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No place, 1893. Stiff Boards. por. Narrow octavo, pictorial brown cloth depicting Columbus and the Administration Building, gilt; plates are present, but, as usual, most are separated at the folds, and damaged [ Similar to Dybwad 1706]. Each photolithotyped plate has a floral border with flowers, buds, branches, butterflies.

San Francisco: The Argentine Commission Of The Panama-Pacific-Exposition, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown leather, lettered in gilt. Near fine. 88 pages. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. "The Commission of the Argentine Republic takes pleasure in offering this volume, descriptive of the growth and position of the Argentine Republic, as a souvenir of the Panama-Pacific-exposition of 1915." Clean copy, back cover damp stained.

Corning: Corning Museum, 1986. paperback. fine. Illustrated. 59 pages, thin 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers. Corning: The Corning Museum of Glass, 1986. A fine copy.<br/><br/>

Golden Gate International Exhibition, 1940. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. Numerous black-and-white illustrations, some full-page.

Chicago: The Century of Progress, 1933. First Edition. stapled wrappers. Fair. Quarto, unpaginated, staples rusted, some silverfish damage to wrappers "In the exhibition of A Century of Progress, there is an unparalleled display ... Here have been gathered the choicest blossoms, finest trees, shrubs and accessories, wearving them together into a delightful picture designed to give you something to take away with you as an enduring possession ... " - Foreword. Special editorial material by Rebecca Anthony, including her poem, " Immortal - Tree ". Photographs by the official fair photographers, Kaufman & Fabry Co.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964. Hardcover. Very good condition tattered d.j./fair. 60p. New York World's Fair edition

Philadelphia: National Publishing, 1975. hardcover. very good/good. Illus. 4to, tan cloth, d.w. torn, d.w. sunned on spine portion. Philadelphia: National Publishing, (1975).<br/><br/>

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. First. hardcover. fine/very good. 75 Illus. 4to, blue cloth, d.w. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1997). Very good<br/><br/>

New York: New York World's Fair Corp, 1964. Softcover. Fine. Unpaginated. [approx. 45 coupons]. Oblong 48mo. [approx. 2 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches]. Tape and staplebound with stiff wraps. Discount coupons for almost all the attractions and eating establishments at the fair. From a box of new dead stock in pristine condition.

New York: Spertus, 1964. Very Good. Official. Very good minus Cover rubbed with wear on spine and corners. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Century Company. Fair/NONE. 1893. Hardcover. Book in fair condition with covers that are illustrated with fair scenes including old time ferris wheel. With off-hand sketches by Harry and snap- shots by Philip and illustrations by better known artists and reproductions of many photographs. All edges have wear and corners are bumped. Book lays a bit cocked. Covers have quite a bit of soilage & usage. Text is a bit loose with light browning on pages. Front hinge cracked all the way. Inside front cover is map and index of fair sites. Front endpaper has pencilled poem and initial. Poem tells about never finding love and fading away. Ironic to be put in a childrens' book, Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; 8x91/2; 246 pages .

New York: Dover, 1980. paperback. very good. Illustrated in black and white. 116 pages. 4to, pictorial paper wrappers, lightly edgeworn and bumped at head. New York: Dover, (1980). Very good.<br/> <br/>

London: Studio Vista, 1977. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(-). Many Illustrations, some in color. 192 pages, 4to, green cloth, d.w. (price-clipped and with some light wear, stain at foot). London: Studio Vista, (1977). A very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

New York: Greystone Press, 1939. First. hardcover. very good/very good(-). Illustrated on most pages with humorous cartoons relating to the World's Fair. Slim 8vo, original blue and orange pictorial boards, lightly worn at extremities, matching dust wrapper, tattered. New York: Greystone Press, 1939. First edition. A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Commission, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red buckram with gilt seal of Pennsylvania front cover. Teg. Very Good. 364 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Description of buildings, art, mines, agriculture, and transportation; black and white illustrations and catalogue of awards. Bookplate, uncut, spine slightly sunned, crisp, clean copy.

New York: Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co, 1939. First Edition (?). Staplebound. Very good +. Octavo, unpaginated (about 64pp.), illustrated. A very good or better copy in the publisher's printed staped wraps. A few creases, but a very bright, clean example of this image-driven guide to the 1939 World's Fair.

Albany, N.Y.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1895. Hard Cover. 7.5x10.5. brown with gold ltg. and dec.- 302 pgs.- illus. in b/w with pictures. Book is in fair condition with wear to the edges and spine ends, damp stains to the cover, faded spine, corner wear, and soil.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Yes.

Mineola, New York, U.S.A.: Dover Pubns, 1970. 8 x 11 trade paperback book. Black and white lettering on the brown spine with a brown and illustrated cover. An unabridged republication of the Art-Journal Special Issue with over 1500 illustrations with a new introduction by John Gloag. 426 pages. Good condition with rubbing, wear, and soil.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated.

Chicago: Union News, 1893. Oblong stiff wraps (chipped, lacks the rear), printed in purple ink. Good.

National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1993. Trade Paperback. When the doors to the Fine Arts Palace at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opened in the spring of 1893, the American art inside was heralded as a triumph. Writing in Century Magazine, art critic Marianna G. Van Rensselaer proclaimed, "The Columbian Exhibition will prove to the most doubting and critical spirit that American art exists, that it is capable of great things, and that it can do great things in a way distinctly its own." Fairgoers were treated to achievements such as Thomas Eakins's Gross Clinic, Winslow Homer's Eight Bells, Eastman Johnson's Cranberry Harvest, and countless other now well-known works, in addition to pieces by many lesser-known artists. Not only did the exposition show the apogee of American art, it also occurred at a moment of immense cultural change - two significant indications being Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis on the closing of the frontier… Leer más