npl: The Republic of Chile, [1939]. Pamphlet. Eight panel brochure, 4x9 inches, illus., light handling wear, a few small stains on front panel, else very good condition. Promotional brochure for the Chilean Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. More
Cat.No: 293300
[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: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939-40. 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..... More
Cat.No: 178013
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
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: Plant Construction Company, Windgate Press, 1995. First issue of this selection of color, colorized, and b&w photography, meticulously reproduced and housed hardbound in cloth portfolio gilt, 11.5x14.5 inches, accompanied (simply laid in) by a 10.5x8 inch stapled pamphlet by the Bonnets with background text, as issued. A lagniappe..... More
Cat.No: 254034
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
San Francisco: Popular Mechanics and G.G.I.E. Committee, no date, circa 1938. Pamphlet. [12p] 6.5x9.5 inches, eight pages in colors (some two-color, some almost-full-color)very good offprint, booster campaign booklet (get-em into the tent) in stapled blue pictorial wraps, stapled rusty, title page a full-color illustration of a model of the South..... More
Cat.No: 167358
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
New York: New York World's Fair 1939, Inc., 1938. Pamphlet. 16p., nice alkaline paperstock, a stapled 12.5x9 inch brochure, b&w illustrations throughout with monochrome spot color. Worn: dust-soil, crimping and a light vertical crease of the entire item, staples are rusted (migration), much slighter signs of handling within, fair to..... More
Cat.No: 250783
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
