8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher's red pictorial cloth (small spot on upper cover, slight rubbing to edges). Provenance: Marcuse Paulsen (gift inscription).  

FIRST EDITION of Griffin's description of the Wild West's 9-day road tour from London to Manchester. "It is not my intention to tire the reader with useless verbiage or dry statistics, such as the ordinary Circus Route Book affords, but to give a straightforward narrative of the...stupendous undertaking" (author's preface). RARE.