• On Auctions, presented by Spencer Stuart

    Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Online Sunday, May 1, 2 pm PDT Visit our website: www.bookclubofwashington.org Register for the event here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/sold-on-auctions-by-spencer-w-stuart Collections Advisor Spencer Stuart will discuss his ongoing analysis of the "Lockdown Auction Landscape" and the structural impact it is having on rare book and print markets. In light of these changes, […]

  • The Lewis & Clark Expedition and More at the Lewis & Clark College Libraries

    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 library of Lewis & Clark […]

  • Gary Goodman on The Last Bookseller

    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. Paul that was going out […]

  • Virtual Tour: Howard Iron Works Printing Museum Oakville, Ontario, Canada

    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 Museum and Restoration facility was […]

  • On Collecting and Legacy with Spencer Stuart

    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 with late stage collecting 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 […]

  • The Wonderful (and Weird) Winterthur Library, with Allie Alvis

    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

  • 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 to students, and enjoy a special presentation that is the inspiration for a related keepsake. The event is open to the public via Zoom. This […]

  • 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 a presentation at Folio in Seattle's Pike Place Market. Co-hosted by the Book Club of Washington and the U-M Club of Seattle, the event will […]

  • In Person: Book Club of Washington 2024 Emory Award

    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 County, Washington. Without their actions, […]

  • Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy

    Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Philip S. Palmer on left; Belle da Costa Greene, right. 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 […]