Sponsored by The Grolier Club Vanessa "V.M." Braganza will give an online lecture on Lady Mary Wroth About this event Four hundred years after Lady Mary Wroth became the first English woman to publish a long work of prose fiction, her story still harbors secrets and unsettled ghosts. In this talk, book detective Vanessa "V.M." […]
The Morgan Library Join Assistant Manager of School Programs, Ann Bell, for a talk about the Morgan Book Project, an extended learning program for students in grades 3-12 in which they create their own illuminated manuscripts using the Morgan’s collection as inspiration. She will highlight facets of traditional bookmaking techniques and discuss some award-winning examples […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Grolier Club member Mary Catherine “MC” Kinniburgh, currently at Granary Books (a NYC-based rare book and archives dealer, and independent publisher), and creator of her own small editions of artists’ books under the imprint TKS, will explore how the characteristics of 20th-century counterculture poets' libraries shed light on the history […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Free Live Webinar Monday, June 6, 2022 8:00 – 9:00 PM Eastern One of the many privileges of being a member of a professional organization is the “behind the scenes” tours we are offered by museums, libraries, and universities. Knowing what is expected of us will enhance our experience, add […]
Sponsored by Heritage Auctions (FABS partner) View all lots and bid at HA.com/6253 Highlights include a first edition of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations (1776), a Gutenberg Bible leaf, and a signed Marc Chagall Pseaumes de David (Geneva 1979).
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Gad, Holmes. The collection features more than 60,000 items; it is the largest gathering of materials related to us and this Conan Doyle fellow. But where can it be? We know that is housed in a secure underground site … well out of sight. How will we ever find it?” […]
The Morgan Library From the Morgan’s three Gutenberg Bibles to the intricately carved cylinder seals of Ancient Mesopotamia, join our Morgan docents as they guide you on an up-close virtual exploration and discussion of one of the many works in the institution’s treasured permanent collection. Please note that the program will take place online. After […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Online Sunday, June 12, 2 p.m. Pacific Time Register for this event on our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org Gary Goodman has been a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota for nearly forty years. In 1982, he wandered into a used-book shop in East St. Paul that was going out […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Monday June 13, 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Los Angeles time | In-Person event and Livestream on Zoom Viewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys in amusingly inauthentic fashion. But […]
The Caxton Club is a proud co-sponsor of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize is an annual prize of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman. The prize was co-founded by Heather O'Donnell and Rebecca Romney. The contest is open to […]
Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America The ABAA is now accepting entries for the 2022 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, where more than $6,000 in prizes will be awarded to student collectors. The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest is open to all prizewinners of college book-collecting contests, whether or not first prize, as well as to interested students […]
Submitted by The Caxton Club To celebrate the 100th anniversary of this most distinctive novel of the 20th century, catch up on the epic Centennial Readings of James Joyce's Ulysses sponsored by the Thornwillow Press. https://www.thornwillow.com/blog/bloomsyear-centennial-reading/