Moscow Excursion de TRAVERS, P.L - 1934

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. A bit of sunning at the spine-ends, else near fine in very good spine-toned dust jacket, with small corresponding chips at the spine ends, and scattered nicks and tears. The very uncommon second book by the author of the *Mary Poppins* series, a travelogue of Russia. The publisher's blurb indicates that Travers: "did what few tourists do, and what no journalist resident in the Soviet Union who wishes to stay there can do - she brought her intelligence to bear on what she saw going on around her, not what was supposed to be going on." Further: "This is no serious analytical survey by a casual traveler, but a personal document which brings to the reader the heart-break, the humor, and the entertainment found in a Moscow excursion by a gay young woman who is at once civilized and intelligent." A nice copy, and very uncommon.