San Francisco's Jewel City: Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Ackley, SIGNED

Ackley, Laura A. Berkeley: Heyday, San Francisco: California Historical Society, 2015.

English, Fine hardcover, quarto, 11 ¼” x 8 ¾”, 379 pp.

ISBN: 9781597142922 

Fine quarto, dark blue cloth over boards, stamped gilt vertical rectangle to front, coated paper with illustration affixed to front panel of The Tower of Jewels and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition illuminated by the rays of the Great Scintillator, stamped gilt floral border, dark blue lettering to front, stamped gilt lettering to spine, coated paper with illustration affixed to back panel, endpapers with plan of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition from the Official Guide, minimal rubbing to tips, bumping to front panel top left corner, minimal soiling to half title page, writing in black pen to full title page “6/23/15 For Hanna, Enjoy the Fair! Best Wishes, Laura A Ackley”. Text in English, References, replete with full-color and black-and-white illustrations, photographs, and plans. A beautifully illustrated copy on the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, with its thrilling displays of culture, industry, and technology, and attended by nineteen million attendees, among them well-known visitors such as Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison. A splendid world tour including recreations of Beaux-Arts palaces, twenty one international pavilions, and a five-acre model of the Panama Canal.