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  • From Bookcase to Bender Room, and Beyond: Approaching the Centennial of Rare Book Collecting at Stanford

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    The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States

    In September of 1926, Albert M. Bender turned his philanthropic focus on Stanford University Library. As one of the founders of the Book Club of California, Bender needs no introduction to this audience who will also be familiar with his efforts to establish an appreciation for the book arts at Mills College, San Francisco Public […]

  • Reception for the California Rare Book School

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    The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States

    Join us for a reception to welcome the students, instructors, and staff from California Rare Book School at this special Book Club member event. California Rare Book School (CalRBS) is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for professionals working in all aspects of the rare book community, and for […]

  • Virtual Lecture: Kenneth Gloss on a Bookseller’s Improbable Finds

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    Zoom CA, United States

    Kenneth Gloss, a rare book specialist and appraiser who runs the Brattle Book Shop in Boston and appears on national TV shows (including Antiques Roadshow), will speak on "improbable finds" of his decades-long career. As he describes the surprises he's experienced while bookselling: “one day you find yourself drinking from Thomas Jefferson’s coffee service, and […]

  • Women’s Book History and the Knowledge Revolution

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    The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The fields of book history and bibliography are having a cultural reckoning. The Women in Book History Bibliography (womensbookhistory.org) has acted as an impetus for championing the “lost” histories of women in the book trades and as a tool for arguing for further recovery work. Still in progress, the bibliography currently consists of over 2000 […]