All Aboard With E.M. Frimbo: World's Greatest Railroad traveller By Rogers E.M. Whitaker & Anthony Hiss
All Aboard With E.M. Frimbo: World's Greatest Railroad Traveller (Collectible First British Edition)
The Extraordinary Global Odysseys and Wit of The New Yorker’s Most Legendary Rail Connoisseur
The Extraordinary Global Odysseys and Wit of The New Yorker’s Most Legendary Rail Connoisseur
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: All Aboard with E.M. Frimbo: World's Greatest Railroad Traveller
- Authors: Rogers E.M. Whitaker and Anthony Hiss
- Publisher: André Deutsch Ltd, London
- Publication Date: 1975
- ISBN-10: 0333192222 / ISBN-13: 9780333192221 (Cross-referenced with alternate Commonwealth registry sheets; where issued locally under ISBN 0233967281)
- Edition Details: First British Edition, First Impression. Expanded Commonwealth Release.
- Binding: Hardcover with original publisher's heavy premium cloth boards, housed in the original illustrated dust jacket under a protective archive cellophane wrapper.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 272 pages. Whimsically enhanced with classic editorial line drawings and comprehensive track mileage itineraries.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+) / Near Mint
- Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's heavy cloth boards are exceptionally sharp, perfectly square, and firm across all edges. The spine is completely immaculate, straight, robustly bound, and uncreased with perfect structural integrity.
- Interior: Exceptional and pristine. The text pages are beautifully crisp, bright white, clean, and fully intact. Free from handling soils, foxing, thumb soils, dog-ears, handwriting, previous owner names, or dealer pencil notations.
- Protection: This delightful travel volume has been meticulously well maintained and looked after thus far, now preserved under a professional, removable archival-grade cellophane sleeve.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition: The original illustrated dust jacket is complete and unclipped. It exhibits only very slight, microscopic signs of standard shelf storage wear along the extreme corner tips, completely free of chips, deep tears, or sun fading.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1975 by André Deutsch, All Aboard with E.M. Frimbo is a magnificent literary travelogue celebrating the eccentricities, grand luxury, and vanishing corridors of global rail transit. For over five decades, the fictional persona of E.M. Frimbo—the alter ego of The New Yorker writer Rogers E.M. Whitaker—chugged through the pages of the magazine, logging millions of miles on rails broad and narrow across all five continents. This greatly expanded British edition combines the original thirty-three acclaimed Frimbo pieces with twenty-one previously uncollected articles curated by his traveling companion and amanuensis, Tony Hiss. The narrative records spectacular journeys: from searching for lost Louis Sullivan architectural masterpieces in Manhattan to traveling through Wales to visit Portmeirion (the village immortalized in the futuristic television series The Prisoner). Concluding with a moving final tribute at Cumbres Pass, the highest elevation reached by passenger trains in the United States, this first British impression is a beautifully witty masterpiece of transport journalism and an essential volume for sophisticated railroad bibliophiles.
Published in 1975 by André Deutsch, All Aboard with E.M. Frimbo is a magnificent literary travelogue celebrating the eccentricities, grand luxury, and vanishing corridors of global rail transit. For over five decades, the fictional persona of E.M. Frimbo—the alter ego of The New Yorker writer Rogers E.M. Whitaker—chugged through the pages of the magazine, logging millions of miles on rails broad and narrow across all five continents. This greatly expanded British edition combines the original thirty-three acclaimed Frimbo pieces with twenty-one previously uncollected articles curated by his traveling companion and amanuensis, Tony Hiss. The narrative records spectacular journeys: from searching for lost Louis Sullivan architectural masterpieces in Manhattan to traveling through Wales to visit Portmeirion (the village immortalized in the futuristic television series The Prisoner). Concluding with a moving final tribute at Cumbres Pass, the highest elevation reached by passenger trains in the United States, this first British impression is a beautifully witty masterpiece of transport journalism and an essential volume for sophisticated railroad bibliophiles.
Author Profile: Rogers E.M. Whitaker & Anthony Hiss
Rogers E.M. Whitaker (1900–1981) was a highly distinguished American editor, journalist, and legendary staff writer for The New Yorker, where he served for over half a century as a premier critic of lifestyle, football, and luxury rail travel. Anthony Hiss is an acclaimed American author, academic, and veteran The New Yorker writer specializing in urban design, transit preservation, and environmental ecology. Together, writing as the eccentric "Old Curmudgeon" E.M. Frimbo, they created a globally beloved literary icon. Their elegant, sharp-witted prose style and profound knowledge of rail networks earned them a permanent place in the vanguard of mid-century narrative non-fiction travel writing.
Rogers E.M. Whitaker (1900–1981) was a highly distinguished American editor, journalist, and legendary staff writer for The New Yorker, where he served for over half a century as a premier critic of lifestyle, football, and luxury rail travel. Anthony Hiss is an acclaimed American author, academic, and veteran The New Yorker writer specializing in urban design, transit preservation, and environmental ecology. Together, writing as the eccentric "Old Curmudgeon" E.M. Frimbo, they created a globally beloved literary icon. Their elegant, sharp-witted prose style and profound knowledge of rail networks earned them a permanent place in the vanguard of mid-century narrative non-fiction travel writing.
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