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Features: Reprint of rare book 'Twelve Years in the Saddle for law and order on the frontiers of Texas, by Sergeant W.J.L. Sullivan, Texas Ranger; an Indian fight in Jackson Hole - the Bannock Indians; Canadian Gold on a California Reef - Pacific Mail Steamer, Brother Jonathan; The Dogie from Kickapoo Creek - John Boon Formwalt; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; The Lost Love of Jim Younger; Rocky Mountain Iron Man - Bruce Neal; Spokane's Fighting Marshal - Joel F. Warren; Tales of Tonopah, Nevada; . J. Wright Mooar and John W. Mooar put a price on the head of the buffalo! ; Slick faced and Sweet Smelling - early barbers; I saw Jim French Die - Catoosa, I.T.; Father Thought the world of Charley Russell; Old Fort Moroni; 'X' marks my room - early stagecoach travel; 'Denver has always been a good show town'; and more. Clean and unmarked (aside from 3 works underlined on page 7) with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: complete reprint of rare book "Tales of the West" by Frank W. Calkins; Elkhorn - Montana's amazing ghost town; Stolen Bullion of Indian Ridge - taken from 'Golden Treasures of the San Juan' by John B. Marshall and Temple H. Cornelius; Arizona's Toughest Ranger - Jeff Kidder; The Barker Family looks at the old days - a family moves west/'call-cattle' of the mountains; Utah's Unknown - the Newfoundland Mountains in Utah; The Goldrush follies; Battle at Ball's Ranch, Texas; The Big Old Red Ants of Cow Country - Bert Judia; Where the Gold Turned from Yellow to Green - Idaho's Clearwater country got a second chance; Wells Fargo and the Concord; Lore of Lynx Creek - stray bullet kills a community; 'Cash up' Davis' love affair - his hotel south of Spokane; Garry Owen - the pride of Fort Bliss; Cottonwood Tales of central Kansas; Thirty Days in a Rut - early motor journeys; A Raft of Trouble for the Wrong Train - the Percy train robbers of Wyoming; Lost Fort of the Cimarron; Mrs. Burton's macabre ordeal courtesy of Peter A. Vallat, French Creole born in New Orleans. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: The Life of Big Foot Wallace; The Haunted Corral; Pedro Loco; Ring-Tailed Roarer; Tales of the Branding Iron; The Honor of Old Thunder; Mad Killers of El Dorado Canyon; Blizzard Bull; When Cooper Wright Met the Mob; Medicine Woman; Last War Trail of Victorio; The Rifle That Opened the West; Lost Mine of the Klickitat; Spur Talk; Spirit Curse of the Lost Frenchman's Gold; Wild Horse Roundup; When Death Rode the Jarbidge Stage; Big Winnie; The Great Baptizing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
A very rare and wonderful find! Take a trip down memory lane with this complete issue of the (Toronto) Star Weekly from March of 1947. Includes five separate components. Magazine Section Number One (16 pages) includes: Harvest in Springtime, by Mary Brinker Post; Tall Tales of the Rattler, by J. Frank Dobie; article entitled 'Arctic Becomes Frontier in New U.S. Strategy'; Trouble in the Desert, by Chester Chatfield; Article - Swing to Nationallization - in which Emil Lengyel describes how various European countries are nationalizing their industries; Article - England's Under Ground - in which Harold A. Albert writes of English Archaeology; Article by Benjamin Waife describes Einstein's contention that two-thirds of people might be killed in nuclear war; Go-Getting Granby, Quebec - nice article with photos; Article - Argentina's 'Little Eva' Bids for More Power; 'Mart, I Know Women!', by Sven Skaar; King of the Clarinet - Barry Ulanov writes of Benny Goodman - includes photos; Moshin Ali writes about 'Opening Up a Forbidden Land' in Nepal; 'Jap Children Learn a New Way', in which Richard Hughes writes about children in the 'bomb-blackened' suburbs of Tokyo; Boxing's 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs; Article on scientific study of the sun by Charles Greeley Abbot; Article - Bombay to Cut Booze by States; Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has invented a Global Alphabet - article by Mario A. Pei; Claws and Effect, by Clifford L. Walters; plus various black and white ads. Magazine Section Number Two (12 pages) contains: Superior Moustrap, by Travis Ingham; The Sobbing Wind, by Keith Edgar; Monkey-Shines in Zooland, by William M. Mann; News article with the headline "German Divorce a Bargain at $40 - Free if Poor; Britain's Land Revolution, in which Matthew Halton of the CBC describes progress with Britain's Town and Country Planning Bill; Plant Sleuth, by Leigh Henry; Lost Lode - Third Instalment; Your Easter Bonnet, with photos; Variety in the Lenten Menu; The 'Cheesecake' Industry - How Hollywood celebrities spend much of their time posing for publicity photos - includes colour photos of Patricia White and Frances Gifford; Colour half-page cartoon entitled 'Right Around Home' by Dudley Fisher on the theme of 'We Do Our Banking - Such as it is'. The third section is 'Rimrock Red' - a Star Weekly Complete Novel (15 pages) by Lytle Shannon. Page 16 of this section is a cartoon called Vignettes of Life on the theme "Spring is Near". Next we have a twenty-page colour cartoon section - "Canada's Best" - including offerings of: Jane Arden; Thimble Theatre - Starring Popeye; Winnie Winkle; The Lone Ranger; Steve Canyon; Ella Cinders; Invisible Scarlet O'Neil; Dick Tracy;Tarzan; Blondie; Little Orphan Annie; Superman; Napoleon; Flash Gordon; Moon Mullins; Pepsi and Pete (Pepsi cartoon/ad); Mandrake the Magician; Bringing Up Father; Li'l Abner; Terry and the Pirates; Little Lulu; Abbie and Slats. Please note there are fore-edge tears to some of these cartoon pages. Finally we have the 26-page Star Weekly magazine which features a colour cover illustration by Anderson of a boy preparing cough medicine for his sick pooch in front of the pot-bellied stove. The magazine contains dozens of black and white photos on themes including: The Far East's Colorful Highways and Byways (including a most primitive scene scene of stilt fishing huts in the Kalang River near Singapore's civil airport); The Transit Twins and Trolley Triplets - the children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Macatee of Philadelphiago through 420 diapers weekly!; Life with the world's largest fishing fleet of Norway; Nice full-page colour Campbell's Soup ad; British Folk Dances; Rebirth of Monte Cassino; Colour Bovril ad. Barbara Ann Scott; Lois Maxwell; Gale Robbins; Colour centerfold ad for Rogers Bros. Silverplate; Nice colour Kellogg's All-Bran ad (with beige stain in upper corner; Michele and Mikey Morgan; Stewart Granger with son James; Grandson of Rin Tin Tin; Colour ad for Lipt Book
Features: The Poor will always be with us, eh? - but what if they turn against us?; Is there any truth in old wive's tales?; Down from the High Country - Roundup in British Columbia; Four Good Habits - fashion feature; Ed Skakie races a Mini Cooper; Nobody would let Maurice Strong save the world... Until he made a million in Canadian business, then even the UN have to give him a shot - Strong is to organize the UN's 1972 world pollution conference; and more. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Stories: murder will out; hill-billies of the Ozarks; the eaglet; parachute Wednesday; Patagonian journey; The interloper; The Arab fortune teller; heads and tales; on patrol; bushcraft; the rise of Slippery Wiley; Almanac Alibi. Front cover detached but present. Above-average wear. Book
Features: Wise old man - tales from the Amazon remote jungle vastness; A Sailor on Horseback - the adventures of a young British Seaman who tries his luck ashore in the U.S. with a logging outfit in Arkansas... but must hitch-hike 1,200 miles to get there; A Grim Story of Dope-Running on the Egyptian Border; Lunch-time Tiger at a Pathan Village; The Castaways of the Dundonald - one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - great photos; Three firemen, tired of the food and work on their tramp steamer, jump ship in South America; Ghost Town Memories of the Western States of America; Across the Kalahari Desert in motorcar by the dried-up bed of the Kuruman River - nice photos; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Railroad News - Shades of Jay Gould!; Short article and photo of the world's fastest train - the S.N.C.F. CC-7121; Tales of the Century - The 20th Century Limited - article with photos; Cover Story - The Story of Speed - America's fastest trains of 1954; Photo Section - includes great centerfold photo of a Texas & New Orleans (Southern Pacific) 4-4-0; When Steam Ruled Cajon Pass - great photos; In 1953; Nobody wanted a steam locomotive for the first time in 125 years; In Search of Steam - 2 - along an obscure branch in New Brunswick is the oldest living locomotive in Canada; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Railroad News Photos - 6 pages; Turbotrain - Canadian National's New Train - photos, specs and article; When it's Shortline time down south; Three Tales of Train Travel - diary entries during the decline and fall; Journey into the Unknown - an interview with Werner von Penncentral (by Art Buchwald); Rails Through Viet Nam - 2 - Every Viet Cong attack on it is an indirect complement to the line - photos, table, article, maps; and more. middle page loose from one staple. Average wear. Faint date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Railroad News Photos; Tales of a Ten Wheeler - the biography of Northern Pacific 1356, a Baldwin 4-6-0 that served half a century of mountain railroading - amazing photos; Of Black Upholstery and Commanding Exhaust - Cessation of Virginian (VGN) passenger service provokes warm memories of orange cars, shoebox lunches, and Teddy Roosevelt regaling the riders with tales of San Juan Hill; Illustrated article on locomotive faces, with parts identified; Steam in Indian Summer - 3 - Little Railroads in faraway places; Super steam photo section, including centerfold of a P-4a in full stride (the 3713); The Story of a Pacific - the world's greatest - K.4.s - Super article with many excellent photos; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Tales of Colorado Mining Camps; Papa's Straw Hat - a man and his mules; I knew them all - rodeo's favorite girls and favorite horses, rodeo's best and toughest men; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Justice After Dark - a popular lawmen ends up behind bars - the town of Albany; Eagle - Fifth in the series of 'Ghosts Along the Yukon'; Bows and Arrows vs. the Muzzle Loader; Who Killed Oliver Yantis?; Dissertation on the Cow Chip; John B. Townsend - farmer by day, stalker by night; Old Town - Nara Visa; Vengeance Riders of the Monte - the unique vigilante group of Camp El Monte; Monument to Hate - tombstone tells the ugly facts; Identify these old western objects; Wild Old Days!; Violence - spawn of Raw Gold - Idaho's Lemhi County; Robert W. Service - bard of the north; My Friend, Crazy Horse - W.C. Shafer. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: The lamentable loss of La Reine Des Mers - a lost load of wine; New Mexico's most ruthless murder - Martin Nelson; Granby Idol - found in the Colorado River; Death on the Desert - Skull Valley; Treasure Trove and the Law - knowing if you'll be able to keep your find; Montana was not for farmers; Tales of the Dirt Tramps - road and highway construction; Shirt-Tail Canyon, California; Interpreter for the Apaches - George Wratten; Cave-Inn-Rock on the Ohio - hunt for relics here; White Collar Versus Black Ball - steamers that were lost; Wild Old Days!; A Rockin' Good Time - Gold finding tools; Discovery of Lone Tree Pass - Major-General Grenville M. Dodge. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Long Journey of a Mormon Girl - Ann Willden Johnson; Lost Singer Sewing Machine Treasure - one of the true treasure tales of Padre Island; Tiger of the Wild Bunch - Knoxville Jail Break by Harvey Logan; Ponca City's Arcade - Homeof Instant Millionaires; Games and Schemes of Deception; Princess Angeline of Seattle - pawn of two worlds; The got back with the gold - in spite of six-toed Pete; Silver Stars - the Baseball Champions of Nevada. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
In-8, 150p. Edition originale de la traduction française de Gabrielle Godet. Avec 30 illustrations en noir dans le texte de K. Wiese. A l'état de neuf, non coupé.
Cuento con ilustraciones de Pedro Mairata.
Tomo I: "EL HIJO DE LA LAVANDERA, LOS VALIENTES, DOS CIELOS, EL RIACHUELO SOBERBIO, HISTORIA DE UNA CAJA DE CERILLAS". Tomo II : "CIENTO POR UNO, LAS TONTERÍAS DE CARLOS, LA CIGÜEÑA".
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 362 p. Orta Asya battalnâmelerinden Seyitbatal Comogu.
Millau Artières et Maury 1948, In-8 broché. 220 pages. Bon état.
La boîte à Documents, 1987. In-8 broché de 201 pages. Edition bilingue. Bon état.
60 p. 15 x 20 cm. Hardcover Very good condition Reproduction of the 1st ed. published in 1849.
Mm 175x250 Prima edizione - Volume rilegato in tela con sovraccoperta editoriale illustrata a colori, 186 pagine con tavole in nero non comprese nel testo. Minimi segni di usura e bruniture alla sovraccoperta, nel complesso ottima copia. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Book is in excellent condition with Very light shelf wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 92 pages, local history of Rosalyn , Washington.
206p. Color frontis. Woodcut style illustrations by Frank Dobias. 8vo. Original orange full cloth binding. The full page illustrations are indeed handsome. They accompany wonderful folk tales from Roumania, Wales, Poland, Bulgaria, Transylvania, etc. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
