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Pages 442-528 plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Strange Case of Sergeant Pron - a story of the French Foreign Legion; Turned into a Pillar of Salt - a salt-miner becomes lost in his mine; Mysterious Fish with Strange Arabic Inscriptions - photo and brief write-up of fish caught at Zanzibar ; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part I - Eva J. Jordan's amazing journey through mysterious Africa, this part dealing with Uganda (with photos); How I Fired the First Shot for Britain in the Great War - Trooper William Craig, of the 4th Dragoon Guards was also the first British soldier to bring down a Uhlan; Chased by Bees - while observing apes E.F. Martin unknowingly disturbed a nest; In the Clutches of a Boa-Constrictor - adventure in Rhodesia; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part II - a stirring account of their work and adventures, with great photos; The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part II - Chinese Tong-men and gamblers operated a building in Philadelphia's tenderloin district which had secret cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses; My Adventures in the World War, Part IV - famous war correspondent E. Ashmead-Bartlett offers startling and thrilling contributions; The Mystery of the "Haunted Hills" - a strange story from Australia's Queensland bush; The Soldier Samson of the Italian Alps - photo-illustrated tales of an incredibly strong soldier in an Italian Alpini battalion (with photo of him lifting five men!); Human Tanks - An Ingenious Body Shield invented by Italian troops; The Papuan Chief's "Revenge" - intereseting photo-illustrated story; Some African Fashions - humorous illustrations; Arctic Painter's Thrilling Adventures - M. Borissof became lost along the northern shores of Nova Zembla and nearly died (with photo of his studio); Photo of Indian chief Wa-Ha-Gunta who just turned 134 years old!; and more. Average external wear. Bit of writing on front cover and Table of Contents. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 290-380 pages plus 36 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover illustration); The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving prisoner Yao Dwirra; Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San Francisco; "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the Pennsylvania oil-fields; "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake in southern Mississippi; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces of nature; The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894; Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger constitutes to a community; Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona; The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the Boers were for once turned against them; Concerning Camels - some amusing stories; A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the brig "Moa," of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870; The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British North Borneo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
2013x-1461267609Birkhäuser 2013. Paperback. New. 740 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.68 inches. Birkhäuser paperback
R320142622Nos Loisirs. non daté. In-Folio. Cartonné. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 64 + 8 + 8 + 16 + 8 + 8 + 16 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 16 + 8 + 8 + 8 pages - couverture de chaque conte conservée illustrée en couleurs - textes sur deux colonnes - nombreux dessins en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans le texte - 1er plat illustré en couleur - 2ème plat tâché - 4 photos disponibles.. . . . Classification Dewey : 398.2-Conte populaire
1723R240095146CHEZ JEAN BAPTISTE MAZUEL. 1723. In-18. Relié plein cuir. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 376 pages - ornée de figures en taille douce - page de titre désolidarisée - coins frottés - coiffes manquantes - 5 photos disponibles.. . . . Classification Dewey : 398.2-Conte populaire
R200107883Librairie illustrée, Jules Tallandier. . In-4. Cartonné. A relier, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 311 pages augmentées de nombreuses illustrations en couleurs et noir et blanc,dans le texte. 4 Volumes : 2ème contreplat manquant sur le 1er volume. Dos manquant sur les 4 volumes.. . . . Classification Dewey : 398.2-Conte populaire
14650SD anni ’40. Alcune foto lievemente scollate ma ben conservato nel complesso. . Album fotografico in percallina verde con titoli dorati e legatura a vista con bulloni d'ottone cm 24 x 34 contenente 8 fotografie in bianco e nero cm 23.5 x 29.25 montate su tavole telate. Alcune foto lievemente scollate ma ben conservato nel complesso. Pubblicazione promozionale riservata presumibilmente alle agenzie turistiche ed agli agenti della compagnia di navigazione che presenta il transatlantico Conte Biancamano e in particolare le cabine gli spazi comuni e i servizi per la terza classe. La nave venne varata nel 1925 per il Lloyd Triestino e con il riassetto delle flotte passò negli anni '30 alla compagnia Italia di Navigazione venendo destinata alle rotte per il Sud America. Questo album risale agli anni '40 e testimonia il riallestimento civile del dopoguerra con arredi progettati da Gustavo Pulitzer Finali Giò Ponti e Nino Zoncada. Le fotografie con didascalia in lastra mostrano una veduta del transatlantico e alcuni ambienti della terza classe: Sala da Pranzo Sala fumatori e bar Sala delle Signore Cabina a quattro posti Cabina a due posti La piscina Ambulatorio medico chirurgico. Cat. 26 n. 20. unknown
1903010271New York: G W Dillingham Co 1903 Color printed stiff card covers some edge wear and cover soil faint creasing to covers and pages gift inscription in pencil. The familiar fairy tale illustrated in Denslow's whimsical style in color throughout. Scarce. First Edition. Pictorial Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by W W Denslow. 4to. G W Dillingham Co paperback
1937008692Racine WI: Whitman Publishing 1937 140 pgs. Pictorial boards with mild external edge wear inner front hinge strengthened pages age-toned as usual last three pages with edge tears and creases not affecting text; dust jacket frayed with small losses. Mother Goose rhymes some original and some with Disney characters worked into the verses. Fun Disney artwork in color and line throughout. The book was produced with inexpensive materials so few copies survived in collectible condition. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Good Minus. Illus. by Walt Disney Studio. Thick 8vo. Whitman Publishing unknown
1953153219N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph of director Fritz Lang in conversation with actress Anne Baxter on the set of the 1953 film noir. Mimeo snipe to the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1951 novella by Vera Caspary. A telephone operator wakes up with a hangover and a creeping feeling that she might have murdered her date the previous night. The first installment in Lang's "newspaper noir" trilogy followed by "While the City Sleeps" 1956 and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" 1956. <br /> <br /> Set in Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1897A36120New York: MacMillan Company. Very Good. 1897. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author with a short inscription on the front endpaper. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners have some bumping rubbing and light fraying. The text pages pages are clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers have spots of toning. This copy has been signed by the author with a short inscription on the front endpaper. "Bleiler 1978 p. 120. Not in Reginald 1979; 1992. Wright III 3244." "It is a weird allegory of the power of love to overcome all the forces of darkness" from Overland Monthly 1897 The author uses Greek Mythology to people a heroic fantasy romance imperiled by the Underworld. ; Signed by Author . MacMillan Company hardcover
201231859Tacoma WA: Lance Thingmaker June 2012. First edition in book form. A fine copy in dust jacket with tiny tear to mid left front edge and cardboard slipcase. 31859. Quarto cloth backed boards. Limited to 300 copies of which this is one of 100 numbered copies. A facsimile reprint of the complete file of five issues. One of the better fanzines approaching or equaling in some instances the quality of content of the SF specialty pulps of the 1930s. The impressive list of contributors includes August Derleth H. P. Lovecraft David H. Keller Frank Belknap Long Robert E. Howard "The Garden of Fear" Robert Bloch first printing of "Lilies" his first published story originally submitted to WEIRD TALES and rejected by Farnsworth Wright P. Schuyler Miller "The Titan" Clifford D. Simak "The Creator" John Beynon Harris Amelia Reynolds Long Carl Jacobi Ralph Milne Farley and others. Reference: Moskowitz The Immortal Storm pp. 22-3. Pavlat and Evans Fanzine Index 1965 p. 66. Tymn and Ashley eds Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 401-04. Lance Thingmaker unknown
188247510San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Company 1882. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Folio. 5 leaves 5-417pp. plates with tissue guards. Original brown morocco leather with gilt vignette and decor on cover gilt ruling on cover and spine elaborate blind-stamped decorative ruling on covers; raised bands and dentelles. Gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. The entirely separate volume on was published in 1881. "To gather into a compendium for preservation and reference the lives and portraits of those who have labored side by side in laying the foundations of human greatness upon the shores of the Pacific is the object of this work." Preface. This biographical directory or "mugbook" is illustrated with more than eighty full page steel-engraved portraits with a total of one hundred and seven biographies of distinguished Californians. The editor especially commissioned for this work three essays: "The Glaciers and Snow-banners of California" by John Muir "The Lakes of the Pacific Coast" by John Le Conte and "Alaska" by Caleb T. Fay. Binding with some wear scuffing along edges and joints of spine some foxing. some tissue guards with creasing. Binding in overall very good- interior in very good condition. A. L. Bancroft and Company hardcover
1948170987Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Eleven vintage photographs including ten studio still photographs and one borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film noir with one photograph under the working title "Martin Rome." <br /> <br /> Three photographs with mimeo snipes two with provenance stamps and two with a provenance label on the verso rear. One photograph with cropping annotations in the margins of the recto. Several with title corrections at the bottom margin the film was retitled from "Martin Rome" and "The Law and Martin Rome" to "Cry of the City" during post-production<br /> <br /> Based on the 1947 novel "The Chair for Martin Rome" by Henry Edward Helseth. Richard Conte stars as hardened criminal and jewel thief Marty Rome wounded and in the hospital following a shoot out which left a police officer dead when he is implicated in another murder and jewelry heist by a sleazy lawyer. Following Rome's partial recovery and escape in an attempt to recover the jewels and flee he's pursued by his childhood friend a conflicted hard-nosed New York detective played by Victor Mature.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in New York City.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall.<br /> <br /> BFI BD-25. Grant US. Selby Cannon Master List. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
192931665Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1929. Text paper tanned but supple mild edge wear covers trimmed front cover at spine has tape to verso creasing to covers a good to very good copy. 31665. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn Robert E. Howard "Skull-Face" part two Everil Worrell Zealia Brown Reed Bishop "The Curse of Yig" - written in uncredited collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith verse E. F. Benson August Derleth and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193032055Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1930. Mild tanning to text paper light wear to yapp edges with tiny tears and some creases long closed tear to upper left corner small chip to yapp edge at lower left corner lower half of cover separated from spine good color to front and spine a very good copy or better copy. 32055. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn Paul Ernst August Derleth and Marc Schorer Gaston Leroux Amelia Reynolds Long film source for "Fiend Without a Face" and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193132241Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1931. Mild tanning to text paper supple sun fade to spine edge and along left edge of front cover tiny loss at head of spine split to lower left edge of front cover at spine edge a very good copy. 32241. Octavo single issue cover art by C. B. Petrie Jr. pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn Frank Belknap Long Robert E. Howard verse H. P. Lovecraft "The Fungi From Yoggoth" 8 & 9 - verse and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193732279Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1937. Text paper tanned but supple mild edge wear clear tape at upper left corner a very good to nearly fine copy. 32279. Octavo single issue cover art by Margaret Brundage pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner Robert Bloch Edmond Hamilton Paul Ernst and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193032266Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1930. Mild tanning to text paper wear to yapp edges with tiny tears tape along left edge and spine small chip to lower rear panel a very good copy. 32266. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert E. Howard "Moon of Skulls" part two Seabury Quinn August Derleth Val Lewton Elliot O'Donnell Edmond Hamilton Clark Ashton Smith poem and others. The Val Lewton story "The Bagheeta" concerns a were-leopard which can change into a beautiful women. This story would provide some genesis for the future to be reworked into his film "The Cat People." Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193032268Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1930. Mild tanning to text paper two small chips at upper right some patchy fade along upper edge color fade to spine panel cover separated from spine and needs to be re-glued a very good to nearly fine copy. 32268. Octavo single issue cover art by Hugh Rankin pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn Gaston Leroux Donald Wandrei Greye La Spina H. Warner Munn H. P. Lovecraft "The Fungi From Yoggoth" 5 - verse and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
193032264Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1930. Mild tanning to text paper cover creases several small tears to cover mild wear to yapp edges small tear mid spine front cover has likely been glued back on a very good to nearly fine copy. 32264. Octavo single issue cover art by Hugh Rankin pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert E. Howard "The Fearsome Touch of Death" Paul Ernst August Derleth Edmond Hamilton Clark Ashton Smith verse and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
192727652Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1927. Text paper tanned but supple edge wear and soiling to front cover loss to upper have of spine with clear tape now over a good to very good copy. 27652. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Ray Cummings Flavia Richardson pseudonym for Christine Campbell Thompson; her first appearance in WTs Arthur J. Burks and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
192927870Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1929. Text paper tanned but supple mild edge wear closed tear to upper front cover clear tape over spine a very good copy. 27870. Octavo single issue cover art by Hugh Rankin pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Gaston Leroux Robert E. Howard "Skull-Face" part one Edmond Hamilton E. F. Benson Seabury Quinn Flavia Richardson and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
192727864Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1927. Text paper tanned but supple light edge wear closed tear to upper right front chip and closed tear to mid-right front edge brown paper tape to verso of edges of both front and back covers clear tape over spine a good to very good copy. 27864. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Ray Cummings Henry S. Whitehead Greye La Spina and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
192927673Indianapolis IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company 1929. Text paper tanned but supple mild edge wear closed tear to upper front cover with tape repair to verso showing bleed through clear tape over spine a very good copy. 27673. Octavo single issue cover art by C. C. Senf pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn S. Fowler Wright Robert E. Howard "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" - Kull Edmond Hamilton E. Hoffman Price H. P. Lovecraft reprint and others. Reference: Tymm and Ashley Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 727-736. Popular Fiction Publishing Company unknown
