The Ticknor Society
Upcoming Events
We'll visit the University of Southern Maine's Glickman Family Library.
Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished and Fictive Works is a cross between a book exhibition and a conceptual art installation consisting of more than 100 items from Reid Byers's collection. These imaginary books are examples of fictional works that only exist in fiction, or books that were planned and left unfinished or for which there is no known surviving copy. These have all found their 3-D form with the help of printers, bookbinders, artists, and calligraphers. Examples include Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Won, the lost sequel to Love's Labor's Lost, and Hemingway's first novel which was in his wife's valise, stolen at the Gare de Lyon in 1922.
Please email us at ticknor@gmail.com to reserve your place and note if you are interested in car pooling.
More information about the Houghton Library exhibition: https://library.harvard.edu/exhibits/thanks-typing
Save the evening of May 13, 2026 for a zoom program by 2025 Ticknor Collecting Prize Winner Jessica Chapel on Preserving Hidden Voices: A Collection of Thoroughbred Racing Culture.
Start time to be determined!
