Sponsored by The Manuscript Society ‘Reading’ Silver – How to identity those marks. Sterling or silverplate? Domestic or foreign? Free – Live Webinar, Special Date – Tuesday, September 6, 2022 8:00 PM Eastern , Question and Answers at the End Hosted by Brian Kathenes Great Grandmother’s Silver. Now it is your silver, and you don’t […]
From the Friends of the Princeton University Library A Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton, featuring Stanley Corngold Wednesday September 7:00 at 4:00pm Eastern time On September 7, the Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk series returns with Professor Stanley Corngold, an emeritus professor of German and Comparative Literature, and a discussion about […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Sept 9, noon Chicago time “Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.” – Dorothy Parker A blunt assessment indeed … but Hemingway would not have stood for sitting while Proust would gladly have taken her injunction lying down. Where and how fifty writers wrote (and write) […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Sept 12, 12:00-1:30 New York time Zoom tour of this exhibition at the Eric Carle Museum. About this event A Zoom tour of "Finding Nura: Rediscovering an American Modernist from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection," on display at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Amherst, MA) through […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California and The American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers Sept. 12 , 6:00pm Los Angeles/Pacific time A celebration of the centenary of organized bookplate collecting in the United States. An in-person and virtual presentation via Zoom by William E. Butler, bibliophile, editor, and exlibrist. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LElQfNxlRBOqAEuJxEl90A?mc_cid=e039041088&mc_eid=55809a2ee8
Sponsored by The Baxter Society. On Zoom, Wed. Sept. 14 at 7:00pm Eastern Time Jennifer Larson, Chair of FABS, will give an illustrated lecture on her collection of miniature and small format books printed in the 17th century, their relationship to the intellectual currents of the time, and the reasons for the production of tiny […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California and The Northern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America Sept. 19, 6:00pm-7:15pm Los Angeles/Pacific time Every movement needs a voice, and ever since Gutenberg systematized the concept of movable type posters have been one of the media of choice for discontents, troublemakers, poets, organizers, and […]
Presented by the Rosenback Library and Museum Selected Mondays September-November, 7:00-8:30pm Eastern Time “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!" A continuation of our Sundays With ... series, our new Austen Mondays series will focus on Pride and Prejudice by […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Allen Ellenzweig will speak on photographer George Lynes. September 20, 6:00pm New York time About this event Virtual talk by Allen Ellenzweig, author of George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye . Lynes (1907-1955) was the lover of, and collaborator with, Grolier Council member Monroe Wheeler, an exhibition curator and art book designer […]
Presented by the Bibliographical Society of America The June 2022 issue of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) is devoted to the traditions and futures of Black Bibliography. Join guest Editors Jacqueline Goldsby and Meredith McGill, together with authors and contributors to the volume, for a Virtual Salon on September 22, 2022 […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Sep 22, 7:00pm-8:30 New York/Eastern time Phylis Brody is a life-long experimenter and doer of arts and crafts, including dimensional quilts and textiles, encaustic painting, assemblage, and altered books. In her words, “Each book is a small and intimate work of art that compels the viewer to pay attention […]
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles For Zoom link please email Binnie Syril Braunstein: bsbgc@aol.com
Sponsored by the ABAA October 21, 3:00pm Eastern time Please join us to honor this year's prizewinners of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest’s Susan Tane Prize for Student Book Collectors, via Zoom. In addition to the awards, the Library of Congress' Chief of Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Mark Dimunation, will interview each […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Sept. 26, 5:00-6:30 Los Angeles/Pacific time By examining historical records and drawing on oral histories and the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, ecologists, and psychologists, We Are Not Animals sets out to answer questions regarding who the Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz region were and how they survived […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Zoom event open to the public. September 27, 6:30pm Chicago time George Salter (1897–1967) was a German-born and, from 1940 on, American calligrapher, book and book jacket designer, illustrator, and teacher who revolutionized the world of book jacket design. His design work ranged from best sellers for Alfred A. Knopf […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club A talk exploring the life, work, and home of lexicographer Samuel Johnson by Celine Luppo McDaid, for the past decade Donald Hyde Curator and Director of Dr. Johnson's House in London. McDaid is responsible for managing the only UK museum dedicated to the history of the English language, curating three […]