Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Presenter: Melanie Smith – Live Free Webinar with Moderator Brian Kathenes This fascinating and exciting live-stream presentation describes the intricate process of creating classic animation art and how the animation process impacts the value of classic ‘cels’ and illustrations. Melanie Smith will describe the many different steps required to create […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club and the Chicago Art Deco Society Feb 7, 6:30pm Central Time A central aspect of the culture and lifestyle of the 1920s and ’30s was the creation and consumption of food. You could exist in an Art Deco world where everything from the soup to the nuts was inflected with […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club Saddle up as we ride along with a couple of Berkeley grads who became two of the most prolific and successful writers of popular fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. They flooded bookshelves, produced plays, filled the radio and television airwaves with dramatic scripts, and gave Hollywood […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum curator Diana Seave Greenwald will discuss renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar and the book Greenwald recently edited, Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer, with contributions by Makeda Best and Stephanie Sparling Williams. Drawing on original, in-depth interviews with Saar and the companions who accompanied her on […]
Sponsored by the Manuscript Society OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS OF FABS SOCIETIES The Great Libraries of Rome: October 22 – 30, 2023 The Manuscript Society in conjunction with International Seminars Design Inc. presents a tour like no other! Tour the most beautiful libraries of Rome and see their rare manuscript collections. On this specifically designed […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Feb 15, 6:30-8:00pm EST Throughout the first half of the 20th century, a literature for Yiddish-speaking children flourished on four continents. A traveling rabbi shares his Sabbath with a friendly lion; an engraved olive branch traces a century-long arc of exile and repatriation to the Holy Land; a boy tries […]
Sponsored by The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Saturday Feb 18, 12:00-1:30pm Eastern Time In this talk for the series "The Research Group Speaks," Barbara Heritage will consider the material evidence of Charlotte Brontë's fair-copy manuscript for "Shirley" (1849). Barbara Heritage is Associate Director and Curator of Collections for Rare Book School at the University […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Wednesday, February 22, 7:30pm online only Join Jennifer Larson, FABS Chair and Professor of Classics at Kent State University, for an exploration of miniature and little books. In her presentation, Dr. Larson will use books from her own collection to explore how diminutive format was related to content in […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Sunday, February 26, 2 pm In Person and Online Register for this event on The Book Club of Washington’s website: www.bookclubofwashington.org David Gregor founded Gregor Rare Books in Seattle in 1987, relocating to Langley on Whidbey Island in 2004. He co-produced the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair for thirteen […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Lowell Thing, author of “Cover Treasure – The Life and Art of Margaret Armstrong,” describes how, beginning on the lawn of a library book sale, he began to discover and collect books from the “Golden Age” of American trade publishers’ decorated cloth bindings (1890-1915), especially those of one […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Feb 28, 6:00-7:30pm EST University of Iowa staff member Rich Dana will give an in-person talk at the Grolier Club about the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Marvin Sackner, M.D., was a Grolier Club member from 1991 until his death in 2020, and with his late wife Ruth […]
Sponsored by the Baltimore Bibliophiles On Tuesday, February 28 our speaker will be Baltimore Bibliophiles member Mark Samuels Lasner, who will present a talk on his collecting of Beardsley material as well as the exhibition, "Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young" at the Grolier Club. To register, please contact Binnie Syril Braunstein, bsbgc@aol.com
The Ticknor Society in Boston will begin accepting submissions on March 1, 2023 for the Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize, which was created to encourage and recognize those in New England who have been inspired to compile, curate, and own a book collection. The Prize awards $1000 […]