A Modern Prairie Schooner on the Transcontinental Trail: The Story of a Motor Trip
San Francisco: Caroline Poole/John Henry Nash, 1919. First Edition Limited #153 of 250 copies for private distribution. From the library of John Henry Nash with his bookplate to front pastedown. Quarto; [iii], 53pp. Frontis is photograph of a woman in the desert; plus eleven additional tipped-in photographs and large folding map of journey at rear. Near Fine copy (spine lightened & light scraping on title label) in half grey linen and grey paper-covered boards. Item #21571
The interesting chronicle of a daring and adventuresome 2-week motor journey from Pasadena to Colorado Springs in 'Sallie,' a 1913 Packard Six. (O'Day p. 14-15). The archive of Caroline Boeing Poole, an independent adventurer whose collection of American Indian baskets was the largest in private hands when she gave it to the Southwest Museum (it now resides in the Autry Museum). Poole was sister to William Boeing, the aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company and wife of Col. J. H. Poole, a philanthropist and World War I veteran (serving as Theodore Roosevelt’s aide in the Spanish-American War). According to The Autry website, she was the third woman to ride on a transatlantic commercial Zeppelin. Of this pioneering trip by motor car, Poole wrote "This little book was written from my letters to Col. Poole, who was then in France & in response to the many inquiries from interested friends. Forgive its shortcomings & gaze upon and enjoy Mr. Nash's beautiful work behind whose skirts The Author hides - Caroline Poole' (from a 1927 letter).
Price: $950.00