Vespasiano da Bisticci: The Bookseller of Florence
Sunday, March 13, 2022 2:00 PM | Zoom Webinar * Co-presented and co-hosted by the Book Club of Washington The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant […]
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Kenneth Gloss on Collecting Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sponsored by FABS Sunday, March 13, 2022 4:00-6:00 PM Eastern Time | Zoom In our FABS Spring Online Event, Boston-based Brattle Book Shop proprietor/television appraiser Kenneth Gloss talks about some […]
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Medieval Manuscript Culture and Production: A Webinar
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Explore the physical materials, production process, ownership, and readership of medieval manuscripts from 800-1500 in Western Europe in this online presentation. Participants will […]
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Irvin J. Hunt on Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement
Sponsored by the Caxton Club What if instead of waking up and demanding of ourselves more self-care, we demanded systemic change? Irvin Hunt discusses a movement that was based on […]
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The Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize
The Ticknor Society is now accepting submissions for the Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, which was created to encourage and recognize those […]
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Book Collecting in Slovenia | Boštjan Petrič
Hosted by the Florida Bibliophile Society. Boštjan describes himself as a “book collector, bibliomaniac, and book enthusiast.” Through his Fate of Books blog, he provides a Slovenian perspective on book […]
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics
Sponsored by The Book Club of California A financial manager, businesswoman, and reformer, Phoebe Apperson Hearst was one of the wealthiest and most influential women of the era and a […]
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Virtual Tour of The History Project Collections
Sponsored by the Ticknor Society. Join Joan Ilacqua, Executive Director of The History Project, for a virtual tour of The History Project’s collections. Established in 1980, The History Project is […]
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Online guided tour of “Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects.”
Sponsored by the Grolier Club Curator Glen Miranker will offer a pre-recorded guided tour of his "Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects" exhibition, open in our ground floor gallery January 12 […]
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Grolier Club Virtual Lecture on Tattoo Books
Sponsored by The Grolier Club This panel discussion will focus on books about tattooing and tattooed people. Panel discussion by tattoo historians Derin Bray and Margaret Hodges and tattoo scholar/practitioner […]
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FORUM: Take a Trip with Herb: Photo Projects and the Books that Inspired Them
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society. March 24, 7:30 PM 8:45 PM EST via Zoom Join Herb Ascherman on an illuminating journey into his experiences as Cleveland’s most prominent portrait […]
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Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories […]