SUDBURY, Richard [pseudonym for Charles Hammond GIBSON]. Two Gentlemen in Touraine … Automobile Edition. New York, Fox Duffield & Company, 1906.
8vo. Original brown cloth, lettered in white; pp. [4], iv, 341; lettering on spine faded, light offsetting from endpapers, otherwise a rather attractive copy of a rare work.
Second edition (first, 1899) of this delightful tour on the chateau route of the Toraine along and off the Rhone. Charles Hammond Gibson (1874-1954) was a Bostonian bon vivant, writer and poet. This work is both travel book with chronicles of churches and castles, and a fictional romance about the relationship with Maurice Talvande, Count de Mauny Talvande, owner of Taprobane Island.
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