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Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's suits; Fire-proof dresses; The Parlor; Manners Upon the Road - of Mountain air; New York Fashions - fall goods, faille, fancy silks, woolen goods, ecru woolens, Jacquard goods, about plaids and stripes, French calicoes, trimming laces, varieties; Personal; Toy harness and whip; bat of steel springs, carriage leather, and cord; netted and crochet ball net; black figured tulle jacket; black figured tulle Bedouin mantilla; crochet and flannel garters; skipping-rope with braid and cord cover; embroidered Panama convas work-box; knitted square for coverlets; Pollys' Victory; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Lovely full-page illustration for the month of August; Two half-page illustrations of watering-place toilettes; To the Bitter End - continued; English gossip; Sketches at Naples; Illustration "Naples - consulting the oracle of the cumaean sibyl; Nice large illustration "The English Laborer's Home - Evenings"; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Street and House Dresses; A Chapter for Novelty-Seekers; A Word in Season for the Old Coal Man, by Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of some fellow-travelers; New York Fashions - evening toilettes, polonaises, woolen suits, bonnets and hats; Personal; Crochet shawl; crochet and netted cape; crepe de Chine Fichu; woolen plaid Bedouin; Americans in Paris; Gros Grain Suit - front and back illustrations; Silk and Cashmere Vest-Polonaise - front and back illustrations; Propinquity; Du Chaillu in the North; Testamentary Curiosities; Sayings and Doings; Paris Fashions; Ladies' and Children's Fall and Winter Suits; Polish Customs; English Gossip; London's Heart - continued; A Street Band - great illustration; embroidered work-box; case for tatting, sewing utensils; netted guipure insertions; needle-work border for handkerchiefs; Green; humor. Average wear. Book
grand in-4° 132 pages entierement illustrees en couleurs, index, biblio, cartonnage de l"editeur, jaquette illustree en couleurs. Très bel exemplaire. [HP-2]
Paris, Denoël, 1961. In-8, broché, couverture illustrée rempliée, non coupé, 325 pp. 17 reproductions photographiques hors-texte.
pp. x, 364 + Plus Portrait Frontis, folding map and photographs. Title page age stained, Frontis offsetting. A few penciled markings. 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding, spine decorated in black and gold. Edges soiled. Hardbound. First Edition. ISLAM BOX 1
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 208 pages with chapters on: The Navaho, the bedouin, Narrow-strip weaving, Indonesian textiles, Kasuri resist dyeing, Inlay weaving of Nepal, Brocaded motifs from Guatemala, Peruvian tapestry weaving.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and several photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The first half deals with Bedouin's service in Norway (Narvik) and the Mediterranean until her sinking off Pantellaria in June 1942. The second half relates the author's experiences as a POW and eventual repatriation. Extremely scarce.
in-8°, 453 pages, 32 photographies hors texte de l"auteur, 8 cartes in texte et un index, relie avec jaquette illustree. Tres bel exemplaire. [P-32][NAN-1-]
in-16, 463 pages, broché. Tres bel exemplaire. [PO-1]
224p. Illustrated with maps. XLib. 8vo. Original full tan cloth binding, soiled. Remnants of library call numbers on spine. Hardbound. "Americans with friends or relatives now stationed in North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Persia, or other Arab lands will have a special appreciation for this fine book". ISLAM BOX 1
