The Royal Road to Romance & The Glorious Adventure, Richard Halliburton, Star Books Editions

Pair of early travel memoirs by adventurer and writer Richard Halliburton, published by Garden City under their Star Books imprint.

The Royal Road to Romance (1925) recounts Halliburton’s youthful travels around the world, from climbing Mount Fuji to swimming the Panama Canal, while The Glorious Adventure (1927) follows his later journeys retracing the path of Ulysses through the Mediterranean.

Both feature black-and-white frontispiece photographs, illustrated endpaper maps, and dark blue cloth bindings with yellow spine titles. Classic mid-century reprints of two of the most beloved travel narratives of the 1920s.