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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250901T215739Z
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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
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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
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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
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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:20260420T213144
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250826T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250826T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T213144
CREATED:20250721T133243Z
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SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom Group\, with Reid Byers
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin the FABS Living With Books group for congenial discussion of the challenges and pleasures of home libraries. All are welcome. Contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-group-with-reid-byers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250825T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250825T181500
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CREATED:20250724T202311Z
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SUMMARY:Postcards and the Baja California Border Towns
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California \nPostcards have a magical pull. They allow us to see the past through charming relics that allow us to travel back in time. Daniel D. Arreola’s Postcards from the Baja California Border offers a window into the historical and geographical past of storied Mexican border communities. Once-popular tourist destinations from the 1900s through the 1950s\, the border communities explored in Postcards from the Baja California Border used to be filled with revelers\, cabarets\, curio shops\, and more. \nThis form of place study calls attention to how we can see a past through a serial view of places\, by the nature of repetition\, and the photographing of the same place over and over again. Arreola draws our focus to townscapes\, or built landscapes\, of four border towns—Tijuana\, Mexicali\, Tecate\, and Algodones—during the first half of the twentieth century. \nA virtual presentation by Daniel Arreola\, author\, cultural geographer\, and Professor Emeritus\, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning\, Arizona State University. \nTo register or for more information\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/postcards-and-the-baja-california-border-towns/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T193000
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CREATED:20250721T132934Z
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SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for congenial conversation about all things bibliophilic and 19th century\, from collecting to printing processes and 19th century bookish trends. All are welcome. Contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org)
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-zoom-group-13/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T193000
DTSTAMP:20260420T213144
CREATED:20250722T133658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250724T154403Z
UID:2834-1755545400-1755545400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: Gabrielle Fox and Neale M. Albert
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nAugust 18\, 7:30pm EST \nGabrielle Fox & Neale Albert: An Uncommon Collaboration \nJoin us for this discussion on commissioning miniature book bindings and collaborative book publishing! Gabrielle is a bookbinder specializing in miniatures and Neale is a collector. They will discuss the process from both perspectives and look at how it led them to collaborative publishing. \nTo be added to the list\, contact Jennifer Larson info@fabsocieties.org \n  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-gabrielle-fox-and-neale-albert/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250811T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250811T200000
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CREATED:20250731T212427Z
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UID:2856-1754942400-1754942400@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays: "First to Answer Lincoln's Call" with Ravi D. Goel MD
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nAugust 11: Manuscript Mondays. This month’s topic: “First to Answer Lincoln’s Call\, Rejected by Yale: Heber S. Thompson and the Power of Manuscripts\,” presented by Ravi D. Goel MD. Dr. Goel will highlight the Civil War experiences of the first Yale College student to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers after the Battle of Fort Sumter. (The Manuscript Society) \nREGISTER: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d-YDSM_2TiiEpkJjGLbgQg#/registration \nRavi D. Goel\, MD\, is a comprehensive ophthalmologist and collector of historical manuscripts. His passion for preserving history has led to the donation of significant materials to institutions including the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum\, Amherst College\, Dickinson College\, Forest History Society\, Harvard University\, Minnesota Historical Society\, Princeton University\, Yale University\, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. \nDr. Goel’s collections include overlooked figures and “firsts” in American history\, with an emphasis on Yale alumni\, US Presidents\, and Civil War narratives. His efforts aim to preserve and share these stories with scholars\, researchers\, and future generations. \nHe shares highlights of his collecting journey at www.ProtectingSight.com
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-first-to-answer-lincolns-call-with-ravi-d-goel-md/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250811T193000
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SUMMARY:FABS Handpress Era Zoom: Collecting John Speed\, London Antiquary and Cartographer
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJoin us for “Collecting John Speed\, London Antiquary and Cartographer” with Martha Driver! Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \nJohn Speed (d. 1629) was a prolific illustrator\, cartographer\, genealogist\, historian and antiquary. Born into the middle class\, Speed worked as a tailor\, being admitted to the Merchant Taylor’s Company in 1580. He was then befriended by Sir Fulke Greville\, the first Lord Brooke\, and became a member of the influential Society of Antiquaries\, where he met scholars like William Camden\, Robert Cotton\, and William Smith. Speed is best known to Chaucer scholars for the Chaucer portrait he supplied as the frontispiece to Thomas Speght’s edition of Chaucer’s Workes\, which I discussed in a 2002 essay in The Chaucer Review\, but he also published The History of Great Britain\, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain\, and The Genealogies Recorded in Sacred Scriptures\, among other works\, all of which drew on Speed’s contacts with wealthy London antiquarian collectors. \nIn my own modest collection are Speed’s map of Middlesex\, untimely ripped\, I fear (not by me)\, from Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine\, which has some interesting (if not precisely factual) illustrations and inscriptions relating to London\, and a copy of Speed’s England Wales Scotland and Ireland … Described and Abridged (1656)\, which originally included Middlesex (though in my copy\, that map is missing). I also have a copy of Speght’s Workes of Our Ancient and Lerned English Poet\, Geffrey Chaucer\, with the Chaucer portrait\, and Speed’s genealogies bound into a Geneva Bible published in Scotland by Andro Hart (1610)\, along with a copy of Speed’s History of Great Britain. In his work\, Speed is shown in his roles not only as artist and cartographer but as historian and synthesizer of a variety of sources. He is an informed copyist\, his maps serving as historical documentsthat present contemporary pictures of Elizabethan and Jacobean Britain\, along with earlier historical artifacts. \nMartha W. Driver\, PhD\, FSA \nNb This talk is in preparation for a conference in Cambridge on the medieval city – Speed of course is not medieval but records medieval tombs\, objects\, buildings and towns in his maps (I would be happy to have any feedback). \n\nMartha Westcott Driver\, FSA\, is Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies (emerita) at Pace University in New York City. A co-founder of the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history\, Dr. Driver writes about illustration from manuscript to print and manuscript and book production. She is a prolific author and editor (Among many publications I will mention only The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England\, The British Library\, 2001). She serves on the executive boards of the American Trust for the British Library and the Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland\, among other advisory roles\, and is a member of multiple bibliographic and bibliophilic societies including The Grolier Club. \n\n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-handpress-era-zoom-collecting-john-speed-london-antiquary-and-cartographer/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250811T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250811T191500
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SUMMARY:Citizen-Collectors in the Cultural Artifacts Ecosystem
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of California \nWhere do significant collections come from? They start when ordinary people develop a passion for a subject or object. They begin to add more items\, filling in gaps and improving examples they have. They become subject matter experts in a narrow field. Small collections grow into larger ones until eventually dealers and institutions get involved. Lincoln Cushing has worked as a professional archivist in university special collections as well as private archives\, and is now an “archival midwife” shepherding collections from private to public spheres. Cushing will share his experiences and explore how the processes and ethics of paper-based collections have evolved in the digital age. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Lincoln Cushing\, librarian\, archivist\, author\, and lecturer \nFor more information and to register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/citizen-collectors-in-the-cultural-artifacts-ecosystem/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250728T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250728T191500
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SUMMARY:Unholy Sensations: A Story of Sex\, Scandal\, and California’s First Cult Scare
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 1891\, a suffragist and social reformer named Alzire Chevaillier launched a moral crusade to destroy Fountaingrove\, a utopian spiritualist community in northern California. Chevaillier accused the colony’s leader\, the poet and prophet Thomas Lake Harris\, of perverting the teachings of the Bible to promote a “new sexology” that was “worse than Mormonism.” Media reports emphasized the presence of Japanese immigrant men at Fountaingrove\, raising racialized specters of miscegenation and moral contamination. The international scandal\, full of the sorts of salacious details prized by newspaper editors at the dawn of the era of yellow journalism\, would last more than a decade\, establishing Harris as the prototype for a new type of public menace-the “California cult leader.” \nUnholy Sensations takes a close-up look at the Fountaingrove scandal to examine religion\, gender\, sexuality\, and race in the Gilded Age from a fresh perspective. By showing that the term “cult” has always been a marker of race\, sexuality\, and religion\, Unholy Sensations reveals the limits of American freedom and the centrality of religion to the policing of whiteness\, family\, and nation. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Joshua Paddison\, author and Associate Professor of Instruction\, Texas State University \nTo register\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/unholy-sensations-a-story-of-sex-scandal-and-californias-first-cult-scare/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T203000
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UID:2799-1753210800-1753216200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Living With Books Zoom: Book Boxes and Manuscripts in the Library
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nJuly 22: Join the FABS Living With Books group for congenial discussion of the challenges and pleasures of home libraries. This month’s topics: (1) Clamshell and other book boxes; (2) Manuscripts in the library. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-living-with-books-zoom-book-boxes-and-manuscripts-in-the-library/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T193000
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CREATED:20250712T132024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250712T132024Z
UID:2823-1753126200-1753126200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS Bindings Zoom: Aaron Pratt on Horn Books and Early Learning Materials
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nAaron Pratt\, a curator at the Harry Ransom Center\, will show a clip on horn books and then turn to a discussion of early learning materials. All are welcome. \nContact: Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-bindings-zoom-aaron-pratt-on-horn-books-and-early-learning-materials/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T181500
DTSTAMP:20260420T213144
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250624T091957Z
UID:2794-1753117200-1753121700@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:On Collecting the Imaginary
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nCurator Reid Byers will give a talk\, “Collecting the Imaginary (in which all will be revealed)\,” in conjunction with his Book Club exhibition\, “Imaginary Books: Lost\, Unfinished\, and Fictive Books Found Only in Other Books.” The talk will deal with the curious issues surrounding the acquisition of immaterial and imaginary items for collections. \nOn view at the Book Club through July 21\, 2025\, Reid’s exhibition is part conceptual art installation and part bibliophilic entertainment. It consists of a collection of books that do not really exist\, but represent an alternative library that encourages speculation on some of the major “what ifs” of bibliographic history. Included in the exhibit are a wide range of lost books that we know once actually existed but of which no examples now survive; unfinished books that were begun in some fashion but were never published; and fictive books that exist only in story and never had any physical form of existence\, but of which Reid has now created physical simulacra. \nA virtual presentation by Reid Byers\, author\, collector\, curator\, and president of the Baxter Society \nTo register\, click here. \n  \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/on-collecting-the-imaginary/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250717T203000
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UID:2804-1752780600-1752784200@www.fabsocieties.org
SUMMARY:FABS 19th Century Group
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by FABS \nThe FABS 19th Century Zoom Group meets for convivial conversation about all things bookish and 19th century! You are invited. Contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/fabs-19th-century-group-4/
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