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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]