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198835308München; Cambridge: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; Houghton Library Harvard University 1988. Paperback. HELL Hellmut; MOISY Sigrid von; WOLFF Barbara eds. 138 pp. In English and German. Catalog of a joint exhibition of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the Houghton Library issued by the Bavaria-Harvard Committee for 20th Century Music History. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; Houghton Library, Harvard University paperback books
193943914San Francisco: Southern Pacific Railroad 1939. White paper printed in black color illustration to front. Modest general wear and occasional minor soiling; minor spotting and toning to rear of two menus; light musty odor. VG. Bifolia. Menu fare printed to inner and rear pages. Different color illustration of one of the fair's exhibits to the front of each menu. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Set of four promotional menus -- one breakfast two lunch one dinner -- each featuring a series of meal selections and a la carte options; little variance between the two lunch menus with the exception of the vegetable offering and front illustration. Beverages cigars and cigarettes playing cards and "dietetic service" notice remains the same for all menus and is printed on the last page of each. Southern Pacific Railroad unknown books
189548150Portland: Leighton and Frey Souvenir View 1895. Hardcover. Very good. 9 by 5.75 inches 9 by 48 inches unfolded. Publisher's cloth back boards lettered in gilt. Lettering dulled with some minor spots of loss to the spine else a very good example with images in fine condition. <br/><br/>Containing nine 9 by 5 black and cards most with multiple images each labeled: "General View; Fine Arts Building; Agricultural Building Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building Machinery Hall; Transportation Building AuditoriumGovernment Building; Fire Building Women's Building Georgia State Building and Negro Building; Administration Building and Main Entrance Minerals and Forestry Building; Peachtree Street Henry W. Grady Monument Post Office & Custom House; Aragon Hotel Grand Opera House Marietta Street Kimball House; Ballard House W.H. Inman's Residence Equitable Building Residence of Major Mimms Grady Hospital. Leighton and Frey Souvenir View hardcover books
191619270Albany: J.B. Lyon 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt with New York seal in glit front cover. Fine. 488 pages. 27 x 20 cm Almost as new copy. Approx. 75 illustrations two large fold-out plates at rear cover. Index. Owner stamp in lower margin of title page. J.B. Lyon hardcover books
1907106653<p>15" x 9 ¾" color illustration from a 1907 newspaper. Attached at the bottom margin with tape to cardboard sheet slight margin creasing a couple of margin nicks and normal aging; otherwise very good. Colorful illustration of the Jamestown Exposition celebrating the 300-year anniversary of the town. It shows the Sea End of Godspeed Pier and the east side of Raleigh Square. You can see a dirigible anchored near the center of town.</p> J.W. Pratt, books
1893186002Chicago: the exposition; Printed in Germany 1893. Single long leaf of light cardstock about 6.5x35 inches long recto printed with heavily glazed b&w lithos and folded to 6.5x3.25 inches; images at either end are laid down on stiff cloth boards which enclose the concertina'd views. Upper boards is decorated with lady showing one breast and a cupid clutching a US shield-thingie. A poor-to-fair exemplar; the cardstock is quite acidic and fragile and while it supports individual images well enough has split away from both covers with one ragged loss and further splits are developing. Complete as called for with all faults. The scenes are exclusively of buildings little sailing craft negotiating the lagoon-grid one armored gunboat and trees with people shown as dots. the exposition; Printed in Germany unknown books
191527888San Francisco: Panama-Pacific-Exposition 1915. 1st edition. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering/device to front board. Nr Fine gilt bright/small spot to right margin of few center text leaves. 88 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. <br/><br/> Panama-Pacific-Exposition hardcover books
39840EXPOSITION--LONDON--1862 THE ART JOURNAL ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1862. London: James S. Virtue 1862. Small folio. Contemporary quarter calf all edges gilt. xii 324 pages 10 lithographic plates. First edition. A profusely illustrated catalogue for the London 1862 exhibition the much enlarged successful followup to the original inaugural 1851 exhibition published by The Art Journal featuring articles on the fine and decorative ar such as "The International Exhibition" "The Mediaeval Court" "Notes on th Raw Materials used by Artists as seen in the Exhibition" "Machinery employe in Art-Manufactures" "Art in its Influence on Art-Manufacture" "Modern Sculpture of all nations in the Exhibition" among others. Every aspect of ar and manufactures is included and well illustrated: furniture jewellery iron steel and brass work porcelain terra-cotta etc. carpets tapestries glas silver stone and wood carving wall decoration works in sculpture etc. Ve good. unknown books
191553715San Francisco: Robert A. Reid 1915. Second edition. Oblong quarto 21.5cm x 31cm. Publisher's pale blue cloth decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; decorated endpapers; 328pp chiefly illus. An unusually fine copy in the original binding - virtually free of aging or wear but lacking the rare publisher's box. <br/><br/>Elaborately-produced view book publicizing the Exposition with views of pavilions and exhibits including numerous color plates. Highly uncommon in this condition. Robert A. Reid unknown books
1892232951New York: Brentano 1892. First. hardcover. good. 12 photogravure plates. 4pp. of text. Oblong folio 1/2 blue cloth boards soiled edges of boards worn front flyleaf with several tears light foxing to plates. New York: Brentano's 1892. First Edition<br/><br/> Brentano unknown books
15638EAGLE Mary Cavanaugh Oldham Editor. The Congress of Women held in the Women's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago USA 1893 with Portraits Biographies and Addresses. Los Angeles 1894. Later California printing. Large encyclopedic volume in black cloth publisher's binding with fraying to cloth edges and fading to spine. Interior pages clean and tight. Accompanied by a commemorative silver salver try from the Columbian Exposition and featuring an image of the Women's Building. As part of the Columbian Exposition a world's fair hosted in 1893 the Women's Congress convened to establish a building constructed by and for women to promote the work of women architects artists writers and entrepreneurs. Touted as "the greatest event of its kind in history" the Women's Congress released these commemorative pieces to spread awareness and raise profits to support women's work. unknown books
186453725London: Day & Son 1864. First Edition. Large octavo 26cm. Publisher's embossed cloth-covered boards decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xxiv447pp; 431 wood-engraved text-figures; 39 inserted leaves of engraved plates most folding. Neatly rebacked; some spotting and soiling to boards spine cloth slightly dulled. Endpapers soiled with faint marginal tidemark to preliminary leaves but in all a tight complete Very Good copy. Ownership signature on front endpaper of a William John Lafferty Belfast dated 1866. <br/><br/>A significant work infrequent in commerce. Especially valuable for its coverage of early railway technology an area in which the author was himself expert as he had served as a Consulting Engineer for the Great North of Scotland Railway as early as 1853. The book's four divisions - Railways; Textile Machinery; Metal and Wood Manufacturing Machinery; and "Machinery in General" are each profusely illustrated with both text figures and folding plates. The final plate at end of text is a "General Plan of the Western Annex" where mechanical exhibits were housed. Day & Son unknown books
191553716San Francisco: Robert A. Reid 1915. First Edition. Oblong quarto 21cm x 30cm. Pictorial stiff card wrappers; 60pp chiefly illus. A fresh fine copy. Attractive souvenir view book of the Exposition illustrated throughout with captioned photographic plates halftones. Robert A. Reid unknown books
1849WRCAM38909New York 1849. 4pp. Minor creasing to edges. Near fine. Promoting "the taste for the Fine Arts" this small pamphlet outlines the General Plan of the International Art-Union. In exchange for an annual fee of five dollars the subscriber received an engraving equal to the value of the subscription as well as the opportunity for an American student to study in Europe for two years subsidized by the Union. The final two pages advertise the engravings held by the Art-Union. Among those listed under the "Committee of Reference" are Washington Irving and N.P. Ellis. unknown books
1915008618NY: John Lane Co 1915. Soft cover. VG. 4to pictorial covers monthly issue of design/arts/architecture monthly this issue's most important features in our opinion illustrated articles on woodcut artist T. Stureg Moore wiith 2 fill page woodcuts and b&w images of more and the sculpture at the Panama Pacific Exposition illustrated w/ b&w photogrtaphs. Covers lightly soiled the rest near fine. John Lane Co unknown books
191610082San Francisco: Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co. Pr. by John Henry Nash 1916. 8vo. 8 187 1 pp. <br><br>First edition of this example of Nash job printing: He printed 5000 copies for the PPIE Company. Nash was of course one of San Francisco's most important and artistically influential printers. He arrived there from Canada in 1895 saw his business destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire but persevered and rose to national prominence.<br>Â Â Â Â A collection of hundreds of letters of praise from prominent individuals who visited the Panama-Pacific International Exposition the 1915 world's fair held in San Francisco; includes letters from Woodrow Wilson William Howard Taft Elihu Root Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt Samuel Gompers and Thomas Edison. The text of each page is surrounded by red ink borders and a printed sidenote summarizes the theme of each letter.<br>Â Â Â Â Prepared by James A. Barr and Joseph M. Cumming and edited by Oscar H. Fernbach. With a preface by Charles C. Moore. Includes index. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Nash Bibliography p. 3. Contemporary quarter cloth over paper boards covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library; soiled and spine with paper title-label with small chip and shelving label. Paper across hinges inside opening but volume strong; one page with short tear at foremargin. Ex-library with bookplate and remnant of another pencilling card pocket and perforation-stamps; dust-soiling but no real staining. A "lesser" copy for sure but one that is not as abused as it may sound and one that is priced according to its faults. Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co. (Pr. by John Henry Nash) hardcover books
1938222981San Francisco: The Monitor 1938. Magazine. Section Two" only evidently the expo-dedicated portion of this issue of the long-lived Roman Catholic periodical. Folio magazine softbound of course stapled 17x11 illustrated wraps sepia cover drawing joins TI tower and Ferry Building images 40p. coated alkaline paperstock throughout with plenty of b&w illustrations and ads. Be warned find minimal Expo material most pix are of old Franciscan churches over boilerplate text. Item is bent along top and bottom margins packing problems for tall vulnerable thingie with crimpings and some creasing there's a half-inch food lump on cover that goes thru to verso a basically as-is good-only copy that would flatten nicely under weight. Pious boosterism; for instance PG&E took out an ad bannered "Electrical Miracles In Store For Exposition Visitors" referring to anticipated gorgeous lighting effects has a so-so b&w illustration linking lit-up nighttime SF to the nearby lit-up island. The Monitor unknown books
189320760Chicago: Metcalf Stationery Company 1893. First Edition. 16 pp in original stapled wrappers. Delicate condition with a 1/4 x 1.5 inch chip missing from all pages in the volume not affecting text and an additional chip to the front wrapper. A scarce and detailed guide to the many features of the Moorish Palace at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. These included a palm garden "enhanced by groups of Arabs" a replica of the Alhambra a harem a labyrinth a cave a "monster kaleidoscope" and an extensive wax museum. The guide describes 60 figures and scenes appearing in the museum among them the Lincoln assasintation the fountain of youth Christ and the Samartian Martin Luther Sleeping Beauty Shakespeare Mozart Queen Victoria Pope Leo XIII Napoleon and George Washington. A separate room contained a diorama of the execution of Marie Antoinette which used the actual scaffold and guillotine that did the deed. Metcalf Stationery Company unknown books
37505Gloucester MA: Cape Anne Historical Association 1989. Softcover. 10.5" x 9". 75 1 pp. Several b&w photographic illustrations among text. Very minor scuffing and toning to wraps. Inscribed by Walter Hancock. Very Good. . VeryGood. Paperback . Cape Anne Historical Association 1989 paperback books
190474949Philadelphia: J. Murray Jordan. Very Good. 1904. Softcover. View book is soft-bound in light blue wrappers with blue black and brown embossing to the upper wrappers. The covers show soiling and scuffing as well as edge-wear and wear to the spine. The staple binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations throughout. Worn covers with bright b/w views - 40 pages. . J. Murray Jordan paperback books
190519444Philadelphia: 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. Pennsylvania Commission hardcover books
197637880Chicago: Gallery Black Swan 1976. 17 by 11 inches. Yellow stock printed in black. Some light handling wear else a fine example. Original poster for this musical performance that happened during the World Surrealist Exhibition with a group that consisted of three AACM members: George Lewis James Johnson and Douglas Ewart. <br/><br/> Gallery Black Swan unknown books
1928151662Philadelphia: Philadelphia Chapter A.I.A. and The T Square Club 1928. Hardbound. G- Has moderate to substantial wear to bindings and edges esp. at bottom edge of front cover; boards however seem secure and page surfaces are generally clean. Brown paper over boards; 348 pp. with mostly bw illustrations and advertisements throughout. Represents the work of architect and designer members of the clubs. Includes vintage photos of various buildings interiors and exteriors and some floor plans predominantly in the Philadelphia and Main Line area but others are included as well. Many advertisements too. A good book for browsing despite the cover condition. Scarce. Philadelphia Chapter A.I.A. and The T Square Club unknown books
10907SF CROCKER CO 1939. SF BAY AREA BRIDGES; 32 PAGES VERY GOOD-FINE. SF, CROCKER CO, 1939 unknown books
KC16056Ephemera. Good. 1 Die Deutsche Theater-Ausstellung Magdeburg 1927. Eine Schilderung ihrer Entstehung und ihres Verlaufes. Mitteldeutschen Ausstellungsgesellschaft M.B.H. Magdeburg 1928 8.25 x 11.75 German text folded once with heavy tape repair some covering two lines of the text block with toning and several light folds throughout. Text related to the history of the Magdeburg theatre and more including five black and white photographs: The Theatre of Dionysus an experimental building at the Bauhaus in Dessau a set design for August Strindbergs The Great Highway designed by Ludwig Sievert and more. Printed by: A. Wohlfeld Magdeburg. 2. Allemagne Exposition du Theatre Allemand Magdebourg MaySept. 1927 4 x 8.5 French text eight pages folded brochure lacking the staples with splits and wear and a light fold throughout. Illustrated in black and red including seven black and white illustrations explaining the history of the Magdebourg theatre. Theatre Exhibition logo designed by Karl Schulpig a pioneer of early corporate design frequently cited as one of the fathers of the modern logo design. <br/><br/> unknown books