Hosted by The Book Club of California. 5:00 PM PST - Live presentation via Zoom Webinar With over 400 officially designated local, state, and national landmarks, San Francisco is steeped in history. The city’s neighborhoods feature unique buildings and special places, some that are well known to residents and tourists but also structures and locations […]
Sponsored by the Book Club of California As our Valentine’s Day gift to you, the entire library of Book Club of California recorded talks and presentations—more than 80 videos—will be available to view on our YouTube Channel during the month of February. Share the love by inviting friends and family to watch a Book Club […]
Sponsored by the Book Club of California. Members of FABS bibliophilic societies are invited to join the Book Club of California for a special Member & Guest Reception to celebrate the 54th California International Antiquarian Book Fair. Mix and mingle with Book Club members, volunteers, and staff. Wine, beer, and hors d'oeuvres will be served. […]
Sponsored by the Caxton Club. 12:00pm CT It turns out that people were creating their own Facebooks long before the advent of the Internet. They would take apart a published book (gasp!), add illustrations, autographs, maps, and particularly portrait prints ... and then rebind the thicker volume to create a one-of-a-kind. Some called it literary […]
Sponsored by the Ticknor Society; open to members of other FABS societies Join Archivist Brittany Contratto via Zoom for a virtual, behind-the-scenes tour of the Museum of Science Archives. In 2017, Bloomberg Philanthropies generously provided funding for the first archives department in the Museum’s nearly 200-year history. The Archives traces the Museum’s development from the […]
Sponsored by the Caxton Club Books were everywhere at the 1925 International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. Until now, little has been written about their actual exhibition. This highly illustrated presentation will explore the variety of the work displayed, and suggest some strategies employed by the publishers. Dr. Harris is the […]
Sponsored by the Book Club of California Saturday, February 19, 2022, 1-2:00 PM * A live, in-person event at the American Bookbinders Museum The Life and Times of Jo Mora provides an in-depth portrait of this gifted illustrator, painter, writer, cartographer, and sculptor (1876-1947). Mora was one of the first American artists to elevate the […]
Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington, the Guild of Book Workers, Northwest Chapter, the Book Arts Guild, and Puget Sound Book Artists. Features talks by book artists represented in this national exhibition. The Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound is pleased to host this wonderful exhibit of works by members of […]
Hosted by the Florida Bibliophile Society. Reid’s varied career has included minister, welder, and computer programmer, among others. He is author of Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom (Oak Knoll Press, 2021). This event is virtual with an in-person gathering at Macdonald-Kelce Library, University of Tampa To receive […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Curator Glen S. Miranker will give a lecture on “Arthur Conan Doyle at 35,” offered in connection with our "Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects" exhibition, open in our ground floor gallery January 12 - April 16, 2022. This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an […]
Sponsored by the Manuscript Society. February 24 @ 8:00 AM - March 3 @ 10:00 PM Manuscript, Autograph, Dealer Catalog Auction February 24 – March 3, 2022 Over 2000 manuscript, rare book, autograph, and dealer catalogs will go up for auction beginning February 24, 2022 and run through March 3, 2022. Manuscript Society member David […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Melanie Chambliss and Laurel Davis will speak on "Black Archives as Sites and Symbols of Black Liberation" About this event Two scholars will explore recent discoveries about how Black community libraries, activists and bibliophiles have preserved and advocated for deeper understanding of Black history. The moderator will be Grolier […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society NOBS February Forum Online 7:30pm-9:00 pm EST Designing typefaces has undergone amazing changes since the 1450's when the first movable metal type was used. In 1996 Russell Maret began teaching himself to design letterforms and in 2009 was awarded the Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club In 2019, medieval manuscript fragments containing an Arthurian text surfaced unexpectedly at England's Bristol Central Library and made headlines. Seven folios of a 13th-century copy of the "Suite Vulgate du Merlin" were discovered inside the binding of a four-volume copy of the works of the French scholar and reformer Jean […]
Sponsored by the Grolier Club Plain Wrapper Press Redux publisher Mark E. Fischer, with Grolier Club member, printer and designer Jerry Kelly, and Plain Wrapper Press printer/publisher Gabriel Rummonds, will discuss the recent revival of a decades-old handpress known for its finely printed and illustrated limited editions of poetry and prose by contemporary authors. The […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Geoffrey Roberts, History Professor Emeritus at University College Cork (Ireland) and a member of the Royal Irish Academy, will discuss his latest publication, Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books (Yale University Press, 2022). Stalin was a surprisingly learned bookworm, as he analyzed and refracted the published ideas of his […]