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Sponsored by The Book Club of California "A Rebel’s Outcry: Biography of Issei Civil Rights Leader Sei Fujii (1882-1954)" is an illustrated biography and detailed look into the life of Japanese American civil rights leader Sei Fujii, known for overturning the California Alien Land Law in 1952 and founding the Japanese American newspaper Kashu Mainichi […] |
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Graphic designer and letterpress printer Professor Sarah McCoy will lecture on the lively, tumultuous lives of Colonial women printers, who were backbones of their families and communities. Words that they printed and disseminated, amid triumphs and hardships, helped shape the culture and freedoms of the early colonial world. Dr. McCoy […] |
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Sponsored by NOBS Welcome spring by joining librarian, archivist, and educator Amy E. Dawson for a discussion of a collection of rare herbals and guidebooks owned by The Herb Society of America, located in Kirtland, Ohio. Learn more about The Society, which is dedicated to promoting the knowledge, use, and delight of herbs through educational […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Kathy Walkup will offer a behind-the-scenes tour of an artists' books exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book. A virtual tour of Possibilities: When artists’ books were young, a show at the San Francisco Center for the Book, will be led by Grolier member Kathleen Walkup. In the […] |
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Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Online Sunday, May 1, 2 pm PDT Visit our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org Register for the event here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/sold-on-auctions-by-spencer-w-stuart Collections Advisor Spencer Stuart will discuss his ongoing analysis of the "Lockdown Auction Landscape" and the structural impact it is having on rare book and print markets. In light of these changes, […] |
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Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Monday – The Life Cycle of Collections Monday, May 2, 2022 8:00 PM Eastern The Lifecycle of Collections and the Collectors Who Build Them Join Collections Advisor, Spencer W. Stuart, as he discusses the life cycle of collections and the collectors who build them. Moderated by Manuscript Monday host, […] |
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Sponsored by The Caxton Club and The Union League Club of Chicago The year 2022 marks the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape designer for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago’s Jackson Park and designer of Riverside, Illinois. Please join us as we welcome public historian, Laurence Cotton who will talk about the national […] |
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Sponsored by ABAA (FABS partner) May 4, 12:00pm-May 5, 8:00pm EDT This is the virtual component of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. Visit by clicking on this URL: abaa.org/vbf
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club The panel will offer a conversation about Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger, explorers and photographers "At the Edge." A conversation between exhibition curator Dr. Roger Härtl and other experts about two explorers, authors and photographers “At The Edge.” Sella and Thesiger wandered the world at the crossroads of the age […] |
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Nicole Howard, Professor of History at Eastern Oregon University, will speak on her new book, Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author 1500-1750 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). She will explore how, during the early modern era, some scientific authors disliked and distrusted the newly invented printing press, to […] |
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Sponsored by The Book Club of California Collections advisor Spencer W. Stuart asked multi-decade dedicated collectors, “With 20/20 hindsight, what do you wish you had done, or known to do, when you started collecting?” This talk unpacks a compilation of the responses gleaned from these individuals into 12 salient points and elaborates on their meanings […] Sponsored by The Caxton Club We’re presenting a video of the April program for those who were unable to attend the program at ULCC. A live Q&A with the authors will follow. Chicago writers and historians Paul Durica and Bill Savage will take us on a journey through the Chicago of 1893 with their edition […] |
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Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture (in person and Zoom) The Pope at War Tuesday, May 10, 2022 – 6:00pm CET Villa Aurelia Largo di Porta S. Pancrazio, 1 Rome, Italy 00153 A Friends of the Library Lecture on the topic of a new book, The Pope at War: The Secret History of […] |
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Sponsored by The Caxton Club We regularly draw on speakers from libraries to tell us wondrous tales about remarkable collections. But who tells the libraries’ stories? Messrs. Pettegree and der Weduwen do, in their terrific book, The Library: A Fragile History (Basic Books, 2021). In it they address the real world challenges facing libraries … […] |
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Publisher Tim Inkster's professional relationship with poet P. K. Page began in the spring of 1985 when Constance Rooke commissioned a broadside of P. K.'s poem ‘Deaf-Mute in a Pear Tree’ as a promotion for The Malahat Review. An anecdotal history of their many collaborations over the next two decades serves to highlight the gulf […] Co-sponsored by The Book Club of Washington and The Himes & Duniway Society Online Sunday, May 15, 2 pm PDT Visit our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org Register for the event here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/explore-the-lewis-clark-expedition-and-more This virtual visit to Lewis & Clark College in Portland was prompted by the College having assembled the most comprehensive library of Lewis & Clark […] |
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Princeton University Library is delighted to invite you to the annual Gillett G. Griffin Memorial lecture with guest Russell Maret, book artist and letter designer. Monday, May 16, 2022 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time Via Zoom webinar or in-person: Room 138, Lewis Science Library Princeton University The British private press holds such a strong […]
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Sponsored by the Book Club of California in association with Rare Books LA-Palm Springs Begun in 2019, the LGBTQ+ History & Archives of the Desert is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making accessible the LGBTQ+ History of the Greater Palm Springs Area. This presentation provides a brief overview of how and why the Archives began, […] |
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Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Our next (Zoom) meeting is Wednesday, May 18, and features Elizabeth DeBold, Assistant Curator of Collections, Folger Shakespeare Library. Her topic is Brush Up Your Shakespeare: The Harmsworth Collection and other things you didn’t know about The Folger Shakespeare Library. Please feel free to forward this email Zoom invitation to […] |
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Co-sponsored by The Book Club of California Rare Books LA - Palm Springs Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21, 2022 Friday, May 20 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm/PT Saturday, May 21 | 10:00am - 6:00pm/PT Hotel Zoso 150 S Indian Canyon Drive Palm Springs, CA 92262 Join the Book Club of California and Rare Books […] |
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Sponsored by The Book Club of California The Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992), San Francisco author, historian, and club secretary from 1921-1946. Awards for achievement in Western History and the Book Arts are awarded each year. The Book Club of California […] |
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This event is presented by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Educational Trust - Institute of English Studies Book Collecting Seminars The event - called 'The Bibliotheca Spenceriana Collection of Incunables. A new cataloguing project at the John Rylands Library' - will feature presentations by Julianne Simpson, John Gandy and Ed Potten on this exciting major project. […] |
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Held in conjunction with the Grolier Club’s current public exhibition “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life,” running in the ground-floor exhibit hall through July 30, this will be a Zoom talk by the exhibition’s co-curator and Grolier member Nicholas Fry. Organized by Fry and the rest […] |
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Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Join fellow NOBS members and guest to learn about the art and science of making paper with Tom Balbo, artistic director of Cleveland’s own Morgan Conservatory. Tom Balbo is a Cleveland-based artist whose work has been collected for well over 30 years. In 2007, Tom teamed up with noted […] |
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Sponsored by North Bennett Street School 2022 Exhibition: Making Matters May 6 - August 26, 2022 North Bennet Street School in Boston, MA nbss.edu/2022exhibition Featuring displays of typical objects, tools, and materials from our career-training programs, this year’s exhibition is a behind-the-scenes look at the craft and care of making. While many of the […] |
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Vanessa "V.M." Braganza will give an online lecture on Lady Mary Wroth About this event Four hundred years after Lady Mary Wroth became the first English woman to publish a long work of prose fiction, her story still harbors secrets and unsettled ghosts. In this talk, book detective Vanessa "V.M." […] |
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The Morgan Library Join Assistant Manager of School Programs, Ann Bell, for a talk about the Morgan Book Project, an extended learning program for students in grades 3-12 in which they create their own illuminated manuscripts using the Morgan’s collection as inspiration. She will highlight facets of traditional bookmaking techniques and discuss some award-winning examples […] |
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