George Leite

George Leite

George Leite was a California author, poet, publisher and bookstore owner active in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1920, he was raised in the then Portuguese-American enclave of San Leandro, California and died in 1985 in Walnut Creek,...

 opened daliel's (always with a lowercase 'd') on the 2400 block of Telegraph Avenue

Telegraph Avenue

Telegraph Avenue is a street that begins, at its southernmost point, in the midst of the historic downtown district of Oakland, California, USA, and ends, at its northernmost point, at the southern edge of the University of California campus in Berkeley, California...

 in Berkeley, California, as a combination bookstore and art gallery in 1945. The store was also the home of Circle Magazine

Circle Magazine

Circle Magazine was published from 1945 to 1951 by George Leite, initially with poet Bern Porter. Produced at Leite's Berkeley, California bookstore, Daliel's , it featured poetry, prose, criticism and art from many of those whose creative works and their successors would later come to called the...

 and Circle Editions, the publishing ventures Leite established at the same time. Artists featured in the Gallery included Bezalel Schatz, Danius Milhaud and Jean Varda

Jean Varda

Jean Varda was an artist. He was of mixed Greek and French descent...

. The store closed in 1952 at the same time the magazine ceased publication.