Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies

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The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies
AbbreviationFABS
Foundereight American book clubs
TypeAssociation (book collecting clubs)
PurposeCoordinate activities & publications among member clubs
Chair
Michael Thompson, The Caxton Club[1]
Vice-Chair
Joan Knoertzer, The Miniature Book Society
Treasurer
Philip Anderson, The Rowfant Club
Secretary
Ronald K. Smeltzer, The Grolier Club
Websitewww.fabsocieties.org

The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS) is an association of American book clubs whose members seek interaction with book collectors across the country and around the world. At The Rowfant Club's 100th anniversary celebration in 1992, local members and their guests from book clubs in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco discovered common interests of bibliophilic book clubs.[2] The new association's first meeting was November 5, 1993, in New York, at The Grolier Club. In 1994, the group drew up articles of association outlining their goals to promote and develop common interests of the member societies.[3][4]

Founding member book clubs were (in chronologic order of the year of the club's founding): The Grolier Club of New York City (1884); The Club of Odd Volumes, Boston (1886); The Rowfant Club, Cleveland (1892); The Philobiblon Club, Philadelphia (1893); The Caxton Club, Chicago (1895); The Book Club of California (1912); The Roxburghe Club, San Francisco (1927); and The Baxter Society, Portland, Maine (1984).

Select member clubs[]

Member clubs include The Aldus Society, Columbus, Ohio;[5] The Ampersand Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota;[6] The Baltimore Bibliophiles, Baltimore, Maryland;[7] The Baxter Society; The Book Club of California, San Francisco, California; The Caxton Club, Chicago, Illinois; The Book Club of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan; The Grolier Club, New York, New York;[8] The Manuscript Society; Movable Book Society; The Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society, Cleveland, Ohio;[9] The Philobiblon Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio; The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco; The Ticknor Society, Boston, Massachusetts;[10] The Book Club of Washington, Seattle, Washington;[11] and The Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, California.[12]

Select international affiliates[]

International affiliates include Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group, Aberystwyth, Wales;[13] Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Associació de Bibliòfiles de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; National Union of Bibliophiles, Moscow, Russia; The Society of Bibliophiles in Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Les Amis Du Livre Contemporain, Paris, France;[14] The Private Libraries Association, Pinner, Middlesex, Endland; Pirckheimer-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.

Activities[]

The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, founded in 2005 by Fine Books & Collections Magazine, was led starting in 2010 by a partnership of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS), the Grolier Club, and the Center for the Book and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress,[15] with support by the Jay I. Kislak Foundation.

The contest encourages young book collectors. Similar contests have been held at colleges and universities across the United States, such as the Swarthmore College A. E. Newton Award Book Collecting Contest dating from the 1930s.[16] Students from all schools, regardless of whether their school has a similar contest, and regardless of whether they've won similar contests, are encouraged to participate. The awards ceremony is held at the Library of Congress.

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References[]

  1. ^ "FABS Societies Officers". Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  2. ^ "About FABS". Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  3. ^ "F.A.B.S. Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1995" (PDF). Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  4. ^ Jackson, Robert H.; Rothkopf, Carol Zeman (2006). Book Talk: Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting, and Special Collections: Introduction. ISBN 9781584561880. Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  5. ^ "The Aldus Society". Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  6. ^ "The Ampersand Club". Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  7. ^ "The Baltimore Bibliophiles". Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  8. ^ "The Grolier Club". Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  9. ^ "Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society". Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  10. ^ "The Ticknor Society". Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  11. ^ "Book Club of Washington". Retrieved November 27, 2018.
  12. ^ "The Zamorano Club". Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  13. ^ "Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group". Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  14. ^ "Les Amis du Livre Contemporain". Retrieved November 15, 2017.
  15. ^ "The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest". Retrieved March 13, 2018.
  16. ^ "A. E. Newton Book Collecting Contest". Retrieved November 15, 2017.

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