Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington and FABS Open to all members of FABS Societies Members of FABS Societies visiting the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair are cordially invited to a reception on Saturday October 8, 2022 from 5:00-6:30 Pacific Time at McHugh’s on 21 Mercer Street, west of the Exhibition Hall. Hope to see […]
Sponsored by The Baxter Society. Open to all members of FABS Societies. Email baxtersociety@gmail.com to request a link, which will be sent on the morning of the event. Wed. Oct 12 at 7:00pm Eastern Time. David R. Godine, independent publisher, will speak on Maine books and authors together with some nautical titles.
Sponsored by The Caxton Club When/Where: 10/14/2022 Zoom begins promptly at Noon Chicago Time (Central). Preregistration required via website. Zoom (only) option is free and open to all. October Midday Program Let’s get a jump on college football and visit new Big Ten member UCLA before it starts regularly engaging in gridiron tilts in New […]
DISCOUNT ADMISSION TO RARE BOOKS LAX FOR FABS RARE BOOKS LAX takes off October 14-16, 2022, at The Proud Bird, just minutes from LAX. The FABS community will receive discount admission. Sponsored by Biblio.com, RBLAX brings rare booksellers from throughout the world together to share their love of books, fine prints, maps, ephemera, and more. In conjunction with Rare Books LAX, the 47th Annual American Printing History Association (APHA) conference will also be held […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Oct 17, 6:00pm New York time About this event A talk by Grolier Club member Frank H. Wu, president of Queens College and distinguished law professor, scholar and author, on his collection of anti-Asian propaganda, with examples on hand. This will be a live online event, and all attendees will […]
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles A saga of marketing Books, Stationery, Musical instruments, Umbrellas, Printing, and Sign Painting, mixed with Millerites and fisticuffs with the Constabulary! Wednesday, October 20, 2021. 7:00 pm. Eastern Time on Zoom. To register contact Binnie Syril Braunstein at bsbgc@aol.com
Sponsored by the ABAA October 21, 3:00pm Eastern time Please join us to honor this year's prizewinners of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest’s Susan Tane Prize for Student Book Collectors, via Zoom. In addition to the awards, the Library of Congress' Chief of Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Mark Dimunation, will interview each […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Sun Oct 23, 2:00pm Pacific Time Book Club of Washington member Steven Woolfolk opened Xenophile Bibliopole & Armorer, Chronopolis with Brian Sheldon in December 2019. We’ve arranged a virtual visit with them to learn about its special contents. The exterior alone suggests that this establishment is something out […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club About this event Leonard Marcus will give a lecture on “The Modernist in the Nursery: How Author/Illustrator Dorothy Kunhardt Made the Picture Book New,” Best known for Pat the Bunny (1940), Dorothy Kunhardt turned the children’s publishing world on its ear as the creator of 40 innovative books whose jaunty […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Jason Chin is an author and illustrator of children's books dealing with nature and science. His books have won both the Sibert (the Informational Book) and Orbis (writing for Nonfiction for Children) Medals. His most recent book, Watercress (2021) won the Caldecott and Newbery Awards. It is the story […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club How did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers’ lives and their works? When did the person of the author—both as context and target of textual interpretation—come to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the development of author centrism back to the […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dec 7, 6:00-7:30pm, Eastern time A Virtual Tour of "Building the Book From the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School and the Book Arts Press." Join "Building the Book" curators Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge for a pre-recorded virtual tour of the exhibition […]