Ken Gloss: A Bookseller’s Improbable Finds
Sponsored by The Grolier Club October 5, 6:00pm New York Time Join Ken Gloss of Boston's Brattle Book Shop as he speaks on improbable and wonderful finds throughout his career. […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club October 5, 6:00pm New York Time Join Ken Gloss of Boston's Brattle Book Shop as he speaks on improbable and wonderful finds throughout his career. […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club UMass Amherst professor and recent Grolier Helfand fellow Joe Black will speak on early modern women's libraries. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-the-private-libraries-of-early-modern-british-women-tickets-719347607057?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Jason W. Dean will give a talk on an under-appreciated figure in the history of the fine press, Texas printer Carl Hertzog (1902-1984). In his […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Maria Georgopoulou on the latest discoveries of how the Gennadius Library in Athens came to be. With highlights including early editions of Homer’s Iliad and […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Virtual lecture, free and open to the public CBS Producer Alvin Patrick shares his collection of African Americans' books with frontispiece author portraits. Club member […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Scholars David Stromberg and Aaron Lansky will discuss a new book,Isaac Bashevis Singer's Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt, The War Years, 1939-1945 (White Goat Press). November 11 […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dr. Amy Gore, assistant professor of English at North Dakota State University, will discuss the connections between books, bodies, and Indigenous book history at the […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Virtual Tour of "Best Read Army" followed by a live Q&A with curator Molly Guptill Manning via Zoom. During World War II, one of the […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Free and Open to the Public on Zoom: Dec 7, 6:00pm Eastern time Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-french-novelists-return-from-historys-dustbin-tickets-719361448457?aff=ebdsoporgprofile The French 19th-century writer Fanny Reybaud has been relegated […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Free and Open to the Public Dec 12, 6:00pm Eastern time Register for Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-mara-frazier-on-capturing-dance-on-paper-tickets-719361358187?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Translating the evanescent art of dance into textual […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Clbub Aldus Manutius invented italic type and issued more first editions of the classics than anyone before or since. He also printed the mysterious Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club The second annual Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture on the Importance of Historical Letters and Documents. Grolier member Kenneth W. Rendell will speak on "Hidden Themes […]