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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: Dr. Deborah Parker on Belle da Costa Greene's Travels in Europe
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nManuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society \nDate: Monday\, Nov. 17\, 8pm EST  \nGuest Presenter: Dr. Deborah Parker \nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore\, The Manuscript Society \nPre-recorded presentation followed by a LIVE Q & A with Dr. Deborah Parker. \nTitle: A Sensuous Education: Belle da Costa Greene’s Travels in Europe \nRegister: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R6GTHnAsSzynS-6EdE-D6Q \nOverview: In 1905\, Belle da Costa Greene (1879-1950) was hired by J. P. Morgan to work in his growing library in New York. When the library was opened to the public in 1924 Greene became its first director\, but even before this she had played a central role in shaping its holdings of rare books and manuscripts. Parker’s talk will explore Greene’s relationship with members of the European book trade and the impact of her activities on the international market for rare books and manuscripts. \nPresenter: Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian\, Emerita at the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching focus on Italian and  visual and print cultures in the medieval and early modern eras. Her books include Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance (1992)\, Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet (2000) and Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing (2011). Her most recent book\, Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters (2024) was published by Villa I Tatti -The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Parker co-authored “Belle Greene and Literature\,” for the exhibition catalogue for the Morgan Library exhibition\, Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy. She has given talks on Belle Greene for Villa I Tatti\, the Rare Book School\, Book Club of California\, Caxton Club\, and the Beinecke Library. Notices and podcasts have appeared in Humanities Watch\, Fine Books & Collections magazine\, and the New Books Network. \n  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-dr-deborah-parker/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T140000
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SUMMARY:Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington. \nAuthor Eric Marshall White will share his fresh insights into Gutenberg’s life and accomplishments\, including correctives to old legends and conjectures. \nDr. White’s presentation about his recently published book Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books will focus on what we really know about Gutenberg and how we know it\, with thoughts on how we teach the subject within a more global history of books. \nAbout our speaker \nEric Marshall White\, PhD\, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, joined the Princeton University Library staff in 2015. Until 2020\, he served as Princeton’s Curator of Rare Books\, building on 18 years of experience as Curator of Special Collections at Southern Methodist University’s Bridwell Library in Dallas. He was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania\, earned his doctorate in Art History from Boston University\, and later received a Master of Library Science degree from the University of North Texas. He is a leader in the study of early European printed books and the material and historical evidence of their use and survival. His publications include more than fifty scholarly articles\, major exhibition catalogues\, and two books: Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books (2025)\, and Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible (2017)\, which won SHARP’s DeLong Prize as the year’s outstanding book in the field of book history. \nThis is an online event – to register for this online\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/johannes-gutenberg-a-biography-in-books/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of Washington
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SUMMARY:Sara Charles on The Medieval Scriptorium – Making Books in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club. \nHave you stretched an animal skin lately? Prepared its surface to accept ink? Collected oak galls to make ink? Scribed? Added rubrics and colored initials? How about applied gesso and then adhered gold to it? Painstakingly painted on vellum? \nOur guest Sara Charles has. To paraphrase the movie Pulp Fiction\, she will go Medieval on us. \nBut worry not. Her talents are all for good – particularly as they inform her wonderful book\, The Medieval Scriptorium (Reaktion Books\, Ltd.\, 2024). In it she brings to life the grueling\, creative\, smelly\, artistic\, earwax-laden\, glittering\, backbreaking\, world of creating books fully by hand. \nThis talented book historian will be joining us from the University of London\, where she is co-editor of Historical Research and Journals Manager for University of London Press. She has appeared at Canterbury Cathedral in the documentary series History Hit\, presents fascinating how-to videos on YouTube\, shares content on teachingmanuscripts.com and continues to create illuminated manuscripts that are breathtakingly beautiful. \nGreat news! You won’t have to find and sharpen a quill\, dip it ink you’ve made yourself\, and copy dense text in order to register. You can sit in your comfy chair\, login\, and register online. No squinting required. \nTo register for this online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/sara-charles-on-the-medieval-scriptorium-making-books-in-the-middle-ages/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T183000
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SUMMARY:A Black Bibliophile Tradition in Philadelphia
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJordan Ross will explore the collecting habits of African American bibliophiles in Philadelphia during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bibliophiles and organizations examined will include William Still\, Robert Purvis\, Robert Adger\, William Bolivar\, and the American Negro Historical Society of Philadelphia. \nTo register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-a-black-bibliophile-tradition-in-philadelphia-tickets-1661331470149?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/a-black-bibliophile-tradition-in-philadelphia/
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group: David Levy on Hoyle
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nDavid Levy will present “The Earliest Hoyles: what a bibliographer can learn from examining multiple copies.” From 1742-1747 there were three authorized publishers of Hoyle’s pamphlets on popular games of the day. Each publisher had a characteristic binding\, from a richly tooled deluxe morocco at the high end\, to drab paper wrappers at the bottom. The bindings reveal much about how the pamphlets were sold and who read them. To receive a link contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org. \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-group-david-levy-on-hoyle/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251110T180000
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SUMMARY:The Binfords & Mort Story: Publishing Books About Oregon\, 1930-1983
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nIn 1891 while still teens in Portland\, Oregon\, Maurice and Peter Binford started an influential career as publishers. They went on to found the Binfords & Mort publishing company focused on Pacific Northwest literature. This talk will explore how this mostly forgotten company\, once the largest publisher west of the Mississippi\, cast a large shadow over regional literature\, literary societies\, recreation\, and civic engagement in the Pacific Northwest. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Jeremy Skinner\, author\, archivist\, and Library Director for Curry Public Library in Gold Beach\, Oregon \n**The Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West** \nTo register to attend the online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-binfords-mort-story-publishing-books-about-oregon-1930-1983/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T180000
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SUMMARY:New Light on Medieval Manuscript Culture
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nA new look at medieval monastic manuscript culture. \nAndrew Jotischky\, Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, will speak about the manuscript culture at the heart of his recent book\, The Monastic World: A 1\,200-Year History (Yale University Press\, 2024). His talk will be followed by a conversation with Gillian Adler\, President of the New York Medieval Society. \nAndrew Jotischky\, Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, specializes in medieval religious culture\, including monasticism\, pilgrimage\, and devotion. His other books include The Carmelites and Antiquity\, Crusading and the Crusader States\, and The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World. \nLivestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/4_dHv6J8FFM \n\n\n\n\nRegistration for virtual event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-new-light-on-medieval-manuscript-culture-tickets-1612617966749?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/new-light-on-medieval-manuscript-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251105T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251105T193000
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SUMMARY:Lauren Hewes on American Ephemera before 1900
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \n \nIn this program\, Lauren Hewes will introduce Caxton Club members to the Stephen D. Paine Collection of American Ephemera at the American Antiquarian Society\, a national research library located in Worcester\, Massachusetts. The talk will include an overview of the 18\,000 objects in the Paine Collection – a private collection built between c.1975 and 1997 and recently donated to AAS – and an explanation of the Society’s larger ephemera holdings. Hewes will discuss how libraries decide what qualifies as “ephemera” and how researchers have used pre-1900 ephemeral objects in their projects. \nLauren Hewes is the vice president for collections and Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts. She manages and oversees the Society’s acquisition\, cataloging\, conservation\, curatorial and readers’ services departments. She is also the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts and builds and cares for the Society’s extensive collections of prints\, broadsides\, ephemera\, and photographs\, working with the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC)\, AAS fellows\, and outside scholars to make connections between American history and the visual resources of the Society. Lauren has previously held positions at the Print Council of America\, the National Park Service\, and Shelburne Museum\, and she has published widely on American printmaking and portraiture. She has a BS from Ithaca College and an MA in art history from Williams College. \nRegister today. \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. \nZoom begins at 6:30PM CT/7:30 PM ET. Preregistration required\, click here to register.  \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/lauren-hewes-on-american-ephemera-before-1900-2/
CATEGORIES:Caxton Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T150000
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SUMMARY:Margaret Armstrong's Book Covers
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Ohio State University Libraries with The Aldus Society \nMargaret Armstrong was one of the most celebrated and prolific book cover designers of the late 19th and early 20th century\, with more than 300 known designs published over her 40-year career. Madison Good\, of The Ohio State University’s Thompson Library Special Collections\, will discuss Armstrong’s career\, highlights of her work\, and some of the Armstrong books held in Ohio State’s special collections. \nRegister here: https://library.osu.edu/events/the-book-covers-of-margaret-armstrong
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/margaret-armstrongs-book-covers/
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SUMMARY:City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nCalifornia’s 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the “instant city” of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state’s vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional “city.” This city consisted of a far-reaching network of spaces\, produced as company owners and workers arrayed men and machines to extract resources and create human commodities from the region’s rich natural environment. \nCombining labor\, urban\, industrial\, and social history\, City of Wood employs a variety of sources—including contemporary newspaper articles\, novels\, and photographs—to explore the architectural landscape of lumber\, from backwoods logging camps and company towns in the woods to busy lumber docks and the homes of workers and owners in San Francisco. By imagining the redwood lumber industry as a single community spread across multiple sites—a “City of Wood”—Buckley demonstrates how capitalist resource extraction links different places along the production value chain. The result is a paradigm shift in architectural history that focuses not just on the evolution of individual building design across time\, but also on economic connections that link the center and periphery across space. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by James Michael Buckley\, author\, urban planner\, and historian. \nTo register to attend online\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/city-of-wood-san-francisco-and-the-architecture-of-the-redwood-lumber-industry/
CATEGORIES:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T183000
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SUMMARY:100 Objects From the Collections of the YIVO Institute
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nA celebration of a new book\, 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. \nA pair of ruby red slippers. A medieval manuscript. A Yiddish folk medicine prescription. These and 97 other objects comprise a new centennial coffee-table-book\, 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research\, which chronicles modern Jewish history through 100 objects from the YIVO Archives and Library. This gorgeously illustrated book highlights unique manuscripts\, photographs\, objects\, and other ephemera with accompanying essays by 57 leading scholars. Join the book’s editor\, YIVO’s Director of Collections Stefanie Halpern\, for a discussion that highlights how this book traces YIVO’s role in documenting key moments in modern Jewish history and culture through its 100 years of collecting. \nStefanie Halpern is Director of Collections at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary and a Masters in Archival Studies from Clayton State University. Halpern has published on archival theory and practice\, Yiddish theater\, and Jewish performance\, and was the assistant curator of the MCNY exhibition “From the Bowery to Broadway: New York’s Yiddish Theater.” \n\n\n\n\nRegistration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-100-objects-from-the-collections-of-the-yivo-institute-tickets-1661309855499?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite. \nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/100-objects-from-the-collections-of-the-yivo-institute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T183000
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SUMMARY:The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes\, Newly Translated
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nThe debut of a new English translation of Yiddish novels starring the fictional Viennese detective Max Spitzkopf. \nIn early 1900s pulp fiction\, the Viennese detective Max Spitzkopf was an undefeated foe of villains and passionate defender of the Jewish people. When he is summoned\, no matter how dangerous or seemingly hopeless the case\, justice is assured. The super-sleuth deploys physical bravery\, intellectual ingenuity\, and stealthy disguises to outwit criminals and restore moral order to the world. For the Yiddish Book Center’s White Goat Press\, Mikhl Yashinsky has translated the complete series of 15 Spitzkopf mysteries into English for the first time. Yashinsky will lecture on how these volumes were written\, disseminated\, lauded by 20th-century literary figures including Isaac Bashevis Singer\, and recovered for contemporary readers. \nNew York-based Mikhl Yashinsky\, a translator\, playwright-lyricist\, singer-actor\, and teacher\, has taught Yiddish at Columbia\, the University of Michigan\, and Tel Aviv University. He co-authored an award-winning Yid­dish language textbook\, In eynem (White Goat Press)\, and his translation of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska’s memoirs\, The Mother of Yiddish Theatre\, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. \n\nLivestream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/PUsYQkJSchM \n\n\n\nRegistration for Virtual Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-yiddish-sherlock-holmes-newly-translated-tickets-1612617374979?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-yiddish-sherlock-holmes-newly-translated/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251027T191500
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SUMMARY:A Journey in Bookplates: The Art and Life of California Designer Beulah Mitchell Clute
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California. \nCome along on a collector’s journey as Claudia Smukler takes you through the fascinating world of bookplates\, also known as ex-libris. The term ex-libris refers to all marks of provenance in a book\, including stamps\, labels\, and names written on the inside cover. Book owners have been doing this for centuries. The bookplate is a subset of ex-libris\, specifically a printed edition\, often a relief or intaglio print that may include an image or motif with special meaning for the owner. It can be pasted inside their favorite books—or not. The most artistic ones serve as the currency for friendly exchange between designers and collectors. \nStudied up-close each miniature print reveals a multi-faceted story. Ms. Smukler will share visual highlights from her personal collection that include selected works by the accomplished bookplate designer\, Beulah Mitchell Clute (1873-1958). She will present additional bookplates about California and the West and some contemporary prints that express a new spirit of revival for this centuries-old art form. \nA bookplate broadens the history of a book as it is passed along from the owner to another reader\, and then another. The life of a book—especially one with a bookplate—has many stories it can tell. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Claudia Smukler\, visual artist\, writer\, publisher\, and collector \nTo register for the online event: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-X8RV5oRRHmtH6e8ctQIoA#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/a-journey-in-bookplates-the-art-and-life-of-california-designer-beulah-mitchell-clute/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251026T170000
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SUMMARY:Miniature Book Society Conclave
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Miniature Book Society \nMiniature Book Society Conclave \nThe Miniature Book Society will hold a two day Virtual Conclave on Saturday and Sunday October 25 and 26\, 2025. The two days will feature zoom presentations by miniature book artists and publishers\, guest speakers\, a Collector’s Showcase\, and a timed online auction of miniature books hosted by PBA Galleries. The winners of the annual MBS Awards and the MBS Distinguished Book Award Competition will also be announced. Registration forms are on the MBS website –  $60 for non-members and $45.00 for MBS members. We are pleased to announce that the 2026 MBS Conclave will be held in Berlin\, Germany. \nRegister here: \nhttps://mbs.org/ \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/miniature-book-society-conclave-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T193000
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SUMMARY:With Maternal Ferocity: Reclaiming Secular Yiddish Children's Literature
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nBased on her new book Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature\, Yiddish scholar Miriam Udel will reflect on her efforts to reclaim and revivify the corpus of secular Yiddish children’s literature published in Eastern Europe and the Americas during the 20th century. She will consider the relationship between the texts\, many of which have been preserved digitally\, and the vulnerable books-as-objects\, focusing especially on the collection of children’s books “rescued” from the Buenos Aires Jewish community after the AMIA bombing attack in 1994. \nMiriam Udel is associate professor of Yiddish language\, literature\, and culture and the Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature and Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque and editor and translator of Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature. \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-with-maternal-ferocity-tickets-1661304890649?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite \n  \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/with-maternal-ferocity-reclaiming-secular-yiddish-childrens-literature/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251023T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251023T191500
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UID:2940-1761242400-1761246900@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Golden Slumbers: California’s Dormant Fine Press Scene
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nBuilding on themes from his book\, Dreaming on the Edge: Poets & Book Artists in California\, Alastair Johnston explores overlooked figures in the history of printing in the Golden State. Johnston’s work was the first in 80 years to assess the impact of small and fine presses on the culture of California\, challenging the long-held notion that the state’s printing was dominated by just three figures: John Henry Nash and Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Johnston argues that it’s time to move past this “printerly atavism” to uncover a spirit of innovation and creativity that mirrors the pioneering drive of 19th-century railroad barons and 20th-century tech giants. For Johnston\, a true fine press isn’t merely about good printing—that’s a given—but about being innovative\, creative\, and original. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Alastair Johnston\, author\, scholar\, and co-founder of Poltroon Press. \nLieberman Lecture | Enduring Impressions: Private Presses & Their Legacies | American Printing History Association 2025 Conference \nTo register to attend online: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yH92wGJ0S2ePmgo1UUDILA#/registration \n  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/golden-slumbers-californias-dormant-fine-press-scene/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T193000
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Albritton on California Bindings
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe FABS Bindings Zoom Group welcomes Benjamin Albritton for a talk on California Bindings. \nStanford University Special Collections has many exceptional items in its care and Benjamin Albritton\, Rare Books Curator\, has selected a group of volumes related to the development of fine binding practice in California in the first half of the 20th century. The particular focus of this presentation will be two groups of fine bindings in Stanford’s collections: binders associated with The Bookbinders’ Guild of California first exhibition in 1902; and bindings displayed at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. These two collections provide a snapshot of binding practices and influences at two key periods in the development of the craft in California\, and Ben is eager to share these examples with us and encourage a dialogue about how to make these and other binding-related materials in Stanford’s collections more accessible to the broader community of practitioners and researchers. \nTo join the list for links and announcements\, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/benjamin-albritton-on-california-bindings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
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SUMMARY:Decoration of Hebrew Manuscripts after the Invention of Printing
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \n\n\nThrough an examination of Illustrated 18th century Hebrew manuscripts and decorated Scrolls of Esther we will explore the fascinating evolution of artistic Hebrew manuscript following the invention of the printing press. \nThis lecture explores the fascinating evolution of decorated Hebrew manuscript following the invention of the printing press. Despite the advent of printed books\, Jewish communities across Europe and the Middle East maintained a rich tradition of hand-decorated manuscripts for religious purposes. The talk will examine the artistic and cultural significance of these works\, highlighting how decorated Hebrew manuscripts remained a vibrant expression of Jewish identity and creativity well into the modern era. Sharon Liberman Mintz is the Curator of Jewish Art at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Senior International Specialist of Judaica and Hebraica at Sotheby’s. \nEmile Schrijver is the General Director of the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam and Professor of Jewish Book History at the University of Amsterdam. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration \nLivestream here: https://www.youtube.com/live/2P8hqdDDQLQ \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-decoration-of-hebrew-manuscripts-after-the-invention-of-printing-tickets-1612590895779?aff=ebdsoporgprofile \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/decoration-of-hebrew-manuscripts-after-the-invention-of-printing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251010T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250925T233846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T145114Z
UID:2945-1760097600-1760101200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Vanessa Pintado on The Hispanic Society of America Library and La Celestina
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \nOctober Midday Program \nCaxtonians do love to go searching after a first. A first edition. \nA first printing. A first of its kind. Especially when the prize is a one-and-only. \nNow here’s a chance to realize that quest. We’ll be taking you to New York’s Hispanic Society of America Library\, which houses the first editions of both parts of Don Quixote (1605 and 1615). But wait\, there’s more. The library holds … \n• the sole surviving leaf of the first Bible in any vernacular (1478) \n• the first Spanish grammar (1492) and dictionary (1495) \n• the first book to be printed during its author’s lifetime\, Speculum vitae humanae (1468) \n… as well as the only copy in the world of the first edition of one of the most celebrated works of Spanish literature\, Comedia de Calisto y Melibea\, better known as La Celestina. \nLa Celestina is regarded as the first masterpiece of Spanish prose and the greatest work of the early Renaissance in Spain. \nSeeing and hearing about just a bit of this would be worth charging some windmills\, let alone logging into Zoom or taking an elevator at the Union League Club. Especially because our guide will be La Celestina expert Vanessa Pintado\, assistant curator of manuscripts and rare books. \nLet Sancho Panza to water the horses while you battle to the head of the line by registering today! \nTo register for the online presentation: https://caxtonclub.org/event-6296361/Registration \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/vanessa-pintado-on-the-hispanic-society-of-america-library-and-la-celestina-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250930T120600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T145906Z
UID:2957-1759780800-1759780800@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: The Spanish Illuminated Manuscript
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nThe Special Collections and University Archives at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is home to more than 20\,000 volumes of rare books and incunabula\, dating from the 12th to the 21st centuries. The Spanish Illuminated Manuscript is a bound vellum manuscript of approximately 200 pages that are each handwritten by the royal court scribes of King Philip IV of Spain. Although other examples exist\, this unique manuscript dates from 1635-1637 and documents legal court proceedings. This manuscript has been completely digitized and is available through the IUP Libraries’ online catalog. \nDate: Monday\, October 6\, 8PM EST\nGuest Presenter: Dr. Harrison Wick\nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore \nPresenter\nSince 2007\, Dr. Harrison Wick has served as the Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in Indiana\, Pennsylvania. In addition to professional development activities promoting archival resources and rare books\, Dr. Wick has written three books about regional history and historical preservation. He has completed significant in-house projects\, including the digital conversion of audio and video recordings in the IUP Special Collections and University Archives. Dr. Wick has been awarded grants to support research activities at the College of William & Mary\, Duke University\, the United States Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) in Carlisle\, Pennsylvania\, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has earned graduate degrees in history and library science\, and his doctorate in Administration and Leadership Studies. Dr. Wick’s dissertation was a qualitative study to determine how logistics influenced the Battle of Gettysburg and the outcome of the United States Civil War. His research interests are information literacy promoting primary sources\, rare book librarianship\, social justice\, and the history of higher education. \nRegistration\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tgAKA7sgRniCtmy9WLxplw
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-the-spanish-illuminated-manuscript/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251006T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251006T181500
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250925T230945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T145540Z
UID:2936-1759770000-1759774500@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Encrypted Books – Mysteries that Fill Hundreds of Pages
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nThe lecturers have studied about 120 books that are entirely or partially encrypted. In this talk\, they introduce the most fascinating ones. This includes the famous Voynich Manuscript\, a 15th century tome that has never been deciphered\, and the Rohonc Codex\, a 17th century creation that was recently solved by Hungarian scientists. It also includes encrypted diaries\, books published by secret societies\, as well as enciphered books created by artists. Among the highlights are the encrypted 19th century science fiction books by Charles Dellschau\, a prisoner-of-war diary disguised as a collection of mathematical tables\, and an unusual Renaissance magic book\, which was deciphered in the 1990s. It will be explained how the encryption techniques involved work and how they were broken. \nA virtual presentation by Elonka Dunin\, author\, video game developer\, and cryptologist and Klaus Schmer\, author\, lecturer\, and cryptologist. \nTo register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vPoouFuCSgW_oBwF3AW5vA#/registration \n  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/encrypted-books-mysteries-that-fill-hundreds-of-pages/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T193000
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SUMMARY:Collecting Shakespeare's First Folio in America
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nThis talk by David Alan Richards\, Grolier Club member (and former Council member)\, will cover centuries of Shakespeare’s First Folios arriving in America. The first made its way to Boston in 1791\, and the first offered by an American book dealer was at Astor House on Broadway in 1847. By the turn of the 20th century\, the two greatest assemblers of Shakespeariana\, Alexander Cochran who founded the Elizabethan Club in New Haven\, and Henry Clay Folger\, who founded the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington\, D.C.\, collectors and rivals\, revolutionized the worlds of book collecting and Bardolatry before the First World War. They established the national dominance in the holdings of First Folios in the United States today. \nDavid Alan Richards is the world’s largest collector of the books and manuscripts of Rudyard Kipling. He has served on the Grolier Club’s Council (2003-2009\, 2011-2020) and chaired numerous club committees. Topics of his exhibitions and books include Kipling\, Yale’s library\, and Yale’s secret societies\, and his board service for nonprofit organizations includes his current term as President of the London-based Kipling Society. \nRegistration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-collecting-shakespeares-first-folio-in-america-tickets-1661301801409?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&ref=eemail&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite \nIf you are a Grolier Club member\, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite. \nSupport \nWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public\, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings\, and would like to support that tradition\, and help ensure that it continues\, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/collecting-shakespeares-first-folio-in-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250830T144301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T144301Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nAll the pleasures and challenges of the private library: book furniture\, bookmarks\, catalogues\, conservation\, and much more. Join us for congenial discussion each month. Hosted by Reid Byers. \nFor links and announcements write Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T191500
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250724T204416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T204416Z
UID:2853-1758564000-1758568500@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California \nIn the early twentieth century\, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor as live-in domestic workers across the San Francisco Bay Area. In exchange for room\, board\, and meager pay\, Native women and girls as young as twelve cooked\, cleaned\, and lived in the homes of their employers. Despite oppressive living and working conditions\, they strategically resisted the worst aspects of outing\, including Indian child removal\, sexual surveillance\, criminalization\, and exploitation. Throughout\, they forged social connections and navigated relationships to refuse domestication and assert their agency. \nIn this groundbreaking work\, historian Caitlin Keliiaa examines Native women’s lived experiences of federal policy and connects outing to the region’s longer history of coerced Native labor. Refusing Settler Domesticity explores the unexpected story of Native women in the Bay Area\, decades before Indian Relocation\, illuminating the women who helped shape the Bay Area Indian community as we know it today. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Caitlin Keliiaa\, author\, historian\, and Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz \nTo register\, or for more information\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/refusing-settler-domesticity-native-womens-labor-and-resistance-in-the-bay-area-outing-program/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250830T144009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250830T144009Z
UID:2909-1758223800-1758227400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for congenial discussion of all things 19th century and bibliophilic! \nTo receive links and announcements\, write Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-14/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250830T144453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T215739Z
UID:2913-1757964600-1757968200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom Group: The Allure of Limp Paper Bindings
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for presentations and discussions of the craft of bookbinding. To receive links and announcements\, email Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \nThis month: Suzanne Moore on the beauty and necessity of limp paper bindings–when to use them\, and details that help protect the book-block. 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-group-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250915T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250915T180000
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UID:2850-1757959200-1757959200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Excavating and Reckoning with California’s Sorrowful Past
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nTwo publications\, both published by Heyday\, bookend and frame Tony Platt’s talk. One book begins in a remote area of northwest California\, the other in the Bay Area’s metropolis. \nIn Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California’s Buried Indigenous Past (2011\, 202) Platt investigated the global trade in everything Indian that during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stocked public and university museums from Moscow to Berkeley. He was surprised to learn that the University of California\, Berkeley – his alma mater and workplace for many years – had played a significant role nationally in the pillaging of Indigenous homelands\, including the location of his family cabin in northern California. A decade later\, in a new edition of Grave Matters\, Platt reflects on how Cal\, as the university is known locally\, persisted in its defiance of law and morality\, and had failed to reckon with its sorrowful past. “The long struggle for repatriation is only part of a larger history still to be told\,” he observed. \nThat “larger history” is the subject of The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs\, White Supremacy\, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley (2023\, 2025). Platt’s investigation into the university’s despicable hoarding of ancestral remains and cultural artifacts led him to a wider and deeper exploration of the university’s origins and development: its active participation in the dispossession of Native homelands and its significant role in the violence of conquest; the dominant influence of private wealth on the university’s governance\, then and now; the centrality of militarism in Cal’s DNA\, from the Indian Wars to Hiroshima and beyond; and the production of knowledge in textbooks\, popular narratives\, and public history that legitimated a racialized “California Story.” \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Tony Platt\, author\, historian\, and Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society \nTo register or for more information\, click here. \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/excavating-and-reckoning-with-californias-sorrowful-past/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250912T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250912T130000
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250818T211328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250818T211433Z
UID:2860-1757678400-1757682000@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Elyse Graham on Book and Dagger
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Caxton Club. \nRemember why we chose you for this assignment. You’re a reader. September 12 is the day all your training is put to the test. \nThe code will be included in the special communique you’ll receive after you register. Memorize it and make it your own. \nIt will be vital as you rendezvous with the other Caxton agents to interrogate the author of Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II (Ecco Books – An Imprint of Harper Collins). \nWho is this phantom? It’s Elyse Graham\, codename Seawolf. \nHer cover story? Historian. Professor. Ivy covered halls of Stony Brook University\, which cleverly hides in plain sight … in Stony Brook\, New York. Graduate of Princeton. MIT. Yale. \nThis is your chance to unmask crafty saboteurs like Adele Kibre – medievalist. Sherman Kent – Yale historian. And more. You know the types. A chilling glance. A penetrating question. They knew how to wound. \nLocation. Steel Room. Eighth Floor. Union League Club. Noon. September 12. A big screen on the wall followed by a luncheon that will challenge the very fabric of your will power. (The soup alone could do in your diet.) \nOr\, if your cover’s been blown\, head for your safe house and login. Zoom will be your handler and using Chat to ask questions has a way of making speakers talk. \nGathered at the Union League Club or hunkered down in your safe house\, trench coats are optional. \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required\, click here.  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/elyse-graham-on-book-and-dagger/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250829T195432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T195432Z
UID:2906-1757361600-1757361600@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:The Role of Manuscripts in Numismatic Literature & Research
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nDate: Monday\, Sept. 8\, 8pm EST  \nGuest Presenter: Leonard Augsburger\, Newman Numismatic Portal\, Washington University in St. Louis  \nHost: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore  \nTitle: The Role of Manuscripts in Numismatic Literature & Research \nRegister: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7uMHKoNLRVmkHTz0uxIKIQ \nOverview:  \nThis presentation will provide an overview of the numismatic literature field and highlight significant manuscript items in American collections. We will explore the most significant repositories of numismatic manuscript materials and share first-hand observations of working with related institutions. The talk will cover specific applications of manuscripts within numismatic research\, drawing on the presenter’s and other publications. \nPresenter:  \nLen Augsburger is the Project Coordinator of the Newman Numismatic Portal (NewmanPortal.org) project at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published widely in the field of American numismatics and has three times won the Numismatic Literary Guild’s “Book of the Year” award. His most recent publication\, The Publication of Eric P. Newman: A Collector’s Guide\, summarizes a decade of curation of the Eric P. Newman numismatic papers. Len is a Fellow of the American Numismatic Society and holds leadership positions in other numismatic organizations.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/the-role-of-manuscripts-in-numismatic-literature-research/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250908T191500
DTSTAMP:20260420T200146
CREATED:20250724T203124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T203852Z
UID:2848-1757354400-1757358900@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:High Spirits: The Legacy Bars of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California \nCommunity\, heritage\, architecture—oh yes\, and stiff pours: these are the hallmarks of San Francisco’s Legacy Bars. High Spirits leads readers on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood pub crawl in search of the city’s most remarkable nightspots. Atmospheric photographs accompany descriptions of each bar’s colorful history\, unique architectural features\, idiosyncratic owners\, and quirky clientele. As we dip into one barroom after another\, we see that these establishments function as unofficial cultural centers\, offering kinship and continuity amid an ever-changing city; indeed\, all of the bars shown are at least forty years old and sites of significant historic or cultural value as deemed by San Francisco Heritage. Whether we are following in the footsteps of Beat writers in North Beach’s Vesuvio Café\, tossing peanut shells on the floor of The Homestead in the Mission\, or selecting jukebox songs (three for a quarter) at the Silver Crest Donut Shop in Bayview\, High Spirits welcomes us as regulars at every spot\, showing off the conviviality that makes San Francisco one of the great saloon towns. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by J.K. Dineen\, author and reporter\, San Francisco Chronicle \nFor more information or to register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/high-spirits-the-legacy-bars-of-san-francisco/
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