Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, 869 Lexington Ave at 66th Street Saturday April 23, from 10 AM to 5 PM. The Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair is back!! Please join us on Saturday, April 23, 2022 for a gathering of fine press, private press, and artist book practitioners. The Fine Press Book Association is happy […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California "A Rebel’s Outcry: Biography of Issei Civil Rights Leader Sei Fujii (1882-1954)" is an illustrated biography and detailed look into the life of Japanese American civil rights leader Sei Fujii, known for overturning the California Alien Land Law in 1952 and founding the Japanese American newspaper Kashu Mainichi […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Graphic designer and letterpress printer Professor Sarah McCoy will lecture on the lively, tumultuous lives of Colonial women printers, who were backbones of their families and communities. Words that they printed and disseminated, amid triumphs and hardships, helped shape the culture and freedoms of the early colonial world. Dr. McCoy […]
Sponsored by NOBS Welcome spring by joining librarian, archivist, and educator Amy E. Dawson for a discussion of a collection of rare herbals and guidebooks owned by The Herb Society of America, located in Kirtland, Ohio. Learn more about The Society, which is dedicated to promoting the knowledge, use, and delight of herbs through educational […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Kathy Walkup will offer a behind-the-scenes tour of an artists' books exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book. A virtual tour of Possibilities: When artists’ books were young, a show at the San Francisco Center for the Book, will be led by Grolier member Kathleen Walkup. In the […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Online Sunday, May 1, 2 pm PDT Visit our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org Register for the event here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/sold-on-auctions-by-spencer-w-stuart Collections Advisor Spencer Stuart will discuss his ongoing analysis of the "Lockdown Auction Landscape" and the structural impact it is having on rare book and print markets. In light of these changes, […]
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Monday – The Life Cycle of Collections Monday, May 2, 2022 8:00 PM Eastern The Lifecycle of Collections and the Collectors Who Build Them Join Collections Advisor, Spencer W. Stuart, as he discusses the life cycle of collections and the collectors who build them. Moderated by Manuscript Monday host, […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and The Union League Club of Chicago The year 2022 marks the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape designer for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago’s Jackson Park and designer of Riverside, Illinois. Please join us as we welcome public historian, Laurence Cotton who will talk about the national […]
Sponsored by ABAA (FABS partner) May 4, 12:00pm-May 5, 8:00pm EDT This is the virtual component of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. Visit by clicking on this URL: abaa.org/vbf
Sponsored by The Grolier Club The panel will offer a conversation about Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger, explorers and photographers "At the Edge." A conversation between exhibition curator Dr. Roger Härtl and other experts about two explorers, authors and photographers “At The Edge.” Sella and Thesiger wandered the world at the crossroads of the age […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Nicole Howard, Professor of History at Eastern Oregon University, will speak on her new book, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500-1750 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). She will explore how, during the early modern era, some scientific authors disliked and distrusted the newly invented printing press, to […]
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 […]