Wheeler, Edward L.MareMagnum
WHEATLEY LawrenceMareMagnum
An Erksome War. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB15,92 €
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32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume One, Number One. Very Good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W8RtRear
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Lightly damp stained. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume Two, Number Fourteen. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
32 p. Illustrated with a map. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume Two, Number Eighteen. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers slightly soiled. Volume Three, Number Twenty-Eight. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume One, Number Eleven. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume One, Number Two. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic.W8RtRear
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume One, Number seven. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Lightly damp stained. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers slightly soiled. Volume Two, Number Twenty. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume One, Number Five. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
pp. xiii, 302. Illustrated with photographs. Map endpapers. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Small tear on front wrap. Third printing. Hardbound. Very good. W10
8vo., First Edition, with 31 portraits on 8 plates and 18 maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Fourth of the author's invaluable histories of British battalion deployment in WWI.
pp. xi, 252 + Photographs. Stamped "employee book sale" on first fly leaf. 8vo. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original priced dust jacket, slightly soiled. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. W10
301 pages. Index. Thirty-two fascinating black and white photos. "I have tried to picture, from actual experience, something of the life in its early stages of the settler on the Canadian prairie." - page 5. Author spent two years on a homestead north of Radisson, Saskatchewan prior to the outbreak of WWI. Faint pencil erasure atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear to publisher's tan cloth-covered boards. Narrow opening in binding at page 16. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating account. PEEL [2e] 2649, ARTIBISE 619. Book
Book is in excellent condition with very slight signs of shelf wear only to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, now wrapped in protective clear cover. 136 pages on heavy, high quality paper, contents include: Life of Joachim of Fiore, Joachim and the Latin fathers, Basic patterns and interpretations of Joachim of Fiore etc. with drawings and outlines: very detailed b&w prints Trinitarian tree circles, Wheels of Exekiel, Psalterium decum chordarum, etc.
First edition hard cover. Dust jacket missing a chip but is in a new Brodart Mylar. Remainder stripe on bottom edge. Clean, tight, unmarked in text. NOT a library book. ...
Very Good German In original cloth bdg. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). In German. [2], 152 p., 5 tafeln (plts.), 2 folding maps. Beitrage zur Kenntnis des Devons am Bosporus, insbesondere in Bithynien. First Edition.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Richly illustrated story of a British nurse serving in Northern France and in the Balkans.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, 36 plates on 24 and endpaper maps, neat signature on half-title; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Bright, crisp copy of the first and by far the scarcest of all the contemporary accounts of Walker's exploits (his groups sank 23 U-boats in total). Well illustrated with photographs (some less usual). Wemyss commanded WILD GOOSE; this account forms the basis of his later 'Relentless Pursuit' (1955). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.384; Law, 0222.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. Wellman's classic account of the subjugation the the 'Wild West' includes a useful bibliography. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
22 pages. Features: To ABM or Not to ABM; A Socialist on the Kibbutz; Rumpus on the Campus - student rebellions; Mideast Turmoil; Behind the Building of the Panama Canal; Production for Use; The Shrike - and the 'Social Shrike'; John Braine - "Muddle Conservatire"; and more. Average wear. Bit of soiling to page 3. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With striking cover artwork by Iain Wyllie.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With striking cover artwork by Iain Wyllie.
Book is in excellent condition with a slightly cocked spine and Very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 196 pages. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. Author of The Loved One, noted for its madcap ridicule of the funeral industry shows his serious Christian side.
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Ju-Ju" Justice - a startling West African Ju-Ju incident and its sequel, involving the Elder Dempster branch boat "Lagoon"; Tales of the Service - The Smuggler's Cave (part III) - stirring stories of the Service contributed by a customs-house officer on the West Coast of Scotland and also in Ireland; The Wooing of Abia - a charming yet thrilling love story involving natives of Papua, with great photos; Beyond the Law (part III) - The Dalton Gang terrorized the Western States of America for years while committing train robberies and holding up banks; The Empire's Only Eskimo Soldier - John Shiwak, of Labrador, the only Eskimo soldier to lay down his life for the empire (article with photo); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram (part III) - the Himalayan exploits of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (with photos); A Nightmare Voyage - in 1905, the American barque Challenger left Port Townsend for Japan in the command of Captain Pedersen; Photo of a Papuan chief's daughter wearing a necklace of hundreds of dog teeth; Lion-Hunting as a Business - Frank Allen of Rhodesia is the only known lion-hunter - article with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa (part IV) - a 4,000 mile honeymoon trip east to west across the Dark Continent - with photos; The Baboon and the Baby - a baboon steals a baby from a home; My Experiences in German East Africa - James Henry Butcher relates his thrilling experiences as a private in the South African Infantry, with photos; The Shining Town - a fascinating photo-illustrated sketch of life and scenes in Granada; The "White" Chief of Penrhyn Island - the shipwrecked author was adopted by a chief in the South Sea Islands and went on to become the ruler of an island and its people; Only a Half-Breed - in South-West Colorado in 1869 a white man's squaw prevented a war; Fantastic ad "Swear Off Tobacco" by the Newell harmacal Company of St. Louis inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
