Based in Los Angeles, CA, Gerald W. Cloud has been an independent bookseller since 2016.

Active in the rare book and manuscript world for more than 20 years, he previously served as a rare book & manuscript curator and librarian at Columbia University, UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, & the Harry Ransom Center, among others. He earned his PhD in Literature at the University of Delaware, and in 2010, Oak Knoll Press published his John Rodker's Ovid Press: A Bibliographical History. He taught Descriptive Bibliography at California Rare Book School from 2013-2022.

Gerald W. Cloud also represents French book artist and engraver DIDIER MUTEL. View available works here.
Photo credit: Library of Congress.