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Caracas, Ministerio de Educacion, 1965, in-8, br. edit., pp. 256. Con riproduzioni fotografiche in b.n.
pp. xi, 282 + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page drawings, photographs and a map. Uncut and unopened. Top edge gold. Bookplate of Charles P. Stahr. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding with gold decorated and lettered spine. Hardbound. Nice copy. Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was a famous American author and journalist. In 1890 he became managing editor of Harper's Weekly and began making trips in its behalf to various parts of the world. As a foreign correspondent he covered all the wars of his day and published several books recording his experiences. His war dispatches were colorful and dramatic. His other writings include some of the best tales to come out of the Edwardian era. This lovely copy would make a fine gift. W53
2005053955Ankara: Embassy of The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Turkey 2005. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. HC. 4to. 30 x 22 cm. In English and Turkish. 180 p. color and b/w photos. The world of Venezuelan Nogales Bey.= Venezuelali Nogales Bey'in dünyasi. <br/> <br/> Embassy of The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Turkey hardcover
287 p. With a Foreword by Carlos Castaneda Hardcover Very good condition good
Features: According to the Law - Lieut.-Col. G.H. Keighley-Bell recalls his adventures with Kurds around 1919; Cut Out and Get Out - Tom H. Inkster recalls logging on Vancouver Island - photos; A Pint for the Man Who Breaks his Oar - fishermen at Aldeburgh, "The Wild Amphibious Race"; A Witch Doctor and the Bride - a Zulu Tale; The Sea Arab - a white man becomes a man of the sea in the tropical islands; Death to the Whites - Lolo St. Paul of the Shuswap Indians in British Columbia taught the law of the White man to the Indians, but to the pioneer-settlers he represented the law of the Redskin - excellent and little-known B.C. history with photos; Outcast of the Silent City - An Indian Adventure; I Lived in the Stone Age - studying aborigines of Australia; The Lost World of Jimmy Angel - a tale of gold, diamonds and Angel Falls, a mile-high waterfall in Venezuela; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding beginning to open at bottom but everything still holding together. Book
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: Hopper No. 47 - an adventure in Home waters which resulted in tragic events; Mra Toons 'Lemon' - an astute Oriental plans to get rich by smuggling opium into Burma; Chinchilla Ranching; South Sea Island Pests; Water-Divining in India; South American Excursion - a colourful motor-car trip in Venezuela; Out of the Past - recent alarming revelations as to the extent of drug addiction in the U.S. lend additional interest to this story, first published in 1936... it describes the perilous experience in which a particularly sinister form of 'dope' involved the narrator, Somers Paul; By Pony to Ladakh - a trip through a little-known region on the borders of Tibet, with nice photos; Prophecy Fulfilled - an interesting Indian story; Hunting the Bearded Wonder - a sinister terrorist leader, Liew Kon Kim, in the Malayan jungle; Photo of a Giant's Footprint (?) in South Africa; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
Features include: Hopper No. 47 - Tragic happenings to an apprentice pilot in Home waters; Mra Toons "Lemon" - A former Revenue Officer's account of an encounter with an astute Oriental who planned to make a fortune by smuggling opium into Burma; Chinchilla Ranching - Describes a new industry; Water Divining in India; South American Excursion - a colourful account of a motor-car trip into the interior of Venezuela; Marijuana - describes the perilous experiences in which a particularly sinister form of "dope" involved the narrator; By Pony to Ladakh - An account of a trip through a little-known region of the borders of mysterious Tibet; Hunting the "Bearded Wonder" - Author sets out to track down a sinister Malayan terrorist leader. Black and white illustrations throughout. Above-average wear externally. Chips missing from spine. Contents in good condition. Unmarked. Magazine
Pages 485-577, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: With the Dynamite Squad - among warring factions in Mexico; A Sportsman in the Wilds - an African hunting trip; When the "Norther" Broke - windstorms off the west coast of South America; James "Jimmy" Inness of Juneau, Alaska and his feud against bears; Jimmy's Bear; Curiosities of the Holy Land - part I - peasant life in Palestine - many sensational photos; An Unexecuted Sentence - George Singer was condemned to be hanged; Harnessing a Million Gallons - a farmer builds a reservoir in South Africa; A Prisoner of the Gitanos - author was a prisoner of gipsies for six months; Lost in the Everglades; The Wanderings of an Entertainer, Part II - Robert Ganthony; My Escape from Venezuela - what happened to an Englishman who meddled in the politics of this nation; Odds and Ends. Average wear. Binding intact. Bit of clear tape at each end of spine. A sound copy of this wonderful issue. Magazine
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Photo-illustrated article on Venezuela and its oil industry; Large photo of "Bustle Beauty" Marilyn Munroe in bustled bikini, wearing outrageous platform shoes; Large colour full-page ad for Waterman's pens; Student Strike at Toronto's Malvern Collegiate after Principal Lorne H. Clarke Dismissed - article with three great pages of photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Tooke shirts; Two amazing pages of photos and text entitled "Troubled Palestine" - Lifting of Martial Law after 15 days brings no end to Terrorist Incidents - Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem; 104th Running of the Grand National - Caughoo, an unknown 100-1 long shot wins; Readers' Letters; We Need to Speed Exports, by Gerald Waring; Bellingham, Washington is fast becoming the centre of entertainment for BC'ers - photo with article; Do Women love Weaklings?; Leonard (Len) Wookey of Callander, Ontario - Successor to the Dionne Quints- photos and article; Some Day - short story by Beth Balcom; What's Doing on Mars? - Sydney Cooper on Rocket Travel; Spanish Maquis - 100,000 strong, they strike at Franco's government - photos and article; Bell the Cat, by Gregory Clark; Come Spring - short story by Eric Cameron; 20-page Colour Comic Section; He Who Whispers, fiction by John Dickson Carr; Devil-Charming Ritual in Vancouver; Bootleg Fur - contraband fox pelts in Ontario; Cancer research at the newly-organized National Cancer Institute of Canada; Pigeon Timber Company's "luxurious" lumber camps in Ontario's Black Sturgeon area north of Lake Superior; Alberta deer being relocated to preserve farmers' crops; Earthquake Man - Edward Mantle of Hamilton; Van Treel and an international Dope Ring Roundup on the West Coast; Sports news; Super colour full-page ad for Northern Electric radios; Photos of romantic hats; Colour ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone System; Photo-illustrated article on fencing in Canada; Back page colour ad for Lux soap featuring great photo of Betty Grable; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Book
2006200751n.p. Caracas: Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela 2006. Pamphlet. Unpaginated about 8p. softbound pamphlet in stapled 8.5x5.5 inch glossy wraps. A fine copy. Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela unknown books
8vo [21 x 14 cm]; 187, [ii] pp, illustrations from photos. original green cloth, cover edges rubbed, endpaper lightly foxed, but internally clean, overall very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Adventures searching for orchids in the jungles of Columbia and Venezuela. An interesting plant hunting adventure in which the author and his friend found and brought back numerous orchids. "For when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine. A sort of madness." (prologue)
112 pages. Features: Cover photo of U.N. Security Council discussing the Cyprus question; Gorgeous fashion ads; The LBJ Way with Congress; Photos of prospective Republican Presidential candidates Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon and Gov. William W. Scranton; Article on the state of Britain's 'uncommon commonwealth' with photo of Queen Elizabeth meeting Africans in their traditional attire; Cyprus - Island if Hate and Fear - a look at the Greeks and Turks who survivied four centuries as friendly enemies but have now succumbed to dark forces; New Armies Take Over Latin America - article with bloody photo from Venezuela; What must be done to Slow Down Nuclear Proliferation; The Genius of Michelangelo as seen by sculptor Henry Moore; Emperor Haile Selassie Attempts to Unite Africa - article with photo; The Sew-It-Yourself Boom; Tensor-Lite ad; Three fantastic 180 degree aerial photos of the New York skyline, Midtown and the World's Fairground; Photos of Red Cross volunteers in action; Medaglia D'Oro Coffee ad features blonde at chessboard; Two pages of men's fashion photos; Color photo of amazing Inca ruins in Grace Line ad; Ladies' raincoat fashion photos; Future Clubs; Photos of modern interior design ideas from Britain; Article on Snuff - not to be sneezed at. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
London, J.M. Dent & Son, 1958. 4to.; XII pp., 404 pp., con viñetas de Sabino Springett. Cubiertas originales.
19841303220Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1984. Large-8vo. 12 pp., 1 leaf, 235 pp. with numerous tables and text-figures. Orig.-cloth in orig. dust jacket.
2005200780Melbourne: Ocean Press 2005. Pamphlet. 33p publisher's ads softbound pamphlet in 8.5x5.5 inch stapled wraps; clean and sound a near-fine copy. Ocean Press unknown books
Folio, 31 cm. Pp. 132, many large photos on 40 plates, 91 illus. in text, bibl., index. Hardbound, laminated pictorial boards. Fine new copy. - An important monograph on the regional and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite assemblages of the epicontinental Cretaceous basin North of the Guyana Shield. The ammonite fauna, of Aptian to Conacian age, is described and illustrated in detail, comprising 28 families with 83 genera; 13 of the species described are new. A major contribution to the clarification of the relationships of Cretaceous ammonite assemblages on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
0260741620.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0260741701.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0484710451.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0282584072.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
pp. vii, 270. Dampstained. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Spine faded. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Coldwar/Economics 6
Barcelona, Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos, 1952. 4to. mayor; 54 pp., 3 hs. Cubiertas originales.
1951045507Caracas., 1951. Published by The Technical Office of Hydrocarbons of The Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons. 419 Seiten mit wenigen Abbildungen im Text. Mit beiliegendem , vierseitigem Errata-Blatt (eingerissen). Enthält: Texte (in Enlisch) zu Geological review. Explöration. Development of oil-fields. Production. Transportation. Refining. Taxes. Utilization of natural gas. ; Zustand: Einbandkanten leicht berieben, Vorsätze und Seiten leicht braunfleckig. 8°. OLeinen.
8105Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, Editions Clairefontaine, 1955, 1 vol. in-4 (280 x 220) cartonné sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs, de 96 pp. + table dépliante. Très bel exemplaire.