Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co., 1929. Deluxe edition. Octavo. 408 pp; color frontispiece, numerous b/w plates; index; map on endpapers. Burgundy pictorial cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on cover & spine, in original glassine wrap with original box. VG book - clean & unmarked, glassine lightly chipped at edges. Box split at corners. In 1928, Dorothy Giles drove her own Ford across the Iberian Peninsula with a female friend. A native of Cold Spring, NY, she had studied art and languages at a high school in Garden City, Long Island. Prior to her Spanish road trip, she had published two books but she is chiefly remembered for her two travel books - this one and The Road Through Czechoslovakia (1930).. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

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Bookseller: Carnegie Hill Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 014388
Title: The Road Through Spain [with original box]
Author: Giles, Dorothy [Inscribed]
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: The Penn Publishing Co.
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date Published: 1929
Keywords: American Travel Writer Spain Women
Bookseller catalogs: Travel; Women; Spain;

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