Author: GRAYSON, David
Title: The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment
Description: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. Hardcover. Illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. 8vo. Light green cloth with pictorial paper labels, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. ix, 342pp. Line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Endpapers a tad age toned, else text block tight and fine; jacket mildly edgeworn. Attractive reprint edition. American historian and journalist Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946) penned a wide array of titles, but is often remembered for his friendship with Woodrow Wilson, about whom he authored many books. Under the pseudonym "David Grayson" he wrote nine incredibly popular leisurely and laid back books about American rural life, beginning with "Adventures in Contentment" (1907), followed by "Adventures in Friendship" (1910) and "The Friendly Road," which chronicles a walking tour around the country. This handsome copy bears a fine autograph addition: Tipped to an inner flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Baker, 1p, 5½" X 8¼", Amherst, MA, 7 May 1940. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). Baker turned 70 years old on April 17, 1940, and here acknowledges birthday greetings sent him by an admirer: "How very kind of you to wish me good will on my birthday. I thought for a time that I would stop having them, but it didn't do any good. They kept cropping up, and I am no longer dismayed because of the friends who send me their good wishes." Signed boldly in full (with his actual name, not pseudonym). .
Keywords: Americana Travel & Exploration
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Title: The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment
Description: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. Hardcover. Illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. 8vo. Light green cloth with pictorial paper labels, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. ix, 342pp. Line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Endpapers a tad age toned, else text block tight and fine; jacket mildly edgeworn. Attractive reprint edition. American historian and journalist Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946) penned a wide array of titles, but is often remembered for his friendship with Woodrow Wilson, about whom he authored many books. Under the pseudonym "David Grayson" he wrote nine incredibly popular leisurely and laid back books about American rural life, beginning with "Adventures in Contentment" (1907), followed by "Adventures in Friendship" (1910) and "The Friendly Road," which chronicles a walking tour around the country. This handsome copy bears a fine autograph addition: Tipped to an inner flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from Baker, 1p, 5½" X 8¼", Amherst, MA, 7 May 1940. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). Baker turned 70 years old on April 17, 1940, and here acknowledges birthday greetings sent him by an admirer: "How very kind of you to wish me good will on my birthday. I thought for a time that I would stop having them, but it didn't do any good. They kept cropping up, and I am no longer dismayed because of the friends who send me their good wishes." Signed boldly in full (with his actual name, not pseudonym). .
Keywords: Americana Travel & Exploration
Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 51039
- Book number: 51039
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