Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores
PAST PROGRAM

Paul Elder: A Literary Life in Seven Bookstores

Monday, November 6, 2023
11:00 am
 - 3:00 pm
 (PT)
On view at the Book Club of California

Paul Elder’s bookstores were a familiar sight in downtown San Francisco for seventy years, but he preferred to call himself a “Western Publisher.” He issued over four hundred titles in his career, beginning in 1898 in partnership with Morgan Shepard, then from 1903 as Paul Elder & Company. In this exhibition, we present many of Elder’s publishing themes, including Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts decoration, San Francisco and the West, travel literature, children’s books, Japanese art, ephemera, and the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.