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20002414Stock 2000 159 pages 21 4x13 4x1 6cm. 2000. Broché. 159 pages.
2 vols., [of 4], 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS, uncut, covers very lightly dust-soiled else both very good, bright, crisp copies, now housed in custom-made solander case lettered in gilt. As usual, the collation is variable. The tracts included here are: The History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans (first printed 1764); Authentic Narrative of the Massacre of Glencoe (first printed 1693); The Murder of James I (MS written in 1440); Buchan's Description of St. Kilda (first printed 1773); Supplement to the History of the Feuds and Conflicts among the Clans (MS writen about 1656). Each tract has its own printed title and pagination; thus many volumes were broken for the tracts to be sold individually; copies in the original wrappers are rare. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
2012775132012 Editions Belfond - 2012 - In-8, broché couverture illustrée - 260 pages
58 pages. Features: 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' - major article and great photos - a *must* for the Monty Python collector!; 'The Last Fifties Picture Show' - photos; Major photo-illustrated article on Orson Welles and his films; Festival Preview - photos; Reviews; 'Horrible Things' - photo-illustrated article on the adult films of Pete Walker; 'The Man With the Golden Gun' - photos; 'Fantastic Planet' - illustrations. Ads: 'The Night Porter' (inside front cover); 'Murder on the Orient Express'; 'Fantastic Planet' and 'Crystal Voyager'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 102 pages. Blurb taped to front endpaper.
Pages 273-360, plus 24 pages of great ads. Features: The Black Hand - a curious story of the abortive Egyptian revolution; The Land of Model Husbands - In the Marshall Islands women are the queen of all they survey - fascinating article with many wonderful photos; "Blue Mary's" Last Run; Photo of petrified forest in Arizona; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 2; The Smallest Republic in the World - interesting photo-illustrated article on San Marino; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 4 - Exploration and Adventure in Unknown New Guinea; The Ship That Sought Adventure - The skipper of the "Zodiac" was a glutton for excitement during the anxious days of the submarine campaign during WWI; Cave-Dwellers of Today - article with wonderful photos of cave-homes around the world; Blue Bandits - Part 2 - criminals who operated near the Italian/French border murder the Abbe Rossignol of La Bessee; On Foot Through South America - Part 3 - the wilds of northern Peru; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 2 - the adventures and daring escape of airman Capt. T.W. White; A Human Tiger - a man in British Baluchistan declares war on the government; Photo of airplane caught high in a tree near Coshocton, Ohio. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
8814In 12 broché, couverture en couleur de R. Parry, n°43 de la Collection détective librairie Gallimard 1935 édition originale. Bon exemplaire
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's name on front end paper. 220 pages.
1984100108937Penguin Publishing Group 1984 560 pages 19 6x3 6x12 4cm. 1984. Broché. 560 pages.
Usual library labels and stamps. Cover is plastic protected. Book is cocked, boards edgeworn. The book has been much read and the binding is cracking in places but still holding, and the contents are clean. Contains some illustrations. Ex-Library
31941Monaco, Editions du Rocher, 2003. 16 x 24, 272 pp., quelques illustrations, broché, très bon état.
200311405DU ROCHER 2003 271 pages 15 4x2 2x23 2cm. 2003. Broché. 271 pages. Claude Mossé historien et grand reporter réouvre le dossier de l'affaire Dominici un triple meurtre survenu en 1952 en Provence. Dans cet ouvrage publié aux Éditions du Rocher en 1993 il mène une enquête approfondie et défend l'innocence de Gaston Dominici condamné à mort puis gracié en proposant une explication logique à cette énigme criminelle médiatique
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
Features: Alaska Bound - Kenneth Gideon, a young mining engineer, heads for Crow Creek, Alaska; Double Hanging at Lincoln - a daughter writes of her father's murder and of its traumatic aftermath; Slate Mountain's Golden Tunnel - is really a golden tomb; Bully of the Town - Denton, Texas; A Trek to the Gold Fields; When Horse Trading was a Profession; Henry Wickenburg's Old Colt - brief glory with the Vulture Mine, then disillusionment; Tame the Wild River - Major Frank McLaughlin and what he did to the Feather River; Horsehead Crossing; The Stolen Claim; and more. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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
96 pages. Features: Palestine Party - The Air Fleet Arm is sent into action to meet the Greatest Menace of the Arab Rebellion; Masquerade Murder - the Squire's 'Ghost Plane'; Raiders Ride High - A Hybrid Monster bears a load of venomous purpose; True Narrative - The Conclusion of a British 'Ace' who served in the War in the Air from First to Last; The Bloke in the Bowler - When certain Brain Guys from the U.S.A decided to go into aviation, Flt.-Lt. Kinley of the Secret Service was bound for adventure; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Upper right corner of front cover obscured. Book
Volume I, No. I of this publication. Contents include two long complete novels of war flying entitled "One Man's War", a tale of a Handley-Page night-bomber, and "Gas-Bag Aces", a tale of Seaplane and Blimp adventures of the Coast Defence Forces in the Great War; Terror in the Sky - A Pilotless R.A.F. Fighter crashes in the centre of New York; Murder in the Air - The Red Prop School trained the Foreign Legion of the Air; Cundall of the Camels - The remarkable life of a Camel pilot of the R.F.C. on the Western Front; Real Life Adventures - Crashing Aeroplanes for Movie Thrills and Thrills and Spills in Parachuting; and more. Interesting cover illustration depicts kilt-wearing machine-gunner. Above-average wear. Binding intact. 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: 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
70 pages. Features: The Grand Manner - a modest young man in love (Frederick Nebel); Invitation to Dance - The girl who stole a lipstick (Libbie Block); White Man's Burden - in defense of a lady and a tropical isle (Will F. Jenkins); On the Bench - Harun-al-Rashid in modern dress (Frank Condon); Very Much a Lady by Alec Rackowe; Man with a Past - Romance of a stagecoach guard (Ernest Haycox); I Love You Again, Part VI - Suspicion of Murder (Octavus Roy Cohen); Castle Key, Part II - Get up and Fly Again (Dwight Mitchell Wiley); Under Chiang Kai-shek's Hand - Number One in Asia, with photos (Jim Marshall); The Minsky Kids, H.K. and Morton - Art School for strippers/burlesque (Henry F. Pringle); High School Hero - Mr. Bob Feller - The $100,000 rookie (Kyle Crichton); You're the Cook - Kitchen Calm (Betty Thornley Stuart); Who Taught You to Drive? - It's never too late to learn (T.R. Carskadon). Page 23 is a wonderful full-colour ad for a food product called Karo which features charming photos of the Dionne quints (quintuplets). Page 25 is a nice colour ad for Packard cars. Super colour centerfold for the Hudson automobile. Excellent two-page colour ad for Nash cars on pages 48-49. Interesting United Airlines ad on page 55 - does not resemble contemporary air travel! Two-colour Ford V8 truck ad inside back cover. Interesting colour Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover suggests that their product offers 'throat protection'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
244 pages. Features: Nice color photo Miller beer ad inside front cover; Dewar's Whisky ad features Barbary Waterston; James Deakin looks forward to the 1972 election with emphasis on Harold Hughes; Times Change, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - reflections from the class of '40; Too Bad - reflections on high-school students from the Class of now; Six Jobs looking for women applicants - hockey goalie, forest ranger, university president, construction worker, ladies' shoe salesman, locker room attendant; Son and Hair, by Thomas Berger; If Hitler asked you to execute a stranger, would you?; Helen Burley Brown only wants to help; Personal Helicopters; The War Machine vs. the Peace Machinist; Otto and Bruno, by Jonathan Strong; Phone Lovers take heart - new telephone products; Kirk Douglas at Large... and getting larger, by Roger Ebert; Three Harvard travelers tell you how to travel the world on the cheap - Franklin Chu, Larry Gage, and Dan Ardrey; Photo Series - how to take your pants off while wearing chains; The Murder of Jeremy Harlowe; Doing it the Hard Way - New York sculptor Harvey Citron; European fashion report with photos. Many great vintage photo ads. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Feature articles include: The Apish Origins of Human Tension; The Hard Kind of Patriotism; The Impregnable Boston Symphony; How America "Solved" the Servant Problem; Rockefeller's Triple-threat Brain Trust; The Case for Fast Drivers; Washington's Chance for Splendor; The Troubled Conscience of American Business; The Military's Limited War Against Segregation; A special duty for Republicans; Special Supplement - The Tangled Romance of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson; Whatever happened to the peaceful atom; Our Most American Animal; "Consider Me a Communist" - a Portrait of Evtushenko; Latin - the Church's Mother Tongue?; On the Road in Brazil; Governing Buckley by the Numbers; Danger in our Medical Labs; Louisiana's Wonderful Invention; The Multiversity; Be My Host; Balanchine's Return to Russia; How Not to Integrate the Schools; The Lost World of Cape Canaveral, 1911; Is Kindness Killing the Arts?; How Buinessmen Can Fight "Big Government" - and win; Days and Nights in Texas; Mrs. Roosevelt Does a TV Commercial; Restraints on American Catholic Freedom; My Anti-headache Diet; Africa's New Elites; California Wines - A Look at the Vineyards around the Golden Gate; How to Treat the Broadway Malady of 1963; The Slow, Quiet Murder of Tax Reform; Detroit's Surprising Mayor; The Debate Over Velikovsky - An Astronomer's Rejoinder; The Angry Young Women; and more. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Usual library markings. Book
