Sponsored by The Grolier Club Free and Open to the Public; virtual tour Feb 5, 6:00pm -7:30pm Eastern Time Whodunit? Key Books in Detective Fiction features selections from Grolier Club member Jeffrey Johnson’s more than 400-piece collection of detective novels from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The exhibition highlights more […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Free and Open to the Public Dec 12, 6:00pm Eastern time Register for Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-mara-frazier-on-capturing-dance-on-paper-tickets-719361358187?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Translating the evanescent art of dance into textual form presents a unique dilemma—how to capture a time-based, corporeal art form into writing? Throughout history, dance documentarians have devised […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club When/Where: 12/15/2023 12:00 PM CT/1:00 PM ET Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. Register here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5494985 EVENT DETAILS: December Midday Program If Cole Porter had been penning tunes during the sixteenth century he might have jumped on the Andreas […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Feb 12, 6:00pm Pacific Time An in-person and virtual presentation by Alan H. Nelson, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_759LIhnbSYGbxvT3eh4DjQ Approximately twenty-five printed books and ten manuscripts have been located from before 1640 which bear the florid […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California An in-person and virtual presentation by Paul Chrzanowski, book collector Book collector Paul Chrzanowski donated his collection of nearly 150 early English books to the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The collection includes copies of the second and fourth folio editions of […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California MONDAY, November 6, 2023 Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores ** Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West ** 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific Exhibition opening with an in-person and virtual […]
Sponsored by FABS November 16 The 19th Century special interest group meets the third Thursday of the month at 4:30-5:30pm Pacific time and 7:30-8:30pm Eastern time. This informal and friendly group offers “a broad look at the 19th Century bibliophilic world; presentations and discussion for collectors, scholars, creatives and other book […]
Sponsored by FABS NOVEMBER 20 The Bindings special interest group meets at 4:30-5:50pm Pacific/7:30-8:50pm Eastern on the third Monday of the month. THE TREVELYAN MISCELLANY WITH PETER GERATY Join FABS members interested in Bindings for a Presentation and Discussion about the Trevelyon Miscellany with Peter Geraty. The facsimile limited edition […]
Sponsored by FABS The FABS Handpress Zoom Group meets the second Monday of the month from 7:30-8:30pm Eastern to discuss printed works before 1800. All are welcome. David Levy: Three Pairs of Books on the Game of Trictrac? Trictrac is a French game played on a backgammon board, popular from […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Virtual Tour of “Best Read Army” followed by a live Q&A with curator Molly Guptill Manning via Zoom. During World War II, one of the most important weapons U.S. troops wielded was the written word. At a time when propaganda and censorship choked free thought, […]