Seven League Boots.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., (1937). Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), silver lettering, map illus. endpapers, uncut, 417 pp. Very Good in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: In the tracks of Hannibal he rode his elephant all over the Alps, through the eight-thousand-foot Great St. Bernard Pass -- because he thought it would be amusing. This preposterous, extravagant journey, the grandest and most original of all Halliburton adventures, caused a sensation throughout Europe. Annihilating distance with his Seven League Boots, Halliburton strode to Ekaterinburg, in Siberia. Here he found one of the chief assassins who had carried out the massacre of Czar Nicholas II and all six members of his family. Under extraordinary circumstances the assassin, half dead from a throat malady, revealed to the author the the complete and final truth about this world-famous tragedy. Not one smallest detail was withheld. The reckless confession of the dying Bolshevik, the elephant ride over the Alps which astonished the world in general and the ITalian army in particular, are but two of the exciting episodes in the recent travels of this incurable seeker after romantic adventure. Richard Halliburton is incapable of writing a dull page, and in this book he reports each of his new adventures with the same contagious zest, the same charm and swing and dash that have won such unrivalled popularity for his other tales.