Books Tell You Why, Inc.

An attractive second printing of the first edition, first published in 1955. Near Fine with a little edgewear to red cloth in Very Good dust-jacket, a couple of chips and closed tears along edges.

"The book is concerned with the modern roadside accommodation, whatever it may be termed - motel, motor inn, or highway hotel. The need for this new sort of hotel accommodation came into being with the mass-produced automobile. Perhaps the motel (a word finally sanctioned by Webster) may be considered ultimately attributable to Henry Ford - a by-product of his assembly lines." - from the introduction; 4to; [vi], 264, [2] pages.