[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce St. Louis World's Fair brochure

[Bob Petrilla]

Colleagues,

We are pleased to offer:

Missouri, St. Louis. THE WORLD'S FAIR CITY, 1904 - THE NEW ST. LOUIS:
Louisiana Purchase Centennial. St. Louis, Missouri: Fred Graf Eng. Co.,
1903. First Edition. 48pp; illus throughout from photographs, plan of
fairgrounds inside cover. Views include: Palace of Fine Arts, Educational
and Social Economy Palace, Machinery Building, Palace of Mines and
Metallurgy, Palace of Electricity, &c. Gives the dimensions of the
buildings in feet and the cost of erecting them, for example: Palace of
Mines and Metallurgy, 525 by 750 feet, nine acres of exhibit space, cost
five-hundred-thousand dollars; &c. The historical text lauds the New St.
Louis, with views of Union Station, St. Nicholas Hotel, Planters Hotel,
Boatmen's Bank, Mermond Jaccard Building, Customs House and Post Office,
City Hall, &c. Halftone photos of street scenes include: Washington Avenue,
West from Broadway; Broadway, North from Locust; Eads Bridge; &c.
Full-color, pictorial wrappers. 6" x 9.5" Very Good. Pictorial Stiff
Wrappers.
[Unrecorded by OCLC. WorldCat finds one holding at U Missouri-Kansas
Citiy.]  $125.00

Trade discount 20%, postpaid in US

Thanks for reading,

Bob Petrilla



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