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Features: Reprint of scarce book - Indian Fighting on the Texas Frontier by Captain John M. Elkins; Apache Tears - Nino Cochise; The Wake of Whiskey Bill; The First War Correspondent, 1846; Treasure rode in the boot; Mysterious trapper Billy Nay; Bill Hickok's girl on the flying trapeze; Alias 'Shooting Star' - a drifter covets a horse; The day the glue pot became a cauldron! - the Seattle fire of 1889; A cavern of gold in New Mexico?; The Army's 'stubborn fact' - the Army mule driver; A hard man to understand - Stephen W. Dorsey; people of the Laramie Plains; Ghost Ferry in Hoodoo Valley - Seneaquoteen Post; Rufus 'Potato' Clark of Denver; Pioneer Child - Nettie Hight Yarbrough; James Case's Last Frontier. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Warm Weather Ne'er-do-wells; Get Up, Mule... Please!; Gold Cache at Cedar Hill; End of a Madman's Trail; The Price Was Right; Two Sides of the Green Boys; Battle of the Beard; Trapper Man; From No-Account to Plain Mean; Old Fort Robidoux; Stub's Express; A Different Kind of Race; Deaf Smith Versus Santa Anna; Night of Terror; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Crow's nest (editorial); Counting dolphins - new answers to an important question; Coral landscapes; Germany's scuttled imperial fleet; Chilean seafood oddities; Baffin Island Fjords; Tender Trapper; Do Dolphins think without language?; Chesapeake Bay's Underwater forests. Sound copy. Book
58 pages. A wonderful vintage copy of this popular and long-running Canadian farming publication. Great cover illustration of cowby at work. Super back cover colour photo ad for the Minneapolis-Moline Power Equipment company includes 8 photos of their products at work. Features of contents include: Nice tribute to the Royal Canadian Navy by Crucible Steel Company of America; Activities of co-operatives in British Columbia; War News Updates, including cartoon of Stalin and Allied Soldier cracking swastika in nutcracker; Photo-illustrated article on the Coyote "The Yapping Yodler" - the crafty animal which thrives with settlement and is increasing in number; Peace River Co-operative Seed Growers are outgrowing their facilities and are ripe for Expansion; Research boosts Bacon Quality; Square All Round - a trapper story by Paul Annixter; Dairy Farmers of Canad Meet at Regina to Discuss the Postwar Situation - result is increased subsidies; The Farm Goes to the University - farm week at the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon; Overnight Guest, a story by Ben Ames Williams; A Dutchman in the Red River Valley - A. A. Verheul - with photos; Great full-page ad by International Harvester with image of farmer and tractor in the background; John Deere tractor photo ad; Monthly Commentary by United Grain Growers Limited; The Countrywoman - the U.F.W.A. Meeting; Royal Bank of Canada Annual Meeting; Planning the farm house - article; plus much more. Address label on front cover, otherwise unmarked. Modest external wear. Binding tight. Book
Features: Seeking the Golden Cliff - a prospecting expedition in the Central Australian desert; The Hyena - a veteran mining prospector and his story of African Ju-Ju; The Train was Late; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II of an Englishman's walk in France; Murder by Witchcraft - the Crown Prosecutor recounts an amazing case from British East Africa; Crackerjack - interesting stories of serving under a 'character' British sea-captain; The Sadhu's Gift - an interesting Indian tale; Chinese Makeshifts - how the Chinese adapt obsolete products into tools of use - photos; The Mad Trapper - a most extraordinary tale from the annals of the Canadian "Mounties"; How Holland Fights the Sea; The Conquered the Desert - a tribute to the camel - photos; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Backstrip missing chips. 3" x 2" chunk from bottom edge of back cover. Unmarked. Book
Features include: A Matter of Magic - a battle of wits between a white man and an East African witch-doctor; Hill Section - a 115 mile section of railway linking Northern and Southern Assam; The Amateur Elephant Hunter; The Lead-Dog's Warning - Told by a Canadian trapper, illustrates the perils awaiting dwellers of the far north; The Captain's Mutiny - Captain Arnas Loivikas in 1931; The Lion-Men of Ussure (Part 3); Philo's Dream - an amazing affair in a tribal village in Papua; Monkey Business - A Moroccan Story; Spawn of Evil - A wild stallion the author endeavoured to break; Memorable Voyage - A South African Story; Pennies for Fools - The Australian Prospector; Four Shark's Teeth; Chasing Red Sea Smugglers - a breezy account of a decidedly interesting job; Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to covers. Contents good. Name atop back cover. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Cover photo Nome, Alaska resident Alfred Nakak; The Anik Satellite - a hard re-entry; Multitude of strikes at the Canadian Post Office; British Columbia's Mediation Act and Labour; Stuart (Stu) Griffiths of Bushnell Communications; Chicago - Turning Against the Gangs; Richard L. Barkley - the respectable rioter; Middle East - Between Hope and Menace; Nigeria - The Unconquerable Ibos; Alaska - The Great Land of Boom or Doom - article with six pages of great color photos; The Vanishing World of trapper Joe Delia; Review of movie "Joe" starring Peter Boyle; Passing of Dr. Eric Berne, George V. Allen, John J. Anthony, Lieut. General Leslie R. Groves and L. Wolf Gilbert; Kirk Kerkorian's Cold Streak; VD - a national emergency; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1890294815Leipzig. Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, 1890. 8vo. 175 Seiten, 16 Seiten Verlagswerbung, Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Originalhalbleinen.
147593095X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1475930976.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1872106446Stuttgart. Julius Hoffmann (K. Thienemann's Verlag). (Ohne Jahr. 1872). Titelblatt, 201, (1) Seiten. Mit 6 farbig lithographierten Tafeln. Original-Halbleinwand-Einband mit farbig lithographiertem Deckelbild. (Einband etwas fleckig und an den Kanten berieben u. teils etwas bestossen. Papier teils etwas gebräunt). 21x15 cm
1979245074Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1979.
pp. xviii, 190 + Index. Illustrated. Top edge lightly foxed. Softcover. First Bison Book paperback printing. Title continues: "Edited from the original manuscript in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the Yale University Library; with a biography of Osborne Russell and maps of his travels while a trapper in the Rocky Mountains by Aubrey L. Haines. Hardbound. Very good. W1
Light stains on front cover. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Wrinkle on pasted down endpaper. 6 7/8"w x 8 5/8"h. 56 pages. Black and white illustrations.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "The White Brother of the Sheik" - Part I - W.B. Seabrook's strange experiences among the nomad Bedouins - the Brethren of the Black Tents - and the weird sects of the Whirling and Howling Dervishes, all on his way to meet Mitkhal Pasha El Fayiz, Sheik of Sheiks of the Beni Sakhr - with photos; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part II - C.V. Warren describes a tea-planter's life in Ceylon; The Blank Space on the Map - A district officer ventures into the unexplored interior of British New Guinea; A Trip to Eskimo-Land - C.V. Tench had a memorable summer vacation steaming 2,000 miles from Waterways, Alberta to Aklavik in the Arctic Circle - with many nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II - The continued amusing account of John Gibbons' tramp from the coast of France to Lourdes; Captured by the Liquor-Pirates - A British ship is seized and its entire cargo stolen by American prohibition-era thugs; In Search of a "Missing Link" - A trip to the Republic of Dominica to observe the world's rarest animal, a strange beast called the Solenodon Paradoxus The Strangest House in the World - "Spirit Home", built by Sarah L. Winchester in the Santa Clara Valley of California - with photos; Mistaken Identity - A Canadian trapper in the Rockies has an unpleasant ordeal; Recalled to Life - Certain castes of Hindus firmly believe that the wandering priests known as Yogis have uncanny powers in connection with snakes which can even restore the dead to life!; Sandy Haggett's Secret Mine - Seeking to retire from the strenuous goldfields to the life of a storekeeper, the author and his brother are soon enmeshed in a puzzling affair. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
19774222München, Moewig Verlag, 1977. 8°, 387 S., Neubearbeitung unter Verwendung der deutschen Erstausgabe von 1843 - 1846, mit 16 Ill.v. Franz Berthold. ger. Gebr.sp.,Dieses Buch stammt aus der Bibliothek eines Rauchers, hat folglich leichten Rauchgeruch. Leinen
xxiv, 62 pages. Features: First to Sail the Sahara - article (with cover illustration) about the Sheppard family which attempted to windsail across the Sahara Desert - with map and photos; The Bull of Contention - melons of the Bhelwah plantation in north Bihar are being destroyed by a bull antelope which the Hindus consider a sacred nilgai; The Forest Glade Murders - photo-illustrated article from Northern Rhodesia; Captain Mitchell's Last Fight - his schooner spots a U-boat in 1942 (article with photo of the U-boat); The Incredible Snake Man - "Professor" Morrisey deliberately exposed himself to venomous snake bites in Africa; Black Death - a wolf terrorizes farmers and livestock near Kamloops, B.C.; Eggs for the Prisoner - the author was accused of smuggling and imprisoned without food or drink in a cabin of a stifling Pakistani river steamer; March Macabre - horrific ant attacks while obtaining WWII rubber in Ecuador; Britain's Unmapped Outpost - St. Kilda; Trouble at Thirty Fathoms - something goes wrong while welding underwater in a fast-flowing Papua, New Guinea river; Killer Turned Preacher - last instalment of "West to Adventure", the thrilling story of the life of "Jack" Letheby, trapper, prospector and professional gambler; The Squaw's Curse - Marie was the prettiest girl in the Spalumcheen tribe near Kamloops, British Columbia; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Quink ink ad inside front cover; Seagram ad shows man of the future listening to self-reading book (like a computer disk of the future); Repair work on a shattered world; photo of camp of Manitoba Indian muskrat trapper Lewis Head; Nice colour ads for Maxwell House coffee and Waterman's Taperite pens; Sombre one-page two-colour ad by the National War Finance Committee shows the burial at sea of an 18-year-old ordinary seaman, on board H.M.C.S. Assiniboine, killed by U-boat fire; Why Germany's V-Weapons Failed - fascinating photo-illustrated article; "Per Andrea" (short story); Wilderness Suburb - photo-illustrated article on Ocean Falls, B.C.; The High Side (short story); Golf Swings to the Left - photo-illustrated article on Byron Nelson, with photo of him putting out on the 18th green at Thornhill, Ontario where he won the Canadian Open (also included is a photo of B.C. golfer Stan Leonard); Tiny Fingers (short story); So the Captain Stopped Smiling (short story); Man of the Month - Jackson Dodds, C.B.E.; Vintage one-page C-I-L ad illustrates the range of their products; Half-page Champion Spark Plug ad promotes Victory Bonds with illustration of Pan American Flying Clipper; Fascinating one-page two-colour ad entitled "Miracles of Make-Do" by Canada's Wartime Prices and Trade Board encourages Canadian women to conserve textiles (#2 in a series of ads); Jergens Lotion ad features photo of Elyse Knox; Half-page ad for Blachford Shoes of Toronto; Woodbury Soap ad features newlywed photos of Ann Elizabeth Bowman of Montreal and her RCAF husband Hugh Basil Heath; Glo-Coat floor polish ad features Molly McGee; Is it Measles? - health article for juniors; Mexico's Public Enemy - illiteracy; Rolex ad; Advances in Science; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1946 Ford Super Deluxe (red); Fashion illustrations; One-page photo-illustrated Singer sewing machine ad; Colourful Chase & Sanborn ad features Charlie McCarthy comic; Colour Frigidaire fridge ad shows birthday party scene; Colour Shredded Wheat ad shows boy in old-style football helmet; Photo of Jean Parker in Arrid ad; Portrait of Mrs. Randolph Scott in Tangee ad; Nice colour half-page ad for Clark's cream of mushroom soup shows chef; One-page illustrated ad for Helena Rubinstein White Flame perfume; Lovely colour illustration of Ava Gardner in Woodbury Powder ad; World Sayings; Fantastic colour-illustrated Canadian Pacific ad inside back cover celebrates their sixty years of progress; Back cover colour-photo ad for Jordan grape juice features lady at harvest; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition, showing very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light wear, a few small tears at edges. Map endpapers.
88 pages. Black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Theriau was "Once almost a legend in the North because of his ability to survive in solitude while tending unusually long traplines." - from Introduction. Undated but appears to be circa 1978. Gift greetings upon first blank leaf. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. A worthy copy. Book
19787107yBayreuth, Loewes, 1. Auflage, 1978. fester Pappband, ca. DinA5, 157 Seiten, farbig illustrierter Originalumschlag / Schutzumschlag / OU (deutliche Gebrauchsspuren), insgesamt gut erhalten / insgesamt guter Zustand
266 p. Illustrated with numerous full page photographs. Small 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Slightly chipped. First Edition. The bibliography of Arthur H. Clark publications ('An Americana Century' #279) states that there were 2000 copies produced, but only 1006 were bound. Number VII in the "Western Frontiermen Series." First Edition. William Frank "Doc" Carver (1851-1927) was probaly the greatest sharpshooter in an era of intense shooting competion. He was also the creator of the famous 'diving horse' attraction in Atlantic City; as well as one of the founders of the Wild West Shows. An excellent book about a remarkable man. W5
1919128250New York: The Musical Book of America 1919. Original. Softcover. Good ex-library with the usual markings rebound as hardcover spine edges corners wearing text block age darkening pages clean. Navy buckram with stamped titling cloth spine 423 pp. occasional photo images. ".recording in concise form the activities of leading musicians and those actively and prominently identified with music in its various departments." The Musical Book of America hardcover books
2007108892New York: Welcome Books 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Red velvet binding with hundred of glossy color photographs of countless celebrities. An about near fine copy with a small tear at the top of the spine gutter of the front board and some small scuffs to the letters internally clean. Welcome Books unknown books
2007164882New York: Welcome Books 2007. 1st edition. As New. quarto. hardback in decorated cloth 497pp. colour plates index Red Carpet provides an unending runway show of the entertainment industryÕs most celebrated personalities in the greatest gowns and high fashion. Celebrity photographer Frank Trapper shares his front-row seat to nearly every major star-studded Hollywood event for the past three decades: the Oscars Emmys and A-list movie premieres. Welcome Books hardcover
