Description
Vantage Press, Published 1961. Hardcover, 104 pp.; 21 cm; First Edition; illustrated with a black-and-white photographic frontispiece.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Mild shelf and edge wear with a hint of color loss at corner tips and at head and foot of spine. Binding tight. Pages moderately toned, otherwise unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket reproduces a photograph of the family on camels at Giza, and is not price clipped. Several chips and tears of half an inch or less along the edges, with heavier chipping at the top edge of the rear panel, concentrated at the spine corner where paper is lost. A 1 inch closed tear runs down from the top edge of the rear panel, left of center. Further chipping at the upper left corner of the front panel. Mild to moderate soiling and toning overall with fading to the spine. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. First-person account of a two-year circuit of the globe made by a Los Angeles couple and their grade-school daughter, roughly 1958 to 1960. Four months in Waikiki, then the South Pacific, New Zealand and Australia, Singapore, Penang and Bali, Manila and Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Angkor Wat and Rangoon, India, Karachi, Damascus, Beirut and Jerusalem, Egypt, Greece and Crete, Italy, Spain, Gibraltar and Tangier, Portugal and Paris. Written close to the events and dated by them: a plane change at Saigon with a warning not to stop over, Jerusalem still divided by a ten-yard no-man's-land, Beirut prospering after Syria joined the United Arab Republic, excavation under way in the Dead Sea Scrolls search, and a tonsillectomy for the daughter in a Manila hospital. WorldCat records a single edition and locates no holding library. Davidson was born in Le Sueur, Minnesota, attended Oberlin, took her degree at the University of Minnesota and did graduate work in psychology at the University of Southern California. She taught in Minnesota and Hawaii, supervised art in the public schools of San Juan and Santurce, was club editor of the St. Paul Daily News, wrote features for the New York Evening Sun and Evening Post, did social casework in New York, served with the YMCA in England and France during the First World War, worked at an American YWCA school for social workers in Prague, and taught English in Tokyo. She later worked on parent-child relations at Paul Popenoe's American Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles, the first organized marriage counseling center in the United States. Contents: The Take-Off, Hawaii; South Sea Islands; Down-Under; Singapore, Penang, Bali; Manila, Japan; Hong Kong, Bangkok, Angkor Wat, Rangoon; India; Karachi, Damascus, Beirut, Jerusalem; Egypt; Greece, Crete; Italy; Spain, Gibraltar, Tangier; Portugal, Paris, New York.