Moque, Alice Lee

Delightful Dalmatia [Pre-World War I - Adriatic Sea - Today's Croatia]

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth hardcover with color paste-on.

Publisher’s dark-blue cloth with stamped gilt titles and a color paste-on; color frontispiece, 31 black/white photographic plates by the author. xi, blank, 374 pages with an index; followed by an 8-page publisher’s catalog. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. A fine collectible copy.

Fine / Fine. Item #16675

“In this little story of a summer voyage down the Adriatic, I have endeavored to incorporate with my own impressions of the land and its people many of the quaint tales and mythical happenings which are largely a matter of belief throughout Dalmatia. ….. Dalmatia's little cities, their old churches, and countless ancient treasures, will afford unbounded pleasure. ….. Come! Let us go to Dalmatia. It is summertime, the sky is serene, the breeze soft, and the water blue. Let us revel together in the romantic stories written upon the ancient walls and frowning bastions; the hoary cathedrals and stately palaces; by that greatest of all historians, ‘Old Father Time.’”  [the author from the Foreward]

Background Information:
Alice Lee Moqué, was an American traveler, writer, newspaper correspondent, photographer, and suffragist. She was also one of the first women cyclists in America. In addition to newspaper articles on a wide variety of topics, and a novel, she published Delightful Dalmatia, an account of traveling through Dalmatia prior to World War I. She was elected to the League of American Pen Women in 1915

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