Lincoln

1915 · 64092 — New York: Brentano’s 1915. 8vo. ix 1 11-216 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 1 large folding route map. Pictorial gray publisher’s cloth cover art map and decorative border touting the Lincoln Highway minor sunning to spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing uniform interior toning as usual still VG- copy. First edition of this well-illustrated and excellent memoir documenting amenities and sights along the Lincoln Highway considered one of the first full length travel accounts on transcontinental motoring of their 1914 trip. The Lincoln Highway was newly inaugurated as one of the first transcontinental highways and the association ramrodded by Carl Fisher and then Henry Joy had launched the coast-to-coast rock highway for visitors to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 later to be enjoyed by automobile travelers during the Roaring 20’s. Effie Price Gladding 1865-1947 details their arrival from a three-year round the World Tour via Asia and Hawaii into San Francisco Bay and subsequent drives along 600 miles of the El Camino Real and then continuing Eastward through Nevada Utah Wyoming Colorado Nebraska Iowa Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania and eventually to New York. She has included many tips to women travelers at the rear of this account and would later write the foreword to the Lincoln Highway association’s first road guide directed to women motorists. Brentano’s, hardcover