Franck, Harry A: All About Going Abroad With Maps and a Handy Travel Diary

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New York: Brentano's, 1928. 160 p.: maps; 17 cm. (7 inches). Orange cloth with black spine and cover titles; front cover illustration. No dust jacket. Front free endpaper bears faint stamp reading "Compliments of Chester-Cambridge Bank & Trust Company" and former owner's name: Marie G. Robertson. Third printing. Designed for the American travelling abroad, when women took along crepe de chine frocks, silk stockings, handkerchiefs, and hats. Includes tips on shipboard customs ("As soon as convenient after coming on board, arrange with the deck steward for your deck chair and rug"); tipping onboard ship and after you land; and "unamerican" customs abroad. Also includes space for a travel diary, not used in this copy. In Near Fine- Condition: corners are lightly rubbed; cover lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight. An entertaining look at travel in the 1920s.. Near Fine-.
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$13.00
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- Seller Inventory #: 000254
- Binding: Hardcover
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- Publisher: Brentano's
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1928
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