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Features: Robinson Cruesoe's Island; A Fight with a Leopard; The White Slaves of the Grand Banks; In Search of Pearls; The Guardians of the Yukon; The Adventures of a Miniature "Strong Man"; My Tour Through Java; An American "Oliver Twist" - II; The Tragedy of the Tower; In Quest of the Bird of Paradise; A Race with Death; Down the Crank-Pit; "The Land of Enchantment"; The Demon Snake; The Ghost of Musket Flat; Two Days in the Under-World; A Treasure-Hunt in the Arctic; Down the Grand Canyon; Father Raymond's Burglar; Stealing a Secret; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - I; My Friend the Leopard; The Convict's Story; Hunting the Wild Carabao; Six Days in a Swamp; Frog Farms; The Garo's Oath; Tracking the Wire-Thieves; A Tale of Two Tigers; A Lady in Far Fiji - I; "Bud" Turner of Missouri; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - II; Dublin and I; Monsters of the Forest; How Hassan Captured the Battleship; The World's Model Prison; Beseiged by Monkeys; Christmas in Montenegro; The Poacher's Daughter; Through Friesland on Skates; A Speculation in Turkeys; Searching for Castaways; In the Land of the "Long-Lips"; A Chapter of Accidents; A Lady in Far Fiji - III; What Befell the "Kathleen"; The Tragedy of a Swiss Mountain; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - II; The Sea-Hedgehog Harvest; The Sheriff and the "Bad Men"; The Vanished Islands; On the Frontier in Central Africa - I; Running the Blockade; What Happened in Carpenter Creek; 'Twixt Ice and Sea; A Pedestrian's Predicament; Four on a Raft; The Perils of Walrus-Hunting?; The Story of Maungawahati; Sergeant Daley's Ordeal; On the Frontier in Central Africa - II; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - III; The Village of "Scissor-Grinder" Guides; "Slippery Letts"; The Company of Mercy; The Mummy Head; Wide World Picture Tours - I; Two Stowaways; The Mystery of the "Placer"; An Iceberg Ship; Life on a Dahabeeyah; Cornering a Cattle-Thief; Among Brigands and Wild Sheep in Mongolia; Two Men and a Shark; Through the United States on a Bicycle - I. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; 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
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Features include: The Road to Wonderland - Construction of a highway and tunnel through a mountain wilderness in the South Island of New Zealand; Kamal Ram's Come-Back - tale of a stationmaster at Manijan, in northern Assam; Saga of the Snow-Dogs - An account of the Arctic Husky; The Hut-Tax Affair - a tale from Northern Nigeria; All Aboard For Adventure - Part I of a tale of 5 young Americans who set out on a sailboat for tropic seas; The Beneficent Bamboo; Dogsbody - an amusing incident involving a very junior officer aboard a British freighter; The Telephone Mine - Adventures of two South African prospectors in search of King Solomon's Mines; Our Leopard - A Kenyan farmer's story; Down Texas Way - the story of 3 youngsters, a gang of desperate escaped convicts, and a night alarm; Appointment with the Devil - An extraordinary story from Abyssinia; Illustrated in black and white. Covers and spine missing. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
Features: The Mine that Disappeared - a story related by a mining engineer about the Bocanegra Mine; Casshel's Escape - the story of Ernest Casshel, one of the few criminals to ever escape from the "North-West Mounted" (locale - Calgary, Alberta); On the trail of the Dinosaur - a recent expedition into the Colorado River section of the great American Desert, in the State of Arizona, claims to have found not only fossil tracks of the three-toed dinosaur, but a rock-carving of a dinosaur - a picture which man could not have made unless he had seen the reptile he attempted to portray - photos; Babes in a boat - a neophyte sailor and his wife set sail across the Pacific - Part II (conclusion); The Padded Room - one of the most amazing plots in the annals of the French police; Five Greenhorns in Canada - An amusing and illustrated account of the adventures of five inexperienced Englishmen who set forth to make homes for themselves in the Canadian wilderness; Lost in the heart of Peru - an explorer is abandoned by his guide in the upper reaches of the Amazon - part IV (conclusion); The Demon Lion of Bandari - Lion Hunt; At Grips in the Girders - an extraordinary battle; An Alligator-Hunter's Story in Mexico; Part IV of In Search of the Lost Oases - a desert trip from Sollum on the Mediterranean to El Obeid in the Sudan - many photos; The Phantom Reporter - a story from Canada's Pacific Coast by Charles Harrison Gibbons. Above-average wear. Faint owner's name atop front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Nothing loose. Decent copy of this broadly interesting issue. Book
Complete with hundreds of color and black and white photographs, drawing and medieval woodcuts, this book introduces the astonishing world of the unknown - the world of the practitioners of the occult: the alchemists, the devil worshipers, the witches... and the infamous Balck Mass
First edition, 8vo, 80pp., 10 engraved plates, text and plates a little browned and spotted, orig. boards, stained, upper board almost detached.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight wear and curl to text block. Small spots on rear cover. 160 pages.
The Magus - legendary magician of superhuman powers. The author considers the anthropological origins and identifies three distinct phases of the development of the myth.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 330 pages. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Previous owner's name written on front free endpaper. Tear on edge worn dust jacket. Stated First Printing. 240 pages.
96 pages. Very attractively illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white. Chapters include: The History of Jigsaw Puzzles; Themes and Variations; Schoolmasters Puzzle Their Brains; Puzzle the Devil; Nature Puzzles; Going Places; Tell Old Tales; Pieces of History; The Puzzle is the Message; Puzzle Key Pictures; plus index. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Spray of small purple dots to bottom edge and bit of half-title page. Minor bit of adhevise on glossy back cover. A lovely gift for your special jigsaw puzzle afficionado. Very nice copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty untrimmed page edges and bumping to upper corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with small stains to rear and small piece missing from top of sunned spine. 270pp. The Devil's temptation of Saint Anthony. One of 625 copies of a Limited Edition. A translation into English by Rene Francis from the 1849-1856 manuscripts edited by Louis Bertrand, New edition illustrated with twelve drawings by Katherine Low.
ill., ril. Da Giotto a Picasso, da Pollock a Serrano, dai tarocchi ai videogiochi. Il libro di riferimento sulla figura del diavolo, dal medioevo alla cultura pop, dalla storia dell'arte alla letteratura. Una ricchissima storia per immagini dedicata alla storia, alla simbologia e alle manifestazioni del diavolo nell'immaginario collettivo di ieri e di oggi. Il male è una componente dinamica della vita. la sua presenza nell'arte, come personificazione o come emanazione è rivelatrice della struttura costitutivamente polare del pensiero umano. Demetrio Paparoni analizza attraverso un linguaggio chiaro e accattivante la rappresentazione del diavolo e delle manifestazioni del maligno nelle arti d'occidente e d'oriente, di ieri e di oggi, attraverso capolavori della storia dell'arte, incisioni, manifesti, tarocchi, cover di dischi, film, fumetti, oggetti di moda e design, e altre curiosità sul mondo dei demoni, dell'occulto e della stregoneria.
Unpaginated. "His morality encompasses everything from aggressive criticism of corruption and hypocrisy to praise of new nations and of beautiful women." - Timothy Dunn in The Peace Bulletin. Recital handout laid in. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
ix, 208 pages. Footnotes. Index. "A compelling yet tragic tale which, sadly, reflects little credit upon any of the participants." - dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
344p. 8vo. Original stiff paper wraps. "An authentic historical narrative, it takes its dialogue from the actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria that swept Salem Village in 1692. It was a tragedy of individuals, which underlined as sharply as has any event in history the power of self-righteousness, fantasy, and fear to turn decent people into fana tical persecutors." OCC 8
Hardcover Like New. Pls. allow a minimum of 20 - 25 business days delivery ti me as this is a newly released book ship from publishers directly .
Mass Market Paperback Like New. Pls. allow within 20 - 25 business days delivery time as this is a new relase book from publishers.
704 p. Foxed. XLib bookplate (Juniata College). Embossed XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Early manuscript ownership of Michael D. Pouts?, 1862 on first fly leaf. Lacks Frontis? Lacks rear fly leaf. 185 mm. Original worn full leather binding. Title continues: "In A Period Of More Than A Half Century; With Reflections On Various Subjects, Religious, Moral, Political And Prophetic. Fourth Edition, Revised, Corrected And Improved." Lorenzo Dow (1777-1834) was an eccentric itinerant American preacher, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He was an important figure in the Second Great Awakening. This autobiography at one time was the second best-selling book in the United States, exceeded only by the Bible. S&S/AI 18605. Very good. Hardbound. AI BX 1 x2
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus; original red cloth, backstrips lettered in white, red tops, backstrips a little faded, edges very lightly dust-soiled else a very good bright clean set. The set comprises: Vol. I: Bibliography, General Introduction, Webster's Life, Webster's Imitation, The White Devil; Vol. II: The Duchess of Malfi; The Devil's Law-Case; Vol. III: A Cure for a Cuckold, Appius and Virginia, Shorter Poems, A Monumental Column, Moments of Honour; Vol. IV: Characters, Anything for a Quiet Life, The Fair Maid of the Inn, Appendices & Index. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE. NCBEL I, 1698.
8vo., Second Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in in 1977. VERY SCARCE.
24 pages. Features: Tinkering with our Game Laws; A New Deal for America's Wild Water-Fowl; New Hampshire Field Trials; Vitamin A Deficiency in Dogs; Dog breeding information; Veterinary Q & A; Dog ads; Classy one-page photo ad for Radium Springs (near Albany in South Georgia) shows hunters and dog at work; Half-page illustrated ad for Lewis' Lye on front cover (keeps dogs free from disease); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Back cover loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); original red cloth, gilt back, uncut, top a little dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition
Book shows light wear to covers only, with bumped lower corners, straight upper. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, text block is pristine. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, one small closed tear, price clipped, sun faded at spine. 307 pages with very nice fine-line b&w illustrations, sections on: Tomb bats, False vampires, Golden moles, Walabies, Bandicoots, Opossums, Tasmanian devil, Spiny anteater, Platypus, Pikas, Hares, Mountain beaver, Bamboo rats, Banana mice, Eared seals, Walrus, Sea-cows, etc.
