New York: New History Society, [1939]. Four-page brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good, distributed at the NY World's Fair. Introduces "an international correspondence club" for youth between the ages of 6 and 15, affiliated with a Baha'i pacifist organization. More
Cat.No: 331011
[Schenectady, NY]: General Electric, [1939]. [16]p., stapled wraps, 9 x 12 inches, profusely illus., lightly worn else very good condition. Showcases GE's lighting of the Golden Gate Exposition, held on Treasure Island in 1939. Color photos show various buildings in the exposition illuminated at night, alongside diagrams of the lighting..... More
Cat.No: 253027
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..... More
Cat.No: 254133
San Francisco: National Swine Growers Association, 1939. 92p., stapled wraps, 6 x 9 inches, illus., program, list of exhibitors, ads, wraps worn, offsetting to first page and inside front wrap, contemporary gift inscription in Spanish on inside front wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 253043
San Francisco, CA: The San Francisco Call, 1904. Eight prints, 14.5x9.5 inches, some with edge tears and minor yellowing at the right margin. Each is labeled with the name of the building illustrated and the cost of its construction. There are four additional duplicate prints from the series thrown in..... More
Cat.No: 135376
New York: New History Society, [1939]. 32p. staplebound booklet, 5x7 inches, very good, together with five other items published by the Baha'i pacifist organization. The other items include "The Bahai Cause" (a four-panel brochure), "The plan of the New History Society for the reconstruction of the human commonwealth" (4p.), "What..... More
Cat.No: 330893
San Francisco: The Golden Gate International Exposition, 1938. [12]p., stapled wraps, 9x12 inches, profusely illus. with b&w photos, wraps lightly worn along stapled edge, previous owner's name penned on cover, else very good condition. Cover title: "1939 World's Fair: Progress on San Francisco Bay; One Year to Go...and The Golden..... More
Cat.No: 340504
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939. 47p. staplebound booklet, 4.25x5.5 inches, minor toning, very good. Cover illustration designed by Hans Klering features a map of Birobidzhan, the Soviet attempt at establishing a Jewish homeland close to the Chinese border. David Bergelson was a notable Yiddish novelist and short story writer..... More
Cat.No: 335419
San Francisco: Self-published, 1994. Spiral_bound. 57p., 7.5x7 inches oblong, 57 photos in b&w, very good in original spiral-bound pictorial wraps. Blaisdell has pulled together many such compilations and she is good at it. Photos from the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition, the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition and the 1939-40..... More
Cat.No: 205008
[Bay Area CA]: Copyrighted -1935- W. Blondel, 1935. Poster. Entrepreneur-generated aerial view looking north from San Francisco's embarcadero, shows (left to right) the Golden Gate Bridge, horizon of Marin and other counties extending to western Berkeley with foreground of Bay Bridge, Yerba Buena Island and an invented Exposition-scape. Appears to..... More
Cat.No: 253429
San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 1989. Hardcover. ix+158p., frontis, preface, Herb Caen at the Fair, designers, index, illustrated with b&w and color photographs, very good 11.25 x 8.75 inch boards bound in turquoise-green cloth gilt; first edition in dj, dj also in excellent shape. A collection of interviews with participants and..... More
Cat.No: 94507
![Cat.No: 328393 Theatre Arts Monthly: vol. 23, near complete run [11 issues]. Edith R....](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/328393.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732145454)
New York: Theatre Arts, Inc., 1938. Magazine. Eleven issue run of volume 23 missing only November, 8x9.75 inches, articles, plays, reviews, interviews, photos, scene designs, ads, lightly worn and toned theatre magazines in stapled printed wraps. Robert Sherwood profile. Noel Coward Rehearses Bea Lillie. New Plays on Broadway. Theatre Portraits..... More
Cat.No: 328393
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939. 31p. staplebound booklet, 4.25x5.5 inches, faint dampstain along right edge. This was one of the booklets from the "Pamphlet library on the Soviet Union," produced for the Soviet pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. More
Cat.No: 347993
New York: PFA, 1965. Paperback. 48p., 8x11 inches, news release bound-in, list of 106 exhibitors at rear, illustrated with b&w portraits of PFA museum directors by Karsh, very good in lightly-worn. More
Cat.No: 132806
San Francisco: Pisani Printing for Folies Bergere, 1940. Pamphlet. Season's program, [16]p., coated alkaline paperstock stapled into 12x9 inch wraps, b&w guts with four fullpage color plates: cover (by "Nationally Known Artist Irving Sinclair", evidently American, which we had guessed from the geometrically round exposed breast), followed inside by an..... More
Cat.No: 253494
Santa Ana, CA: Wycliffe Bible Translators, 1964. 24 unnumbered pages, staplebound booklet; very good. Distributed at the "Pavilion of 2000 Tribes" at the New York World's Fair, 1964-1965. "Modern linguistic tools cut a clear, clean path through the jungle-like maze of unwritten languages. And their babel of unintelligible sounds may..... More
Cat.No: 342845
New York: Julia Richman High School, 1939. 63p., 7.75x10.5 inch staplebound pictorial magazine wraps, title page and publisher's blank are filled with signatures and fair well wishes by the students to one another; bit of rubbing on covers, small ink stain on front cover, minor soil on covers, staples rusted..... More
Cat.No: 325584
npl: npub, [1933]. Pamphlet. 18p., stapled wraps, 5x7.25 inches, illus., old price sticker on front wrap else very good condition. Cover subtitle: "A glimpse of the farm of the future." Describes Henry Ford's experiments with soybeans and industrial agriculture as shown at the Ford Exhibition Building at the Century of..... More
Cat.No: 283266
Taibei: Chuankangyu wen wu guan 川康渝文物館, 1988. 7, 354 p., very good hardcover; text in Chinese with some portions in English, including letters from LBJ and other officials praising her work in organizing HemisFair and various World's Fairs, and correspondence from Asian-American organizations who worked with her to host Taiwanese..... More
Cat.No: 166414
