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Circa 1973. 135 pages including index. Titcombe was the first missionary to live among the Yagba people of Nigeria, West Africa. His story is a blood-stirring pioneer thriller. Above average wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding aging but remains intact. Book
pp. 305, (2)[Publisher's catalogue]. Map. Paper browned but not brittle. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Original dust jacket, stain bottom front cover. Red seal edition. Softbound. Very Good. AFRICA/2
201153279Frankfurt, M. : Lembeck, 2011. Christ Apostolic Church und Redeemed Christian Church of God 444 S. (23 cm) Broschierte Ausgabe
20151086167Frankfurt, M. : PL Acad. Research, 2015. 170 S. ; 21 cm, 240 g kart.
170017369Amsterdam, de Wit, 1675 (recte um 1700). Ca. 49,5 cm x 57 cm. [4 Warenabbildungen]
ORD-7802Paris. Tallandier et Nelson Doubleday. N°40, Juin 1963. In-8 (ca 138 x 210mm) broché, couverture illustrée couleurs sur les 2 plats, XII pages sur papier jaune (Actualités-Voyages) et 62 pages consacrée au NIGÉRIA, nombreuses illustrations en noir et images couleurs collées dans le texte. Bel exemplaire, complet.
1963LFA-126728716Revue mensuelle de 72 pages, format 140 x 210 mm, illustrée, brochée, Impr. de Sceaux, bon état
Bella veduta animata di Tchintoulous in Niger del 1860 circa. Data: 1860 circa Atlante: Meyer s Universum 1838-1860 circa Tecnica: Incisione su acciaio Dimensione del foglio: 16x23 cm Dimensione dell'incisione: 11x16 cm Condizioni: Buone. Alcune fioriture e usure marginaliBeautiful animated view of Tchintoulous in Niger of 1860 circa. Date: 1860 circa Atlas: Meyer s Universum 1838-1860 circa Technique: Steel etching Leaf Dimension: 16x23 cm (6,3x9.1 inches) Engraving Dimension: 11x16 cm (4.3x6.3 inches) Conditions: Good conditions. Some foxings and worn edge
64 pages. Features: Cover photo Nome, Alaska resident Alfred Nakak; The Anik Satellite - a hard re-entry; Multitude of strikes at the Canadian Post Office; British Columbia's Mediation Act and Labour; Stuart (Stu) Griffiths of Bushnell Communications; Chicago - Turning Against the Gangs; Richard L. Barkley - the respectable rioter; Middle East - Between Hope and Menace; Nigeria - The Unconquerable Ibos; Alaska - The Great Land of Boom or Doom - article with six pages of great color photos; The Vanishing World of trapper Joe Delia; Review of movie "Joe" starring Peter Boyle; Passing of Dr. Eric Berne, George V. Allen, John J. Anthony, Lieut. General Leslie R. Groves and L. Wolf Gilbert; Kirk Kerkorian's Cold Streak; VD - a national emergency; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Cesar Chavez and The Little Strike That Grew to La Causa - major article; Nice two-page ad for the Mercedes-Benz 280 S; Manitoba - Three weeks to Victory - article with photo of Howard Paulley with the Schreyers; Color photo of smiling Nixon with Trudeau at Terre Des Hommes; Major photo-illustrated article on Native Canadians and the federal government; The Curious Case of Dr. John Knowles; Great photo of "Rural Alabama Negroes at Polls", lined up outside "The Sugar Shack"; JDL / Jewish Defense League article - threat breeds counterthreat; Europe's dreams of unity revive - article with photo of new EU headquarters under construction; France's new cabinet; Rhine River pollution; Latin America - protest and progress; Commando assaults in the mid-east; Interview with General Yakubu Gowan of Nigeria; Legacy of the Warren Supreme Court; Article on the passing of Judy Garland; Measuring earth's motion; Photo of strike scene at San Francisco State; Passing of Willy Ley, Westbrook Pegler, Alene Stern Erlanger and Frank King; Showdown in Trade with Japan; Agnellli intends to acquire Ferrari; The Mobile Millionaire - Arthur Decio, founder of Skyline Corp., of Elkhart, IN; Westbrook Pegler - master of the epithet; The Film Maker as Ascendant Star - article with photos of Stanley Kubrick and Penn, with four pages of color photos of directors at work; Joe Frazier pummels Jerry Quarry; Pole vaulter John Pennel sets new world record; Nature Conservancy of Canada ad shows polluted river; and more. Moderate wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Minor evidence of address label removal. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
1370527Atlanta: The High Museum of Art, 1978 in-4, vii-(1)-112 p. 259 illustrations n/b, 5 cartes. Bibliographie. Broché couv. illustrée, bon état. Exposition présentée à The High Museum of Art (Atlanta) et The Museum of African Art (Washington).
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 214 pages.
Features: Dead Men's Diggings - Diamon seekers in British Guiana; Hunting down the Black Jack Gang in the South-West United States (Part 2); Bush Pilots of the Northlands - the far north of Canada and Alaska - photos; The Golden Chain - a delicious story from Malaya by a Quantas engineer; Unlucky Ship - the Ecola; The Silent Killer - a python story; Phases of Life from all over the world - kilometre eight in Venezuela; Stretton's Luck - Gold Prospecting in Sokoto, Nigeria; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Front cover partially loose. A worthy copy. Book
Features: The Vengeance Trial - An unusual murder in Ecuador; Our New Guinea Cruise - the natives of New Guinea have acquired a certain level of sophistication, with photos; Northland Mountaineering - ascending some difficult peaks in Norway, with nice photos; Carlson's Mermaid - a fantastic story from the Niger delta; The Hidden Gold Murders; Ghulam Haidar - Opium Peddler; Two Bad Men - tracking down two killers in America's wild North-West; A Wierd Quest - seances are held to help prospectors find gold in the U.S.; Behind the Door - a curious story from a Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy; Bush Nightmare - tough luck for a wanderer in the wilds of Queensland; Forewarned - a puzzling affair in Nigeria; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Few chips from backstrip. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Pages 223-290 plus ads. Features: The Taxi-man's Revenge - officers shot at Prince Rupert, British Columbia Court House in 1937; The Miracle; The Shooter; The Man Who Waited - a story from Oto in southern Nigeria in 1911; Loot From Peking - an important ring and tablets circa the Boxer Rebellion; The Human Tiger; First Blood - an amusing tale from India; Burton's Boots; My Wife; The Clue of the Single Finger-print, Part II - the hold-up of the First National Bank at Lamar, Colorado, and its bloody aftermath; O-I-L - a story from the wilds of Patagonia; Diamond Cut Diamond - A Gold Coast mining struggle; The "Debbil-Debbil" Stone - what happened when the grave of a medicine man was unearthed; short article on the "Padley Martyrs" with photo; many nostalgic ads; and more. Covers present but detached as one. Bit of price sticker remnant on front cover. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
Features: Jungle Man-Hunters - horse-mounted frontiersmen of Ecuador - photos; The Secret Submarine Agent - describes the author's meeting with "Storsand," a Scandinavian inventor who devised a curious one-man diving bell; Terror by Night - Man-Leopard killings in Nigeria (part I); Vagabond in Corsica - a tramp through the interior of Corsica - photos; The Dope-Runners - illegal drug traffic in South Africa; Diving for Crocodiles - at the Tanganyila-Nyasaland border; The "Mulga Wire" Mystery; The "Football Wallahs" - an amusing story from India of how a British soldier made friends; My Friend Sung Li - the companion of an ex-sailor; Beware of Elephants - encounters with elephants on the Queen's Highway; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Derelict; The Vengeance of Devi Chand - the revenge of a bereaved father in India; A Donkey in Spain - the author planned to take a walking trip through Spain with a donkey carrying his baggage; An Arctic Outpost - what happened to three members of the RCMP's Craig Harbour Detachment - article with photos; Through France with "Sylvabelle" - I - a yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera - article with great photos; The Netik - native 'magic' on a south sea island; Aerial photo of dozens of log booms at Vancouver, B.C.; "The White Man's Great War-Game" - II - amazing photo-illustrated article of the savages of Sura, Angas and other primitive tribes of northern Nigeria; Truffle-Hunting - a description of the industry in Italy and France - and a description of the manner in which the pigs and dogs are trained to search for them - with photos; The One-Legged Kea - a tale from the South Island of New Zealand; Behind the scenes in American crime - "a veritable hell-brew of wickedness and intrigue that has no counterpart in Europe - article with photos of Mrs. Margaret Whittemore and Richard Whittemore; Besieged by Crocodiles; The Lost Safe - a detective story; Lee Sum's Lucky Day - a 'gang-robbery' in the state of Pahang in Malaysia. Multiple pieces of red and clear tape holding covers in place. Brown tape securing fore-edges of each cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Lost in the Pacific - John Edwin Hogg attempted to take a small boat to Panama from some islands 90 miles off the coast, but encountered treacherous seas; On Niagara's Brink - Orrin E. Dunlap, the unofficial historian of Niagara Falls, describes the area's most thrilling adventure, that of a barge and two men, Lofberg and Harris, who drifted to the verge of Horseshoe Falls - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part I - Oxford Anthropology student Winifred S. Blackman relates her experiences in three winters of living with the people of Upper Egypt - article with photos; Captain Doudera's Bet - The amazing photo-illustrated story of Captain Frank Doudera, of Brooklyn, New York, and his quest to obtain a timber wolf pelt within six weeks; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part II - Beatrice Grimshaw travelled up the Sepik River of New Guinea, where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Chippin' Paint - An amusing sea story; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part II - A British officer's remarkable journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; The Treasure of Tristan Da Cunha - Photo-illustrated article about a hoard of gold and jewels said to have been hidden here by pirates in 1810; Photo of a literal river full of logs in British Columbia; The Three Angleteers - Part IV - Three bored Englishmen travel to Europe for trouble and adventure; In the British Guiana Jungle - A vividly-written photo-illustrated account of an eventful boat-journey into the interior of British Guiana with a motion picture camera, culminating with a visit to the mighty Kaietuerk Falls, the greatest cataract in the world, five times higher than Niagara; The Secret of the Wilds - photos of wild animals which resemble those of prehistoric times; "Grip" and I - Part II - A bull-terrier spared from death by its new owner Count Nils Cronstedt returns the favour by saving him multiple times during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendent in Northern Nigeria; One Night - the story of a hunt in the darkness and a panther who stood his ground; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: A Soldier of Fortune - a story smuggled in bits from a French prison (part 1); A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part I - Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish - article with photos; The Election at Rodeo - an account of the happenings at a town in Argentina on the occasion of the Presidential election of 1914; The Search for the Grosvenor Treasure - an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor on the lonely coast of Pondoland, South Africa, and operations of seekers of her sunken treasure of precious metals and stones - with photos; The Terror of the Terai - the story of one of the most remarkable elephant hunts on record - a twelve days' chase after a man-killing 'rogue'; Photo of a Venetian funeral; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - the humourous travels of a huband and wife with their donkey (part 4); Across the Pacific in a Chinese Junk - Captain George Ward and his voyage from Amoy, China to Victoria, British Columbia - article with photos, one of which includes Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford aboard the vessel; Forgotten - the terrible experience of a young surveyor off the coast of Trinidad; The Witching of the M'Bumbo - a tale of native witchcraft and trial by ordeal in Nigeria; Our Unlucky Day - an account of a series of disasters which struck a steamer, the S.S. Z_____ in the Gulf of Mexico; The Village of the Greeks - visit to a tiny hamlet in the Sicilian Mountains - with photos; The Gower Affair - a story of black magic at Porto Lokkoh on the West Coast of Africa. Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 266-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Poll Chunk's Son - a story from the hills of Kentucky; The Ivory Raiders - part 1 of a tale fromm the Turkanaland district of Central Africa on the western shores of Lake Rudolf where Major H. Rayne deals with Swahili elephant poachers and Turkana warriors; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - a mysterious Fijian monster; In the Wilds with a Camera - Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson take photos in the interior of British East Africa; The Land Sharks - criminal buying and selling of land in Canada; In Quest of the Unknown - part 3 of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges' adventures amoung the Chucunaque Indians; James Watson - Human Tiger - a remarkable American crime; An Eviction in Patagonia - a rich man attempts to drive away the cattle of a squatter; My Jungle Jaunts - part 1 of an Englishwoman's experiences in Burma, with nice photos; The Blue Powder - bewitching a District Commissioner in Nigeria; The Sea-Villages of Humboldt's Bay - photo-illustrated article on this Dutch New Guinea area; The Mad Jackal - how a homesick Pathan soldier in Mesopotamia got himself sent back to India; Imprisoned in a hollow tree - Harry Comstock spent horrible days and nights inside a tree in Bexar County, Texas; The Tiger I didn't Get - Movie star Tom Mix recounts an adventure that befell him while tiger-shooting in Bengal; Nice one-page General Electric ad with illustration of new street lighting in Nagoya, Japan; One-page photo-illustrated ad for Hobart Bradstreet of Chicago. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Features include: The Donkey - A humble donkey co-operates to bring about the discomfiture of sundry Arab thieves; It Pays to Advertise - The Amazing result of the nefarious activities of a rascally 'wild-cat' company promoter and an unscrupulous newspaper reporter in Canada; Mr. Zaru - story from a ship; Into the Unknown - exploratino work in Tanganyika; Farm Life in South Africa - intended for aspiring British immigrants to South Africa; Through the Iron Curtain - an ambitious motor-cycle voyage through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey; Beyond the Barrier - Extraordinary incidents related by a famous stage magician, Jasper Maskelyne; A Matter of Boundaries - an amusing tale of a tribal land-dispute in Nigeria; The Little Gold Disc - A veteran seafarer's account of a remarkable experience on the China Coast; The Tiger That Thought; The Red Lacquer Pagoda; The Ship That Became a House; Guarding New Zealand's Forests - Illustrated in black and white. Chips from and tears to base of spine else average wear. Two inch opening at top of back cover. Magazine
Pages 401-498, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: "Hoodlum" - the plucky deed of fireman Roger Berry aboard the tug-boat "Elmer" on Lake Erie one stormy night - article with photos; Some New British Climbs - George Abraham describes a new route up the famous Pillar Rock and more, illustrated with remarkable photos; Like a Rat in a Trap - a nerve-trying adventure from 1888 near Southall, Middlesex finding leaks in a sewer pipe; Hurri Singh's Cobra - an adventure from the lake district of Kumaon; A Remarkable Open-Air Theatre at Interlaken, Switzerland; The Ship of Death - a strange story of the awful experience which befell a party of Royal Navy officers and men who boarded a mysterious barque on the high seas in 1908; East Africa As I Saw it (part IV) - photo-illustrated adventures illustrate life in Portuguese East Africa; The Swift Saskatchewan - what happened to a man who fell asleep in a canoe in the mighty Saskatchewan River in 1907; "Back to the Land" - a man in South Africa discovers he is not likely to become a successful farmer; The Poacher-Catchers - adventures of the five-man teams which guard the fur-bearing animals of Yellowstone Park; Pedro the Ladrone - an exciting story from the Philippines told by an officer of the U.S. Army who was in charge of a company of native scouts, with photo of the surrender of General Ramon Santos at Liago; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part I) - the first and only attempt ever made to cross canada from Ocean to Ocean - this marvelously photo-illustrated article deals with Thomas Wilby's experiences on the way to Winnipeg, where his worst troubles began; The Fight in the Moonlight - H. Randolph Spencer and his adventure with two bears in the Olympic Mountains in 1905; Photo of huge floating (?) Burmese pagoda in the form of a hen; Photo of large metallic anklets riveted to young women of Southern Nigeria; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
