Book Club of California

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well. For over a hundred years the Book Club of California has been heralding the artistry of Western writers and printers, and their public clubhouse has become a bastion where print will never die. The Book Club of California has been in San Francisco for over 100 years. In 1912, a poet, a book collector, a printer, and a book store owner got together and proposed to include an exhibition on fine printing for the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. Over lunch, the three men came up with a solution, and the Book Club was born—though the exhibition of fine books never actually took place.