Westward Hoboes Ups and Downs of Frontier Motoring
by Dixon, Winifred Hawkridge
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1921. Hardcover, green cloth letered and decorated in gold. 377pp., Profusely illustrated with photographs by Katherine Thaxter and Rollin Lester Dixon. First edition, second printing, published December. 1921 [the first printing was published two months earlier the same year in October]. The stories and tales of several New Yorkers traverls through New Mexico, Arizon, Utah, Colorado, Montana, Texas, other other places west in a Cadillac Eight. No name, no book-plate, etc. Spine slightly dulled though gold type still quite legible. A very nice example of early travel by automobile literature. Text clean, binding tight, very good+.. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004707
- Title
- Westward Hoboes Ups and Downs of Frontier Motoring
- Author
- Dixon, Winifred Hawkridge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- Charles Scribners Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Travel By Autumobile, Early Motor-car Travel, Early Automobile
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel By Automobile; Alibris3;
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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