Round the World in a Baby Austin by Hector MacQuarrie by Hector MacQuarrie.

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, London 1936, First popular edition.

Good hardback without a jacket. Blue cloth boards have some bumping, with dulling down to spine. Bookseller's stamp to ffep. Some tanning and foxing to pages. Binding firm. 384 pages with illustrations and 12 b&w plates (all present and in very good condition).

The author and his companion, Richard Matthews, both New Zealanders, set out in Emily, the Baby Austin, in May 1930 with the idea of travelling 'eastward from Sydney, always eastward when possible, until we should reach our starting-point again'.

All books are sent free by courier postage within New Zealand.

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