Rambles in Provence and on the Riviera, Being Some Account of Journeys Made En Automobile by Miltoun Francis - 2013-01-28

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A: L.C. Page & Company, 1911. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4. Blanche McManus. GOOD / NO DUST JACKET. xiii, 434 pp. Text clean and unmarked except for previous owner's stamp at front pastdown. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers with map. Illustrated green cloth boards, corners and spine top and tail slightly rubbed. Joints and hinges good, binding firm.

Sisley's, 1907. Hardcover. Good. 1907. No Edition Remarks. 434 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth. Contains black and white plates. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Noticeable tanning to rough-cut text block edges. Cracking to hinges, with exposed netting. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Book has noticeable forward lean.

Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1911. Second Printing. Octavo. Decorative green cloth boards, top edge gilt; xiii, 434pp. Illustrated in b&w throughout, with 33 plates inserted. Trivial rubbing to top and bottom edges of boards, crown of spine mildly pulled, else an attractive, tight, unmarked copy. Minor age-toning to margins of textblock. Quarter-sized faint dampstain to top edge of gutter on rear endpapers, front free endpapers trivially pulled. Very Good.

New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston: L. C. Page & Company. Very Good-. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with moderate wear. Rough spots on endpapers from removed labels. Hinges have some play. Small hole on half-title page. ; Decorative boards with tipped-in color illustration, gilt linear design and gilt lettering. Numerous b&w plates and smaller illustrations. Adventurous early car rides; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 434 pages .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Sisley's Ltd, 1907. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Blanche McManus. The first edition of this account of travels through Provence, illustrated throughout and with a full colour frontispiece. The first edition of this account of author Francis Miltoun's journeys around Provence and the Riviera via automobile.With a colour frontispiece, and numerous full plate and vignette illustrations from American writer and artist Blanche McManus, 'reproduced from paintings made on the spot'. McManus illustrated a number of Miltoun's similar French travel works, and also wrote a series of travel books herself with her husband, Milburg Francisco Mansfield, many of which similarly included information about automobiles which were a novelty at the time. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with colour illustration to front board. Some bumping to extremities. Rear hinge starting, but still firmly held. Front free endpaper detached. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good