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New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1911. Hardcover. Fair. 1911. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Corners bumped. Dampstaining to tops of pages, Edgeworn. Inscribed by author & previous owner. Cloth frontis. B&w illustrations. 415p.

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - EUROPE) MERIWETHER, Lee. SEEING EUROPE BY AUTOMOBILE. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1911. 8vo. Green decorated cloth. (xii), 415 pages 32 photographic illustrations. First edition. "A five-thousand-mile motor trip through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy; with an excursion into Andorra, Corfu, Dalmatia, and Montenegro." Her itinerary went from Rouen to Paris, and from there to Normandy and the Chatea country as well as Rheims and Nancy. She then traveled into Germany and the Rhine country into Switzerland and over the Alps. She then teaveld into Ital down to Rome and the costal cities, across the Adriatic and ended in Monteneg Illustrated with photographic plates of the various sites, monuments and scen she saw. End pages are a detail map of her journey. With printed folding advertisement for her books, including this one with photograph of her and h automobile. Fine. (40226).

The Baker & Taylor Company, 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Rear endpaper splitting along hinge but binding not at all loose, boards lightly rubbed. 1911 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 415 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles, two tone illustration on front board, top edge gilt. An early 20th-century tour through Europe by car, illustrated with numerous photographs, mostly depicting notable architectural wonders seen along the way. Maps on endpapers.

New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1911 [12], 415pp, bound in original illustrated cloth covers, map endpapers, complete with 32 photo plates, as called for, binding tight. Covers lightly darkened/soiled, inner hinges carcked, ownership on the half-title page, partial tissue guard to frontis-piece, occasional inner soiling.

TEXT BLOCK UNMARKED! No dust jacket if issued. NOT ex library, NO USED stickers & NO sticker residue! From a private collection. Packed carefully with cardboard for extra protection during shipment. ISBN MATCHES description. Great copy, tight binding, has some light wear from shelf storage and reading; cover corners very lighty rubbed. Other than previous owner's name on cover page and phone number on a sticker on cover page this TEXT is CLEAN: NO underlining, highlighting, or writing. Page edges are free of remainder marks; NO sun fading. Has light oxidization. Page ends are free of foxing. Book is ready to go & ships FAST in new, protective mailer with cardboard* with tracking with a trackable shipping label (based in the Northeast U.S.). *New or clean recycled cardboard will be used internally/externally to protect book from drops, dings, creases, and bumps during shipment. Thanks for supporting a small family business!!! Please message us with any questions or concerns! Books are shipped with… Leer más

New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1911. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 415. 32 plates. maps on endleaves. pictorial cloth (narrow stain on rear cover, spine ends bit frayed)

New York: The Baker & Taylor Compan, 1911. First Edition. 8vo. 415 pp. Index. Photographic plates, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Gilt, black, tan and green pictorial binding; map endpapers. Light wear to extremities; top edge gilt; a near fine copy. Lee Meriwether boards a steamer in Brooklyn for Italy in 1886 and begins a whirlwind tour of Europe, traveling through Germany, Turkey, Greece, Austria, England, Hungary, and more, all for just 50 cents a day. Meriwether is the original college-dropout whose adventures created a blueprint for generations of travelers from the hippies of the 1960s to today's backpacking students. Among his many adventures, he describes escaping a jail sentence in Italy, climbing a volcano at midnight, and attending a "Free Ireland" rally in England. His keen observations and knack for traveling on the cheap make this is a hilarious memoir, a unique travel guide, and an irresistible look into the past.

New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., 1911. 8vo. [10], 415, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 15 photo plates. Pictorial green publisher’s cloth, cover art of Maxwell traveling down a mountain road, gilt lettering front cover & spine, travel map on endpapers in red (slight shelfwear, very slight bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. cover art repeated (minor chipping head of spine, minor creasing), still NF/VG copy. First edition of this largely neglected travel writer’s account of driving 5080 miles across Europe in his two-seater 4-cylinder Maxwell named “Get There,” with his wife, from landing at Le Havre, until the eventual embarking at Naples. Meriwether breaks away from the typical European automobile travel accounts during the Brass Era, with a focus on neglected places, so armed with his Kodak and insights he expounds on Andorra, coastal cities, along the Adriatic and into Montenegro, and includes an excellent chapter on “Hints to Motorists” explaining how he traveled over 5000 miles at a total… Leer más