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Cuba Before the World. At the Panama-Pacific Exposition. A Comprehensive and Descriptive Account of the Republic of Cuba From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Containing Unembellished Data for General Information of History, System of Government, Education, Sanitation, Commerce, Industry, Agriculture, Banking, Society, Touring, Sports and Notes of Interest. Superbly Illustrated with over 300 Original Photographs
by Alfonso, Manuel F. and T. Valero Martinez, compilers and editors
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- 1915
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$85.00
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Havana: The Souvenir Guide of Cuba Co, 1915. Hardcover. 223p., cloth-covered boards with map illustration on front, profusely illus., boards lightly edgeworn, a few small stains on both front endpapers, else very good condition. Item Price
$85.00
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
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- 1926
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
![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](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/579/002/1545002579.0.m.jpg)
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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
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- 1934
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$20.00
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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,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Golden Gate International Exposition, 35 souvenir postcards
by G.G.I.E. postcards
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- 1940
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$60.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$60.00
Copper & Brass Industry Exhibit. Hall of Industry & Metals, The World's Fair of 1940 in New York
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- 1940
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$35.00
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[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… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
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Salici's Puppets - Official Souvenir Program - Hall of Westerrn States, 1940 Treasure Island, Golden Gate International Exposition
by Salici family: six generations of puppeteering
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- 1940
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
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
by Leyva, Juan, La Quinta director propietario, sucesor de Pedro Giraud
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- 1930
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$35.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
Treasures, splendid survivors of the Golden Gate International Exposition
by Schnoebelen, Anne
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- 1991
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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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. Item Price
$20.00
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Souvenir Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco California, Opened by President Wilson February 20th, closes December 4th 1915
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- 1915
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$30.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
![Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris 1931 [titlepage] / L'Illustration Mai 1931, L'Exposition Coloniale, Album hors serie [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/059/749/1342749059.0.m.jpg)
Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris 1931 [titlepage] / L'Illustration Mai 1931, L'Exposition Coloniale, Album hors serie [cover title]
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- 1931
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$40.00
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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.… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
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
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- 1915
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
Societe Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies de Zinc de la Vielle Montagne. Couvertures & Cheneaux en Zinc. Peintures au Blanc de Zinc
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- 1904
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$50.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
Plaisir de France, (Images de France) Revue mensuelle; numero de l'exposition
by [Bruxelles 1958, l'Exposition de]
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- 1958
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$20.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
![Men at Work 1964-65 World's Fair Sketchbook [aka] Official Art Book of the World's Fair New York 1964-65](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/927/175/1321175927.0.m.jpg)
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
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- 1964
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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Niels Bukh, founder and originator of the world-famous Bukh system of physical education. A brief Biographical Sketch of Niels Bukh and his Achievements as Leader of the Gymnastic High School at Ollerup, Denmark
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- 1939
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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[San Francisco?]: no publisher, 1939. Pamphlet. [12]p., illustrated with ten b&w photos, last leaf advertises the international expo in San Francisco Bay where two performances are scheduled. Printed on pressed cream paperstock, alkaline and untoned but cover leaf is a little dusty, edgeworn and crimped, with a few spots of silverfishing. Good (good-only) copy. Precision group back-flips and handstands… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
![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]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/920/561/1138561920.0.m.jpg)
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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]
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- 1915
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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[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… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
L'Illustration: Exposition de Bruxelles. No. 4812 - 93e annee; 25 Mai 1935
by [expositions; world's fairs]
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- 1935
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$75.00
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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World's Fair Gardens: "Ride Your Hobby on Treasure Island" by Lou Richardson [article in] Better Homes & Gardens, volume 17 number 6, February, 1939
by Golden Gate International Exposition
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- 1939
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Des Moines: Meredith Publishing Company, 1939. Cover story (announced there; cover illustration per se simply an indoor flower-arranger at work) begins with a double-spread on pp20-21 with one half-page b&w photo and ten vignettes and a tiny map of central California, thereafter comprised of 4 or 5 full columns of text scattered in the back of the magazine. Complete… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
Ayuntamiento de Tarragona, Grandes Fiestas del 24 de Junio al 9 de Julio 1911. Primer Centenario de la Guerra de la Independencia
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- 1911
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Tarragona: Imprenta de F. Sugranes for the festival commission, 1911. Pamphlet. 21p., printed in blue and red inks throughout, on semi-coated alkaline paperstock; softbound in stapled upright color wraps (deco scene in two shades of red, and yellow, white and black on white stock --of the harbor, ruins, sea and a stout lady in mulberry gown foreground hoisting a… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Exposición General Española 1929: Sevilla - Barcelona
by Direccion Artistica, Baldrich - Confección Gráficas Reunidas, Madrid
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- 1929
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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. Item Price
$25.00
