Sponsored by FABS Dear Friends in the Republic of Books, Living with Books is a discussion group of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. Each month, we choose a couple of bibliophilic topics for open (and civil) discussion. The next meeting of FABS Living with Books will be on Tuesday, […]
Book Collecting
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By Paul Heyde Which came first? The Akron Antiquarian Book Fair or the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society? In retrospect, disentangling the origins of the two northeast Ohio institutions may not entirely be the point, as they both really germinated out of the same seed of thought. What started out as […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Luis Fernando Bañuelos NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal, Mexico’s first everything bookstore. In a long, sinuous, marble, glass, and steel building downtown, plastered with billboards, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof, it offered leather-bound collections, […]
Sponsored by FABS Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies Special Interest Group on Book Binding. February 23, 2026. Monday. 7:30 pm EST. Zoom presentation. Matt Brehe, a Seattle book and manuscript collector will share some early book bindings from his collection with a focus on bookbinder manuscript waste found within. Early […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS) Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7:00 PM This year, we will convene the 40th Akron Antiquarian Book & Paper Show, and we will also celebrate what would be the 100th birthday of Frank Klein, one of the founding members of NOBS. Join us for […]
Sponsored by FABS Join your host Reid Byers and the gang for discussion of the pleasures and challenges of the private library. For a link, contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial conversation on all things bibliophilic and 19th century! For a link contact Jennifer Larson: info@fabsocieties.org
Sponsored by FABS “Collecting Erasmus” Martha will share a brief bio of the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus (d. 1536) and provide short descriptions of several Erasmus volumes in her collection. These include the first edition of Erasmus’s In Novum Testamentum Annotationes (1542) which has been heavily censored by a very assiduous member of […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Luis Fernando Bañuelos NYU doctoral student Luis Fernando Bañuelos will lecture on the Librería de Cristal, Mexico’s first everything bookstore. In a long, sinuous, marble, glass, and steel building downtown, plastered with billboards, blinding neon letters mounted on the roof, it offered leather-bound collections, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club With Jane Ziegelman Jane Ziegelman, author of the new book Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World, will explore a little known body of Jewish folk literature known as yizkor books. Written by Holocaust survivors, yizkor books were privately published […]