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237 pages. Clear, simple, easy instructions for locating information on the internet. Secrets for finding people... without breaking the law. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book
in-8°, 384 pages, ill.hors texte N&B, bibliogr., broche, couverture illustree a rabats. Bel exemplaire [TX-6]
Small lime-green octavo in black DJ, 270 pages ; 20 cm. Mystery, fiction. || Uncommon.
No jacket, believed as issued. Hardcover, very good condition, with lightly rubbed brds, some light marks. lightly slanted, somewhat compressed spine, somewhat bumped top corners. very ltly tanned p. edges. Squeaky fr hinge. Cln, tight, unmarked.
in-12., broché, couverture illustrée. Bon état. [BL-11]
32 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Woodrow Wilson Was Best and Worst Copy - his passion for accuracy conflicted with newspapermen who ignored serious things to ask him 'what he ate for breakfast' - part 3; Housekeeping in Our Paris Flat - how two Americans fared in the French Capital and "Got to Love Passy"; ; Never Separated a Single Family - open-door immigration specialists slander the United States Government - Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, urges passage of the most liberal of all the liberalizing measures - the Perlman bill; Life and Death on the Screen - A.C. Pillsbury films bacteria and pollen in action - motion pictures of flower fertilization; What's the Matter With Jim? - the story of a boy who would only work when he thought it play; Mr. Ford's Page - interesting thoughts on the forces involved with prohibition; Editorials - major criticism of the World Court and claim that in Michigan a list of Americans targetted for assassination by communists has been found; Golf - Can You Pick the Champions? - Americans will attempt to capture leading British honors - article with photos of Glenna Collett, Francis Ouimet, Macdonald Smith, Walter Hagen, Watts Gunn, Long Jim Barnes, Bobby Jones and Robert Gardner; Lincoln's Murder - Amazing Man Hunt - John Surratt and Papal Zouave accused of the crime, who leaped for liberty over a hundred-foot precipice - article with photos of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Mary Surratt; What it Costs the Chinese to Worship Their Ancestors - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Is America a Nation of Coffee-Bibbers? - Its people drink upward of forty billions of cups of this seductive beverage each year, consuming more than half of World's Production; Union of Irish and Jews in recent 'propaganda' plays - Abie's Irish Rose, Kosher Kitty Kelly; Great Writers Who Have Failed as Novelists; Seeking to Know What the Earth is Made of - the work of Professor Stjepan Mohorovicic and others; When the Broker Breaks the Law; A Dance a Week - The Lancers, a graceful square dance - first two figures, with piano sheet music (to be continued); Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon offers course in the guardianship of a real baby; The Jolly Old Pedagogue; Back cover features illustration of and quotation by Henry Thoreau. Small chip from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with 58 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Thompson's biography investigates the Queen of Crime as phenomenon, writer and woman. The 'disappearance' is covered in full. The first edition is already elusive in this condition.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Man Who Fought a Regiment - Bandit, murderer and escaped felon, "human monster" Paul Jawarski was pursued by over 250 heavily-armed policemen; The Optimist - The moving story of a gentleman who thought he could make a profitable living out of elephant-hunting; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record - Part I - Robert Copeman and John H.E. Nolan set out from Edmonton for the Gulf of Mexico over 6,000 miles away! - article with photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part III - The continued misadventures of John Gibbons as he tramps from the French coast to Lourdes; "Hitch-Hiking" Across the United States - Alfred Batson hitch-hiked from New York to San Francisco and had some very odd and exciting adventures - includes map and photo; Byways of Old Pekin [Peking / Beijing] - A wonderfully photo-illustrated presentation of the quaint street-life of the unspoiled native quarters of the Chinese capital, where things still go on much as they did in the Middle Ages; What Happened at "Warne's Folly" - A prospector's terrible predicament in an abandoned Queensland mineshaft; The Horns of a Dilemma - A Queensland bushman's amusing account of an argument with a bad-tempered old cow; Saved By Man-Eating Sharks - A deep-sea diver's terrifying experience in the Sulu Sea; "The White Brother of the Sheik" - Part II of W.B. Seabrook's adventurous trip to meet Mitkhal Pasha, Sheik of Sheiks of the Beni Sakhr, with photos; Photo and bried write-up of a large sink hole near Sharon Springs, Kansas; The Mystery of Crocodile Pool - A weird adventure that befell a young police corporal who is now one of the leading officers of the South African C.I.D. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Bill Carlisle, Train Robber - An account of the amazing exploits of a man described as "the last of the train-robbers", who would notify officials when he was about to rob a train!; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part I - A thrilling account of adventures on a remote Dutch East Indies island in pursuit of prehistoric flesh-eating lizards (the Komodo dragon) - with photos; The City of Golden Geese - A lively photo-illustrated account of the foie gras industry in the old city of Strasburg in Alsace; Mungoro Meets His Match - A Rhodesian tale; The End of the Chase - A hunt for a monstrous elephant near Lake Nyasa; Photo of a Kentish stilt-walker in field of hops; The Man in No. 35 - How a British officer discovered, in a Russian prison, Julius Weinberg, a Jewish banker who had actually handed Lenin and his accomplices ten million marks from the German Government in order to finance the Bolshevik revolution that destroyed Russia as a fighting force - the little man knew too much, and paid with his life for his refusal to surrender the incriminating receipts; Cycling Round the World - Part II - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years riding over 20,00 miles! - with photos; The bachelor Homesteaders of British Columbia - A breezy photo-illustrated account of the adventures and hardships of this cheery, happy-go-lucky class of men; The Girl Stowaway of the Cecilie - Part II - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; A Ride in the Night - An officer of the King's African Rifles falls ill on the Abyssinian frontier of Kenya Colony; The Chief's Gift - A tale from a New Zealand sheep farmer; Teddy Murphy's Close Call - A child disappears into a well in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 277pp. The true story of a little boy who was constantly abused by his mother, until he found the strength to fight backand make his future worth something.
in-8°, 237 pages, illustrations en noir, broche, couverture illustree Bel exemplaire. [CA32-2]
Broch?. 508 pages.
Broch?. 287 pages. Rousseurs.
1st edition. Original period boards. 8vo. 328 pages, 21 cm. In German. Includes a 107-page dictionary of Jewish Criminals slang at rear. Title translates to The Jewish Crooks in Germany: Their Tactics, Peculiarities, and Language, along with Detailed News About the Most Notorious Jewish Criminals Staying in Germany and at its Borders. Thiele was a German court clerk in the criminal court in Berlin (Kierkegaard, 2015) . SUBJECTS: Jewish criminals. Jews -- Germany. Cant -- Dictionaries -- German. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide (OCLC: 1423903) , most are in Europe. Spine is chipping. Some pages are lightly soiled, but no loss to text. Overall good condition. Important. (GER-54-4)
219p. Signed by the author Hardcover Very good condition good
Broché. 178 pages.
A small number of classified section listings highlighted with pale colour. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Minor creasing to rear cover. A very clean very tight copy, uper corner of four adjacent pages cut/torn - no loss of text and no bumping to corners. 135pp. This issue includes Dashiell Hammett crime stories, WW Jacobs, E Nesbit's children's books, prisoner-of-war books, Pearson's Magazine and Pearson's Weekly and JRR Tolkien.
A small number of classified section listings highlighted with pale colour. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes Joseph Conrad, Sir Compton Mackenzie, ghosthunter Elliott O'Donnell, 'The Graphic' magazine, Ngaio Marsh crime stories and JM Barrie and 'Peter Pan'.
A very small number of classified section listings highlighted with pale pink. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Minor crease to lower front corner. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes JB Priestley novels and plays, London Books Fairs, Walter de la Mare poet and author, Ellery Queen crime novels, Algernon Blackwood supernatural tales and EM Forster.
Good attendance plate inside front board. Slight traces of fingermarks and foxing to a few pages. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with dusty pictorial board/spine and minor rubbing/bumping to corners. The upper edge of front, rear and spine are slightly damp damaged but no effect to contents. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. 36 pages book adverts plus 192pp. With five stories - Jury-Room Tales; A Mistake and Its Results; Betsy's Beau; The Station-Master's Daughter and A Great Jewel-Robbery.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to upper edge and no bumping to corners. 38pp. How to get your own injunction under the Domestic Violence Act 1976 - put together by Manchester Law Centre and the National Women's Aid Federation. Very scarce.
1st edition. VG paperback. Inscription on the inside front cover. 10902. eng
Two-volume set. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spines. Very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Card slip case not marked or torn or creased. Total of 1152pp.
in-16 broché, couverture "à la Chouette". Tres bel exemplaire, très frais. [CHEM-3-]