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104 pages. Fiction: Miss Carlsen is Mine; The Girl Who Had Accidents; Disaster oin the Outback; Botts Takes the Bait; Frame-up for Murder (part 1 of 3); The Chains of Fear (part 5 of 8). Articles: Our First Man in Outer Space - great photos of Scotty Crossfield who will be aboard the X-15; The Man Who Talks to Tapirs - Harry Gillmore in Sumatra - with photos; Our Houseboat Vacation; The Post Reports on Health Insurance - Part III - Is This the pattern of the future?; The Face of America - The Perfect Month - sensational large color photo of dozens of youths jumping from and swimming at the North Cove Bridge over the North Fork Catawba River; I Call on Lawrence Welk - great photos; Gold Rush Every Weekend.in California - great color photos of gold seekers in action. Ads: Very nostalgic color-photo two-page ad for Frigidaire's frost-proof refrigerator-freezer (blue); 1958 Ford cars; Chevrolet cars; Old Gold cigarettes; L&M cigarettes; Johnson & Johhson first aid ad shows boy diving into water beside lobster; Johnson Sea Horse outboard motor color-photo ad; Koppers ad includes large color photo of Ice Capades 18th Edition/1958; Lucky Strike color-photo ad on back cover shows young smokers playing golf, tennis and sunning. Slight loss to fore-edge of front cover. Moderate wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Unfair Tax Laws - you are probably paying more than your share, says Ross M. Robertson; Albania - where Stalin still rules - can this tiny, backward Communist nation continue to oppose Khrushchev's power?; People on the Way Up - Giancarlo Baghetti, Jane Powell Rosenthal, Mark Wilson (TV's top magician); The Grass Craze - lawn lovers by the millions have taken the greensward to heart - here's how to work wonders with your private pasture; The New Frontier Women - wives of White House insiders battle to keep up with the sophisticated, hectic life in the Capital, by Flora Lewis; We Waste a Million Kids a Year - can our schools bridge the gap? - part 2 of 3; Timeless Idaho - how this wildly beautiful state preserves a slow-paced, independent way of life; The Last Days of Sugar Ray - the rise and fall of America's flashiest titleholder, the boxer they said would never have money trouble. Uncommon full-page advertisement for Tea ('The Hot Refresher') features the Detroit Red Wings NHL Hockey Team with black and white images of Sid Abel, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, and others. Average wear. Tears to to some interior pages at fold, otherwise a sound copy. Book
512 pages. Index. Color photography throughout. Printed on glossy stock. Prior owner's details covered by white labels upon front endpaper, otherwise book tight, clean and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archval-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
Pages 81-102 plus 18 outer pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Cover photo of scene at Cairo's Kasr-en-Nil Bridge; B.S.A. Motor Bicycles ad shows mechanic and sidecar model; First page illustration of great flying display by Australian airmen over London; Photo of Italians protesting outside the Italian Embassy in London; Three photos of stray and abandoned dogs at the Battersea Dogs' Home; Excellent photo and map-illustrated article "With Our Forces in Northern Russia - The Difficulties of Life in a Frozen Zone; Shakespeare at the Peace Conference of 1604 (article); Photos of men in the news include: R.A. Gregory, J.E. H. Williams, Sir John D. Rees, Reginald Blomfield, Sir R.T. Hermon-Hodge, Dr. Adolf Muller, Dr. Eduard David, M. Warburg, Prof. W. Schucking, Count Rantzau, Frank Brangwyn, Ernest Newton, George Harcourt, Adrian Stokes, and W.R. Colton; One-page illustration of Italian peasants praying at wayside shrine; After Caporetto - fascinating photo-illustrated article about who fought and who won on the Piave; Two-page illustration "The Dread Days of the Lenin Experiment in Russia" depicts a most depressing scene in front of Petrograd's winter palace, under the Bolshevik regime; Interesting article about smoking by A.A. Milne; The Unrest in Egypt - two photos including one of celebration over General Allenby's Proclamation in Cairo, and another of a large crowd in Opera Square, Cairo; One-page illustration of Aerial aviator; Centerfold reproduction of Montague Dawson painting "Alone", an impression of Transatlantic Flight (free of staples but present); Page of illustrated text about lady's fashion; Nice back cover color-illustrated ad for Army Club cigarettes shows fashionable young couple fishing. Bit of writing on advertorial front cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
299 p. Hardcover Good condition; edges worn
Book in mint unread condition. 64pp. Reprint of the 1940s LNER guide to the Scottish railway line from Fort William to Mallaig and Spean Bridge to Fort Augustus.
Pages 281-320. Chapters include "Lord Kitchener" and "The German Invasion of Luxemburg and Belgium". Photos include: Lord Roberts, Lord Wolseley, Hubert I.W. Hamilton, Earl Kitchener, Sir Evelyn Wood, Lord Charles Beresford, Sir F.R. Wingate, The Earl of Cromer, George W. Steevens, Sir Percy Girouard, Lord Grenfell, General De Wet, General Cronje, Lord Kitchener in Japan, Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide of Luxemburg, M. Eyschen, Belgian soldiers sniping from a bridge. Also included are an illustration of Gordon's last stand at Khartum, January 26, 1885, a one-page map illustrating British campaigns in Egypt, and several additonal battle-scene illustrations. Somewhat above-average external wear. Ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked. Three-inch opening to bottom of coverfold. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 137-184. Features: Insurance Pitfalls; Here's our Taxi Now - Tiny's Radio Taxis operating in Southend use a 100% Vauxhall fleet; No Sooner Said Than Done - new computer equipment put to use by the company (wow, the computer is huge!); Brakes - a detailed two-page illustrated article of how they work; Requiem for old Roads; Stand by to Cast Off - a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads; Die Romantische Strasee - the 200 mile romantic road in Germany; Alan Briton's Views - on such things as the new two-lane bridge over the River Medway on M2; Steering - how to avoid trouble; Don't Throw a Tantrum - how to avoid road rage; Nice Velox ad inside back cover; Many pages of great vintage ads. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 85-132. Features: Colour cover photo of a VX 4/90 being loaded into the nose of a Carvair (Channel Air Bridge); The 100th course of the R.A.C. Junior Driver Scheme - article with photos; You Must Give Way - animals on the road take precedence over motor traffic; Pressure Group - the 800 ton Schuler press at the Luton factory; Fuel Consumption Test; Photos and story of a motor trip to Italy in a Velox; Page of photos of vintage accessories for your Vauxhall; The Mountains Move Nearer - A VX 4/90 helps make history on the inaugural flight of the new Channel Air Bridge car ferry services to Switzerland - article with photos; Brinton's View; Ladies' Maid - A New Zealand trip - article and photos; Photos of interesting parking signs; "Your Name and Address Please" - how to deal with the police when stopped. Many pages of great vintage ads. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Features: The Potsdam Conspiracy - Chapters from the Inner History of the War - 1, by Lovat Fraser; Photos of the varied work of General Currie's (Canadian) gallant troops; French Pontoniers - the master bridge builders; Working amid the waters on the Flanders front - chain ferry/dam building; Vanguard of a vast American host for France; Waves of attack from trench and breastwork; The Third Battle of Ypres - article by Max Pemberton on the dawn of a titanic conflict in the Flemish markets; In Battle or Barter Ever Cheerful Canadians; French Infantry advance in battle formation - firing-line and supports take a German trench; When Paris was Saved - how Bordeaux celebrated the Victory of the Marne; U-boat Pirates Captured by Belgian Cavalry; How the Gotha's Gun Tunnel Cures the "Blind Spot"; Huns glorify their air-murderers and macines; Gog and Magog on Rations - article by Harold Ashton; Impressions of the Inferno in Artois and Lens; Warm welcome waiting at journey's end; The Empire's Roll of Honour. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Demobilisation - Cover illustration of a faithful charger being sold while its British officer looks on. Illustration of Woodrow Wilson, President Poincare, and Mr. Lloyd George at the opening of the Peace Conference. Photo: French Arms Beyond the Rhine. Illustrations of 'Prussia's Arrogance in 1871'. Air Trips to Paris and Back in Four Hours - 4 photos of 'Airco' machines. British keep guard on the Bridge at Cologne - 4 great photos. "To the Rhine!" - Retribution after Fifty Years, 3 photos. Storm and Fog Claim Ships that War had Spared - 6 photos. Photo of the salved French submarine Curie. Problems of the Peace Conference - by Sir Sidney Low. A United States of Germany? - by F.W. Wile. Imperial Guile - What the Camera Saw at Spa. Photo of Berlin protest march against Bolshevism. Photo of Rodin's sculpture of Eve being exhumed from her grave in a garden in Doai where she was hidden from the Germans. Welcoming home America's Navy - 3 photos. Airship and Aeroplane Raids over Great Britain, 1914-18 - chart and map. Channel Train-Ferry and its new 'Mystery' port - 4 photos including the 'Dazzle'. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated with age. Still a worthy copy. Book
14 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos. Features: Flame conditioning paper mill machinery; The welding of process piping; Broken rock drills can be salvaged; Leaks in boiler feed system permanently stopped; Impeller casing saved by bronze welding; hardfacing auto tire chains with stellite; fire and explosion wrongly attributed to acetylene cylinders - Joseph Dewasha, an Indian war veteran and apprentice auto mechanic, was killed in a garage fire and explosion in Bala, Ontario; back cover ad for Canadian Liquid Air features photo of Niagara's Rainbow Bridge which was flame-conditioned prior to being painted, with great results. Index for volume 21 of this publication laid-in. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
74 pages. Featuers: California's Floating Islands of Hell - prison ships; River Full of Whiskey - Brigadier-General Stand Watie; Massacre at Caborca - Henry Alexander Crabb and his followers invaded Mexico; Vengeance Rides a Black Horse - Indians are killed at Weaverville, California after Mr. Anderson was killed by a native; Rail Honeymoon for Eight - Jim Bridger and company terrify white woman by posing as wild Indians at Walla Walla; The Paddlewheelers and the Hungry Miners - Paddlewheeler "New Racket" is stranded in the ice of the Yukon River; Forgotten Fort on the Bloody Bozeman - Fort C.F. Smith and the belligerant Sioux; Something Under the Bridge - life in East Las Vegas in the 1880's; Headstrong Henry Mudge - Playboy Rancher of Hodgeman County, Kansas; Glittering Gold - Before Sutter's Mill; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Three-inch opening at foot of coverfold, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
Stories: Unsolved Mysteries; My Japanese Journey; Wali Khan's Raid; The Lost Flyers; The Death-Belt; Fighting Crickets; A Bottle of Medicine; The Wooden Bridge; A Port Unknown; Black Alice; The Devil-Bees; The Birders of Barren Island. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Magician's Curse - a vendetta on Sardinia; With a Motion-Picture Camera Under the Sea - using the ingenious technology invented by Mr. J. Ernest Williamson - article with wonderful photos; Three Asses In the Pyrenees - part 3 of a fun pursuit of adventure travel in Europe; The Soul of Burma - Part 2 of 2 - nice photo-illustrated article on a trip to Irawadi; "Sugar" - ; The Tragedy of "Miss Miami" - this flying boad crashed on a trip to Bimini from Miami; On the Spoor of the Elephant - J. Morewood Dowsett describes his escape from elephants, and recounts stories of his companion John Deacon - article with photos; My Boa-Constrictor - Sir Curtis Lampson and a snake which escaped in a crowded hotel; Paper Money - a quick tale from West Africa; Caught in a Death-Trap - Part 2 of 2 of the remarkable tribulations of two motorcyclists crossing the Mojave desert in California; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 3 of 3 of this incredible biography; Millions in Oil - the marvels of Mexia, America's latest field - article with photos; Luck - a story from Alaska. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
91 pages plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: The Artificial Volcano - an incident of the Italian campaign in the Dolomites; Soko the Stanleyville Chimp - raised by the author J.A. Jordan - with many photos; Seven to One - a vendetta and Arkansas farmer Walter Ridgeley of the Texarkana area; A Lofty Ambition - Tom Needham of Cleveland, Ohio recounts how he tried to perform a high dive from a lofty bridge to become a famous actor - with photos; A Canadian Lumber Camp at Riviere aux Ecorces, Quebec - Part II - with photos; In the Casting Pit - a tale of one of the finest deeds of courage and self-sacrifice on record; On the Road in the country of Georgia, by R.Courtier-Forser - illustrated; The White "Maori" - Kimble Bent spent 50 years in the bush - with photos; The Old Firm - a remarkable mystery is recounted from the documents and personal narratives of W.H. Holloway; The Strength of Dan Dempster - this Canadian frontier railway track foreman saved the men of a work-train from destruction with a superhuman act of strength; Round Labrador and Hudson's Bay - Part 1 of E.W. Hawkes' 3,000 mile journey, with great photos; Finding a Wife - S.A. Beattie went hunting for Jaguars in the British Honduras... but ended up with a wife; Throssell's "V.C." - How Hugo Throssell won the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli; Photo of two Jewish street merchants in New York's east side. Lovely color ad for the Vose Player Piano on back cover. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
86, 16 [ads] pages. Features: My Fall into Germany from an Aeroplane (Airplane) - how I dropped 8,000 feet getting in - and crawled 400 miles getting out, by Lieut. Pat O'Brien, R.F.C.; The "Debil, Debil' of George's Gap - a snake story; Through Ireland with a "Fit-Up", by Nan Gray; Photo and short article on the Indian-built Hagwilget suspension bridge across the Bulkley River, British Columbia; Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part III - Robert Wilton reports on the war in Russia - article includes several good photos; The Greater Duty - A Corporal in the Royal North-West Mounted Police finds himself in a predicament; In Unknown British Guiana - part 3, with wonderful photos; Tales of the Service - VII - The Saccharine Smugglers (off the Irish coast); Trench Journals - documenting the irrepressible gaeity of French and English soldiers engaged in trench warfare; A Slow Revenge - a snake story from Zululand; The Romance of Fossil-Hunting - with great photos including horse-powered bone hauling out of Red Deer Canyon, Alberta; St. Patrick's Purgatory - with great photos; Photo and brief article on Robert W. Patten of Seattle; Leaping from trees in the New Hebrides - with photo. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this most interesting issue. Book
Features: The "Hold-Up" at Fenelon; Avalances; A Tramp in Spain - VI; Hunting the Giant Tortoise; A Desert Tragedy; The Land of the Shrimp-God; How "Buffalo Bill" Won his Name; The Looting of the "Bang Yee"; On the March in the Bahr-El-Ghazal - III; Francisca Machalek, the female burglar; The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud; "Monkey"; The Happenings of a Night; A West African Mutiny; Paris to New York Overland - IV; A Chapter of Mishaps; My Experiences at Kano - I; Besieged in a Tree; The Man-Stealers; In the Grip of the Quagmire; The Monks' Republic; The Strange Case of the "Ferret"; The Calculut Affair; Some Japanese Signboards; A Tramp in Spain - VII; Hoist By His Own Petard; The Island of Captive Kings; The March of "Coxey's Army"; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - I; In the Land of the "Never-Never"; The Range War; A Thousand Miles in a Refrigerator; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - II; How the Treasure was Saved; A Tardy Vindication; Rambles in Macedonia; Attacked by Wolves in the Desert; A Tramp in Spain - VIII; My Experiences at Kano - II; Defective in the Barrel; The Last of the Bushrangers; Prisons of Many Lands; The Solving of a Mystery; "Meistertrunk" at Rothenburg; The Shrine by the Nujha Bridge; Among the Buriats; Adrift on a Raft; A Night of Horrors; The Narcissus Festival at Montreux; A Mountain of Salt; After the "Mad Mullah"; A Unique Summer Residence; The Wandering Jew; With the British to Sokoto; John Glover of Texas; A Baby Parade; How the Gipsy Queen found her lover; A Cargo of Cats; A Tramp in Spain; When the Water Came Down; A Mystery of the Bush; The Story of My Chinese God; A Battle with a Rhino; After the "Mad Mullah" - II; The Pursuit of Captain Victor - II; The Cave-Dwellers of Mexoco; Calamity Jane; With the British to Sokoto - II; Arrested as Spies; When Niagara Ran Dry; The Flying Dutchman; Among the South Sea Cannibals - I; Across Sumatra in a Motor-Car; A Tramp in Spain - X; Our Attempt to Reach Mecca; A Puma Hunt in Surrey; Entombed in a Capsized Ship; With the British to Sokoto - II; The Apotheosis of Simpson; Our Quiet Little Shooting Trip; My Adventure with a Lunatic; A Tramp in Spain - XI; Sacred Town of Mandhata; Mystery of Silver Bow Valley; Among the South Sea Cannibals - II; A Night in a God-House; The Tragedy of the "Maria" and My Part in it; The Red Pig of Poora; Two-Thousand Miles in a Trawler; The Most Inaccessible Place in China; What Happened at Morelia; The Blumencorso at Hamburg. Heavily worn. Backstrip almost detached. Binding open after second blank leaf. A worthy reading copy. Book
xxiv, 64 pages. Features: The Hunting of Harry Tracy - the 1902 account of one of the most remarkable manhunts to ever take place in America; Pete the Pelican; Between Ourselves; Sahara Safari - photo-illustrated account; Remote Control - a strange story from the Northwest frontier of India; Awachomo Natural Bridge, Utah, USA (cover illustration); Land of Blood-Feuds - photo illustrated article about the mountain people of Crete; The Death-Divers - a former Swedish deep-sea diver recounts how in 1937 he and Chief Diver Matsson were detailed to assist in the raising of a wreck off Italian Somaliland; The Throw-Back - strange story from a South American gold mine; The Night Alarm - ; Wealth on the "Skeleton Coast"; Bush Interlude; The Vanished Waggons - a remarkable story from the Northern Territory of Australia where three laden vans mysteriously disappeared from a train running south from Darwin; many nostalgic ads; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
Paper-covered boards show wear, marks and bumps on corners; tears at top and bottom of spine. 60 pages. Large format: 9"w x 12 1/2"h. The second book in the "This Is" travel series for children by the Czech architect turned children's book illustrator, Miroslave Sasek. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. Printed in bright colors on heavy, cream colored paper. Previous owner's name sticker.
24 pages. Features: Conrad Hilton's Code for Success; LBJ's D.C. - a practical guide to what's in and what's out in hats, food, color schemes and does in the nation's capital now that Texas has moved in; The Loveliest Girl in the World (fiction); Billion-Dollar Hat War - who's winning the battle of milliners vs. hair stylists?; Peter Sellers - Brilliant, Unhappy Star - story with photo of Sellers and his two children - the most successful actor in films is a tortured man who finds his happiness in his chilren; Cooking is a Girl's Best Friend - story with photo of Carol Channing cooking with her son, Channing Lowe. Color ads include: Hush Puppies shoes; Fortrel - featuring three boys in Syntrel slacks; Natural Bridge shoes; Sunkist Oranges (very nice photo of woman holding orange); Centerfold two-color nostalgic Rexall ad; Miss Clairol; Bermuda; Golden Star Ham; Florida O.J. (orange juice). Average wear. Considerable soiling to front cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
256 pages, select bibliography, ex public library with front hinge weak and tape marks on the endpapers. eng
Contents: U.S. Riots - 1967 Toll and before - detailed coverage; Reagan leaves hospital; Successful Minuteman II Launch; William Dale Archerd - charged as insulin murderer; Wilcox Expedition on Mount McKinley; Israel's new territories; Vietnam war update; Photo of Wuhan's double-decked road & rail bridge over the Yangtze; Photo of Stalin and daughter in 1934; Mercenaries in the Congo; Photo of Rees-Mogg; Photo of Mick Jagger; Uncommon full-page colour RCA ad shows their computer being used in a school - years before Apple!; Photo of Roger Maris with Orlando Cepeda; OGO-4 Satellite; LSD & the Unborn; Shirley Polykoff and advertising; Alfried Krupp; Shell Oil Refinery at Rotterdam; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
Features: Photo ad for stockbroker John Brick of Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis; Collapse of the Silver Bridge into the Ohio River between Kanauga, Ohio and Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Time Essay - What Negotiations in Vietnam might mean; Greece - the Coup that collapsed; The Soviet Fleet in the Mediterranean; Land Rush in Brazil - the Fuller family in Boias; Beautiful color-photo ad for Cadillac; Student protests in Europe; Nice two-page color ad by BOAC showing the Concorde; Asian Recreation for U.S. Fighting Men - article with four great pages of photos; Entertainer Bob Hope; Underground nuclear test near New Mexico's Leandro Canyon; A.M.C.'s Amitron car; Lockheed's AH-56A; Denmark's Godtfred Kirk Christiansen and Lego; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
