VANISHED RUIN ERA Beaux-Arts San Francisco - Louis J Stellman 1910 Paul Elder
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TITLE: The Vanished Ruin Era San Francisco's classic artistry of ruin depicted in picture and song
AUTHOR: Louis J Stellman
PUBLISHER: San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co.
DATE: 1910 copyright
DESCRIPTION: viii, 52 pages, 1 leaf.
CONDITION NOTES: GOOD. Spine sunned and stained brown. Bookplate. Solid page and cover attachment. Pages fine without marks, creases, or tears.
BINDING: Half buckram over paper.
NOTES: Dark grey limp card leaves with sepia plates tipped in. Paul Elder fled from San Francisco due to quake - pretty traumatic. They say that the mind always looks for patterns and purpose even after essentially meaningless tragedies. Such would be a good description of the current work. It's an attempt to frame scenes of destruction and loss in a grand, noble tradition of Classic Artistry. The publisher fled to New York having been burned out entirely by the Great FIre.
