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join us for our first annual ABM Holiday Soirée!
The season of celebration and socializing is upon us! Here at the museum, we’ve been working on a number of things to help ring in 2016 and we’re excited to share our progress with you. December is...
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PSA: holiday hours for the American Bookbinders Museum…
The American Bookbinders Museum will be closed on the following days for the holiday season: Thursday, December 24th and Friday, December 25th (Christmas Eve and Christmas Day) Thursday, December 30th...
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Make 2016 your “Year to Volunteer”!
Here at the American Bookbinders Museum, 2016 promises to be full of excitement: with a full roster of exhibitions, events, and programs, the museum will be bustling throughout the year! You’ll see...
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SF in SF at ABM
On January 17, please join the American Bookbinders Museum as we host SF in SF and authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Cecelia Holland, who will read from current work, then participate in an interview...
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box by box, the ABM library is being built!
While the museum itself is of course up and running, the library and archives here at the museum are still in process. I find myself confronted with a particular question often these days: In general,...
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#ColorOurCollections 2016!
The craze for coloring books continues to grow! If you (or people you know, of any age) enjoy coloring, as I do, then you’re in for a real treat. This week, the New York Academy of Medicine is...
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#ColorOurCollections Wrap-Up
#ColorOurCollections has come and gone, but luckily the links to the coloring pages in our original post will remain, so if you feel like coloring, please make use of them. We’re always excited to see...
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Don’t Cross a Bookbinder – A Bookbinder’s Curse
In honor of National Poetry Month, a bookbinder’s curse in 10 stanzas. One wonders what “Particular Occasion” caused Mr. “Burnisher” to vent such spleen. Solemn Curse Pronounced by Ben Burnisher upon a...
View ArticleHoliday Shopping at the ABM Bookstore: Some Recommendations
Having a hard time finding a gift for the book lover in your life? Why not do some of your holiday shopping in our bookstore? After all, we’re offering 10% off all bookstore purchases on the two...
View ArticleThe 18th Century, Thomas Jefferson and Book Binding
“I am not so regular in my sleep as the Doctor (Rush) says he was, devoting to it from five to eight hours, according as my company or the book I am reading interests me; […]
View ArticleCare and Repairs for Standard Hardcovers
Many of us have personal libraries, and within those libraries the chance that we own a standard hardcover book is high. Modern case bindings (also known as hardcovers) are everywhere. These bindings...
View ArticleHunting the elusive bookbinder
That’s All She Wrote In 1941 Hannah Dustin French of the Wellesley College Library published an essay entitled “Early American Bookbinding by Hand.” In the essay, she makes mention of American’s first...
View ArticleFor All Time: The Victorian Gift Book
“Jo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning. No stockings hung at the fireplace and for a moment she felt as much disappointed as she did long ago, when her […]
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