Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA
Peggy Iris Thomas
Gasoline Gypsy or a Dog is a Girl's Best Friend
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$250
Item Details
New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953
8vo. 244 pp. Yellow cloth with brown lettering to spine in scarce publisher's color illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in very good dust jacket (wear to extremities with small loss to spine head; slight fading to spine; general wear).
A charming travel memoir detailing the author's 14,000-mile motorcycle journey across Canada, the United States, and Mexico between 1950 and 1952. She toured the continent on a tiny 125cc BSA Bantam motorcycle (affectionately nicknamed "Oppy") - her only travel companion was her Airedale Terrier named 'Matelot' (who rode in a custom box on the rear). Often hailed as a gem of mid-20th-century travel literature.
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