1974 SPOKANE WORLD'S FAIR FIRST-EVER EXPOSITION FOCUSED ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Description

Small aluminum(?) charm for a bracelet or as a pendant, from the 1974 Spokane World's Fair. Expo logo is the center with the air name around the perimeter.
Special September World's Fair and Americana Sale & Auction
It will include not only dozens of World's Columbian Expo lots, but rarities from several fairs, including the first-ever world's far (the London Crystal Palace in 1851) and the first US fair that followed in New York just two years later (also called the Crystal Palace).
Besides both fixed price lots and auction items (we're still cataloging and photographing and have now gone past the 250-item mark and we're not done yet!) featuring world's fair medals, printed items, tickets and souvenirs, we will also have a terrific collection from the post-Civil War to the 1880s from the Eastman Business College in New York, founded by that same Eastman fellow who brought us Eastman Kodak!
We're obviously very excited about the breadth of material in the upcoming sale and between now and then we'll be selling some items specifically listed at SALE prices to remind you that the sale is coming. This Liberty Bell publication that the author signed as a presentation copy is just one more of the more than 5,000 Columbian items we've offered/sold in the past 24 months.
My 3rd Book About the Columbian Expo
And since we're sharing news, we're also working pretty intensely on our 3rd World's Columbian book.
Columbian Rarities
is coming along well and we hope to have copies available by December. It will include the rarest of items from the expo, with photos and information about the items, their historical sales prices and more--medals, tickets, ephemera and other souvenirs. It will be the most comprehensive and first of its kind book to be published about the Columbian Expo.
For more information on our sale--the various fairs and other material to be included as its compiled--and for more details on our book, including ordering information as soon as the specifications are completed--please just ask; get a headstart rather than waiting until we post information. The book will include 200+ color photographs, in-depth articles and discussions about how rare "rare" is. We expect Columbian collectors to be familiar with many of the items but likely not the details that will be included, and I'm sure that even the most seasoned veterans of Columbian collecting will find a surprisingly large number of unique pieces and others you've never encountered.
It's difficult to contain my enthusiasm when I'm so involved with the sale and the book and seeing both take shape. My three Columbian books represent years of work and probably even exceed the time spent on our seven-book Civil War series, which remains the largest publishing venture and multi-book series I've written and/or developed over more than 40 years. My first history book,
Klondike Lost,
was published in 1980 and followed by
A Klondike Scrapbook: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times
,
from Chronicle Books' in 1987...and I hope you're familiar with my two previous Columbian books published in 1993 and 2017. The first remains available in a limited number of hardcovers and is also still in print in softcover 28 years after its debut; the 2017 book (both are from the U of Illinois Press) was the first of its kind dedicated solely to the Midway Plaisance.
For those of you dedicated enough to read this far, I'd like to extend a
special discount on my WCE books
--hardcover of the first and softcover on the second. Just drop me an email and I'll post a special listing for you on Ebay for either book at only postpaid!
Please do keep in touch so we can share updates on both projects and by all means, do take advantage of this special offer on my Columbian books.
Norm Bolotin, The History Bank