World's Fair Auction

Closing Tuesday September 16th, 2025

Auction # 47 Closing Tuesday - September 16th, 2025 at 10:00 PM EDT
Catalog Lot 168

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Hardcover Book, "Building of the World Expositions" © 1985 translated from German. This book goes into great detail regarding the construction of pavilions for World's Fairs from 1851-1970. For the early fairs it discuses the creative structures and engineering designs that were built to create the huge spaces for the expositions. Once the book gets to the 20th century, the discussion turns to the changing of the architecture as displayed in the fairs. There is a lengthy discussion of the 1933 fair, but little mention of the 1939 New York fair (he ignored the T&P completely). The book is filled with design drawings and pictures of the exposition buildings. The author talks about the architects and likes to discuss art work that was displayed at the fairs. 214 pages plus a "Chronological Table" of the expositions (as he sees it), a bibliography of notes and index making for a total of 224 pages. Size: 9 5/8" wide by 10 7/8" high. Condition. The book is Excellent with small tears at the bottom of 2 pages. The dust cover is Good. It has tears at the top and the original plastic coating is almost all gone.

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