical context\, along with the potentially innovative use of artistic crypto-signatures\, the manuscripts produced by the Poor Clares of Cologne vividly testify to the central role of female patronage and production in the history of medieval art—particularly that of the early fourteenth century\, a period characterized by rapid urbanization and immense social upheavals. \nOffered in connection with Rare Book School classes taught this week in New York City at the Grolier Club and elsewhere. Offered in connection with Rare Book School classes taught this week in New York City at the Grolier Club and elsewhere. \nThis registration is for the virtual webcast: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-event-rare-book-school-lecture-tickets-676963454917?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Event%3A+Rare+Book+School+Lecture&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail \nRegistration \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/joshua-odriscoll-nuns-at-work-the-poor-clares-as-makers-of-books-in-gothic-cologne/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230710T210000
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SUMMARY:Fifty Years in the Making: A Reprise by John A. Lehner of the 1970 Decorative Designers Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 1970 John A. Lehner attended The Decorative Designers Exhibition and was captivated by the originality and variety of The Decorative Designers’ work. The Decorative Designers operated as a firm\, as opposed to individual artists\, to present publishers with designs hand-painted onto the cloth that would be used in production\, thus giving a clearer representation of the finished product. Lehner spent the next fifty years on a quest to collect all sixty-one books that were on exhibit. On display at the Book Club are all sixty-one of the books that were featured in the 1970 Decorative Designers Exhibition plus an additional thirteen books from The Decorative Designers. \nThe Exhibition will be on view July 10\, 2023 through October 23\, 2023. \nExhibition opening and remarks by John A. Lehner\, book collector and retired aerospace engineer \nClick here to REGISTER for the Virtual Presentation on Zoom
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fifty-years-in-the-making-a-reprise-by-john-a-lehner-of-the-1970-decorative-designers-exhibition/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230703T200000
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: July Beach Party (Show & Tell)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \n\nIt’s our Manuscript Mondays Almost Independence Day Virtual Summer Beach Party!   \nMonday July 3\, 2023 – 8:00 PM Eastern – Live \nWe’ll open it up to a virtual gathering of friends\, lively discussion\, and a show and tell. This is a live\, Zoom meeting format\, not a webinar\, so get your camera & mic ready (if you wish) – We’ll ALL be live! \n\nShow us a favorite item in your collection.\nAsk questions about collecting.\nShare a short collecting story.\nDiscuss what’s new in the auction market.\nLooking for a specific item? Let us know.\nAnd find out what’s new at The Manuscript Society.\nOr just hang out and enjoy a virtual cocktail on the virtual Manuscript Society Beach on the day before Independence Day.\n\nNon-members are welcome. Register in advance please at: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIofu6qrDMoHtV0EutA1WqOvuvPE-kEWP-M \nYou will only get a reminder 2-3 days before the event. \nManuscript Mondays Archives \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-july-beach-party-show-tell/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230629T183000
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SUMMARY:Lilla Vekerdy on Rare Book Collections – Private or Public? Crossroads of Interests and Mission
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nEVENT DETAILS:\n \nJune Evening Program \n\n \nThis lecture will examine the parallel and divergent\, as well as the oppositional and united trends in private versus institutional rare book collecting\, through historical lens. Where do private collectors stand in relation to librarians in the rare book field? How is it now; how was it then? Do rare books have a “private mission” or a public one? Did this mission change with time? \nFollowing the development of the Smithsonian Institution’s prime rare book collection\, the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology\, from its private inception and first flourishing time period through its institutional beginnings and long second heyday to the present\, the lecture will discover the frequent crossroads of the private and public spheres in the history of rare book collecting\, which may also be its safety net for the future. \nSince 2008 Lilla Vekerdy has been Head of Special Collections at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. She oversees the operations of special collections in sixteen locations and the publication process of major library publications\, gives tours\, lectures\, and presentations\, mentors research fellows and interns\, participates in exhibitions\, and enjoys the day to day interaction with historical materials in the Dibner Library of History of Science and Technology. \nRegister for this program today! \nZoom begins promptly at 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET. \nPreregistration required via website. Zoom presentation is free and open to all.  \nREGISTER HERE: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5323753 \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/lilla-vekerdy-on-rare-book-collections-private-or-public-crossroads-of-interests-and-mission/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230626T170000
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SUMMARY:Teaching the History of the Book: A Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nTeaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press) is the first collection dedicated to book history pedagogy. Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd and featuring contributions from a diverse range of teachers\, scholars\, and practitioners in literature\, language studies\, history\, book arts\, library science\, and archives\, the collection presents a variety of methods for teaching book history both as its own subject and as an approach to other subjects. Each of the 39 chapters describes lessons\, courses\, and programs centered on the latest and best ways of teaching undergraduate and graduate students both about and with book history. \nBeginning with chapters that apply particular pedagogical and critical theories to the book history classroom\, the book then covers effective ways to organize courses devoted to book history\, classroom activities that draw upon book history in other courses\, and an overview of selected print and digital tools for book history classes. Contributors draw on their own experiences in the classroom to bring to life some of the rich possibilities for teaching book history in the twenty-first century. \nA virtual presentation by the editors and selected contributors to Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2023) \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rlPhm_FzRK2eUxqi3KLpCw#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/teaching-the-history-of-the-book-a-roundtable/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T180000
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SUMMARY:Paul Freedman\, "How Dining Out Changed\, 1841-1941"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nPaul Freedman\, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University\, and a scholar of American cuisine\, will speak in connection with the current Grolier exhibition\, “A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus\, 1841-1941\,” from the collection of Henry Voigt. \nRegister Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-paul-freedman-on-how-dining-out-changed-1841-1941-tickets-609633037827?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/paul-freedman-how-dining-out-changed-1841-1941/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230619T181500
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SUMMARY:From Bookcase to Bender Room\, and Beyond: Approaching the Centennial of Rare Book Collecting at Stanford
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn September of 1926\, Albert M. Bender turned his philanthropic focus on Stanford University Library. As one of the founders of the Book Club of California\, Bender needs no introduction to this audience who will also be familiar with his efforts to establish an appreciation for the book arts at Mills College\, San Francisco Public Library\, and other Bay Area institutions. His offer to assemble\, with the co-operation of friends\, “a collection of notable examples of fine printing to be placed on exhibition in the Stanford Library”\, was immediately embraced by faculty\, students\, and library staff. This gift was the catalyst for the creation in rapid succession of a Typographical Collection\, a Rare Book Room\, a staff position for a Keeper of Rare Books\, and\, by the end of the 1930s\, a Division of Special Collections to manage the library’s growing holdings of rare and distinctive materials. \nOver the decades\, the Stanford collections were reorganized several times and much of the provenance information about this transformative period was lost from the library catalog\, with the foundational gift eventually being dispersed. This presentation explores some notable pre-Bender acquisitions\, once held on a bookcase in the library director’s office\, before introducing the foundational gift of “Finely Printed Books” that started\, and in many ways still shapes\, the collecting program at Stanford. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Benjamin Albritton\, Rare Books Curator in the Department of Special Collections at Stanford Libraries \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_feMSvrn1QiuvqwWeus4kVg#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/from-bookcase-to-bender-room-and-beyond-approaching-the-centennial-of-rare-book-collecting-at-stanford/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T170000
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SUMMARY:ABAA 2023 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the ABAA \n\nWe are pleased to announce the ABAA is accepting entries for the 2023 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest where more than $6\,000 in prizes will be awarded to student collectors. \nThe contest is open to all prizewinners of college contests\, whether or not first prize\, as well as to interested students whose institutions do not offer contests. More information can be found here. All entries should be submitted by June 15\, 2023. For more information on the contest\, please visit contest.abaa.org. \n\nThe Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA)\, 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) jointly assumed leadership of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest in 2010. \nEstablished in 2005 by Fine Books & Collections Magazine to recognize outstanding book collecting efforts by college and university students\, the program aims to encourage young collectors to become accomplished bibliophiles. The magazine conducted the annual competition program for three years before turning over leadership to the new collaboration of institutional partners. \nCompetitions are held at more than three dozen colleges and universities across the United States. Some contests have been conducted for decades\, dating back to Swarthmore College’s first competition in the 1920s. All college or university prizewinners are encouraged to enter. Student collectors whose institutions do not offer a book collecting contest also may enter. All entries for the 2023 competition must be submitted by June 15\, 2023. \nThe Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America promotes ethical standards and professionalism in the antiquarian book trade\, encourages the collecting and preservation of rare books\, and supports education and research. The Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies was formed in 1993 as a national organization of member book collecting groups. \nThe Center for the Book in the Library of Congress was established in 1977 to promote books\, reading\, literacy and libraries\, as well as the scholarly study of books. \nNoted collector\, bibliophile\, and philanthropist Susan Jaffe Tane funds the prizes for the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. The prize is known as The Susan Tane Prize for Student Book Collectors.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/abaa-2023-national-collegiate-book-collecting-contest-deadline/
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Society Digest for May and June 2023
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nManuscript Digest: May – June 2023 – This complimentary e-digest\, now published bi-monthly\, covers significant acquisitions and sales\, manuscripts lost and found\, rare books and ephemera\, document conservation\, and more  \nIn the News\nSassoon Sale Sets Record\, But …\nReuters\, May 17\, 2023\nThe Codex Sassoon\, the world’s oldest (almost) complete Bible\, has sold for more than the Codex Leicester but less than a first-edition Constitution and below its own estimate.\n• The man who paid the price \nWashington Book Rips Past Estimate\nFine Books & Collections\, May 5\, 2023\nA bidding war over a book from George Washington’s library ended at $441\,000. Why so high? Because Washington’s books come up so rarely? Or is Americana having a moment? \nThis Scarlet Letter ‘A’ Is for Auction\nSmithsonian Magazine\, May 9\, 2023\nNathaniel Hawthorne famously destroyed his manuscript of The Scarlet Letter. But a passage from the book in his “infernal hand” survives\, and it’s on the block.\n• The collector’s story \nMadison Manuscript Surfaces in the Files\nCardinal News\, April 11\, 2023\nSometimes it pays to take a closer look. An unsigned document at Washington & Lee University turned out to be a rare James Madison manuscript on a hot topic. \nPapers Show Musings on Court Rulings\nDNYUZ | New York Times\, May 2\, 2023\nNewly released papers of Justice John Paul Stevens are filled with handwritten notes\, marked-up briefs\, draft opinions … and views on the US Supreme Court. What they reveal. \nKing Biographer Corrects the Record\nNPR\, May 16\, 2023\nIn a 1965 Playboy interview\, Martin Luther King Jr. tore into Malcolm X. Or did he? A dive into the archives unearthed a gap between how the article read and what King actually said. \nRenovation Uncovers Looted Manuscripts\nPhiladelphia Tribune | New York Times\, May 7\, 2023\nOh\, what turns up during a renovation — in this case\, manuscripts looted in World War I\, stashed for years on an auction house shelf. How they got there and where they go next. \nA Manuscript Tale Comes to an End\nHerald-Banner\, April 3\, 2023\nIn 1984 a student of Greek paleography found a manuscript leaf in a Pennsylvania supermarket. The find turned into a 39-year quest to reunite leaves of an ancient codex.\n• The lives lost to medieval manuscripts \nWas Gutenberg First? Not Really\nSmithsonian Magazine\, June 2023\nNearly 400 years before Gutenberg\, monks in China printed a Buddhist anthology. Pages were up at the Huntington during the Manuscript Society’s tour. More on this amazing text. \nScholar Gets the Last Laugh on Naysayers\nVice\, May 31\, 2023\nThere are no manuscripts of medieval minstrelsy. Wrong! A scholar has stumbled across notes from a 15th-century act — and maybe the birth of Monty Python’s killer rabbit. \nFrom Our Blog\nIssues and Opportunities in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting \nBrick and mortar locations. Online sites for auctions and dealers. Virtual and live shows. So many places to purchase manuscripts and books\, and the landscape keeps changing. Where’s a collector to go? Spencer Stuart and Brian Kathenes shared their insights on the state of the market in a recent Manuscript Mondays webinar. \nOther Items of Interest\nRich Hours –  Celebrate summer with “the world’s most beautiful calendar.” > Feast your eyes \nHigh Wattage – FB&C’s Bright Young Librarians of 2023 are all from our member institutions. > Say hi
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-society-digest-for-may-and-june-2023/
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SUMMARY:Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize deadline
DESCRIPTION:The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize confers a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman. The deadline is June 15. \nThe contest is open to women book collectors in the United States\, aged 30 or younger. Contestants do not need to be enrolled in a degree program\, nor do they require a sponsor. Honey & Wax uses ‘women’ in its most expansive definition\, one fully inclusive of non-binary\, trans and gender-non-conforming collectors. \nThe winning collection must have been started by the contestant\, and all items in the collection must be owned by her. A collection may include books\, manuscripts\, and ephemera; it may be organized by theme\, author\, illustrator\, publisher\, printing technique\, binding style\, or another clearly articulated principle. The winning collection will be more than a reading list of favorite texts: it will be a chosen group of printed or manuscript objects\, creatively assembled\, that shine light on one another. Collections will not be judged on their size or their market value\, but on their originality and their success in illuminating their chosen subjects. \nFor more information\, see this page: https://www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/honey-wax-book-collecting-prize-deadline/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230612T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230612T191500
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SUMMARY:Frank Ingerson and George Dennison: A Bay Area Love Story in Arts & Crafts (1910-1966)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nThe Splendid Disarray of Beauty (2023) tells two intertwined stories\, one of love\, the other of art. \nIn 1910\, the San Franciscans Frank Ingerson and George Dennison became permanently paired in life and love. Known among their friends and in their community as the Boys\, they remained in a de facto common law marriage for 55 years. \nIn the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains they established the first stand-alone summers-only art school in California. The school was devoted to the lifestyle and aesthetic of the American Arts & Crafts movement\, which aimed to imbue beauty into every element of day-to-day living\, taking nature as a source of inspiration in doing so. \nThe school lasted only four years but had a significant impact on the California art scene—inspiring the creation of three other summer-only art schools in Northern California and its distinguished alumni went on to found the California Society of Etchers and the ArtCenter College of Design in LA (now in Pasadena). \nIn 1915 both men held positions at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition: George was on its central committee as the chief operations officer for the Palace of Horticulture and designed the landscaping for the fair. Frank was in charge of the principal decorative arts exhibitions. \nThe men went on to form life-long friendships with famous artists and Hollywood stars\, including Olivia de Havilland\, Joan Fontaine\, Yehudi Menuhin\, Loie Fuller\, and Ruth St. Denis. Additionally\, during this time the pair cultivated a glamorous life that glittered across two continents. \nIn this talk Richard D. Mohr introduces us to two of the most interesting and admirable men you have never met\, until now. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Richard D. Mohr\, author and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1f8zgZsUSNifeHaFJby8ZQ#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/frank-ingerson-and-george-dennison-a-bay-area-love-story-in-arts-crafts-1910-1966/
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SUMMARY:David Ruggles Prize for Young Collectors of Color: Deadline
DESCRIPTION:The David Ruggles Prize is an international book collecting prize created to support and encourage young collectors of color: https://rugglesprize.org/ \nThe prize honors the legacy of David Ruggles\, an early American abolitionist\, publisher\, and Underground Railroad conductor. The New York grocery store he opened in 1828 soon became the country’s first Black-owned bookstore. \nThere was a fantastic group of applications last year\, culminating in an impressive roster of winners. This year’s deadline (June 11) is fast approaching. Please share it widely — with your students\, your colleagues\, your customers\, wherever collectors might be found. If you have any questions\, or would like a simple PDF flier to print and post locally\, reach out to info@rugglesprize.org. The five judges represent an impressive breadth of the book world and are excited to see this year’s applications. \nThe contest is open to anyone aged 35 and under\, anywhere in the world. There are three prizes\, so three chances to win: $1\,000 grand prize\, $500 second prize\, and $250 third prize. \nIf you’re not already\, give ’em a follow on Instagram and/or Twitter (@rugglesprize). \nThanks for boosting the signal\, and with many thanks to the prize’s generous sponsors\,
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/david-ruggles-prize-for-young-collectors-of-color-deadline/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230609T130000
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SUMMARY:Tara O’Brien on Book Arts in American History: Printing\, Binding\, and Illustration
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nWe’re hoping that our June speaker will have enough material to draw on in order to fashion a presentation. After all\, she has access to only 21 million choices. \nTara O’Brien serves as Director of Preservation & Conservation Services at Philadelphia’s Historical Society of Pennsylvania. (The library was founded more than a decade before Chicago was even incorporated as a city … and we’re behind on cheesesteak sandwiches as well.) Philadelphia has a rich tradition in print\, and Tara will share superb examples of how the book arts came to life in printing\, binding\, and illustration. \nTara is an accomplished printmaker\, teacher\, and preservationist/conservationist. She’ll reveal America’s rich tradition in the book arts in a generously illustrated presentation. Much in demand as a speaker\, she has lectured internationally on a range of topics. \nRegister today for a presentation you’re sure to Brotherly Love.\nhttps://caxtonclub.org/event-5290247 \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/tara-obrien-on-book-arts-in-american-history-printing-binding-and-illustration/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T180000
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SUMMARY:Henry Voigt on “A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus\, 1841-1941”
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nMenus can transport us back to the everyday life of the past\, whether to a lavish banquet in the Gilded Age or a food-relief eatery during the Great Depression. Coming into general use in the United States in the 1840s when hotels and restaurants began to replace inns and taverns that served a limited choice of domestic-style meals\, menus offered guests a greater variety of dishes and added an element of anticipation to the experience. While most menus were intended for short-term use and never meant to be saved\, some were finely crafted by leading stationers like Tiffany’s and Dempsey & Carroll\, whose artists decorated them with silk ribbons and finely rendered watercolor scenes. \n“A Century of Dining Out” features 225 menus that reflect the first hundred years of their use in American society\, ranging from restaurants and hotels to Mississippi steamboats\, utopian communities\, and grand estates. Highlights include rare examples from the haunts of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman in New York City\, eateries in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush\, and special events such as Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball and Mark Twain’s birthday party at Delmonico’s. The exhibition is curated by Grolier Club member Henry Voigt from his collection\, and an accompanying publication will be available in Spring 2023. \nA pre-recorded tour led by curator Henry Voigt of his exhibition “A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus\, 1841-1941\,” which runs in the ground-floor exhibition hall of The Grolier Club through July 29\, 2023. The recorded tour will be followed by a live Q&A with Henry. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour-and-qa-a-century-of-dining-out-tickets-574803120607?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/henry-voigt-on-a-century-of-dining-out-the-american-story-in-menus-1841-1941/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230605T200000
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Monday – History in Your Hands: A Passion for Collecting
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nPresenter: Dr. Stuart Embury                                                           Moderator: Brian Kathenes\n \nJohn Sloan Letter – collection of S. Embury \n\nIt’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir\, Thomas Jefferson\, Napoleon Bonaparte\, or perhaps Georgia O’Keeffe.  You’ve read about them or seen their art\, but now you reading their words written in their hand. You are holding it in yours. This is the passion of collecting! \nJoin us for a personal tour of the incredible autograph collection of Dr. Stuart Embury: History in Your Hands. \nDr. Embury will share amazing letters and manuscripts from some of the world’s most well-known artists\, world leaders and historical celebrities: Renoir\, Manet\, Whistler\, Degas\, Albert Schweitzer\, Napoleon\, Gilbert Stuart\, Mary Cassatt\, Albert Bierstadt\, Thomas Jefferson\, George Washington\, and many others. PLUS\, he will reveal some inside tips on finding special additions to your collection. \nPresenter:\nDr. Stuart Embury is a retired family physician from Holdrege\, Nebraska. He was involved in medicine for more than fifty years.  He became interested in art when starting his practice in 1970\, when he began collecting original prints and American art books. This evolved into a 12\,500-volume library of all aspects of American art. A few years later his interest turned to painting\, watercolor\, and sculpture. He became friends with Luigi Lucioni\, an Italian-American artist\, and published three books about him. (paintings\, prints\, and his relationship with singer Ethel Waters). During the last several decades he has focused on autographs\, letters\, documents\, and manuscripts on American artists. \nThe collection stands at 1\,500 pieces with a Gilbert Stuart letter being the rarest. He intends to donate the collection to the Archives of American Art. \nDr. Embury is a long-time member and supporter of the Manuscript Society. \nRegister in advance for this webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wKp0aGpgSNu9FEpvxAbGNA \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \nFor Archives of Manuscript Mondays: Click
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-monday-history-in-your-hands-a-passion-for-collecting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T060000
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SUMMARY:Dave Richards: "I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library\, 1656-2022"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nGrolier member David Alan Richards (Stamford\, CT)\, retired lawyer and literary\, social\, and legal historian\, will give an illustrated talk on his new book from Oak Knoll Press\, “I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library\, 1656-2022.” This is the first history to be written of a library of one of America’s colonial colleges from its origin through the digital age\, with comparisons to Yale’s 18th-century counterparts at Harvard\, Princeton\, and William & Mary\, through the construction of the great 20th-century repositories of Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven\, the Widener at Harvard\, and the Low at Columbia\, down to the era of digital files and the national “Borrow-Direct” program\, which gives the students attending its participating institutions each access to 90 million books. \nRegister for the webcast here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-dave-richards-on-american-private-university-library-tickets-585792329627?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/dave-richards-i-give-these-books-the-history-of-yale-university-library-1656-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230522T180000
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SUMMARY:California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric — and What It Means for America’s Power Grid
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nPacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries\, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning\, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart—unraveling a long history of deadly failures in which Pacific Gas and Electric endangered millions of Northern Californians\, through criminal neglect of its infrastructure. As PG&E prioritized profits and politics\, power lines went unchecked—until a rusted hook purchased for 56 cents in 1921 split in two\, sparking the deadliest wildfire in California history. \nBeginning with PG&E’s public reckoning after the Paradise fire\, Blunt chronicles the evolution of PG&E’s shareholder base\, from innovators who built some of California’s first long-distance power lines to aggressive investors keen on reaping dividends. Following key players through pivotal decisions and legal battles\, California Burning reveals the forces that shaped the plight of PG&E: deregulation and market-gaming led by Enron Corp.\, an unyielding push for renewable energy\, and a swift increase in wildfire risk throughout the West\, while regulators and lawmakers pushed their own agendas. \nCalifornia Burning is a deeply reported\, character-driven narrative\, the story of a disaster expanding into a much bigger exploration of accountability. It’s an American tragedy that serves as a cautionary tale for utilities across the nation—especially as climate change makes aging infrastructure more vulnerable\, with potentially fatal consequences. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Katherine Blunt\, journalist and author \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8BnWFEU4TNaJ9WILi2U5tg#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/california-burning-the-fall-of-pacific-gas-and-electric-and-what-it-means-for-americas-power-grid/
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SUMMARY:Novelist Susan King on Lady Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles \nOur Thursday\, May 18 (ZOOM) program features novelist Susan King. She will tell us what motivated her to write a very different (from Shakespeare) version of Macbeth. The result was Lady Macbeth: A Novel. Please join us in hearing about a very different version of The Scottish Play. \nTo register contact Binnie Syril Braunstein\, bsbgc@aol.com
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/novelist-susan-king-on-lady-macbeth/
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SUMMARY:The Oscar Lewis Awards: Book Club of California
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nThe Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992)\, author\, historian\, and club secretary. \nThis year Richard Siebert will be recognized for his contributions to the Book Arts and Dorothy Lazard will be recognized for her contributions to Western History. This is a hybrid in-person and virtual event. \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RMi9xpkXRIO1B6aTgE3tTA#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-oscar-lewis-awards-book-club-of-california/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230512T120000
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SUMMARY:Dennis Duncan on Index\, A History of the
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nMay Midday Program \n \nNow we take search for granted\, asking Alexa or Siri to race through the Internet to find (though not always on the first try) exactly what we’re looking for. But it hasn’t always been so. \nPeople used to be faced with a thick accumulation of paper or papyrus\, however bound or stacked\, and wonder how they could track down the nugget of information they needed. Enter the indispensable index. \nDennis Duncan brings the history of this remarkable innovation to life in an entertaining and witty book\, Index\, A History of the\, that will be the subject of our May Midday gathering. Dr. Duncan is a lecturer at University College in London. You may have seen his writing in the Guardian\, the Times Literary Supplement\, or the London Review. He was a postdoc fellow at the Bodleian and has also been a fellow at Cambridge. An engaging speaker\, Dennis will have you looking at the back pages of your books with a fresh sense of wonder and appreciation. \nRegister here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5267071 \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/dennis-duncan-on-index-a-history-of-the/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour & Q&A: Zoe Anderson Norris\, Queen of Bohemia
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJoin Curator Eve Kahn for a pre-recorded virtual tour of “Zoe Anderson Norris\, Queen of Bohemia\,” followed by a live Q&A. \n“To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris\, Queen of Bohemia\,” runs in the 2nd-floor gallery of The Grolier Club through May 13\, 2023. Norris (1860-1914) – dubbed by Eve “the Nellie Bly you’ve never heard of” – was a Kentucky belle turned restless Kansas housewife turned “Queen of Bohemia\,” living with and reporting on some of New York City’s most vulnerable populations\, including immigrants\, sex workers\, and the poor in general\, and running her own bimonthly magazine\, “The East Side” (1909-1914) to help her document poverty\, incompetence and corruption. Eve is working on the first biography of Norris\, and the exhibit draws on about 100 objects from her collection\, shedding light on how Norris – a forerunner of today’s social-justice advocates and confessional bloggers – mined raw material from her childhood and youth\, her two bad marriages\, and her own feelings of being an outsider. Eve’s lecture will draw on her collection materials on view in the Grolier exhibition\, which includes the only complete run of “The East Side” known to survive in private hands\, as well as Norris’s novels and dozens of periodicals featuring her work alongside illustrations by major Gilded Age artists. Eve has also collected artifacts from Norris’s youth in Kentucky and Kansas\, publications by her contemporaries (such as fellow reformer Emma Goldman)\, and Ragged Edge Klub members’ sheet music and souvenir postcards). She will discuss Norris’s coverage of issues that still resonate today – corruption\, harassment\, sexual assault and trafficking. \n \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour-qa-zoe-anderson-norris-queen-of-bohemia-tickets-588440921637?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Tour+%26+Q%26A%3A+Zoe+Anderson+Norris%2C+Queen+of+Bohemia&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/virtual-tour-qa-zoe-anderson-norris-queen-of-bohemia/
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SUMMARY:Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer\, Wine\, Spirits and Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 1848 when Samuel Brannan shouted “Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!” the precious metal he was waving around was stored in a quinine bottle. Malaria\, scurvy\, and plague all impacted the young city of San Francisco- and many of the recommended treatments for each (cinchona bark\, citrus\, gin) came in beverage form. The City’s most fashionable bar\, located on the site of the Transamerica Building\, served a drink made with Peruvian brandy\, perhaps laced with a bit of cocaine\, which was described by Rudyard Kipling as “compounded of the shavings of cherub’s wings\, the glory of a tropical dawn\, the red clouds of sunset and the fragments of lost epics by dead masters.” In this talk by author Camper English\, we’ll start locally and think globally about diseases and conditions treated by alcohol-based medicine. Alcohol and Medicine have an inextricably intertwined history\, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to ancient times\, when beer and wine were used to provide nutrition and hydration\, and were employed as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time\, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases\, monastic apothecaries developed mystical botanical liqueurs\, traveling physicians concocted dubious intoxicating nostrums\, and the drinks we’re familiar with today began to take form. In turn\, scientists studied fermentation and formed the germ theory of disease\, and developed an understanding of elemental gases and anesthetics. Modern cocktails like the Old-Fashioned\, Gimlet\, and Gin and Tonic were born as delicious remedies for diseases and discomforts. In “Doctors and Distillers\,” cocktails and spirits expert Camper English reveals how and why the contents of our medicine and liquor cabinets were\, until surprisingly recently\, one and the same. An in-person and virtual presentation by Camper English\, cocktails and spirits writer and speaker. \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_73Cocr_CRyahdxEI3dJlvg#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/doctors-and-distillers-the-remarkable-medicinal-history-of-beer-wine-spirits-and-cocktails/
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays – Contemporary Issues and Opportunities in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nLive\, Free Webinar \nMonday\, May 1\, 2023 – 8:00 PM Eastern \n It is a big world out there! There are many places to purchase manuscripts and books. Brick and mortar locations\, online\, via auctions\, independent dealers\, virtual and live shows.  Options are almost endless. Each option is continually changing. What to do… where to go…. \n Spencer Stuart and Brian Kathenes will share their research and thoughts on the current state of the book and manuscript collecting market.  With this latest market update\, participants will better understand the big changes in the auction world and discover new collecting venues. \nFollowing up on his article in Manuscripts (Volume 75\, Number 1)\, Spencer W Stuart will share his research on the state of the rare book and manuscript auction activity through 2022 and 2023. Plus\, he will address issues within the Trade that will impact private and institutional collecting into the future. \nBrian Kathenes will provide participants with a selection of lesser-known auction venues. He will also reveal markets where collectors may find some pleasant surprises. \nPresenters\nSpencer W. Stuart is an experienced Collections Advisor.  He works with new\, expanding\, mature collections throughout the world [ both in private and institutional]. Spencer’s work is focused on aiding in collection development\, cataloguing\, and deacquisition strategies. \nHe holds a master’s degree in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute in London\, England (recipient of the Director’s Award). Upon graduation he took a position with Bonhams Auctioneers where he worked closely with the North American Rare Books and Manuscripts department in Toronto and New York. \nBrian Kathenes is a Specialist Certified Appraiser of Autographs\, Manuscripts\, & Historical Documents\, and the host & moderator of Manuscript Monday. \nRegister in advance for this webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5uGuBocTSwylWllXtnuxHA \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \nFor Manuscript Mondays Archive \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-contemporary-issues-and-opportunities-in-rare-book-manuscript-collecting/
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SUMMARY:Henry Voigt on American Menus VIRTUAL COMPONENT CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nNOTE: The virtual component of this event has been canceled. In conjunction with the “Century of Dining Out” exhibition\, the Grolier Club will host renowned scholar Paul Freedman on Wednesday\, June 21\, at 6pm EDT\, as he lectures on “How Dining Out Changed\, 1841-1941.” Virtual attendance is available: \nVirtual: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-paul-freedman-on-how-dining-out-changed-1841-1941-tickets-609633037827 \n  \n“A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus\, 1841-1941” from the Collection of Henry Voigt. The exhibition runs April 26 through July 29\, 2023. \nMenus are minor\, transient documents that tell us how people have dined outside the home over time. They transport us back to the everyday life of the past – whether to a lavish banquet in the Gilded Age or a food-relief eatery during the Great Depression. They aid our cultural memory by providing historical evidence\, not only of what people were eating\, but what else they were doing and with whom they were doing it; and what they valued. \nThey came into general use in the United States in the 1840s\, when hotels and restaurants began to replace the old inns and taverns that served a limited choice of domestic-style meals. Dining among strangers in quasi-public spaces became a new and novel kind of entertainment in which the menu played a central role\, offering diners choice and anticipation for the first time. They suddenly appeared in all types of venues and forms of transportation. \nSince menus reflect all aspects of society\, it was possible to weave a literary thread through the exhibition\, including rare examples from a haunt of Edgar Allan Poe\, Mark Twain’s seventieth birthday party at Delmonico’s\, and a long-forgotten reception for French zoologist Paul B. Du Chaillu in the New Mexico Territory. The annual dinners of the American Bookseller’s Association and the Bibliophilic Society recall the social world of book dealers and prominent collectors in New York at the turn of the last century. \nThe menu is an art form that aims to please. While most were intended for short term use and not meant to be saved\, others were finely crafted by high-society stationers such as Tiffany’s and Dempsey & Carroll. However\, even when kept as personal momentos\, they were frequently discarded by later generations for whom they had no special meaning. As with other types of ephemera\, part of their appeal lies within the notion of their improbable survival. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-henry-voigt-on-american-menus-tickets-574802157727?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/henry-voigt-on-american-menus/
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SUMMARY:Bruce Kennett on W.A. Dwiggins\, Teller of Tales
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nApril Evening Program \n \nJoin us in welcoming Caxtonian Bruce Kennett as he discusses W.A. Dwiggins and his Athalinthia via Zoom. \nProduced entirely in New England\, Athalinthia is filled with delights. It comes straight from the imagination and heart of W.A. Dwiggins (WAD)\, one of the great visual artists of the twentieth century. Wise and witty stories written by Dwiggins\, are accompanied by more than a hundred of his fanciful illustrations – many of these never before seen in print. \nFrom 1910 to 1926\, Dwiggins created a series of stories about an imaginary place he named Athalinthia\, and the people who lived there. A place perhaps akin to Persia a thousand years ago\, or Uzbekistan in the nineteenth century … he never said. This is WAD at his most fanciful\, his most personal. \nIn 1928\, after nearly twenty years of writing and picture-making\, Dwiggins tried valiantly to get his stories published in one volume. He designed the book\, made a dummy\, and shopped it around to publishing houses. He had no luck. Discouraged\, WAD put his Athalinthia project aside. Thankfully\, after a delay of nearly a hundred years\, Dwiggins biographer Bruce Kennett picked it up and saw it through to the end. This is a remarkable achievement and a pure delight. In these troubling times\, stories such as these are a comfort for all of us to have on our bookshelves. \nZoom begins promptly at 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET. \nPreregistration required via website. Zoom presentation is free and open to all. \nREGISTER HERE: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5251822/Registration \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again. \nRegistering for the program will allow you the opportunity to purchase signed copies of Athalinthia for $67\, including tax and shipping.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/bruce-kennett-on-w-a-dwiggins-teller-of-tales/
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