AROUND THE WORLD IN ELEVEN YEARS

by Abbe, Patience

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NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1936. Later printing. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: xii, 204; frontispiece, 14pp illus from photographs. As a child in the 1920s, the American author and her two brothers lived like gypsies, residing here and there in France, Austria, and Germany -- then on to Moscow where "papa had photographed Stalin," back to Germany where they witnessed the rise of Hitler and the Youth Movement, and finally to England and then America, where they wound up in Denver. Among other notables, they had hobnobbed with the Gish sisters, Marc Connelly, Georges Clemenceau, Thomas Mann, Anna Pavlova, Alexander Woollcott, et al. Includes long lists of "People We Like" and "Animals We Like.". 8.25" x 5.5".

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