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Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores
November 6, 2023 @ 6:00 pm PST
Sponsored by The Book Club of California
MONDAY, November 6, 2023
Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores
** Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West **
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific
Exhibition opening with an in-person and virtual presentation
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception
6:00 PM Pacific – Program
Book Club of California | 312 Sutter Street | San Francisco, California, 94108
After resigning from his sales position at William Doxey’s bookstore in San Francisco’s famous Palace Hotel in 1897, a young Paul Elder opened his own shop two blocks away. Elder’s goal was a bookstore with a carefully crafted ambience, reflecting his embrace of the California Arts & Crafts Movement. Elder’s own publications were often designed with the same Arts & Crafts aesthetic. This talk will present a tour of Elder’s San Francisco bookstores, as he persevered through the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, helped to revitalize downtown, and celebrated the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Exhibition opening with an in-person and virtual presentation by David Mostardi, book collector, curator, and historian
Register to attend the virtual presentation on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tn2UdZuBSJaGHn9AJs9vNg?mc_cid=ca41717bf6&mc_eid=55809a2ee8#/registration