In its issue of scholarly and popular material, the Club's publications rank as fine printing and at least four of them have received national recognition for outstanding graphics achievements.
[2] The club's collection includes the translations of the Duke of Württemberg, Friedrich Paul Wilhelm,[3] letters written by Alonzo Delano to the San Francisco Free Trader in the early 1850s in reference to the gold rush[4] and English translations of Théophile de Rutté, an early 19th-century settler in San Francisco who was one of the last people to write about the city before a series of fires between 1849 and 1851.
A program, usually a noted guest speaker who is often also a Club member, precedes refreshments and a short business session.
Printer members of the Club also print a limited number of beautiful letterpress keepsakes for the occasion.
Authors whose works are collected include Ansel Adams, Gertrude Atherton, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Jack London, Henry Miller, John Muir, Edgar Allan Poe, Beatrix Potter, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Steinbeck, William Morris, Jack Kerouac, Gertrude Stein, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Nathan, Willa Cather, L. Frank Baum, and many others.