Event Calendar

Bohemian Club & Bohemian Grove Posters, Books & Ephemera

The online auction features over 200 lots of books, booklets, posters, flyers, programs, playbills, invitations, wine lists and menus, and reports from the private men’s club based in San Francisco and Northern California. These offerings from a California collector range from 1909 to the 2000s. Several related lots from other collections round out the sale.

The offerings in this auction reflect a vast range of events held at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco or the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, California, where the Midsummer Encampment, an annual 18-day members’ retreat, is held each July. The sale features Bohemian Grove posters from 1956-2005 and Cremation of Care posters from the 1970s. Besides plays from 1913 and 1919, there are playbills for the Grove plays; and programs for diverse events – art exhibitions, ladies’ nights, “low jinks” evenings, tribute dinners, aviary and more. The extensive selection of events flyers or invitations includes those for film, music, comedy, opera, theater, jazz, anthropology, holidays and Oktoberfest, authors, sons & grandsons, golf, baseball, skeet, Vienna, Italia, veterans, and much more. Most of these ephemera date from the 1950s-early 1980s. Some menus and wine lists are also available. Besides printed material promoting the club’s numerous events, there are also official documents from various years, most from 1908-1940, including the President’s and Treasurer’s Reports, and the club’s constitution, by-laws, rules, and annals.

10:30am - 2:30pm

Turner Auctions + Appraisals
461 Littlefield Avenue

South San Francisco, CA

We are a group of booksellers from all around Vermont and New England, gathering together to bring you our best examples of collectible and rare books, postcards, prints and ephemera. It's like visiting a dozen different bookshops all at once!

There will be plenty of affordable books in addition to the more pricey volumes. You will get to talk to different booksellers, each of whom is very knowledgeable about their particular specialty. Discuss your favorite authors and subjects. Check out some of the beautiful craftsmanship of the older book bindings. If you love books, prints, maps and postcards, there's no better way to spend a day.

Bennington is a lovely town convenient to the Brattleboro, Manchester, Albany, Saratoga, Pittsfield and Lenox areas. The school, with its easily accessed gym and large parking lot, is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 7 and Kocher Drive on the north side of town.

For further information, please contact Karen Austin at 802-233-3076 or karenlfaustin@gmail.com. Or contact Jim Damato at 802-423-9970 or jjdamato@myfairpoint.net. Participating dealers will be posted at www.vermontisbookcountry.com nearer the show date.

10am - 4pm

Grace Christian School
104 Kocher Drive (intersection of U.S. Route 7 & Kocher Drive)

Bennington, VT

Prints & Multiples
Sale #801A

An exciting area of the market, Prints & Multiples are popular with new and seasoned collectors alike. Our sales feature prints from a wide variety of artists: from 20th-century masters through to the British canon of printmakers, and encompass printmaking created up to, and including, the present day.

3pm

Lyon & Turnbull Auctions
33 Broughton Place

Edinburgh, UK

PART 2: On auctions & trade

Collections Advisor and author of CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT COLLECTING, Spencer W Stuart will facilitate monthly, three-part webinars for Collectors (those who have dedicated 5-20 years to collecting) and Professionals:

• 09/18 – PART 3: New collecting focuses

Through these hour-long sessions, participants will examine case studies relevant to acquiring quality material as well raising awareness of one's collecting in the larger context of a collecting community.

As with previous iterations, each offering will be attended by private collectors, professional librarians and curators as well as booksellers and auctioneers.

Admission to 3-part webinar series $250

LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History
Sale #2677

Swann Auction Galleries
104 East 25th Street

New York, NY