Spencer Stuart on The Life Cycle of a Collection
2022-05-02 20:00 (America/New_York)
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, Brian Kathenes, Spencer will share case studies and cover:
The important things collectors should consider at key moments of their collecting.
Motivations to collect
Who collects and what influences their focus
Maintaining perspective while actively collecting
The legacy of a collection and de-accessioning strategies
Recent structural changes in the fine art photography, rare books and printed material markets
Collecting is a journey. Executed with foresight, it can be a source of both self-exploration and understanding of the World.
Spencer’s presentation is designed to inspire new collectors and reinvigorate those with an established focus.
To Register for this free Webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3773182379276992270

On Auctions, presented by Spencer Stuart
2022-05-01 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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, he will explore what one should consider in participating in the Auction event as a consignor and buyer.
Taking a multi-perspective approach, Spencer will examine the specific interests of those involved, following the auction process step-by-step and illustrating the dynamics of each decision.
Through his presentation and the ensuing conversation, ON AUCTIONS will offer a practical and holistic view of the “Auction World”.
Go to Spencer’s page http://spencerwstuart.ca/aio/ where you will find links to his articles pertaining to changes in the auction industry.

About Spencer W. Stuart
Spencer W. Stuart provides advisory services to private collectors as well as institutions aiding in the design and execution of collection development, inventories, catalogues and collection appraisals as well as deaccession strategies.

Spencer Stuart holds a master’s degree in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute in London, England (recipient of the Director’s Award). Upon graduation he took a position with Bonhams Auctioneers where he worked closely with the North American Rare Books and Manuscripts department in Toronto and New York.
Spencer is an alumnus of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminars and completed course work through the Rare Book School (University of Virginia).
In concert with his advising, Spencer is an active writer and lecturer on histories of the printed word for a variety of publications including The Book Collector, Manuscripts, and Amphora as well as occasionally with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio: http://spencerwstuart.ca/media/

Grolier Club Virtual Tour of the San Francisco Center for the Book
2022-04-28 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
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 1970s, activists brought a broad range of disruptions to the old order. Women of second-wave feminism demanded representation in galleries, museums, textbooks, history and the canon. Possibilities: When artists’ books were young explores works that women created in the newly-burgeoning field of artists’ books and examines the movement of women of color into the medium in the late 1980s. The show, on view through May 1st, brings together 37 artists’ books, posters and paintings by 32 artists. Walkup’s virtual walk-through will be followed by Q&A.
Walkup, a writer, lecturer and letterpress printer, joined the Grolier Club in 2020. In 2011 she curated the club’s show Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books at Women’s Studio Workshop. Her research interests focus on the history of women and printing and conceptual practice in artists’ books. Her essay on the women of the Distaff Side appeared in Making Impressions: Women in Printing and Publishing (The Legacy Press, 2020). She is Professor Emerita at Mills College, where she held the inaugural Lovelace Family Chair in Book Art.
Register at the Grolier Club’s Eventbrite page: CLICK HERE
This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder.

The Richness of Rare Books for Knowledge, Use, and Delight: Collections of the Herb Society of America with Amy Dawson, Librarian and Archivist
2022-04-28 07:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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 programs, research, and sharing the expertise of its members with the community. Dawson has worked at appraising and describing archival collections and completed rare book cataloging projects for organizations such as The Rowfant Club, The Golden Group, Library Cataloging Solutions, and the Herb Society of America. She is the former Special Projects Coordinator of the Special Collections Department of the Cleveland Public Library.
Link for the program will be sent out on the Monday before the Forum. To request a link please contact freddy@logan.com
For those of you who missed Herb Asherman’s Forum on Photography, it was taped and is available on our website www.nobsbooks.org.

American Eighteenth-Century Women Printers
2022-04-26 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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 will draw from her research for an essay on the topic in a recent book, Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History (Princeton Architectural Press), edited by Briar Levit.
Dr. McCoy is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Drake University in Des Moines, IA, and owns and operates The Permanent Collection Letterpress + Design Studio in Des Moines, with clients ranging from universities to organic farms. She has widely published her writings, exhibited her work, including artists’ books, and lectured and led letterpress workshops.
This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder.
REGISTER on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-lecture-on-american-18th-c-women-printers-tickets-246576746687?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

A Rebel’s Outcry: Biography of Issei Civil Rights Leader Sei Fujii (1882-1954)
2022-04-25 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 (California Daily News). His complex history reveals his intriguing journey as an immigrant, a social justice activist, unionizer, and a community leader. Fujii’s story exemplifies the multitude of ways Americans have and may continue to fight for our civil rights. The official biography on Sei Fujii is the source material written by author Kenichi Sato and was commissioned by manager Junko Maruya of the Kashu Mainichi.
Following the work by Sato, Little Tokyo Historical Society conducted over ten years of extensive research, including interviews with countless community members, Fujii’s family, and visiting his ancestral samurai home in the Takamori Village of Iwakuni, Japan.
A live presentation by Jeffrey Gee Chin, author, filmmaker, and board member, Little Tokyo Historical Society.
Register for the Webinar here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zj1gNQz1TN63plumdpDSqw?mc_cid=baed11003c&mc_eid=55809a2ee8
Register for in-person event here:
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Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair
2022-04-23 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
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 to finally resume sponsorship of this (normally) annual event. As usual, the one-day fair will coincide with the NY Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, with us being right next door. Since its inception in 2014 the Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair has become a popular event, drawing collectors and enthusiasts from around the world. Each year exhibitors display their wares, representing a broad swath of experience—from famous presses to student practitioners just starting out. We will continue to offer the FPBA Collector’s Prize as well this year. The fair organizer is Dina Pollack.

The Manhattan Antique Book, Paper, and Fine Press Book Fair (In Person)
2022-04-23 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
This is the original Shadow Show directly across from the ABAA Antiquarian Book Fair at the New York State Armory. Here we present exceptional exhibitors from throughout the United States, Europe, The United Kingdom, and Asia – many of whom are members of ABAA, ILAB, ESA, PADA, SNEAB, MABA, and other professional groups – with a wide range of fine, rare, Antique and old books along with vintage ephemera, advertising, photographs, maps, posters, prints, autographs, and other works on paper. The Fine Press Fair portion presents an incredible grouping of international print houses presenting the finest self-created, contemporary book arts that aspire to the highest standards of craft and design.
10am – 5pm
Appraisals 1pm – 3pm, $5/Item
Adults $17
Youths 12 – 21 $8
under 12 Free
Masks mandatory (no exceptions)
The Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
869 Lexington Ave (at E. 66th Street)
New York, NY

ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
2022-04-21 00:00 - 2022-04-24 00:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (FABS partner)
April 21-24
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, New York
Between 66/67 Streets
Universally referred to as the world’s finest antiquarian book fair, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America’s (ABAA) New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF), produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates is proud to showcase nearly 200 exhibitors in 2022. Exhibitors will present a vast treasure trove of items: rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, fine bindings, illustrations, historical documents, prints and print ephemera.
The fair’s specialties encompass art, science, medicine, literature, history, gastronomy, fashion, first editions, Americana, philosophy, children’s books and much more. From the historic and academic, the religious and spiritual—to the bedrock of secular culture, finance, politics—the fair boasts offerings in every conceivable genre and subject.
In recent years, NYIABF has increasingly captured the attention of young collectors seeking one-of-a-kind offerings at more accessible price points.
Please sign up on our mailing list for up-to-date information about the 2022 fair. [Go HERE and scroll down to the form.]
This book fair is officially sanctioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. This means that the consumer can rely upon the experience and professionalism of participating dealers and the authenticity of the items available for purchase. Simply stated, all books, manuscripts and related material have been carefully examined for completeness and bibliographic accuracy.
Produced and managed by Sanford L. Smith + Associates
Tel: 212-777-5218 | Email: info@sanfordsmith.com | #NYIABF22

April Oettinger: Innovations in Teaching the History of the Book in the Liberal Arts Classroom
2022-04-21 00:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Baltimore Bibliophiles.
Professor April Oettinger of Goucher College will speak on “Innovations in Teaching the History of the Book in the Liberal Arts Classroom,” based on her presentation to the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting, at Marsh’s Library in Dublin, Ireland. Prof. Oettinger will share innovative strategies discussed at the Dublin conference for exploring books as material, designed objects in classroom teaching and student learning.
Time is TBA.
For further information and to register contact Binnie Syril Braunstein, bsbgc@aol.com.

Jennifer Gunter King and Nick Twemlow on Literary Collections through Relationships: The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University
2022-04-20 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by The Caxton Club
The Rose Library at Emory University is the home of inspiring and deeply compelling poetry and literature collections that feature the papers, materials, and books of Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Natasha Trethewey, Salman Rushdie, and many more writers whose works have helped shape global cultural discourse for decades.
In 2004, Emory acquired the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, which was the most significant private library of twentieth-century English language poetry in the world. This acquisition, featuring over 85,000 volumes (first editions, broadsides, posters, serials, and much more), established the Rose Library as a crucial center for the study of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry.
Emory’s distinctive collections and stature as a major poetry library are the culmination of shared vision and friendships between Emory librarians, faculty, administration, donors, and the authors whose papers Emory has collected, preserved, and made available to students, scholars, filmmakers, biographers, and many other communities.
Jennifer Gunter King, the Director of the Rose Library, and Nick Twemlow, the Rose Library’s Literary and Poetry Collections Librarian, will explore exciting developments in this era of collecting and research that are enabled by digital scholarship, changing modes of discovery, and the relationship- and friendship-building that supports and sustains the library.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Program will be live streamed and Zoom attendees will have an opportunity to participate in Q&A. Registration for attendance via Zoom is required.

Virtual Satellite Book Fair
2022-04-20 12:00 - 2022-04-22 20:00 (America/New_York)
The virtual edition of the popular New York City Satellite Fair.
Whether you’ll be heading to New York for the fair at the Park Ave. Armory or not, be sure to visit this fair on your computer or smartphone April 20-22, 2022
The popular Satellite Show formerly at St. Ignatius Church on Park Ave will be virtual in advance of the Book Fair at the Armory celebrating NY Rare Book Week.
Shop early for the best selection.
Free general admission opens Wednesday April 20 at noon (EDT) continuously through Friday April 22 at 8:00pm
Advance preview
Opens Tuesday April 19th – noon (EDT)
Preview Tickets – $10 on sale Tuesday April 19 starting at 9am EDT
Proceeds to benefit C
Free General admission opens
Wednesday April 20th noon (EDT)
continuously through Friday April 21st 8pm
Link is here: https://getmansvirtual.com/

Prof. Art Seto on "International Escapades of a Book Lover"
2022-04-16 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington
Held in conjunction with the Club’s 40th Annual Business meeting. This event will be live-streamed so that additional members and guests can participate. The program will also include the presentation of the Robert D. Monroe Award.
Professor Art Seto will discuss and show examples from the many museums, libraries and other book and printing centers that he has had the opportunity to experience as part of his fifty-year love of print and books. His academic career has taken him to conferences all over the world, where he constantly discovers new bookish opportunities. He will highlight visits to such institutions as the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany, The Getty Museum, The Huntington Library, and UCLA and Rare Book School collections in Los Angeles, The Library of Congress and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and other select venues across the USA, Canada and Asia.
Art Seto
Professor Seto’s love of print began during two years of graphic arts classes in high school, where he was fortunate to have after-school access to the printing shop. This early exposure was followed by 23 years working full time in the printing industry, beginning with an indentured bindery apprenticeship. For the past 17 years, Associate Professor Art Seto has been teaching bookbinding, letterpress printing and other courses at the Graphic Communications Management program at Ryerson University in Toronto. In addition to teaching, he researches and disseminates scholarly information on print and book topics and is a hands-on practitioner as a letterpress printer and book artist. Related research interests are in the areas of historical and modern street literature, chapbooks, and zines.
When you RSVP, you will be asked to specify whether you wish to attend in person or online. To register click HERE.

Application Deadline: George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize
2022-04-15 00:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Ticknor Society
Submissions for the Ticknor Society’s Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize are due April 15. The prize was created to encourage and recognize those in New England who have been inspired to form a book collection of their own. The Prize awards $1000 to a collector of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera who resides in one of the six New England states, and also includes an invitation to speak about the winning collection to The Ticknor Society and a complimentary one-year Ticknor Society membership.

We encourage you to reapply with the same or a different submission if you have entered the competition previously. Learn more about our organization, the Prize, and how to enter at https://bit.ly/3CpYCxg, and please share this invitation with anyone you know who might have an interest.

Dealer Catalog Auction to Benefit the Manuscript Society
2022-04-14 00:00 - 2022-04-21 00:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Dealer Catalog Auction II
April 14 – 21, 2022
Our first successful Dealer Catalog Auction is complete! The Manuscript Society announces Auction II. It runs April 14, 2022 through April 21, 2022. We will offer our remaining manuscript and autograph related catalogs and rare books. Some 2000 dealer catalogs are now available to collectors.
This second of two auctions, highlights catalogs from auction houses and dealers in European, England and the United States. The auction includes lots from Sotheby’s of both London and New York, MAGGS, Myers of London, Stargardt of Berlin and multiple French dealers including Michele Castaing. European dealers and houses in France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are all represented. Lots include Charles Hamilton auction and fixed price sales catalogs. Plus there are catalogs from a wide range of sites such as Goodspeeds, Newsreel, Pen and Quill and American Bookman to add to your collection.
This auction is hosted by society member David McGuire. To Register visit https://www.themcguiregroupllc.com/
You will receive notice from the McGuire Group when the auction goes live. A complete listing of the lots is available.
“Click Here for Catalog Items”
Register. Collect History. Support The Manuscript Society.

Collecting Antiquarian Books & the Joy of the Hunt
2022-04-13 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
Boston-based Brattle Book Shop proprietor and Antiques Roadshow appraiser Kenneth Gloss will talk about some of his “favorite finds” and describe some of the many joys of “the hunt.” He will touch on what makes a book or manuscript rare and what goes in to determining the value of an item. He will share anecdotes about his time with Antiques Road Show and private and institutional collecting, as well as offer guidelines for starting and growing a collection.
A live online presentation by Kenneth Gloss, proprietor, Brattle Book Shop.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CNSzmbKMSGqWcpzmLeXAdg?mc_cid=809b99a781&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Virtual Tour of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
2022-04-05 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Dr. David R. Brigham will offer a behind-the-scenes tour of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
A behind-the-scenes tour via Zoom of the treasures of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, founded in 1824 in Philadelphia. Its collection of over 21 million manuscripts, books, and graphic images encompasses 400 years of U.S. history from the 17th century to the present. David R. Brigham, Ph.D., the President and CEO of HSP, will present highlights from the collection in conversation with Grolier Club member Erin Paulson, currently HSP’s Women’s History Conservation Technician.
Register at the Grolier Club’s Eventbrite site (click HERE).
This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder.

Manuscript Mondays: How to Write Your Own Book – A Live Interview with Allen Ottens, author of: “General A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man”
2022-04-04 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Manuscript Society.
Monday, April 4, 2022
How to Write Your Own Book – A Live Interview with Allen Ottens, author of: “General A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man”
Ever wondered how to write a book and get it published? Allen Ottens, Manuscript Society Trustee and Author of “General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man”, will share his firsthand publishing knowledge. Plus he will share his expertise on the life and times of American Civil War General and Secretary of War John Rawlins. Dr. Ottens will discuss: Why Rawlins? The book writing process. Finding a publisher. Working with Editors. Tips for new authors and traps to avoid. Followed by a short discussion on self-publishing vs. legitimate publishers.
GoToWebinar Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4417530277770443533

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
2022-03-28 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it.
From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction.
Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband’s heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret “Mad Madge” Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)?
Monster, She Wrote is part biography and part reader’s guide with engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists that will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.
A live online presentation by Melanie R. Anderson, author, assistant professor of English at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, and podcast host, and Lisa Kroger, author and podcast host.
Click on the URL to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MBdmoHpPQiaAVEP2cQ7Lrg?mc_cid=4f48eec8f6&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

FORUM: Take a Trip with Herb: Photo Projects and the Books that Inspired Them
2022-03-24 19:30 - 20:45 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society.
March 24, 7:30 PM 8:45 PM EST via Zoom
Join Herb Ascherman on an illuminating journey into his experiences as Cleveland’s most prominent portrait photographer. Since opening his portrait studio in 1975, Herb has photographed international leaders such as Henry Kissinger and Presidents Carter, Reagan, and Bush Sr.; more than 200 Cleveland area artists, 750 Northern Plains Native Americans and, for twenty years, he served as the portrait photographer to the Cleveland Orchestra. Herb has produced well over 9,000 black and white film-based portraits in his 47-year career. In addition, he has a library of 2,387 books on or about photography.
Zoom link will be provided before the event. Non-members please email Freddy@logan.com for Zoom link.

Grolier Club Virtual Lecture on Tattoo Books
2022-03-24 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
This panel discussion will focus on books about tattooing and tattooed people.
Panel discussion by tattoo historians Derin Bray and Margaret Hodges and tattoo scholar/practitioner Aarom von Hemmersbach, a Grolier Club member. Bray, an art and antique dealer based in Portsmouth, NH, and an admirer of the unusual and offbeat, is the co-author with Hodges of two 2021 books from Rake House: Loud, Naked, & In Three Colors: The Liberty Boys & the History of Tattooing in Boston and Floating West: Antique Japanese Tattoo Flash from the Collection of Nick York. In this Zoom event, Bray and Hodges will put their scholarship in the context of books about tattooing and tattooed folks dating back to the rise of Dime Museums in 1880s America.
Von Hemmersbach, a Grolier member since 2018, is a bibliophile focused on early printed books from the Aldine Press. Based in Winnipeg, he has also been a tattoo artist for about 20 years, with clients–including Grolier members–throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe. A classical historian by training, he has combined his vocation and his avocation by inventing unique techniques for decorative bookbinding: tattooing, rather than blind- or gilt-tooling, inked designs into leather covers. His talk will complement Bray and Hodges’ observations, exploring tattooing scholarship that inspires modern-day designers.
This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder.
Sign up at Eventbrite’s Grolier page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-lecture-on-tattoo-books-tickets-266186088757?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Online guided tour of "Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects."
2022-03-24 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Grolier Club
Curator Glen Miranker will offer a pre-recorded guided tour of his “Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects” exhibition, open in our ground floor gallery January 12 – April 16, 2022. The tour will be followed by a live Q&A.
All attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder.
Sign up on Eventbrite’s Grolier page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-sherlock-holmes-exhibition-tour-tickets-266141926667?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Virtual Tour of The History Project Collections
2022-03-22 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Ticknor Society.
Join Joan Ilacqua, Executive Director of The History Project, for a virtual tour of The History Project’s collections. Established in 1980, The History Project is Boston’s LGBTQ+ community archives and holds over 200 collections documenting LGBTQ+ life and experience in the Boston area and regionally in New England. Joan will share the history of the organization, as well as some fun digitized materials from the archives, including buttons, photographs, and other queer ephemera.
Email ticknorinfo@gmail.com to receive a Zoom link

Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics
2022-03-21 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
A financial manager, businesswoman, and reformer, Phoebe Apperson Hearst was one of the wealthiest and most influential women of the era and a philanthropist, almost without rival, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Most people know her as the mother of William Randolph Hearst, the famed newspaper mogul, and as the wife of George Hearst, a mining tycoon and U.S. senator. By age forty-eight, however, Hearst had come to control her husband’s extravagant wealth after his death.
Hearst supported a number of significant urban reforms in the Bay Area, across the country, and around the world, giving much of her wealth to organizations supporting children, health reform, women’s rights and well-being, higher education, and progressive voluntary associations, among other endeavors. She worked to exert her ideas and implement plans regarding the burgeoning Progressive movement and was the first female regent of the University of California. Hearst held other prominent positions as the first president of the Century Club of San Francisco, first treasurer of the General Federation of Woman’s Clubs, and head of the Woman’s Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age’s most prominent and powerful women.
An in-person presentation that will also be live streamed by Alexandra Nickliss, author and professor of history at City College of San Francisco
Click on the URL to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJB_gklIg5xNMHxB_nO-kEH5fallN6vdNIjH2FJ2d-0Gjpuw/viewform?mc_cid=4f48eec8f6&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Book Collecting in Slovenia | Boštjan Petrič
2022-03-20 13:30 (America/New_York)
Hosted by the Florida Bibliophile Society. Boštjan describes himself as a “book collector, bibliomaniac, and book enthusiast.” Through his Fate of Books blog, he provides a Slovenian perspective on book collecting and on his special interest, libricide, i.e., the destruction of books. His blog comes with a moral: no matter how obscure the book, there is a collector somewhere who would love to possess it.
This event is virtual with an in-person gathering at Macdonald-Kelce Library, University of Tampa
To receive a Zoom Meeting link call Jerry Morris at 727-862-5012 (home) or text to 727-505-3634 (cell).

Open to public.

The Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize
2022-03-18 00:00 (America/New_York)
The Ticknor Society is now accepting submissions for the Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, which was created to encourage and recognize those in New England who have been inspired to form a book collection of their own. The Prize awards $1000 to a collector of books, manuscripts, and/or ephemera who resides in one of the six New England states, and also includes an invitation to speak about the winning collection to The Ticknor Society and a complimentary one-year Ticknor Society membership.
The deadline for applications is April 15, and we encourage you to reapply with the same or a different submission if you have entered the competition previously. Learn more about our organization, the Prize, and how to enter at https://bit.ly/3CpYCxg, and please share this invitation with anyone you know who might have an interest.

Irvin J. Hunt on Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement
2022-03-16 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by the Caxton Club
What if instead of waking up and demanding of ourselves more self-care, we demanded systemic change? Irvin Hunt discusses a movement that was based on collective care and a new system altogether, the black cooperative movement. In gripping detail, built from rarely before seen archival material, Hunt recounts how Ella Baker, George Schuyler, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Fannie Lou Hamer built vast, but forgotten, networks of mutual aid, from homes to health clinics. He helps us rethink who these giants were, what a social movement is, and how to care for each other in the here and now.
“The book is brilliant and timely and will transform our understandings of social movements from abolition to civil rights and Black Lives Matter” – Imani Perry, author of South to America
“Hunt writes with a fierce urgency that requires and allows us to hear in and through the work of Du Bois, Schuyler, Baker, and Hamer the Black anticipation and extension of Samuel Beckett’s blues: ‘Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ ” – Fred Moten, author of consent not to be a single being
Irvin J. Hunt is assistant professor of English and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The program is open to all via Zoom.
March 16, 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET
Zoom attendees will have an opportunity to participate in Q&A.
Registration for attendance via Zoom is required. Click on this link: https://caxtonclub.org/event-4715926/Registration

Medieval Manuscript Culture and Production: A Webinar
2022-03-14 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
Explore the physical materials, production process, ownership, and readership of medieval manuscripts from 800-1500 in Western Europe in this online presentation. Participants will learn about parchment-making, medieval ink and pigment ingredients, methods for illumination and decoration, and the culture of scriptoria with a special focus on women scribes. The lecture will also give participants the experience of examining the script and decoration of digitized European manuscripts in a virtual setting.
A live online presentation by Kathryn Brunet, lecturer, palaeographer, and special collections librarian.
Click on the URL to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gl_42s1GSJu-NqI3Zc451A?mc_cid=4f48eec8f6&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Kenneth Gloss on Collecting Rare Books and Manuscripts
2022-03-13 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by FABS
Sunday, March 13, 2022
4:00-6:00 PM Eastern Time | Zoom
In our FABS Spring Online Event, Boston-based Brattle Book Shop proprietor/television appraiser Kenneth Gloss talks about some of his favorite finds and describes some of the joys of “the hunt.” He explains what makes books and manuscripts rare and what determines whether they increase in value. He has many fascinating anecdotes to share about private and institutional collecting, as well as guidelines for starting a collection. There is a Q&A session before the conclusion of his talk, which is followed by appraisals.
*CLICK* TO REGISTER HERE (REGISTRATION REQUIRED): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrfuCqrz0qGNW4SDM5ggAYmnXCTJDwBV-U

Vespasiano da Bisticci: The Bookseller of Florence
2022-03-13 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sunday, March 13, 2022
2:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

* Co-presented and co-hosted by the Book Club of Washington
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings—the dazzling handiwork of the city’s artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of another kind: Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world.
At the heart of this activity was a remarkable bookseller: Vespasiano da Bisticci, known as ‘the king of the world’s booksellers’. Besides repositories of wisdom by the likes of Plato, Aristotle and Cicero, his books were works of art in their own right, copied by talented scribes and illuminated by the finest miniaturists. His clients included popes, kings and princes from all across Europe who wished to burnish their reputations by founding magnificent libraries.
Vespasiano reached the summit of his powers as Europe’s most prolific merchant of knowledge when a new invention appeared—the printing press—that forever changed how books were produced and knowledge transmitted. By 1480, after almost fifty years in business, Vespasiano closed his shop in Florence’s Street of Booksellers and retired to the country to write his gossipy memoirs of everyone he had known.
A thrilling chronicle of intellectual ferment set against the dramatic political and religious turmoil of the era, The Bookseller of Florence is also an ode to books and bookmaking that charts the world-changing shift from script to print through the life of an extraordinary man—one of the true titans of the Renaissance.
A live online presentation by Ross King, author
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