Chicago: F. T. Neely, 1890 Paperback, black lettering on fragile orange wraps. Paper browned and brittle, edges have some chipping and creasing, both covers some stains & rubbing. Unpaginated, but about 100 pages; plus 6 pages ads in front and 26 at rear. Scarce and fragile fiction "Giving the Experience of an Underwriter Visiting the Fair at Chicago, 1893". Blurb on the front reads "A high authority and critic says of this book: 'As a work of art, as a picture of the imagination, and for graphic description, I know of nothing that excels it in the English language.'" Neely's series Vol. 2 No. 15. Front cover now detached but present, due to careless handling.. First Edition. Paperback. Poor. 4½" by 6".

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Bookseller: Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: u1998
Title: A Tale of the World's Fair
Author: 'Tennyson'
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Poor
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: F. T. Neely
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1890
Keywords: Columbian Exposition, fiction

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