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78 pages. Features: Battleship Killer - The War's Strangest Story - Torpedo-riding Italians sank enough British ships in Alexandria Harbor to give the Axis the advantage in the Mediterranean - but the Axis never knew it!; Our Reeking Halls of Justice (part 1 of 2); The Glory Road (part 2 of 2); Stampede in Stamps - Stamps become a popular investment - with photo of Joe Granville (presumably the same Joe Granville who went on to a successful career on Wall Street); Oh, You Beautiful Blonde! - Marie Wilson; Is the Witch Doctor Helping You? - century-old secrets of primitive medicos are turning out to be cure for diseases that have baffled modern medical men for years. Fiction: There Are Older Things Than War; Brood of Evil; Set in Concrete; Willow Woman; No Sentiment; Pride's Castle (part 3 of 8); Cleveland Indian reliever Gene Bearden; Back page opinion column regarding the recommendations of the Hoover Commission. Includes these ads: B.V.D. Sports Shirts, Zenith Televisions, Mercury cars, GM (nice 2-page color ad), Ford car color photo ad with black lawn jockey appearing twice, Nice color one-page ad for the U.S. Army, Pincor lawn mowers, Spam, Durkee's margerine, Mallory hats, Lucky Strike colour photo ad features pretty lady river fishing. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
84 pages. Features: The Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, visits Canada; How to Fix a Horse Race - Swabby Swartz, thief turned mastermind, is caught at Fort Erie - article with many photos; The Shadow of the Duke of Windsor - part 2 of a series on the family in the palace by Pierre Berton; Karsh photographs Ottawa - including rare photo of Canadian Cabinet in session; The Bolshevik and the Wicked Witch, story by J.N. Harris - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Where's the Money Coming From? - the Crisis in Education; Nova Scotia's Strangest Son - A Maclean's flashback to Joseph Howe; Never Never Trust a Bull, by Thomas Walsh - many Canadians are injured by bulls - the killer with the poets eyes; Soups You Can Cut with a Knife - with cartoon illustrations by Oscar Cahen, Duncan MacPherson, George Feyer, Desmond English, Peter Whalley, and William Winter; You Can't Beat Kelly's Bear Grease - Kelly Chamandy is Canada's leading distiller of bear grease and the country's only licensed butcher of bear meat, beaver meat, muskrat meat, and raccoon meat; Nice ad for Allis-Chalmers excavating equipment; Nice full-page colour ad for Ganong's chocolates; Nice GM of Canada ad says "12,176 pairs of hands work on every car and truck..."; 1953 Meteor car ad; 1953 Chevrolet ad; REO truck ad; Elegant full-page ad for the Packard automobile; GE Push-Button Range ad; 1953 Ford Monarch V-8 ad; Nice colour 1953 Studebaker ad inside back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A high-quality copy. Book
1954000697Paris Flammarion 1954
20 pages. Features: Jim Bouton of the New York Yankees - a Pitcher Who Paints; Nice one-page color-photo ad for Purina SeaNip Dinner for cats; Between Waking and Sleeping - article on hypnosis; (part 2 in the study of hypnosis); Truth or Consequences (fiction); Nice three-color retro Rexall centerfold ad; One-page color-photo ad for Safeguard Soap shows floating bar of soap; Recipes for "No-Cook Cooking"; Photo of Sue Cole of Irwin, PA meeting the Beatles; Teen Q&A; Nice half-page color ad for Open Pit brand BBQ sauce; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of chef Finn Gurholt, marine supply distributor Malcolm W. Frasier and Marion Brand; How did Security Agent Selena Mead know? - with photo of her author, Patricia McGerr; Nice color-photo back cover ad for Hidden Magic Hair Spray features smiling model in witch costume. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
76 pages. Features: Politics in Khaki - The Inside of the Canadian Army High Command - McNaughton and Crerar stepped on Monty's toes - here's the record, revealed for the first time; Childhood's No. 1 Enemy - rheumatic fever; Battle of the Peacemakers - meeting at Paris; Witch of Endor - fiction; Kate Holliday gets a Hollywood makeup makeover; It rained poison after Bikini Islands' fifth atom bomb test - with photo; Hard rock miners; Honor of the Company - fiction; Flivvers in the Sky - fly your own plane; The Good Catch - fiction; Golfing Cop - Henry Martell - article with photo; Hell's Gate is open - upgrades allow Fraser River salmon to get further upstream - article with three photos; Nice ad for Waterman's pens with cheerleader theme; Fantastic full-page colour photo ad for Good Year tires features Mountie helping young lady in mountain valley; Superb Caterpillar bulldozer ad - "Boss of the Bulldozers"; Nice Fleet Aircraft ad; Nice colour photo Studebaker ad inside back cover; Fantastic painted Coke ad on back cover features partying group of young people at table; and more. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 311-374. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: A Sketch of Marlborough, N.H - feature article with many photos including a full-page shot of the town; By Artist's Fall; Deus ex Machina - a phonographic phantasy; Witch Hazel; Whittier and his poetry; A song of the pine forest; Representative Agriculturists - Warren Tripp of Epsom, William H. Ryder of Bedford; Inspiration; Through New Hampshire with Hammer and Pick; Good by and welcome; Polly Tucker - continued; Educational department; New Hampshire Necrology. Some peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy copy. Magazine
Features: According to the Law - Lieut.-Col. G.H. Keighley-Bell recalls his adventures with Kurds around 1919; Cut Out and Get Out - Tom H. Inkster recalls logging on Vancouver Island - photos; A Pint for the Man Who Breaks his Oar - fishermen at Aldeburgh, "The Wild Amphibious Race"; A Witch Doctor and the Bride - a Zulu Tale; The Sea Arab - a white man becomes a man of the sea in the tropical islands; Death to the Whites - Lolo St. Paul of the Shuswap Indians in British Columbia taught the law of the White man to the Indians, but to the pioneer-settlers he represented the law of the Redskin - excellent and little-known B.C. history with photos; Outcast of the Silent City - An Indian Adventure; I Lived in the Stone Age - studying aborigines of Australia; The Lost World of Jimmy Angel - a tale of gold, diamonds and Angel Falls, a mile-high waterfall in Venezuela; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding beginning to open at bottom but everything still holding together. Book
Features: Nice full-page colour ad for Viyella; Canada's Next Boom - Robert Winters' Hydro-Power development at Hamilton Falls, Labrador - by Peter C. Newman; Getting to know wolves on a personal basis, by Farley Mowat; My Colleagues, the Witch Doctors - Dr. Raymond Prince, a Canadian psychiatrist's African journal; The triumph and troubles of Place des Arts; The great communist scare of the Thirties in Canada - a Maclean's flashback; To the Little Red (Canadian) School House; My long search for a cancer serum, by Dr. Gordon Murray; The Social Side of the Cold War, by Mordecai Richler; Journey down the railway that couldn't be built - the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Line; Colour Coke photo ad on back cover features many guys reaching from bus for Cokes from a girl outside. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Reports of Success Treating Mental Illness at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, KS; A Routine Miracle - Insulin, Penicillin, Open-Heart Surgery, Transplants - now the latest in turing the miraculous into the commonplace; The Witch Who Wasn't (children's story); Checklist for Childhood Diseases - with list of recommended vaccinations; The Big Gain on Heart Disease; The Mysterious Persimmon. Color ads include: Great one-page photo ad for Log Cabin brand syrop which features a bear trying to open a a syrup bottle; Campbell's Soup - two new Farm Country Soups - Noodles & Ground Beef and Old Fashioned Vegetable; Charming 2/3-page illustrated ad for Libby's Sloppy Joes BBQ Sauce; Gerber Baby Foods - with tips provided by Mrs. Dan Germber, mother of five; Sensational Pillsbury centerfold ad presents 22 color photos of their various home baking products available in your grocer's dairy case; Stouffer's Frozen Foods; Vermont Maid Syrups; *Mouth-Watering* 3/4-page color-photo ad for Royal choclate pudding; Soft-Weve bathroom tissue by Scott. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
116 pages. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: The Big Money; Subdivisions; Marathon; Turn the Page; Manhattan Project; Mission; Distant Early Warning; Mystic Rhythms; Witch Hunt; The Rhythm Method; Force Ten; Time Stand Still; Red Sector A; Closer To The Heart. Store stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this great Rush collectible. Book
417275Mayflower. Paperback. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. "The Devil's Prayerbook - or The Book of Shadows - has always been a secret book. For many hundreds of years even the suspicion of witchcraft could lead to torture and death. To be found in possession of this book - the actual rituals of witchcraft- would be proof not mere suspicion. This then is the book previously hidden to outsiders. Even now the author prefers to remain anonymous." He was for many years an active member of a witches' coven. he participated in withchcraft ceremonies and witnessed all the innermost secrets of the craft. Mayflower paperback
186016155Paris, Librairie Académique Didier et Cie, 1860 ; in-12 ; demi-veau glacé vieux rouge, dos lisse à faux-nerfs et titre dorés (reliure de l'époque) ; (2) ff., 450, 8 pp. de catalogue de libraire.
xxiv, 65-126 pages. Features: Return from the Dead - three fishermen face hell adrift for months in the Atlantic - with map and photo; Awakening to Nightmare (on Elephant Island); The Train Jumpers - Francis Dickie recalls a nightmare journey jumping a train from Portland to San Francisco - with photos of the author; The White Rhino Hated Cars - article with photos; 50 Tons of Gold - the ongoing search for "Valverde's" Inca gold - article with photos and map; Terrorists On My Tail - A reporter under attack in Morocco - article with photos; Ringing Gannets off the coast of Scotland; Men of Site "X" - the ice and blizzard-ridden existence of men on the DEW line across northern Canada and Alaska; The Terrible Carpet of Bones - the terrible slaughter of the buffalo herds; The Curse of Pulo Jehat - the evil of a witch doctor survives his death; The End of the Hoodoo 'Bambo'; Pirates Aboard! - China Sea pirates board the s.s. Hong Bee - article with map and photo of the ship; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
1975012973Mayflower 1975. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Very Good With Light Handling Wear Pp 93 Scarce <br/> <br/> Mayflower paperback
Features: Brennan goes Trapping - a young Irishman joins a party of trappers setting out for wild country in Canada; A Matter of Command - Master and Mate did not get along; "Chink-Running" - smuggling Chinese into America across the Detroit River; Desert Cities of M'Zab - driven out of North Africa, the Mozabites fled south and settled in the Sahara; A Man of Mettle - a Kashmiri Headsman aids four R.A.F Officers on leave; The White Porpoise - what happened when a couple of youngsters used a home-made harpoon in Loch Long, Scotland; Land Without Women - Greek monasteries where females have not been allowed for almost a thousand years; Boom Boat replaces the famous boom man on the North American West Coast; Muhammad Ali's Quest - a Red Sea Tale; Ten Tragedies - 10 mutilated corpses are found in West Africa; A Witch at Work - African divination; and more. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
Features: Brennan goes Trapping - a young Irishman joins a party of trappers setting out for wild country in Canada; A Matter of Command - Master and Mate did not get along; "Chink-Running" - smuggling Chinese into America across the Detroit River; Desert Cities of M'Zab - driven out of North Africa, the Mozabites fled south and settled in the Sahara; A Man of Mettle - a Kashmiri Headsman aids four R.A.F Officers on leave; The White Porpoise - what happened when a couple of youngsters used a home-made harpoon in Loch Long, Scotland; Land Without Women - Greek monasteries where females have not been allowed for almost a thousand years; Boom Boat replaces the famous boom man on the North American West Coast; Muhammad Ali's Quest - a Red Sea Tale; Ten Tragedies - 10 mutilated corpses are found in West Africa; A Witch at Work - African divination; and more. Backstrip mostly chipped away. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
1801323704.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
8vo. First Edition with endpaper maps; red tweed cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly age-soiled at fold-ins. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Dustwrapper artwork by Gino d'Achille.
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
19223790Paris, Champion (Lyon, Imp. Réunies), 1922 ; in-8, broché ; XV pp., 257 pp.
18606630Paris, Librairie Académique Didier et Cie, 1860 ; in-12, broché ; (2) ff., 450, 8 pp. de catalogue de libraire.
19431112Largentière (Ardèche), Imp. Mazel, 1943, in-8, broché, 155 pp.
19123606Paris, Paul Leymarie, 1912 ; in-12, broché ; XXXV (35) pp., 292 pp.
