After resigning from his sales position at William Doxey’s bookstore in San Francisco’s famous Palace Hotel in 1897, a young Paul Elder opened his own shop two blocks away. Elder’s goal was a bookstore with a carefully crafted ambience, reflecting his embrace of the California Arts & Crafts Movement. Elder’s own publications were often designed […]

Let's talk about new ways to do our jobs more effectively. Keith Riegert of Ulysses Press will be on hand to talk about Perfect Bound - an online two-sided marketplace (think AirBNB) that connects independent book publishers with printers around the world. On Perfect Bound, publishers can quickly build out their project specs (from paperbacks […]

After resigning from his sales position at William Doxey’s bookstore in San Francisco’s famous Palace Hotel in 1897, a young Paul Elder opened his own shop two blocks away. Elder’s goal was a bookstore with a carefully crafted ambience, reflecting his embrace of the California Arts & Crafts Movement. Elder’s own publications were often designed […]

Club member Alvin Patrick, a CBS News Executive Producer, has amassed over 2,000 books during 30 years of collecting. He will discuss highlights of his first editions of African American literature dating back to 1817, and their importance to the story of Black people in America. Among his prized titles are Toussaint L’Ouverture: Biography and Autobiography (1863, […]

with SF State University Professors Carlos Montemayor, Denise Kleinrichert, and Dragutin Petkovic Discuss Artificial Intelligence, Authorship, and Ethics with San Francisco State University Professors Carlos Montemayor, Denise Kleinrichert, and Dragutin Petkovic.