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247p., illus. Facsimile reproduction of the 1938 first ed. Now issued in the Seafaring Men: Their Ships and Times series. Hardcover Very good condition
178 pages. Features: Colour Parker Pen ad inside front cover; Douglas aircraft ad featuring the Skyrocket; Nice colour Brach's candy ad; Colour 2-page ad for Studebaker featuring the new 1955 models; Nice 20-page colour ad for Sun-Maid Sunsweet dried fruit products; The Mysterious Doings of CIA - America's Secret Agents - an exclusive report on its methods, how it recruits, how it is funded, and its accomplishments in Guatemala, Iran and behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; Frontier Frenzy, by John Reese; Will China Stay Red? - Joseph Alsop reports some curious and little-known truths about China - article with photos; The Man-Handler, by Williams Forrest; The Luckiest Girl in Hollywood - Grace Kelly - article with wonderful colour photos; Outcast of the Florida Keys, by Frank Skipp; The Truth About Congressmen - by Martin Dies, Congressman at Large, Texas; Confessions of a Football Recruiter - the hilarious adventures of Herman Hickman while hunting athletes - with photos; Tugboat Annie's Long Shot, by Norman Reilly Raine; My Old Man Groucho (Marx), by Arthur Marx (Part 7); The Zone of Sudden Death, by William Chamberlain; A Ten-Day Tiger Hunt costs $1,000 - with a kill guaranteed - Tigers are so plentiful in Central India that there is no limit on the bag! - with photos; Howard Morris has taught over 7,400 tourists to hula aboard the Lurline - with many great colour photos; House of Hate, by Storm Jameson; The Case of the Restless Redhead, by Erle Stanley Gardner - Perry Mason's informant learned the hard way that you can't make deals with criminals; Black and white photo ad by Chrysler Corp. shows their auto stylists at work; Nice colour 2-page photo ad for Admiral televisions; Two-colour ad for Pendleton shirts; Nice two-colour ad for Oliver tractors; Stromberg-Carlson television ad; Interesting 2-page Borg-Warner ad in 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' format; Glamorous colour Philip Morris ad; Two-page ad by REO Motors featuring the new mighty REO V-8 Gold Comet Truck Engine; Buck Skein Joe sport fasion ad; Colour ad by the Philadelphia Electric Company; Nice color Cream of Wheat ad features cartoon characters by Al Capp; Frank Thomas on "The Best Player I Ever Coached" - Dixie Howell; Colour ad for Dictaphone; Coke ad on back cover promotes Eddie Fisher on "Coke Time" NBC television twice each week. Average wear. Ink drops to top edge of last few pages. A sound copy. Book
Features: Must we woo Red China? - by Arnold J. Toynbee; A time of trouble (Affairs of the State); Should Women give Men the Vote?; America's new big rich - despite high taxes, a small number of little-known men have made huge postwar fortunes - John D. MacArthur, Dr. Edwin Land, Howard Ahmanson, John Mecom, W. Clement Stone, Henry Crown - with photos; The Great wild-bee safari - bee-tree hunting; Last of the Divorce Rances - Donner Trail Ranch; Adak - "A woman behind Every Tree" - a return to the Aleutian/Alaskan Island manned by 80,000 Americans during World War II; Discovery that helps prevent miscarriages - 'Skin Patch'; The big (James) Bond bonanza - great photos of the 'Thunderball' shoot and more. Colour Chevrolet Truck 'Workpower' centerfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
76 pages. Fiction: The Lady Wasn't Bashful; The Cradle; Men are Naturally Dangerous; The Killer of Hourglass Lake; The Magic Afternoon; The Big Heat (part 1 of 7); The Secret of the Purple Reefs (part 4 of 8). Articles: Our Baby Was Born Blind; Manhattan's Haughtiest Eatery - "21"; The Mystery of the Private Chapel - at Bailey's Harbor, WI; Congress Vs. the Plunging Neckline - photo of Mrs. Winfield Smart and family of Falls Church, VA; I Fly the Night Skies Over Korea - Lt. Comdr. Franklin Metzner, USN flys blind night after night hunting the Reds, dodging unmapped mountains and sweating through flak traps; What I Learned from the Russians - photo-illustrated article by Marguerite Higgins who was arrested by the Reds; The Town Where it Rains Money - color photos of Rockdale, Texas Where Alcoa is building a new plant; The Best Player I Ever Coached - Paul (Bear) Bryant on Bob Gain. Ads: Boeing's Project X; Detroit Diesel - with color photo of Budd rail diesel car; Campbell's Soup; Fantastic two-page color photo Seven-Up (7-up) ad; 1st Lieutenant Lloyd L. Burke, U.S. Army Medal of Honour winner is featured in a U.S. Defense Bond ad; Coke ad on back cover features the four seasons. Above-average but not excessive wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Why husbands die young, by Peg Bracken - they think it's sissy to admit they're sick - until too late; Our New Strategy - the alternatives to total war; "My Favorite Quotation" - provided by many famous people; Artist of the Third Eye - Marc Chagall; ; Now Ruthie Newton is in Step - she was found half-dead when she was an infant in India; Digging a Way to Freedom - the human story behind tunnel 29 from East to West Germany; Coaches on a Collision Course - Army's Paul Dietzel and Navy's Wayne Hardin drive their teams toward a showdown in Saturday's gridiron classic; Why I Quit Hunting - a hunter tells how the slaying of an antelope struck him with so deep a sorrow that he put away his guns forever; Stormy Sage of Weather Control - Dr. Irving Parkhurst Krick not only predicts rain, he makes it for his clients by seeding rain clouds from planes; Hollywood's new breed of Soft Young Men - Richard Beymer, Troy Donahue, George Hamilton, Mickey Callan, George Chakiris. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
88 pages. Short Stories: New Girl; Dangerous Gift; The Death Dust; The Wrong Impression. Articles: Our Fighting Men Have Gone Soft - photo-illustrated article, including Korean War POWs and turncoats; So You Want to Live in Paris - photo-illustrated guide to apartment hunting; I Coach the Hot Corner - Frank Crosetti of the New York Yankees; Danger - Boss Lady at Work - Olive Ann Beech runs Beechcraft (Travel Air Company) and is the only woman CEO in the aircraft industry; The Struggle to get Hoffa - Conclusion - How Long Will He Last? - with photo of Kennedy and Hoffa; The North Salem Mystery - unexplained caves and carved stones of Mystery Hill, HH. Serials: Set Up for Murder (part 1 of 2); Mark of Treachery (part 5 of 8). Ads: GE Fridges (in color); Bufferin; Colgate Dental Cream - with Gardol; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Spaghetti; Hotpoint Fridges; Caterpillar - oil drilling scene; United States Steel (centerfold); Owens-Illinois cardboard boxes; Dial Soap; Anacin; Chevrolet nine-passenger Kingswood Station Wagon; Foremost Sherbets; Northern Tissue; Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic; Royal Crown Cola; Employers Mutuals of Wausau - with photos of Louis W. Prentiss, Jim Miller and Fred Weber; Pan American's new Pacific Jet Clippers; Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. ad features red-headed boy getting hair cut; Betty Crocker cake mixes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
180 pages. Features: 1-page color ad for Timken tapered roller bearings; 1-page color ad for Lumite auto seat covers; 1/2-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes; 2-page color ad for General brand Winter-Cleat tires; Fantastic 1-page color ad for White Trucks features log-hauling scene; Nice color 2-page ad for General Electric radios and tvs; Nice color 1-page ad for Whitman's Samplers; What Kind of Man is Stalin? - Part 1 of 'My Three Years in Moscow - article with photos - the author met Stalin personally; The Innocent Buccaneer (fiction); How to Get Rich After Dark - photo-illustrated article on the men who fish the Gulf Stream off Florida; The Rebellious Age (fiction); Moutain Rescue Man - color-photo illustrated article on Ranger William Butler of Washington's Mount Rainier; The Woman Hater (fiction); John Pastore - Rhode Island's Little Firecracker - article with photo; Hilarious Memories of Albert J. Rothe "The Red Barber" who trimmed famous men such as Truman, Bradley, Byrnes, Leahy and Patton - article with photos; Anxious Night (fiction); Tuss McLaughry of Dartmouth's football program - article with photo; Collision Course (fiction); Feature article on Miinot, North Dakota, with photos; New York City's Food Trades Vocational High School - article with great color photos; The Doctor of Unkown Island (fiction); Photo-illustrated article on Jimmy Dunn of America's foreign service; *SENSATIONAL* full-page color-photo ad for the New Chrysler Town & Country in a bird hunting locale; That Ain't The Way I Saw It - former newspaperman Robert M. Yoder on the glamorous adventures thata befall a reporter in the radio serials; Fantastic two-page Borg-Warner ad highlights their products in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! format; U.S. Army photo-illustrated recruiting ad; Nice 1-page color ad for Old Gold cigarettes; 2-page color-photo ad for Sun-Maid Raisins; Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Nice 1-page color-illustrated ad for American Airlines; Magnavox TV ad; Nice photo-illustrated ad for Pullman cars; 1-page color ad for Rice Krispies; Two-page ad for Listerine and dandruff; Gorgeous 2-page color illustrated Chevrolet ad featuring a red Styleline De Luxe 4-Door Sedan; Auto-Lite Spark Plug ad features photos of Jane Wyman; Nice 2-page color-illustrated General Motors ad highlights the safety of their vehicles; Nice 1-page 2-color photo-illustrated ad for Eaton 2-speed axles features tank truck driver Mr. J.T. Ebling; Eveready battery ad features photos of Mr. Axel Lober, Mr. Everett Smith, Janice Winters and Mr. Sam C. Kuster; Nice 1-page photo illustrated ad for the Underwood All Electric Typewriter; Color ad for Crosley fridges; Nice color ad for Kraft Cocao Mix; Wonderful full-page color 7up (Seven-Up) ad features photo of a square dance scene; Color ad for Del Monte Catsup; Hydrox cookie ad; Color ad for Hamilton watches; 1-page 2-color ad for Red Heart dog food features photos of Lassie; Nice 1-page color ad for United Aircraft; Cream of Wheat ad features Li'l Abner cartoon; Full-page tire chain ad for American Chain & Cable Company; 1-page 2-color ad for Cavalier Cedar Chests; Statler Hotels ad features cartoon. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. This issue noteworthy for its many exceptional ads. Magazine
8vo [22.5 x15 cm]; xi, 275, 12 [ads] pp, frontis, plates from photos, foldout map, general index, plant index. original cloth with gilt vignette and lettering on front cover & spine, lightly foxed on title page, fine, clean copy in very good dust jacket (light wear, small chip) with a loose extra 3-page appendix (about 6 x 4 inches, photocopy, from later edition. The author, perhaps the most famous plant hunter of the twentieth century, describes his travels in Yunnan, Burma, China, Tibet searching for new plants but also describing the countryside and peoples and gives his own feelings and philosophy of plant collecting, travel, nature, etc. There was a later reprint but in reduced format compared to this first edition. Not usually found in a jacket.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and full-page map; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A big game and South African classic first published in 1916. This edition is now uncommon in its own right.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 27 plates on 14 and 5 illustrations in the text; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper with losses.
4to [28 x 21 cm]; xi, 113 pp, frontis portrait of Farrer, 12 fine color plates from Farrer's paintings in the field, 4 black & white plates, comprehensive annotated bibliography of all of Farrer's works. original white cloth, gilt spine title lettering, light foxing on few margins, name whitened out on endpaper, bookplate removed, one blank corner of leaf torn off, very good, clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Farrer was one of the most important plant hunters of his time and introduced hundreds of plants to the west that we now take for granted in our gardens (see Coats, The Plant Hunters, p. 132, etc). Farrer collected plants extensively in Kansu, Burma, Ahkyang Valley, and elsewhere. Cox, a plant hunter of merit also, had accompanied Farrer on one of his expeditions in Asia, became a popular gardening writer of the time, and here provides a detailed introduction to Farrer's travels and edited his notes on each plant described. This work lists 1920 plants that Farrer collected, which had been named up to that point. Farrer's descriptions of each plant are augmented by Cox's comments.
8vo [24 x 17 cm]; xii, 281 pp, illus, bibliog, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, bookplate on endpaper, dj (short tear, not price clipped), fine and clean in very good dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. One of the better introductions to plant hunting, second only to Alice Coat's classic book, which helped spark the interest in this area. Covers early collectors, the influence of Nathaniel Ward, later collectors in most parts of the world, and an interesting chapter in case you want to start to collect plants yourself.
8vo [23 x 16 cm]; vii, [ii], 214 pp, illustrations from photos and from early sources, index. original green cloth with silver spine title lettering, a very good, unmarked and clean copy in jacket (price clipped, short tear, light wear at edge). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. An interesting and readable account of plant hunting from Parkinson, Tradescant, Banister, Kaempfer, Bartram, Robert Fortune to E. H. Wilson and Kingdon-Ward and dozens of others, organized in 9 main chapters, with an index of plant names and general index. A good introduction to where our plants came from and the difficulties the botanists had in finding them.
8vo [24 x 17 cm]; xvii, 338 pp, 5 color plates from painting, 97 illustrations from photos and drwgs, bibliog, index. original cloth with silver title lettering, dj (price clipped, tiny tear), small owner's blind-stamp on endpaper, fine in fine dj. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author provides an interesting and detailed description of the origins of over 900 plants from most parts of the world from earliest times to those found by more recent plant hunters, and includes a chapter on orchids.
pp. xxii, 297 + full page color plates of American Indians, Buffalo hunting and Mountain Men by Maynard Dixon. Numerous text drawings printed in red. Top edge red. Tall 8vo. Original full linen binding. Front cover and spine decorated in reds and browns. Original slip case. Slip case has a worm hole and the book has a small hole throughout the copy. Hardbound. A beautifully printed and affordable version of the original Limited Editions Club publication. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W82
8vo [21 x 14 cm]; 187, [ii] pp, illustrations from photos. original green cloth, cover edges rubbed, endpaper lightly foxed, but internally clean, overall very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Adventures searching for orchids in the jungles of Columbia and Venezuela. An interesting plant hunting adventure in which the author and his friend found and brought back numerous orchids. "For when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine. A sort of madness." (prologue)
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, and 23 full-page and 9 vignette wood-engravings in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with the author's 'Owl' device, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter browned at backstrip. The number of stories has been reduced from the twelve of the first edition to nine; those excluded being 'No Eel for Nog', 'Mewliboy', 'Chakchek's Raid on London', 'The Yellow Boots' and 'The Old Pond'. Two stories are revised - 'Bill Brock's Good Turn' becomes 'The Epic of Brock the Badger' and 'A Day with the Jelly-Dogs' becomes 'My Day with the Beagles'. One new story, 'Redeye', is added. In this Cheaper Edition the dustwrapper carries the illustration from p.283 (stag in river) on front panel, tailpiece from p.286 (stag lying) on backstrip and advertisements for 'Tarka', 'Swallows' and 'Peregrine' on rear panel. VERY SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Matthews, p.36.
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; 317 pp, frontis (port), plus 15 plates from photos, index, map of Philippine Islands on endpapers. original cloth, slightly rubbed at corner, small dent at cover edge, lightly foxed on few leaves, mainly marginal, but a very good, solid and tight copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Burdett was one of the first prospectors of the Kimberley goldrush, a pearl hunter, explorer and orchid collector who explored coral reefs and jungles for some forty years. In this work, the author travelled in the jungles of the Philippines and describes the jungle, the peoples, nature, his adventures and the finding of some orchids among other things, including ancient artifacts. He was also the author of The Odyssey of a Pearl Hunter.
56 pages. Features: Cover photo of soldier being welcomed home by his little girl; Great one-page color Rheingold beer ad features Miss Rheingold 1945, Pat Boyd, who is duck hunting; How Can We Get Along With Russia?; Eight photos of life in the Stalin's Russia; Lord Wright, Chairman of the U.N. War Crimes Commission discusses the basis for bringing war criminals to justice; Joseph Ball discusses Labor and the Law, with half-page photo of Hollywood sit down at gate of the Warner Brothers studio; Japan's Women - under occupation they have suddenly been granted a new place and a new role in their country's life; - article with photos; Sinclair Lewis is back on Main Street; Bold red one-page ad for Schaefer beer features oysters; How Bridgeport CT mobilized for peace as they did for war - article with photos; Australian Foreign Minister Dr. Herbert V. Evatt; Nice color-photo one-page ad for Revlon's 'Fatal Apple' nail color; Nine nice photos of classy dresses; One-page two-color ad for Emerson radios; Intersting back cover color ad for Forst's Catskill Mountain Smoked Turkey; and more. Moderate external wear and soiling. Unmarked. Mild age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII-era issue. Book
New York 1975, In-8 cartonnage vert de l'éditeur, photo sur le 1° plat. 271 pages. Photos noir et blanc. Bibliographie. Texte en anglais. Trés bon état.
1054pp. 29 cm. Hardcover Good condition
286p. Numerous photographs and drawings. 8vo. Original full pictorial cloth binding, soiled at edges. First Edition. PETS/2
8vo [22 x 14 cm]; 316, [iv, ads] pp, illustrations from photos, 4 maps including large folding map at end, index. original pictorial cloth, spine title lettering, tiny tear at spine end, but a fine and clean copy, covers bright and unworn pristine and fresh. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. One of the greatest explorers of the early part of this century and, perhaps, the most famous plant hunter of all times, Kingdon Ward travelled extensively in Burma, China and Tibet. He introduced numerous plants to western gardens including the Tibetan poppy and rhododendrons. This is a detailed description of the area with much on the geography, the people, and the plants he found, including over 200 new species. It is one of his scarcest books. Coats (The Plant Hunters): 'His most important and interesting journey.' Schweinfurth IV. Marshall 2070. Yakushi K191.
12mo, [4], 24, [2]pp., frontis., portrait, orig. publishers cloth-backed boards, slightly soiled, printed paper label on upper cover.
298 pages. Features: Playthings of the Past - the Bernard Barenholtz collection of American antique toys; The Architect and the Interior - Drawings of British Country Houses; The Masterson Collection of Worcester Porcelain in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Hunting Lodge of Stupinigi at Turin; Westmoreland, County, Pennsylvania, Fraktur - an initial survey; The Dr. Dubs House in Natchez, Mississippi - living with antiques; Arthur J. Stone, Silversmith; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy reference copy. . Book