Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies

Esmeralda Kale on the Herskovits Library of African Studies
2023-11-10 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
Maybe you’ve read The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. Or recall an article by David Easterbrook in the Caxtonian about a superb collection of stunning and important manuscripts and other materials devoted to African Studies. Both book and journal would have pointed you toward the exceptional resources at Northwestern University’s Melville J. Herskovits Library, which includes remarkable manuscripts, books in African languages, photographs, ephemera, art objects, and much more. The collection is known and admired throughout the world. And you’re invited for a special one-of-a-kind look behind the scenes.
Your guide will be curator Esmeralda Kale, who has studied, lectured, researched, and written in the UAE, South Africa, Swaziland, England, and in the States at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore. She’ll reveal a range of materials to illustrate the rich history of poetry, medicine, calligraphy, theology, politics, literature and more, all emanating from Africa.
Set your compass for Northwestern and register today.
Zoom begins at 12:00 PM CT/1:00 PM ET.
Preregistration required via website. Zoom presentation is free and open to all.
REGISTER HERE: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5453341

Nicholas Basbanes: "Before Paper: A Work in Progress"
2023-11-08 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baxter Society
Free and open to the public via Zoom. To register contact: baxtersociety@gmail.com
Nicholas Basbanes, NEH Public Scholar and beloved author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books and On Paper: The Everything of its Two-Thousand-Year History, will speak on his current project, Before Paper.

Historic First Editions in African American Literature
2023-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Virtual lecture, free and open to the public
CBS Producer Alvin Patrick shares his collection of African Americans’ books with frontispiece author portraits.
Club member Alvin Patrick, a CBS News Executive Producer, has amassed over 2,000 books during 30 years of collecting. He will discuss highlights of his first editions of African American literature dating back to 1817, and their importance to the story of Black people in America. Among his prized titles are Toussaint L’Ouverture: Biography and Autobiography (1863, coauthored with John Relly Beard), W. E. B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ann Petry’s The Street (1946), Gwendolyn Brooks’ Annie Allen (1949), and Arthur Ashe Jr.’s three-volume A Hard Road to Glory (1988). A Grolier member since 2023, Alvin is a graduate and trustee of Marist College; an award-winning journalist; Executive Producer, CBS News Streaming Originals and Race & Culture; and a member of the President’s Council of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and The National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-historic-first-editions-in-african-american-literature-tickets-719361548757?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Manuscript Mondays: Rare Book Collecting With Ken Gloss
2023-11-06 20:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
November 6th, 2023
8:00PM Eastern, 5:00PM Pacific
Guest: Ken Gloss Moderator: Brian Kathenes
Ken will discuss growing up in the book business and show some of his favorite finds while enjoying “the thrill of the hunt.” He will also share many fascinating anecdotes about private and institutional collecting, as well as guidelines for building and maintaining a significant collection.
About the Speaker
Ken Gloss is a rare book specialist and appraiser who is frequently seen on national TV. Among the many organizations of which Kenneth Gloss is a member are the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the New England Antiquarian Booksellers of America, the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers Association, the Committee for the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair and the Boston Society. He also is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society as well as serving on the Board of Overseers of the USS Constitution Museum.
Registration
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Deborah Caldwell-Stone on Defending the Freedom to Read
2023-11-06 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by the Caxton Club
November Evening Program

Direct from the headlines and media screens comes news of the latest efforts to ban or restrict certain books from school and public libraries and even bookstores. Today’s challenges are new, but the effort to ban books has a long history. Please join us as we host Deborah Caldwell-Stone, JD, Director of the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom and Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, to explore this issue and the latest challenges.
Portions of this program were underwritten by a bequest of the estate of Peggy Sullivan. Peggy’s distinguished service with the ALA both as President and Executive Director, her longtime commitment to the Caxton Club, and her commitment to librarianship suggested the theme for this event. This program brings together the ALA and the Caxton Club to discuss a timely topic and honor a mutual friend, Peggy Sullivan.
Deborah Caldwell-Stone has served on the faculty of the ALA-sponsored Lawyers for Libraries and Law for Librarians workshops and has published widely on intellectual freedom. She earned her Juris Doctor cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law and has practiced appellate law before state and federal courts in Chicago. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association.

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Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores
2023-11-06 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
MONDAY, November 6, 2023
Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores
** Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West **
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific
Exhibition opening with an in-person and virtual presentation
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception
6:00 PM Pacific – Program
Book Club of California | 312 Sutter Street | San Francisco, California, 94108
After resigning from his sales position at William Doxey’s bookstore in San Francisco’s famous Palace Hotel in 1897, a young Paul Elder opened his own shop two blocks away. Elder’s goal was a bookstore with a carefully crafted ambience, reflecting his embrace of the California Arts & Crafts Movement. Elder’s own publications were often designed with the same Arts & Crafts aesthetic. This talk will present a tour of Elder’s San Francisco bookstores, as he persevered through the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, helped to revitalize downtown, and celebrated the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Exhibition opening with an in-person and virtual presentation by David Mostardi, book collector, curator, and historian
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The Poison Book Project: Arsenic & Other Heavy Metals in 19th-C. Bookbinding
2023-10-30 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
MONDAY, October 30, 2023
The Poison Book Project: Arsenic & Other Heavy Metals in 19th-C. Bookbinding
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM Pacific
Virtual presentation
5:00 PM Pacific – Program
The Poison Book Project investigates potentially toxic pigments used in the manufacture of Victorian-era bookcloth. Lead scientist Dr. Rosie Grayburn will situate the use of English bookcloth colored with highly poisonous emerald green pigment and other toxic pigments within a broader historical context; recommend safe handling and storage practices for emerald green bookbindings; and report on the Poison Book Project’s most recent findings.
A virtual presentation by Dr. Rosie Grayburn, Head of the Scientific Research and Analysis lab at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and founding co-chair of the Bibliotoxicology Working Group.

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Bibliophilic Delights from the Gennadius Library in Athens
2023-10-25 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Maria Georgopoulou on the latest discoveries of how the Gennadius Library in Athens came to be. With highlights including early editions of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and a laurel wreath belonging to Lord Byron, the Library sheds light on Hellenism, Greece, and neighboring civilizations from antiquity to modern times.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-bibliophilic-delights-from-gennadius-library-in-athens-tickets-719347657207?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

The Deserts of California: A California Field Atlas
2023-10-23 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
MONDAY, October 23, 2023
The Deserts of California, a California Field Atlas
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific
Virtual presentation
With climate breakdown heating up and desertification looming over the horizon, Obi Kaufmann leads curious adventurers on a voyage into the sage-and-ocher landscapes of the American West’s world-famous desert regions this fall in his revelatory and sumptuously illustrated new volume The Deserts of California: A California Field Atlas. As philosophical as it is geophysical, this journey blends science and art in Kaufmann’s signature style to throw into relief ecological insights greater than either might yield alone. Through expressionistic mapmaking, wildlife renderings, and geographic conservation guides, Kaufmann explores the marvels of and threats to these resilient yet sensitive ecosystems.
“The Deserts of California presumes that hope, like healing, relies on time,” writes Kaufmann. “If there is time, there is hope. Although every desert habitat type is threatened, very little of it is yet extinct. Despite the complexity of the threat, everywhere there is precedent for resurgence.”
Of a piece with his best-selling books The Forests of California (2020) and The Coasts of California (2022), The Deserts of California (October 2023) rounds out Kaufmann’s expansive California Lands Trilogy. Individually and collectively, these volumes set out to transform entrenched colonialist attitudes toward the American West, and transform our concept of nature from a resource for extraction to a shared and cherished inheritance.
An in-person and virtual presentation by Obi Kaufmann, author, illustrator, and naturalist

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Jason Dean on Texas printer Carl Herzog
2023-10-23 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Jason W. Dean will give a talk on an under-appreciated figure in the history of the fine press, Texas printer Carl Hertzog (1902-1984). In his career of 61 years, he earned numerous awards and wide recognition, including from the AIGA and the Rounce and Coffin Club. Hertzog was responsible for the design or printing of over 300 books, and several hundred ephemeral works. Though well-known during his career and especially in Texas, Hertzog today is less widely known than his work merits.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-hertzog-in-the-house-of-grolier-tickets-719962927497?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Lecture%3A+Hertzog+in+the+House+of+Grolier&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

Gutenberg, Morgan, and Greene: Building the Bookman’s Paradise
2023-10-22 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
Online Sunday, October 22, 2 PM PDT
What bibliophile could resist an introduction to the early history and development of the private library of J. Pierpont Morgan? John McQuillen elaborates on the rich scope of his talk: “Morgan had an exemplary eye for collecting significant Western literary works—Gutenberg and Aldus, Shakespeare and Dickens—but it was his librarian, Belle Greene, who helped to focus Morgan’s broad collecting practices towards the creation of a truly exemplary library. Miss Greene steered the library through the Great Depression and both World Wars and continued to build on Morgan’s vision of an outstanding repository of the history of the written word.”
John McQuillen is the Associate Curator of Printed Books & Bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum. In 2012, he earned a PhD in Art History and the Book History and Print Culture Collaborative Program from the University of Toronto. John specializes in incunabula and Early Modern book history and has published on 15th-century provenance studies, medieval/Early Modern library history, incunable herbals, and early book portraits in the paintings of Hans Holbein. For the Morgan, John has curated exhibitions on William Caxton, Martin Luther, J.R.R. Tolkien, 18th-century French royal bookbindings, Hans Holbein, and early printed herbals (on view from 6 October).
Register here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/gutenberg-morgan-and-greene-building-the-bookmans-paradise?utm_campaign=36f43a7c-1f2d-4142-a42b-f8ee9586786f&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=1291030c-f5cd-4f28-ac2a-0f1daf7824dd

FABS 19th Century Special Interest Group Meeting (Join Us!)
2023-10-19 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by FABS
Next meeting: October 19
The 19th Century special interest group will meet the third Thursday of the month from 4:30-5:30pm Pacific/7:30-8:30pm Eastern. This SIG offers “a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and discussion for collectors, scholars, creatives and other book professionals.”
To register, contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org.

Chris Needdham: Theft, Mutilation and Forgery--Terrible and True Tales of Book Crimes.
2023-10-19 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
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@ the Baltimore Bibs
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We are the Land: A History of Native California
2023-10-18 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California and Litquake
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific
Virtual presentation
Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it.
Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood—paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today’s casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.
An in-person and virtual presentation by William Bauer, enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, author, and Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
* Co-presented and co-hosted by Litquake

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FABS Bindings Special Interest Group: Anatomy of a Book/Bindings from a Peruvian Penitentiary
2023-10-16 19:30 - 20:50 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by FABS
16 October, 2023 7:30-8:50pm eastern / 6:30-7:50pm midwest / 5:30-6:50pm mountain / 4:30-5:50pm pacific
ANATOMY OF A BOOK/BINDINGS FROM A PERUVIAN PENITENTIARY
Join FABS members interested in Bindings for a discussion about the Anatomy of a Book with lang ingalls, and about bindings that were created in a Peruvian penitentiary, with Jose Guerrero. These bindings are from the first half of the 20th c. and were made in South America. After the presentation, Jose has requested any insight on the materials, techniques and design that offer leads on books he shows. If you are a collector, librarian, conservator, binder or bookseller with focus on the first half of the 20th c. or books from South America, please join us—your input will be invaluable. If you aren’t associated in any way to these areas of interest, please join us as well: you may learn something new! This program will not be recorded. ~ The FABS Special Interest Group: Binding meets every third Monday of the month ~
The Bindings special interest Zoom group will meet Mon October 16, at 4:30-5:50pm Pacific/7:30-8:50pm Eastern. Thereafter, meetings will be held on the third Monday of the month. “The Bindings Interest Group hosts discussions and presentations that share collections and information on bookbindings of all periods. Topics include, but are not limited to, history, design and aesthetics, innovation, materials and craft techniques.”
To register, contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org and copy Marc at mcchavez@comcast.net

The Private Libraries of Early Modern British Women
2023-10-16 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
UMass Amherst professor and recent Grolier Helfand fellow Joe Black will speak on early modern women’s libraries.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-private-libraries-of-early-modern-british-women-tickets-719347607057?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Picture, Book, Talk: David Wing on Photography
2023-10-16 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
PICTURE • BOOK • TALK
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific
Virtual presentation
6:00 PM Pacific – Program
As a photographer in the fifty-seventh year of his serious effort, David Wing will describe how his camera found its subjects, what his working mind is like today, and how his accumulated work has “aged” in his intellect and in his heart.
Accompanied by a large number of slides, Wing will talk in detail about how his pictures come to light, and how his many recent books came to be.
Wing’s talk will try to show how his editing seems to work – he notes retrospective relationships among his photographs, and as these become more apparent, they seem to find independent coherence. As this happens, sequences, exhibitions, and the monographs take shape.
An in-person and virtual presentation by David Wing, photographer and teacher

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Elizabeth Bradley on Washington Irving
2023-10-13 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
Halloween approaches. It’s Friday the 13th. The path to the Caxton meeting is illuminated by the faint glow of a Zoom screen. And are those the sounds of hoofbeats approaching from behind? Could it be a hurrying Hessian?
With all of that, not even Van Winkle could nod off as Dr. Elizabeth Bradley reanimates the legendary works and career of author, traveler, and diplomat Washington Irving in a generously illustrated presentation.
Bradley serves as Vice President of Programs and Engagement at Historic Hudson Valley. If you pick up either of two Penguin Classic editions of Irving’s works, you’ll discover that she edited both. She is the author of Knickerbocker: The Myth Behind New York and New York (Cityscopes). You may also have seen her work in the New York Times, Smithsonian, and the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York. Frequently heard on a variety of media, she’s an engaging speaker with a wealth of fascinating stories to share.
There’s no reason to lose your head. Registering has never been easier: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5392318/Registration
Live attendance and lunch
View Zoom program on eighth floor, Steel Room, Union League Club. Presentation begins at 12:00 PM CT. Lunch immediately following in the fourth floor Rendezvous. $35 includes non-alcoholic beverage, a cup of soup, and your choice of sandwich, salad, or hot entree, tax, and tip. (Must register and pre-pay by 12:00 pm 10/11/2023.)
Zoom presentation is free and open to all.
Zoom begins at 12:00PM CT/1:00 PM ET. Preregistration required via website.

Up-Biblum God: The Algonquian Bible, Native Labor and Indigenous Futures
2023-10-11 16:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baxter Society and the Bowdoin College Library.
Kimberly Toney, Coordinating Curator of Native American and Indigenous Collections at Bowdoin College Library, will speak on the Algonquian Bible.
Free and open to the public on Zoom. To register and receive a Zoom link, contact: baxtersociety@gmail.com

Handpress Era/Early Printing FABS Group: Margaret Cavendish and Incunabular Herbals
2023-10-09 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by FABS
Interested in the early age of print? Join us on Zoom! Members of this group show and discuss examples of “printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800.”
For the meeting of October 9:

Elizabeth Canning: “The Worst Fate Bookes Have”: How Margaret Cavendish Shaped Her Literary Legacy. Join us to explore the publishing practices of groundbreaking author Margaret Cavendish across four of her works, including the rare 1668 stand-alone edition of The Blazing World, along with her first book, Poems and Fancies, from 1653.
John McQuillen, Associate Curator at the Morgan Library and Museum: Printing Plants: Illustrated Herbal Incunabula. The first European printed herbals had bold graphics and clear layouts. The illustrations were copied repeatedly as printers issued competing editions trying to claim their share of this new commercial market. What can we learn about how early books were marketed just from their layout?

To receive a Zoom link, contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
We meet the second Monday of the month from 7:30-8:30pm Eastern Time.
To join the mailing list and receive invitations for this Zoom group, write to info@fabsocieties.org.

Ken Gloss: A Bookseller's Improbable Finds
2023-10-05 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
October 5, 6:00pm New York Time
Join Ken Gloss of Boston’s Brattle Book Shop as he speaks on improbable and wonderful finds throughout his career. This is how he describes the surprises he’s experienced while bookselling: “One day you find yourself drinking from Thomas Jefferson’s coffee service, and the next day you’re fumigating your truck of fleas. The house you’re visiting could contain a handful of Turner watercolors, or a roomful of live ammunition.”
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-a-booksellers-improbable-finds-tickets-719345239977?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Manuscript Mondays: The Original Wikipedia
2023-10-03 20:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
“The Original Wikipedia: 18th Century Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s Siku Quanshu Project”
Free, Live Webinar
Monday, October 3, 2023 – 8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00PM Pacific (U.S. and Canada)
Presenter: Susan Lahey, MA, ISA CAPP
Moderator: Brian Kathenes
In 1772, Emperor Qianlong of China, a prolific poet, major art patron, and insatiable collector, ordered the largest encyclopedic compilation of books in Chinese history. Within 10 years, a team of more than 350 scholars and hundreds of editors had compiled 36,381 volumes (2.3 million pages) of the Siku Quanshu. Also known as the Complete Library in Four Sections only seven copies were made. Four of which survive today in Chinese libraries. Learn about this “wikipedia” of Chinese literature, history, philosophy, and classic texts. In addition learn about the remarkable Qing dynasty and the reign of Emperor Qianlong.
About Susan Lahey:
Susan Lahey, MA, ISA CAPP, is certified appraiser of personal property with a speciality in Asian art, specifically focusing on Chinese decorative and fine art. She is a professional member of the International Society of Appraisers. Ms. Lahey holds an Honors BA in Chinese Studies from the University of Toronto, an MA in Classical Chinese Literature from the University of British Columbia, a Post-Graduate Diploma with Distinction in Asian Art from the School of Oriental & African Studies (University of London, England) and Sotheby’s Educational Studies.
Susan lived in Taipei, Taiwan for two years. While there she continued her Mandarin studies and traveled extensively in Asia to study Chinese art collections. She is the President of Eastern Art Consultants Inc., providing independent appraisal, research, advisory and collection management services since 2010. Previously, she has worked at the Royal Ontario Museum in various capacities. She led the Asian art department of a local Toronto auction house for six years. Ms. Lahey is a highly sought-after instructor of Asian Ceramics and Chinese Decorative Arts specialty courses. Currently she is the President of the Canadian Chapter of the ISA.
Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jA59fLVRQJSd2dfvhzLp3w
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
For an Archive of all Manuscript Mondays.

Zelia Nuttall & Early Modern Mexican Pictorial Mss
2023-10-03 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Join ASU Professor Seonaid Valiant on how a Gilded Age anthropologist made discoveries about a British aristocrat’s Mixtec Codex.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-zelia-nuttall-early-modern-mexican-pictorial-mss-tickets-719345801657?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Molly Manning: The Best-Read Army in the World
2023-10-02 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
In recognition of Banned Book Week, Molly Manning will speak on censorship and propaganda in connection with the themes of her exhibition, “The Best Read Army in the World.”
During World War II—a time of rampant propaganda, censorship, and Nazi book bans in Europe—the United States military sent troops into battle armed not only with weapons, but with ideas. The U.S. publishing industry created pocket-sized paperback books called “Armed Services Editions,” as well as petite issues of domestic newspapers and miniature “overseas” editions of popular magazines. In total, more than 1 billion periodicals and 123 million paperbacks were distributed to 16 million American troops. In the words of the New York Post in 1945, the United States had “the best-read Army in the world,” and these readers returned home with an unquenchable reading habit, revolutionizing the book and magazine industries. The Best-Read Army in the World features approximately 225 pieces from the collection of Molly Guptill Manning (best-selling author and associate professor of law, New York Law School), including miniature books and periodicals, photographs, posters, artwork, propaganda leaflets, and letters. Highlights include rare prototypes for the troop-friendly publications, a bundle of Armed Services Editions in its original packaging, a U.S. army librarian uniform, and a display on World War II-era book bans. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by the Grolier Club.
Free and open to all. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-molly-manning-on-best-read-army-tickets-686571412577?aff=erelpanelorg

19th Century Special Interest Zoom Group
2023-09-21 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by FABS
The 19th Century special interest group will meet the third Thursday of the month from 4:30-5:30pm Pacific/7:30-8:30pm Eastern beginning September 21. This SIG offers “a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and discussion for collectors, scholars, creatives and other book professionals.”
To register, contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org.
Participants are expected to be members of a FABS Society or guests of a member. If you’re not sure whether you belong to a FABS society, consult this list. And if you’re not yet a member, do join one of our bibliophilic societies! Looking for the right club for you? Write to info@fabsocieties.org and Jennifer will be happy to advise.

Bibliobotany: Artistic Expression Using the Pages of Books to Create Botanical Structures
2023-09-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society

Thursday, September 21st, 7-8:30pm EST, free and open to the public.
Join us for a very special Forum featuring artist Lisa Meek. Lisa Meek creates extraordinarily beautiful botanical sculptures from the pages of books. Incorporating the language of flowers and topical books, these works allow her to use her art for activism in conservation and other issues she feels strongly about.
Her work has been shown throughout the United States, captivating gardeners, art lovers, conservationists and book lovers alike. Most recently, she exhibited at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh and in NYC. She is currently represented by Fremin Gallery NYC.
Please note that this Forum will be in person at Loganberry Books beginning at 7:00 PM. You may also join via Zoom:
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Hope you all had a good Labor Day weekend, look forward to seeing you at the next Forum in person or via zoom.

Spencer Stuart on the Antiquarian Book Trade
2023-09-20 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles
This month’s (ZOOM) program features Spencer Stewart, who will pose the question: How has the antiquarian book trade changed – and is changing – from the inside out and the outside in? Are there changes in the way people – collectors and the Public – view the book trade? Have “virtual” book fairs and auctions become an effective or ineffective substitute for face to face interactions such as occurred pre-pandemic? Spencer Stewart explores these topics and more within the framework of his recently published book, Contemporary Issues in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting. Please join us on Wednesday, September 20th at 7:00 pm Eastern Time. A ZOOM link will be provided as soon as possible.
For a link, please contact Binnie Syril Braunstein: bsbgc@aol.com

Bindings Special Interest Zoom Group
2023-09-18 19:30 - 20:50 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by FABS
FABS Special Interest Group: Binding
18 September, 2023
7:30-8:50pm eastern / 6:30-7:50pm midwest / 5:30-6:50pm mountain / 4:30-5:50pm pacific
MINIATURE BINDINGS: Discussion and Show & Tell
Join FABS members interested in Bindings
for an informal Discussion about MINIATURE BINDINGS, followed by a Show & Tell.
The program will feature a brief history by Tony Firman,
followed by a selection of miniature bindings with Kathy Roberts.
We then invite everyone to show a favorite from your collection, share a “mini” story,
or simply sit back and enjoy as others share their books and stories!
This program will not be recorded.

~ The FABS Special Interest Group: Binding meets every third Monday of the month ~
The Bindings special interest Zoom group will meet Monday September 18, at 4:30-5:50pm Pacific/7:30-8:50pm Eastern. Thereafter, meetings will be held on the third Monday of the month. “The Bindings Interest Group hosts discussions and presentations that share collections and information on bookbindings of all periods. Topics include, but are not limited to, history, design and aesthetics, innovation, materials and craft techniques.”
To register, contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org and copy Marc at mcchavez@comcast.net
Participants are expected to be members of a FABS Society or guests of a member. If you’re not sure whether you belong to a FABS society, consult this list. And if you’re not yet a member, do join one of our bibliophilic societies! Looking for the right club for you? Write to info@fabsocieties.org and Jennifer will be happy to advise.

From Books to Bytes: Building the Next Generation of Bancroft Library Collections
2023-09-18 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
Monday Sept. 18, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific
In-person and virtual presentation
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception
6:00 PM Pacific – Program
The Book Club of California | 312 Sutter Street | San Francisco, California 94108
Historian, writer, and collector Hubert Howe Bancroft sold his expansive collection of research materials on the history of Western North America to the University of California in 1905, thus establishing the eponymous library as a center of historical research and scholarship on Western Americana. This presentation explores over a hundred years of collecting at The Bancroft Library, from the library’s Valencia Street origins in San Francisco to its present moment on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
An in-person and virtual presentation by Kate Donovan, Director of The Bancroft Library & Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at University of California, Berkeley
* Co-presented and co-hosted by the Northern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America

Register to attend the virtual presentation on Zoom

Rachel Church on The Women of Windy Hill (Artists' Book on Community Cookbooks)
2023-09-13 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Baxter Society
Rachel Church will speak about her artist’s book The Women of Windy Hill, which commemorates the creation of a self-published cookbook during the pandemic.
To register for this talk, contact: baxtersociety@gmail.com
From Rachel’s website:
In 2021, the Women’s Group of the North Vienna United Methodist Church, a church perched up on a windy ridge at the highest point in a small, rural town, created Cooped Up Cooking. The introduction reads:
It has been ten years since the Wednesday Morning Women’s Group published a cookbook. 2020-21 has been a challenging time for everyone. For a period, the group did not meet. Then we met on Zoom, better than not meeting at all, but not the same as being together! It was so good when we finally could be back together in-person, to share, laugh, and cry together. This new cookbook contains comfort food recipes that nourished us during the pandemic; new finds discovered during cooking adventures; as well as our thoughts, and prayers, and scripture that sustained us. Our hope is that you will find some old treasures, new finds, and comfort in this cookbook.
Community cookbooks are valuable because they document not only the foods eaten in a specific community in a given time, but also the values, history, and social networks of a community, and particularly (but not exclusively) communities of women. I was interested in this cookbook because it reflects as time in this community (and the world) of extreme challenges. For many of us, food and cooking gained even more appreciation as nourishment both for our bodies and our spirits. I wanted to make this project to highlight the women who created the cookbook and the stories within their recipes and, more personally, because these women were part of my own upbringing; I grew up in that small, rural community. I am grateful that they have been open with their stories, photos, and recipe boxes to create this collaborative artwork, which I hope brings attention and honor to the foods that sustain us, the memories they contain, and the people who make it.
