Sponsored by The Book Club of California and The Northern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America Sept. 19, 6:00pm-7:15pm Los Angeles/Pacific time Every movement needs a voice, and ever since Gutenberg systematized the concept of movable type posters have been one of the media of choice for […]
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Sponsored by The Book Club of California and The American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers Sept. 12 , 6:00pm Los Angeles/Pacific time A celebration of the centenary of organized bookplate collecting in the United States. An in-person and virtual presentation via Zoom by William E. Butler, bibliophile, editor, and […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Los Angeles time | A live online via Zoom and in-person event Join us in-person or online via Zoom to view seldom seen photographs from the Book Club archives and help […]
Sponsored by The Bibliographical Society of America and The Book Club of California “Lambeth Palace Library Through Five Centuries” Monday, July 11, 2022, 6:00 – 7:15 pm Pacific Time Speaker: Giles Mandelbrote, Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library Located in Central London on the banks of the Thames, Lambeth […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California June 20, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Los Angeles time | In-Person exhibition opening and Livestream on Zoom Poets, scribes, and printers throughout history have taken advantage of the fact that poetry is both a visual and a verbal art. From the collection […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Monday June 13, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Los Angeles time | In-Person event and Livestream on Zoom Viewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys […]
Sponsored by the Book Club of California in association with Rare Books LA-Palm Springs Begun in 2019, the LGBTQ+ History & Archives of the Desert is dedicated to collecting, preserving and making accessible the LGBTQ+ History of the Greater Palm Springs Area. This presentation provides a brief overview of how […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California The Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992), San Francisco author, historian, and club secretary from 1921-1946. Awards for achievement in Western History and the Book Arts are awarded each year. […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California “A Rebel’s Outcry: Biography of Issei Civil Rights Leader Sei Fujii (1882-1954)” is an illustrated biography and detailed look into the life of Japanese American civil rights leader Sei Fujii, known for overturning the California Alien Land Law in 1952 and founding the […]
Sponsored by The Book Club of California Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own […]