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French/Bray, Inc., Glen Burnie, Maryland, Published date: 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket; 55 pp; 25 cm. Illustrated throughout with 30 black and white line drawings by the author. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Vienna Ione Curtiss on the front free endpaper.
In very good condition with very good dust jacket. Boards clean and sound with light shelf wear; binding firm. Light spotting to top edge of text block. Interior pages clean and unmarked aside from inscription; light, even toning. Dust jacket shows mild edge wear and light rubbing; small white dot near to edge of front cover; now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Author-illustrated travel memoir recounting a three-week European tour undertaken without luggage, combining humorous narrative with architectural and cityscape line drawings from London, Amsterdam, the Rhine, Vienna, Florence, Rome, and Paris. Designed and illustrated by the author. Issued as part of the "Collector's choice" series. Contents include: From Washington - Ever the Unexpected; Slacks-eye Viewing, New York; Tower View of Westminster Abbey, London; Morning Cheer from a Balcony, London; Fleeting Inquiry, Airport Escalators, Amsterdam; Fireworks from Salvatore, Amsterdam; Fantasy upon Fantasy, Amsterdam; The Watch on the Rhine, Germany; Rock, Roll, Little Joe, and a Burning Flag; Dream Country, Bavarian Hills; Linderhof - Gem in a Verdant Setting, Bavaria; Munich's Glockenspiel, on the Marienplatz; Fabulous Schonbrunn and its First Residents, Vienna; Wrought Iron Portal, The Belvedere, Vienna; Gemutlichkeit on The Graben, Vienna; Waltzing to Strauss, Vienna's Woods; Dynamic Verticals, Plunging Slopes - Semmering Pass, Austria; San Marco - Nipple-tipped to Heaven's Hosts, Venice; "Fruita?" "La Banana!", Florence; "I Should Be Glad To Help You, Madame," Florence; Orcagna's Dazzling Shrine, in Or San Michele, Florence; Michelangelo's Elegant Campidoglio, Rome; Nature's Ballet of the Ages, Tivoli; Delicately, Notre Dame's Heavenward Flight, Paris; "I'll Light a Candle for You," Paris; Reaching Grotesques, St. Severin, Paris; Warmly, "Au Revoir," Paris; "Let's Go Again!", Saarinen's 20th c. Airport, Washington; The Author.