The Traveller's Companion: A Travel Anthology

[Rex Whistler]

'In short, this is a perfect bedside, week-end, deck-chair, armchair, book of travel.'

A compendium of musings and advice by well-known figures on the art of travel in the 1930s. Chapters touch on 'Travellers Unkind', 'Food and Drink' and 'Women and Cities'. Rex Whistler provides seven full-page witty illustrations and a striking dust jacket.

[Whistler & Fuller. The Work of Rex Whistler. No. 436]



Compiled by Paul & Millicent Bloomfield. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. G. Bell and Sons. London. 1931. First edition. Hardback, octavo; red cloth-bound boards, gilt title and decoration to spine, dust jacket. xvi, 308 pages. Dust jacket, reproduced as illustrated title, cloth spine decoration, and 7 full-page plates by Rex Whistler. English. 190 x 130mm. 0.45kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light wear to jacket, some toning to spine and panels, wear to top forecorners and head of spine, small area of loss to head of spine, short tear to lower edge of rear fold, not price-clipped; light browning to edges, slight discolouration to cloth of lower forecorners.