Price: £200
Subject: Travel & Topography
Published Date: 1956
Stock Number: 68523
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece photograph and 5 further photographic plates (by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, et al.), double-page map at rear, pp. 271, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, small drink-stain at head of lower board, rubbing to extremities and a touch of wear at one corner, faint drink-stain to top edge (also touching verso of half-title), free endpapers faintly browned, dustjacket a little soiled, rubbed and creased, the top corner of rear flap torn off, good
Publication Details: Faber and Faber, 1956
Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'For the Parker Harts - with kindest regards, James Morris'.The celebrated travel writer's first book, the narrative of a journey across the United States - presentation copies using the earlier form of the author's name are uncommon.
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