SET IN SILVER
by C.N. and A.M. Williamson New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909. First edition, first printing. Contains publisher's first printing statement 'Published April, 1909'. A novel narrated mostly through letters of a young American woman who travels through Edwardian England by motor car. The sights and scenes are fully described and filled with adventure--and some romance. Enhanced with a double-page spread map of the trip, three striking color plate illustrations, a frontispiece sepia-toned painting of Audrie by F.X. Leyendecker, and eight striking photographs depicting the motor car and places visited. Small minor stain to lower page edges, mild foxing to outer page edges, else very good in decoratively embossed blue ribbed cloth with gilt embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, and with a color cameo portrait illustration to the front cover; in a fine high quality FACSIMILE dust jacket. Octavo; 445 pages.FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |