Coast to Coast AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK

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After his much admired work as The Times Special Correspondent on the expedition to climb Everest, James Morris and his wife embarked on an extensive tour of the USA, motoring through all the forty-eight states that then existed. This superb piece of travel literature, his first book, is the record of that visit and it catches American society at a critical point in its post war development, after McCarthy, before Suez and just at the beginning of the civil rights movement attempts to dismantle segregation. Both the book and the dust jacket are remarkably well preserved. The red cloth-bound boards look as though they could be new: evenly coloured and unmarked - all edges straight and all corners sharp; no dents, scratches or bumps. The yellow title lettering on the spine remains strong and bright. There is some spotting on the edges of the text block but it is square and tightly bound. Internally, all pages are spotless: bright, clean and unmarked, though there is some tanning to the free endpapers, front and back; there are no inscriptions and no signs of previous ownership. The dust jacket (which has a protective plastic cover) has some small areas of chipping (along the folds near the top of the spine panel and at the top corner of the front fold-in flap). We have included five photos of this book (the maximum enabled by the Abe Books platform) and would be happy to provide more. N° de ref. del artículo 227

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