Book Collecting 101, Presented by David Gregor
2023-02-26 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
Sunday, February 26, 2 pm
In Person and Online
Register for this event on The Book Club of Washington’s website:
www.bookclubofwashington.org
David Gregor founded Gregor Rare Books in Seattle in 1987, relocating to Langley on Whidbey Island in 2004. He co-produced the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair for thirteen years and was a regular book reviewer for The Seattle Times for eight years. He has also been a frequent contributor to Firsts: A Magazine for Collectors.
He started offering how-to book collecting courses around the country in 1991, and in 2015, he turned the content he had been presenting for years in person into the book Into the Fold: A Primer for Beginning Book Collectors, available from Gregor Rare Books and Amazon.com.
David has ceased giving his live seminars, so we are especially fortunate that he has agreed to present “Book Collecting 101” for a maximum of twenty attendees at Dearborn House and simultaneously over Zoom, for those who wish to attend virtually. Signed copies of David’s book Into the Fold will be available for purchase at the event.
David’s activities in the rare book realm represent only one aspect of his many talents and accomplishments. His published works include three memoirs and a book of poetry. His prowess on acoustic and electric guitars and his love for the blues led to his forming the Deja Blooze Band in 2007, in which he is featured on guitar and vocals. He has also composed songs and three musicals which have been produced locally.

Jennifer Larson: Miniature and Little Books in the Age of Early Printing
2023-02-22 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society
Wednesday, February 22, 7:30pm
online only
Join Jennifer Larson, FABS Chair and Professor of Classics at Kent State University, for an exploration of miniature and little books. In her presentation, Dr. Larson will use books from her own collection to explore how diminutive format was related to content in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Miniature and small formats were favored not only for devotionals, almanacs, and children’s literature, but also for inexpensive school books, forbidden or “obscene” works, and as samples of fine printing. With regard to literature, selection for publication in small format has always been a gauge of high popularity, and there is a “canon” of authors and works thus distinguished (Horace and Terence, but also Tasso and Guarini’s Il Pastor Fido). Publishers from Aldus and Paganini in the 16th century, to Plantin and the Elzevirs in the 17th century, to the Foulis brothers and the French Imprimerie Royale in the 18th century have experimented with small formats, much to the delight of collectors.
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Barbara Heritage on Charlotte Brontë's "Shirley"
2023-02-18 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Saturday Feb 18, 12:00-1:30pm Eastern Time
In this talk for the series “The Research Group Speaks,” Barbara Heritage will consider the material evidence of Charlotte Brontë’s fair-copy manuscript for “Shirley” (1849). Barbara Heritage is Associate Director and Curator of Collections for Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.
On 8 September 1849, James Taylor traveled from London to Haworth, Yorkshire, to collect the manuscript of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Shirley, for publication. His firm, Smith, Elder and Co., had been anxiously awaiting the completion of the book for nearly a year. Readers both in England and abroad were eager to read the next work by “Currer Bell”, whose first published novel, Jane Eyre (1847), had proved surprisingly popular.
The manuscript, which now resides in the British Library (Add MS 43479), includes numerous excisions to its 896 leaves. Its three volumes have been characterized by some as a confused “text of grief” written during the loss of Brontë’s siblings — and by another as proof of self-censorship and even “symptoms of a writing disorder or disease.” A close codicological study of the manuscript offers an alternative reading by drawing on the correlation of paper stocks and varying pagination, providing new material-based evidence for how Brontë strategically and deliberately revised — and even expanded — her manuscript after serving as the primary caregiver for her siblings.
This event is open to the public. Register on EventBrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-research-group-speaks-10-barbara-heritage-charlotte-brontes-shirley-tickets-462481192697?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
See also the page for this event on the website of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/barbara-heritage-on-stages-of-composition-in-charlotte-brontes-fair-copy-of-shirley/

Miriam Udel: When Yiddish Felt Young
2023-02-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Feb 15, 6:30-8:00pm EST
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, a literature for Yiddish-speaking children flourished on four continents. A traveling rabbi shares his Sabbath with a friendly lion; an engraved olive branch traces a century-long arc of exile and repatriation to the Holy Land; a boy tries and fails to dodge the ministrations of a Soviet hygiene squad; an intelligent mutt enlivens the proletarian adventures of his adoptive family.
Miriam Udel, a preeminent scholar of the Jewish encounter with modernity, who has translated and analyzed these books, will offer an overview of the corpus and share some endearing and revealing primary texts and examine their larger cultural significance. Dr. Udel is Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at Emory University. Her talk will shed light on books representing ideological contests that shaped the Ashkenazi Jewish world.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-when-yiddish-felt-young-tickets-507751447247?aff=erelpanelorg

Deadline to Sign Up for The Manuscript Society's Rome Libraries Tour (Open to all Members of FABS Societies)
2023-02-10 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Manuscript Society
OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS OF FABS SOCIETIES
The Great Libraries of Rome: October 22 – 30, 2023
The Manuscript Society in conjunction with International Seminars Design Inc. presents a tour like no other! Tour the most beautiful libraries of Rome and see their rare manuscript collections.
On this specifically designed tour, individuals will visit many outstanding libraries and museums located in Rome. Some will be open only to us. Gardens, fountains, architectural plazas, are all part of this glorious trip. A few of the places we will visit:

Rome: The Sistine Hall of
the Vatican Museum

Angelica and Casanatense Libraries; The Vatican – Sistine Chapel, Vatican Gardens, St. Peters Basilica, Vatican Library and Vatican mosaic studio; Spanish Royal Academy and American Academy of Rome; Palazzo Massimo and the Palazzo Orsini; Villa Farnesina – opened especially for The Manuscript Society; and the Hertziana Library and Vallicelliana Library plus excellent food, wine, and company.
Deadline to make your reservation is February 10, 2023!
A complete brochure with all information on the trip including sites, costs, registration dates and registration form is attached.
We look forward to once again presenting an international trip! If you have any questions, please do ask.

Virtual Lecture: "Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer"
2023-02-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum curator Diana Seave Greenwald will discuss renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar and the book Greenwald recently edited, Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer, with contributions by Makeda Best and Stephanie Sparling Williams. Drawing on original, in-depth interviews with Saar and the companions who accompanied her on her journeys across four continents over several decades, and featuring a wealth of previously unpublished material including almost 30 travel sketchbooks, this is a richly illustrated look at how travel influenced Saar’s work.
Born in 1926, Saar was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s. She works with found objects – many of which she gathers on her extensive travels – to create assemblages that tell visual stories and convey powerful political messages, exploring themes like symbolic mysticism, feminism, racism, and Eurocentric chauvinism. Heart of a Wanderer sheds new light on Saar’s unique creative process, her trips around the world, and the diverse ways in which her works engage with global histories of travel and forced migration.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-betye-saar-heart-of-a-wanderer-tickets-507727164617?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Lecture%3A+%22Betye+Saar%3A+Heart+of+a+Wanderer%22&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

Ride ’m Cowboy: Randal Brandt on Western Fiction at UC-Berkeley’s Bancroft Library
2023-02-08 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club

Saddle up as we ride along with a couple of Berkeley grads who became two of the most prolific and successful writers of popular fiction during the first half of the twentieth century.
They flooded bookshelves, produced plays, filled the radio and television airwaves with dramatic scripts, and gave Hollywood stars such as Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and others the lines that helped make them famous.
Randal Brandt has the treasure map that will lead us to a trove of fun and fascinating nuggets from Berkeley’s Faust and Perkins papers. Frederick Schiller Faust (1915) pounded the keyboard under the pen name Max Brand. He also challenged Kenneth Perkins (1914) to trade an academic career for writing. Each would go on to create stories that helped to shape the myths of America’s West. And more.
Randy Brandt serves as Head of the Cataloging Unit at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. Before that, he held cataloging positions at the Water Resources Center Archive, the California Indian Library Collections project at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and the California Maps Project. He also curates the Bancroft’s California Detective Fiction Collection.
Let’s go west! Join the wagon train by making your reservation today!
Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Zoom begins at 12:00PM CT/1:00 PM ET. Preregistration required via website.
REGISTER HERE: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5131674

Teri Edelstein on Feeding the Art Deco Spirit
2023-02-07 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and the Chicago Art Deco Society
Feb 7, 6:30pm Central Time
A central aspect of the culture and lifestyle of the 1920s and ’30s was the creation and consumption of food. You could exist in an Art Deco world where everything from the soup to the nuts was inflected with this style. As a pervasive style, Deco shaped a total environment and food and drink were an integral part of this. The lavishly illustrated lecture will feature many aspects of these manifestations.
Dr. Teri J. Edelstein, curator and museum consultant, is principal of Teri J. Edelstein Associates, Museum Strategies. She served as Deputy Director of The Art Institute of Chicago and previously as director of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. She has taught at several universities. Her numerous publications include many articles and exhibition catalogues as well as the books Perspectives on Berthe Morisot and Art for All: British Posters for Transport. She contributed a major essay to Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America. Most recently, she curated Everyone’s Art Gallery: Posters of the London Underground for The Art Institute of Chicago.
Please register if you’d like to see this program, even if you can’t attend at 6:30 on February 7. After the program, all registrants will receive an email offering an opportunity to request a link to a recording of the complete program.
Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5097217

Identifying and Valuing Classic Animation Art
2023-02-06 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Presenter: Melanie Smith – Live Free Webinar with Moderator Brian Kathenes
This fascinating and exciting live-stream presentation describes the intricate process of creating classic animation art and how the animation process impacts the value of classic ‘cels’ and illustrations.
Melanie Smith will describe the many different steps required to create early cartoon art. Each step in this complex process required a different type of art, and a specific artistic skill set. She will share many illustrations and examples.
This classic American art form is no longer being created the way it was just a few years ago. New technology has replaced this intricate handmade process.
Understanding this process will help participants discover why the various types of animation art can have such a vast range of value, and what makes cartoon art so collectible.
Melanie Smith is second generation owner of Seaside Art Gallery. She has been handling animation art since the early 1980’s. The gallery has been a preferred gallery of Disney and Warner Bros., Hanna Barbera Studios, and United Feature. She also wrote the section on animation art for the International Society of Appraisers fine art course.
Register for this free, live-stream Manuscript Monday Webinar at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t9_68ct_TFeI0mhlC9_V5Q

NYAM Aristotle's Masterpiece: Reflecting On The Material Text
2023-01-28 11:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine
Aristotle’s Masterpiece, first published in 1684, was a steady seller into the 20th century, advising readers about sex and babies. Over the course of writing a book about the Masterpiece, Professor Mary Fissell looked at hundreds of copies. In her talk she will reflect on the relationship between evidence drawn from the material text, and that of readership from other sources.
About the Speaker
Mary E. Fissell, PhD,
Mary E. Fissell is the inaugural J. Mario Molina Professor in the History of Medicine in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the history of science and the history departments. Her scholarly work focuses on how ordinary people in early modern England understood health, healing, and the natural world. More recently, she has focused on how ordinary people understood their bodies, particularly reproduction, by looking at cheap print. Vernacular Bodies (Oxford, 2004) explored how everyday ideas about making babies mediated large scale social changes, because talking about the reproductive female body was also a way to talk about gender relations and thus all relations of power. Her current work continues to examine vernacular knowledge—ideas about the natural world that ordinary people used, made, shaped, and practiced. She connects the histories of gender, the body, and sexuality with those of popular culture and cheap print in the Atlantic world in a project focusing on an extraordinary popular medical book called Aristotle’s Masterpiece. First published in 1684, it was still for sale in sleazy London sex shops in the 1920s, having retained its currency for over 2 centuries.
Your financial support at any level helps us to provide the exciting programs and events you expect from The New York Academy of Medicine, and to sustain the Library’s books, journals, digital ventures and services. You will have an opportunity to make a donation when you register for the event
Register here: https://support.nyam.org/event/bibliography-week-lecture-aristotles-masterpiece-reflecting-on-the-material-text/e455971/register/new/select-tickets

The 2023 New Scholars Program, BSA Annual Meeting and Keynote by Dr. Kelly Wisecup, "Toward a Bibliography of Birchbark Books"
2023-01-27 14:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America
Friday, January 27 – 2pm-6pm Eastern | In-Person at Convene, 5:30 5th Ave. & Online
The 2023 Annual Meeting and New Scholars Program will be held in-person and live-streamed to our virtual audience starting at 2pm Eastern with New Scholars’ papers and a group question and answer session. Following a 30-minute break (snacks and beverages will be available at Convene for our in-person audience), the 2023 Annual Meeting will begin at 3:45pm Eastern. The entire program will be live-streamed for a virtual audience on the BSA YouTube Channel.
The Annual Meeting & New Scholars Program on 27 January 2023 will follow the agenda below:
2pm Eastern, New Scholars Program (Hybrid: In-Person and Online via YouTube)
3:15 to 3:45pm Eastern, Intermission
3:45pm Eastern: BSA Annual Meeting & Keynote Lecture by Dr. Kelly Wisecup, “Toward a Bibliography of Birchbark Books” (Hybrid: In-Person and Online via YouTube)
5pm Eastern: Reception
Visit the BSA website for a full schedule of the day’s events, including talk abstracts.
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John Blew on Chicago Artist Miklos Gaspar’s 1935 Mural Cycle in the Boys Club Room of the Union League Club of Chicago
2023-01-25 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
6:30pm CT, 7:30pm EST
The 1930s were the “golden age” of mural art in the United States. In 1935, Chicago artist Miklos Gaspar was commissioned to paint a mural cycle on all 93 feet of wall space in a private dining and meeting room of the Union League Club of Chicago. The murals depict in 28 scenes the activities at two Chicago boys clubs and a Wisconsin summer camp then operated by an affiliate of the Union League Club. These murals, still extant today, are a handsome example of that 1930s artistic tradition.
Join Caxtonian and Union League Club member John Blew in a behind the scenes virtual exploration of these murals, their artist, and the history of the events that spurred their creation. His talk was given to a live audience at the Union League Club in September 2021 and recorded at that time. John will be available after this Zoom presentation to respond to questions.
John Blew was born and raised in Chicago. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, after which he practiced corporate and securities law in Chicago for 45 years, retiring in 2011.
Please register if you’d like to see this program, even if you can’t attend at 6:30 on January 25. After the program, all registrants will receive an email offering an opportunity to request a link to a recording of the complete program.
Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5108556

Virtual Panel: Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing
2023-01-25 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Jan 25, 2:30-3:30 Eastern time
A panel of Carnegie Mellon scientists and scholars – Christopher N. Warren, Max G’Sell, and Grolier Club member Samuel Lemley – will speak on “Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing.” At the heart of this talk is the recognition that the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment developed out of a long and complex tradition of press controls and licensing in Europe and the colonies, and that this amendment’s framers understood a lesson sometimes under-appreciated by scholars: that press controls had long pushed certain kinds of printing underground. This panel’s members contend that some of the most fascinating stories of the First Amendment’s pre-history are yet to be told, and that they can only be discovered with tools, data and methods developed in computational bibliography. The most persuasive evidence of clandestine printing often lies below the threshold of human attention – in minute typographical details, recurring pieces of damaged type, similar or divergent paper stocks, or tiny variations in print shop practices, observable only at scale. At the same time, it takes sophisticated information architecture for researchers to move effectively from minute physical details to broader, more consequential patterns. This presentation introduces a project aiming to ameliorate the persistent challenges of studying clandestine printing with a suite of tools, data, and machine learning methods that can detect, model, and integrate hidden sources of information in letterpress print.
Register here for the virtual panel: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-clandestine-printing-bibliography-week-tickets-490550187817

Booksellers' Bibliography Week Showcase Mini-Antiquarian Book Fair
2023-01-25 10:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
Booksellers’ Showcase, In Person
Jan 25, 10:30 am-4:00 pm. At the French Institute / Alliance Française, 22 E 60th St, New York. Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. A special mini-antiquarian book fair. Join 35 exhibitors offering books, maps, ephemera, and more for sale at the Bibliography Week Showcase. The Showcase takes place in conjunction with Bibliography Week at FIAF on East 60th Street, just across from the Grolier Club.
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Speaking Texts: Recordings, Preservation, Accessibility, and Indigeneity
2023-01-24 13:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America
This panel brings together scholars who will explore bibliographical analysis of oral culture, textual transcription, and capture and preservation of recorded sound from a variety of perspectives and help us to think through how we might do a bibliography of sound and oral culture.
January 24, 2023 1 PM Eastern – ONLINE
Bibliographical analysis of texts requires close looking at objects, which traditionally have been printed textual artifacts. While scholars working in the digital humanities have made headway in pursuing the bibliographical analysis of digital objects, such as OCR’d text, bibliographical analysis of other kinds of new media, such as recorded sound and its accompanying textual transcriptions, has received less attention among bibliographers. Yet many texts, like the oral cultures of residents of Appalachia, tribal members of various Indigenous communities, and formerly enslaved people of African descent, are not recorded in printed text until after they are recorded in sound. Such various iterations of text in new recorded formats raise traditional bibliographical questions: What is an edition, state, and issue? Does the physical format of the sound recording help us to understand the production and dissemination of the text? This panel seeks to bring together several scholars who will explore bibliographical analysis of oral culture, textual transcription, and capture and preservation of recorded sound from a variety of perspectives and help us to think through how we might do a bibliography of sound and oral culture.
Speakers:
Justin Tackett, University of Warwick (Moderator)
Kopana Terry, University of Kentucky
Mara Mills, New York University
Alan Corbiere, York University
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The Koran in English — From Yusuf Ali to Sandow Birk
2023-01-23 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM Pacific Time
Virtual presentation
For millions of Muslims, the Qur’an is sacred only in the original Arabic. Revealed to an Arab merchant Muhammad in 7th century Arabia, it calls itself “an Arabic Qur’an”. At once lyrical and adamantine, it resists translation into any other language. Yet scholars have tried to cross the barrier, rendering it into numerous classical and modern languages, including English.
The most adventuresome 20th century translator, Yusuf ‘Ali, a British civil servant in India, even strove to make English itself an Islamic language, while a recent American voyager—at once surfer and artist—Sandow Birk created an American Qur’an in the 21st century, post 9/11.
In this talk, Bruce Bennett Lawrence will connect to many translators but he especially prizes the link between Yusuf Ali and Sandow Birk. While Yusuf Ali wants to make English an Islamic language, Sandow Birk hopes to make the Koran an American text/resource, a compass for post-9/11 Americans.
A virtual presentation by Bruce Bennett Lawrence, author, Marcus Family Humanities Professor of Religion Emeritus, Duke University, and adjunct professor at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UA-IcOELQT2ez8iry2-meg?mc_cid=027c3195ad&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Finding Your Focus: A Roundtable for Aspiring Book Collectors
2023-01-23 12:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America
Panel with past winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize.
This roundtable will feature recent winners of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize for young women book collectors. The panelists will share the experience of building their winning collections, with an emphasis on the moments of inquiry, epiphany, and re-evaluation that shaped their projects. Our goal in this roundtable is to demystify the early stages of building a collection, when many aspiring collectors become discouraged or intimidated, by focusing on productive acts of re-direction and pivoting.
Register for the online presentation:
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Bibliography Week
2023-01-23 08:00 - 2023-01-27 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America, The Grolier Club and others
Jan 23-27
From Eric Holzenberg on the Grolier Club website: BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK happens each year at the end of January when the principal national organizations devoted to book scholarship and the book arts have their annual meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, since the attention of so many bibliophiles is focused on these few days. Some events are open to members only, but mostly you are encouraged to show up everywhere: get a sense of what is going on in the book world, hear some interesting papers, and schmooze with colleagues.
Select events open to all are listed individually in the calendar, or visit http://bibliographyweek.org/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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