England in Lodgings
by Benjamin, Charles H
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Hampden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Pasadena, Ca: Self Published, 1929. First Edition, Limited . Limp Card. Very Good. 97 pp. Signed limited edition of a privately published travel book. Illustrated with pen & ink sketches by the author and one of his daughters. Benjamin and his family spent the summers of 1897 and 1903 in England. This book includes unusually detailed descriptions of the family's train trips, living arrangements, and meals. Of particular interest are lists of what the family paid for meals, lodging and tips. A card with a printed poem titled Over Production, giving the author's justification for no longer sending Christmas cards, is laid in. A prime example of doggerel; the poem lists some of the excesses which lead to the depression, such as: "...Too many houses crowd the street and still the agents plan for more...
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4094B
- Title
- England in Lodgings
- Author
- Benjamin, Charles H
- Format/Binding
- Limp Card
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Limited
- Publisher
- Self Published
- Place of Publication
- Pasadena, Ca
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- English Railroad Travel 1897. American Tourist Life: 1897/1903. American Tourists in Warwick, England. 1920's Housing Bubble
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Railroads;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lippincott Books
Biblio member since 2009
Hampden, Maine
About Lippincott Books
We invite you to browse through the approximately 1800 books we have listed online on a wide variety of subjects, including strong holdings in Maine history and literature, lumbering, the North Woods of Maine, and Eastern Woodland Indians. We've been in business since 1975, over 25 years with a general antiquarian bookshop in Bangor.We are open by appointment; most of our stock of over 20,000 old and rare books have never been listed online, including a large selection of books on Maine and the Maine Woods. We are regularly adding to our inventory with new acquisitions.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...