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Features: Jack Dalton - Pioneer Trail Builder; Phoenix - former mining camp at elevation; murder in Asker; A Tale of two Side-Wheelers; Siege at the Long Sault. Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
Features: Firefox - Hollywood's Mach 6 Interceptor; Murder at midnight - the Junkers 88,188, 288 and 388 nightfighters; Last flight of the B-57 Canberra. Art: MiG 31 Firefox; Grumman F8F-2 "Bearcat"; Martin B-57B from 8th Bomb Squad.; Martin B-57B & B-57Es Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 102 pages. Blurb taped to front endpaper.
380 pages. Many black and white photographic plates of the key players. "An outstanding and hair-raising account of mass murder and deception that pieces together the cowardly plot and the conspirators' successful twenty-year evasion of justice." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with modest wear. Bit of soiling to edges of textblock. A quality copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Saga of the Deadly Cook Gang; When the United States Had Mad Emperor; Black Man's West - The Story of Negro Pioneers; Belle Starr - Queen Bandit; The Man Who Ate Indian Livers; Gov. Charles Bent's Murder and Scalping; Abigail Scott - Fighting Northwest Suffragette; The Unluckiest Scout in the West; Friendship - the Price of Death; Loot the Village - Kill the Males. Magazine
92 pages. Short Stories: The Marriage Question; Mob Victim; Bagpipe Brigade; Joe's Secret PLan. Articles: I Wanted to be Somebody (part 1 of 3) - great photo-illustrated article on Althea Gibson, the world's greateset woman tennis player; The Face of America - lovely two-page color photo of family meal in restaurant; I Was a Compulsive Gambler; Can Egypt's Nasser Take it All? - how far will the fiery leader go? - article with photos; Boss of the MIssilemen; She Made it the Second Time - great photo-illustrated article on Mitzi Gaynor; He Runs a Bird College - Dr. Paul Fluck. Serials: A Day in Monte Carlo (part 4 of 6); I Married Murder (part 7 of 8). Ads: Philco Slender Sevenmteen TV (inside front cover); Two-pages for Smith-Corona typewriters; New "7" Car Wax ad features Bill Dec of Huntington, N.Y. and photos of Ford Woody Wagon; Gleem toothpaste; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Ravioli - with Italian sailboat photo backdrop; Simmons couches; Special K; Motorola TVs (house-moving scene); Squirt soft drink; Mutuals of Wausau ad features Robert L. Cohen of Navajo Freight Lines in Denver; Mayo Spruce Underwear ad features father and son photo of Del Crandall, catcher of the Milwaukee Braves; Allied Van Lines ad features kittens; Eaton truck axle ad features driver Jess Howard and Joe Swartz, VP of East Coast Fisheries of Miami; Seiberling Tires; Zenith 'Space Command' remote control TV tuning. Back cover missing. Above-average wear. Two pieces of masking tape along coverfold. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: Interview with Richard Lester, including photos; 'Juggernaut' - photos; 'The Last Fifites Picture Show' - photos; Article - A Light-Hearted Look at the Cinema of the Fifties; 'Stardust' - photos; Reviews; 'Murder on the Orient Express' - photos; 'The Parallax View' - photos; Article on 'North by Northwest' with photos; 'That's Entertanment' - photos; Interview with Monte Hellman; 'Adam & Yves' - photos. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
210 pages. Black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. Footnotes. Bibliography. During WWII "25,000 German officers and other ranks were sent to POW camps across Canada to live out the duration of the war behind barbed wire. Their fascinating story makes for exciting and provocative reading." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this little-known Canadian history. Book
Stories: Murder Island; Land of still waters; an accessory after the fact; on the north-west frontier; the professor; Caribbean ordeal; the lion-man; twenty pigs; fighting the locust; the wide world in captivity; the dingo hunter. Front cover missing. Well-worn. Book
Features: Dead Men's Gold - the Argonauts declared Jim Carson dead and began dividing his estate, when suddenly he returned!; Astride the Iron Horse and Riding West! - a harrowing adventure; Governor Charles Bent's Murder and Scalping; Wild Rose O'Neal - South's Astonishing Spy; The Greatest Apache Warrior - Jolsanny; The Wagon Train of 1843; The Legendary Jack Slade; Monterey's Chinatown - met its end in needless flames; The year of the turnip - actual recipes used by the pioneers; Men with the strength of mountains - mountain men didn't know when they were licked; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
191 pages. Signed by author/subject upon title page. Reproductions of black and white photos in text. "Mr. Rackham joined the O.P.P. in 1949 and retired after a 26 year career never having drawn his gun once. He was an identification officer involved in more murder and serious crime investigations than he can remember." - from page xii. Prior owner's name and date neatly atop front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
84 pages. Features: New Deputy-Commissioner, R.J. Ross; The King's Escort - with several archival black and white photos; VIP Section gets a home at Harrington Lake, Gatineau; Maintien(s) Le Droit - G.T. Hann/Grand Trunk Railway Regiment; The Martin's Field Murder - Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia; Open House - Frobisher Bay; Why I Joined the RCMP - Wive's Division; Police solve two hit-and-runs; A Book and Its Cover - C.W. Harvison intercepts a book intended for German POWs in Canada, and prevents an escape; Schefferville, Quebec; Electronics - an aid to criminals; "Mojo" - on the spot; Shades of Androcles; Chapel Windows Creator; Refurbishing the old St. Roch; Right Name Wrong Crime; The Brothers Jarvis; Grain Theft Solved; Stray Shot; Trapline Trouble; and more. Prior owner's name blacked out atop table of contents. Faint ink stamp to bottom of table of contents. Book
Mm 190x245 Language: chinese. Volume rilegato in tela avana con titolo impresso al piatto e al dorso, 237 pagine con mumerose fotografie in nero e a colori della grande fotografa americana. Copia in condizioni di nuovo - brand new. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original handwritten document. 21x17 cm. In Ottoman script. 1342 [1926]. "Mahallemizin [i.e. Aga Mh.] Yumurtaci Abdi(?) Bey Caddesinde 159 numerolu hanede sakin Aramyan Uncuyan mektebi tarih muallimi esbâki ihbâren Deniz Mektebi'ne nakil edilen Ahmed Edib Bey'e mahallemizde ikâmetleri müddetince bir gûnâlik hali görülmedigi ve kendisi ashâb-i namus ve istikâmetden oldugu cinâyet vechince (?) husûs-i umûmîyle (?) mahkûmiyeti olmadigi ve [.] muhâlife bir gûnâ hareketi görülmedigi hey'etimizce malûm bulundugumuz mübeyyin ilmühaberidir.". Sealed by members of the court. [MURDER AND SUSPECT IN KADIKÖY - ACQUITTAL REPORT] Manuscript acquittal law document: The verdict of acquittal of Aramyan Uncuyan School history teacher, stamped by Kadiköy Aga Mahallesi Association in 1340 AH [1924 AD].
44 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: Steveston - A Splendid Opening for a Capitalist; Murder in the Arctic - Oblate Missionaries Rouviere and LeRoux are killed; Old Fort Macleod - Southern Alberta's first white settlement; Old Man Green's Missing Hoard - Murder on Savory Island, near Lund, B.C.; Nightmare Pass Through the Rocky Mountains. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
128 pages. Short Stories: The Curse of the North, Some Women are Nicer, Honor Among Thieves, The Man Who Tipped the Croupiers, Element of Chance, Guns aren't for Gentlemen, The Battlefield of Mind, Suicide Drive. Novelettes: The Coming of the Little People, I was the Target. Articles: The Big Noise, Stocks - America's Fastest Growing Sport, Never Call Him a Shamus, Words Women and Wars, The Wreck of the Old 97. Complete Book-Length Novel - China Coaster - Murder and gold among the Chinese Pirates. And more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: "Stringin' a Greener"; White Horse, Black Horse - Murder!; Zane Grey's Original 'Lone Star Ranger'; A Hoodooed mine; The Squaw Line; Two Men Named John; Espionage Agent Pauline Cushman; 'Cat Hanging' with Greyhounds; Lottery in Laramie; Trapped Alive!; Grandma was an old-time Ranch Cook; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Cord of Death - Bloody Bill Anderson tied 53 knots in his silken; Llano Estacado - the savage 'staked plains of West Texas and New Mexico; Not Even a Drink - train robbery at Dale Creek, Wyoming; Curly Bill Brocius - The Counterfeit Gunman of Tombstone; The Donner Strategy; Indian Bow and Arrow Making; I Smuggled Guns Across the Border - caught in the maelstrom of Mexican revolution, the plight of the Mormon colonists in Mexico was a harrowing experience; Eagle Mills, Nebraska; Murder on the Snake - New York Bar was an isolated river boat station until E.H. Cummings was brutally axed; Riding the High Country, by Patrick T. Tucker - Part I; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Sea Otters and Personalized Bullets - long-ago days of white hunters, Indian hunters, and a curiosity-filled child on the beach - Grays Harbor, Chehalis County, Washington; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Hobo Camps and Jungles; The Scandal of Park County - Como, a near-ghost town in Colorado's South Park; New Mexico's Tully Family - a story of cattle and horses and men of strong will; Will Written on a hat - W.S. Baldwin; Oil Boom in Alligator Land - Dallison, West Virginia; Matched Bronc Ridin'; Logging on Nine Mile Creek in Western Montana - Eat, Sleep, and Work - no Women, few laughs; Murder on Cane Hill - makeshift brutality avenged by makeshift justice dealt out by the famed 36 - Washington County, in Northwest Arkansas; The Doctor Turns Cowboy - Part II from 'A Frontier Doctor' by Henry Hoyt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Contents: New Haven urban renewal; Urban Coalition; A Program for Cities; George Lincoln Rockwell and the National Socialist White People's Party, and Rockwell's murder by John Patler (Patsalos); Photo of maiden flight of Navy F-111B; Trainees at For Sill P.O.W. Course - preparing for the worst - with photo; Marine Gunnery Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard awarded Medal of Honor - with photo; Smoking and Safety; Forest fires in the Northwest; Vietnam War update; Macnamara on Bombing the North; Arab Refugees after war with Israel; Review of Israel's victory; Photo of North American Aviation's XB-70 and X-15 supersonic aircraft; Ch'u Silk Manuscript; Photo after marriage of George Scott Romney, oldest son of Michigan Governor George Romney; Photo of Bobbie Gentry; Bus Mosbacher; Swimmer Debbie Meyer; Gaylord Perry and the Spitball; Sandy Dennis - article with photos; Photo of Edgar M. Bronfman who purchased shares in MGM from Philip J. Levin; The death of Henry John Kaiser - story with photos; "Alligators" - LaCoste sports shirts; Clarence Jackson of Phoenix, AZ and his fight with Sears; and much more. Unmarked. Above-average wear to cover. Book
Features: Sheriffs Pat and Mike Sughrue; Life in Dakota Territory; The Flaming Forest; Lady Boss of the Great Divide; The 17-Year Onion and Potato War; Fence Cutting and Murder; World Champion War Dancer, Augustus (Gus) Hurley McDonald; Forgotten Feudist - George Culver Tennille; Basil Clemons - Eccentric Photographer; Tools of the Blacksmith; Montana Diamond; The White-Eyed Albino. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Please note: Back cover not included. Book
Features: A test of courage - Sitting Bull, last Sioux to lay down his gun; Last of the horseback outlaws - 'Arkansas Tom' Daugherty; Old Pete's (Pete Peterson's) Lost gold mine; Horse king of the northwest - Charlie Newell - Goldendale, Washington; Ghosts of the Rio Puerco; Motion Picture Vignettes; Murder at Rincon - Amasa Barton killed by the Navajos; High-Wheeling to Denver - bicycles were a status symbol in 1889; A Search for Home; Wes Cates - A Lawman's life in pictures; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Magazine
Features: Oregon's Legendary Sheriff - Jim Blakely; Saddle Mountain's Lost Mine; That joint down by the river; The Moline Dreadnaught - an early auto adventure over 5 states; Samuel MacDougall's Great Gold Hoax; The James Connell Murder Case - a beef contract turned out to be a death warrant; Horse Traders and Gypsies; Bloodshed on Lightning Creek, Wyoming - a border dispute; Deputized Sawmill Man - James William Anderson; Newt Israel's last trip to Tucson; A close call at Red Fork; Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: Special Feature - Apache Vengeance - The savage murder of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds and deputy Hunkydory Holmes; Jesse (James), Frank and Cole; Gold-Filled Safe of Knight's Ferry - it floated down the Stanislaus River!; Terror on a Train - The "Harvest Excursion"; Massacre by White Men - The Tragedy of the Nueces; Tombstone 'Typos'; San Augustine Ranch House; Hobo, the horse that never quit; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
