FABS 19th Century Group
Sponsored by FABS All are welcome to participate in this congenial group with an open discussion format, which offers a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and […]
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Robert E. Walls: Indigenous Books in the Pacific Northwest: Why Do They Matter?
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 […]
Kent Bicknell on Louisa May Alcott
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 […]
FABS Living With Books Group
Sponsored by FABS All are welcome to join this lively discussion group that explores the pleasures and paraphernalia of home libraries (Acquisition; History of Collecting; Cataloging and Photographing of collection […]
Language, Decipherment and Translation
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 […]
The Clements Library Collections and Buying Books in Nineteenth-Century America
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 […]
The Oscar Lewis Awards of The Book Club of California
Sponsored by The Book Club of California 2024 Oscar Lewis Awards Monday, May 6, 2024, 6-7:15 PM (Pacific) In-Person and Virtual Presentation 5:00 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific […]
Manuscript Mondays: “The Original Wikipedia: Siku Quanshu”
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society “The Original Wikipedia: 18th Century Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s Siku Quanshu Project” Free, Live Webinar Monday, May 6, 2024 – 8:00 PM Eastern, 5:00PM Pacific (U.S. and Canada) Presenter: […]
Aaron Pratt on Shakespeare and Spencer, Secondhand
Sponsored by The Caxton Club May Midday Program You probably misheard it over the radio. Barbra Streisand wasn’t singing about “Secondhand Rose” … she was belting out “Secondhand Prose.” Just […]
FABS Handpress Era Zoom Group: Decorated Paper and a 16th Century Book Collector/Surgeon/Poet/Spy
Sponsored by FABS May 13 (second Monday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The Handpress Era group (“printed books and other printed works created before ca. 1800”) is hosted by […]
Altered Book: Véronique Plesch on The Many Paradoxes of Tom Phillips’s ‘A Humument’
Sponsored by The Baxter Society The Baxter Society - May 15, at 5:00 pm eastern - at Glickman Library in Portland Maine, and on Zoom. Véronique Plesch, Professor of Art […]
FABS 19th Century Zoom Group
Sponsored by FABS May 16 (third Thursday of the month), 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern: The 19th Century special interest group, co-hosted by Bill Bryson and Richard Kopley, offers "a broad look at the […]