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You are invited! ~~ Seventh Annual Book Collector’s Evening

19 Friday Jan 2018

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“The history of the printed word reveals our capacity for brilliance, but it also reveals our capacity for blunder. The printing press is a stage upon which the entire drama of human thought and morality is acted out.” — Rebecca Romney, from Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History

Please join us for The Friends of the Library seventh annual Book Collector’s Evening. Rebecca Romney, co-author of Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History presents “Human Error in the History of Print: A Story in Five Books.”

Tuesday, February 13
6:00PM
Alta Club
100 East South Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah
tickets are $60

RSVP by February 9
Judy Jarrow
judy.jarrow@utah.edu or 801-581-3421

Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer at Honey & Wax Booksellers and the author (with J.P. Romney) of Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories in Book History (HarperCollins). Romney first joined the rare book trade in 2007, when she was hired to help launch the Las Vegas gallery of Bauman Rare Books. She became manager of the gallery two years later, eventually moving to Philadelphia to manage the central operations of the firm. Since 2011, she has appeared regularly as the rare book expert on the History Channel’s show “Pawn Stars.” Now settled on the East Coast, Romney joined Honey & Wax in the summer of 2016; in 2017, she and her partner Heather O’Donnell established the Honey & Wax Prize, an award for an accomplished book collection created by a young woman. She is a member of the Grolier Club, the Philobiblon Club, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and Rare Book School, and serves on the Rare Book School Scholarship Committee.

Our evening includes dinner, a silent auction (including copies of Rebecca’s book), and a hands-on display of books, selected especially with bibliomaniacs in mind, from the Rare Books Department.

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that…we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

Feed your head!

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You are invited! — Sixth Annual Book Collector’s Evening

09 Wednesday Mar 2016

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Alta Club, Book Collectors' Evening, Essex House Press, First Folio, J. Willard Marriott Library, Judy Jarrow, Oregon, Paul Collins, poems, Portland, Portland State University, rare books, Salt Lake City, Sixth Annual Book Collector's Evening, University of Utah, Utah, William Shakespeare

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You are invited to join the University of Utah’s Friends of the Library for its Sixth Annual Book Collector’s Evening. Keynote speaker this year is Paul Collins, author of Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World.”

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“From the Bottom of the Sea to the Great Salt Lake: The Many Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare’s First Folio”
Shakespeare’s First Folio of 1623 is a unique work: the sole edition edited by those who actually knew and worked with the playwright. Yet for its first century, it was simply another used book in bookseller stalls. The stories of individual copies are the story of books themselves: of volumes lost through shipwreck and fire, of copies scribbled on by children and stored in bank vaults, and of a cultural heritage read and gazed upon by millions. This is the story of these volumes — where they live, how they sometimes die, and their unlikely route to literary immortality.

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Paul Collins is a writer specializing in history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature. His nine books have been translated into eleven languages, and include The Book of William: How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World (2009) and Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living (2014). Collins’s recent work includes pieces for the New Yorker, Lapham’s Quarterly, and New Scientist. In addition to appearances on NPR’s Weekend Edition as its “literary detective,” he is also the editor of the Collins Library imprint of McSweeney’s Books.
Collins lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is Professor and Chair of English at Portland State University.

A selection of pieces from the Marriott Library’s rare book collections highlights the story. Dinner, a silent auction of wonderful books for your own library, and an opportunity to share your book collecting adventures with fellow bibliophiles await you.

Its really fun!

March 22, 2016 / 6:00PM
Alta Club
100 East South Temple
Salt Lake City, UT

For reservations contact:
Judy Jarrow by March 16, 2016 at 801-581-3421 or judy.jarrow@utah.edu
$50 per person

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Shakespeare is coming! The First Folio will arrive at the City Library in October.

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Call of the Wild: Book Collector’s Evening Meets Jack London

13 Friday Mar 2015

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Fifth Annual Book Collector’s Evening
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
6:00PM
Alta Club
$45/person

Join us for our fifth annual Book Collector’s Evening.

Brad Cole, Associate Director of Special Collections, Utah State University, presents: “Tramps, Snarks and Abysses: The Origins of Utah State University’s Jack London Collection.” Utah State University holds one of the nation’s largest research collections of Jack London materials. How did this happen?

The Rare Books Division, J. Willard Marriott Library, will have a selection of London first editions from its collections on display.

Wax poetic about your own book-collecting adventures and some of your favorite books with fellow book-lovers.

For more on USU’s Jack London collection see: https://library.usu.edu/specol/digitalexhibits/jacklondon/index.htm

Reserve your place in this pack of wild bibliophiles by March 18, 2015:
Contact Judy Jarrow judy.jarrow@utah.edu, 801-581-3421

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Join Us! – Book Collector’s Evening

12 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Alta Club, Book Collectors' Evening, Fort Union, J. Willard Marriott Library, Karl Bodmer, libraries, Missouri, Nicolas Basbanes, rare books, University of Utah

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Mark your calendar for the fourth annual Book Collector’s Evening

March 25, 2014
6:00 PM
Alta Club 100 East South Temple

Join the University of Utah’s Friends of the J. Willard Marriott Library for an eventful evening including a display of rare books, a silent auction, and a presentation by well-known speaker, bibliophile and writer, Nicolas Basbanes. In his presentation,  “Fruits of a Gentle Madness,” Basbanes will use anecdotal, specific, up-to-the-minute examples to illustrate how great libraries and important research collections have relied on, over decades and to this day, the passion and eccentricities of the private collector.

The evening will provide an opportunity to share your book collecting adventures and favorite books with fellow aficionados.

Reservations: Please contact Judy Jarrow by March 20, 2014 at 801-581-3421 or judy.jarrow@utah.edu. $40 per person

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