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Set of 3 Emily Kimbrough Books: Pleasure By the Busload (First Edition, 1961), We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood (1943), So Near and Yet So Far (1955)

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Who wrote it: This is a set of three travel memoirs by Emily Kimbrough, including a first edition of Pleasure By the Busload, alongside We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood, illustrated by Helen E. Hokinson, and So Near and Yet So Far.

What it's about: Kimbrough was a popular mid-century travel writer known for her light, funny accounts of trips gone charmingly sideways.

Special features: We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood is illustrated throughout by Helen E. Hokinson, the longtime New Yorker cartoonist known for her society-lady caricatures.

Condition: Hardcovers with dust jackets, jackets show wear including tears, a puncture near a spine fold, water staining on one jacket, and loss at one spine top. Please review all photos carefully, and email me with any questions.

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