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Fine Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (23 x16 cm). In Turkish. 109 p., color and b/w ills.Hasanbulliler: Kibris'in sosyal yasamindan bir yaprak, 1879-1896. Illustrated by Louise. CYPRUS Cypriot history of politics Turkish culture Kus Hasanlar Bandity Cypriot bandit Biyografi.
New English Papperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Turkish. 738 p. banditry and bandit folk songs in the context of tradition of the social rebellion and folklore in the Ottoman Anatolia and Early Period of Republican Turkey. Eskiyalik ve eskiya türküleri: Sosyal isyancilik gelenegi ve folklor.
256 pages. Author's first book in which he recalls the stories of his father. "Recalls the coastal British Columbia of not so many years ago when it was a civilization without 'average' individuals: besides fishermen, farmers and loggers, it was peopled with runaway bandits." - from back cover. 'Review Copy' rubber stamp upon title page else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
227 pages including black and white plates. Takes readers back to a time of danger and violence as well as action and adventure. Sequel to the popular Pirates and Outlaws of Canada. Continues the colourful survey of violence in Canada from the time of the earliest pioneers to the years preceeding World War II. Book unmarked and showing minimal wear. Glossy attractive dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Crooks vs. Nature; Party Crashers; Cole's Quake Mech Sramble!; Lego Technic Smash-Up!; Join Forces to Build - Star Wars centerfold; Dream Castle!; Kryptonite Prison!; Cool Creations Wall of Fame; Park Play Day; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
New English Paperback. Pbo. Large 8vo. (23 x 20 cm). In Turkish. 528 p., b/w ills. Terror and banditry from Ottoman period to present day. Osmanli'dan günümüze eskiyalik ve terör.
Mm 210x270 Brossura editoriale di 386 pagine con tavole in bianco e nero fuori testo. Testo in francese - french text. Ampia bibliografia. Foglio sciolto di Errata corrige. In buono stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
66 pages. Features: Photo portrait of James M. Symes, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (in GM ad); News Photos; Patron Saint of the Prairies - the William Crooks introduced steam locomotion to Minnesota - with photos; Poor Man's Mallets - super photos with captions; Motive-Power Metamorphoses - photo quiz; The 2-10-0's that thought they could - and did- after stalling a 9,000 ton load of iron ore on the Shamokin Branch of the Susquehanna District of the Northern Region between Sunbury and Mount Carmel, Pa. - FANTASTIC photos and article; Would You Believe it? - tiny steam locomotives made by Sentinel (Shrewsbury) Limited of England; Steam After Dark - wonderful night photos including a SENSATIONAL black and white centerfold photo of a massive 2-8-8-2 on Shaffers Crossing turntable, plus an ultra-unique photo of a nighttime steam locomotive roaring past a drive-in theater screen, with many classic 1950s cars in the lot - including a young couple in a convertible!; The Hudson Locomotive of the New York Central - magnificent archival photos and lengthy article ; and more. Great vintage ads. Average wear. Small date stamp atop back cover. Covers detatched and separated but present. Magazine
86 pages. Features: Seth Doulton's "Skoal Bandits" - 1957 Chevy Panel; The Day High Performance Died - new emissions laws and testing procedures; Rear Suspension Options for the Classic Pickup; Desert Fox - Frank and Janet Heavner's 1979 Chevy G-20; Bronze Beauty - Mark Stern's 1977 Ford Courier; Dennis Carpenter Reproductions; Princess' Rolling Palace - a Vans Unlimited creation; Dumont Dunes Jamboree - Death Valley Comes Alive; Hi-Tech Engraving; 1984 GMC Jimmy 6.2 Diesel 4X4; Chevy's new Astro mini-van unveiled in Chicago; Ray "Doc" Holdway's 1956 Ford Pickup; Charles Weber's 1956 Ford Panel; Deep Freeze - Gary & Helen Rajcok's 1979 Ford F-150 4X4. Covers almost loose from staples. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Paris, s.e. (V. Bunel), vers 1870; in-4, 560-448 pp., relié demi-cuir, coloris brun, dos lisse (divers frottements, dos de reliure décollé du volume) (quelques feuilles déchirées). Édition populaire. Indications sur le dos de la reliure : Aug. Maquet, « Histoire des bagnes ». Ouvrage retraçant les divers bagnes de France : Brest, Toulon, Rochefort, Lorient, Cayenne – vie du bagne, forçats célèbres – la chaîne évasion – le bourreau du Bagne – bastonnade, suivi d'un dictionnaire d'argot des bagnes de France. Quelques illustrations en noir et blanc.
Features: Sneak attacks and murder - Texas Ranger John Peavey harks back to bloody days on the border - Mexican bandits would derail trains; Mysterious Death at the Washita - Louis McLane Hamilton; Mrs. Henry Plummer - wife of a Philandering Outlaw Sheriff, Bannack, Montana Territory; Bronc Rider for Buffalo Bill - Harry Webb; A House by the Side of the Road - Alamosa Creek; Johnsons on the Chisholm Trail - ancestors of Lyndon Johnson; Orphaned by Black Hawk's Warriors - The Kuhre Family and Ephraim, Utah; Cable Car Genius - Andrew S. Hallidie - he showed San Francisco a better way to climb a hill!; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Crooks Get all the Breaks - Virgil W. Peterson; Can our children learn faster? - at the Whitby School in Connecticut, the Montessori method is used to teach the three Rs; People on the Way Up - Gigi Reynolds Carrier, Dick Gregory, Joy Tymezyszyn Jr., Jane Marilley; Abraham Kaplan on 'Are Psychiatrists and Clergymen enemies or allies?'; Connie Francis - what made her a star, and how does she survive the competition?; Casey Stengel; How Sotheby's venerable London auction house sets prices and tastes for highbrows; The Vanishing Hillbilly - the proud Ozark mounaineer is being modernized out of existence as TVs become more common than indoor plumbing. Great 2-page color Chevrolet Jobmaster Trucks ad. Nice Coke ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
Stories: Canada's Puzzle-People; Captured by Indian Brigands; My Record Canoe Trip; The Fan-Tan Girl; Paru's Wireless; The Clue of the Single Fingerprint; Number Two; Bowen's End; Horse's Neck; Escaped from Devil's Island; When Greek Meets Greek; The Manhunt; The Lost Treasure of the Gilt Dragon. Above-average wear. Spine ends taped. Ink stamp to front cover. Book
Pages 86-168+ 20 pages of nice ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, "The Muscle Builder". Features: Mazulla and His Sahib, part 1 - moving Indian adventures, with photos; Neilson's New Man -a story of country life in New Zealand; The Tale-Teller of Algiers - the strange adventure of a visitor to Algiers in October, 1925; Mussolini's War Against the Mafia in Sicily - describes the first stage of the great 'clean-up' - a most dramatic and exciting business - article with photos of Police Commissioner Spano, Signor Mori of Palermo, Gaetono Ferrarello, Carmelo Andaloro, Salvatore Ferrarello, and Nicolo Andaloro; Mr. Stepper, I.D.B. - a diamond story; The Trouble in Coeur D'Alene - part 2 - going undercover to investigage labor-management conflict in the mining district of Northern Idaho - with photos; "Free-Trading" in the Arctic - great photo-illustrated article about white traders living in remote Indian and Eskimo territories; Photo of Korean wedding; One Thing After Another - troubles on the Inyoka Tobacco Estate in Rhodesia, with photo of author and trouble-making jackal; Across North America in a Motor-Boat, part 4 of this record-setting 6,000 mile trip - with maps and photos; The Cleverest Thieves on Earth - The Criminal Tribes of India - a photo-illustrated account of the 'crims' and their hereditary war against society. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 757 - 792. Features: Cover photo of Princess Elizabeth unveiling panels added to the Royal Artillery Memorial to commemorate gunners killed in the war 1939-1945; Page of photos illustrates the revival of an ancient English craft neglected since the middle ages - mead-making in Cornwall; Photo of Miss Anne Crawford naming "The Capitals Limited" train; The Gen. Assembly of the Church of Scotland - The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in Edinburgh; Photos of South Africans playing Jukskei; Review of "Burma's Icy Mountains" by F. Kingdon-Ward; Royal scenes of Ulster welcoming the Princess and the Duke of Edinburgh; Photos of captured Russian train in Berlin; Personalities of the week include Sir Cyril Radcliffe, Lord Greene, Mr. John McCloy, Lord Hazlerigg, Gen. J Lawton Collins, Mr. David Bruce, the Earl of Strathmore, Gen. S.H. Van Spoor, Gen. Shanker Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, Mr. S.M. McCready, Queen Mary, Miss Frances Stevens, Michael Wilding, Anna Neagle, Herbert Wilcox, Lord Leverhulme, Miss Jane Wyman, and Sir Lawrence Olivier; Greece and the Russian Plan - article by Cyril Falls; Photos of bandits being hunted in the mountains of Sicily; Photos of Royal occasions in London and Venice; Photos of the Chelsea Garden Show; One-page photo illustrates sailing race in King's Reach taking place in the heart of London for the first time in more than 100 years; Two pages of photos illustrate life in the little-known mountain kingdom of Afghanistan, including photo of the reigning King, H. M. Mohammed Zahir Shah; Photo of Field Marshal von Rundstedt who was released from military custody at Hamburg on May 26; Photo of Gerhard Eisler going free - the German born communist leaves Bow Street Police Station after the US application for his extradition failed; Photo of the West German Republic being signed into being; Photo of "unbeatable" machine which plays X's and O's; Article on the oldest skull yet found in France - a discovery which revises theories of human evolution; How Prof. Dorothy Garrod found the Fontechevade skull; Lovely one-page colour ad for Robinson's Lemon Barley Water; Nice colour ad for Imperial Leather Cologne on back cover. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
96 pages. Short Stories: Fair Warning; Swindler in the Family; Night Marshal; A Sentimental Subject. Articles: The Night Our Town Blew Up - photo-illustrated article of Roseburg, Oregon, scene of a massive explosion in 1959; The Animals Come First; They Called Us "The Law" - recollections of the wife of District Attorney W.A. (Bill) Morrison in Milam County, Texas; The Fight to Save the "Preemies" (premature babies); Speediest Kids Afloat - Australian swimmers John and Ilsa Konrads of Australia; They Killed Heydrich (Conclusion) - Seven Against a Regiment - story with many photos of the aftermath of the murder of SS Gen. reinhard Heydrich; The Face of America - The Well-Trained Angels; Beloved Bandits of the Skyways - a seagull story. Serials: The Secret of Sidewinder Gulch (part 1 of 7); The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (part 5 of 8). Ads: Caterpillar ad features photo of Philadelphia demolition scene; Dodge Trucks - with U-Haul theme; Nice one-page Pepsi ad with beach scene illustration; Campbell's Tomato Soup - used in BBQ sauce; Very nice one-page color-photo ad for the 1960 Turbine Drive Buick, featuring a black Electra 225 four-door sedan with yacht in background; Salem cigarettes - nice creekside scene; Dutch Boy Nalplex paint; Nostalgic color-photo centerfold ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Impala Convertible features white car and white horses; The Taylor family is featured in a two-page ad for the Insured Savings and Loan Association; Fisher Body; One-page color photo of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN; Lennox ad inside back cover; Great back cover color-photo Coke ad features bottle and glass floating on iceberg. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
40 pages. Features: Cover photo of the upper Fraser sternwheeler "Quesnel" arriving at South Fort George in 1910; 1950 in Review and Forecast for 1951; Somebody Loves Them (Tourists) - But Why?; Photos of placer miners working on ice with diver near Lillooet in 1926; Historic Pavilion Mountain; Yukon Dog Tales - article with photos, including three photos of recoving a 3-ton truck which had sunk into 400' of water in Atlin Lake; $20,000 Reward - a true story about one of the northwest's most notorious bandits - Bill Miner and his accomplices; Saga of the Upper Fraser Sternwheelers - feature article with many great photos; Back cover photo Finning ad for Caterpillar diesel engines which power sawmills; Dozens of nostalgic local ads, many with photos. Name and faint date stamp upon front cover. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
52 pages. Features: Berlins - The Crisis That Propaganda Built; The United Empire Loyalists Live On; One Canada - the real promise of Quebec's revolution - Hugh MacLennan on the prospects of Canadianism; Trent Frayne's Book on Bookies - How to Win Money Even When You Lose; Dr. F.B. Bowman claims 3 of 4 Blood Transfusions are more likely to harm than heal; How Rumrunning Corrupted Canada - Canadian liquor smuggling to the prohibition-bound U.S. made crooks out of officials and politicians; Molson's Canadian one-page ad features CFL star Ron Stewart; The case for Huckleberry Hound as Mordecai Richler sees it; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover shows beach couple being hit by wave; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
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
50 pages. Features: Douglas Harkness - the lonely ordeal of a rebel Tory; All federal Tories like Duff Roblin; Clayton Boston (Slim) Delbridge and the B.C. Lions of the C.F.L.; Songs to Break Up Canada By - and an Anthem That Can't Offend Anyone - Editorial; The Outstanding Canadians of 1963, with photos - Sister Marie Laurent-de-Rome, Woodrow Lloyd, Glen How, Jack Leitch, Leo Plouffe, Claude Jutra, Leon Major, Ed Mirvish, C.B. MacPherson, Sylvia Fricker, Ian Tyson, Sharp, Mitchell, Peter C. Newman, Pat(rick) Watson; The Growing Acceptance of "Harmless" Narcotics; How I Worked My Way through College Peddling Pot; Douglas Duncan - The Man Who Discovered Canadian Painting; Mad Assault on Everest by Canadian Engineer Earl Denman (a Maclean's Flashback); How John Chester and Family are beating $20,000 in debts; The Older You Get, The Harder the Crooks go after Your Money; Old Books - The Fastest-Growing Cult on the Cultural Front; Old (Antiquarian) Books - The Fastest Growing Cult on the Cultural Front - article with nice photos; Fantastic two-colour one-page photo ad for Ian and Sylvia feature in the next issue of Chatelaine; The Incredible Pace of Modern Master John O'Hara; Ottawa Should Build Schools for Bilingualism in every Province; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features youthful gang singing with player piano; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Why Britain's biggest stars flopped on TV; Leslie Frost's masquerade as teh common man - the nation's second most important politician - article with many photos; Bruce Hutchison visits Zsa Zsa Gabor - article with photos; The Night of Terror We'll Never Forget - Victor Desgroseilliers, manager of the Dominion store in Cornwall, Ontario, and his family are terrorized by bandits - article with photos; Can we avoid a shooting battle for Berlin?; Self-Hypnosis could help you beat your tensions; Peter Gzowski writes about what it's like to have a famous ancestor (Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski); Breakout at Amiens Prison - amazing article with great photos; Great Tanners Association of Canada colour ad promotes giving leather shoes to dad for Father's Day; How do you get to be a magazine editor?; Nice colour photo ad for Bulova watches on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Stories: The Naked Man - a story from Africa; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - our experiment in orange growing; Nine Lives - an interesting cat story; Doctor Ash Takes Charge - an amusing story of how a lazy family came to do some real hard work - perhaps for the first time in their lives; A Flight to Save a Ship (The Lipari) - the author rents a plane to locate a beached vessel and claim it for his salvage company; Chinese Pirates of Today - photos; The Big Voyage of the Little Shanghai - from Shanghai to Copenhagen in a 42 foot yacht; A Trooper's battle with a Lion; The Old Rifle - a New Mexico Tale involving the Halleck and Howard Mill at La Madera; The Mail Bag Mystery - a delightful Irish story; A bear with a Brain - a very clever thieving Grizzly; The Diamond Smuggers - the author describes his gem-running exploits; Land of Volcanoes - a visit to the Tengger, the principal volcanic centre of Java; The Last of the Corsican Bandits - the meteoric career of Romanetti; Prior owner's name pencilled atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Back cover nearly detached. A worthy vintage copy. Book
314 pages including index. Signed and dated by author upon half-title page. Signed and inscribed by Rod Stamler, former Assistant Commissioner of the R.C.M.P., upon title page. "The shocking story of corporate crime and political corruption in Canada." - from dust jacket. "Chronicles the seedy world of crime in very high places. It makes great reading - particularly for those who don't mind having their illusions about our political leaders destroyed." - Linda McQuaig. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in Brodart cover. A quality copy. Book
92 pages. Features: Cover photo of William J. McGill; Betty Friedan and a "Herstory-" making event; Beautiful color fashion photos; Amazing green and yellow Cone Corduroy ad; Twigs ad features young boy Jason Foster; Mao Makes the Trials Run on Time - China's 'new trend', a wave of show trials; Richard Nixon and George Schultz; Bill McGill Takes Over Columbia's Hot Campus - from La Jolla to Harlem; Marijuana Clouds the Generation Gap - increasingly it is being tried by adults, not just kids; Law Professor John Banzhaf encourages his students to 'sue the hell' out of powerful companies - "Banzhaf's Bandits"; Nice Maidenform color-photo centerfold for their ladies' 'Un-underwear'; Photos of writer May Sarton's home in New Hampshire; Amazing cape fashion photos; YKK colored zipper ad called "The Bold One" features nude model; Thom McAn ad features couple before antique fireplace. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
