14000 Miles: A Carriage and Two Women

Title: 14000 Miles: A Carriage and Two Women

Author: Howe, Frances S.

Publication: [Leominster, Massachusetts]: Privately printed, 1906.

Description: During the summer and early fall seasons for over 30 years (1872-1905), the author Frances S. Howe traveled with her friend Fannie C. Allen by horse-drawn carriage throughout New England, New York State, and Canada. Howe recounts their nearly 15,000 miles of travel in this book. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Emily P. Horner, with the best wishes of the author. September [1926?]" Also signed by the author on front fly-leaf. First edition (some parts previously published in periodicals). Black-and-white frontispiece. Bound in quarter olive cloth and gray paper over boards, with white lettering on the spine, printed title label on front cover, and top edge gilt. 8.5 x 6 inches; [8], 287, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates. Annotations in pencil by former owner on front fly-leaf and title page. Binding with mild edgewear and conspicuous soiling to the front cover, interior with some foxing to endleaves. Very Good. A collectible, inscribed copy of a women's travel memoir. Other than being a prolific traveler, Frances S. Howe (1842-1937) was a music teacher and longtime resident of Leominster, Massachusetts.