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  • 19th Century FABS Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial discussion of all things bibliophilic and 19th century! Meets on the third Thursday of the month. Contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org

  • Deborah A. Green and Aaron Lansky: “The First Yiddish War Reporter”

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club as Translator Deborah A. Green and Aaron Lansky, Yiddish Book Center founder and president, have a conversation to celebrate the release of a translation of writings by the poet, translator and literary journalist S. L. Shneiderman (1906-1996), Journey Through the Spanish Civil War: The Hinterlands (White Goat Press). Note: this is […]

  • Home Library Audits and Lending Books: FABS Living With Books Zoom Group

    Sponsored by FABS The Living With Books group meets via Zoom on the fourth Tuesday of the month for convivial chat about home libraries. This month's topics are Book Audits and Lending Books, with The Bedside Table if time permits. To join the list, contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org

  • Lynda Mugglestone on Samuel Johnson’s Garret Lexicography

    Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club for a live webcast lecture by Lynda Mugglestone, Professor of the History of English and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, in conjunction with our public exhibition "Hardly Harmless Drudgery," co-curated by Grolier members Bryan A. Garner and Jack Lynch. This registration is for the live webcast: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-lynda-mugglestone-on-samuel-johnsons-garret-lexicography-tickets-916652431097?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Professor […]

  • The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945

    Sponsored by The Book Club of California America’s suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes suburban realities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation—rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. Stories of […]

  • A Rare Book Summer Picnic: Conversations on Food, Cultural History and The Dining Table

    Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Live, Free Webinar Monday, July 1, 2024 – 8:00 PM Eastern , 5:00 PM Pacific (US and Canada) Presenters: Christine von der Linn of Honey & Wax Booksellers  Lizzy Young owner of Lizzy Young Bookseller With feet firmly planted in both the book and culinary worlds, Christine von der Linn and Lizzy Young […]

  • Movable Mayhem: Pop-Up Books through the Ages

    Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Prepare to be captivated by these print wonders that move. Volvelles, flaps, and pop-ups, oh my! Renaissance pop-up book expert Suzanne Karr Schmidt will walk us through her most recent Newberry Library exhibition and related recent acquisitions, in a look at the long history of the movable book […]

  • Al Martinez in the Korean War: A Future Columnist Hones His Craft

    Sponsored by The Book Club of California For more than twenty years, the Los Angeles Times columnist Al Martinez (1929-2015) delighted, and enriched the lives of, thousands of readers across southern California. An Oakland native, he attended San Francisco State College. Later, he was a reporter for the Richmond Independent and the Oakland Tribune before […]

  • FABS Handpress Era Zoom: First Edition Hoyle on Whist and 18th Century Open Mic

    Sponsored by FABS July 8: Handpress Era (second Monday of the month). This month we will hear from David Levy about a trip to Aberdeen to visit one of four known copies of the first edition of A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist (1742), bound with other works by Hoyle on backgammon and piquet. In a talk illustrated with […]

  • California: A Slave State

    Sponsored by The Book Club of California California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the […]

  • FABS Bindings Zoom: The Prince of Binders: Joseph Altemus and the Apex of Publishers’ Bindings in the Nineteenth Century

    Sponsored by FABS The Prince of Binders": Joseph Altemus and the Apex of Publishers' Bindings in the Nineteenth Century" Todd Pattison. July 15, Monday, 7:30 Eastern, 4:30 Pacific. Zoom Todd will talk about the commercial bindings produced by the firm of Joseph Altemus, a Philadelphia bookbinder who produced the widest range of commercial bindings between […]

  • David Pearson: Looking at Bookbindings from Cambridge and Elsewhere

    Sponsored by The Grolier Clubng Renowned scholar David Pearson will lecture on findings that culminated in his recent book, Cambridge Bookbinding 1450-1770 (The Legacy Press, 2023). It provides an overview of the development of Cambridge binding through the handpress period, including the evolution of styles and materials, customers, and binders. This illustrated talk will present highlights and […]