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Cover photo of the Mont Clare Theatre (in Chicago?). Contents: A Swinging Weekend in San Francisco - Oakland with George Wright and Don Baker. Restored Robert Morton given trial run in the San Diego Fox Theatre. The Austin Premier Quadruplex - the story of the revival of the ultimate system of player organ roll manufacturer; Richard (Dick) Leibert Takes L.A. "Again!". Ohio Valley Chapter presents... Gaylord Carter at the RKO Albee Theatre; Home Organ Festival Shows off Top Electronic Organs. Allegro Vigoroso, by J.S. Zamecnik, arranged by Harry J. Jenkins - sheet music plus write-up. Theatre Organ, Oriental Style - Floyd Bunt reports on organs he viewed and heard in Asia. Where the Bartons Were, Part 4 - Dan Barton shares his personally compiled list of Barton organ installations. California gains its own "Pizza Joint" - Steve and Shirley Barden. Nuggets from the Golden Days. Classified ads. Chapter news. Disc Squeals. Nice Rodgers Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
311 pages including index. "A vivid history of the Chinese Communist base areas during the war years.... Suggests that the Yenan experience gave the later rulers of China a unique education in, and model for, government." - Foreign Affairs. "A well-documented, erudite, and readable study." - Library Journal. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part I of the First True Account of the Exploits of the World's Most Noted Outlaws, by Emmett Dalton, the only survivor of the "Dalton Gang" - article with photos and great cover illustration; Wonders of the Teleferica - an interesting account of the remarkable aerial lines/cableways used by the Italians to transport men, guns, and provisions in the high Alps - article with many photos; The Youngest Soldier in the French Army - photo of 11-year-old Charles Meux of the French Army; Tales of the Service - Part I - A Night in a Vat; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part II - Eva J. Jordan, F.R.G.S. travelled with her husband for four-thousand miles through the great Equatorial Forest of Central Africa, becoming the first woman to penetrate this area - article with photos; A Night of Terror - an associate of Izaak Walton sinks into quicksand while fishing; Buried in a Snowdrift - a mining engineer is caught in an avalanche in the Andes; "Hooshta!" - the Tragedy of an Australian camel race - a stirring story from the West Australian goldfields; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part I - Fanny and William Workman describe their Himalayan mountaineering exploits - article with map and great photos; Thrice Through the Jaws of Death - Sergeant J. Harte of the Inland Water Transport relates hair-breadth escapes at sea and on land; How We Built the Bridge - War story related by a corporal of the canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps; Crossing the Canal - A despatch orderly attempts to cross the Suez Canal at night; Some Adventures of a Newspaper Woman - Marie Harrison provides a graphic and thrilling account of her startling adventures in search of 'copy'; The Railway Conquest of the Bay - a photo-illustrated account of the building of the Hudson Bay Railway; A Happy Family - humorous account of the antics of a number of strange pets belonging to a party of colonials in Singapore; A Modern Grace Darling - Miss Ella Trout rescues a sailor from a torpedoed ship off the coast of Devon - article with nice photos of Miss Trout; Photo of a group of Solomon Islands head-hunters reading The Wide World Magazine; Interesting four-page illustrated stock offering by Guaranteed Tractors, Inc., Edmund G. Soward, President; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 4-88, 9-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
91 pages plus many pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: A detailed narrative of General Korniloff's 300 mile Escape from the Austrians back to the Russian lines; Some Exciting Experiences with Rhinos, by J.A. Jordan - with photos; Hindengerg's Death Trap - a terrible tragedy befalls the Russian armies amid the Masurian Lakes; The Pygmy People of Mount Marviveles in the Phillipines - the Negritos, or "little Negroes" - with photos; The Vengeance of Eugene Ristori - The Five-Year Story of a Corsican Murder Vendetta which ends in Panama; The House of the Chained Bear - a night of terror in the wilds of Transcaucasia; On the Borders of Tibit - Part 2, by Reginald Farrer, with nice photos; The Three Scarlet Feathers - the terrible experience of a white man who got into the black books of Voodoo people in Hayti (Haiti); A Flying Man in South Africa - Part 3 of John G. Barron's adventures - illustrated; My Experiences as a "Wild Girl" - Carl L. Thompson of Seattle and his strange job; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - Part 4 - E.W. Hawkes' adventures, with great Eskimo photos; The Snake-Charmer's Vengeance - Alexander Feely recounts a circus tale; Our Catch - an extract from the diary of a Lieutenant of Alpine Chasseurs which describes how six Alpine Chasseurs bluffed three hundred Huns, with eight officers, into surrendering without a fight. Photo of Shrovetide Football at Ashbourne in Derbyshire. Harris-Goar Jewelry ad on back cover. Nice ad for Baseball Magazine Co. Great full-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. Bit of writing atop front cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: Through Spain in Disguise - Part I of the story of an odd wager, by the Countess Guerrini Malmignati; The Tiger-Man of the Whynooche - locals of Chehalis and Mason counties in Washington state feared this killer; The Ghost of Ozwatini - a strange story from Natal; "Quarrelsome Mac" - a nautical story; The "Hell-On-Earth" Legion - five years with the French Foreign Legion; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Our experiment in orange-growing (with wonderful photos) - part II; Nature's Nightmares - ugly animals; Nurse Warburton's Ordeal - she became lost while tramping from Hope to Princeton, British Columbia; Hunting the Australian Buffalo - article with super photos; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" - Part III of a trip from Shanghai to Copenhagen in a forty-foot yacht; Trial by Jury - an awkward trial in India; Tuk-Took - a little Eskimo girl, her step-mother, and her dog - with nice photos; A Dead Man's Diary - an unknown white man perishes in the African wilds, but leaves his diary; The Mystery of "Dutch Henry" who was wanted "dead or alive" by two governments; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features include: The Donkey - A humble donkey co-operates to bring about the discomfiture of sundry Arab thieves; It Pays to Advertise - The Amazing result of the nefarious activities of a rascally 'wild-cat' company promoter and an unscrupulous newspaper reporter in Canada; Mr. Zaru - story from a ship; Into the Unknown - exploratino work in Tanganyika; Farm Life in South Africa - intended for aspiring British immigrants to South Africa; Through the Iron Curtain - an ambitious motor-cycle voyage through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey; Beyond the Barrier - Extraordinary incidents related by a famous stage magician, Jasper Maskelyne; A Matter of Boundaries - an amusing tale of a tribal land-dispute in Nigeria; The Little Gold Disc - A veteran seafarer's account of a remarkable experience on the China Coast; The Tiger That Thought; The Red Lacquer Pagoda; The Ship That Became a House; Guarding New Zealand's Forests - Illustrated in black and white. Chips from and tears to base of spine else average wear. Two inch opening at top of back cover. Magazine
Pages 90-176 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: The Slacker - a young Californian deserts the Army and his lady to flee to Mexico where great misery follows, but he eventually atones; The Mysterious Witch Doctors of Siberia - disguised as a Russian peasant, the author penetrated into little-known Siberia to investigate the uncanny doings of the native Shamans - article with photos; My Island of Dreams - Part II - the adventures of Amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings (with photos); Through Central America on Horseback - Part V - riding through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - story with photos of earthquake damage in Guatemala City; Mountain Mysteries - the strange story of Mr. Crump who was lost for 18 days in the Lakeland crags, plus other cases of mysterious disappearances; Cheating Death - John Edwin Hogg recounts his most harrowing experience; A Bear-Hunt in Lousiana - interesting and successful hunt in the Louisiana Marsh - with photos; My Burglar - a Singapore encounter with a Chinese burglar, stripped naked and greased from head to foot, with fish-hooks in his pigtail and a double-edged sword between his teeth; The Rajah's Lift - the tragic story of a home-made hydraulic lift; The New Moon - information in a diary saves the lives of two men; A Man's Luck - Part III of Hjalmar Hutzebeck's story of life and love in the Far North; Photo and brief write-up of the world's most northerly police post; Photo of the smallest business house in the world in Duncan, Oklahoma; 'House of Gold' built by a wealthy miner in the California's Mojave Desert; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Back cover almost loose. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Dead Man's Diary - Dmitri Garkin's body - and his diary - were discovered in the summer of 1913 on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean; Three Thousand Miles On A Raft - an adventurous voyage down the Amazon from Central Ecuador to Northern Brazil; A Railway Race With Robbers - A Sheriff pursues three desperate bank robbers in New York State; The Mutiny of the "Ziba" - part II - Captain John Hart relates how he was eventually able to escape and see justice brought to the murderers; The Land of the North Wind - P.H. Godsell describes his experiences in Keewatin; A Christmas Crime - story from the Australian back-blocks; The Great Cook Problem - the amusing story of how a resourceful woman tackled one part of the "Yellow Peril" in Nevada's "Bean House"; Tight Corners - part I - E.Torday recounts some of his African big game hunting adventures; "Smut" (short story about a queer pet and some of his doings); The Tree Spirit (short story from the area near Singapore); Our Travels in Safari-Land - part II of Edith Cecil-Porch and her journey through the wilds of British East Africa travelling with a wagon pulled by six oxen; Cupid and the "Wireless" - Sidney Lehre recounts a telegraphic affair while he was in the wireless service; Wonderful one-page photo of "An Eastern Venice", the town of Brunei, Borneo, once the headquarters of the dreaded Borneo pirates. Photo of a Kikuyu warrior buying a wife, paying with goats. pp. 8 [ads], 197-292, 9-32 [ads]. Tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
24 pages. Features: WSP (U.S.) Conference of 1969; The Kennedy Family Passion Play; That Reformer Fellow, President Nixon; That High Cost of Living; "Reparations" Vs. World Socialism; N.D.P. Shell Game - Ed Schreyer assumes leadership of the Manitoba N.D.P.; Historic Words Live Long After Tragedy - "Bill" Pritchard, one of eight men tried in connection with the famous Winnipeg general strike of 1919, speaks again; Those Halls of Montezuma - looking back on Aztec history, and myths which surround it; Marx and the American Civil War; Do Loose Lips Sink Ships? - fascinating article claims German U-boats were had fore-knowledge of targets by gleaning information from European reinsurance companies who underwrote the risk of ocean shipments; Passing of Jeni "Chubbi" Kligman; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
22 pages. Features: Alice in Italy; The "Free" Press; Atrocity by American Troops in Vietnam; Capital; The Black Panther Party; Bougainville Island - Warnings from Australia; Review of Ferdinand Lundberg's "The Rich and the Super Rich"; Drugs, Plasma and Profits; The Scientists Hear About Socialism; Response to Wayne S. Huff, of Victoria, B.C..; The Defrosting of Rip Van Blow. Average wear. Unmarked. Short taped repair to fore-edge of back cover, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
22 pages. Features: War on Poverty; Modern Olympics; Devaluation and the Workers; Resurgent Japan; ATHIESTS and athiests; American Politics; Introducing new radio series; Smog; "Studied" Poverty. Average wear. Unmarked. Please note: Half of back cover is missing, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
22 pages. Features: The Vietnam Protest Movement; The Evolution of German Social Democracy - from 'Socialist' Party to Capitalist Party; Our Declaration of Principles; Land of the Long White Cloud - Britain shrugs off New Zealand; Political Kickbacks in Canada - Ed Schreyer's loose lips; Marx on "Terrorism & Censorship"; The DeLeonist Splinter Parties; Barricades in Northern Ireland. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
22 pages. Features: To ABM or Not to ABM; A Socialist on the Kibbutz; Rumpus on the Campus - student rebellions; Mideast Turmoil; Behind the Building of the Panama Canal; Production for Use; The Shrike - and the 'Social Shrike'; John Braine - "Muddle Conservatire"; and more. Average wear. Bit of soiling to page 3. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
161 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Lane, a born Ulsterman, a burgher of the South African Republic but still loyal to the British cause, a storekeeper in the hamlet of Hartbeesfontein in the Western Transvaal, faced dire penalties if he did not go to war with his commando. Refusing to bear arms against his mother country, he was placed in charge of the ammunition in the main laager of General Piet Cronje, Deputy Commandant General of the Republic. Not only was he opposed to Kruger and Krugerism but he was incensed at being commandeered. He criticizes much of what he sees and hears about Cronje. This viewpoint makes the work unique and unmatched by any other diarist in the camps of the Boers." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's ink stamp atop front free endpaper, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No diary entries. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. Unpaginated. pp. Full of colour photographs and paintings of vintage and classic cars. With small spaces for diary entries for every day of the year, actual day names not included so could be used for any year.
Volume successivamente rilegato raccogliente il volume 20° anno 1956 del "The University of Missouri Studies". Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Coperta rigida in mezza tela ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini e leggere tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti. Pagine fruibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo. Occasionali tavole in nero fuori testo. Segno a penna ed a matita al frontespizio. Lingua inglese. Numerazione delle pagine in più riprese. USATO
Volume successivamente rilegato raccogliente il volume XVIII anno 1943 del "The University of Missouri Studies". Pagine fruibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo; segno a penna ed a matita al frontespizio. Coperta rigida in mezza tela ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini e leggere tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti. Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Lingua inglese. Numerazione delle pagine in più riprese. USATO
Volume successivamente rilegato raccogliente il volume XV anno 1940 del "The University of Missouri Studies". Lingua inglese. Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Coperta rigida in mezza tela ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini, leggere tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti ed etichetta precedente alla cuffia inferiore del dorso. Pagine fruibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo in particolare ai tagli e segno a matita al frontespizio. Numerazione delle pagine in più riprese. USATO
Volume successivamente rilegato raccogliente il volume XI anno 1936 del "The University of Missouri Studies". Pagine fruibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo; segni a matita al frontespizio. Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Lingua inglese. Coperta rigida in mezza tela ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini e leggere tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti. Numerazione delle pagine in più riprese. USATO
Volume successivamente rilegato raccogliente il volume III serie "social science" anno 1920 del "The University of Missouri Studies". Coperta rigida in mezza tela ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini e leggere tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti. Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Pagine fruibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo; segno a penna ed a matita al frontespizio. Numerazione delle pagine in più riprese. USATO
Volume successivamente rilegato raccogliente il volume II serie "science" anno 1907 del "The University of Missouri Studies". Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Coperta rigida in mezza tela ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini e leggere tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti. Pagine fruibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo. Numerazione delle pagine in più riprese. USATO
Volume successivamente rilegato raccogliente il volume I anno 1926 del "The University of Missouri Studies". Coperta rigida in mezza tela ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini e leggere tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti. Pagine fruibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo e segni a matita al frontespizio. Lingua inglese. Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Numerazione delle pagine in più riprese. USATO
Volume successivamente rilegato raccogliente il volume I serie "social science" anno 1905 del "The University of Missouri Studies"; lingua inglese. Il volume potrebbe contenere timbri ed etichette dell'Istituto Veneto, regolarmente acquisito dalla nostra libreria. Coperta rigida in mezza tela ingiallita dal tempo presentante segni di usura da scaffale ai margini e leggere tracce di usura da sfregamento ai piatti. Pagine fruibili anche se ingiallite dal tempo e sporadicamente fiorite ai primi ed agli ultimi fogli. Numerazione delle pagine in più riprese. USATO
64 pages. Contents: Truth easier to find than the lie which was told; Delegates to 104th ITU convention; Photo progress report - new ITU Administration Building; Delegates to participate in important discussions; Compulsory arbitration ever-increasing danger; Trend toward monopolistic press continues unabated; ITU convention will again reflect union's democracy; Two recordings made of convention proceedings; Myth of immensely wealthy labor unions shattered; Training center topics; Home news and notes; Report of Board of Electors; Official matters; Financial section; Officer's reports (Annual) - Supplement; plus many ads, including a nice ad for Cincinnati's Sheraton-Gibson hotel on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Front cover illustration of the red flag at the gate of the Tsar's Palace. Abundantly illustrated in black and white with excellent contemporary photos. Contents: Chapter CXCVI - The Adbication of the Tsar... Russia in 1916, The Stuermer Premiership, Growth of Discontent, M. Protopopoff as Minister of the Interior, Meaning and history of the autocracy, character of the Tsar, why the revolution failed in 1905-7, The Empress Alexandra, Forces behind the throne, Rasputin, His Murder, Economic Chaos in Russia, Responsibility of M. Protopopoff, The Revolution, March 1917, Police Provocation, Diary of Events in Petrograd, Provisional Government under Prince Lvoff, The Duma, Recognition of the new government by the Allies. Very important history. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
