Dealer Catalog Auction to Benefit the Manuscript Society

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Dealer Catalog Auction II April 14 – 21, 2022 Our first successful Dealer Catalog Auction is complete! The Manuscript Society announces Auction II.  It runs April 14, 2022 through April 21, 2022.  We will offer our remaining manuscript and autograph related catalogs and rare books. Some 2000 dealer catalogs are […]

Spencer Stuart on The Life Cycle of a Collection

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Monday – The Life Cycle of Collections Monday, May 2, 2022 8:00 PM Eastern The Lifecycle of Collections and the Collectors Who Build Them Join Collections Advisor, Spencer W. Stuart, as he discusses the life cycle of collections and the collectors who build them. Moderated by Manuscript Monday host, […]

Rare Books Signature® Auction at Heritage

Sponsored by Heritage Auctions (FABS partner) View all lots and bid at HA.com/6253 Highlights include a first edition of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations (1776), a Gutenberg Bible leaf, and a signed Marc Chagall Pseaumes de David (Geneva 1979).  

Lambeth Palace Library Through Five Centuries

Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America and The Book Club of California “Lambeth Palace Library Through Five Centuries” Monday, July 11, 2022, 6:00 – 7:15 pm Pacific Time Speaker: Giles Mandelbrote, Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library Located in Central London on the banks of the Thames, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic […]

Virtual Symposium: “Building the Book: Makers, Teachers, Collectors”

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Symposium on the themes of the Rare Book School exhibition, "Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School & the Book Arts Press," running in The Grolier Club's ground-floor exhibition hall from September 28 through December 23, 2022. Symposium speakers and […]

Book Collecting 101, Presented by David Gregor

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 Antiquarian Book Fair for thirteen […]

Oliver Darkshire “Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller”

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Fri March 17, 12:00-1:00pm EST British antiquarian bookseller Oliver Darkshire will read from and discuss his book "Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller" in this virtual event. As a young man, Darkshire entered Henry Sotheran Ltd. to interview for what he thought would be a year-long […]

AKRON ANTIQUARIAN BOOK AND PAPER SHOW – 2023

Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society April 7 and April 8 at the John S. Knight Center in Akron. Friday: 3:00pm-8:30pm Saturday: 10:00am-4:00pm

Manuscript Society Digest for May and June 2023

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society Manuscript Digest: May – June 2023 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more  In the News Sassoon Sale Sets Record, But … Reuters, May 17, 2023 The Codex Sassoon, the world’s oldest (almost) […]

Teaching the History of the Book: A Roundtable

Sponsored by The Book Club of California Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press) is the first collection dedicated to book history pedagogy. Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd and featuring contributions from a diverse range of teachers, scholars, and practitioners in literature, language studies, history, book arts, library science, and […]