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Features: Vivillo, The Brigand; Walrus Hunt in the Arctic; Sporting Stories - iv - Corker's Alligator - v - A Brush With a Bear - vi - Man v. Python; Guardians of the Wilderness; The Legend of the Wailing Woman; Mountaineering by Telescope; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - III; Some Experiences in Malaya; "Jack Ashore"; A Daring Voyage Down the Grand Canyon; A Romance of Two Islands - II; Courtship and Marriage in Savage Africa; The Capture of Antonio Barracola; Barmaid's Steeplechase; The Greatest Horse-Race on Record; The Promotion of Petroff; The Humours of a Rectorial Election; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - I; Climbing in the "Land of Fire"; The Spider's Web; Dolphin-Hunting; A Tragedy of the Nile; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - I; Recollections of a Texas Ranger; Short Stories - My Adventure at Arad, The Horror in the Pit; The Cruise of the "Crocodile"; Propitiating the Weather; The Affair at Greenville; The Terror in the Sanctuary; Across America by Airship; Fighting a Typhoon; A State Trial in Montenegro; Crossing the River; A Belgian Smoking Competition; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - II; Hunting the Hippopotamus; The Tale the Doctor Told; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - II; Short Stories - A Bluff that Worked, and The Yellow Fiend; My Experinces in Algeria - I; My Alaskan Christmas; Short Stories - Whave v. Sharks, A Battle in Mid-Air, Up in a Balloon; Some "Freak" Memorials; Down the Chute; Where Women Wear Trousers; Retribution; Mountain Tragedies of the Lake District; Cupid and the Dentist; My Experiences in Algeria - III; Ways that are Dark - My Adventures in 'Frisco, A Sharp Lesson, Seeing it Out; In the Land of the Reindeer; "Tapu"; The Finches' Festival; The Fight at the A-T Ranch; How I Got My Jaguar Skin; Out of the Skies; A Night Adventure in Yokohama; Ten Lions in a Day!; My Friend Dalton; Two Girls in Japan; The Last Creek; The Romance of Wild Animal Catching; How We Captured the Rebel Chief; Round the World with a Billiard-Cue; When "Tenderfeet" Go Hunting Bears; The Life of a Steeplejack; The Longest Chase on Record; The Land of Superstition; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Several pages partially loose, otherwise a sound copy. Book
Features: The People of the Caves; My Journey in Bhutan - I; An Arctic Man-Hunt; The Sydney "Flying-Machine"; An Odd Voyage; The Rescue Dogs of St. Bernard; How we Bluffed the Bushrangers; Life in a Japanese Prison; Short Stories - An Adventure in the "Towers of Silence", Hassan's Bride, Prospecting for Yaqui Gold; The Sportsmen of the Near East; Ning Wo the Wonderful; The Golden Beetle; The Riddle of the Zambesi; A Hero's Life Story; "The Hermit of Rotheneuf"; Marooned on a Sandbank; The "Tank Scrap"; Short Stories - A Luncheon Party in Rhodesia, The Ordeal of Mrs. Benns; The Deputation That Failed; An Island of Mystery; The Ghost of No. 1 Jetty; My Journey in Bhutan - II; The One-Eyed Parrot; The "Pearl of the Mediterranean"; A North Atlantic Tragedy; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina; A Lost Hamlet; How I Climbed Mount Popocatepetl; The Masked Bandit of Tucson; Under the Star and the Crescent - I; Pegging out the Empire; Short Stories - The Jail-break at Kungyangon, The Missing Bracelet, The Story of a Glass Eye; Earnst's Luck;; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - I; The Gipsy Polka; Abalone-Fishing; The Old Mexican Mine; A Mystery of the Bush; An Artist's Adventure; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - I; The Rival Rain-Makers; Pegging Out the Empire - II; The Clue of the Marked Bamboo; Earthquakes from a Japanese Point of View; The Robbery at Goldsmiths; The Experiences of a Deputy-Postmaster; Some Adventures with Sea-Lions; Under the Star and Crescent - II; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - II; Lost in an Underground Maze; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - II; On the Hill Crest Patrol; Stories of "Stripes" - the Tiger and the Tow-Boat, The Phantom Tiger; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - II; The Dynamite Smuggler; A House Built in a Day; Bulstrode and the Bear; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - I; The Castaways of Guadalupe Island; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - III; Sport in India; Phaulkon's Treasure; The Balinese and Their Ways; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - I; My Most Exciting Ballooning Experiences; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - III; The Gum-Hunter; A Himalayan Arcadia; The Jealously of Pepe; A Texan "Snake-Farm"; One New Year's Day; Twelve Hundred Miles in a Paper Boat; Fishing on the Molopo; Locating a Leak; Two Men in a Cave; A Wanderer in Asia Minor - I; Wilson's "Scoop"; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - II; A Race for a Gold-Mine; In the Far North-West - I; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - II; How I Lassoed a Moose. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Stories: The Radium-Seekers; River-Rafting Through Siam; Chinese Temperament; Mrs. Leopard; The Trail of '98; Tiger-Men of Siam; The Timekeeper's Tale; An Amateur Witchdoctor; Skinflint; The Desert of Tragedy; The Spider's Lair; The Girl Opal Miner. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Features: Trailing the King Elephant - an amazing story from India with photos; The Hermit of the Barrens - Tragedy befalls Jack Hornby and two Englishmen in the Canadian Arctic - photos; Hunting Down the Black Jack Gang - a desperado gang in the American Southwest; War on the Dingo in Australia; The Man from Berlin - travelling through Somaliland the author picks up a German who is hitch-hiking from Berlin to South Africa; Word of Parrot - a story from the Bisichi tin-field in Nigeria; Ju-Ju in Modern Africa; Antarctica's 'Bachelor's Hall' - masculine housekeeping at the base camp of desolate Heard Island; and more. Chips from top of backstrip else average wear. Decent copy. Book
Features: Fate and Billy Barker - vivid glimpses of life on the once-famous goldfield of British Columbia - photos; Six Year in Sail - a deep-water seaman describes his experiences aboard some of the last surviving sailing ships; The World's Oddest Witch-Doctor - a story from the Transvaal; The Reindeer Man - Grady Carothers, of Goldthwaite, Central Texas; The "Phantom" Jeep - an amusing tale of the last war; Dead Men's Tracks - reprint of a 1928 article - an exciting prospecting story from Western Australia; Terror by Night - "Man-Leopard" killings in Nigeria (conclusion); Down the Zambesi on a Raft - an adventurous holiday - photos; The "Island Lights" - strange superstitions linger in remote Ireland; The Spirit Festival - Cheung Chau, Hong Kong; Antarctic Tragedy - narrative by a radio-operator with the Australian research expedition on Heard Island; and more. Average wear. Lower portion of front cover open. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
96 pages plus several pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: "Todger" Jones, V.C. - The Man Who Captured a Hundred Germans Single-Handed - his story as told by himself - with photos; A Flying Man in South America - part II - the strange adventures of Mr. John G. Barron - great photos; The Man Who Didn't Exist - the Belgian story of the most carefully planned murder case on record involving M. Guillaume Bernays; On the Borders of Tibet - Part I - the story of two years' wanderings by Reginald Farrer, with wonderful photos; The German Spy in France, by Bernard St. Lawrence who was engaged in collecting authentic information concerning German spies and their methods; Airmen in the Desert - adventures of the Royal Flying Corps in Sinai, by F.W. Martindale; The Hon. Roderick Buckley Mystery - the disappearance of a wealthy young man formerly well-known in London society; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - part 3 - E.W. Hawkes writes about his eventul cruise - with great photos; Mulai Hassan's Donkey - a favorite Algerian tale as related by Donald Maclean; ; Thirteen Days Adrift - an Atlantic Tragedy after the steamship "Columbian" took fire in the Atlantic; Curiosities of Soudan, by H. J. Shepstone, with many excellent photos. Nice color ad for Vose player pianos on back cover. Massive eleven-page illustrated ad for the National Rubber Co. of New York which seeks to sell shares to readers; Photos of a sundew reaching out to seize a fly. Above-average wear. Crease to front cover. Chips from backstrip. Few light pencil marks to contents. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. 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
39 pages. Features: I spent a year waiting to be hanged - twice sentenced to the gallows for the murder of a newsboy, this British Columbia cook survived five execution dates - Charles M. Heathman was accused of the murder of Donald Ottley; Two Young French-Canadians delight Montreal audiences by making a Song and Dance about Separatism - Bernard Sicotte and Gilles Richer; How U.S. First Lady Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy conquered the world; Aurel Joliat still thrills over that playoff moment with Howie Morenz; Producer in search of more characters - Norma Springford; A Scaasi suit can cost $7,000 - this Canadian designer soars to fashion's peak in New York - Scaasi was born Arnold Isaacs in Montreal; The Mystery of the Giant Lemon - a dwarf tree in a Vancouver suburb yields fruit that weigh as much as 2.5 pounds each; Simple tests that can avert tragedy - PKU, phenylketonuria; Nipper by Doug Wright. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
71 pages. Features: Bob (Robert) Goulet - he finds there is room at the top for hard work; Sweat Equity helps pay for their house - Joe Hodgen and Jeannette MacDonald prepare their new home in Chippawa, Ontario; Fidel Castro - Liberator or Slave-Maker? - a Canadian journalist visits Havana; Tragedy strikes the young duchess - The Duchess of Kent Story, Part 3 of 3; Ventriloquist Carolyn Blythe of the Blue Sky Revue in Verdun, Quebec; Porpoise with a purpose - Even blindfolded, Kathy can find her goal; Tachibana Ballet Institute in Tokyo - bathing helps their ballet; Sober piety and sturdy self-reliance mark the old-world ways of Canada's Mennonites; The Man the Sharks would't eat - Captain Haliburton (Bertie) Himmelman explains what happened to the Giant King 38 years ago; Workshop for Equality - Core, the Congress of Racial Equality, uses non-violence/sit-in strikes; School at Concrete, Washington, has a road beneath it; Charles Mohr, Jr., a University of Wisconsin senior, dies as a result of his first and last boxing knockout; Sid Caesar says "I conquered Shyness"; A new generation of bookworms is invading our libraries - children; The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: Dark Deed at San Miguel - Jim Beckwith stumbled onto a scene of carnage; Santa Fe Gambling Lady - Dona Maria Gertrudis Barcelo, aka La Tules; "We'll Never Forgive Old Harney" - song of the maltreated 2nd Infantry at Fort Pierre - General William S. Harney; The Red Front Feed Barn - wagon freighters of Southeastern Colorado - Elkhart, Kansas and the barn on the O.K. Osteen farm; Expendable Harrisburg, Arizona (5 miles SE of present day Salome, Arizona); Stray Leaves - the first foreign imported Thoroughbred horse ever to be shipped to Addington, Indian Territory - St. Swithen; Sins of the Father - John A. and Johann Augustus Sutter - Sutter's Fort; Tragedy on Salmon Falls Creek - Contact, Nevada; The Old Cartwright Ranch - Jackson Manford and one of Arizona's most successful spreads; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: What was your name in the States? - the use of the alias; Gold Bars From the Barnard Express - a story from near Kamloops, British Columbia; Ishi - a most remarkable Indian; A Stranger Rode with the Posse - Bill Everheart of Grayson County, Texas; The Palm of a Three-Fingered Glove; Tragedy of the Moffat Road; The blood of a hundred men! - Tom Starr of Oklahoma; Livin' High and Layin' Low in the Toquimas - to try it, head to Manhattan, Nevada; The Best Darn Vacation I Ever Had! - When a Kansan drinks water from the Pecos he knows he's been somewhere!; Cantankerous a Man as Ever Lived - Amos Hill of Green River; Wild Old Days!; Old West Curiosa - photos; The "Trunkman" Mystery. Average wear. One inch opening at top of coverfold. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
312 pages. Group cover photo of Abbie Cornish, Kristen Stewart and Carey Mulligan. Features: The Genius and Tragedy of John Hughes; Hollywood's Fresh Faces of 2010; Annie Leibovitz photographs Oscar's Masters and Muses. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Makin' of a Brush Propper Cowhand - chasing mavericks in Arizona; Whiskey Traders of Fort Whoop Up - center of the trade in northern Montana and the south prairies of Canada - John J. Healy and Alfred B. Hamilton; Sweet Trail to the Gallows - the Penascal murders; Search for the Old Overland (stagecoach); Alexis Godey's Kinship with risk; Land of the violent sun - Old Hachita; Doc Crumbine of Dodge City; Narrow-Gauge Royalty - The Slim Princess; Ambush and gold dust - a Black Hills tragedy; Mojave desert's wild Dutchman - Charlie Koehn; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Special Feature - Apache Vengeance - The savage murder of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds and deputy Hunkydory Holmes; Jesse (James), Frank and Cole; Gold-Filled Safe of Knight's Ferry - it floated down the Stanislaus River!; Terror on a Train - The "Harvest Excursion"; Massacre by White Men - The Tragedy of the Nueces; Tombstone 'Typos'; San Augustine Ranch House; Hobo, the horse that never quit; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
4579éditions pierre lafitte sans date (1917) - In 12 bradel toile pièce de titre 258 pages
In 24, pp. 71 + (1b). D. rifatto. Forellino alle ultime due carte. Br. ed. Tragedia di questo semisconosciuto autore piemontese citato en passant in 'L'Annotatore piemontese' di Michele Ponza del 1832: 'non vi parlo... della Romentruna d'un vivace inesperto giovanetto... non di altre molte tragedie, commedie, pasticcetti e cose simili che spuntano ad ogni passo in ogni paesuccio del Piemonte... (p. 244).
In 4, pp. 14 + (2b). Dedica autogr. dell'A. alla sguardia. Br. ed.
<p>19 cm, brossura editoriale con titolo al piatto e dorso, p. 220. Esemplare intonso. Ordinarie tracce del tempo alla copertina. Interno molto ben conservato.</p>
190 pages. This hard-hitting report to the Citizens Commission on Bhopal is the first authoritative book-length account of the tragedy and its implications for American workers and communities exposed to similar risk of catastrophic accident. Probes what really happened in Bhopal that awful night in December 1984 when the city was gassed by a Union Carbide chemical plant... the worst industrial disaster in history, in which at least 5,000 people were killed and more than 200,000 injured. Unmarked. Light wear. Tight and square. Excellent copy. Book
Milano, dalla Tipografia di Luigi Veladini, senza data [1804], in-8, copertina fittizia, internamente perfetto, pp. (4)-111. Stampato su carta forte. Non in Bustico.
Milano, Silvestri,1817. In 16°pp. VII+98n.+119n.+105n.+5nn. legat.coeva tt.pergamena,fori di ex tarli in alcc.pp.Ritratto inciso in antip.
Ediz. tratta dall'ultima rivista e corretta dall'autore. <BR>16°, pp.76, cop. muta coeva. Lievi macchie, qualche segno a inch., alcuni angoli arricciati.
<p>2 volumi legati in un tomo solo, 11 cm, rilegatura coeva in mezza pelle con titolo e fregi impressi in oro al dorso, piatti marmorizzati, tagli spruzzati, p. 128; 218.</p>
500362903folio Sans date. La Reine morte est un drame en trois actes d'Henry de Montherlant écrit en 1942 et représenté pour la première fois à la Comédie-Française. L'intrigue inspirée d'une pièce espagnole du Siècle d'or raconte l'histoire tragique d'Inès de Castro : un roi malade fait tuer la femme que son fils a épousée secrètement puis meurt devant son cadavre
