Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Unable to travel to New York to see the current exhibition at the Morgan Library on Belle da Costa Greene? We’ve got you covered with an online presentation by the show’s curatorial lead, Philip S. Palmer. Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) was one […]
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Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington FABS members are invited to join the BCW for this in-person event Sept 22, 2:00pm PDT RSVP required. Tanya Patton, Elise Severe, and Deb Fortner from Dayton, Washington are receiving the 2024 Emory Award for their leadership in saving the Dayton Memorial Library in Columbia […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington We are delighted that Paul Erickson, Director of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan, can join us in Seattle to make a presentation at Folio in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Co-hosted by the Book Club of Washington and the U-M Club […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington About the Event The Annual Meeting is a great way to reconnect with fellow members. We transact a little business, including making awards to students, and enjoy a special presentation that is the inspiration for a related keepsake. The event is open to […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington A virtual visit with a terrific guide (Allie Alvis, Curator of Special Collections) to get the back story on the formation of the unique collection at Winterthur (Delaware) and some of the beautiful and bizarre items it contains. Register here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/the-wonderful-and-weird-winterthur-library
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 […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Register for this event on our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org August 14, 2:00pm Los Angeles time Collectors are custodians. The materials that make up their collections are, in most cases, temporarily orbiting around the ideas that ground the collection. “On Collecting and Legacy” deals directly […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Sunday, July 24, 1 pm Pacific Time “The most powerful machine ever developed by man was not the nuclear reactor nor the computer. It was the Printing press, without which neither would have seen the light of day”—Nick Howard. The Howard Iron Works […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Online Sunday, June 12, 2 p.m. Pacific Time Register for this event on our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org Gary Goodman has been a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota for nearly forty years. In 1982, he wandered into a used-book shop in East St. […]
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 […]