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[Publisher not identified], Published 1939. Pamphlet, 1 folded sheet ([8] pp, unpaginated); 23 x 41 cm, folded to 23 x 11 cm; printed in red and black; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, a map of French Indo-China, and color pictorial covers.
In Very Good condition. Cover title. Bright and clean, with mild color loss along the folds. Colors remain strong, paper fresh with only faint toning. Otherwise unmarked. Issued by the French Indo-China commission for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, folding leporello accordion-style into eight panels. The text walks a visitor through all seven rooms of the pavilion: silver and silk, a replica of the four-armed Hari-Hara, twelve hand-carved lacquered columns, laces and embroideries, the classical Annamese theater with its Cambodian orchestra, ceramics and inlaid ivory from the School of Cochinchina, and a closing room of big-game trophies holding world records for gaur, banteng and kouprey. A ceramic dragon thirty feet long adorned the porch. Photographs show Angkor Wat, the Naga giants at Angkor Thom, the pagoda at Phnom Penh, Tonkinese women at a religious ceremony, Cambodian pirogue races and the Bay of Along; the map notes a territory of 290,000 square miles, roughly twice California, and a population of 23,000,000 across Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchina, Cambodia and Laos. Commissioners Charles Bonfils (Administrative Section and Arts and Crafts), Jean Duplessis-Kergomard (Big Game Hunting Section) and Alfred C. Bourrin (Tourist Section) are named at the foot.