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0365675741.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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189360902Chicago IL & Philadelphia PA: George Barry 1893. 8vo. 383 1 pp. Map frontispiece’s. With 336 black & white plates text illustrations. Half-calf over contemporary marbled boards black & gilt spine label minor scuffing to marbled boards pastedowns & inner hinges repaired still VG copy from the libraries of Franka Johnson and Prof. Marvin Nathan w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition stated of this relatively uncommon guidebook to the paintings and art exhibited at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The Art Gallery featured an impressive international group of artists including Winslow Homer William Chase Walter Crane Childe Hassam Adeolphe Marais Amanda Sewell Kenyon Cox and over 100 others. Charles McMeen Kurtz 1855-1909 at the time was one of Halsey Ives’s Assistants in the Fine Arts Department of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition Art Director of the 1894 St. Louis Exposition and later Museum Director at the Buffalo Museum of Art 1905-1909. See: Dybwad & Bliss Annotated Bibliography: World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 1992 907 1st ed. George Barry, hardcover
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19398673New York: Exposition Publications Incorporated. 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Moderate wear to extremities. Slight soiling to front free endpaper ; Hardcover edition of World's Fair guide for 1939; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages . Exposition Publications, Incorporated hardcover
193960959San Francisco CA: San Francisco Bay Exposition 1939. 8vo. 116 pp. With oblong folio. 19.25 x 16 in. colour pictorial map frontisp. detailed sections of island and exhibits in blue on verso fold creases numerous photo illustrations text maps diagrams stepped thumb tabs at outer fore-edge. Blue-cloth backed softcovers featuring the striking Art Deco cover art by Simon “Si†Vanderlaan 1904-1986 famed pin-up artist and illustrator who worked for Walt Disney studios during World War II minor scuffing very minor age toning shelfwear still VG bright copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. Revised 1939 edition of this excellent guide to the first year in 1939 of the Golden Gate International Exposition including “Cartograph†revealing all of the Art Deco architectural wonders and surrounding areas of Treasure Island. The pictorial maps were issued separately as well as with the “Official Guide Books.†Ruth Taylor White’s 1902-1985 delightful pictographic maps or cartographs included depictions of the Territory of Hawaii in which she had driven or traveled to every corner of the Islands and the Grand Canyon for her for her brother’s book “Grand Canyon Country.†Later Little Brown requested an entire atlas which was published as the very scarce Our U.S.A. “A gay geography.†Her cartographs influenced the style of American cartographic illustration for decades afterwards. See: Griffin Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography pp. 192-193; Field MapCarte 29/364: Our U.S.A. A Gay Geography 2014. San Francisco Bay Exposition, paperback
191560910San Francisco CA & Oakland CA: Panama-Pacific International Exposition The Wahlgreen Co. Official Publishers 1915. Three pieces. 1st two - 8vo. 11-132 pp. w/ clipped Exposition map backed in linen mounted onto title page photo & text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers covered in white linen manuscript annotation of J.F. Rodgers 853-36th St. Oakland CA on front cover minor edgewear creasing; with large 28 x 8 in. Map of the Exhibition grounds issued by the Southern Pacific backed in linen on verso w/ extensive ink manuscript notes of itinerary and visits on verso list of 17 dates neatly written in upper fore-edge of recto some dustsoiling at fold creases edgewear still G set; 2nd - 8vo. 160 pp. With 1 large folding 4-panel frontisp. map of Exposition on recto birds-eye of San Francisco Bay on verso w/ photo ads at margin illustrated ads at front & rear. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of the City of Domes colour ad for Southern Pacific on back minor chipping head & foot of spine some creasing edgewear still VG- copy all from the library of John Francis Rodgers 1863-1932 and Prof. Marvin Nathan. First editions stated of these uncommon guidebooks to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition together with the well-used map and manuscript notes of the Southern Pacific Railroad’s “Lost Properties†department head who attended the Fair 17 times through the year. These offer an intimate historical portrait of the frequency and popularity of visits by many fairgoer’s during the run of the PPIE. The neat manuscript notes list all the band performances he managed to catch through the year of festivities including John Philip Sousa conducting his popular marching band; the Philippine Constabulary Band which had originally played in 1904 at the St. Louis World’s Fair and whose performances at the PPIE proved very popular including 1 conducted by Sousa; and the Marimba Band “of Honduras†which was actually the Hurtado Brothers Royal Marimba Band the official Guatemalan Representatives at the PPIE who performed standing room only and wildly popular packed concerts; as well as the U.S. Marine Corps Band Arizona 1st Infantry Band St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum Band Oakland School Band and more. He was also actively interested in the aerial shows performed at the PPIE featuring flights by pioneering aviators four of whom would not see 1917 as Silas Christofferson 1890-1916 perhaps best remembered for his dramatic leap off of the roof of the Multnomah Hotel in downtown Portland; Lincoln Beachey 1887-1915 who drowned while performing loop aerial maneuvers in a test Beachey-Eaton Monoplane crashing into San Francisco Bay in front of the PPIE crowd; Art Smith 1890-1926 who replaced Beachey and pioneered sensational aerial displays with fireworks and magnesium flares over the night skies; Charles Niles 1868-1916 who performed with Petrossi only to die a year later in OshKosh WI; and finally the Paraguayan daredevil Silvio Petrossi 1887-1916 noted for his illuminated night flights as well and even survived a crash in San Francisco Bay only to die in 1916. Rodgers also attended the PPIE during Contra Costa Day March 3 Tuolumne Day April 14 an Oakland School concert in Festival Hall April 16 Japan Day August 31 Liberty Bell Day July 7 and even Illinois Day - held July 24 1915 in honor of the Chicago Limited SS Eastland disaster after the ship rolled over at the pier killing 844 passengers & crew. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, The Wahlgreen Co., Official Publishers, paperback
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4015San Diego:: The Exposition . Many halftones plans and maps. 80 pp. Tall 8vo stiff white wrappers front pictorial and in color; come separation at head and foot of spine; lower front corner bumped and first few leaves slightly dog-eared; two small grease stains on front cover extending through the first three leaves. Institutionally common but scarce in trade—only copies available are print-on-demand copies. San Diego:: [The Exposition], ,. unknown
