September 2020 Catalogue

63 Europe & The British Isles September 2020 “The Motor-Car Has Restored The Romance Of Travel” 61. WHARTON, Edith. A Motor-Flight Through France. New York, 1908. Octavo, original gilt-stamped green cloth. $650. Click for more info First edition of Wharton’s wonderful travelogue, with 48 photographic illustrations, a lovely copy. In Motor-Flight , Wharton describes her trip through France in an automobile with her husband and Henry James. “Wharton was an insatiable traveler; like Alexander the Great, she was always in search of newworlds to conquer” (Lowe, 3844). Without rarely found dust jacket. A fine copy.