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Auction 201, Lot 187

Unrecorded Early Automobile Tour Book of the Southeast

"Alabama-Georgia - Goodrich Tour Book "Best in the Long Run" "

Subject: Southeastern United States

Period: 1918 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
5 x 9.3 inches
12.7 x 23.6 cm
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This early Goodrich route book features an index map, city maps, numerous advertisements, and 63 routes for motorists. While the title refers to two states, the contents include routes to Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Mississippi. One of a series of early Goodrich auto travel guides rating roads, providing very detailed directions for motoring vacations and in some cases valuable warnings: “At north end of this bridge [in Atlanta] is a very dangerous hidden curve…Twelve people have been killed here by head-on collisions and by striking the side of bridge with autos and motorcycles" (page 46). 88 pages, pictorial wrappers. Unrecorded in OCLC.

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Condition: B+

Contents are mostly clean with several dog-eared pages. Covers are soiled. Overall very good considering the guide's intended use.

Estimate: $140 - $170

Sold for: $100

Closed on 11/20/2024

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