An Indiscreet Itinerary; Or, How the Unconventional Traveler Should See Holland, by One Who Was Actually Born There and Whose Name is Hendrik Willem Van Loon by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem - 1933

E-156: Harcourt, Brace and Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1933. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Harcourt, Brace and Co. New York. 1933. 118 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Hendrik Willem Van Loon on the reverse of the front board. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (pieces missing to the spine). Bound in orange boards w/ black lettering & design. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The story back of this book adds to its interest. It started out to be a pamphlet for a travel bureau, but speedily outgrew its clothes, and graduated to a publisher's list. The author acknowledges a desire to break the canons of the travel fraternity and produce a guide book that is what he thinks guide books should be. After reading the book, every traveler, be he stay-at-home or rover, will echo the wish sincerely. A wholly delightful small guide to Holland, which does not neglect the duty of a guide, but gives much that others might think beside the point, in an analysis of the essential character of the people as a basis for their towns and countryside, their architecture and occupations and point of view and habits of life. And -- being Van Loon -- there is humor at every turn, and originality of presentation, and delightful line drawings which, with the captions, are a guide in themselves. Good reading, plenty of valuable information about everything a visitor would need to know, concerning not only the obvious places (The Hague, Amsterdam, Leyden, Marken and Volendam) , but also hints of special treats in store for these who would venture off the beaten track through the low regions of the Zaan, to Trexel in the North Sea, back to the Middle Ages in Brabant and Limburg, or into the heart of the Dutch traditions in Dordreeht. E-156; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 117 pages; Signed by Author .