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1958 Brussels Universal and International Fair

1958 Brussels Universal and International Fair

by de Fernig, Baron Moens (Introduction)

Belgium: 1958 Fair Information Service. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1957?. Softcover. Issued to promote the features of the coming fair, to invite the participation of exhibitors and to identify sources for additional information. Stapled wraps, covers and contents printed using several spot colors. This copy in American [English]. Title from cover. Scarce, one copy located through Worldcat (at Northwestern, in French). ; 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"; [12] pp; Front cover with closed tear at top... Read more about this item
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$50.00
El Ferrocarril De Pennsylvania y La Exposicion Colombiana, Con Notas Descriptivas De Las Ciudades De New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago y Una Descripcion Completa De Los Terrenos y Edificios De Ls Exposicion, Con Mapas e Illustraciones

El Ferrocarril De Pennsylvania y La Exposicion Colombiana, Con Notas Descriptivas De Las Ciudades De New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago y Una Descripcion Completa De Los Terrenos y Edificios De Ls Exposicion, Con Mapas e Illustraciones

by Pennsylvania Railroad Company

Philadelphia: Compania Del Ferrocarril De Pennsylvania, 1892. Octavo. 139p. 7 maps (as called for in most editions, some apparently have only 6). Spanish language. The Pennsylvania Railroad made an extraordinary effort in corporate image making to produce editions both in English and Spanish. Maps included are: Pennsylvania RR, New York to Chicago: (2) New York Harbor; (3) New York City; (4) Philadelphia (5) Washington (6) Chicago; and (7) Chicago, Business District. This copy was bound in Malaga, Spain... Read more about this item
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$115.00
Salici's Puppets - Official Souvenir Program - Hall of Westerrn States, 1940 Treasure Island, Golden Gate International Exposition

Salici's Puppets - Official Souvenir Program - Hall of Westerrn States, 1940 Treasure Island, Golden Gate International Exposition

by Salici family: six generations of puppeteering

San Francisco: GGIE, 1940. Staplebound Wraps. 8p,, self-wraps ergo 12p counting recto & verso of both covers. Stapled 11x8.5 inch color wraps with b&w guts. The colorwork offers wonderful cigaret and Coke ads and an amazing beer ad from San Francisco's Acme Breweries. A profusion of b&w backstage photos show the family working their sizeable pinocchios, which can smoke and sing opera as well as display the usual marionette skills. Sad to say, an enormous (3.5x2.5 inch) dampstain has rippled and tinted... Read more about this item
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$25.00
Copper & Brass Industry Exhibit. Hall of Industry & Metals, The World's Fair of 1940 in New York

Copper & Brass Industry Exhibit. Hall of Industry & Metals, The World's Fair of 1940 in New York

[New York]: [Copper & Brass Industry], 1940. Staplebound. [16] pp., illustrations, wraps. 6.25 x 3.5 in. Souvenir booklet for guests of the copper exhibit at the 1939-40 World's Fair in New York. The text describes the history and modern application of copper in buildings, industry, and transportation. Photographs of the elaborate dioramas and displays accompany the text. A list of participating companies is printed on the rear cover.
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$35.00
Golden Gate International Exposition, 35 souvenir postcards

Golden Gate International Exposition, 35 souvenir postcards

by G.G.I.E. postcards

San Francisco: promotional office, 1940. Postcard. Very good exemplars enclosed in a small plastic presentation folder provided with twenty clear pockets of 6x4 inches, each to contain two back-to-back cards, of which three contain one card only and another none at all, the rest filled to capacity. There are 13 b&w cards, the rest (22) are in color or colorized. Good ones! especially the fancy color items. Spot-checking suggests that this was an active collection, not a group purchased en masse, as the... Read more about this item
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$60.00
Authentic Map of the World's Fair [Century of Progress] - 252 Buildings and Attractions Labeled and Keyed - All Points of Interest Easily and Quickly Located - Compliments of Bismarck Hotel, Randolph at La Salle. Telephone Central 0123, Roy Steffen, Mgr

Authentic Map of the World's Fair [Century of Progress] - 252 Buildings and Attractions Labeled and Keyed - All Points of Interest Easily and Quickly Located - Compliments of Bismarck Hotel, Randolph at La Salle. Telephone Central 0123, Roy Steffen, Mgr

Chicago: Fair Promotional / Bismarck Hotel, 1934. Map. Single leaf of reasonably alkaline paperstock, printed in two colors (black and dark blue), folded to make an upright pocket-fitting guide (folds out to 9x20 inches), namely a line map with "keys" shown in smallpoint, verso being the Bismarck Hotel ad plus blank panels. Outermost panels are slightly toned and dusty, but nicely square with foldlines undamaged.
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$20.00
Men at Work 1964-65 World's Fair Sketchbook [aka] Official Art Book of the World's Fair New York 1964-65

Men at Work 1964-65 World's Fair Sketchbook [aka] Official Art Book of the World's Fair New York 1964-65

by Guarnieri, Luciano

Florence Italy: Leo S. Olschki - Publisher, 1964. Hardcover. Unpaginated, perhaps thirty folio leaves printed both sides in b&w, sepia and in color-tints, ranging from fullpage plates to 3 or 4 vignettes per page, hardbound in 11x13.5 inch oblong decorated boards. Corner-tips and head & tail rims slightly blunted, covers have picked up mild dirt and scratches, but most seriously the binding threads are loose and there are several gaps in textblock gutters that reveal this problem. So far no losses. The... Read more about this item
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$20.00
Pastels Francais Des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles

Pastels Francais Des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles

by Dacier, Emile; and P. Retoule De Limay

Paris et Bruxelles: Les Editions G. Van Oest, 1927. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 750 copies on Rives laid paper, large paper format. The present copy is #154. Portrait frontispiece, ix, 132 pages, 96 plates (including frontispiece and portraits). Dacier and Limay organized the Exposition in Paris (1927). Although several of the pastels still survive, some were lost both in World War II and others disappeared into the hands of collectors. This volume is one of the most extensive of the subjects. A... Read more about this item
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$115.00
Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris 1931 [titlepage] / L'Illustration Mai 1931, L'Exposition Coloniale, Album hors serie [cover title]

Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris 1931 [titlepage] / L'Illustration Mai 1931, L'Exposition Coloniale, Album hors serie [cover title]

Paris: L'Illustration, 1931. Paperback. Unpaginated, perhaps because "hors serie" and not to be confused with a regular issue. Profuse illustrations with plenty of color, also sepia and b&w. Scattered essays are boilerplate, of course. Format is that of the magazine proper: 15x11 inches, cover has color plate affixed. Spine heavily chipped, front wrap detached or nearly so, staples exposed. Could be worse; the textblock is sound in itself, complete, and only mildly edgeworn. Held in Paris; find a couple... Read more about this item
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$40.00
Societe Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vielle Montagne. Couvertures & Cheneaux en Zinc. Peintures au Blanc de Zinc

Societe Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vielle Montagne. Couvertures & Cheneaux en Zinc. Peintures au Blanc de Zinc

Paris: the society, 1904. Unpaginated, between sixty and eighty pages plus two fascicles bound in, featuring many artists' renderings of zinc roofing sheets in a variety of styles, mouldings and fastenings ditto. Find a dozen or so plates that show finished work on elaborate older buildings. Leaves measure 10.5x9 inches and are the principal content of this item, which is a hard-cover folder with plain printed external titling. One bound-in booklet, "Peintures au Blanc de Zinc", measures 7.5x5 inches... Read more about this item
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$50.00
Della Cittadella Italiana alla Esposizione di San Francisco (P.P.I.E. San Francisco Cal. 1915). Edito a Cura del Regio Commissariato Italiano per l'Esposizione Internazionale di San Francisco

Della Cittadella Italiana alla Esposizione di San Francisco (P.P.I.E. San Francisco Cal. 1915). Edito a Cura del Regio Commissariato Italiano per l'Esposizione Internazionale di San Francisco

Roma: Stabilimento Tipografico "Aternum" di Enrico Sabucchi, 1915. Paperback. 54p., illustrated with plentiful b&w photographs, plat & line maps and diagrammatic floorplans and elevations; softbound a folio-sized paperback in 13.5x9.5 textured gray wraps. A very useful book in very bad shape: the photos of the ongoing construction of the imitation renaissance architecture demonstrates how well-built this and doubtless other venues were made, and how large an extent: numerous buildings and spacious... Read more about this item
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$30.00
L'Illustration: Exposition de Bruxelles. No. 4812 - 93e annee; 25 Mai 1935

L'Illustration: Exposition de Bruxelles. No. 4812 - 93e annee; 25 Mai 1935

by [expositions; world's fairs]

Paris: the magazine, 1935. Magazine. xxviii, [79]p., to xliv [ads], coated paperstock throughout with b&w, some color, sepia (gravure?) and a mounted portrait of ye Congo butcher when young and beardless. Magazine in 15x11 inch color wraps, has a lower-margin impact with crumple (not affecting print-blocks) about 3 inches long and 1 l/2 deep, head and tail have small tear & chip, general mild signs of handling, quite a fresh-looking copy that was supplied with a clear acetate sur-wrapper prior to our... Read more about this item
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$75.00
Exposición General Española 1929: Sevilla - Barcelona

Exposición General Española 1929: Sevilla - Barcelona

by Direccion Artistica, Baldrich - Confección Gráficas Reunidas, Madrid

Madrid: Editado por El Consejo De Enlace de Las Exposiciones de Sevilla y Barcelona. Gráficas Reunidas, S.A., 1929. 32p., 7x9.5 inches, text in Spanish, illustrated with b&w photos, mild wear and staining to covers otherwise good booklet/program for the exposition in stapled pictorial wraps; cover nicely litho'd in olive and tan on buff stock.
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$25.00
[ART AND NEW MEDIA] Los ordenadores, el láser y el arte [Computers, laser, and art]

[ART AND NEW MEDIA] Los ordenadores, el láser y el arte [Computers, laser, and art]

by Laboratorio de Óptica de la Universidad de Alicante, Centro de Cálculo de la Universidad de Zaragoza (C.C.U.Z.), Manuel Aguado

Only edition of this small catalog of an exhibition dedicated to artistic holography, held in Zaragoza in December-January 1981-82. With the use of laser beams, it was now possible to depict three-dimensional bodies in space that change in shape and color. Artists saw holography as an opportunity to eliminate in one medium the antagonisms between painting and sculpture that had been discussed for centuries. Among other things, this catalog provides an introduction to the technique, which was... Read more about this item
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$432.36
Plaisir de France, (Images de France) Revue mensuelle; numero de l'exposition

Plaisir de France, (Images de France) Revue mensuelle; numero de l'exposition

by [Bruxelles 1958, l'Exposition de]

Paris: Plaisir de France, 1958. Magazine. 82p., lviii [ads], large slick magazine in 12x9.5 inch decorated wraps; p.21/2 is double-fold, opening out to a stylized plat of exposition grounds printed white on solid black (nice touch) with green onlaid color. Ad on p.xxi features a tipped-on swatch of weird wallpaper; find several wallpaper ads, oddly enough, and plusieurs des ads par parfum (no samples). Externally this exemplar is somewhat dirty and handled, while its interior is clean, sound and... Read more about this item
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$20.00
Official Pictures of a Century of Progress Exposition, by Kaufmann & Fabry Co., 1933 First Edition

Official Pictures of a Century of Progress Exposition, by Kaufmann & Fabry Co., 1933 First Edition

by Chicago World's Fair 1933

Official Pictures of a Century of Progress Exposition. Photographs by Kaufmann & Fabry Co. Official Photographers. c. 1933. The Reuben H Donnelley Corporation, Chicago.[The Chicago World's Fair was held from May 27, 1933 - November 12 1933. Due to its popularity, it was reopened in 1934 and ran from May to October]. These are the official photographs of the fair, published in 1933Condition: This original "Official Pictures" of the World's Fair in Chicago in 1933 has been bound into an attractive... Read more about this item
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$152.75
Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco California, Opened by President Wilson February 20th, closes December 4th 1915

Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco California, Opened by President Wilson February 20th, closes December 4th 1915

San Francisco: Pacific Novelty Company of San Francisco, 1915. A superior copy of this rather routine photographic treatment. Unpaginated, complete and sound, an oblong softbound booklet in smoky-marbled 9.5x12.5 inch wraps with embossed titling and decoration in bronze, brown and gilt. Mildest edgewear; b&w captioned photos on textstock of coated alkaline paper throughout; staples show a little rust at the centerfold. No smudges or tears, quite a good copy.
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$30.00
Portfolio of Views: Issued By the Department of Photography

Portfolio of Views: Issued By the Department of Photography

by Arnold, C.D.; H.D. Higinbotham

St. Louis: C.B. Woodward Co, 1893. Oblong Octavo. 35 images of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. An unusually bright copy bound in brown pictorial cloth accented in rose, black and gilt, ribbon bound.
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$85.00
New Zealand Invites You. New Zealand, The World's Scenic Wonderland-- The California of the Southern Seas. How to Get to New Zealand [San Francisco to Wellington, Vancouver to Auckland]

New Zealand Invites You. New Zealand, The World's Scenic Wonderland-- The California of the Southern Seas. How to Get to New Zealand [San Francisco to Wellington, Vancouver to Auckland]

[no city, NZ]: [published either by a NZ bureau or by US travel agentry], 1915. Pamphlet. Single leaf of reasonably alkaline coated paperstock, printed and folded to make a 9x4 inch upright handout with b&w photography, a line map, and a naively enthusiastic promotional text. Faintest toning, mild edgewear, a very good copy. Dated from this, that the NZ commissioner at the NZ Pavillion, PPIE, will be pleased to see you at his office and supply full information.. our text-writer was somewhat obsessed... Read more about this item
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$15.00
Federal Irrigation Projects, Bureau of Reclamation. The Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia Pennsylvania U.S.A., June 1 to December 1 1926

Federal Irrigation Projects, Bureau of Reclamation. The Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia Pennsylvania U.S.A., June 1 to December 1 1926

by Walter, R.F., chief engineer, Bureau of Reclamation

Washington DC: GPO / U.S. Department of the Interior, 1926. Pamphlet. ii, 50p., illustrated in b&w photography fuzzily reproduced, generally a photo on every page starting from p.10. Softbound, 9x6 inch pamphlet staple-fastened. A GPO item with both covers printed in colors, rather unusual, perhaps a boost for this little-known Exposition. Item has suffered damp-damage, to covers, not to text pages, staining not particularly severe however obvious. The staples, exposed where these protrude at the... Read more about this item
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$20.00
Paper making in Massachusetts in the year of the Panama-Pacific exposition, 1915 by authority of Massachusetts board of Panama-Pacific managers

Paper making in Massachusetts in the year of the Panama-Pacific exposition, 1915 by authority of Massachusetts board of Panama-Pacific managers

Springfield MA: Springfield Homestead Newspaper Company, Publishers, 1915. Unpaginated, perhaps 32p., printed on various stocks: a heavy (50#?) textured sort, a slick yellowish, and a tissue-guard-type; ads fore, aft and betwixt. 15.5x11 inch plainish printed wraps fastened with four staples as issued, staples begun to rust, spinefold terribly abraded and torn but not quite detached, many leaves bear short tears, a poor to fair copy with no evidence of losses. As is; the historical content appears... Read more about this item
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$30.00
Treasures, splendid survivors of the Golden Gate International Exposition

Treasures, splendid survivors of the Golden Gate International Exposition

by Schnoebelen, Anne

Berkeley: GGIE Research Associates, 1991. Pamphlet. 15p., wraps slightly shelf worn with minor creasing, old price sticker on rear wrap else good condition, 7x8.5 inches, illustrated.
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$20.00
The beginning of the International petroleum exposition and congress, reprinted from The chronicles of Oklahoma volume XXVI no. 4, Winter 1948-1949

The beginning of the International petroleum exposition and congress, reprinted from The chronicles of Oklahoma volume XXVI no. 4, Winter 1948-1949

by Clinton, Fred S., M.D., F.A.C.S

[Oklahoma]: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1949. Pamphlet. Staplebound offprint, coated paperstock throughout with b&w period photography and text, 9x6 inch titled decorated wraps, slight dust-soil and mild signs of handling, touch of rust to staples, good copy. First plate is an aerial view of the buildings and grounds in 1922, in Tulsa.
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$12.00
Golden Gate International Exposition 1939-1940 (3 ticket books)

Golden Gate International Exposition 1939-1940 (3 ticket books)

San Francisco: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Three season ticket books, two adult and one child (not related) approximately 2.25x5.25 inches (the 1939 is 2.5x5 inches) with photos of the the holders (a man, a woman and a young boy) each retaining quite a few admission tickets, all 3 in very good condition.
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$45.00
Catalogo General - Grandes - establecimientos - horticolas. Arboles , plantas, semillas, bulbos. Los mas impiortantes de Espana, casa fundada en 1.877. Gran Premio en la Exposicien Ibero Americana Sevilla 1929-30. Diploma de Honor en la Exposicion Nacional de Horticultura - Madrid 1930

Catalogo General - Grandes - establecimientos - horticolas. Arboles , plantas, semillas, bulbos. Los mas impiortantes de Espana, casa fundada en 1.877. Gran Premio en la Exposicien Ibero Americana Sevilla 1929-30. Diploma de Honor en la Exposicion Nacional de Horticultura - Madrid 1930

by Leyva, Juan, La Quinta director propietario, sucesor de Pedro Giraud

Granada: Imp. Editorial Urania, 1930. Paperback. 207p., illustrated with drawings and blurry photography, softbound in an oblong stapled textblock, 6.5x9.5 inches. A deco master designed the wrapper, front and back, with lettering in red and silver on black and grey backgrounds. Front cover edgeworn with creasings, back cover worn and stained. First leaf (the half-title) and terminal leaf have pulled wasy from sstaples and exposed these, with ragged tears. A fair to good copy, with text itself very... Read more about this item
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$35.00
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