Americana, Including Recreational Travel, from Jordan Antiquarian Books
By Michael Stillman
We just received our first catalogue from Jordan Antiquarian Books, though it is Catalog No. 79 for this Dorset, Vermont, based bookseller. Their specialty is "significant Americana," including books, manuscripts, and ephemera. It would appear that anything related to America could show up in this catalogue, but we will mention that there are a great many items relating to recreational travel to be found in number 79. These include resort brochures and flyers/schedules for various railroads from the day when that was the primary means of getting from one place to anot...