Description

Institute Press, Published 1947. Hardcover, 144 pp.; 24 cm; Out of a Duffle Bag Series; two works bound together, each with its own half-title, title page and index; 2 plate leaves printed on both sides with 4 photographic collages of the author's travel postcards and snapshots, two for each work. In Good+ condition with an Acceptable dust jacket. Green moire-patterned cloth boards with gilt lettering on front and spine, publisher at foot of spine; mild shelf wear, light rubbing at corners and spine ends. Binding tight. Presentation inscription in blue ink on front pastedown, dated January 1969, from a bookstall owner, noting that the recipient was well acquainted with the author. Toning to endpapers and title page, text pages lightly toned with a few light spots. Otherwise unmarked. Glossy black dust jacket lettered in pale gray, with chips and loss along top edge of front panel and at head of spine, small chips and short tears at edges, creasing, scratches and rubbing. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Privately published travel diaries of Sophie A. Poe (1862-1954) of Roswell, New Mexico, widow of John W. Poe, the buffalo hunter and deputy who rode with Pat Garrett to Pete Maxwell's ranch the night Billy the Kid was killed in 1881, and author of Buckboard Days (1936), her biography of him. Persia follows a tour begun in January 1937 through Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus and Baghdad into Iran (Kermanshah, Hamadan, Tehran, Esfahan, Persepolis, Shiraz), returning by Mosul, Aleppo and Beirut. Nomading South of the Equator, about 1931-32, sails from Los Angeles down the Pacific coast to Peru (Lima, Cuzco, Lake Titicaca), La Paz, Chile and across the Andes to Mendoza, Buenos Aires, Iguazu Falls, Asuncion, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro. Each title verso: "A copy of this manuscript is in the vault of the Screen Writers' Guild, Hollywood, California.