[Rarebooks] FS: Early Western Automobile Travel, 1919, Inscribed to Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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POOLE, Caroline. A MODERN PRAIRIE SCHOONER ON THE TRANSCONTINENTAL 
TRAIL. THE STORY OF A MOTOR TRIP. San Francisco: Privately Printed, 
1919. First Edition. Thin quarto (8-1/8" x 11-1/2") bound in original 
plain boards with thin linen spine on which is a printed paper label. 
Copy #214 of 250, the entire edition, printed by John Henry Nash. 
Illustrated with a large folding map and twelve collotypes from 
photographs, ten of which contain three different images. Scarce 
narrative of an early cross-country trip by automobile in a 1913 Packard 
beginning in Pasadena and ending in Colorado Springs, having traversed 
Arizona and New Mexico, with much detailed observations on the landscape 
and the Native American population.  Front hinge splitting at top and 
bottom but still tight; light wear and rubbing. Very Good and quite 
scarce. $650.00	
This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in 1919 to noted Arctic 
explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, author of MY LIFE WITH THE ESKIMOS and 
other titles.

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