Down the Tiber and Up to Rome. by Eberlein, Harold Donaldson and Geoffrey J Marks and Frank A Wallis - 1930.

Philadelphia:: J B Lippincott, 1930.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with blue and black text and art; the top edge tint is light green; the spine is darkened, Fair condition; no dust jacket. Old tiny bookseller label from The Parnassus Bookshop in Philadelphia.. 8vo (about 9 inches tall) . Index. Description: Includes a color frontis, plus twelve additional black and white plates from drawings by Frank A Wallis. The foreword reads: ''To see any country, or a part of a country, from its natural waterways is to have its inmost character revealed without reservations, and in a fashion not so possible through any other means of approach. To pursue the course of the Tiber form source to mouth, and to make by canoe as much of that journey as physical conditions would permit, had long been a cherished ambition. Now that we have at last realized that ambition, and have traversed the stream in our canotto di gomma from Ponte San Giovanni to Rome we are convinced that our fondest expectations were fully justified.'' In reference to the book title the authors state: ''For those who say 'How can you go both down and up at the same time?' The answer is that you always go UP to Rome, no matter where you may be starting from. You go UP to Rome, even from London, for Rome is the senior city and takes precedence. Therefore, in obedience to time-honoured tradition and in dutiful conformity with the Classic properties firmly implanted in us by our schoolmasters in the tender years of our incipient Latinity, we go UP to Rome.''