BIBLIOGRAPHY WEEK happens each year in New York
City at the end of January when the principal national
organizations devoted to book history have their annual
meetings. Other groups plan interesting events, too, since
so many bibliophiles are in town. Some events (noted in
red below) are open to Grolier Club members
only, but otherwise you are encouraged to show up
everywhere: get a sense of what is going on in the book
world, hear some interesting papers, schmooze over
cocktails.
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*Friday, January 16 |
At the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue
at 25th Street: Opening of the January
Bibliography
Week Book Fair. The
$12 admission is good for both days, Friday 5:00
pm-9:00 pm, Saturday 11 am-5 pm; Saturday-only
admission is $10. *The organizers of the fair regret that
they were unable to secure the Friday and Saturday of
Bibliography Week itself, but hope that any book-lovers in
New York the Friday and Saturday before Bibliography Week
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Tuesday, January
20
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At Columbia
University, 116th Street & Broadway: The
Fifteenth Annual Book Arts Lecture.
Details TBA. For more
information contact
Gerald W. Cloud. |
Wednesday, January
21
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At the
Grolier
Club,
47 East 60th Street (between Park and
Madison Avenues): Grolier Club luncheon buffet and lecture.
Speaker: William Stoneman, on the first
American exhibitions of illuminated manuscripts at the
Grolier Club. At the Club, luncheon noon to 2:00 pm,
speaker 2:00-3:00 pm. $35 per person. The lecture
is free and open to all, but the luncheon is open to
Grolier Club
members and their guests only,
please.
At the
Grolier
Club,
47 East 60th Street (between Park and
Madison Avenues):
Opening reception of
"Edward
Fitzgerald & The Rubaiyat" from the collection of Nicholas
B. Scheetz.
Opening 5:30 pm; business attire;
Grolier
members and their guests only at the reception, but
please note that the exhibition will be open to the
public January 22-March 13,
2009.
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Thursday, January
22
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At the
Metropolitan Club,
1 East 60th Street (at Fifth Avenue):
The Grolier Club 125th Annual Meeting and Dinner.
Grolier Club
members only, please.
At
Booklyn,
37 Greenpoint Avenue, 4th Floor, Greenpoint,
Brooklyn. Booklyn's Open Salon is Open! Come by
to check out the newest works of book artists
living in Brooklyn and around the world. Founded in
1999, Booklyn-an artist-run, non-profit,
consensus-governed, artist and bookmakers
organization-is located in the up-and-coming arts
neighborhood of Greenpoint (Brooklyn's Little
Poland) just north of Williamsburg, and just
minutes from Manhattan. Please call 718-383-9621 or
click
here for
directions.
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Friday, January
23
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At the
Grolier
Club,
47 East 60th Street (between Park and
Madison Avenues): The annual meeting of the
Bibliographical
Society of America. Papers from new
scholars at 2:00 pm, meeting at 4:00 pm.
Papers from new
scholars at 2:00 pm, meeting at 4:00 pm.
Speaker: Terry Belanger on “A
View from the Bridge: Further Meditations by the Captain of
the Iceberg.”
Reception follows.
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Saturday, January
24
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At the
New
York Public
Library,
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, South Court
Auditorium: The annual meeting of the
American
Printing History
Association. Reports
on this year's activities and initiatives;
presentation of the Individual and Institutional
Awards; news and information exchange, beginning at
2:00 pm; reception follows.
At the
Center
for Book
Arts,
28 West 27th Street, 3rd floor:
Winter Open House: Letterpress and Bookbinding Projects in
Action.
1 pm-5 pm.
Come
see artists conduct demonstrations, tour the Center’s Jane
Mead Timken Printshop featuring the center’s printing
presses and type collection, and view current exhibitions.
Staff will be on hand to answer questions about courses and
programs. Contact
James Copeland
for more details.
Information on other Center for Book Arts events and
programs can be found on their
website.
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