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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Sponsored by FABS The FABS Handpress Zoom Group meets the second Monday of the month from 7:30-8:30pm Eastern to discuss printed works before 1800. All are welcome. David Levy: Three Pairs of Books on the Game of Trictrac? Trictrac is a French game played on a backgammon board, popular from the early 17th century into […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Scholars David Stromberg and Aaron Lansky will discuss a new book,Isaac Bashevis Singer's Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945 (White Goat Press). November 11 would have been the 120th birthday of the late Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer. This collection, edited and translated by David Stromberg, editor of […]
Sponsored by FABS November 16 The 19th Century special interest group meets the third Thursday of the month at 4:30-5:30pm Pacific time and 7:30-8:30pm Eastern time. This informal and friendly group offers "a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and discussion for collectors, scholars, creatives and other book professionals." Join us! To receive […]
Sponsored by FABS NOVEMBER 20 The Bindings special interest group meets at 4:30-5:50pm Pacific/7:30-8:50pm Eastern on the third Monday of the month. THE TREVELYAN MISCELLANY WITH PETER GERATY Join FABS members interested in Bindings for a Presentation and Discussion about the Trevelyon Miscellany with Peter Geraty. The facsimile limited edition Trevelyon Miscellany was printed and […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Amy Gore, assistant professor of English at North Dakota State University, will discuss the connections between books, bodies, and Indigenous book history at the release of her latest monograph, Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023). From a book’s “spine” to its […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California An in-person and virtual presentation by Paul Chrzanowski, book collector Book collector Paul Chrzanowski donated his collection of nearly 150 early English books to the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The collection includes copies of the second and fourth folio editions of Shakespeare’s collected plays (1632 and […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Mondays Thanksgiving Leftovers: A Manuscript Society virtual gathering! Monday, December 4, 2023 – 8:00PM Eastern, 5:00PM Pacific Moderator: Brian Kathenes – We’ll chat about our favorite manuscript memories from 2023 – Share a favorite piece from your collection – Ask questions of fellow members – Talk about what’s in […]