Sponsored by The Book Club of California Collections advisor Spencer W. Stuart asked multi-decade dedicated collectors, “With 20/20 hindsight, what do you wish you had done, or known to do, when you started collecting?” This talk unpacks a compilation of the responses gleaned from these individuals into 12 salient points and elaborates on their meanings […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club We’re presenting a video of the April program for those who were unable to attend the program at ULCC. A live Q&A with the authors will follow. Chicago writers and historians Paul Durica and Bill Savage will take us on a journey through the Chicago of 1893 with their edition […]
Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture (in person and Zoom) The Pope at War Tuesday, May 10, 2022 – 6:00pm CET Villa Aurelia Largo di Porta S. Pancrazio, 1 Rome, Italy 00153 A Friends of the Library Lecture on the topic of a new book, The Pope at War: The Secret History of […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club We regularly draw on speakers from libraries to tell us wondrous tales about remarkable collections. But who tells the libraries’ stories? Messrs. Pettegree and der Weduwen do, in their terrific book, The Library: A Fragile History (Basic Books, 2021). In it they address the real world challenges facing libraries … […]
Publisher Tim Inkster's professional relationship with poet P. K. Page began in the spring of 1985 when Constance Rooke commissioned a broadside of P. K.'s poem ‘Deaf-Mute in a Pear Tree’ as a promotion for The Malahat Review. An anecdotal history of their many collaborations over the next two decades serves to highlight the gulf […]
Co-sponsored by The Book Club of Washington and The Himes & Duniway Society Online Sunday, May 15, 2 pm PDT Visit our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org Register for the event here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/explore-the-lewis-clark-expedition-and-more This virtual visit to Lewis & Clark College in Portland was prompted by the College having assembled the most comprehensive library of Lewis & Clark […]
Princeton University Library is delighted to invite you to the annual Gillett G. Griffin Memorial lecture with guest Russell Maret, book artist and letter designer. Monday, May 16, 2022 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time Via Zoom webinar or in-person: Room 138, Lewis Science Library Princeton University The British private press holds such a strong […]
Sponsored by the Book Club of California in association with Rare Books LA-Palm Springs Begun in 2019, the LGBTQ+ History & Archives of the Desert is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making accessible the LGBTQ+ History of the Greater Palm Springs Area. This presentation provides a brief overview of how and why the Archives began, […]
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Our next (Zoom) meeting is Wednesday, May 18, and features Elizabeth DeBold, Assistant Curator of Collections, Folger Shakespeare Library. Her topic is Brush Up Your Shakespeare: The Harmsworth Collection and other things you didn’t know about The Folger Shakespeare Library. Please feel free to forward this email Zoom invitation to […]
Co-sponsored by The Book Club of California Rare Books LA - Palm Springs Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21, 2022 Friday, May 20 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm/PT Saturday, May 21 | 10:00am - 6:00pm/PT Hotel Zoso 150 S Indian Canyon Drive Palm Springs, CA 92262 Join the Book Club of California and Rare Books […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California The Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992), San Francisco author, historian, and club secretary from 1921-1946. Awards for achievement in Western History and the Book Arts are awarded each year. The Book Club of California […]
This event is presented by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Educational Trust - Institute of English Studies Book Collecting Seminars The event - called 'The Bibliotheca Spenceriana Collection of Incunables. A new cataloguing project at the John Rylands Library' - will feature presentations by Julianne Simpson, John Gandy and Ed Potten on this exciting major project. […]