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Features: Polaroid's Top-Secret Pocket Camera; Should Your Next Boat be a Submarine?; 1971 Cars - how much better will they be?; California's new Ontario Moter Speedway; Has the AMC Gremlin Lost its Tail?; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. School stamp and address label on front cover. Few school stamps to contents. Book
176 pages. Features: the service sector of the US economy; the ground substance of the living cell; the eruptions of Mount St. Helens; The Milky Way galaxy; Submarine pollination; anorthoscopic perception; the biochemistry of resistance to malaria; Newton's discovery of gravity; and more. Nostalgic colour photo ads. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Unicorn that Goes to Sea; What is Sea Level; the Successful Submarine that Failed; Protection from Shark Bite - a suit of mail; Catalina's life-saving marine laboratory; Up from the deep; Waikiki roughwater swim; The Australian Institute of Marine Science; the Birds of Midway Islands; Life in a Boat Channel. Sound copy. Book
96 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima - Surveyed by the Expedition to the Brazilian Guayana from August 1924 to June 1925, by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice; Gravity Survey by Submarine via Panama to Java; Flights North of Point Barrow - an extract from the report on the Detroit News-Wilkins Expedition of 1927 ; Notes on Arctic Flying - communicated to the society by Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Recent Sheets of the One-in-a-Million Map of he American Geographical Society; Colonel Fawcett's Expedition in Matto Grosso; Monumenta Cartographica - Review. Foldout map inside back cover entitled "Survey of the Lower Rio Negro and the Rio Branco between Manaos and Vista Alegre". University library bar code on first advertising page, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Small piece missing from lower corner of back cover. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cover portrait of Admiral Sir David Beatty, Commander-In-Chief of the Grand Fleet, watching the surrender of the German High Sea Fleet from his flagship the Queen Elizabeth. Chapter CCLXXXVII - The Surpassing Triumph of the British Navy - Failure of Germany's Submarine War and Surrender of her High Sea Fleet. Many great black and white photos. Super full-page photographic portrait of Admiral Beatty and Flag-Captain Chatfield, watching the surrender of the German Fleet. Includes photo of Admiral Beatty's historic message to the Admiralty announcing "the bloodless, most glorious triumph of the British Navy, the surrender of the seventy units of the German High Sea Fleet at the appointed rendezvous in the North Sea on November 21st, 1918, in obedience with the armistice terms." Many other historic photos. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
Cover portrait of Lieut.-General Sir W.R. Birdwood, K.C.S.I., D.S.O., etc., Commanding the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps on Gallipoli. This issue begins with the conclusion of the chapter entitled "The Heroic Struggle on Gallipoli Peninsula." Dozens of interesting photos including full-page shot of British Submarine E15 in the Hands of the Turks. Centerfold features photos of: Camels enroute to Gallipoli via Boat; Wounded soldiers being conveyed via ship at the Dardanelles; Britain's great battleship, the Queen Elizabeth; 'L' Beach, Gallipoli, the landing place of the 2nd Royal Fusiliers. Please note: Photogravure of the Landing at Seddul Bahr not included. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
Features: What really happened at Kut (article); Winter photos from the western front; Photos of massive guns in France; Cairns to the memory of Verdun; Why were we misled? - an article to shed some light upon the corruption and ineptitude in Russia; French allies who aided in Allenby's advance; Article - Meeting the Spy Menace - how Britain's counter-espionage was successfully carried out; Help for homeless Hun victims; Airplane caught in mast of wireless station!; article - dealing with the U-Boat - some wonderful episodes in the hunting of the Submarine Hun; Photo of Col. J.H. Patterson, D.S.O. inspecting the Jewish Battalion; glimpses of some warships in the American Navy; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
Feature Photos: An American Submarine Chaser; Hustling the Hun on the Hindenburg Line; Why Peaceful America Declared for War (one page article); America joins the champions of freedom; Horse, Foot and Artillery of the U.S. Army; The War Against Piracy; Typical Western Fighting Ships; Devastation - one page article by Max Pemberton; British Soldiers making friends in villages they free from Prussian Terror; Ousting the Turk from the Holy Land - article; With Red Crescent through Arabia and Syria; The Middlesex Regiment - article. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
Illustration depicting Ex-Kaiser William in Holland, living in fear of justice. Photogravure supplement shows 8 photos with subjects including: Allied representatives at the historic conference at 10 Downing St., London on Dec 2 and 3, 1918, Beaten Huns straggling home, German evacuation from Belgium, the surrendered German fleet at Scapa Flow, French Armny of liberation entering Strasbourg and U Boat 64 up the Thames, lying off the House of Parliament, with the victorious White Ensign above the defeated flag of Germany. London's Great Aerial Victory - Mysterious Menace which broke the Nerve of Hun Flyers (article). British advance to keep watch on the Rhine - 2 photos. 5 photos from Spa. 5 photos under the caption 'Under the Red Flag in Republican Berlin". 4 photos of submarine sailors. Q Boat v. U Boats - 6 photos of mystery ship in the Thames. In my native land set free - by Emile Cammaerts. The Peace Bird on the Wing, by Hamilton Fyfe. Signs and Symbols of the Central Empire's Collapse - 5 photos. Photos of Giant Austrian aeroplane brought down by a british pilot on the Italian front. Illustration of British from Ruhleben Camp in Berlin securing souvenir nails from the colossal Hindenburg Statue. From 'COG' to Partnership - article by Basil Clarke. Two Photos of Germany Deciding Her Destiny - a great crowd outside the Reichstag and the first sitting of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council in the Reichstag. The Hun as Uriah Heep, by Frederic William Wile. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
Demobilisation - Cover illustration of a faithful charger being sold while its British officer looks on. Illustration of Woodrow Wilson, President Poincare, and Mr. Lloyd George at the opening of the Peace Conference. Photo: French Arms Beyond the Rhine. Illustrations of 'Prussia's Arrogance in 1871'. Air Trips to Paris and Back in Four Hours - 4 photos of 'Airco' machines. British keep guard on the Bridge at Cologne - 4 great photos. "To the Rhine!" - Retribution after Fifty Years, 3 photos. Storm and Fog Claim Ships that War had Spared - 6 photos. Photo of the salved French submarine Curie. Problems of the Peace Conference - by Sir Sidney Low. A United States of Germany? - by F.W. Wile. Imperial Guile - What the Camera Saw at Spa. Photo of Berlin protest march against Bolshevism. Photo of Rodin's sculpture of Eve being exhumed from her grave in a garden in Doai where she was hidden from the Germans. Welcoming home America's Navy - 3 photos. Airship and Aeroplane Raids over Great Britain, 1914-18 - chart and map. Channel Train-Ferry and its new 'Mystery' port - 4 photos including the 'Dazzle'. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated with age. Still a worthy copy. Book
Cover illustration entitled 'The Happy End'. Large photo taken on-board a British dirigible. The story that can never be told, by Lovat Fraser. Coastal Motor-Boats Cutting Their Arrowy Way - two great photos of the Auxiliary Patrol Service. Photos in Belgium Before the Enemy was Expelled. With the Kaiser in Bruges - Hun Camera Records (6 photos). Turey's Waning Prestige in Europe and in Asia - 3 photos. Maintaining Law and Order in Occupied Lands - 5 photos. 'Russia, The Unexplainable' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. Photo of the arrival of President Poincare at the opening of the conference to establish a League of Nations. Photos of French Bridge-Builders at work on the Rhine. Photos of large German interned submarines at Cherbourg, including the Deutschland. Full-page photographic portrait of Lord Roberts, who warned his countrymen of the German menace - accompanied by article by Coulson Kerrnahan. 'Red' Victims of Chaos in the Prussian Capital - 7 photos. Ebert Beats Extremists in Barricaded Berlin - 6 photos. Speeding up the Surrender of Hun Submarines - 6 photos. Two photos of the Italian Caproni Triplane. First photograph permitted of the 'M1', a submersible monitor which carried a 12 inch gun. Three photos of the newly revealed 'K' submarine, the largest craft of the kind produced by any nation. Britain as Queen of the Air - How we outbuilt and outfought the Teuton (article). Preparing the Soil for the Harveset of Peace. Few drops of soiling. Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated with age. A sound copy. Book
Features: Galleon Gold - Lieut. Harry E. Rieseberg is continually drawn to the silver shoals off the Bahamas to search for underwater treasure; Trapped by the Bor Herd of Elephants; The Mowha Maneater - a tiger story in the Indian jungles; We Chose Danger - an adventure of Frank Illingworth in troubled Morocco; Badboy of the Fisheries - the common seal; H.M.S. Thule Intercepts - an intensely dramatic story of a submarine at war as told by its Commander, Alastair Mars, D.S.O., D.S.C. and Bar; Volcanic Island - "I Know an Island"; Swallowed by the Jungle - the conclusion of "Manhunt in Green Hell", a story from the French Guiana jungle; Iceland Pony Race; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Chip from spine. Sound copy. Book
Features: Jungle Man-Hunters - horse-mounted frontiersmen of Ecuador - photos; The Secret Submarine Agent - describes the author's meeting with "Storsand," a Scandinavian inventor who devised a curious one-man diving bell; Terror by Night - Man-Leopard killings in Nigeria (part I); Vagabond in Corsica - a tramp through the interior of Corsica - photos; The Dope-Runners - illegal drug traffic in South Africa; Diving for Crocodiles - at the Tanganyila-Nyasaland border; The "Mulga Wire" Mystery; The "Football Wallahs" - an amusing story from India of how a British soldier made friends; My Friend Sung Li - the companion of an ex-sailor; Beware of Elephants - encounters with elephants on the Queen's Highway; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: West to Adventure - the life of Arthur 'Jack' Letheby in Western North America (Part I); Fear at First Sight - man-eater danger in Africa; Introduction to Murder - Captain Philip Chambers' account of multiple-murder in Casablanca; Besieged by Sea Snakes - the horrifying encounter of an Ecuadoran fisherman; The Devil Follows the Net - The early story of the North Sea fishing grounds - sudden wealth, and sudden death; Karmuk's Prophecy - an Eskimo's experiences with polar bears in the Far North; Mangaia Trader - Part XI of "I Know and Island" - Rarotonga, main island of the Cook Islands; Bridal-Cake Sentinel - the unusually-shaped Guardian of the English Channel; Big City Leopard Hunt - Oklahoma City, 1950; Snatched from the Orient - adventure of the submarine Thule in the Singapore Strait, by Alastair Mars; Mystery of the Vanished Herds - Przewalski's Mongolian wild horses; Jungle Honeymoon; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. Book
Features: The Ivory Poachers of Tanganyika; "They're Mustering up North" - a cattle round-up in Northern Australia; My Panther Hunt - a greenhorn's first big-game hunt in India; Japanese Sacred Horse - at Miyajima, the famous 'Shrine Island'; House of Terror - Queer happenings in Malaya; The Secret Submarine - Curacao, chief island of the Dutch West Indies; The Handyman - a dramatic story of the pioneer days of flying in Canada's Far North; The Walkabout Bird - The Australian Emu; When the Cyclone Struck - an epic exploit performed by a Torres Straits islander, a diver on board a pearling-lugger; All in the Game - a gold-seeking tale from Nigeria; An Arctic London - an abandoned quarry-camp on Spitzbergen; Island Paradise - the island of Car Nicobar; Where East is West - missing his ship in the Panama Canal, the author tramps to another port only to undergo a nightmare; Binding intact. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Twenty fathoms down - when things went wrong in a submarine; Diamond cut diamond - a story for girls; The Last Cruise of the Panther - III; Catherine's Bee Tree - and who got stung!; Miscellany; Fact and Comment; This busy world - truce in Nicaragua, the Chinese tangle, economists at Geneva, the Paris-New York flights; The Y.C. Lab - Motors and Generators - IV - The Characteristics of DC motors; The Children's Page - Mrs. Knitslippers and the Butterflies; Best puzzles of the week. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Canadian budget battle over defense expenses; Robert Fulford and his 'Saturday Night' magazine; Photo of Janis Joplin performing; The Canadian Canvas - A Broad Sweep (of Canadian art); President Ford's risky plan against slumpflation; CIA director William Colby defends himself; Clouds over Playboy's Bunnyland - suicide of Bobbie Arnstein - article with photo of pall-bearer Hugh Hefner; In Defense of Politicians - Do We Ask Too Much?; Eight-page colour-photo illustrated centerfold ad feature by Macmillan Bloedel explains how forests grow; Barefoot Rudolf Nureyev; Moscow's repudiation of trade agreements a serious blow to detente; Saga of the (Henry) Jackson Amendment; Triumph for the moderates in China; Bloody peace in Indochina; The P.L.O. Strategy - Fight and Talk; Truce fails in Northern Ireland; Fragile independence in Angola; Trouble in Cyprus; Ujamaa's bitter harvest in Tanzania; Passing of Baron Jean-Louis de Portal, Gustavo Rohas Pinilla, Li Fu-chun and Alberta oil baron Eric Lafferty Harvie; Goalie Rogatien (Rogie) Vachon and the success of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings - photo-illustrated article; Basketball star Jimmy Wilkins; Jailed Baptist Georgi Vins; Troubled Trident submarine program - article with photo of construction at Bremerton, WA; Scandal in Education - Barbara and Harry Lowther; Artist Robert Rauschenberg; The General Dynamics YF-16 fighter wins a dogfight; Color photo ad for Panasonic TV features gent with monocle; Retailer W.T. Grant Co. cuts back; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Atomic submarine; MIG-15 fighter captured; Suez - key to power; Johannesburg - City in Terror; Lieut. General Mao Pang-chu; Japan's Prince Hironobu Fushimi; David Jones - Spy Among the Huks; Private Glen Blank of Canada charged with murdering a Korean army lieutenant; Nice one-page two-color ad for Chevrolet Trucks; Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) is featured in an Auto-Lite Batteryad; Quarter-page colour photos of Shelley Winters, Esther Williams, Susan Hayward, Elizabeth Taylor, Virginia Mayo, Jennifer Jones, Linda Darnell and Betty Hutton; Sulfur discovery at Garden Island Bay, Louisianna; "Man-Made Satellites"; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Cunard's bid for ocean supremacy; Editorials - Michelson - by submarine to the north pole - wages and prosperity - fighting the crooks - human engineering - television broadcasts; Riding with the signal in the cab - right-of-way signals are repeated within the engine cab; Quick-freezing solves food problems; Efficient medical department for brokers and employees at the stock exchange; Airplains land blind - guided by radio; A a splintered planet? - tiny elongated Eros may be a fragment of an older, larger asteroid; National Aircraft Show; The biblical deluge a fact - Archeological finds are stratified as though by a flood; Amateur astronomy in Pittsburgh - an observatory is built by and for amateurs; Television now on schedule - first broadcasts of television on a regular program; Science in search of oil - The last of three articles on salt, sulfur, and petroleum; A familiar truck becomes a locomotive - gasoline powered yard locomotive has commendable features; Professionnal methods in amateur archeology; American olives by the ton - large industry in California is over 150 years old; Preserved for 10,000 yeares to come - unique methods of preserving records of Tokyo earthquake; Mechanizing a giant foundry - Allis Chalmers. One inch opening at top of spine-fold. Half-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Quarter inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Covers remain 50% attached to contents. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: A motoris may be asleep even if his eyes are open; Editorials: save Old Ironsides, Humanizing science, Television's future, Submarine safety; Skilled workmanship on organs for church, theater and home; Architects as room designers; The strangest thing in physics; Firsts in aviation; Towers of Hudson River bridge are rising rapidly; The highest known velocity; Prospecting with artificial earthquakes; the month in medical science - punch drunk, u.v. rays, compressed air pranks, posture, yellow fever, rider's legs, tar poison, childhood teeth, food colors; The search for the first American; Education adopts the motion picture; Pointers from a pen maker; Death Valley; Egyptian vandalism 3400 years ago; Aerodynamic wind mills; Television advances; Protecting paintings for posterity; Roman engineering triumphs; Light airplaine design contest; Wasteful cotton baling methods; Early Indians in Florida.Major damage to front cover along spine. Half of spine missing. Back cover features colour Camel cigarette advertisement with the caption "Now it's unanimous. I'd walk a mile for a Camel... So would I" Two-colour "Dodge Brothers Trucks" advertisement inside front cover. Inside back cover is a very attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement with a few small spots of soiling. Ad shows a strapping young man fabricating auto parts. Well-worn. Magazine
8vo. First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
8vo., Second Impression, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 20 full-page line illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in navy blue full morocco, back gilt with raised bands, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. First published in the previous year. A lovely copy of one of the relatively few contemporary accounts of submarine actions during the Great War. Includes the Baltic, Dardanelles, P-boats, Q-boats, Zeebrugge and Ostend. Enser, p.343.
[iv +] 70pp., 33cm., goede staat
in-8°, 470 pp., broche, couverture illustree a rabats Bon etat. [LA-2]
32 pages. Songs include: Sailor Hambo, Pilot Waltz, Submarine Waltz, Finland Woods, Saturday Waltz, Varmlandsnatt, Courting Waltz, North Cape Schottische, On the Highway, New Norwegian Waltz, Ball in Karlstadd, Northern Chimes, Skol Skol Skol, Frykdals-Jantan, Kalle Pe. Above-average wear. Covers taped on. Few markings. A worthy working copy of this vintage work. Book
