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Illustration Features: Miss D. Truscott, of St. Veep, Cornwall; The Marvel of Three Years - article by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; King George visits Vimy where Canada won glory; Fragments of fighting from four fronts; One the Marne Battlefield - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Italy sweeps Austria from the Adriatic Sea; Canadians enter Avion through fire and blood; Using bullet-proof shields; Ready for all emergencies afloat; The Long Arm of the Navy - it's wonderful to work in the seven seas (article by Percival Hislam); Miss Matilda of 'The Scrubbs' - article by Harold Ashton; Allied Artillery of Assault - 'Tanks' in action; Greece girds on her sword for war; Keeping Fit in the Navy - the Friendsly boxing bout; The Seaforth Highlanders - article with photo of officers. Above-average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
Features: Problems that must be solved (story); Hun Energy Expressed in High Explosives; Courtesy and Carefulness Diversely Displayed; Camouflage and contrasts from Flanders to Alsace; Democracy Tests Autocracy with Terms of Peace; Captain Sword and Captain Pen at Brest Litovsk; War in the Air from Home to the Holy Land; Some Sidelights on the Temperament of the Slav (story); Service merciful and military 'mid wintry snow; Tracking the Slinking Jackals of the Sea; Some Episodes in the story of the Seaplane Service (story); Monster Machines that Battle in the Blue; Persistent Pursuit of the Turk in Palestine; Men of the East Render Ready help to the west; How France Faced Hun Spies (story); Titanic feat of Italian Seamen at Trieste; R.G.A. Officer Cadets at a Training School; Pierrots and Pantomime Players from France. The Welsh Guards (story). Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
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
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Africa's Mystery Beasts - Remarkable stories concerning what may be the progeny of prehistoric monsters, several of which appear to be formidable opponents for any hunter; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part I - Emil Trinkler had exceptional opportunities for travelling in untrodden regions, with photos; The Dancing Dead - A veteran gold-seeker's account of a weird and terrifying experience that befell a party of prospectors in New Guinea, with photo of witch-doctor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part II; "King Kauri" - The Kauri tree is to New Zealand what the oak is to England - article with photos; The Two Sheriffs - A strange murder situation is encountered by a veteran cow-puncher in the wilds of Montana; My Wild Boar - A newcomer to India is warned not to shoot wild pig; "Next Time" - An amusing story from the Yukon country; Lachmee's Vow - A tiger tale from Hindustan; The Sacred White Crow of Yaunghwe - brief article with two photos; The Great Boulder Murder Case - The story of one of the most remarkable murder mysteries in the annals of Australia, with photo and map; Photo of salt prospecting in Cheshire; "Bushman's Luck" - A remarkable story from New Zealand; Out of the Deep - The strange story of a famous schooner that sank off Sable Island, the "graveyard of the Atlantic," to reappear in most dramatic circumstances; Sequel to the "Lost Cabin" Mine Mystery - New information regarding this story which appeared in the September, 1920 issue; Trailing the Beaver-Poachers - Game law enforcer Frank Mossman relates some of his experiences with illegal trappers in the North-west, who often do not hesitate to shoot - with photos; "Baldy Red's" Come-Back - A bootlegger smuggles illicit whisky into the forbidden Northland of Canada. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Lower half of backstrip missing. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
Unpaginated. Based upon the Walt Disney motion picture "The Sword in the Stone." Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
134 pages. Cover photo of funnels of the SS "United States", queen of the transatlantic carriers; Nice color ad for a baby blue 1953 Cadillac; Fine color ad for a green 1953 Chrysler Imperal; Wedding photos of the Earl of Dalkeith to Jane McNeill, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Stanley Briggin and James Wadsworth Syminton with the former Sylvia Caroline Schlapp; Color-photo ad for the 1953 Ford Lincoln features dark teale two-door on city street; Nice Packard car ad features red two-door; Photos of 'Blaze Tapering" (hair singeing) as performed by D.J. Brown who owns a salon on New York's East Side; Amazing one-page color photo of General Motors' 'dream car' Le Sabre two-door convertible (silver) accompanies a great photo-illustrated article on futuristic North American car designs; Illustrated article on highway design by Robert Moses; Great color photo of Mrs. Edward C. Bridgman , Jr. fashionably dressed in yellow with yellow locomotive speeding behind her; Photo feature on the Wayzata, Minnesota home of Mr. and Mrs. George Halpin; Article on tourists taking their cars to Europe for driving trips; Many gorgeous pages of photo fashion ads in color and black and white; The Annual Tour of the Metropolitan Opera; Fashion photos upon a cruise ship; Two pages of photos from the Inauguration Ball for President Dwight Eisenhower; Beautiful fashion photos of Mrs. Bruce Thayer Benepe (the former Ruth Fillebrown of Boston and Newport), Mrs. John Livingston Beers (former Jane Gilbert of New York and Westport), Mrs. John H. Scott-Paine of Greenwich, Ann Reinicke, Bettina Thayer, Mrs. Hubert Faure, and Barbara Cavanagh; Beautiful fur fashion photos modelled by Catherine Manning Hannon, Mrs. Clayton Winship Johnson, and Mrs. Dino Yannopoulos; United States Lines ad includes photos of Sir Colin and Lady Anderson, Mrs. Casimir de Rham, Sir Shane Leslie, Mrs. Vincent Astor, and Mr. and Mrs. Staunton Williams; Six photos of the Las Madrinas Debutante Ball in Los Angeles include Charles Getchell and Alan Jordon with escorts, Adrienne Hepburn, Dorothy Lucile Donath, Judith Noyes Roach, Sally Ann Smith with Geroald Saltonstall Silsbee, Gretchen Helene Dockweiler, Richard Dockweiler Brady, David V. Homme, Barbara von Briesen, Dr. Hans van briesen, Marie Casey, Thomas Ingersoll, William Duffy Keller and Palmer Casey; Color Nash car ad (red) features photo of etiquette author Amy Vanderbilt; Mens fashion photo includes John Cameron Swayze and William Raiser; several page of high-end real estate ads; Color-photo Mary Grey hosiery ad inside back cover features sexy Seniorita in red dress with fan. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Lure of the Glittering Phantom; You Can Find Lost Treasure; Lost Arizona Mines; Outlaw Loot in Iron Boxes; Lola Mentez - The Spider Lady; The Sword and the Pen; The Love that Killed; Lord Ogilvie - Imperious Maverick; Pontiac - Great Leader of the Ottawas; Kickapoo Joy Juice; Frontier Bookstore. Magazine
Features: The Return of Cleovaro Chavez; Mystery of Standing Rock - buried forever; "I never knew an echols who was worth a damn" - spoken by Mr. Rodeo himself - Ed Echols; The Search for John Waldron; They Hanged Buffalo Joe North; Pirate Treasure on the Osos - looters wait for disabled schooners like coyotes; Cowboy Roy Belyeu Died in the Rain; Was it Ann Young's Yellow Rose? - Jerry Chamberlain; A man with a Sword in his side - Ambrose Bierce; Pike's Statue has been a bust! - statue of Lt. Zebulon Pike unveiled in Colorado Springs; The Great Blizzard of 1889 - it caught the southwest unprepared; Ball One on the Frontier - early baseball in the old west!. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Final novel of the 'Sword of Honour' trilogy, with dustwrapper artwork by Biro.
168 pages. Features: Vogue's Point of View - Time and Beauty; The Impact of Modern Beauty - colour, dash - super-model Karen Graham leads the way; Dressing to size, dressing to type - Karen Graham in small-scaled separates and a narrow sweater-dress for day - the little minks - the blouson, the wrap-and-tie, sweater-dressing at night, the small big-evening dress with bareness and glitter; Lives of a Blonde - Dina Merrill; The New Ease in Fur - day and night - the cardigan jacket in sable, blond fox. The wrap-and-tie in fisher, sealskin, white mink - black mink and the little black dress at night; New Chanel dazzle - the black sequin pants suit; The super-allure of men's robes made for women - and the black nightdress; Caring for famous faces - east and west; Volcanic ashes for your hair - down to earth - sea salt for your bath; Karen Graham's 25-minute hair and makeup routine; Blondness - now is the moment and it's easier than ever; Have you a minute? - how to make every second work for you, your figure, your face, your hair; Chanel #19 comes to town; What a dermatologist can do for your looks; Exercise - what you don't know can hurt you; Karen Graham - the private life of a public beauty; Dear Beauty Business - stop telling me the truth and let me buy a dream; An interview with Marilyn Durham; The California House of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne; Silver's new love-light - ivory; Vogue Horoscope - John Lennon, by Maria Elise Crummere; Vogue Travel - Haiti; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Back cover missing. A worthy reference copy of this special Karen Graham issue. Book
