Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join The Grolier Club as Translator Deborah A. Green and Aaron Lansky, Yiddish Book Center founder and president, have a conversation to celebrate the release of a translation of writings by the poet, translator and literary journalist S. L. Shneiderman (1906-1996), Journey Through the Spanish Civil War: The […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join Curator Deirdre Lawrence for a pre-recorded tour of her Grolier Club exhibition “Language, Decipherment, and Translation,” followed by a Live Q&A via Zoom. The exhibition is on view in our Second Floor Gallery through May 11, 2024. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-tour-language-decipherment-and-translation-tickets-800031685307?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Bibliophile and historian Kent Bicknell will explore his Alcott Family Collection, winner of a recent collecting prize from the New England-based Ticknor Society. Among the highlights will be a fascinating 1876 Russian translation of Little Women; an account of Bronson Alcott’s famed Temple School in […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join Curator George Fletcher for a pre-recorded video walkthrough of “Judging a Book by Its Cover,” an exhibition on bindings at the Grolier Club, followed by a live Q&A with Fletcher. To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-tour-judging-a-book-by-its-cover-tickets-863818683937?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Grolier Club H. George Fletcher, Curator of “Judging a Book by Its Cover: Bookbindings from the Collections of the Grolier Club, 1470s-2020,” will lecture on the Club’s collection of fine and historic bookbindings in conjunction with Bibliography Week. This lecture will be live webcast. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-annual-bibliography-week-lecture-tickets-796218158947?aff=ebdsoporgprofile If […]
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 in Collecting: What I Discovered About My Own Collecting.” This program will be live webcast. Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-kenneth-w-rendell-on-hidden-themes-in-collecting-tickets-796214989467?aff=ebdsoporgprofile If you […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Whodunit, you ask? Carolyn Wells—82 times between 1909 and 1942. Yet she is all but unknown today, unless it’s for her bibliomystery classic, Murder in the Bookshop (1936). In the early 20th century, she was an immensely popular author, excelling at country house and locked-room novels of […]
The Grolier Club Copyright today controls a vast range of created things, from songs to software, fancy dress costumes and semiconductor chip designs; it also provides a neverending income stream to the owners of the rights it creates, who almost always turn out to be corporations. That’s obviously not what […]
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 most beautiful book of the Italian Renaissance. In celebration of the first monograph in English on Aldus Manutius in over […]
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 to the dustbin of literary history, even in her homeland, but not necessarily due to lack of talent. Her works […]