Old book news.
News and catalogs from the Old Book Corner, a Chapel Hill bookshop run by Paul and Isabel Smith, who also edited the sheet. Issue 9, from 1981, includes a brief history of the business and of the owners' careers. The su…
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Paul Smith (Intimate Bookshop)
Paul Smith became owner of the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill in 1950, fitting it with display fixtures designed for his earlier shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans, and used them for French, art, music, cookery and children's books.
Source: DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 3, 1950, page 8 (Paul Smith Installs New Store Fixtures)
Also found in catalogs as Paul Smith.
On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Paul Smith → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed records are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Paul Smith (Intimate Bookshop).
Indexed works
Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Paul Smith papers, 1937-1968
… The headings tie him to bookselling in North Carolina and to the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill, and on the publishing side to the Modern Pilgrim Press, the Federal Writers' Project, and Josef Berger's 'Cape Cod pilot', with Cape Cod in literature among the subjects.
Life and Orange County connections
Dated events connected with this person, earliest first. View the full chronology →
- Paul Smith becomes owner of the Intimate Bookshop Paul Smith took over the Intimate Bookshop on East Franklin Street, formerly Abernethy's, and fitted it with display fixtures designed for his earlier shop in …Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 3, 1950, page 8 (Paul Smith Installs New Store Fixtures)
Background reading at OCPL
Held in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection. Selected because their titles or catalog subjects provide wider historical context for this person; they may not discuss the Orange County person directly.
- Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection The Carolina Pirates and Colonial Commerce, 1670-1740 Hughson, Shirley Carter · 1894 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: North Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Pirates OCPL call number: NC 910.4 HUG
- Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Young Readers' Picturebook of Tar Heel Authors Walser, Richard Gaither · 1966 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- North Carolina -- Juvenile literature; American literature -- North Carolina -- Bio-bibliography -- Juvenile literature; North Carolina -- Intellectual life -- Juvenile literature OCPL call number: NC 810.997 WAL
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Additional research sources
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- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Paul Smith NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Ask locally: Local History Help Hours and request form OCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
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