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C.A.L. 1967, fort In-8 carré, cartonnage moutarde de l'éditeur, 477 pages + photos. Bon état.
Pygmalion 1997, In-8 broché, 353 pages. Quelques passages soulignés. Trés bon état.
Fair English Deuxieme serie. Paperback. Pbo. Fair. Large Roy. 8vo. (25.5 x 17 cm). 65 - 128 pp. Color and b/w plts. 1 folding plt. Carnet de la sabretache. Revue militaire retrospective. No. 158. Fevrier 1906
54p. Bookseller's label. Penciled ownership of Sarah Ellen Hager, The Maples, November 1918. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, gold lettered. Color portrait vignette on front board. Very slight wear. First edition. ** PRICE JUST REDUCED!! WWI 3
8vo., Sixteenth Edition, with photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; red printed wrappers, upper board and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, a bright, clean copy
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with 20 plates on 16, and 4 full-page charts and a double-page map in the text, fore-edges lightly browned as often; cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at edges. Uncommon in anything like this condition
Folio, First Edition, parallel text in French and English, with many hundreds of coloured badges throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece map and plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The French edition appeard in 1971. VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.166.
Paris, Flammarion, 1961. In-4, plein cartonnage et jaquette illustrée en couleurs de l'éditeur, 493 pp. Importante iconographie dans et hors-texte. Planches couleurs. Bel ex.
Flammarion 1938. Grand et fort in-4 broché, couverture rempliée avec vignette contrecollée sur le pat et titre en rouge. 395 pages. Très nombreuses illustrations photographiques dans et hors-texte, en noir et en couleurs. Dos légèrement insolé sinon très bel état.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, text in French, with very numerous photographs in the text, and folding coloured maps; laminated boards, a near fine copy.
8vo., Third Edition thus, with portrait frontspiece (original tissue guard present); newly bound in grey boards, backstrip with printed paper label, hand-made endpapers, original cloth from upper board and backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published two months after the first edition. SCARCE. Enser, p.96
Paris, La Giberne, 1902. In-4 (23 x 31,5 cm), plein cartonnage en percaline rouge, titre en long et sur le premier plat. 24 pages de texte. et 40 planches à la suite. Quarante belles planches en couleurs de : Aubry, Hte Bellangé, E. Chaperon, L. Geens, E. Grammont, Ch. Morel, M. Orange, J. Rouffet, L. Vallet et en regard 40 planches en noir, pour colorier (certaines planches ont été colorées). Bel exemplaire.
2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition thus, with 2 fine portrait frontispieces in heliogravure (original tissue guards present) and 9 maps (3 folding), some light and inoffensive age-staining; handsomely bound in red half morocco, marbled boards, backs with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, small bookplate scars on front paste-downs, an elegant and most attractive copy. Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcellin [later Baron] de Marbot (1782-1854) fought in virtually every battle of the Napoleonic Wars and was wounded no fewer than ten times. 'Not overly endowed with modesty, he is the original of Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard' (Sutcliffe). His famous Memoirs were first published in France in 1891 and in English in the following year. See Sandler 2231.
3 vols., 8vo., with 3 fine frontispieces in photogravure (original tissue guards present) and a folding facsimile, some very light foxing (mainly marginal); handsomely bound in red cloth boards, early twentieth century red morocco backs with five raised bands and two compartments lettered in gilt, gilt tops, marbled endpapers, uncut, ALL ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS PRESERVED, some very light age-wear to extremities else a bright and most attractive set. The set comprises: I: Genes-Austerlitz-Eylau; II: Madrid-Essling-Torres-Vedras; III: Polotsk-La Beresina-Leipzig-Waterloo. Bound as a gifted presentation set for the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Tunbridge Wells, with the donor's neat inscription on front free endpapers.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: In the Grip of the "Hip Sings" - Part II - an American businessman is also secretly a member of a lawless tong/Chinese secret society; How We Foiled "U 39" - H.O. Read, Late First Officer S.S. "Anglo-Californian", a horse transport, explains what happened when his vessel was attacked by a German U-Boat; Our Wanderings in Northern Africa - another of the popular "Penelope" articles covers Tunis, Kairouan, and Algeria (includes photo of Tunisian Jewesses in towering head-dresses intended to make them, all fat to enhance their marriage prospects); The Trapped Diver - Charles Margerison recounts his terrible underwater predicament working for the City of Toronto's Department of Works; On the Trail in Wonderland - Part I - Mary Roberts Rinehart explores the new Glacier Park in North-Western Montana; The Old Man of Tregennon Lodge - a very remarkable ghost story from Cornwall, England; From Job to Job Around the World - Part VIII - two young Americans begin broke in London but soon Mr. Fletcher travels to Norway under contract to do Arctic coal-mining; A Boy Hero of the Midi - translated from the diary of Eugene Escloupie, a 14-year-old French boy who smuggled himself to the front and took part in some hot WWI fighting; Our Fijian Field-Day - three young white men compete in sports contests against sport-loving Fijians (with nice photos); The Great Wire Mystery - copper wire was constantly stolen from South-East Pennsylvania railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies until the elusive culprit was caught; Fishing With Spades and Ploughs for the sand eel on the Normandy coast; and more. pp. 9 [ads], [2], 484-576, 10-16 [ads]. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. 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
