• Bindings Special Interest Zoom Group

    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 […]

  • Spencer Stuart on the Antiquarian Book Trade

    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 […]

  • Bibliobotany: Artistic Expression Using the Pages of Books to Create Botanical Structures

    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 […]

  • 19th Century Special Interest Zoom Group

    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 […]

  • Molly Manning: The Best-Read Army in the World

    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 […]

  • Zelia Nuttall & Early Modern Mexican Pictorial Mss

    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

  • Manuscript Mondays: The Original Wikipedia

    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 […]

  • Ken Gloss: A Bookseller’s Improbable Finds

    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 […]

  • Handpress Era/Early Printing FABS Group: Margaret Cavendish and Incunabular Herbals

    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 […]

  • Up-Biblum God: The Algonquian Bible, Native Labor and Indigenous Futures

    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  

  • Elizabeth Bradley on Washington Irving

    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 […]

  • Picture, Book, Talk: David Wing on Photography

    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 […]