Book Club of California 2023

In 2023, I was invited by the Book Club of California to give the 2023 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Lecture on the History of the Book Trade in California and the West. I took the opportunity to also curate an exhibition on Paul Elder & Company for their display cases.

The exhibit opened on 6 November 2023 and ran through 12 February 2024. Here are some photos from the exhibition.

Blurb from the Book Club of California website
Front of case #1
Rear of case #1
Front of case #2
Rear of case #2
Shelf 1a1 – Elder & Shepard
Shelf 1a2 – Elder & Shepard
Shelf 1a3 – Elder & Shepard
Shelf 1b1 – California and the West
Shelf 1b2 – Charles Keeler
Shelf 1b3 – San Francisco
Shelf 1c1 – Children’s Books
Shelf 1c2 – Children’s Books
Shelf 1c3 – Mosaic Essays, issued in multiple bindings
Shelf 1d1 – Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Shelf 1d2 – Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Shelf 1d3 – PPIE & the San Diego Garden Fair
Shelf 2a1 – Fine Press
Shelf 2a2 – Objets d’Art
Shelf 2a3 – Cookbooks & Cynic’s Calendars
Shelf 2b1 – John Henry Nash & the mitred rule
Shelf 2b2 – Cover art
Shelf 2b3 – Book series
Shelf 2c1 – Japan & Hawaii
Shelf 2c2 – Robert Wilson Hyde
Shelf 2c3 – Gift boxes
Shelf 2d1 – Travel books
Shelf 2d2 – Quotations, quotations!
Shelf 2d3 – Impressions Calendars
Case #1, side
Case #2, side
Case #3 – Impressions magazine
Case #4 – Catalogs & ephemera
Case #5 – Ephemera