Archive of approximately 200 items mostly ephemera

New York, NY and Charlottesville, VA: Rare Book School, Book Arts Press, 1984-2022. AS923-001. Very Good or better.
FIRST EDITIONS. Ephemeral material recording the work of Rare Book School, founded by Terry Belanger in 1983 at Columbia University. RBS moved to the University of Virginia in 1992. RBS is an independent non-profit organization that supports the study of the history of books, manuscripts, and related objects. Each year, RBS offers about 30 five-day courses on these subjects. Its courses are intended for teaching academics, archivists, antiquarian booksellers, book collectors, conservators and bookbinders, rare book and special collections (truncated) librarians, and others with an interest in book history. The Book Arts Press was founded by Terry Belanger at the Columbia University School of Library Service in 1972 as a laboratory for various programs cancerned with the history of books and printing, descriptive bibliography, the antiquarian book trade, and rare book and special collections librarianship. The BAP and its publications are restricted to RBS publications as offered here. These include 1) Books Arts Press Address Book (8 copies); 2) The Rare Book School Yearbook (5 copies); 3) Thoughts for Valentine's Day (16 posters); 4) RBS Course Bulletins (many); 5) RBS Newsletter (many); and so forth. Also included is a crystal dome magnified paperweight with the Lion Watermark RBS logo given as a party favor at the Sixty-fifth birthday celebration for Terry Belanger at the Grolier Club in New York City. The BAP moved with Belanger to the University of Virginia in 1992. In 2005, Terry Belanger was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. He retired in 2009. The material offered here was collected by Dr. Susan M. Allen (b. 1944), whose relationship with RBS dates back to the early 1980s. Dr. Allen often speaks and publishes on the history of the book. She has held a variety of positions in the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, including head of Special Collections; from 1993 to 1997 she was director of Libraries and Media Services at Kalamazoo College; from 1997 to 1999 she was head of the Department of Special Collections at the Young research Library, UCLA; from 1999 until 2011 she was associate director and chief librarian of the Getty Research Institute. From 2011 to 2020 she was Director of the California Rare Book School. (Inventory #: AS923-001)