Midway Plaisance the experience of an innocent boy from Vermont in the famous midway

first edition

Chicago

by Dockarty, A.J.
Chicago: Chicago World Book Co. 1894. Rare example of World's Fair juvenile fiction, written as a young visitor's journal of Midway explorations. Despite the narrator's ostensible youth, "adult viewpoints and descriptive phrases...reflect the locution and racial prejudices common in the United States of the late nineteenth century" (Kaser). A detailed, valuable source for study of the Exposition and of the era in general. First Edition. 7.5" x 5.25". 259, [1] pp. Illustrations throughout the text, by the author and Ellsworth Young. Original white paper wraps printed in red, with illustrations by the author to front and rear. Some staining and chipping (heaviest at corners and foot of spine) to wraps, soiling to edges; text clean and complete. . Good. Paperback . (Inventory #: 38486)
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