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pp. 31-35. Double column. Small 4to. Original green printed wraps. PA PAMPH 20_10 BX1 = 3c.
pp. v, (4), 226, (2) + Plus engraved Frontis, Plates of scenes and large folding maps and charts. One map includes the sketch of soils, canals, etc of Lancashire. LACKS full page plate of Furness Abbey. View of Keswick Lake repeated on page 107 and 125. View of Bassenthwaite omitted. Two pages have old tape repairs with no loss. Map of the districts has small tape repair on one fold. Offsetting from Frontis on title page. Age stained and foxed. Engraved amoral bookplate of William Scott Elliot of Arkleton. 8vo. 215 mm. Original full leather binding. Boards detached. Small loss on spine. Binding worn. Hardbound. A rather poor copy of a great book. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! TRAVEL/7
8vo, 16 pages, illustrated throughout. eng
216p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Medium octavo in photo illus DJ; 216 p. illus. 25 cm ; bibliographical references. Parau Cave (Iran) ; Caves
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 196 pages. Pictorial boards. Many b&w photos and illustrations. Previous owner's name on endpaper covered by blank label.
Pages 353-402. Black and white photos. Features: Full-page photo ad for Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.'s No. 11 mill - the largest textile plant in the world; Full-page photo ad for the Polar Caves; Full-page photo of the observatory on Garrison Hill; The Month in New Hampshire; What shall we do with our railroads - consolidate or sell out - with map of New England railroads and connections?; How Dover Grew - the development of her factories; The Savings Bank Centennial - the one hundredth birthday of New Hampshire savings banks; An anthology of one poem poets; An orchard and a college education - apples from the French farm were sold to pay for education; Where the past lives still - Portsmouth - article with photos; Farmers' and Home-makers' week; A New Hampshire crusader; The high school essay contest; A kitchen of 1825 in a thriving New England town - the heart of our ancestors' house; What qualities make for success?; New Hampshire Necrology; and more. Average wear. Some external soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo. Pp. 239, 24 pp. of photos, many maps and plans in text, append. Orig. boards in dust-jacket. Very good.
Reprint. 8vo, 239 pages, illustrated, glossary. Nr fine condition hardback in nr fine condition dust jacket. 40787. eng
Pages 301-346. Black and white photos. Features: The month in New Hampshire; As the road unrolls - some impressions of an early summer motor trip - feature article with great photos; Future policies of the Republican Party - Three New Hampshire leaders analyze the situation - a revival of party loyalty wanted, A party program, a forward-looking party; Polar caves - short article with photos; The day old chick industry in New Hampshire; The Road to Lariat; Three women who lead New Hampshire club work - Mrs. Clara Fellows, Mrs. G.E. Speare and Mrs. George H. Morris; An anthology of one poem poets; Gould Hill Farm - How a fine apple orchard grew from small beginnings - article with great photos; A gold mine in Jerseys - George M. Putnam's Herd of Champions - great article with photos; New Hampshire Necrology; Great full-page photo ad for Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. showing their No. 11 mill - the largest textile manufacturing plant in the world; Full-page photo ad for the Polar Caves; and more. Average wear. External soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
72 pages. Features: Benjamin Franklin Daniels - Fighting Man!; Big Bend Treasure Hunt - Indian Caves; Grey Robe - Mysterious Benefactor of the Navajo; Radersburg, Montana - a town that split the difference; Seige of the McSween House in Lincoln; Jesse Knight - The Mormon Wizard; An early California tale of adventure; A Choctaw's Revenge - Alfred Victor hunts down the killers of his son; The 1913 Dump of Snow on Denver - Thirteen Million Tons!; Good men and bad in a famous saloon on the Santa Fe Trail, the Don Diego Hotel; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Montreal's theatrical Cirque du Soleil is taking the world by storm; The Lessons of Monteverde - Canadian funds, and grass roots initiative, provide a blueprint for the preservation of the world's rain forests; Caves of Mystery - A team of Canadians seeks adventure in - and beneath - one of China's most celebrated landscapes; A Matter of Taste - Niagara vintners confront an unsavoury past; The Illustrated Bird - A land of winged resources, Canada has attracted and produced some of the world's best avifaunal artists; Boneyard Enigma - Archaeologists in Alberta ponder the riddles of North America's oldest and largest buffalo jump. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: the Garden of Wonders at Montreal's LaFontaine Park; Tiny Chapel in the badlands near Drumheller; Saint John County Court House remarkable stairway - no posts; Stalactites in Ontario - the Bonnechere Caves; The West's First Post Office - on Winnipeg's Higgins Ave; Little Lake Manitou, Saskatchewan; Acadian heritage; Buddies on the Border - the New Brunswick/Maine border; Land of Monsters -Okanagan's Ogopogo; Little Britches Dude Ranch at Patricia, Alberta; Car Maintenance points to check. Small piece missing from lower corner of front cover. A sound copy. Book
16 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Hiking and Camping Forum; Canada's Quetico Park; San Nicolas - The Passing Island; The Golden Bird - the Yellow Warbler; Ice Caves amid Lava Beds - near Winona, Arizona; The Truth about Cloudbursts; Celia Thaxter - Poet of Nature; Birds lead Hazardous lives; Grass Bouquets; A Valiant Lance Bearer; Tracking Microcosmic Giants; Conservation - tests for hunting licenses; The Truth about the Black Bear; Duck 'Abundance'; Save Yosemite Sugar Pines; Vermin Hunts; Leopold on Waterfowl; Hercules - the Giant Sky-Figure. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Contents: Ford ad (color) inside front cover; Boeing B-29 ad; Plymouth car ad; Nice color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and family; International Trucks ad; War election proves to world America's faith in democracy - campaign hottest in years but politics stop at the borders of nation united in arms; Wehrmacht wages bitter fight to prolong war through winter - but British storm Walcheren, opening way to use of Antwerp as supply base for Allies; Photo of Red Army soldiers parading through Belgrade; One man's fight against corruption - the story behind the Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell Incident; Risque ad for Samson card tables features stripper (?) standing on table while soldiers look on with pleasure!; Heavy Going - Japs fight hard in Leyte Caves but defense lacks organization; De Gaulle's sway over France challenged by turbulent reds; Lucky Strike - nice color ad; Goodyear color centerfold ad shows the 'Rubber Railroad'; photo of soldiers outside an Italian showing of Charlie Chaplain's "The Dictator"; Photo of Greek money changer - inflation forces him to carry a literal armload of paper drachmae - with text; Mackenzie King names McNaughton to Cabinet - may avert showdown over Zombies; Jack Miner passes away - Canadian Goose man; Britain asks a helping hand to regain vital export trade - wants modified lend-lease and joint reconversion timing after victory in Europe; Kuppenheimer clothing ad - in color; Horse racing and betting popular; Homer P. Rainey booted out of the University of Texas; Brooks Atkinson's Chinese Drama; A.J. Cronin - doctor and craftsman; Great Northern Railway ad shows refrigerator cars for apples being pre-cooled with large blocks of ice; embarassing ad for Kreml Hair Tonic; Chesterfield cigarette color ad (nice) on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. 2" X 1" chip from lower corner of front cover. 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: El Dorado of the Fogs; Forbidden Territory; The Man Who Didn't Understand Pictures; The Haunted Woman; The Great Idea; The Old Gent Gets Tough; The People of the Caves; The Wooden Horsemen; When the Rain Came; Hunting the Giant Octopus; Dennis; Delayed Action; Fourteen Days. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
Stories: Canada's Radium Rush; Del Fut Bol; Floating to Freedom; Loosewallah; Into the Unknown Triangle - Part 2 of 2 - Captain F. Kingdon-Ward and Lord Cranbrook travel to Burma to explore the Upper Irrawaddy and collect rare botanical speciments - article with eight photos; Dangling in Space; Lions with a Vengeance; The Tiger that Forgot Itself; The Dingo-Trap; Cycling to Eldorado; My Tragic Honeymoon; The Keeper of the Crocodiles; What Happened in the Bat Caves; The Mountain of Gold. Average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Bumping to top of spine. ; Contents: The North Cave and courtyard; South Cave complex; Description of Plates; Chronology of South Cave Complex; Nabataean Sculpture; Derivation of the Rock-Cutting at Petra; Appendix I. Games; Appendix 2. List of Plants. 41 Plates; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Published by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Bernard Quaritch
1st edition. VG pbk. Stickers pasted down. (Nature Program). 15059. eng
The 1971 edition of the annual publication of NOTG. Each issue contains beautiful illustrations of the country and it's rreasures.This issue has feature articles on"The Caves of Greece"[pages 131-135] and "Greek Popular Art" [pages 135-143] Book
Octavo in stapled white illus wraps; 47 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. Uncommon. Numerous worthwhile b/w photos. Covers the first and second expeditions. || Caves -- Virginia. Speleology -- Virginia. Endless Caverns (Va.); Subterraneana
Light foxing to a few pages. No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with slightly marked covers and no bumping to corners. 28pp. Front pull-out map of the Cavern taken from the 1934 survey. Rear pull-out logarithmic chart of world evolution showing events through time. Both pull-outs in excellent condition.
Small guide book ro the Perama Caves near to Ioannina , Epirus. 23p. text +32p illus (b & w /col] map [Only 2 copies in WorldCat for the USA] Book
112 p. + Portrait Frontis of the Alpine Club, one gentleman with a crutch, and full page plates with original tissue guards. Front inner hinge cracked. Paper fault on margin of page 15. Old newspaper stain on pages 12 and 13. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. Tall 8vo. 230 mm. Original full gray cloth binding, soiled. Beveled edges. Front board in silver and black with designs of mountain and falls. Embossed lettering in gilt gold. Extremities bumped and worn. Presented by the author to Capt. O.C. Applegate, May 28, 1899. First edition. Steel's aim in writing this work was to provide descriptions of Mount Hood and Crater Lake. He calls the latter 'one of the grandest points of interest on earth. Here all the ingenuity of nature seems to have been exerted to the fullest capacity, to build one grand, awe-inspiring temple'. Also contains details of the formation and constitution of the Oregon Alpine Club, predecessor of the Mazamas, together with short biographies of its first three presidents. At the end is an Oregon bibliography. ACLC p. 298; NLS M500; Neate S160; Perret 4141. Scarce original edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W10
