James E Allen Illustrations (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. An authentic 1930s promotional giveaway booklet commissioned by the Sinclair Refining Company following their famous dinosaur exhibit at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair ("Century of Progress"). Features text written by renowned American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Dr. Barnum Brown, alongside full-color and black-and-white palaeoart illustrations by James E. Allen. A remarkably preserved Very Good copy. Includes original stapled pictorial paper wrappers with vibrant cover art. Binding is firm and intact at the spine with minimal oxidation to original staples. Text block and full-page illustrations remain clean and free of interior scribbles, moisture damage, or heavy creasing, showing only light edge-rubbing and mild age-toning typical of fragile 1930s gas station ephemera. James E. Allen (illustrator).…