The Wild Roads - The story of transcontinental motoring by Nicholson, Timothy Robin - 1969

New York: W. W. Norton, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean first edition, first printing in original dust jacket. Clean black boards with red cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Small bump to one lower corner tip; no fraying or fading. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean pages and endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black & white photographs. 302 pages with Index. Dust jacket with price intact (6.95) has one chip at base of front panel, short closed tear at top of rear panel, fading to red lettering on spine (still legible); enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Epic adventures of early travellers by car, from the first inter-urban drive of 1888 to the first transcontinental trip in 1903 and the first round-the-world run in 1908, to the conquest of the last land continent in 1957-58..