Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington The Annual Meeting encompasses a brief business meeting followed by a special presentation. A keepsake created for the occasion will also be featured and light refreshments served. The business portion includes electing officers, approving new board members, and presenting the Monroe Award and […]
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Sponsored by FABS Join us for convivial conversation about all things bookish and 19th century! We meet on the third Thursday of the month, 4:30-5:30pm Pacific/7:30-8:30pm Eastern. To receive announcements and links, contact Jennifer Larson (info@fabsocieties.org).
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Amy Gore brings mainstream narratives about the history of the book into conversation with Indigenous book history, considering among others John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854), the first novel published in the state of California and the first […]
Sponsored by FABS The FABS Bindings Zoom Group is a lively group of book artisans, curators and collectors who meet the third Monday of the month to discuss aspects of book binding from all periods. All are welcome to participate! This month we feature Brian Beidler on “Making the Tools […]
by Joshua Shelly Editor’s note: Joshua Shelly (Ph.D. Duke 2023) won Second Prize in the 2023 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest co-sponsored by the ABAA, FABS, the Grolier Club and the Rare Books division of the Library of Congress. We are pleased to share Dr. Shelly’s description of his collection. […]
Editor’s note: This review is reprinted from the Jan/Feb 2024 issue of The Caxtonian with the kind permission of John Hoover and The Caxton Club. by John Hoover Virginia Kramer and Timothy Hawley. A Bibliography of The Printery: The Private Press of Kay Michael Kramer. St. Louis: Mercantile Library Association, 2023. Limited […]
Sponsored by The Grolier Club H. George Fletcher, Curator of “Judging a Book by Its Cover: Bookbindings from the Collections of the Grolier Club, 1470s-2020,” will lecture on the Club’s collection of fine and historic bookbindings in conjunction with Bibliography Week. This lecture will be live webcast. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-annual-bibliography-week-lecture-tickets-796218158947?aff=ebdsoporgprofile If […]
Sponsored by FABS January 18 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 […]
Sponsored by FABS Jan 8: Your Favorite Book of 2023 What book in 2023 was most interesting or memorable for you? Perhaps it was a gift, a purchase or even the one that got away! Join us to tell your story (up to 5 minutes) or just to enjoy the […]
The Grolier Club Copyright today controls a vast range of created things, from songs to software, fancy dress costumes and semiconductor chip designs; it also provides a neverending income stream to the owners of the rights it creates, who almost always turn out to be corporations. That’s obviously not what […]