Clare Sheridan: Across Europe with Satanella, Rotorua in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty for sale

Spine cloth wrinkled. 30mm tear to cloth with some loss at head of spine. 10mm chip to cloth at tail of spine. Cloth rubbed heavily along rear joint, with some splitting. Hinges weak, but without any splitting to the gutters at endpapers. Previous owners'signature and inscription on front endpaper. ; 216 pages + [8] pages advertisements + 45 illustrations on 32 plate leaves. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. Account of the author and her brother's travels in Russia in 1924."Satanella"was the name of their vehicle, a motor bicycle with side car. Illustrations include: The Russian Church being demolished by the Poles at Warsaw; We leave Novograd-Volinsk - Headed by the Chief of Police; The Peasants who crowded to meet the boat on the Dnieper; Author carving a water-melon for the mid-day meal in the Steppes; A street in Alexandrovsk; Left behind by General Wrangel. A Naval Gun on the desolate battlefield of Perikop; Satanella on the road from Ai-Petri down to Yalta; People who wait all night outside the Motor Office for a car to take them to the Riviera in the morning; The Red Army in the bows of the ship bound for Odessa; Children from a State School at Odessa.
Author
Clare Sheridan
Title
Across Europe with Satanella
Publisher name
Duckworth (1925), London
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1925
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Abebof326d