THE WORLD OF TOMORROW; NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1789-1939 by Hare, Elizabeth Sage and Chappell, Warren

New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [corners bumped, spine cloth browned/discolored, a little soiling to covers, some deterioration/fraying at top of spine; otherwise a decent, solid copy]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep by Reuben Castang, at the New York World's Fair in 1939. A legendary trainer of circus animals, Castang worked for circus impresario Carl Hagenbeck, and also spent some time in Hollywood, training chimpanzees and other animals for the movies. The book's introduction is by Frank Buck, who considered it "not only a genuine pleasure, but a real duty to recommend this interesting book to every red-blooded boy in America." Signed by Biographee .

New York: Pictorial Photographers of America, 1939. Softcover. Very Good. 1939 issue. Very good in soiled wrappers. Images from the club's centennial exhibition, which was coordinated with the 1939 New York World's Fair.

New York: New York World's Fair Incorporated, 1939. Fine Condition in a good box. One of 500 hand numbered copies this one issued to G. Lynn Summer with beautiful full page color lithographs in red, white, blue and black. Spiral bound in red plastic and in the publisher's original blue pebbled cloth with a white paper label stamped in black on the front cover. Sixteen leaves printed on both sides. Book measures 19 X 24.38 inches (48.26 x 61.93 cm.). Given out to potential donors or orgaizers as an invitation to participate. Also signed on the back invitation page by the fair's president Grover Whalen.

New York, N.Y. : Nippon Pub. Co, 1939. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. 32pp. Softcover. Bound as a magazine. Significant edgewear to wrappers with minimal loss to margins. Small hole to front wrapper with loss. Light stains to first and last pages. Otherwise, interior pages are clean, unmarked, and in excellent condition. <br><br>The Japanese American Review was established in 1900. The editor for this issue is Y.E. Murakoa. This issue covers the 1939 World's Fair in a New York and, specifically, the Japanese Pavilion there. The magazine has collections of photos depicting life and special sites in Japan. The articles vary from picturing and describing successful businessmen, to a Japanese travelogue, to discussing Japanese- American relations. There is also a very interesting piece on Japan and America's symbolic flame of friendship that burned outside the Japanese Pavilion of the 1939 World's Fair. This is just two years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the United… Read More

New York: New York World's Fair Edition. 1939. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. .

New York: William Morrow & Company. Very Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [corners bumped, spine cloth browned/discolored, a little soiling to covers, some deterioration/fraying at top of spine; otherwise a decent, solid copy]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep by Reuben Castang, at the New York World's Fair in 1939. A legendary trainer of circus animals, Castang worked for circus impresario Carl Hagenbeck, and also spent some time in Hollywood, training chimpanzees and other animals for the movies. The book's introduction is by Frank Buck, who considered it "not only a genuine pleasure, but a real duty to recommend this interesting book to every red-blooded boy in America." Signed by Biographee .

New York: Pictorial Photographers of America, 1939. Softcover. Very Good. 1939 issue. Very good in soiled wrappers. Images from the club's centennial exhibition, which was coordinated with the 1939 New York World's Fair.

New York, The Greystone Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in a very good, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ""The World's Unfair Guests. "" Description: [63] p. 24 cm. Subjects: New York World's Fair (1939-1940) . Comical illustrations.

New York: New York World's Fair Incorporated, 1939. Fine Condition in a good box. One of 500 hand numbered copies this one issued to G. Lynn Summer with beautiful full page color lithographs in red, white, blue and black. Spiral bound in red plastic and in the publisher's original blue pebbled cloth with a white paper label stamped in black on the front cover. Sixteen leaves printed on both sides. Book measures 19 X 24.38 inches (48.26 x 61.93 cm.). Given out to potential donors or orgaizers as an invitation to participate. Also signed on the back invitation page by the fair's president Grover Whalen.

New York, N.Y. : Nippon Pub. Co, 1939. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. 32pp. Softcover. Bound as a magazine. Significant edgewear to wrappers with minimal loss to margins. Small hole to front wrapper with loss. Light stains to first and last pages. Otherwise, interior pages are clean, unmarked, and in excellent condition. <br><br>The Japanese American Review was established in 1900. The editor for this issue is Y.E. Murakoa. This issue covers the 1939 World's Fair in a New York and, specifically, the Japanese Pavilion there. The magazine has collections of photos depicting life and special sites in Japan. The articles vary from picturing and describing successful businessmen, to a Japanese travelogue, to discussing Japanese- American relations. There is also a very interesting piece on Japan and America's symbolic flame of friendship that burned outside the Japanese Pavilion of the 1939 World's Fair. This is just two years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the United… Read More