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Dayton Duncan

Horatio's Drive: America’s First Road Trip

Alfred A. Knopf

2003

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Signed first edition of this beautifully-produced book charting the first cross-country America road trip, based on a Ken Burns documentary of the same title.

  • Dayton Duncan (American).
  • New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
  • xiv, 174 pages.
  • Illustrated in black and white and shades of brown throughout.
  • Signed by Burns to half-title page.
  • Bound in original green boards with gilt titles with original unclipped ($24.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Archie Ferguson, cartographic endpapers.


Horatio Nelson Jackson’s 1903 drive ran from San Francisco to New York, and took 63 days – there were only 150 miles of paved road in the United States at that time! His car is now preserved in the Smithsonian. “We are causing a great sensation along the road – it is the first machine that has ever gone over these mountains."

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Tiny closed tear to upper rear edge of jacket.

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Dimensions

Height: 7.75 inches / 19.68 cm
Width: 9 inches / 22.86 cm

Feature(s)

First Edition, Signed, Dust Jacket

Language

English

Subject

Americana, Travel, topography and voyages, Film, Modern first editions

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