{"id":183119,"date":"2026-02-18T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183119\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:11:07","slug":"california-international-antiquarian-book-fair-returns-to-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183119\/","title":{"rendered":"California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After wildfires canceled its 2025 event in Pasadena, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/57th-california-international-antiquarian-book-fair-tickets-1748615158009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">California International Antiquarian Book Fair<\/a> is back this year in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s largest exhibitions of olden literature is gathering more than a hundred booksellers from across the globe to share their choicest wares \u2014 rare tomes, illustrations, maps, historical documents and random ephemera guaranteed to level-up your bookshelf and walls.<\/p>\n<p>The fair features several manuscripts from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/03\/08\/5-historic-state-parks-in-california-worth-visiting-in-2023\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">local star Jack London<\/a>, including the original signed draft of his 1905 novel \u201cThe Game\u201d and a proof copy of \u201cThe People of the Abyss,\u201d his first-hand reporting on London\u2019s impoverished.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be memorabilia from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/29\/oakland-bakery-and-former-black-panthers-hq-permanently-closes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Black Panther Party<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/11\/25\/former-black-panther-leader-h-rap-brown-dies-in-prison-hospital-at-82\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland-born revolutionary group<\/a>. Expect items like a 1971 newspaper announcing the dismissal of murder and criminal-conspiracy charges against party members Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins \u2014 the latter who is actually planning on attending the fair.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say revolution will be a theme. \u201cOn the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,\u201d they write, \u201cthe 2026 fair will explore the theme \u2018Revolutionary Moments in America,\u2019 examining not only the American Revolution of 1776, but the many scientific, artistic, industrial, political and cultural revolutions that have shaped the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Details: Fair runs 4 p.m.-8 p.m. Feb. 27, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Feb. 28 and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. March 1 atPier 27, The Embarcadero, San Francisco; tickets $10-$25 depending on day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abaa.org\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">abaa.org\/events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After wildfires canceled its 2025 event in Pasadena, the California International Antiquarian Book Fair is back this year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[184,647,7,967,584,418,971,395,101,396,103,102,104,106,105,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-183119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-events","13":"tag-history","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-peninsula","16":"tag-san-francisco","17":"tag-san-francisco-county","18":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","19":"tag-san-francisco-news","20":"tag-sf","21":"tag-sf-headlines","22":"tag-sf-news","23":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}