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, […]
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).
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sponsored by the Baltimore Bibliophiles March 22, 7:00pm EST Professor emeritus at Goucher College Arnie Sanders will discuss the rare book collection there. To register, please contact Binnie Syril Braunstein: bsbgc@aol.com
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
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) […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California In September of 1926, Albert M. Bender turned his philanthropic focus on Stanford University Library. As one of the founders of the Book Club of California, Bender needs no introduction to this audience who will also be familiar with his efforts to establish an appreciation for the book […]
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 […]
Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles This month’s (ZOOM) program features Spencer Stewart, who will pose the question: How has the antiquarian book trade changed - and is changing - from the inside out and the outside in? Are there changes in the way people - collectors and the Public - view the book trade? Have […]