Sponsored by The Book Club of California An archive survives to be revived. The archive as a limit, a thing in a box, is always also an opening. It opens on losses sustained, harms inflicted, the tenacity of survival, and on the persistence of lineages both proud and shameful. But […]
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Sponsored by The Book Club of California When the more than 18 million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent […]
Co-presented and co-hosted by The Book Club of California, The Bibliographical Society of America and the American Trust for the British Library. Feb 12, 6:00pm Pacific Time An in-person and virtual presentation by Alan H. Nelson, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_759LIhnbSYGbxvT3eh4DjQ Approximately twenty-five […]
Co-presented and hosted by The Book Club of California, The Bibliographical Society of America and the American Trust for the British Library Jan 17, 6:00pm Pacific Time The newly discovered notebook of Isaac Newton An in-person and virtual presentation by Scott Mandelbrote, Fellow, Director of Studies in History, and Perne […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California An in-person and virtual presentation by Paul Chrzanowski, book collector Book collector Paul Chrzanowski donated his collection of nearly 150 early English books to the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The collection includes copies of the second and fourth folio editions of […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California MONDAY, November 6, 2023 Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores ** Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West ** 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific Exhibition opening with an in-person and virtual […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California MONDAY, October 30, 2023 The Poison Book Project: Arsenic & Other Heavy Metals in 19th-C. Bookbinding 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM Pacific Virtual presentation 5:00 PM Pacific – Program The Poison Book Project investigates potentially toxic pigments used in the manufacture of Victorian-era […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California and Litquake 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific Virtual presentation Before there was such a thing as “California,” there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Monday Sept. 18, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific In-person and virtual presentation 5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program The Book Club of California | 312 Sutter Street | San Francisco, California 94108 Historian, writer, and collector Hubert Howe […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Monday Sept. 11, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific In-person and virtual presentation 5:30 PM Pacific – Reception 6:00 PM Pacific – Program Diane Power Zimmerman will share highlights from her book Nut Tree: From a California Ranch to a Design, Food, and […]