FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS Join the FABS Living With Books group for congenial discussion of the challenges and pleasures of home libraries. To join the list, please contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
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From Page to Stage and Back: The Theatrical Adventures of Writer and Illustrator Edward Gorey
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. Edward Gorey’s creations as a book artist are distinctive: sparse, oblique story lines paired with intricate, oblique drawings. Yet even his most ardent fans may not know that the author-illustrator of The Beastly Baby, The Doubtful Guest, and The Curious Sofa also directed these and dozens of unpublished texts on stages from […]
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2025 Oscar Lewis Awards
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), author, historian, and club secretary. Join us as we recognize this year’s honorees for their contributions to the Book Arts and to Western History. This is an in-person […]
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FABS Handpress: Dr. Eugene Flamm on Martin Lister
Sponsored by FABS June 9: FABS Handpress Era Group will meet at 7:30pm EST on Zoom for an hour of talk about printed items before 1800. Dr. Eugene Flamm will speak on “Putative Provenance: Martin Lister as a Bibliophilic Iterist” regarding a volume perhaps given by Lister to the Earl of Portland, with additional discussion […]
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FABS Bindings Group: Karen Hanmer on the Biblio Tech models
Sponsored by FABS Join us on Zoom for a talk by Karen Hanmer on the Biblio Tech models, reverse-engineered historic and modern binding structures. See them here: https://karenhanmer.com/gallery/p/bibliotech Note the one-time date change to the second Monday of the month. To receive a link and join the bindings Zoom group, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
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Joseph Hone on The Book Forger
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. June Midday Program Join the Caxton Club and Joseph Hone for his presentation on "The Book Forger." Let us clue you in. Composer Jerome Kern of Showboat and “The Way You Look Tonight” fame was an amazing book collector. And kern is going to figure prominently into the remarkable story you’ll be […]
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Writing about San Francisco in the 1930s
Sponsored by The Book Club of California. Author and historian Robert Cherny is the author of seven monographs, co-author of two monographs and of college-level textbooks in US history and California history, co-editor of two anthologies, and author of some forty articles in journals or anthologies. Nearly all of his published work deals in some […]
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FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS June 19: The FABS 19th Century Zoom Group meets monthly for convivial conversation about all things bookish and 19th century! You are invited. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
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Plain Wrapper Press: A Half-Century of Fine Press Publishing and Printing
Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington. A special opportunity to learn about the exquisite publications of Plain Wrapper Press Redux from its founder Mark E. Fischer. To register, click here.
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FABS Living With Books Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS June 24: Join the FABS Living With Books group and your host Reid Byers for congenial discussion of the challenges and pleasures of home libraries. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
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Manuscript Mondays: New York Stories
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Mondays New York Stories in Manuscript: Anthony Janszoon van Salee and Samuel Jones Monday, July 7, 2025, 8:00 PM Eastern Free Live Webinar Presenter: Peter Klarnet Host: Gerald "Jay" Gaidmore From its founding in 1625, New York City has always been a place of diverse peoples and opinions. Peter […]
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Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America
Sponsored by the Book Club of California. Freedom to Discriminate shows the connection between two defining features of modern America that are rarely thought of together: the creation of residential segregation in every city in the country, and of a conservative counter-idea of American freedom in the 1960s – of freedom without regard to the rights […]