Name: Chris Needdham: Theft, Mutilation and Forgery–Terrible and True Tales of Book Crimes.
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October 2023
October 2, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT

Molly Manning: The Best-Read Army in the World

Sponsored by The Grolier Club In recognition of Banned Book Week, Molly Manning will speak on censorship and propaganda in connection with the themes of her exhibition, "The Best Read […]
October 3, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT

Zelia Nuttall & Early Modern Mexican Pictorial Mss

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join ASU Professor Seonaid Valiant on how a Gilded Age anthropologist made discoveries about a British aristocrat's Mixtec Codex. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-zelia-nuttall-early-modern-mexican-pictorial-mss-tickets-719345801657?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
October 3, 2023 @ 8:00 pm EDT

Manuscript Mondays: The Original Wikipedia

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society “The Original Wikipedia: 18th Century Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s Siku Quanshu Project” Free, Live Webinar Monday, October 3, 2023 – 8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00PM Pacific (U.S. and Canada) Presenter: […]
October 5, 2023 @ 6:00 pm EDT

Ken Gloss: A Bookseller’s Improbable Finds

Sponsored by The Grolier Club October 5, 6:00pm New York Time Join Ken Gloss of Boston's Brattle Book Shop as he speaks on improbable and wonderful finds throughout his career. […]
October 9, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

Handpress Era/Early Printing FABS Group: Margaret Cavendish and Incunabular Herbals

Sponsored by FABS Interested in the early age of print? Join us on Zoom! Members of this group show and discuss examples of “printed books and other printed works created […]
October 11, 2023 @ 4:30 pm EDT

Up-Biblum God: The Algonquian Bible, Native Labor and Indigenous Futures

Sponsored by The Baxter Society and the Bowdoin College Library. Kimberly Toney, Coordinating Curator of Native American and Indigenous Collections at Bowdoin College Library, will speak on the Algonquian Bible. […]
October 13, 2023 @ 12:00 pm CDT

Elizabeth Bradley on Washington Irving

Sponsored by The Caxton Club Halloween approaches. It’s Friday the 13th. The path to the Caxton meeting is illuminated by the faint glow of a Zoom screen. And are those […]
October 16, 2023 @ 5:00 pm PDT

Picture, Book, Talk: David Wing on Photography

Sponsored by The Book Club of California PICTURE • BOOK • TALK 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Pacific Virtual presentation 6:00 PM Pacific - Program As a photographer in the […]
October 16, 2023 @ 6:00 pm EDT

The Private Libraries of Early Modern British Women

Sponsored by The Grolier Club UMass Amherst professor and recent Grolier Helfand fellow Joe Black will speak on early modern women's libraries. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-private-libraries-of-early-modern-british-women-tickets-719347607057?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
October 16, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 8:50 pm EDT

FABS Bindings Special Interest Group: Anatomy of a Book/Bindings from a Peruvian Penitentiary

Sponsored by FABS 16 October, 2023 7:30-8:50pm eastern / 6:30-7:50pm midwest / 5:30-6:50pm mountain / 4:30-5:50pm pacific ANATOMY OF A BOOK/BINDINGS FROM A PERUVIAN PENITENTIARY Join FABS members interested in […]
October 18, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm PDT

We are the Land: A History of Native California

Sponsored by The Book Club of California and Litquake 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Pacific Virtual presentation Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and […]
October 19, 2023 @ 7:00 pm EDT

Chris Needdham: Theft, Mutilation and Forgery–Terrible and True Tales of Book Crimes.

Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Baltimore Bibliophiles is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Chris Needham. Theft, Mutilation and Forgery--True Book Crimes @ the Baltimore Bibs Time: Oct […]