Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles Our next (Zoom) meeting is Wednesday, May 18, and features Elizabeth DeBold, Assistant Curator of Collections, Folger Shakespeare Library. Her topic is Brush Up Your Shakespeare: The Harmsworth Collection and other things you didn’t know about The Folger Shakespeare Library. Please feel free to forward […]
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Editor’s Note: For the full article by Tim Inkster please visit https://www.devilsartisan.ca/ In 1981 Robin Skelton established the Malahat Awards for the Design of Poetry Books in Canada. I quickly recognized this as an opportunity to promote the quality of the contract book printing we were selling to a clutch […]
Publisher Tim Inkster’s professional relationship with poet P. K. Page began in the spring of 1985 when Constance Rooke commissioned a broadside of P. K.’s poem ‘Deaf-Mute in a Pear Tree’ as a promotion for The Malahat Review. An anecdotal history of their many collaborations over the next two decades […]
Sponsored by the Book Club of California in association with Rare Books LA-Palm Springs Begun in 2019, the LGBTQ+ History & Archives of the Desert is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making accessible the LGBTQ+ History of the Greater Palm Springs Area. This presentation provides a brief overview of how […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Nick Fry will give an online lecture on “Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads.” About this event Nicholas Fry, curator of “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons,” will speak on “Tracks: Images Documenting the Building of the Railroads.” His presentation will show the portrayal of […]
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. […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club We’re presenting a video of the April program for those who were unable to attend the program at ULCC. A live Q&A with the authors will follow. Chicago writers and historians Paul Durica and Bill Savage will take us on a journey through the Chicago […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club Vanessa “V.M.” Braganza will give an online lecture on Lady Mary Wroth About this event Four hundred years after Lady Mary Wroth became the first English woman to publish a long work of prose fiction, her story still harbors secrets and unsettled ghosts. In this […]
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 […]
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. […]