Bon Voyage - How to Enjoy Your Holiday in Europe with a Car. by DALE, Frances [Fanny Craddock] - 1950

John Lehmann, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1950. First Published. 182 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Unclipped jacket with heavy edge wear, large tears and chipping, causing loss around edges and spine. Heavy tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.

Lehmann, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1950. First Edition. 182 pages. Orange dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Notable creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Visible bumping to corners. Some crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Small marks to boards. Textblock is shaky. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces.

London: John Lehmann, [1950]. 8vo. 182 pp. Illust. title, numerous text illustrations throughout. Green cloth, gilt & black lettering on spine (minor edgewear, rubbing to lower fore-edge), w/ d.j. cover art by Biro (minor dustsoiling, small tear upper fore-edge back cover), still VG/VG- copy. Second revised edition, of this humorous and charming book on preparing British motorists for European auto travel in Post-World War II Europe. Biro (1921-2014) a noted children’s author and illustrator was an avid automobile enthusiast, and incorporated his 1926 Austin Clifton Heavy 24 into many of his books.

Lehmann, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine dust-toned and worn as with age with some minor staining to the front and back hinges. Remains well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of Fanny & Johnnie Cradock with their bookplate. Physical description; 182 p. : illus. ; 19 cm. Subjects; Frances Dale (1910-). Travel. Europe. Road trips. Genre; travel books.