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This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket, spine toned. Very clean inside. Bookseller's ticket on the inside front cover for the Samuel Weiser Bookshop in New York, a specialist in the occult. This is a reprint of the 1929 original edition, complete with illustrations on a light green paper, one fold-out. 9" high X 6" wide, 345 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
in-4° de 64 pp., broche, couv. illustree en couleurs. Edition originale en langue francaise.- Tres bel exemplaire. [P-58]
132 pages. Features: Beautiful color fashion ads; Giorgio Almirante is no Mussolini Yet; If You Think It's Groovy To Rap, You're Shucking - article on new vocabulary of the day; J.I. Rodale - Guru of the Organic Food Cult - photo-illustrated article; Six 'Big Lies" About America - featuring one-page illustration of the Statue of Liberty with a Hitlerian face, swastikas around her crown and a grenade in her raised hand; The Party's Over for the Class of '71 - a report from the University of Chicago suggests the nation's June graduates are facing some sobering facts of life; After Vietnam - Another Witch Hunt? - in the aftermath of the Mylai massacre, William Calley and his Captain Medina; Nice color Seiko watch ad; Interesting one-page color-photo ad for Amelia Earhart luggage features nude model; Nice Tissot watch ad; Mother's Milk or Another Milk?; Fantastic one-page color comic-style Dannon Yogurt ad entitled "Fight Fat"; Nice color ad for Louis Sherry ice cream; Photos of the summer cottage of New York Lawyer Lee Eastman; Two-page ad by the Judaic Heritage Society presents "The Medallic History of the Jews of America"; Friendship Dairy Products ad for their Cottage Cheese; Pennsylvania ad features photo of Amish horse and covered wagon. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, First Issue, with coloure frontispiece and line illustrations in the text; original green red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
24 pages. Circa 1920s. Songs include: My Pet, Greenwich Witch, Poor Buttermilk, Kinda Careless, Traumerei, Symphonola. Openings at each end of cover fold. Unmarked with average wear. A decent working copy. Book
grand in-8°, 102 pp, illustrations, broche, couv. Tres bel exemplaire. [BL-5] Actes du colloque organisé aux F.N.D.P. à Namur, le 11 octobre 1980.
Pages 338-420 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: By Water in the Desert - an African witch doctor puts a curse on three white men; "Highclimbing" in the Tall Timbers - photo-illustrated article on high-climbers (high-riggers) of the Pacific Northwest which provides a vivid account of their work and its perils; Kwis-Kwis The Killer - British Columbia police sergeant Letherdale brings to book a most cunning and dangerous murderer in the vicinity of Queen Charlotte Sound; "Within the Law" - an unscrupulous Winnipeg estate agent tries to bring off an extra-smart deal; An African No Man's Land - the first crossing by white men of a queer region in the heart of the Belgian Congo - with photos; My Grandfather's Watch - after a watch is stolen in India, a servant suggests an unusual - and successful - method of retrieving it; Shark Catching Extraordinary - a local fisherman devises a novel method to take care of a shark which is threatening swimmers at a New Zealand resort; Through Spain in Disguise (part II) - Count and Countess Malmignati travel through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars; The Guru's Message - Journalist Colonel Charles Harrison Gibbons lay at death's door near the Khyber Pass but was relieved by a friend from a thousand miles away who was somehow contacted by an old native priest; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" (part IV) - the adventures of six young men sailing from Shanghai to Copenhagen; "On Construction" - the adventures of trying to build a new railway through the wilds of Africa; Experiences with the Alligators of Cambridge Gulf in Australia, with illustration of a Carl Jacobs alligator trap and photo of a massive 'gator caught at Wyndham; A Night with Lions - the appalling experience of corporal Fairweather of the B.S.A. Police on the banks of the Zambezi; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features: Cover photo of the statue of J.Q.A. Ward in Central park; D-Day - An account of the operation from twelve hours before the first seaborne landing to twelve hours after, by Hanson W. Baldwin; France's first year under Charles de Gaulle; Great photo feature on Ethel Merman who stars in "Gypsy"; When the Public Judges the Supreme Court; Science, Psychiatry - or Witchery? - Elspeth Huxley examines what, if anything, the witch doctor does for his patients that might be of value for the rest of the world; Big League Pitching - In addition to brawn, a pitcher needs a brain; Fashion photos of women's sunshade suits; The Business of Baby-Sitting; Danish recipes; How to show off art in your home; One-page ad for Phillies Cheroot cigars inside front cover; and more. 48 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus nice fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 290-382 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: My Escape From the Turks Disguised as a Woman - the incredible story of Private Miron D. Arber and his Sinai ordeal; The Log of the "Moewe" - the adventures of a modern pirate, told by her Commander Count Dohna-Schlodien - article with photos; A Brush with the Kisi - in quest of ivory, J.A. Jordan encounters a hostile African witch doctor; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - William Shaw and a Joke on Justice; On the Borders of Tibet - part IV of the story of two years' wanderings - largely among wild lands and wilder people, whose chief desire is to build the intruding foreigner up in a damp bonfire to smoulder to death - with photos; A Bandit's Bride - Part II of the story of Elena Villa-Pinillos, once married to Mexico's Francisco Villa - no more graphic picture of the state of anarchy and terrorism prevailing in unhappy Mexico can be imagined; Strange Stories of the War; Wang Yin-Shee and the Panther - a missionaries story of a Chinese hunter's terrible experience - a death wrestle with a huge panther; A Flying Man in South Africa - Part V of a very interesting account of John G. Barron's flying adventures- with photos; How We Stole The Tugboat - Sergeant Maurice Prost recounts his sensational escape from the Germans; The Downfall of Dave Rodger - a prospector in the West turns the tables on a 'bad man' and his lawless satellites; "Punch" - the unruly kangaroo pet of nuns at an Australian convent; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. 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