2021 SALE COLUMBIAN MIDWAY SIGNED COPY, LOWERED PRICE TO START THE NEW YEAR #213

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MY MOST RECENT BOOK, TRULY A LABOR OF LOVE. AFTER WRITING THE OVERALL HISTORY OF THE FAIR, PUBLISHED FOR THE CENTENNIAL IN 1993, I TURNED MY RESEARCH TO THE MIDWAY. I DIDN'T WANT AN ORDINARY BOOK, BUT RATHER ONE THAT WOULD COME ALIVE WITH THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE AND CONCESSIONS THAT MADE THE MIDWAY. IT WAS PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS, WHICH ALSO PUBLISHED OUR HISTORY OF THE FAIR IN SOFTCOVER IN 2002 WHICH CONTINUES IN PRINT AND SELLING WELL.
I SPENT NEARLY A DECADE RESEARCHING IT TO ENSURE IT WOULD BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE BOOK ABOUT THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE, SO MUCH OF THE CONTENTS PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN AND NEVER INCLUDED IN PRINT PREVIOUSLY.
WE ALSO ARE LISTING THE LAST OF THE ORIGINAL OUT OF PRINT HARDCOVER COPIES OF THE 1993 CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
AND FOR 2021, OUR BIG NEWS IS THAT WE ARE MOVING ALONG RAPIDLY ON A HUGE NEW PROJECT, OUR COLUMBIAN RARITIES BOOK, THE THIRD BOOK ABOUT THE FAIR AND OUR FIRST DESIGNED 100% FOR COLLECTORS (AND WE HOPE INVALUABLE FOR MUSEUMS AND OTHERS, AS WELL). BELOW IS A BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THE BOOK AND WE WILL CONTINUE UPDATING OUR CUSTOMERS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH RESEARCH AND WRITING.
WE WILL SHIP YOUR BOOK THE LEAST EXPENSIVE WAY, MEDIA/BOOK RATE WHICH SHOULD ARRIVE IN LESS THAN A WEEK AND SAVE A FEW DOLLARS IN POSTAGE.
New Publication About Rare Columbian Tickets and Medals
This COLUMBIAN RARITIES volume from the World's Columbian Journal The History Bank will include substantial information on Columbian rarities and never previously listed TICKETS and MEDALS/TOKENS. The book, in the early stages of compilation and writing, will include several chapters on numismatic and ticket topics, the first-ever publication of these rarities, a lengthy (and heavily illustrated) chapter on the myriad medals featuring Columbus Landing Scenes, the most complete ever listings of ALL known Day of Sale and Stand tickets, an array of statistical information to complement the medals and tickets listed and much more.
This new book will also include very detailed information--photos, listings, prices realized--from the vast John Kennel Collection of Columbiana we have been privileged to be cataloging and selling since the Spring of 2019. The collection of the late collector included an estimated 5,000+ items and as of late 2020 we still had 1,000-1,500 items yet to photograph and offer for sale.
This book will offer dramatically more information than any of the other hobby guides published thus far. This includes the early 1960s Nathan Eglit catalog of Columbian medals (and other souvenirs), with a total of nearly 600 entries, but well over 100 medals have been discovered since Eglit's book appeared more than 50 years ago. The Kennel Collection included more thanhalf of these previously uncataloged/unknown medals. The 1980 booklet/cataog of tickets (Doolin) was an amazingly complete LISTING of known tickets as of four decades ago, but included minimal data and NO photos. And since its publication, The History Bank has discovered perhaps another 100± tickets about which NOTHING has ever been published. Again, the Kennel Collection has been a major contributor to this information and Columbian knowledge. Finally a third hobby publication with 100 total Columbian medals listed is the Hibler & Kappen So-Called Dollar book. While the book was issued in a revised edition in 2008, it contained no new listings from the 100 included in the original 1963(!) edition.
These three sources have offered the base of information available to medal and ticket collectors, but by the mere nature of when they were published (1960s to 1980)--40 years ago at the most recent--information, photos,values and more have been sorely missed by collectors. This new book by Norman Bolotin and The HIstory Bank will take collectors into the present with the inclusion of dozens of previously unknown examples of both medals and tickets.
You can contact The History Bank for more information on the forthcoming book and follow our listings on ebay over the coming months in which we will offer updates on the book. We also will include valuable text on Columbian collectibles and the fair's history in our ongoing blog, The World's Columbian Journal, which is strictly a site for historical information and
not sales
of collectibles.