Large format (11 in by 13 1/2 in) hardcover photo book. Many of the photos are printed in a purple-tinged hue. Cover is red and embossed. It reads simply "The Magic City" on the front and "Photographs" on the edge.
The inside title page reads "The Magic City: a Massive Portfolio of Original Photographic Views of the Great World's Fair and its treasures of art, including a vivid representation of the famous Midway Plaisance, with graphic descriptions by America's brilliant and descriptive writer J.W. Buel, a graphic and historical representation of, The 'Magic City' By-the-lake, with its Vast treasures of the World's Art, Reproduced in Splendid Realism, as it was seen by millions of visitors, in a series of, 300 Magnificent Photographic Views"