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Features: The Chief's Daughter - dark deeds in Africa; The Mystery Man - an unusual man who served in the Merchant Navy on the Western Ocean; Three Christmas Days - reprint of a 1905 story dealing with a series of coincidences in Australia; Big Game Farming on the border of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Trouble - a man gets in trouble because of his (dead) double; Australia's 'Prison Trees'; My Crocodile; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the Canadian Arctic; Desert El Dorado - Tennant's Creek, Australia and its early history; Our Trip to Robber's Roost - a roadless wilderness in Nebraska which provided haven for many outlaws in earlier years; The Wailing Waterhole - a tale from Australia's Outback; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Covers attached. Book
Features: North Sea Gale - coast sailors face perils just as great as those that menace the deap-sea men; The Mystery of the Dutch ship "Gilt Dragon" - a quest for long-lost wealth; Tasmanian Experiment - searching for valuable minerals; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story from Western Australia; Gun-Tied - an odd little story from Ceylon; High Adventure in Yugoslavia - adventure in the Julian Alps by Tom Weir; Big Game Means Easy Money - It's tough to keep poachers in check with high prices offered for ivory and horn; With a Bicycle in Babylonia - great photos; Samandar Khan - an amusing account of a personal servant in India; Australia's "Pedal Radio" - operating a radio with bicycle pedals in Australia; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: "The Sky's No Limit," Continued - The First Fully Authentcated story of the test pilots and the hazards they face - Pilot Baled Out From Under the Sea; Arab Feud at Ahwar; Salt Their Sentence - The Salt Mine of Trapani in Sicily; Dirty Paddy - Croc-Hunter Extraordinary; Sing-Sing in By-and-By Land - Port Moresby; Butter on the Beach; Call of the Dancing Madness - Secret Beliefs of British Columbia Native Peoples; Waste-Land Double Crosser in Australia; All Plaice are Left-Handed; The Game of the Bull at Pemba, off the East African Coast; Isle of the Toiling Bell - onboard the schooner Joie de Vivre; Tiger in the Temple - Central India; Trapped on the Ocean Bed - Pearl Diving in the South Pacific; Heroes in Harness - Sled Dogs of the North; Woman of the African Bush - She Assumed Animal Form; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Chief's Daughter - a strange story related by a veteran Nigerian hunter - involves a ritual murder; The Mystery Man - an unusual story from a Merchant Navy Officer; Three Christmas Days - Reprint of a 1905 story related by a veteran Australian gold miner; Big Game Farming on the borders of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Double - A very strange sea story; Australia's Prison Trees; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the wilds of the Canadian Arctic (H. Stallworthy); Desert El Dorado - The Early History of Tennant's Creek in Australia; Our trip to Robbers Roost, a roadless wilderness in Nebraska; The Wailing Waterhole - the uncanny history of a Queensland Pool; and more. Chips from backstrip. Faint name atop front cover else unmarked. Back cover partially loose. Quality copy. Book
Features: In Search of the "Hairy Frog" - an expedition into the British Cameroons collecting specimens of wild animals and birds for zoos, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - an audacious hold-up of a large Navy payroll in Malta, G.C.; Luck of the Game - a story from an original prospector in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; Ozark Excursion - hunting with the hillmen, including one who uses a crossbow and another who 'catches fish with his teeth'; The Lost Mine (Part 2) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reported to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spaniards; The Cowrie Shell - White men in Africa usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bull; House-to-House; Japanese Net Balls (Glass Floats); Brown's Donkey - a strange incident from the North African desert; The Rest-House - a tale from the Eastern Himialayas; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
Stories: Burned Boats; The Man in the Fur Coat; Plot and Counter-Plot; The Leopard-Men; My Mexican Mine; African Ball Game; Head for Head; Through the Panama Jungles; Secret Service-Indian Pattern; The Rivals; The Diviner; The White Devil of Badu. Above-average wear. Book
Features: North Sea Gale - coast sailors face perils just as great as those that menace the deap-sea men; The Mystery of the Dutch ship "Gilt Dragon" - a quest for long-lost wealth; Tasmanian Experiment - searching for valuable minerals; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story from Western Australia; Gun-Tied - an odd little story from Ceylon; High Adventure in Yugoslavia - adventure in the Julian Alps by Tom Weir; Big Game Means Easy Money - It's tough to keep poachers in check with high prices offered for ivory and horn; With a Bicycle in Babylonia - great photos; Samandar Khan - an amusing account of a personal servant in India; Australia's "Pedal Radio" - operating a radio with bicycle pedals in Australia; and more. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: The Ivory Poachers of Tanganyika; "They're Mustering up North" - a cattle round-up in Northern Australia; My Panther Hunt - a greenhorn's first big-game hunt in India; Japanese Sacred Horse - at Miyajima, the famous 'Shrine Island'; House of Terror - Queer happenings in Malaya; The Secret Submarine - Curacao, chief island of the Dutch West Indies; The Handyman - a dramatic story of the pioneer days of flying in Canada's Far North; The Walkabout Bird - The Australian Emu; When the Cyclone Struck - an epic exploit performed by a Torres Straits islander, a diver on board a pearling-lugger; All in the Game - a gold-seeking tale from Nigeria; An Arctic London - an abandoned quarry-camp on Spitzbergen; Island Paradise - the island of Car Nicobar; Where East is West - missing his ship in the Panama Canal, the author tramps to another port only to undergo a nightmare; Binding intact. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
Features: Uncle Ben and the Panther - a story involving Joseph and Daniel Smith of the parish of Blissville, Sunbury Country, New Brunswick; A White Woman in the Congo - Marguerite Roby; The Spanish Heiress - Mr. E. Player defends a pretty girl from some scoundrels aboard the Vigo, of which he is the Ship's Engineer; Among the Bedouins of Eastern Palestine - the life and habits of the strange nomadic Bedouins; Hung Up in a Cave - The Rev. R. Marle relates his perilous experience while cave-exploring in the Mendip Hills; Sacred Elephant - a hunter kills an elephant which is considered sacred... and finds himself in trouble; The 'Swinging Festival' of Siam - a strange harvest ceremony; The Ordeal of Mrs. Page - kidnapped by Apache raiders on the Arizona border; Celebrating the Dashara - a remarkable Indian festival; My Sambur - a funny story from India; Across Persia and Europe on Pony-back - a remarkable ride of over 2,000 miles; A Shaker Romance - the author (then aged 9) helps a romantic young couple from this sect which did not believe in marriage and died out; The Sportsman in Rhodesia - the paradise of big game hunting; Diamond cut Diamond - a case of a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; and more. Nice Vose Player Piano ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The House in the Woods - the author made a 1908 car journey along a large portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway; Through the Wilds of Persia - by Major P.M. Sykes; A Game of Chess - a remarkable story from South Dakota about how a young chess enthusiast was compelled to play a game, with his own life for the stakes; Among the Gaddis - Nomad shepherds of the Central Himalayans; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part II of a story by Mrs. Fred Maturin; A Holiday in Japan - by Mrs. Ellen Beadnell (lovely photos); Across Unknown Labrador, The Land Where Hubbard Died - H. Hesketh Prichard relates how he attempted to do what no white man had ever done before, to cross this desolate wilderness from the Atlantic to the George River - great photos (part I); The Bandits of the Argentine - the 'Nort Americanos'; The Mysterious Senoussiland - part II of a Saharan adventure; The King of the Sticks - how Connie Chambers of Boston, a solitary white prospector, constituted himself as monarch of a tribe of Alaskan Indians, cleverly turning the tables on a policeman who was sent to arrest him; Lost in an underground lake - the appalling adventure which befell three prominent citizens of Joplin, Missouri at the Hero zinc mine in the spring of 1908; "Baching"; A Mexican Elopement; and more. Fascinating two-page illustrated stock offering by the American Automobile Manufacturing Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Nice Vose Piano advertisement on back cover. Great vintage Budweiser advertisement inside back cover. Lower two inches of front cover open at spine. Average wear. Magazine
714 pages. Contents include: How Mrs. S.E. Waller's Pictures Have Been Painted; The Money Kings of the New World, by W.T. Stead; Dr. Niels Finsen and his remarkable discovery of healing rays - with wonderful photos; The Making of a Flume - with great photos; The Tame Fish of Logan; The New Khartoum - with many photos; The Floor of the Pacific, by The Hon. W.E. Meehan, Fish Commissioner of the State of Pennsylvania - with photos; The Money Kings of the Modern World II - The Rothschilds, by W.T. Stead - with several photos and illustrations; The Momentous Motor - great vintage technology article with photos; "Skin O' My Tooth" - Edited and Compiled by Baroness Orczy; Bird Babies; Strong Mac; The Making of a Mandolin - with photos; The Money Kings of the Modern World - Part III - Mr. J. P. (Pierpont) Morgan; Municipal Ambulance Work - with fantastic photos of horse-drawn ambulances; Baron Shibusawa of Japan - with great photos; The Game of Sticke - its evolution and progress; The Fiscal Policy of The Empire, by John Holt Schooling; Coalport Porcelain - the story of an ancient and famous industry; The Most Wonderful Map in the World - France, in Jasper, Set with Jems; Hints on Sea-Swimming - Mr. Montagu A. Holbein give advice, and suits the action to the world for photographic illustration; The Nelson Room at Trafalgar House; The Money Kings of the Modern World - Some European Potentates - M. Witte, Baron Hirsch, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Beit, Herr Krupp, M. Jean de Bloch; The Fiscal Policy of the Empire - Part II; A Painter of the Sea-Coast - Mr. Elmer Keene and his Art; Sir James Brooke - Rajah of Sarawak; Pictures in Postage Stamps - using old postage stamps to create art; Capturing A Sperm Whale - with awesome photos; plus many fictional stories. Backstrip all but detached. Front free endpaper and first several pages loose but present. Several other pages loose. Hinges open. Above-average wear. Reading copy only, but remains a very informative and enjoyable reference. Book
63 pages. Features: How courts price your injuries; The mystery flight of Rudolph Hess (first of 3 parts); Penguin thinks he's people; Carmelites - rare glimpse of a silent world; 10-page life insurance advertising supplement; Policewoman Sally Krowchynski of the Edmonton Flying Police Club; Fantastic full-page colour Jantzen ad featuring a very handsome Jean Beliveau; Educated Dice - the rolling reader contains seven dice with different words on each face - it makes learning to read into a game; Water Beetle - Ray Pastuck converted his Volkswagen into a boat!; Canada's biggest unconfined explosion at Suffield, Alberta - 3 great colour photos - smoke ring; Collector of Militaria - Eduard Kohler of Neuberg, Germany; He Killed in his sleep - Willis Boshears killed Jean Constable; "We flew into Hurricane Carla" - the crew of plane 5 spent five days tracking the worst tropical storm in 60 years, and their reports enabled half a million persons to flee; NHL President Clarence Campbell's 15 years in office; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
55 pages. Features: The Dutchess of Kent Story - Princess Marina, child of destiny - and tragedy (part 1 of 3); Window on Jazz Street - Photographer Dennis Stock explores the music-maker's world to produce a book of memorable images; Math's a game to these kids - St. Mary's High School students match wits with a computer in Halifax; Irish-bred horses have a winning way; Debbie Reynolds on her day off; Conscription Crisis of 1944 - The Revolt of the Generals - Part 5 of 5; 69 hours of hell - Nova Scotia skipper Alden Locke of Jordan Bay survives the sinking of the 37 foot Caroline and Eric; A widow who was never a wife - france amends its civil code so Irene Jodart can marry her fiancee, killed in a flood; Coal miners in Doncaster, England visit the beauty parlour for facials; Colour photos of Jack-o'-lanterns; The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
Features: Banditos do Brazil, by Albert Bailey; The Shrimp in the Shell; The Scratches on the Glass - V, by Gladys Blake; It's All Fun, by Q. Howe; PLEASE NOTE: PAGE 329/330 MISSING; Page 331/332 loose but present; Bicycle Polo, the newest and fastest outdoor game for boys, with photos and rules; Graphology; How to make Polo Mallets; The Boys Who Made Radio - I - Marconi, by Earle Reeves; Here and there among the colleges; and more. Nice Dodge Brothers Motor Car ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: So's Your Old Man, by Samuel A. Derieux; Runners of the Woods - III, by Samuel Merwin; Golf for Young Players - III, by Glenna Collett; It's All Fun - VI, by Q. Howe; Bicycle Polo - Famous Polo Players advocate this new game; Photo of Marshal Pilsudski; How to Photograph Models; Canoe Camping, by Elon Jessup; Parties and Party Manners, by Eleanor Boykin; The Well-Fed Dog, by Parkhurst Whitney. Average wear. Magazine
Features: A Son of the Navahos - I, by James Willard Schultz; Left or Right?, by Margaret Warde; Capturing Daniel Webster's Statue, by C.A. Stephens; The Berkshire Boy, by MacGregor Jenkins; Bartholomew Crab's Discovery, By William Leavitt Stoddard; Walter Camp - The Father of American Football - With nice photo of the Yale Graduate's Team, by Hartford Powell, Jr.; Through the Dragon's Teeth - II, by Lewis R. Freeman; Game Extinction - Its Causes and Remedies, by Edwin A. Osborne; The Art of Making Antique Boxes; Prudy Pickles' Penny Shop, by Dahris Butterworth Martin; Grape Nuts ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
68 pages. Features: Classic Choice - Trimph TR2/3/4; 375 MM Ferrari and a Jaguar C-Type; On the Road with : a Corvette 427, Triumph Spitfire 1500, Morris 12/4 Van; The Boy From Smethwick - Ken Wharton; The Vincent Three-Wheeler - article with photos; The Classic Car in Rallying - Part 4 - The Early 1950s - Britain Triumphant; John Bolster and 30 years with the same 40/50 Rolls - gorgeous colour photo; Morris 8 - Mike Finnigan's tourer; Sixty Minutes Flat Out - of all the records to be broken, The Hour has long been one of the hardest - B. Williams starts his two-part saga in the early days of Brooklands; The Panel Game - preventing that minor bit of bodywork damage from getting any worse; I. Markovits Ltd. - Badge Maker; Classic car of the month - Swallow Doretti; and more. Moisture exposure to top edge. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
60 pages. Features: Major coverage of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale in the wake of their defeat of Ted Kennedy; One-page ad features photo of Cec De Long, PEI award-winning auto dealer; Nostalgic Toshiba calculator ad; Re-Thinking the Unthinkable - Jimmy Carter revisits the new game plan for fighting a nuclear war; Jihad for Jerusalem - Saudis try to lure Egypt's Sadat back into the Arab fold; Sadat and Begin - "Best Wishes"; Moscow's deadlock in Afghanistan - article with photo of Mi-24 helicopter in action; In Iran the Majlis Choose a Modest Man - Mohammed Ali Raja'i; Gdansk Shipyard Strike; Skyjacking to Havana; Harsh Politics in South Korea - Kim Dae Jung; Goon Squads and Torture in Bolivia; Color celebrity photos of Christie Brinkley, Beverly Johnson, Jerry and Eileen Ford, John Casablancas, Patti Hansen, Kim Alexis, Esme Marshall, Christie Hefner, Ed Koch, Muhammad Ali, Eleanor Mondale, Lauren Bacall, Gilda Radner and Shelley Winters; Cautious Consumers; K mart stores riding out the recession well; Mountain of Debt in Brazil; Dr. Neil Gordon's Serious Thinkers - summer science seminars; Steve and Cyndy Garvey lawsuit against "Inside Sports"; Passing of Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan and Paul Robert; Five teams ruled ineligible for next season's Rose Bowl; Peking Opera at the Met - article with color photos; Six of the Best - and smallest - U.S. music festivals; Somewhat above-average wear. Spine rolled. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
60 pages. Features: Operation Gallant Heads into Action - Canada sends forces to oversee the ceasefire in Vietnam; Glass Gold - recycling bottles; VW switches its Canadian deliveries to Halifax Harbour from Saint John; Stompin' Tom Connors; Feature Coverage of the end of the Vietnam War; Paris peace in nine chapters; A view of Henry Kissinger riding high; Last bombing show - Marine Air Group 12; What lies ahead for Saigon; The ICC (International Commission of Control and Supervision) - an extinct species reborn; Some of the Bravest People - the families of POWs; Looking back on the war; Nixon's Budget; LBJ / Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973; Frank Sinatra and his friends; The Lindbergh nightmare; Advantage, Mr. Brezhnev; Vienna the most important way station for Jews leaving the Soviet Union; Supporting Andhra statehood; Volcano on island of Heimaey; Amilcar Cabral - gentle African rebel; U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Clinton Knox; Passing of Alexander Onassis, Lyndon Baines Johnson, J. (Joseph) Carroll Naish, Edward G. Robinson, George Graff, Edward "Kid" Ory and Dr. E. Stanley Jones; Two-page color photo CN ad shows how they use land for non-rail applications; Nice color-photo ad for Zenith Chromacolor TVs includes early remote control; L.B.J.'s Heart condition - with photos of nitroglycerin pill popping in Austin, TX; Stunning court approval of abortion by Harry Blackmun; Instant Champion - George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier in Jamaica; NBA all star game photo of Dave Cowens battling Wilt Chamberlain; The Three Rs in Brazil; Report on exiled executives, including Carter Burgess, Milton Mohr, George Keck, Robert Hansberger, Najeeb Halaby and Thomas Moore; Estate Mogul Arthur Carlsberg; Court ruling against Geritol; Umberto Agnelli of Italy; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
114 pages. Features: Outrage after North Korea shoots down American EC-121 piloted by Lieut. Commander James Overstreet; The Sirhan Sirhan verdict; Crookston, MN flood; Strike leader Mary Moultrie in SC; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on North Korea - What is Behind Their Belligerence?; End of the Dubcek era in Czechoslovakia; Vietnam war news; A visit to the home of RFK's family in Virginia; Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals play first major league baseball game outside the U.S.; Great color-photo ads for the Kingswood Estate station wagon, Ford Maverick (centerfold), Chrysler Newport and Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado; Police death squads in Rio; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
104 pages. Features: Spiro Agnew - The King's Taster - feature illustrated article; Apollo 12 - off to the moon again; John Lindsay win's New York Mayor's election; The Haynsworth Showdown; Relief in Saigon after Nixon speech; Skyjacker Raffaele Minichiello becomes instant folk hero in Italy, the country of his birth; Joint Arab Defense Council meets in Cairo; The Polaroid 360 camera - two-page color-photo ad; The Rockefeller Report on Latin America; Color ad for the 1970 Ford Thunderbird with jets in background; What makes a city great?; Violence against teachers; Private Schools - the last refuge; IBM two-page color-photo ad features oceanographer Ed Coughran; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on electric cars shows awkward looking vehicles by Westinghouse (the 'Lotus Europa"), Ford (the 'Lead Wedge'), and G.E. (the 'Delta'); Artist Christo Javacheff; Bob Dylan Speaks - article with photo of him and wife Sarah in London; Big game hunter Fred Bear; Press Ethics - Carl Gilman; Nice color ad for the 1970 Mercury Cougar; Trial of Bobby Seale in Chicago - from the embarassing to the outrageous; Color photo of Al Hirt in Miller Beer ad; Color ad for the 1970 Olds (Oldsmobile) Delta 88 Royale; Northwest Orient airlines ad; Rev. Carl McIntire; The economy at the turning point; Glaciology article; Ornithologist Stephen T. Emlen studies migration of the indigo bunting; The first segment of Sesame Street runs on TV - article of Ernie and Bert with Joan Ganz Cooney; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Peraltas Ghost Walk; Miracle at Martinsville - the Martin Brothers of Hall County, Nebraska; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Elks Lodge Badges; The Flume Riders; Hardluck General - George Crook; Mining - the game with no rules; Fair Trial at Encinoso - Charley Siringo; I Saw the Whitman Massacre - The Ghost Town of Goldstone; When a man and a horse square off - Marion McGinty; Miramount - Francolon's Castle of Mystery; The Capture of 'Jesse James' (a Stallion); Wild Old Days!; Circle City - the end of the road. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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
