1908 Thirty
Days in the Land of the Mikado; E.V. Price, original hb edition; JAPAN; Hawaii
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an original edition of the scarce hardcover
book:
Thirty
Days in the Land of the Mikado
by Edward Valentine Price
Copyright: 1908 (no
other printing information given; therefore, assumed first edition)
145 pages, illustrated in b&w.
Foreword
I wish to impress upon all that I am not following in the footsteps of many of our British cousins who, after making a thirty-day tour of our own country, return home and proceed to write a history of the U. S. A.
This is merely a daily log, hastily written, where I have jotted down a few of the many sights that came under my observation and how they impressed me at the time. ………. The photographs in this log, with the exception of that of the Overland Limited and Wreck of the Dakota, were taken by Mrs. Price and myself with an Eastman Pocket Kodak.
The text begins: February 23, 1907 - We boarded the Overland Limited, The Chicago & Northwestern Line, at 8:02 p.m., Wells Street station, and began our journey to the Orient.
Goodbyes were said to kind friends who came to see us off. We scattered our belongings around the spacious drawing room in a home-like manner and prepared to make ourselves quite comfortable during the three days trip to San Francisco.
Our baggage consisted of two medium sized steamer trunks; a small basket trunk containing our steamer rugs and coats; one traveling bag each, umbrellas and an Eastman pocket camera. Besides our regular Winter clothing we carried a small supply of Spring clothing.
The book measures 6” x 9"; gilt page edges.
The early part of the book includes
a 25-page section describing a stopover in Hawaii. The book then goes on to describe extensive
travels in Japan.
CONDITION
This
111 year old book is complete and intact.
The
cover and spine show substantial wear.
The
binding is partially separated at the spine.
While the front and back covers are well connected, there is a place,
between sewn-in sections where the volume is literally being held together by a
few threads.
A single page is bent at the corner
tip; and two pages have short edge tears.
A few pages have very light pencil brackets drawn at the edge of some
paragraphs - otherwise, pages are straight and clean.
A very scarce book - typically available only as a
‘print-on-demand’ reprint.
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