Author: Graham, Olivia
Title: Memoirs of a Lady Motorist
Description: George Routledge & Sons, 1916. Hardcover. Original cream cloth with green titling and ruling; gilt titling on the spine. pp. [iv], 116, [8, illustrated motoring-related advertisements], colour portrait, plates after photographs, folding colour-printed map of Scotland; The pioneering author set out in her American Flanders 20-hp car across Scotland, including the Highlands. The car was called 'Miss Flanders' and is on one occasion described as 'flirting with a big red Rolls Royce'. In the second part of the book Miss Flanders (after having run almost 10,000 miles) was replaced by 'Brownie', an Argyll 12/18, a Dumbartonshire-manufactured vehicle. Her tour of Scotland visits the aftermath of the Gretna Gren (Quintishill) railway disaster The book is tight and clean although the boards are a little dusty and a light splash mark has removed the sheen of a patch of the rear board; light wear of corners. Bookseller's label - CharlesThurnam & sons Carlisle and gift inscription to Geraldine F.E. Adam 1916. Scattered unobtrusive foxing. See scans and emal for more. . Very Good

Keywords: