Manuscript, Autograph, Dealer Catalog Auction to benefit the Manuscript Society
2022-02-24 08:00 - 2022-03-03 22:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Manuscript Society.
February 24 @ 8:00 AM – March 3 @ 10:00 PM
Manuscript, Autograph, Dealer Catalog Auction
February 24 – March 3, 2022
Over 2000 manuscript, rare book, autograph, and dealer catalogs will go up for auction beginning February 24, 2022 and run through March 3, 2022. Manuscript Society member David McGuire of the McGuire Group, LLC will host the auction. Proceeds benefit the work of the Manuscript Society.
To participate, go to The McGuire Group site, www.themcguiregroupllc.com, register, and you will receive an email when the Manuscript Society Auction goes live. You will be able to peruse the catalog of all auction items.
As every collector knows, catalogs provide a wealth of information about historic documents including provenance, monetary values and much more. Some catalogs, such as those issued by the venerable Walter Benjamin and his daughter Mary, included short articles and news that provided keen insight to the world of manuscript which are still beneficial to today’s collector.
Catalogs that will be offered include
the earliest ones (1887-1888) issued by Walter Benjamin
those issued by Mary Benjamin;
an impressive run of Charles Hamilton catalogs;
The Flying Quill: Autographs at Goodspeed’s and The Month at Goodspeed’s;
Stan V. Henkels catalogs including one from 1893 describing Revolutionary War items and relics of General George Washington;
a large quantity of Rendell catalogs;
over 30 catalogs issued by the late Joseph Rubinfine;
several catalogs by the Jenkins Company;
catalogs from small-to medium-size dealers, such as Robert Batchelder, Emily Driscoll, Lone Star Autographs, Paul Richards, Seaport Autographs; and others.
To download a pdf of the items being offered Click Here.
The catalogs will be offered in manageable sized lots with descriptions to be provided in the auction catalog on the McGuire website www.themcguiregroupllc.com when the auction is live. For those of you in the greater Washington DC area winning lots can be picked up at McGuire’s in Falls Church Virginia. For those who are not, items will be mailed to you at the lowest possible postal shipping charges.
For further information on the Manuscript Society Auction contact: Robert Hopper at hopper@manuscript.org
This should be fun and beneficial for the Manuscript Society. This auction is the first of two
Auctions planned…. So stay tuned for the next one!

Grolier Club Virtual Lecture on Arthur Conan Doyle
2022-02-22 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by The Grolier Club
Curator Glen S. Miranker will give a lecture on “Arthur Conan Doyle at 35,” offered in connection with our “Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects” exhibition, open in our ground floor gallery January 12 – April 16, 2022.
This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder.
Sign up on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-lecture-on-arthur-conan-doyle-tickets-246557138037?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

The Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom | Reid Byers
2022-02-20 13:30 (America/New_York)
Hosted by the Florida Bibliophile Society. Reid’s varied career has included minister, welder, and computer programmer, among others. He is author of Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom (Oak Knoll Press, 2021).
This event is virtual with an in-person gathering at Macdonald-Kelce Library, University of Tampa
To receive a Zoom Meeting link call Jerry Morris at 727-862-5012 (home) or text to 727-505-3634 (cell).
Open to public.

WILD/LIFE: Guild of Book Workers Triannual Exhibition Panel
2022-02-20 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington, the Guild of Book Workers, Northwest Chapter, the Book Arts Guild, and Puget Sound Book Artists.
Features talks by book artists represented in this national exhibition.
The Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound is pleased to host this wonderful exhibit of works by members of the Guild of Book Workers, who were invited to interpret the theme of “wildlife” in any way they wished, be it literal or abstract, humorous or serious. Knowledge of materials and keen observation of how they behave (and often how they refuse to comply) is an integral part of the practice of book making, and a reminder of how traditional bookbinding materials originate in nature. Learn more about the exhibition by visiting: https://paper.gatech.edu/wildlife
Online Sunday, February 20, 1 p.m. PST
Open to the public. Advance registration required via the Puget Sound Book Artists website:
https://pugetsoundbookartists.wildapricot.org/event-4611794/Registration

The Life and Times of Jo Mora: Iconic Artist of the American West (In-Person event)
2022-02-19 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by the Book Club of California
Saturday, February 19, 2022, 1-2:00 PM
* A live, in-person event at the American Bookbinders Museum
The Life and Times of Jo Mora provides an in-depth portrait of this gifted illustrator, painter, writer, cartographer, and sculptor (1876-1947). Mora was one of the first American artists to elevate the cultural importance of the Western frontier, presaging broad shifts in twentieth-century thought and expression. Through his celebration of the great glories of nature and of the human heart, Mora reminds us that the subject matter of all art is life.The book interweaves fascinating biographical material with Mora’s personal letters, journal entries, and other writings — many never before seen by the public — to provide an intimate portrait of an important yet often overlooked artist.
A live presentation by Peter Hiller, author, historian, and curator for the Jo Mora Trust Collection.
Click here for more information
American Bookbinders Museum, 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Neil Harris on Paris 1925: French Illustrated Books Go to the Deco Fair
2022-02-16 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by the Caxton Club
Books were everywhere at the 1925 International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris.
Until now, little has been written about their actual exhibition. This highly illustrated presentation will explore the variety of the work displayed, and suggest some strategies employed by the publishers.
Dr. Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History and Art History Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous publications including Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury; and The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age.
To register for this program: https://caxtonclub.org/event-4660053
Zoom presentation is free and open to all.
Advanced registration required via website.

Behind-the-Scenes Virtual Tour of the Museum of Science, Boston, Archives
2022-02-15 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Ticknor Society; open to members of other FABS societies
Join Archivist Brittany Contratto via Zoom for a virtual, behind-the-scenes tour of the Museum of Science Archives. In 2017, Bloomberg Philanthropies generously provided funding for the first archives department in the Museum’s nearly 200-year history. The Archives traces the Museum’s development from the venerable Boston Society of Natural History, founded in 1830, to the multifaceted educational institution that the Museum of Science is today. Learn how Archives staff are actively working to improve access to the Museum’s collections, including holdings on the Linnaean Society, the Computer Museum, the Computer Clubhouse Network, the Trailside Museum, and other New England cultural heritage organizations.

Date and time: Feb. 15, 2022, 6pm EST

Email ticknorinfo@gmail.com to receive a Zoom link

Open to FABS member societies

Stephen Tabor on Extra-Illustration: A Possibly Unfamiliar, Thoroughly Intriguing, and Potentially Appalling History
2022-02-11 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by the Caxton Club.
12:00pm CT
It turns out that people were creating their own Facebooks long before the advent of the Internet. They would take apart a published book (gasp!), add illustrations, autographs, maps, and particularly portrait prints … and then rebind the thicker volume to create a one-of-a-kind. Some called it literary scrapbooking.
The practice even acquired a name that became a verb. What name? Zoom in to find out, as Stephen Tabor, curator of rare books at the Huntington Library, reveals the remarkable history of extra- illustration in a presentation rich with images of these rare volumes.
Stephen Tabor specializes in rare books’ physical aspects – including bibliography, structure, printing history, provenance, binding, and annotation – with an emphasis on incunabula and English books printed before 1801. He is the principal Huntington liaison with three international bibliographical databases and has published descriptive bibliographies of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Register today, but don’t bring your scissors and glue pot!
Zoom presentation is free and open to all.
Advanced registration required via website.

Book Club of California Oakland Book Fair Reception for FABS Members
2022-02-08 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Book Club of California.
Members of FABS bibliophilic societies are invited to join the Book Club of California for a special Member & Guest Reception to celebrate the 54th California International Antiquarian Book Fair.
Mix and mingle with Book Club members, volunteers, and staff.
Wine, beer, and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Space is limited. Registration required.
Saturday, February 12th from 5:00pm – 6:00pm
54th California International Antiquarian Book Fair
Oakland Marriott City Center | Junior Ballroom
1001 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607
Complete the RSVP form before Friday, February 11, 2022 at 12:00pm.
(registration will close at 12:00pm on 02/11/2022)
Questions? Contact Kevin Kosik by email at kevin@bccbooks.org
or by phone at (415) 781-7532 x1.

Book Club of California on YouTube
2022-02-01 08:00 - 2022-02-28 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by the Book Club of California
As our Valentine’s Day gift to you, the entire library of Book Club of California recorded talks and presentations—more than 80 videos—will be available to view on our YouTube Channel during the month of February. Share the love by inviting friends and family to watch a Book Club presentation.
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBookClubofCA

San Francisco Through Time
2022-01-31 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Hosted by The Book Club of California.
5:00 PM PST – Live presentation via Zoom Webinar
With over 400 officially designated local, state, and national landmarks, San Francisco is steeped in history. The city’s neighborhoods feature unique buildings and special places, some that are well known to residents and tourists but also structures and locations that have been obscured by time. Beginning at Captain Richardson’s tent near Grant Avenue and winding our way through neighborhoods throughout San Francisco, author Catherine Accardi shares the rich history of San Francisco in contrasting images, uncovering and revealing San Francisco in new ways. With over 100 photographs, her book, San Francisco Through Time, takes readers on a quest to discover the places. and the stories behind them, that make San Francisco special. Join us on a journey through time courtesy of historical photographs juxtaposed alongside present day images.
A live presentation by Catherine Accardi, author
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“On Collecting” presented by Spencer W. Stuart
2022-01-30 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington
The first of three presentations that Spencer Stuart will be making for the Book Club of Washington this year, “On Collecting” covers the fundamentals of collecting, with all new content and examples. Tips for novice and experienced book collectors alike.
Online Sunday, January 30, 2022, 2 p.m. PST
Open to the public. RSVP here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/on-collecting

NOBS Annual Show and Tell
2022-01-27 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society
7:30-900pm EST
Join NOBS for their annual first forum of the year, Show & Tell. Book lovers of all ages have their favorites, whether a treasured old copy of a classic or a lovely edition of a book that you splurged on over the holidays or a book left to you by a beloved relative. Now’s the time to share these interesting tomes and their stories with other bibliophiles at this Show & Tell session.
Open to non-members; if not a NOBS member, individuals are asked to write to freddy@logan.com for the link
to the program by noon of the program’s scheduled time.

Huntington Zoom Lecture: Collecting Continuums: What Now
2022-01-27 16:00 - 17:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Huntington Library curators and members of the trade, library, and collecting communities for a panel discussion on individual and institutional collecting today. Moderated by Claudia Funke and Erin Chase—curators of the Huntington exhibition “What Now: Collecting for the Library in the 21st Century”—the conversation will address the significance of collecting in this unprecedented period and include perspectives from the Huntington, greater Los Angeles, and beyond.
Moderators
Claudia Funke, Avery Chief Curator and Associate Director of Library Collections, The Huntington
Erin Chase, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Photography, The Huntington
Panelists
Brad Johnson, Johnson Rare Books & Archives, and President, Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA)
Todd Lerew, Director of Special Projects, Library Foundation of Los Angeles (LFLA), and curator of the Los Angeles Public Library exhibition “21 Collections: Every Object Has a Story”
Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Huntington donor
Nancy Rosin, President Emerita, Ephemera Society of America, and collector, The Nancy and Henry Rosin Collection of Valentine, Friendship, and Devotional Ephemera at The Huntington
Joel Klein, Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, The Huntington
Li Wei Yang, Curator of Pacific Rim Collections, The Huntington
This event is presented in partnership with the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles as part of Virtual Bibliography Week.
WATCH on YouTube here: https://www.huntington.org/videos-recorded-programs/collecting-continuums-what-now
The event will be held online via Zoom at 4 p.m. (PST), 7 p.m. (EST). Zoom link will be sent to attendees in registration confirmation email. This event will be recorded.

Bound Images: Maps and Books
2022-01-27 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Co-sponsored by Blue Mango Books and Manuscripts and Bruce McKittrick Rare Books; presented by the Bibliographical Society of America.
The dominant practice in Western map studies has been to consider maps as “sovereign,” that is, as individual images separated from the material context of their production, circulation, and consumption. Book studies also have generally overlooked maps when considering graphic elements such as engravings and photographs. Yet many maps are located within, and contribute to the larger arguments of, books of all kinds, including histories, geographies, travel accounts, and novels. This panel offers three case studies to explore what changes theoretically and in practice when we dethrone the ‘sovereign map’ and engage with the production, circulation and reading of maps as bound images, a hybrid graphic and textual part of the stories told by authors and publishers which is experienced by readers through materiality, context, and significance: Giuseppe Rosaccio’s Il mondo e sue parti (Florence, 1595), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer’s Physica Sacra (Augsburg and Ulm, 1731), and Jorge Juan and Antonio Ulloa’s Relación Histórica del viage a la América meridional (Madrid, 1748). Putting these examples in conversation, we suggest the importance of analytical bibliography to make cartographic materials accessible to and to connect map and book history.
Panelists:

Carla Lois, Professor of Geography, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Jordana Dym, Professor of History, Skidmore College
Stephanie Stillo, Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection and Aramont Library, Library of Congress

Jan 27, 2:00-3:00pm EST. Register here: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/mLFaCqQbf67cryImCIiN5A?t=1638213716

Meet the Editors of PBSA: Online Q&A
2022-01-26 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by James Gray Booksellers and the Bibliographical Society of America.
Please join Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) co-editors Dr. Sarah Werner and Dr. Jesse Erickson for an online Q&A session on January 26. Drs. Werner and Erickson will discuss their vision for the journal and how it can be part of an expanded field of bibliographical scholarship. They will also answer questions that you might have about practical matters of publishing in PBSA, such as the submission and review process, image permissions, special issues, and open access. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about their new role as editors as well as other questions related to the journal, so please get your queries ready!
Jan. 26, 4:00-5:00pm EST. Register here: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/7blHPmY10tVvRRSyBu2_HA?t=1638213660

William S. Peterson on The Daniel Press
2022-01-26 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
William S. Peterson will offer the Grolier Club’s annual Bibliography Week Lecture on a topic related to the Daniel Press. This lecture is being offered in connection with our “The Daniel Press: Pioneer of the English Private Press Movement” exhibition, open in our second floor gallery December 2, 2021-February 12, 2022.
This will be a live online event, and all attendees will receive an email with the link the day of the event. If you’ve not received a link by 9:00 am Eastern time, please check your spam folder.
This event requires registration on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-lecture-on-the-daniel-press-tickets-217010814187?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

ABAA Virtual Booksellers' Showcase
2022-01-26 11:00 - 2022-01-27 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America.
From 10:00 am EST. This special mini-antiquarian book fair, sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, will be open continuously from 10:00 am on Wednesday January 27 until 7 pm on Thursday January 28. N.B.: If you plan to visit this showcase, and would like participating dealers to keep your interests in mind, please contact ABAA Executive Director Susan Benne.
The virtual ABAA Bibliography Week Showcase will be open continuously from 11am January 26th until 7pm January 27th at abaa.org/vbf. All times EST.

Collecting Sherlock Holmes. Grolier Club member Nicholas Basbanes in conversation with Glen Miranker, curator of the exhibition "Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects."
2022-01-25 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by the Grolier Club.
Collecting Sherlock Holmes. Grolier Club member Nicholas Basbanes in conversation with Glen Miranker, curator of the exhibition “Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects.”
Tues Jan 25, 4:00-6:00 EST
Open to the public: register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grolier-club-virtual-conversation-on-sherlock-holmes-tickets-246493718347?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

BSA Zoom Lecture: Materialities of Tibetan Buddhist Texts
2022-01-25 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored by CABS-Minnesota and the Bibliographical Society of America
Within the diverse traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, the power of books—both printed and hand-written—lies not only in their contents, but also in their materiality as objects. While these texts primarily transmit the words of the Buddha(s), the teachings of Buddhist masters, and the commands of Buddhist leaders, they can also function as ritual objects, protective talismans, and instruments of political authority. The three scholars on this panel will share bibliographical studies of Tibetan texts that highlight how text production, circulation, and replication within architectural spaces has been utilized by Tibetan religious and political leaders to assert and solidify their power. Rebecca Bloom will discuss an illustrated commentary on the Buddhist monastic code and the series of murals inspired by it, which were initially composed and commissioned by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama in the 1920s in order to purify the monastic community and protect the state he led. Focusing on a proclamation carved into a stele in both Mongolian and Tibetan, Sangseraima Ujeed will utilize this monumental, 17th-century text to disrupt mainstream historical narratives about its author, the infamous Mongolian lord Chogthu Taiji, who is otherwise depicted as an enemy of the Dharma. On a search for the true location of the Fifth Dalai Lama’s 17th-century printing house, Ben Nourse will examine evidence from the autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama, the continuation of that biography by his last regent, and from colophons and stylistic elements of editions produced at this location, where the largest catalog of printing blocks in Tibet up to that time were created.
Panelists:
Rebecca Bloom, PhD Candidate in Buddhist Studies, University of Michigan
Benjamin Nourse, Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Denver
Sangseraima Ujeed, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, University of Michigan
Tues. Jan. 25, 4:00-5:00pm EST. Register here: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/G_6BEK666rNMHFuYaIT20A?t=1638213174

Bibliography Week
2022-01-25 00:00 - 2022-01-28 00:00 (America/New_York)
From January 25–28, 2022 the Bibliographical Society of America will celebrate Bibliography Week with a series of events designed to demonstrate bibliographical practice and its relevance to interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities. We have included select events in the FABS Calendar. For a full list of activities visit https://bibsocamer.org/programs/bibweek22/

Bay Area Coffee: A Stimulating History
2022-01-24 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Hosted by The Book Club of California.
5:30 PM PST – Member and guest social
6:00 PM – PST Live presentation & Livestream via Zoom Webinar
San Francisco was booming in the mid-nineteenth century, and along with adventurers seeking their fortunes came sacks of green coffee beans. The old Yerba Buena Cove swiftly filled with ships, and the city emerged as the third-largest coffee port in the United States. What followed was the rise—and local demise—of the “big three” coffee roasters: Folger’s, Hills Brothers and MJB. Specialized Bay Area roasters like Peerless, Peet’s and Blue Bottle sprang up in their wake, while places such as Tosca’s, Caffé Trieste and the Blue Unicorn blazed the way for modern coffeehouses.
Join author Monika Trobits for a live presentation as she traces the historic voyage of the humble coffee bean to the shores of San Francisco Bay.
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Reid Byers on The Private Library: A History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom
2022-01-23 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by The Book Club of Washington
The Book Club of Washington is pleased to present Reid Byers speaking about his remarkable book on private libraries (Oak Knoll Press, 2021), with emphasis on how the architecture and furnishings have evolved.
Online Sunday, January 23, 2022, 2 p.m. PST
Open to the public. RSVP here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/the-private-library-a-history-of-the-architecture-and-furnishing-of-the-domestic-bookroom

Sallie Lowenstein on Adventures in Bookmaking: Tales of a Children’s Book Author, Illustrator, Publisher and Maker of Handmade Books
2022-01-20 18:30 (America/New_York)
Hosted by The Baltimore Bibliophiles.
The program is on Thursday, January 20, 2022, and begins at 7:00 pm EST. I hope many of you will be able to join us. Please feel free to forward this email invitation and accompanying attachment to interested friends and colleagues. Guests are always welcome! The Zoom link is provided below. A reminder will be sent out a day or so prior to the actual event.

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The Durchslag Haggadah Collection: A Magnificent Scholarly Collection Reflecting Personal Connections and a Collector's Passion.
2022-01-19 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)
Sponsored by the Chicago Jewish Historical Society and the Caxton Club
Join the Caxton Club and the Chicago Jewish Historical Society as we co-host Stephen Durchslag to discuss his vast Haggadah collection. This collection of Passover texts began in 1984 when Steve saw a 200-year-old volume in a bookstore and was reminded of family celebrations of the Jewish holiday in his childhood. The collection now exceeds 4,500 volumes in 31 languages spanning more than 500 years. The earliest volume dates from 1485 while others express the diversity of Jewish traditions, including modern secular expressions. After a distinguished 46-year legal career, Steve retired as the head of Winston & Strawn’s intellectual property department and is a doctoral student at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Zoom presentation is free and open to all.
Advanced registration required via website: https://caxtonclub.org/event-4599034/Registration

What If? Writing Short Fiction for Fun and Profit | Elaine Togneri
2022-01-16 13:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Hosted by the Florida Bibliophile Society. Elaine has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, but she is best known for her mystery stories, which have been published on the Web, in anthologies, and in major magazines.
This event is virtual, with an in-person gathering at the Seminole Community Library.
To receive a Zoom Meeting link call Jerry Morris at 727-862-5012 (home) or text to 727-505-3634 (cell).
Open to public.

Scott Borchert on Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America
2022-01-14 12:00 (America/Chicago)
Hosted by the Caxton Club.
Starving authors. The Federal Writers’ Project. All 48 states plus territories, cities, and even rivers. Stories beyond numbering. Books tucked away next to a chimney in an attic. Jim Thompson, Zora Neale Hurston, John Cheever, Studs Terkel, Vardis Fischer, Ralph Ellison and the House Un-American Activities Committee.
All of these combine in Scott Borchert’s Republic of Detours (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) to tell the rollicking tale of the WPA State Guides and the hundreds of pamphlets created under the auspices of what may have been the largest literary project in history.
Borchert’s great uncle Fred (who was interviewed for A Gentle Madness) collected a full set of the State Guides and inspired this work, which was featured on the cover of the autumn edition of Fine Books & Collections.
Join us for a trip through time and great open spaces. Signed bookplates will be available. Email your shipping address to info@caxtonclub.org.
Register for this free program today!

San Francisco Beer: A History of Brewing by the Bay
2022-01-10 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The story of beer in San Francisco is as old as the city itself. San Francisco had its first commercial brewery by 1847, two years before the gold rush, and went on to reign as the major brewing center in the American West through the nineteenth century. From the 1930s to the early 1950s, iconic San Francisco-based breweries Lucky and Acme owned the statewide California market. In the 1960s, Fritz Maytag transformed San Francisco’s tiny and primitive Anchor Brewing into America’s first craft brewery.
Now, well into its fourth generation of craft breweries, San Francisco has seen more new breweries open in the second decade of the twenty-first century than were opened in the entire previous century, proving that tech is not San Francisco’s only booming industry.
Join local author and beer enthusiast Bill Yenne as he explores San Francisco’s rich tapestry of beers and breweries that have made it a brewing capital in the West.
A live presentation by Bill Yenne, author
Click here to REGISTER for the IN-PERSON EVENT (5:30pm PST)
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