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Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic photo-illustrated article on some of the 500 ships saved by the Admiralty Salvage Section in WWI; The Sun Dance - photo-illustrated account of a trip to Alberta, Canada to witness the Sun Dance, an annual festival of the Indians; My Dashes fro Freedom - Lieut. E.H. Garland's account of how he escaped from 12 German prison camps in WWI - article with illustrations and photos of the Holzminden Tunnel; ; In Search of Gold - John A. Jordan in East Africa; Our Disastrous Cattle Drive - tale of an horrific Australian cattle drive; Fascinating photo of a "Tramps' Hotel" in the fashion of a jail - they are required to break a quantity of rock for use in road construction before they can leave; The Kaiser's Girls - a tale of 'amazing political intrique and cold-blooded devilry' from German-occupied Russia; The Serpent Garden of Butantan, near Sao Paulo, Brazil - photo-illustrated article; My 'Roo (Kangaroo) Hunt with the 'Flying Gang' - hunting on the banks of the Murray River; With the Ortolan Trappers - photo-illustrated article on how these birds were caught; and more. Half-page photo ad for the Granliden Hotel of Lake Sunapee, N.H.; Lovely illustrated one-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines - "Shooting the Rapids of the Historic St. Lawrence in 1819"; Uncommon ad for "Tobacco Redeemer" by Newell Pharmacal inside back cover claims to help smokers kick the habit in 48 to 72 hours. Covers detached as one, but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Crowsnest Holdup - a spectacular hold-up on the Canadian Pacific Railway and the tragic manhunt that followed; The Fire-Walkers of Fiji - a mystery that has never been solved - great photo-illustrated article; Roaming the Wild South Seas (part I) - Jack McLaren relates some of his strange and exciting experiences there; Hunting Bighorn Sheep in Mexico - a most exciting shooting trip in the wild Cocopah Mountains of Mexico - fantastic photo-illustrated article; Alone Across the Atlantic - Mr. Alain J. Gerbault sailed alone from Gibraltar to New York in 142 days; The Road to Timbuctoo (part III) - readers who enjoyed 'Three Asses in the Pyrenees" will find this narrative even more amusing; How "Mac" Won His Wife - a New Zealander abducts and marries a beautiful girl - with revengeful natives in pursuit; In Search of Sea-Monsters (part V) - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out in 1921 on an expedition to the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and caught multiple world-record-sized fish - article with photos; Zulliver's Travels - an ill-fated auto trip to California; Snapshots in China - great photos; Unknown Peru (part IV) - travel and adventure in the Andes - article with photos; Anstruther Gets a Job - an unemployed engineer in South Africa meets the promoter of a mine; The Two Strangers - an interesting sequel to "A Bunch of Keys" which appeared in the December 1923 issue; Great one-page illustrated General Electric locomotive ad speaks of the Mexican Railway between Orizaba and Esperanza where 10 electric locomotives will replace 25 steam locomotives; and more. Covers loose as one but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
19332964New York: Huntington Press 1933. First. Hardcover. Fine. Leigh WR. 116 pp with text illustrations and tipped in plates tipped in plates have tissue guards. Has a foreworby James L Clark. Covers Prehistoric horse mustang two chapters on hunting grizzly and bighorn sheep then hunting men and wild horses the vowboy navaho pony indian pony and role of the mustang in the winning of the west Indian pony horse in Custer fight author's and publisher's note. In FINE condition with original glassine glassine has one long tear in rear but is still present 100%. In addition: this book is INSCRIBED nicely by Leigh and dated is also contains the EXTRA plate laid in and that plate is also signed by Leigh with large tissue guard for the plate. There is also an invitation laid inside from the Gilcrease Institute to attend the dedication and reopening of the Leight studio. Finally there is a purchase receipt from 1983 from Tom Minkler dealer in western art and art books for purchase of this SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. There is no limitation in the book but Howes bibliography of western americana says that only 100 copies were printed. Truly a super collector and collector condition copy. Huntington Press hardcover
198727216Kirkland WA: Commonwealth Heritage Foundation. Fine with no dust jacket. 1987. 1st Thus. Hardcover. 0939683040 . Serial number 1303 of this limited reprint of the first British edition. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 337 pages . Commonwealth Heritage Foundation hardcover
197312472Weatherby. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Seventeenth Edition. Original Wraps. Catalog; 8 1/2x11"; 127 pages . Weatherby paperback
198512475Weatherby. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. 22nd edition. Original Wraps. Catalog; 8 1/2x11"; 119 pages . Weatherby paperback
197012471Weatherby. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Sixteenth Edition. Original Wraps. Catalog; 8 1/2x11"; 136 pages . Weatherby paperback
197712473Weatherby. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. Nineteenth Edition. Original Wraps. Catalog; 8 1/2x11"; 128 pages . Weatherby paperback
198012474Weatherby. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Twentieth Edition. Original Wraps. Catalog; 8 1/2x11"; 127 pages . Weatherby paperback
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted, browned and frayed at edges, and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip (not affecting lettering). The second volume of Sassoon's factual autobiography. Increasingly elusive in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Keynes, A49; V&A Catalogue 124.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and title-vignette by Reynolds Stone; blue cloth, gilt back, a very bright, clean copy. Second volume of Sassoon's famous factual autobiography. Keynes, A49; V&A Catalogue 124.
234 + [69] pp. + 2pp. theses, 24cm., softcover, text in English, Doctoral Dissertation (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, the Netherlands), softcover, stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, A112426
306804New York The Macmillan Company 1903. First edition so stated. Thick 8vo. Frontispiece and 19 b/w halftone illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes Charles Livingston Bull and A.B. Frost. Full gilt stamped contemporary dark green morocco by Stikeman t.e.g. others uncut the spine with gilt stamped horse head fish and sporting dog devices small scratches else fine. Heraldic bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on the front pastedown. 598 pages. Number 20 of 100 copies on large paper. The American Sportsman Library. Printed by the Norwood Press Norwood Massachusetts. Includes chapters on: Snow geese; Canada geese; Willets; Bluebill; Shovellers; King Rail; Green-Winged Teal and others. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1903. hardcover books
306804New York The Macmillan Company 1903. First edition so stated. Thick 8vo. Frontispiece and 19 b/w halftone illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes Charles Livingston Bull and A.B. Frost. Full gilt stamped contemporary dark green morocco by Stikeman t.e.g. others uncut the spine with gilt stamped horse head fish and sporting dog devices small scratches else fine. Heraldic bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on the front pastedown. 598 pages. Number 20 of 100 copies on large paper. The American Sportsman Library. Printed by the Norwood Press Norwood Massachusetts. Includes chapters on: Snow geese; Canada geese; Willets; Bluebill; Shovellers; King Rail; Green-Winged Teal and others. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1903. hardcover
19657379New York: Simon and Schuster 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A history of the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka and its fall in the Zulu War of 1879. Sixty years of drama and excitement. Fine in fine dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down. Simon and Schuster hardcover
Features: What really happened at Kut (article); Winter photos from the western front; Photos of massive guns in France; Cairns to the memory of Verdun; Why were we misled? - an article to shed some light upon the corruption and ineptitude in Russia; French allies who aided in Allenby's advance; Article - Meeting the Spy Menace - how Britain's counter-espionage was successfully carried out; Help for homeless Hun victims; Airplane caught in mast of wireless station!; article - dealing with the U-Boat - some wonderful episodes in the hunting of the Submarine Hun; Photo of Col. J.H. Patterson, D.S.O. inspecting the Jewish Battalion; glimpses of some warships in the American Navy; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
19874644Camden SC: Briar Patch Press 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Trade Ed. 187 pp. ill. Beautiful reprint of orig. ed. with new intro. All edges gilt. Part of the Briar Patch Press African collection reprint series. A hunting classic. Fine condition. Briar Patch Press hardcover
192684798Kansas City Mo.: Unity School of Christianity Publishers 1926. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-396 397: ads 398: blank original decorated blue cloth front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. "A novel about America's response to the invention of a machine that can see through time wholly unconvincing but nevertheless fascinating." - Anatomy of Wonder 1995 2-54. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 2-43 and 1987 2-46. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1144. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 119. Bleiler 1978 p. 105. Reginald 07634. Baird and Greenwood An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1268. Hanna A Mirror for the Nation 1842. Top corner bumped else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket except for large chip from tail of spine closed tear to lower edge of front panel and some edge wear. Still an attractive copy. #84798 Unity School of Christianity Publishers unknown books
192611375Kansas City: Unity School of Christianity 1926. First edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 396pp. Light soil to text block edges else Near Fine in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket unclipped. Presumed second issue jacket has review blurbs to front and rear panels. Technological thriller involving the invention of a television-like machine that can see into the future. Bleiler p. 105. Hanna 1842. Unity School of Christianity unknown books
192611375Kansas City: Unity School of Christianity 1926. First edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 396pp. Light soil to text block edges else Near Fine in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket unclipped. Presumed second issue jacket has review blurbs to front and rear panels. Technological thriller involving the invention of a television-like machine that can see into the future. Bleiler p. 105. Hanna 1842. Unity School of Christianity unknown
192741633Kansas City: Unity Press 1927. Hard Cover. vg/good. octavo. 397pp Blue cloth in color pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. Jacket has some pieces out at bottom of back cover and some lighter chipping at bottom of front cover. In a mylar wrapper. Unity Press unknown
1927126754Unity Press 1927. Very Good. First Edition 1926 stated on copyright hardcover octavo lacking original dust jacket. From the estate of Andrew J. Offutt with his rubber-stamp and name and date 1953 in ink on the front endpaper. Offutt was an avid science fiction author noted for "Conan"-themed fantasies debuted as a published writer in 1951 and wrote 100s of erotic novels pseudonymously as John Cleve Turk Winter John Denis Jeff Morehead Opal Andrews among others. The "Spaceways" series is perhaps his ultimate collaboration between science fiction and erotica. Most institutions without personal material. Hunting was primarily a screenwriter with over 30 silent films to his credit and several articles for Unity Press a religion imprint. This novel seemingly post-apocalyptic mysterious theaters one being the Vicarion. Very Good; lean rubbing brief stains spine toned corner bumps and light fray. Unity Press hardcover
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 15 fine coloured plates (all captioned tissue guards present), full-page map in the text and folding map; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Combines plant collecting and climbing in the Garwhal Himalaya and the Bhyundar Valley. An elegant copy. Neate 734.
19836764Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1983. First Limited to 1000 Copies. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Another look at wilderness hunting. Foreword by John Batten. 196 bb 120 photos bibliography. Eighth title in the High Country Heritage Series. Superior book on hunting all the big game found in the Yukon Territory. FIne in like orig. slipcase. Amwell Press hardcover
