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Contributing Institution:
Pepperdine University. Special Collections and University Archives.
Title: The Earl F. Nation Fine Press Collection
Identifier/Call Number: 0137
Physical Description:
10 Linear Feet
Date: 1957-2007
Language of Material:
English
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This collection is organized into the following three series: 1. Zamorano Club Keepsakes; 2. Book Club of California; 3. Personal
Effects. Each series is arranged in chronological order, with oversized items removed from the folders and relocated to a
separate container.
The Zamorano Club is an organization of fine press, rare book, and manuscript collectors, founded in Los Angeles in 1928 by
Charles K. Adams, Garner A. Beckett, William W. Clary, Arthur M. Ellis, A. Bruce McCallister, Robert O. Schad, and John C.
Treanor. The club was named in honor of Agustín V. Zamorano, a provisional governor of Alta California and the state's first
printer. The Zamorano Club meets monthly during the year, excluding a summer break in the months of June, July, and August,
and has done so since its inception.
The Book Club of California is a San Francisco-based organization founded in 1912 with the purpose of promoting fine press
printing "related to the history and literature of California and the western states of America through research, publishing,
public programs, and exhibitions" (BCC website, mission statement). Dr. Edward Robeson Taylor, W. R. K. Young, John Henry
Nash, and James D. Blake were the founding members of the organization, which now numbers at nearly one thousand.