WONDERLAND '98 - Rare Issue w/ BARE-BREASTED ART-DECO FERTILITY GODDESS COVER - NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY PROMOTIONAL PUBLICATION - Yosemite, Mount Rainier, the Klondike, 1898
WONDERLAND '98. READ IT THEN PROFIT BY YOUR READING AND GO AS SEE IT. REACHED BY THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY. Text by Olin Wheeler.
ST. PAUL: Northern Pacific Railway / Chas. S. Fee, 1898
Pictorial wrappers with a bare-breasted goddess of fertility, two naked cherubs, and a cornucopia on the front cover, 6.75x9.75 inches (25x17.5 cm), 103, [5] pages. Illustrated throughout with drawings, photographs, and full-page maps.
Promotional publication promoting the Northern Pacific Railway route and the lands and National Parks it crossed. Issued yearly.
GOOD condition: The covers have edge wear, tears and chips to the spine, and a small corner piece missing from near the bottom of the spine, but the front and rear wrapper images remain bright and clear. Internally, there is some professional reinforcement to the inner hinges, making this a solid, well bound copy; the pages are tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.
The original 1898 issue of Wonderland '98 with the art-deco bare-breasted fertility goddess cover is quite hard-to-find.