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Stories: Sturgeon Fishing in Canada; Dynamite Joe; Round the World on Four Shillings; A Cowboy in Trouble; Zaman's Paradise; How We Saved the Indian Empire; The Sign; The flag-pole; Blind Peter; The Lamb-Eater Bore; The Viaduct; Muldoon's Gold Mine. Above-average but not excessive wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Singing Tree - a story from the Bushveld of South Africa; The Road to Romanc - Part I of the amazing round-the-world travels of Cyril Holloway; Photo of ice-fishing in Vladivostock Harbour; Timber-Laden Round Cape Horn - a windjamming tale; An Aeroplane Adventure in Waziristan - the story of a British officer who was captured by the Wazirs; A Tenderfoot in Canada, Part II - a disastrous season on a prairie farm; Trapped in the Volcano of Kilauea, in the Hawaiian Islands; The Hundredth Chance - a story from the Union-Castle cargo-steamer Ripley Castle; What Happened to Ah Fong? - an unsolved Chinese mystery; Monasteries in Mid-Air - the remarkable monasteries of Meteora, in Greece - article with excellent photos; A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" - a cowboy story from Wyoming; The Rogue - a rogue elephant in central Africa; Bakhai, the Rebel of Babban Kurmi; The Mountain of Gold - conclusion of the author's journey to Canada; Nice vintage ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, the Muscle Builder. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Kidnapped by the "Gavilleros"- the British administrator of a large sugar estate on the West Indian island of Santo Domingo is kidnapped; An Island Paradise - photo-illustrated article on the 'progress, civilized, and thoroughly lovable people' of Fiji; Looking Backwards - 25th Birthday of this publication; An Adventure With a Mad Buffalo; Jimmy's Reformation - Jimmy Boncelek used to be the terror of Stigler, Oklahoma; Seeking the Copper Mountain - photo-illustrated account of an eventful journey through the little-known province of Veraguas, part of the Republic of Panama; A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part II - Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains, a picturesque country where the tribal blood-feud still flourishes - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part V - a tramp with a donkey cart, avoiding all modern luxuries; The Tobacco Smugglers of the Belgian Border - photo-illustrated report; A Soldier of Fortune - Part II - remarkable personal narrative smuggled from a man presently incarcerated in a French prison; Splitting the Herd - A cowboy adventure from the Texas plains; Photos of Chinese cave temple at Gunong Rapat in the federated Malay States; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Cover shows smiling cowboy on rearing horse. Features: Wise Old Man - Adventures of author while conducting scientific research in remote Amazonia; A Sailor on Horseback - The American adventures of a former British Merchant Seaman, first as a lumberjack and then as a cowboy on a 'dude-ranch'; He Knew Too Much - A grim story of dope-running on the Egyptian border; Lunch-Time Tiger - Author is called upon to deal with a tiger which was terrifying the inhabitants of a Pathan village; The Castaways of the 'Dundonald' - reprint of one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - describes how a British ship was driven ashore on a barren islet in the remote Southern Pacific, where for many weary months the survivors endured many privations in a desperate struggle for existence; A Taste of Freedom - Three firemen jump ship in a South American port... but fate was against them, and they were almost glad to get back; Ghost-Town Memories - Tourist visit the Western U.S. abandoned mining-camps of long ago; Across the Kalahari Desert - The author traversed the trackless Kalahari in a motor-car by way of a dried-up river bed. Black and white illustrations. Chipping to spine. Above-average wear. Magazine
pp. x, 120. Illustrated with numerous full page photographs. Line drawings by Joe Beeler. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original slightly soiled priced dust jacket, spine sun faded. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. Texas Cowboys like Charles Siringo, "Teddy Blue" Abbot, Frank Abbot, and others. W10
140 pages. Fiction: Let the Arctic Kill Him; Open Fire!; Come to the Wedding; The Women No One Needed; The Artless Heiress (part 2 of 8); No Blade of Grass (conclusion). Articles: The Worst Swindle - how these sordid criminals take $5 million/year from gullible women; How to Hire a Maid; Our Neutral Friends the Austrians; City of Silence - no one in Portsmouth, Ohio could use the phone for 61 days!; The Face of America - beautiful commencement photo by Don W. Jones; Gamest Fish in the Pond - Bass; Luxurious Wilderness - wonderful color photos and story about Jasper Park Lodge, Canada's 'zoo without bars'; America's Oldest Spectacular - Harvard's strange tribal rites before men are sent into the cold, cold world - with photos. Ads: Evinrude outboard ad; Nice color-photo De Soto ad features cowboy leaning on Fireflite 2-door Sportsman in Fiesta red and white; Charming two-page color Texaco ad shows crowd gathered at gas station around family car hauling a boat and motor; Interesting two-page GM ad features photos of John Cupler and his microscopic drills which he turned into National Jet Company of La Vale in Maryland; Buick Roadmaster 75; GE pink washer and dryer; Pall Mall cigarettes; Philco fridges; Salem cigarettes; Beautiful Dodge color photo ad features a swept-wing teale convertible at dusk; Nice color Underwood typewriter ad with 'Golden Touch'; Nice two-page color Chevrolet ad shows yellow Bel Air convertible on the beach; Tareyton; Kodak Brownie movie camera; Yardley grooming products; Rare Dixie Cup ice cream ad; GMC trucks; GE kitchen appliances; Eaton truck axle ad features photo of Paul Swartz, President of Swartz Oil Co.; Nice one-page color-photo Canada Dry ad shows girl with ice cream soda; The Antarctic watch by Croton; Coke ad on back cover features illustration of a scene at Lake Louise. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Tanganyika - bright spot on a dark continent; People on the way up - Mike Ditka - Dangerous Bear, Joan Odell - Lady Prosecutor, James N. Anno Jr - nuclear pioneer, Pamela Tiffin - Instant Star; Tomorrow the moon - colour photo of Titan rocket on pad at Cape Canaveral; PT 109 - the adventure that made a President; Trouble Shooter for Weddings - Mrs. Frances Poetker, Cincinnati Florist; Must our cities be so ugly? - by John E. Burchard; Adventures of the Mind; TV's most unexpected hit - Great article on Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, the Flintstones and Yogi Bear; How to get rich with a rope - Cowpuncher/Cowboy Dean Oliver; The Peacemakers, part 8 (conclusion). Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
644 p.+ Full page color plates by Lejaren A. Hiller. Inner hinge on title page and frontis cracked. Edges foxed. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding. Front board decorated in color with a cowboy on his horse. Binding very slightly soiled. Second edition. Hardbound. Very good. W6
pp. [12] + 32 leaves Joe Belt's wonderful drawings of the West, cowboys, and Native Americans. Oblong 4to. Original two towned full cloth binding, with an exmple of Joe Belt's autograph in gilt. Good. Many of the drawings would look very niced framed. W14 Rt
160 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Nice Jade East bamboo-theme ad; Longines watch ad celebrates their centennial; One-page Carrier ad shows terrible smog in Manhattan; Don Smith - The Bearded, Sockless Radical of Moo U. (Iowa State University); Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White; Governor Nelson Rockefeller Lectures on Art; The Great TV Commercial War; Anti-Americanism is Now Non-U; Master Slacks ad features lady roller derby team; Springmaid color-photo centerfold features sultry Sally Gates; Futurists Who Live in The Year 2000 - Frederik Pohl, Harvey S. Perloff, Anatole France, H.G. Wells, and Daniel Bell; Magnificent seven-page color-photo ad section features multiple variants of the Pontiac Firebird; The Career Child; Full of Tricks - photos of an apartment designed by Hugh and Tiziana Hardy; Nice "Jewish Cowboy" ad by Manischewitz; and more. Above-average external wear. Covers almost loose. Library stamp upon front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Eleven carols for unaccompanied mixed voices: Earth's Joy; Star in the South; Zither Carol; Lullaby; Nature Carol; Mary Had a Baby; De Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy; Silent Night; Praise Ye the Lord; Hawaiian Lullaby; Cowboy Carol. Gift greetings atop title page. Few markings to contents. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. ISBN 0193533804 Book
pp. 360. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's green cloth binding strikingly decorated with a cowboy stamped in black and white and embossed trees set in gilt. Spine decorated with a western design in black white and gilt. Cover and Spine color is crisp. Corners sharp but slightly frayed. First edition. Hardbound. Contents clean. Very Good+. NW59
pp. xviii, 150 + Frontis and full page color plates. Monochrome text drawings. XLib stamps on edges. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. Very good. W2 LStk
64 pages. A wonderful compilation of cowboy songs including Bad Half Hour, Cook's Song, Dying Cowboy, Kingdom Comin', Old Blue, Texas Rangers, Wandering Cowboy, and many more. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this charming work. Book
192 pages. "Through words and illustrations reveals the true character of a western artist, as he was and is. It imparts an intimate view of a talented man, who paints the ideal and romantic, as well as the practical and difficult aspects of the west... His paintings capture a range of feelings including excitement, anguish, bewilderment and thrill." - from dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Fred Oldfield upon half-title page. Book clean, bright and unmarked with negligble wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Lady Murasaki's Masterpiece - the world's first novel; The Tale of Genji - Fine Bone China Shell Collection; The Art of the Cachet - philatelic collectors are finding a divident in their hobby - the outstanding artwork of the cachet; Helen Reddy - her needlework is as important as her music; Decorating with your Collections; Ronald Van Ruyckevelt - the reigning genius of porcelain design; The Cowboy - eternal masterpiece Number 39; Dallas / Forth Worth has become home to many first-rate collections. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Pitcher in the Ivy - satire by George Grey; Apres Moi, La Bombe - humor by Richard M. Gordon; The Lonely Crowd - fiction by John Wisdom; Photo feature of Miss Carol Bayne; Only Her Analyst Knows - humor by Myles Callum; Photo essay of film "Tender and Violent", part of the La Nouvelle Vague movement; A Winter's Tale - fiction by Glenn Canary; Madras Madness - Fashion fad for handwoven Indian fabric; Grim Fairy Tales - satire by Robert Bloch; The Unique Peter Ustinov - article; Photo essay on Miss Nadia Jais; Ruddybore! - satire by Guy Daniels; Photo essay of Dore Orlando; Equity - fiction by Jack Sharkey; Hi Fi - article by Walter Gardener; Fantastic color-photo ad for Wrangler jeans on back cover features lady in baby blue jeans and jacket lifting cowboy dressed in black and red; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
31 cm, brossura illustrata; pp. 196, numerose illustrazioni in nero nel testo e tavole a colori fuori testo
pp. (8), 17-471, 23-35 [Paper read by R.S. Rhodes, of Chicago, at the Fourteenth Convention of American Teachers of the Deaf, at Flint, Michigan], (6) [Illustrated Publisher's catalogue, includes advertisement for the Deaf, The Audiphone, hearing through the teeth] + Frontis and full page drawings. Many pages printed upon light color drawings, red, purple, green and blue, which cover the full page. Note: Six candid original photographs of cowboys pasted on first fly leaves. Four Photographs of cowboys and their horses, one photograph of their bunk house and one photograph of their chuck wagon. Small loss on bottom margin affecting text on pages 143 and 144. Inner hinges slightly cracked. Floral end papers. Paper beginning to brown and slightly brittle. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Original publisher's green cloth binding. Front board decorated in silver with design of a cowboy and his horse within an elaborate border. Spine decorated and lettered in silver. Extremities slightly rubbed with very small loss. Graff 3328; Howes P500; Jenkins. Texas #689; Adams. Rampaging Herd #1819. One of the Earliest Books on the Cowboy. An exceptional artifact of early cowboy culture. W4
pp. 471, (7) [Publisher's catalogue, includes advertisement for the Deaf, The Audiphone, hearing through the teeth and a Catarrh cure, a Nasal Respirator to prevent snoring] + Frontis and full page drawings. Lacks first fly leaf. Inner hinges cracked. Paper browning and slightly brittle. First few leaves penciled scribbled. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Original full black buckram binding. Front board decorated with design of a cowboy and his horse, lacks embossed gilt. Spine also lacks gilt. Graff 3328; Howes P500; Jenkins. Texas #689; Adams. Rampaging Herd #1819. W4
pp. xiii, 257. Illustrated with drawings by William Moyers. Tall 8vo. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps slightly soiled. Revised edition. Very good. W10
256 pages. Features: Jane Shuss; Jasper D'Ambrosi; Alfredo Arreguin; Bruce Hixson Smith; After Barbed Wire - Cowboys of Our Time; Masterpieces of the American West; CAA Gold - a salute to the Cowboy Artists of America; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Green cloth spine. Worn edges and corners. 4"w x 6 5/8"h. 184 pages. Introduction by Alcie Corbin Henderson. Index of first lines. "The hundred songs that make up this book are typical and genuine cowboy songs.... Wherever possible, Mr. Thorp has given the names of the authors of the songs and, when these could not be discovered, the cowboys who sang them, or the place where he found them."
