Wood, Stanley L.

An Unattended Journey of Ten Thousand Miles by Rail. A Tour by Four Young Ladies

Chicago: The White City Art Company, 1895.

Hardcover. Very good. 152 pp + index, ads, with many illustrations from photographs by W.H. Jackson, C.R. Savage, and others. Pictorial blue cloth boards, lightly toned at spine, rubbed at extremities, some soiling to back cover. Previous owner's name crossed out on front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Hanna & Reese (From Train to Plane) #51: "A fictitious narrative from the days when railroads actually encouraged passengers, written to show that unchaperoned young ladies might travel without danger or impropriety..."

Item #22027

Price: $65.00