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Features: How Sears, Roebuck won the West (includes 1902 ad for a 'bust developer' gizmo); Wyatt Earp and the Civil War - he answered the call of distant drums; Repeating rifles on the frontier - more popular on the post war frontier than revolving rifles were lever-action repeaters - Spencers, Henrys and others; A Gunfighter Craze is Sweeping the Country; A History of Wine in California - from Mission Grapes to Premium Wines; Black Bart (C.E. Bolton) - Backpacking Robber-Poet; Wild West Shotguns - They were even used for 'salting' mines; The Lost Wagon Train; Big Russell-Remington Collection in Fort Worth - Texas Oilman's Art Displayed at Gallery; He was hanged for *planning* a murder - A.J. (Andy) Hudspeth; Natural Foods of the 'Digger' Indians; Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
112 pages. Features: 100 Pipers ad features golfer San Snead; IBM ad features large color illustration of Ray Norman who studies cacography; AT&T ad features photo of H.W. Smalley of Jackson, MS; Ellsworth Bunker in Saigon; LBJ goes to Guan; How the Generals view the Vietnam war now; The fate of CT Dem. Senator Tom Dodd; The President's Program; Two-page color ad for RCA color TVs; Jim Garrison investigates the JFK murder; Adam Clayton Powell; A Matter of Missiles and Megadeaths - anti-ballistic missiles; Thailand is fast becoming a U.S. military bastion; Sensational color-centerfold ad for the Volkswagen Van (Station Wagon) (red and white) with front flipped up; Photo of Lemnitzer being decorated by De Gaulle; Photo of large WWII bomb found in Munich; Nigeria - waiting for a miracle; Autism; Nice two-page color-photo ad for International trucks featuring the new CO-4000; Misstruck Money - Collectors' items; Calverton Jetport on Long Island; Computermania in Eastern Europe; Simca car ad; Paul Samuelson on Prudent Tax Policy; Charles (Bubba) Smith of the Baltimore Colts; Basketball referee Eckman; Passing of Alice Tisdale Hobart, Albert Otis Birch, Sir Frank Worrell and Capt. Aldo Tait; Fred Friendly; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
24 pages. Contents: Attorney-General Homer S. Cummings' declaration that U.S.A. Has "Actual Socialism" Raises Questions; Farm Income Up 40% but Buying Power Less due to Price Boots; Murder Statistics; Sleeping Epidemic Unabated; Oil Industry Board; Schools Need Revenue; James W. Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany, lists 64 rulers of the country - none of whom are the President; Planning for World Police Force; President Roosevelt issues executive order requiring all holders of gold that has not been licensed for export or other purposes to report hoards of over $100 to the collectors of internal revenue; Foreign News - with photo of Marshal Pilsudski of Poland; Germany's Isolation in World Affairs - article with artist's rendering of Hitler; National Current events - with photo of Rep. James M. Beck of Pennsylvania; National Recovery Administration (NRA); Senator Huey P. (Kingfish) Long; Ambassador Sumner Welles; Marketing; Capital Chat - with photo of 'old underground vault where money is now stored in U.S. Treasury'; Science; Aviation; Article on Siamese Royalty and Movies - with photo of King Prajadhipok and his consort Rambaibarni; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
63 pages. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Features: Silver City; Early Birds of British Columbia; The Battle of Foxtrap; The Murder of Barney The Maltese Trader; Klondike Lost - the Story of Grand Forks; Methods of Placer Mining; Collins' Overhead Telegraph; Muskets vs. Bows and Arrows; The Murder of Daniel Cutway; The Adamite Invasion. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Q-Ships were expendable; The Propagandist; Ape for Murder; Bog for Sale; Sir Barney Rides Out; The Comanche; Beloved Brethren; Cricket's Cavalier Carries his Bat; Dollars for Sports Cars; Clean, Bright and Lightly Toiled; Afro-Eborican Marie Lloyd?; Making a Hole in it; Admirable Bivalve; Concerning Clothes; Homo Sapiens; David Langdon's New York Sketch Book - "Dollar Holiday"; Future Hopes - A.G. Davies and Michael Lindsay; How to Make a Girl Dance in the Nude; Gulliver Awheel; Good Books Lately; and photos of Rita Boel, Shirley Deane and Karen Sharpe - gorgeous centrefold photos; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Ad for 'A Murder is Announced' inside front cover; 'In Camera' column discusses 'Star Wars' with photos; 4-pages pictorial appreciation of the career of Charlie Chaplin; Photo-illustrated interview with Fred Zinnemann; 'The Last Wave' - photos; Tehran 1977 -article on this film festival; 'Looking for Mr. Goodbar' - photos; Photo-illustrated article on the myth and magic of Jean Cocteau (conclusion); Survey of the 21st London Film Festival; 'The Choirboys' - photos; Reviews - 'The Amsterdam Kill', 'Assault on Precinct 13', 'The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training', 'Canal Zone', 'Eight Hundred Heroes', 'The Gauntlet', 'The Last Remake of Beau Geste', 'Mustang', 'Roller Coaster'; Photos on location of 'The Big Sleep'; 'Let's Get Laid' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1901. Cloth. 8vo. 440 pages. Sepia portrait of McKinley facing title page. SUBJECT (S) : McKinley, William (1843-1901) ; Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) ; Garfield, James A. (1831-1881) ; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) . Gilt lettering and design on cover. Minor wear to edges, spine and edges of textblock. Otherwise in Very Good condition. (MISC-1-4).
pp. xxiv, 388, (4) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis Engraved by R. Cooper. Text foxed. Uncut and unopened. Edges fragile. 185mm. Virtually disbound. This is a good a candidate for rebinding. This original 1824 First Edition is quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! CRIME BX 1
Cover illustration depicts 'First-Aid' for Fighting Tanks. Topics: Photo of British Troops at the St. Quentin Canal; What the British Army Has Done, by Lovat Fraser; Great Joy in Lille Delivered from the German; General Ludendorff by Hamilton Fyfe; Bridging Difficulties on the Road to Victory; Helps and Hindrances along the Lines of Advance; Real & Realistic Tanks in the War-Swept West; Free after Four Long Years of Oppression; Ostend won back from Unconquerable Belgium; Foiling the Foe from the Alps to the Adriatic; Ministering Women Whom Men Hold in Honour; Hun Obstacles that Failed to Hinder the French; With the 'Chinks' (Chinese Labourers) in France - Stories of Loyal Helpers from the Far East; Murder on the High Seas by the Kaiser's Minions; On Active Service - Glimpses of V.A.D. Work; Valiant Men Rewarded with the Victoria Cross; 'Back to Your Beer-Mugs' - Germany from Within by Frederic William Wile. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy copy. Book
Stories: The Female of the Species; A Weighty Problem; The Town of Ghosts; The Judge's Joke; On Patrol; The Djimat; Adventure Ahoy; The Doctor's Jacket; A New Zealand Man-Hunt; Rough Luck; The Phantom Gunman; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery. Above-average but not excessive wear. Book
72 pages. Many black and white reproductions of fascinating archival photos. Features: Robert Clay Allison (The Wild Wolf) - the cowboy gunfighter born near Waynesboro in Wayne County, Tennessee; The Early Cattle Trails - Three Mountain Road, Wilderness Road and Bay State Cowpath were forerunners of the Longhorn highways; Dakota Mail Riflers and Special Agent John B. Furay; A Hallway in Hades - Quicksilver/Mercury discovery on a section of land owned by Howard E. Perry east of Terlingua, a hamlet of jacals in the Big Bend in Brewster County, Texas; A Man the Earth Talked To - Senator John Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst; The Indians Named Him Shine - Shine Smith's work with and huge Christmas parties for the Navajo on an impoverished reservation; Murder at the Sawdust Pile - Martin Zidmair and murder near Livinston, Montana circa 1903; Prettiest Girl at Wimberley's Mill, Texas - Virgie L. Moritz (nee Mayes); Peyote Priest - James Kassanovoid, Comanche; Iron Horse vs. Dobbin - the Siskiyou Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad connected Eugene with Medford, Oregon; A Town of Gourds - Calabasas in the Santa Cruz Valley, Arizona; Fleet-footed Frontiersmen - William Price Cooper outran Indians, and their ponies, to save his skin; 101 memories, and then some! - Col. Frank S. Giles and the 101 Ranch; Leechtown Legends - small gold rush town 20 miles northwest of Victoria, British Columbia at the junction of the Leech and Sooke Rivers ; Twenty Years among our hostile Indians - their characteristics, customs, habits, religion, marriages, dances and battles; Mrs. Faye Shobert of Central City, Colorado discovers Lost Gold Mine on her property!. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of RFK; Where is he now? - G. (Gerard) David Schine once worked closely with Joe McCarthy; Article and photos on the passing of RFK sadly entitled "Once Again"; Bobby's Last, Longest Day - article with colour photos; Sirhan Sirhan "There Just Hasn't Been a Nicer Boy"; James Early Ray arrested in London; Vietnam war coverage; Submarine 'Scorpion' and her 99-man crew declared "presumed lost"; "Sweet Assasin" Valerie Solanas attempts to kill Andy Warhol - article with photos; Nice colour-photo two-page ad for WTOP-TV features Sir Patrick Dean and Lady Dean in the Embassy of Great Britain in Washington; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A sound vintage copy of this informative but painful issue. Book
Features: Sixguns on the Diamond - a story of athletics as played on the frontier; Murder at Escondido; The Strangulation of Damian Romero - it was Sheriff Mason Bowman's first hanging and he wanted everything to go right... of course it didn't; Photographer with Custer - William H. Illingworth; Samuel Kyburz - the forgotten man who helped Sutter settle California; Cowboy Mutiny - the Nefsey Brothers; Bad Blood - The True Story of Harry Tracey - the first complete account of the Notorious Pacific Northwest Outlaw - long article with many photos; Erastus 'Deaf' Smith - he gave one momentous year to the Texas Revolution; Horse and Buggy Doctor - Dr. C. Dana Carter Served the Wilds of Wyoming; Old West Cookery - Foods of Early California, with recipes; Alf Bolin's Reign of Terror. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Why you can't fool the radar cops; 3-panel colour fold-out - Man's fastest rides on land, sea and air; The Navy's inert fabrication mill being built by Universal Cyclops Steel Corp. at Bridgeville, PA; Why Men Murder; Learning to live with the sonic boom; Riding Lawn Mowers; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Collision on the High Seas; The Co-ed or the Townie; By Boats Possessed; The Sheriff Who Never Gave Up; Fire at the Cocoanut Grove - the Boston nightclub became a furnace, trapping 1,000 revelers in one of the worst disasters in America's history; Three Brides, a Bathtub, and Murder; Saga's Photo Contest; Mel Ott - The Boy Wonder; The Marine in the Halloween Mask; The Big Build-up; The Most Versatile Shotgun Sport; Von Richtofen - The Last Knight of Battle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Stories: Buried Treasure in Britain; The Last Voyage; Truscott Investigates; The Pennsylvania Witch Murder; The Unmasking of Gola Sing!; California Here I Come; Black Devil; What Happened to Jim Wood?; Shaitan Shadd; The Mutton Bird; Mechanically-Minded; Lost in a Swamp; The Kangaroo Hunters. Above-average wear. Book
Stories: Murder on the Border; The Laplanders of Norway; Hummingbird Haven; Murmansk Convoy; Hunting the Cattle Rustlers; Happy; Entombed Beneath the Sea; The Skull Tobacco Box; Sharks on the War Front; Koch of the Corio; Lobengula's Treasure; Jurisprudence; Crocodiles Kill in Africa; Goanna Hunting. Average wear. Book
104 pages. Features: Devastation in Tornado Alley - Xenia, OH, Louisville, etc.; Nixon and the IRS; Two-page color-photo ad for Zenith's new Allegro speakers; News from the House Judiciary Committee investigating Watergate; The President's brothers, F. Donald and Edward; Trial of United Mineworkers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle for murder; Color-photo ad for the Cabrice Classic by Chevrolet features formal couple in back seat; Patty Hearst chooses to side with her captors, the S.L.A.; With the end of the Apollo program Cape Canaveral is a ghost town of gantries; The nuclear energy debate; Passing of Georges Pompidou; Israel looks back in anger at being unprepared for the October war; Violence in Northern Ireland; Ferdinand Marcos - one man's mission; Japanese tourists pray for war dead on Leyte; China condemns U.S. activity in Cambodia; Article and colour photos of Henry and Nancy Kissinger on their Acapulco honeymoon; Article and color photos of the QE2 broken down and adrift near Bermuda; Operation Auntie Fannie at Manhattan's Sotheby Parke Bernet Galleries; Color ad for the Volvo 164; Indicted financier Robert Vesco; Hank Aaron keeps hitting home runs; The Toronto Northmen of the W.F.L. attempt to lure Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield - article with photo; The delicate subject of inequality; Color photo of Dr. John C. Fletcher in Toyota Corona ad; Honda Civic ad shows its excellent fuel consumption compared to the competition; The Instant Nostalgia of Pop Art - article with color examples by Robert Rauschenberg Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns; Photo of Isabel Rittenhouse in Kelly Girl ad; American Electric Power System full-page ad with ilustration of Arab shutting the oil spiggot... again; Sebring-Vanguard, Inc. of Sebring, FL has build four electric car prototypes of the Citicar - article with photo; Excellent Camaro ad features attractive red car; Major review, with photos, of Robert Pirsig and his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Communes barred at Belle Terr, Long Island; Ballantine's whisky ad inside back cover features illustration inspired by film The Great Gatsby; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
78 pages. Features: Homage to the Apollo 11 astronauts; Green Berets Under Trial - 8 members of Special Forces Unit B-57 (Black Beard) charged after alleged Vietnamese double agent is killed; Ted Kennedy - living with the whispers after the death of Mary Jo Kopechne; Gory details of the murder of Sharon Tate; The Conglomerate of Crime - article with photos of Carlo Gambino, Sam Giancana and Meyer Lansky; Ulster engulfed in sectarian strife; Battle on thhe Sino-Soviet Border - Sinkiang; Israel - commanding the skies; Indonesia annexes West Irian; Billy Martin punches out Dave Boxwell; Mae West to join Raquel Welch in new movie; Jets vs. the everglades; Mormon records in Little Cottonwood Canyon; LA Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: A Horse Named Prune; From Chilkoot to Bear Paw - how an artist-author has paid an old debt to a nameless Indian - Ed Lung and William Stacey; The Mogollon Rim Murder - Savage Years in Arizona Territory; Rogue of the Colorado - Fogg Coffey; Cleall Castle - Piggott's Folly, Portland, Oregon - one of the unhandiest dwellings in the west!; What Became of Jesse Evans; Nicotinitus - the amusing tale of Archibald Elmo Holstine and his son Lawrence and their Saskatchewan winter adventure when they ran out of tobacco!; The man who was never convicted - Cantu and his companion flood Mexico with phoney US banknotes; Dad rode with the Wild Bunch - Bert Charter's son gives an interview; Fifty Chancy Years - Ebb Riggs, lawman; Three Men and Three Hundred Hosses - Heading east from Winnemucca and selling as they rode; Wild Old Days!; Mary Bickerdyke and General Sherman - how a nurse and a professional soldier became friends; The Jobbers - Long X Ranch in Montana; Dan Thomas - Town Tamer of Keeler, California. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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
96 pages. Features: Blood Money - A Swedish Mercinary in R.F.C. Uniform and the most merciless killer on the Western Front; Murder in the Mess - A modern R.A.F. Bomber Squadron is the setting of Murder in an Officer's Mess; Smoking Prohibited - Misadventure in the Fleet Air Arm; True Story - Continuing the Personal Narrative of a Young Airman who fought in Spanish War Skies; A Spot of Snooping - A Bristol Fighter and its mission where success meant a German Gaol and failure the annihilation of fifty thousand men; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
40 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Prohibition and the Runners of Rum (Alberta); Phantom (Growler) of the Unuk River Country; Murder at the Mount Sicker Hotel - miner Fred Beach goes on a rampage with his Winchester; The Silk Connection - the silk train roared from Vancouver to New York with her valuable cargo of silk from the Orient; West Kootenay Memories - the village of Procter; Wild Old Days; Billy Newcombe - son of Dr. C.F. Newcombe; Victoria's First Mayor Was a Character - Thomas Harris; The Great Fire at Miramichi, October 7, 1825; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Contents: The Apprentice Assassin; The Well-Adjusted Husband; The Girl Who Did Everything Wrong; Showdown in Death Canyon; I'm Always Surprising Myself; The Face of America - The Young Rocketeers (2 page colour photo); I Played (Baseball) Without Eating - Bob Cerv of the Kansas City Athletics played 28 games with a broken jaw!; Mr. Astor Outfits the Army - with several old black and white photos; Colossus on Broadway - The Story behind the $75 million effort to establish New York's new Lincoln Center project; This Dirt is Worth Millions - Powerful U.S. aluminum companies encountered many problems when they undertook to mine the valuable bauxite on the racially complex island of Jamaica; I Married Murder;. Above-average but not excessive wear. One by two inch chip from bottom edge of back cover which features colour ad for Camel cigarettes. Binding intact. Worthy copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Doctor's Diary - Typhoid Fever; Cast a Tender Spell (short story); "I Cooked For The Queen" - colour-photo-illustrated article by Mrs. Alma McKee includes recipes; We've Learned to Live With Fear - colour-photo-illustrated article by Mrs. Graham Hill about her race car driver Graham Hill; Forever is a Long Time (short story); The Right Way to a Beautiful Neckline; Photo of Brigitte Bardot before many cameramen; Always in Fashion - three pages of clever, datelss clothes picked for you to buy now and love for years - article with lovely colour photos; One-page colour ad for John Moores high fashion for women; Design for Murder (serial); Photo of the Lancashire Hot-Pops "The Hollies"; Many nice ads; and more. Pages 5/6 missing. Page 51 loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
