Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize Deadline
2022-06-15 00:00 (America/New_York)
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 women book collectors in the United States, aged 30 or younger. Contestants do not need to be enrolled in a degree program, nor do they require a sponsor. Honey & Wax uses ‘women’ in its most expansive definition, one fully inclusive of non-binary, trans and gender-non-conforming individuals.
The winning collection must have been started by the contestant, and all items in the collection must be owned by her. A collection may include books, manuscripts, and ephemera; it may be organized by theme, author, illustrator, publisher, printing technique, binding style, or another clearly articulated principle. The winning collection will be more than a reading list of favorite texts: it will be a chosen group of printed or manuscript objects, creatively assembled, that shine light on one another. Collections will not be judged on their size or their market value, but on their originality and their success in illuminating their chosen subjects.
For more information and a link to apply, please visit https://www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php

American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West
2022-06-13 18:00 - 19:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 tradition of the dude ranch, America’s original western vacation, is much more interesting and deeply connected with the culture and history of the American West. In American Dude Ranch, Lynn Downey opens new perspectives on this buckaroo getaway, with all its implications for deciphering the American imagination.
Dude ranching began in the 1880s when cattle ranches ruled the West. Men, and a few women, left the comforts of their eastern lives to experience the world of the cowboy. But by the end of the century, the cattleman’s West was fading, and many ranchers turned to wrangling dudes instead of livestock. What began as a way for ranching to survive became a new industry, and as the twentieth century progressed, the dude ranch wove its way into American life and culture.
Downey follows dude ranching across the years, tracing its influence on everything from clothing to cooking and showing how ranchers adapted to changing times and vacation trends. Her book also offers a rare look at women’s place in this story, as they found personal and professional satisfaction in running their own dude ranches.
However contested and complicated, western history is one of America’s national origin stories that we turn to in times of cultural upheaval. Dude ranches provide a tangible link from the real to the imagined past, and their persistence and popularity demonstrate how significant this link remains. This book tells their story—in all its familiar, eccentric, and often surprising detail.
A live presentation by Lynn Downey, author, archivist, and historian
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEgMcd0fYnkSZpZRDG_SL5gSwTnwp_8b3wtQewGX0RK-EsMg/viewform?mc_cid=4a9a504b7b&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Gary Goodman on The Last Bookseller
2022-06-12 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 of business, little dreaming that he would that day transform from a psychiatric counselor into the store’s new owner. He later co-founded St. Croix Antiquarian Booksellers and the Stillwater Book Center in Stillwater, Minnesota, closing the bookstore in 2017 after 27 years.
In 2021, the University of Minnesota Press published The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade, an account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age. It is both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors. Goodman is also the co-author of The Stillwater Booktown Times (1996) and The Secret History of Golf in Scotland (2006).
Register on the BCW page here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/the-last-bookseller-by-gary-goodman

Morgan Library Interactive Spotlight Tour: Portraits of J. P. Morgan
2022-06-10 12:30 (America/New_York)
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 registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to participate using Zoom. We ask that you download the app in advance for the best user experience.

Friday, June 10, 2022, 12:30 PM

Tickets: Free; limited availability, advance registration is required.
Registration will be open two weeks in advance of the program
Register here: https://www.themorgan.org/programs/treasures-permanent-collection-interactive-spotlight-tour-38?utm_source=The+Morgan+E-Marketing&utm_campaign=ccd7099759-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_11_15_2019_17_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfa97b537e-ccd7099759-392748700

Timothy Johnson on Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2022-06-10 12:00 (America/Chicago)
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?”
“Elementary Watson. You gave the answer yourself when you said that the collection is underground. For who is at home underground? Geomys bursarius, of course.”
By now, you’re practically shouting at poor Watson. “Gopher! And in possession of such a wonderful treasure? A Golden Gopher!” You’ve solved the puzzle and located the collection at the University of Minnesota … from whence we’ll be joined by the collection’s curator Timothy Johnson.
Schooled in part in Chicago at North Park University, where he served as director of archives, Tim Johnson brings the requisite taste in Chicago pizza as well as some familiarity with the Caxton Club. Much in demand as a speaker, Tim will share a generously illustrated presentation that will transport you to Baker Street and beyond.
Why not reserve your spot before darkness covers the moors and the Hound of the Baskervilles begins to howl?
Zoom presentation is free and open to all.
Advanced registration required via website. Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-4769216?CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=5/17/2022

Rare Books Signature® Auction at Heritage
2022-06-08 - 2022-06-09
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).

Manuscript Monday: Etiquette Your Mother Never Taught You
2022-06-06 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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 to our knowledge base, and prevent our host or hostess from saying nasty things about us after we leave.
You may think you know what is the proper way to visit all of those “behind the scenes” events but:
Is it ever okay to touch the art?
Leaning on a case or wall, is it okay?
Pencils and markers and sharpies, oh my.
To photograph or not to photograph, that is the question….
In this Manuscript Monday free live-stream webinar, Indiana University’s Archivist and Manuscripts Editor, Bradley Cook will share answers to these etiquette questions and many more insider tips on museum and rare book library “dos and don’t.”
Host: Brian Kathenes
Register Here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8123510088120341003

Bradley D. Cook – Curator of Photographs, Indiana University

Twentieth-Century Counterculture Poets' Libraries
2022-06-06 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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 of information management and knowledge preservation, and underscore the idea that a life of poetry (and perhaps even book-collecting!) is a political and spiritual act. Dr. Kinniburgh’s new book, Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America [UMass Press, 2022], looks at how postwar technological innovations led to a profusion of information – mass-market paperbacks, xerographic technology, and other media – at the same time that publishing in the United States was subject to strict censorship. In this climate, information management serviced Cold War demands, whether for demonstrations of American culture via government-funded arts programs, or types of scientific research. Counterculture poets worked at the crosshairs of this profusion and restriction while outside of the mainstream, politically and socially. And of course, they were collecting books and organizing them in bespoke ways. MC will ask, “What if we crafted an alternative history of libraries and information management from poets?” She focuses on writers whose careers began during the 1950s and 1960s: Charles Olson (1910–1970), Diane di Prima (1934–2020), Gerrit Lansing (1928–2018), and Audre Lorde (1934–1992). In doing so, she examines how poets’ book collecting and organizing practices can function as unique archival resources, revealing types of knowledge and traditions that have been overlooked, buried, occulted, or censored. For in-person attendees, a reception will follow.
Register on The Grolier Club’s Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-lecture-on-20th-c-counterculture-poets-libraries-tickets-330088131487?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Morgan Library Interactive Spotlight Tour: The Morgan Book Project
2022-06-03 12:30 (America/New_York)
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 from this year’s most outstanding student artists.
Please note that the program will take place online. After registering, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to participate using Zoom. We ask that you download the app in advance for the best user experience.

Friday, June 3, 2022, 12:30 PM

Tickets: Free; limited availability, advance registration is required. Registration will be open two weeks in advance of the program
Register here: https://www.themorgan.org/programs/treasures-permanent-collection-interactive-spotlight-tour-37
Please call (212) 685-0008 ext. 560 or e-mail tickets@themorgan.org for more information.

Grolier Club Virtual Lecture on Lady Mary Wroth
2022-06-02 18:00 (America/New_York)
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.” Braganza will discuss how, in 2019, she stumbled on the sole known surviving book from Wroth’s lost library, based on the cryptic monogram on its binding. Braganza’s talk will unfold the decoding of Wroth’s monogram and its meanings, as well as Braganza’s quest to identify Wroth’s bookbinder – and what it really means to judge a book by its cover in the context of burgeoning interest in the history of women’s libraries.
V.M. Braganza is a public-facing intellectual and a PhD candidate in English at Harvard. She writes for Smithsonian, Lithub, Mental Floss, and the L.A. Review of Books. Her academic work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals and volumes, including the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English. Her first book project is titled The Secret-Seekers: Renaissance Writers and the Birth of Code. She was co-coordinator of Harvard’s Renaissance Colloquium in 2020-21. A curator whose past work includes programming at the Library of Congress, she is the lead curator of the exhibit “500 Years of Women Authors, Authorizing Themselves,” on display at Harvard’s Houghton Library until March 11. Formerly an Echols Scholar, Braganza graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Medieval and Renaissance Literature from the University of Virginia. She is a member of the Foundation of St. John’s College, Cambridge, where she earned her M.Phil. with Distinction in Renaissance Literature. In 2022, she was named a Harvard Horizons Scholar and Bowdoin Prize recipient. She is also a JD candidate at Columbia Law School, where she specializes in constitutional law.
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 here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-lecture-on-lady-mary-wroth-tickets-330082384297?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Grolier+Club+Virtual+Lecture+on+Lady+Mary+Wroth&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

North Bennet Street School Exhibition: Making Matters (In Person)
2022-05-31 08:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by North Bennett Street School

2022 Exhibition: Making Matters
May 6 – August 26, 2022
North Bennet Street School in Boston, MA
nbss.edu/2022exhibition

Featuring displays of typical objects, tools, and materials from our career-training programs, this year’s exhibition is a behind-the-scenes look at the craft and care of making. While many of the works on display could represent almost any era in the history of our School—a deconstructed piano, hand carved brackets, jewelers’ tools, finely bound books—they also reflect the heads-down and hands-on focus of the last two years.
Part science exhibit and part gallery show, the displays offer insight on how craft- and tradespeople create objects that last—be it a chair, a necklace, a book, a lock, a building, or an instrument. With attention and care a recurring theme, the 2022 Exhibition reveals how the act of making matters in our everyday lives.
We’re excited to welcome the public back to the School for this 2022 Exhibition. Please join us for a guided or self-guided tour during the following times:
Duration: Friday, May 6 through Friday, August 26, 2022
Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm, Saturdays, 10:00am to 2:00pm
Guided Tours: Tuesdays at 10:00am, Thursdays at 4:00pm, Saturdays at 12:30pm
Register for a guided tour: https://nbss.edu/news-events/events/2022-exhibition/

NOBS FORUM: Papermaking with Tom Balbo, Artistic Director of the Morgan Conservatory
2022-05-26 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society
Join fellow NOBS members and guest to learn about the art and science of making paper with Tom Balbo, artistic director of Cleveland’s own Morgan Conservatory.
Tom Balbo is a Cleveland-based artist whose work has been collected for well over 30 years. In 2007, Tom teamed up with noted Cleveland-area artists and national hand papermaking artists to improve and conserve the art of paper & book arts educational programming in the US. Knowing that these were art forms worth preserving, the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation officially opened its doors in October 2008.
Zoom link to follow. Or, if we are able to meet in person, location info will follow.

Nicholas Fry on Travelers: Journeys on the Railroads from the Early Surveys to Modern Vacations
2022-05-25 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Held in conjunction with the Grolier Club’s current public exhibition “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life,” running in the ground-floor exhibit hall through July 30, this will be a Zoom talk by the exhibition’s co-curator and Grolier member Nicholas Fry. Organized by Fry and the rest of the St. Louis Mercantile Library staff as one of the largest events in the country marking railroading’s 200th anniversary in America, the show draws from the Barriger Railroad and the SLML’s deep transportation history collections, presenting landmark books, pamphlets, artwork, artifacts, ephemera and maps to chronicle the development of the railroads in North America.
Register on the Grolier Club’s Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-lecture-on-railroad-travelers-tickets-319744673927?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

The Bibliotheca Spenceriana Collection of Incunables. A new cataloguing project at the John Rylands Library
2022-05-24 18:00 (Europe/London)
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.
May 24, 2022, 6:00 pm British Summer Time (BST)
You can register here:
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/bibliotheca-spenceriana-collection-incunables-a-new-cataloguing-project-john-rylands-library

The Book Club of California Oscar Lewis Awards
2022-05-23 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Oscar Lewis Awards, Charles Wollenberg for his contribution to Western History, and Mary Risala Laird, for her contribution to the Book Arts.
Charles Wollenberg specializes in California social history of the 20th Century and has produced a steady stream of books and articles on Bay Area history going back to the 1970s. Among his many books are: All Deliberate Speed: Segregation And Exclusion In California Schools 1855-1975 (UC Press, 1978), Golden Gate Metropolis: Perspectives On Bay Area History (IGS, 1985), and Photographing The Second Gold Rush: Dorothea Lange And The Bay Area At War 1941-45 (Heyday Books, 1995). Rebel Lawyer: Wayne Collins and the Defense of Japanese American Rights (Heyday Press, 2017) was the winner of the 2017 California Historical Society Award.
Utilized by historians while also being accessible to the general public, his work has ranged from groundbreaking studies to popular histories. His research has been recognized as comprehensive and his scholarship thorough. His writing has been described as daring and his thinking both fresh and original.
He has served the people of California for more than five decades as an educator including teaching at Laney College and Berkeley City College, where he served as the Chair of Social Sciences. He also served on the board of the California Historical Society and was a founding member of the California Studies Association. Now retired, he continues to be a sought-after lecturer and presenter.
Mary Risala Laird, MFA printmaking, University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been doing letterpress books since 1969 as Quelquefois Press. She partnered in Perishable Press Limited editions from 1969-84. Ms. Laird has taught letterpress at San Francisco State University, Kala Institute in Berkeley, Naropa University, and at the San Francisco Center for the Book as well as workshops in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Washington state. For fifteen years she worked with the entire 7th grade class at a local school as a guest artist, making handmade journals.
Her focus in printing is poetry and she binds the editions she prints. Her work can be found in many collections across the country and around the world, including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Library of Congress, University of Wisconsin, Madison, the British Library, Yale University, University of Washington, and UC Santa Cruz.
She has three grown children, lives in Berkeley, California with her husband John Malork, and is a member of the Sufi community. She served as a board member at the San Francisco Center for the Book for six years and is an active Book Club of California member.
The Book Club of California will hold an in-person event to celebrate the recipients of the 2022 Oscar Lewis Awards. This event will also be live streamed. To request a link to the livestream, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xH6WdLnWT9OyCtTKzzybAw?mc_cid=a6b3339082&mc_eid=55809a2ee8
2022 Oscar Lewis Awards Ceremony
Monday, May 23, 2022 | 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific Time

Rare Books LA-Palm Springs: In Person
2022-05-20 20:00 - 2022-05-21 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 LA for a new book fair, Rare Books LA – Palm Springs!
Rare books, fine prints, maps, ephemera, photography, & more! Palm Springs is synonymous with golf, tennis, swimming, modernism, and Coachella. Let’s add rare books to the mix! Rare Books LA – Palm Springs, May 20-21 at The Hotel Zoso, is located in the heart of Palm Springs’ vibrant downtown with shopping, dining, and galleries right outside the door.
Proceeds from the opening night cocktail reception benefit a variety of charitable organizations including the Book Club of California. (Free entry on Saturday, tickets required.)
When you purchase a $25 opening night ticket for Rare Books – Palm Springs using this link, the Book Club of California receives 100 percent of the proceeds: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rare-books-la-palm-springs-tickets-256575001737?aff=BCC&mc_cid=2ee6c1bfe5&mc_eid=55809a2ee8
The Book Club of California is a proud Community Partner for Rare Books – Palm Springs.

Elizabeth DeBold, Folger Shakespeare Library: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
2022-05-18 19:00 (America/New_York)
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 interested friends and colleagues. Guests are always welcome! We hope many of you will be able to join us. The Zoom link is provided below.

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Sharing Our Desert’s LGBTQ+ History: How It All Began
2022-05-16 17:00 - 18:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
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, what their current collection houses, their exhibitions, and future plans.
A live online presentation by David Gray, co-founder and co-chair, LGBTQ+ History & Archives of the Desert
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m4eZP1D-T-ya7zV8QFPuFw?mc_cid=2ee6c1bfe5&mc_eid=55809a2ee8

Russell Maret: "The Post-Typographic Private Press?"
2022-05-16 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
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 gravitational pull over the bibliophilic imagination that it can be difficult to acknowledge that there is a thriving private press tradition in the twenty-first century. Appearance has a lot to do with it: the books of today don’t look like the books of the Kelmscott, Doves, Ashendene or other British presses, so surely they don’t fall into the same category. But is a private press book designated by its physical attributes or by the motivations behind its making? Is it a thing only, or an idea also? When closely examined, the historical circumstances from which the British presses grew have many parallels within the conditions behind the current Book Arts revival. The dislocations incumbent within the industrialized society of the late nineteenth century have only been exacerbated in the digital age, further alienating people from the objects they make and consume, and sparking an equally fervent desire to find meaning and balance in one’s work and life. In this talk, Russell Maret will discuss these broader ideas through the lens of his own career making books and typefaces, and sketch out some emerging directions within the contemporary private press.
Register by clicking here: https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/9114020
Light refreshments will be served following the talk.

The Lewis & Clark Expedition and More at the Lewis & Clark College Libraries
2022-05-15 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 Expedition materials in the world. Our two presenters will emphasize those materials, as well as some other treasures from Special Collections.
Stephen Dow Beckham, Professor Emeritus of History at Lewis & Clark College, will review the development, scope, and depth of the Western Americana holdings of the Watzek and Boley libraries at Lewis & Clark College, with emphasis on the Lewis & Clark Expedition. In particular, he will talk about (1) “The Traveling Library,” the works carried by the Corps of Discovery and used by the captains during their travels and (2) “Early Publications,” a few of the works published within the twenty years following the return of the exploring party.
Librarian E.J. Carter will then continue the theme of travel and exploration, introducing us to items in Special Collections that date from the 18th century and earlier. Two other collections that we have also asked him to speak about are the papers of poet William Stafford, and a collection of materials related to Camp Waldport, one of three Civilian Public Service camps in Oregon for WWII conscientious objectors whose interns comprised the Fine Arts Group. The camp’s official newsletter was “The Tide,” but the interns founded their own press, “The Untide.”
Stephen Dow Beckham is an American historian who began his long teaching career at Lewis & Clark College in 1977. His research and writing has centered on Native Americans and the American West and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He is a leading authority on Indian law, often serving as an expert witness in land-use cases. Among his many books are Lewis and Clark: From the Rockies to the Pacific (2002), The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Bibliography and Essays (2003), and Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries (2006). During his distinguished career, he received many honors, among them being named the Pamplin Professor of History, the Oregon Professor of the Year, and being the recipient of the American Historical Association’s Asher Distinguished Teaching Award.
E.J. Carter is a special collections and research librarian at Lewis & Clark College. He is the liaison to the history, economics, international affairs, and political science departments. Previously he was a special collections librarian at Chicago State University. He has published articles in RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage; Central European History; Notre Dame Magazine; and the Northwest Review of Books.

The spring issue of The Devil's Artisan is now available
2022-05-15 00:00 (America/New_York)
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 of misunderstanding that continues to bedevil the aspirations of scholarship as well as the increasingly threatened copyrights of commercial book publishers.
Duncan Major contributes a letterpress keepsake and reflects on his role as the printer’s devil at Tara Bryan’s Walking Bird Press of Flatrock, Newfoundland. Richard Kegler presents Italic which was issued by Monotype in 1929 as ‘Bembo Condensed Italic’ though it was never intended to be anything of the sort. Sarah Lough remembers her brother Paul Forage who was one of the three founding editors of the Devil’s Artisan. And editor Don McLeod shares snapshots of printmaker Mark Huebner beginning work on a new graphic novel in the boardroom of the Arts & Letters Club on Elm Street in Toronto.
For further information on this issue, and to order, visit the Devil’s Artisan website.

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen on The Library: A Fragile History
2022-05-13 12:00 (America/Chicago)
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 … changing tastes, evolving media, architectural fashions, budget constraints, demanding donors, military conflicts, and more.
These engaging speakers will be joining us from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, whose library dates to 1612 and was founded by a gift from the family of King James VI. Much published, Andrew Pettegree is a professor of Modern History and the founding director of the Universal Short Title Catalog. Arthur der Weduwen is a writer, historian, and postdoctoral fellow who arrived at St. Andrews after stops in Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Nairobi and Exeter.
Book your reservation today!
Zoom presentation is free and open to all.
Advanced registration required via website. Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-4769177?CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=5/17/2022

American Academy in Rome: The Pope at War
2022-05-10 18:00 (Europe/Rome)
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 Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by the historian David Kertzer (2000 Resident), will take place at the Academy with the author. Also speaking are Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2022 Resident), Lutz Klinkhammer (German Historical Institute in Rome), Simon Levis Sullam (University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari), and Marla Stone, Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor (1996 Fellow).
Based on newly opened Vatican archives, The Pope at War is a riveting book about Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War II, including how he responded to the Holocaust. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee Jr. University Professor of Social Science and a professor of anthropology and Italian studies at Brown University, where he served as provost from 2006 to 2011. He is the author of twelve books, including The Pope and Mussolini (2014), winner of a Pulitzer Prize.
The Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture, to be presented in person at the Academy as well as on Zoom, is free and open to the public. Please RSVP using this form to attend in person: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc58MuDfmIn59g-eO_i3Ho2sffWiifeRYlnDCbtq17TU_QxBA/viewform
To watch on Zoom, please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
The Friends of the Library supports the Academy’s Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library through annual dues and special initiatives. The group also helps to raise awareness of the Library’s resources through regular programs. Join online today!

Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America
2022-05-09 18:30 (America/Chicago)
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 of Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker’s Guide to the Paris of America. Penned by various authors, the original book is an actual guidebook to Chicago for visitors to the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and is a handbook to the rowdy city outside the elegant fairgrounds. Its descriptions of the theaters and music, architectural glories, parks and boulevards, churches and synagogues, and other elevated pursuits gave the book a veneer of high culture, but the book owed its popularity to its insider tips about Chicago’s more dubious entertainments.
Paul Durica is the Director of Exhibitions at the Newberry Library and the former Director of Programs and Exhibitions at Illinois Humanities. From 2008-2015, he produced a series of free public talks, walks, and participatory reenactments that engaged Chicago’s past.
Bill Savage is Professor of Instruction in the English Department at Northwestern University, where he earned his doctorate. He has been researching and teaching Chicago literature, history, and culture there and at the Newberry Library since the early 1990s. His scholarly credentials for the study of Chicago night life and vice culture are complemented by three decades working as a bartender, and a great-grandfather having run saloons and illegal gambling dens from the 1890s until the end of Prohibition.
Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-4806205
Registering for the program will allow you the opportunity to purchase copies of Chicago by Day and Night (paperback) for $17.00, including a bookplate, tax, and shipping.

Spencer Stuart on "12 Things to Know: Collectors Reflect"
2022-05-09 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 through case studies.
For the emerging collector, this presentation provides foundational perspectives from which to develop sound collecting practices for the future.
A live online presentation by Spencer W. Stuart, collections advisor, writer, and lecturer
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ch528UXjSxu_8lApSd430Q

Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500-1750
2022-05-05 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
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 the point where they avoided publishing their work. Dr. Howard will look at early modern printing technology from the perspective of the natural philosophers and physicians who relied on it to share ideas – it was very important to scientific and medical advances of this era. But scientists also had many justified concerns about publishing their discoveries, including the potential for printers’ errors, the risk of having texts pirated, and – most worrisome – the likelihood that readers were ill-prepared to understand complex new ideas. Such authors developed strategies for controlling, circumventing, or altogether avoiding the broad audiences that print afforded, opening up gaps between those with scientific knowledge and the lay public that still persist today.
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-early-science-authors-tickets-307135479487?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Virtual Panel Discussion on Exploration and Photography
2022-05-04 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
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 of exploration and the development of modern photographic techniques. This panel discussion will explore how art allows for the documentation of the alien with truth rather than conquest.
The panel discussion is offered in connection with the exhibition, “Photographs at the Edge: Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger,” on display in the Grolier Club’s second floor gallery through May 14, 2022. 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 here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-panel-discussion-on-exploration-and-photography-tickets-322647947697?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Panel+Discussion+on+Exploration+and+Photography&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail

ABAA Virtual Book Fair: New York Edition
2022-05-04 12:00 - 2022-05-05 20:00 (America/New_York)
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

In Person Event: Laurence Cotton on Frederick Law Olmstead: Designing America
2022-05-03 11:30 (America/Chicago)
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 footprint of all the Olmsteds – father, two sons and the Olmsted Bros. landscape architecture firm – and how the Olmsted family left an enormous imprint on the American landscape by designing urban, state, and national public parks, private estates and gardens, residential neighborhoods, communities, and institutional campuses. The Olmsted philosophy focused on physical and mental health and the role of parks in enacting democracy in a multi-ethnic, multiracial society. In his presentation, Laurence will explore the Olmsted legacy and give a visual tour of selected Olmsted landscapes across the country, with something of a focus on the upper Midwest and the Great Lakes states.
The event will begin with an 11:30 a.m. registration/reception followed by set menu plated lunch and the program. The price is $45 per person and reservations must be received by 5:00 PM CT April 28.
Laurence Cotton was the originator, principal researcher, and Consulting Producer for the nationally broadcast PBS film Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America. He has presented the film many times across the country since it was first broadcast in 2014 and during this year, he is making additional appearances across the United States, delivering his new PowerPoint presentation about the Olmsted legacy as part of the Olmsted200 commemoration. In addition to his Olmsted expertise, in his home state of Oregon, he has served as Executive Director of World Affairs Council of Oregon (now WorldOregon), on the board of directors of the Oregon State Parks Foundation (now Oregon Parks Forever), as content provider to Maya Lin and her team for the Confluence Project, and as Co-Chair of the Environmental Education Association of Oregon (EEAO).
Fee: $45, including reception followed by set menu plated lunch and the program.
Masks are optional.
Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-4747762?CalendarViewType=1&SelectedDate=5/17/2022

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
