Buy this book on-line ZAK, MARIE KATHRYN : 1950 SCRAPBOOK OF SODALIST TRAVEL TO VISIT THE POPE BY THE FAMED ST. LOUIS MISSOURI TRAVEL WRITER
Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. On offer is an original scrapbook written and compiled by Marie Kathryn Zak, a soon-to-be very well-known travel writer during the 1950s and '60s. A graduate of St. Louis University, she worked for The Automobile Club World Wide Travel Service, wrote a column, called "Travel Talk", for a local newspaper and had a very close and religious family life. This scrapbook details her trip in July 1950 with 200 other St. Louis Sodalist to Rome, Fatima, Portugal and Lourdes, France, on the Queen's Work Holy Year pilgrimage. It includes newspaper articles (one of which is about the S.S. Liguria, a ship they were on, avoiding the perils of a hurricane), telegrams, cards, stickers, receipts, pictures and numerous postcards. In very good shape. Eleven [11] leaves of the sixteen [16] are used and there are some loose pieces of ephemera.. Manuscript. Book Condition: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ZAK, MARIE KATHRYN : 1950 SCRAPBOOK OF SODALIST TRAVEL TO VISIT THE POPE BY THE FAMED ST. LOUIS MISSOURI TRAVEL WRITER. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, out-of-print books, out of print books, incunabula and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |