Sponsored by The Grolier Club Dec 7, 6:00-7:30pm, Eastern time A Virtual Tour of “Building the Book From the Ancient World to the Present Day: Five Decades of Rare Book School and the Book Arts Press.” Join “Building the Book” curators Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge for a pre-recorded […]
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Sponsored by The Book Club of California 6:00-7:15 pm Pacific time; In-person and virtual presentation In the Sutro Library, now housed in the J. Paul Leonard Library of San Francisco State University, are 40 bound volumes containing some 1400 pamphlets mostly from the period of the English Civil War (1640-1660). […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club How did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers’ lives and their works? When did the person of the author—both as context and target of textual interpretation—come to matter so much to the way we read? This book traces the development of […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Online Sunday, November 13, 12 pm (PDT) Register for this event on The Book Club of Washington’s website: www.bookclubofwashington.org Jessica Starr (Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers) and Ben Maggs (Maggs Bros. Ltd.) will provide a glimpse behind the curtain of the rare book trade in […]
Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society Jason Chin is an author and illustrator of children’s books dealing with nature and science. His books have won both the Sibert (the Informational Book) and Orbis (writing for Nonfiction for Children) Medals. His most recent book, Watercress (2021) won the Caldecott and Newbery […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington Sun Oct 23, 2:00pm Pacific Time Book Club of Washington member Steven Woolfolk opened Xenophile Bibliopole & Armorer, Chronopolis with Brian Sheldon in December 2019. We’ve arranged a virtual visit with them to learn about its special contents. The exterior alone suggests that […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club About this event An international scholarly collaboration, the “From Jikji to Gutenberg” project will culminate in publications and exhibitions related to the origins of printing from cast-metal type, commemorating the 650th anniversary of the Korean printed book “Jikji.” Speakers will include Randy Silverman, Preservation Librarian, […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club About this event Join us for two illustrated talks by the Curators of our “Aubrey Beardsley: 150 Years Young” exhibition, on view in our second floor gallery through November 12: “In Bed with Beardsley,” by Margaret Stetz; and “Beardsleyophily,” by Mark Samuels Lasner. Register here: […]
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 […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club When/Where: 10/14/2022 Zoom begins promptly at Noon Chicago Time (Central). Preregistration required via website. Zoom (only) option is free and open to all. October Midday Program Let’s get a jump on college football and visit new Big Ten member UCLA before it starts regularly engaging […]