Description
Very good dust jacket with illustration of people with suitcases on front, cartoons on back, edge-wear, some rub wear to corners. The Very Good binding is green paper over boards, black cloth backed, black line illustration on the cover, yellow lettering on the spine. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 11″ tall x 8.2″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
LAST VEAR more thana a half-million Americans left home to stare at the Eifel Tower, gape at the leaning tower of Pisa and mutter quiet imprecations at Parisian taxi drivees. This year the travel experts predict a record-breaking crop of valiant voyagers, most of whom have never been farther east than the Caney Island boardwalk. These hardy souls will soon venture aboard giant liners where they will spend countless hours strolling the decks, tabulating sea gulls and bracing themselves for she rigors of the sea with doses of dramamine.
Here, then, is & book for all travelers, the perfect gift for veteran and neophyte tourists alike, a joyful guide to all the mysteries of life abroad. Here the reader will find all manner of sage counsel by such witty wanderers among many others as Robert Benchley, S Perelman and Farl Wilson. And Lawrence Lariat adds his own humorous comments, aided and abetted by cartoons from the nation’s foremost funny picture men.
Have you a friend about to take his first step up a gangplank into the never-never land of travel? This book is guaranteed to cure boredom, ennui and deck: chair disquietude!
