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Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Deputy Marshal Johnson Breaks a Long Silence - Boone Marlow Killed; The Vigilante Years - Colonel George Hunter; Bathhouse John Coughlin's Colorado Come-Down - amusement park and zoological gardens in Colorado; Me - An Old-Timer? - Hosstail's 'Small Talk'; Ma-Si... Alias Apache Kid; Artillery has never been given its due in the winning of the west; "Tell the Boys I Died Game" - Fleming Parker; The Spinnin' Horse and the Montana Kid - Leonard Stroud; Indian Georgie - Most famous guide and scout of the Panamint Tribe; Wild Old Days!. A quality copy. Book
24 pages. Contents: How Mr. and Mrs. Consumer are the people who will win this war of the Great Depression; Organized Labor Sees its Destiny Fulfilled as Dominant Partner in American Industry; Why Japan Dumps Here; Inquiry into Detroit Bank Failures - Father Charles E. Coughlin, "Detroit's Radio Priest" is mentioned with a small illustration; Big Game in Forests; "Sleeping Sickness" (a.k.a. encephalitis lethargica) epidemic spreads; Plans to convert the Ocean Greyhand/Leviathan to a floating amusement park (with photo); Eastern seacoast hurricane damage great; Foreign News - includes mention of Hitler and the Saar, plus cannibalism due to starvation in the Ukraine; World Wheat Pact to Fix Prices and Exports; Raccoons are Dunking their food - not washing it; Current Events; NRA (National Recovery Act); Carlos M. de Cespedes; Money to help hog farmers; Marketing; Capital Chat; Is This Termite (White Ant) Invasion a Menace?; Science; Aviation; "The Greatest Jews'-Harp Ever Made"; Question Box; Italy- Austria Pact is Blow to Nazis; Photo of Billy Sunday; The History of Bloomers (fashion); George McKee, of Anderson SC, reflects on why the current depression is not so bad - in contrast to how he grew up; and more. Average wear. Age yellowing. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Full-page ad for 'Barry Lyndon'; Full-page ad for 'Jaws'; Full-page ad for 'The Man Who Would Be King'; Ad for 'Lenny'; Review of book on Basil Rathbone; Photo-illustrated interview with Ann-Margret; 'The Man Who Would Be King' - photos; 'The Beloved' - photos; The Tender Touch - concluding an appreciation of the work of Fredric March - article with photos; Films and Filming Honours for 1975; Reviews - 'Jaws', 'Lisztomania and the Loves of Liszt', 'Dog Day Afternoon', 'La Caza', 'Hester Street', 'The Cannibals', 'The Streetfighter', 'The Man from Hong Kong', 'Innocents with Dirty Hands', 'Permission to Kill'; 'The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother' - photos and ad; Article on Dancing; Many photos on location with 'Won Ton Ton the Dog Who Saved Hollywood; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: 'Jaws 2' - photos; Photo-illustrated interview with Jason Robards; 'The End' - photos; Oxford Film Festival Revisited (article); 'The Cheap Detective' - photos; Reviews - 'An Unmarried Woman', 'The Last Waltz', 'Convoy', 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand', 'Memories Within Miss Aggie', 'Thank God It's Friday', 'Revenge of the Pink Panther', 'Girlfriends', 'Bilitis', 'Game of Death', 'Snakebite'; 'Convoy' - photos; Lengthy review of book on the career of Montgomery Clift, with photos; 'Driver' - photos; 'Lemon Popsicle' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
100 pages. Short Stories: The Marriage Wrecker; Reckless Voyage; Bait for a Bachelor; The Message. Articles: What Negroes Can Learn From Gandhi; Fury on Ice - The Richard brothers of the Montreal Canadiens, Maurice (The Rocket) and Henri (The Pocket Rocket); We Motored to Moscow - fascinating photo-illustrated article about a drive behind the iron curtain; On My Own - part 4 of 'my round-the-world adventures'; We Hunted Sharks and Sunken Gold - color-photo-illustrated article on treasure hunting in the Caribbean; The Navy vs. "Going Steady" - the Naval Academy's new experiment in forced-feeding social life. Serials: Hornblower and the Pirate Plot (conclusion); The Case of the Footloose Doll (part 5 of 8). Ads: Great color-photo Camel ad inside front cover features power lineman at work; *Sensational* De Soto two-page color photo features white car surrounded by nine sailors in white uniforms; Maytag dryers; Simmons mattresses; Oldsmobile with trans-portable radio; Campbell's Vegetable Soup; Pontiac - with photo of futuristic monorail 'Trailblazer' in background; Cushman 'Eagle' (minibike); Lucky Strike Cigarettes (at basketball game); Thorexin; Arrow Shirts; Fisher Body; Butterscotch Lifesavers; Renault La Dauphine car; Sealtest Black Raspberry Ice Cream; GMAC; Canada Tourism; Westinghouse TVs; Oasis cigarettes - on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
26 pages. Features: Diluted Bubbles - a fishing tale; Keep Out! - Does This Mean You? - Farmer/Sportsman relations become more important as hunters increase and land available drops; Nice illustrated at for Bushmaster leather boots by Sisman; A Moose for Harry - Old John Broadhurst turns his attention to Moose; Spinning With a Fly; Senses of Fish - can they smell, taste, touch or feel pain?; Hunting Dogs - you can trust that nose; Clean and Polish your Tackle before Storage; We'll pay tolls on the St. Lawrence Seaway A Kind Word for Crows; Trapshooting since 1750; Handling Game Meat; Cartridge Collecting; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
440p. + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page and text engravings. Book label of Ira Lowery. Lacks first and last fly leaves. 8vo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, embossed in blind. Gilt lettered spine. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Extremities worn with slight loss. Hardbound. AFRICA2 BOX 6.
Acuatinta original en colores de mediados del Siglo XIX, dibujada y grabada por Havell, artista norteamericano (1800-1899), 21,5 x 30,5 cm.
8vo., First Edition, with trade advertisement endpapers, some light offsetting from endpapers to title; original green cloth, upper board framed and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, bevelled boards, uncut, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
176 pages including index and bibliography. Loaded with archival black and white illustrations. Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Toronto Cricket, Skating, and Curling Club. Makes available a readable history of the development of cricket, curling and skating through those years. "Canadian reference libraries contain very little background on Canadian sport, and it is hoped that this history will be of interest and value to those who are interested in this field." - from dust jacket. Many gift signatures upon front flyleaf and half-title page else book clean, bright and unmarked. Moderate wear with some small tears to dust jacket. Nice copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full yellow cloth boards, slightly warped. Small tears on edge worn dust jacket. 8 3/4"w x 9 7/8"h. 296 pages.
112 p. + Portrait Frontis of the Alpine Club, one gentleman with a crutch, and full page plates with original tissue guards. Front inner hinge cracked. Paper fault on margin of page 15. Old newspaper stain on pages 12 and 13. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. Tall 8vo. 230 mm. Original full gray cloth binding, soiled. Beveled edges. Front board in silver and black with designs of mountain and falls. Embossed lettering in gilt gold. Extremities bumped and worn. Presented by the author to Capt. O.C. Applegate, May 28, 1899. First edition. Steel's aim in writing this work was to provide descriptions of Mount Hood and Crater Lake. He calls the latter 'one of the grandest points of interest on earth. Here all the ingenuity of nature seems to have been exerted to the fullest capacity, to build one grand, awe-inspiring temple'. Also contains details of the formation and constitution of the Oregon Alpine Club, predecessor of the Mazamas, together with short biographies of its first three presidents. At the end is an Oregon bibliography. ACLC p. 298; NLS M500; Neate S160; Perret 4141. Scarce original edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W10
Madrid, Ramona Velasco, 1928, 24 x 16,5 cm., piel de época, XIX + 225 págs. + 6 hojas + 1 lámina facsímil plegada. (Ejemplar falto del resto de láminas y de 5 hojas dos de ellas de los socios de la Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles, el listado de libros publicados por dicha Sociedad y la hoja de colofón, aunque el texto de la obra está completo . Tirada de 400 ejemplares nominados y numerados en papel de hilo).
Madrid, Ediciones El Viso, 1983, 28,5 x 21,5 cm., tela original, retrato, láminas e ilustraciones intercaladas, 329 págs. + 1 hoja. (Notas a pie de página impresas en letras de color rojo. Ejemplar en su estuche en tela original).
71 pages. Features: Conception Bay Furniture Maker - Henry William Winter; China for Children - Christmas gifts of other days were often replicas of adult tableware; Silver by any other name - Sheffield Plate, Electroplate, Paktong, German Silver, Britannia or britannia?; Chinese Pictorial Tapestries - Fine examples of k'o-ssu, a silk-weaving technique, in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Collecting Glass Target Balls; Game Equipment - the games people play have a long and intriquing history; Restoration and Renovation IV - Reflections on Past Interior Decor; Appraising Your Heirlooms; Nutmeg Graters; The Macdonell House - Nor-Wester's Georgian House on the Ottawa contains elaborate decorative plaster. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Radio Shack TRS-80 computer ad; Pontiac 6000 ad; 1983 Honda Accord LX Sedan ad; Los Angeles - keeping the lid on a pressure cooker; Ocean Ranger inquest; Alden Nowlan on Ernest Angley, and others; Cover Story - A Question of Trust - Pierre Trudeau; Peter Pockington on a cross-country odyssey against socialism; Ford LTD ad; BC Grainhandlers walkout; John Robarts obituary article with photos; Peter Hamilton of Life Force; Grant Devine in Saskatchewan; Reaganomics' bottom line; Article on John De Lorean with great photo of he, his wife, and his car in the desert; IRA scores a victory; Pretoria decides to stop the clock; Open season on the CBC; Commodity investing - a high-risk game; 1983 Cutlass Ciera ad; Whoops - WPPSS - Washington Public Power Supply System; Peter C. Newman claims Trudeau is a fiddler for the national (economic) fire; Hard evidence on Sasquatch (Bigfoot) - Grover Krantz; Dr. Hans Selye obituary; New leads in Tylenol poisoning case; The fading of Toxaphene; Chainsaw injuries; The ragged race for computer literacy; 1983 Mazda RX-7 ad inside back cover; Movie reviews. Moderate wear. Front cover nearly loose. Book
31x23. 210p.+28 fotogr. LXXVI+XL+LXI. Láms.. Enc. Tela ed.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and endpaper maps, long inscription on half-title; orange cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one small marginal nick, and minor loss (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. This 'wartime economy' version is the first English edition of this big-game classic, first published in India in 1944 with profits devoted to blinded servicemen of WWII. Corbett's collection of true tales from the Raj is an undisputed keystone of big game hunting. THE UK EDITION IS FAR SCARCER THAN THE US EDITION, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 3 plates and endpaper maps, neat contemporary inscription on frontispiece recto; orange cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned on (predominantly white) rear panel. This 'wartime economy' version is the first English edition of this big-game classic, first published in India in 1944 with profits devoted to blinded servicemen of WWII. Corbett's collection of true tales from the Raj is an undisputed keystone of big game hunting. THE UK EDITION IS FAR SCARCER THAN THE US EDITION.
Features: Photo and write-up of Mr. Edward Peacock, Late Member "A" Company, Regimental Number 452; Company Notes; Shooting Results; London Scottish Rifle Volunteers - An Appreciation; The Roarin' Game (curling; Notes by the Commanding Officer; Special Appeal Fund; Our Regimental Plate (No. VI. - The Trotter Cup) - photographed and described by Ian Bhreatannaich; Scots Abroad - a letter from Rhodesia; Proposed Poster for Recruits; Notes on the Attack, by the C.O.; Correspondence; and more. Four-inch tear to top of back cover. Water marks to top of first few pages. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. Book
72 page program for game against the New York Rangers. Features: Rosaire Paiement cover photos; Nice Yarldley ad inside front cover features Bobby Orr; Article on Emile Francis; Photos of Canucks executives; Article on Ted Irvine; Photos of Canucks Staff; Major article on Dunc Wilson; Photos of Canucks Players; Nice one-page ad for CCM Tacks skates; Photos of Canucks 70-71 Award Winners; Article on Lionel "Big Train" Conacher; Canucks scoring stats for 70-71; Nice colour-photo ad for Coleco's "Vancouver Canucks Hockey" tabletop hockey game; New York Rangers scoring stats 70-71; Photos of New York Rangers Players; Article on Vic Hadfield - "Captain of the Practical Jokers Club"; Article on Bobby Rousseau and his new life in New York; 1971-72 Vancouver Canucks Roster; Article on Lester Patrick and the New York Rangers; Nice colour photo ad for Jantzen Sportswear features studly man (a Canuck?) on waterfront, with adoring babe in background; Team lineups; Article on Rod Gilbert; Nice colour-photo ad for the new Royal Centre in Vancouver, now leasing; New York Rangers Roster 71-72; Small colour-photo ad for Sneaky Petes.. the after game special; 71-72 season schedule; Photo of Brian Glennie and Brad Selwood with their skates locked, the last time they played in Vancouver; Royal Bank Player of the Week - Dunc Wilson; Article on Walt Tkaczuk; List of NHL scoring leaders; Half-page ad for "The Irish Rovers in Concert"; Caricature of Dennis Kearns on back page. Unmarked with average wear. Lineup centrefold loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
136 pages. Features: Lovely Christmas package delivery cover illustration by Walter Dower; Game Laws 1948-49; The River Wise Man; November Steelheads - in the Whitney Drain near Lake Huron; Peanuts and Pictures; In the Presence of Mine Enemies; The Festive Board; The Happiest Huntsman - Henry Belden of California; The Undertaker and the Long-Tailed Bunnies; Variations of a Theme; Dress Rehearsal; McKillop's Geese; Aunt Maggie's Peach Orchard; Grouse of the Lugga; Adventures in the Night; Duck Hunters' Navy; As Advertised; A New Rifle Kills Clean; Gloves From Your Buck. Many great ads in color and black and white. Beautiful one-page color ad for Miller beer featureslovely lady sitting on the crescent moon in the night sky. Nice one-page black and red ad for Gaines Dog Meal (food). Nice color Santa ad on back cover for Camel cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
156 pages. Includes two contributions by Jack O'Connor: Gambling for Gambrels - a long chance on finding some Arizona quail; The .250/3000 Can Shoot!. Other features include: Great cover art by J.F. Kernan; Leave Some Game for the Future!; A penny proves its worth for a California deer hunter; Scrappy little panfish; The Oakland County Sportsmen's Club and the Detroit Sportsmen's Congress - two successful clubs and how they got that way; Wrong-way buck all but fools Massachusetts hunters; The Annual Alpena Wildcat (Bobcat) Hunt; Color illustration of wildfowl on the Mississippi flyway; Illinois sportsmen overcome ringneck pheasant shortage by raising them; Which rifle to use on Britihs Columbia Bighorn Sheep? - great photo-illustrated article; Choosing and Shooting Your Handgun; Hurricane-happy trout in New Jersey; Raccoon hunting near Grand Rapids, Michigan; Furry Son of Satan - savage king of the North Carolina wilderness - an 8-page, true-to-life biography; Hunting Seasons for 1946-47; Teach Your Pup Obedience; and more. Ads include: Color ad for Remington Express shells inside front cover; How to pick up a porcupine bare-handed!; Photo of T.J. Harman of York PA with his Alaska moose bearing antlers 64 inches wide. Interesting one-page color ad for Hallmark Christmas Cars for Men - with colored game bird designs; One-page Savage ad for the Model 99 and Model 745. One-page Christmas ad for Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. features beautiful lady offering gift guns; Classy one-page color ad for Ballantine Ale; Nice one-page color ad for Goebel Beer; Feather Foam coat ad; Nice two-color ad for Gaines dog food features photo of Elias C. Vail; Lovely color Santa-themed ad for Prince Albert tobacco and Camel cigarettes on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
120 pages. Covers feature large glossy colour photos of Fuhr in action and holding the Stanley Cup. Topics include: The Fuhr Story; The Basics of Goaltending; Game Action Photos; The Game; Scouting; and more. "Grant Fuhr is widely recognized as the world's best goalie. A winner of the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender, Fuhr is a perennial all-star who has backstopped the Edmonton Oilers to four Stanley Cup wins in five years. He holds records for most points in a season by a goalie and most games played." - from pages 7. Average wear. Unmarked. A solid copy of this great goalkeeping collectible. Book
