[Rarebooks] FS: 1910 cross-country drive by 2 women motorists

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[Scott, Blanche Stuart and Gertrude Lyman Phillips]. 5000 MILES
OVERLAND. Wonderful Performance of a Wonderful Car. The Story of Miss
Scott's Journey Overland. (Toledo, OH: Overland Automobile Company.
1910). (52)pp. Each page of text with 2 half-tone photographs
chronicling the trip. Orig. color printed wrappers (some light wear),
rubber stamp on front cover of "Beloit Auto Co." Very scarce.   $300.00
(trade discount allowed)
A promotional pamphlet for the Overland Automobile, "A 25 H. P.
Overland that anyone may own for $1,000." The two women began their
trip in Times Square on May 16, 1910, and ended it 5,393 miles later in
San Francisco on July 23, 1910. Bliss. AUTOS ACROSS AMERICA, #11. "Miss
Scott was the second woman to drive an automobile across the country."

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