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48 Pages. Features: Cover photo of house-to-house fighting in Germany; Nice one-page photo ad for Freed-Eisemann radio-phonographs inside front cover; Great one-page color-photo ad for Rheingold Beer features Miss Rheingold 1945, Pat Boyd; Illustrated Fairchild ad shows airplane being loaded for a landing in Japan; What kind of Peace? - this article says the men on the front want hard peace terms; Dramatic photos of the battle for the Rhine; Article arguing that Hirohito's Palace must be bombed; Troop carrier planes defy the weather and also serve as supply ships and ambulances (C-47 shown in photo); Poets in battle; To Prevent War - No News Blackout - so argues the Exec. Director of Associated Press; Nice one-page color ad for Virginia Rounds cigarettes shows stylilsh cigarette case; Housewife or Career Woman? - making the case that the housewife's life is better, as are those of her husband and children; Great one-page color ad for Florida Oranges (Juice); Notes on a theatrical revolution; Children create their own fictionat the Hunter Elementary School; A Schoolma'am's Farewell to Teaching; Color ad for Borden Cheese; Classy color-photo ad for Thomas' Protein Bread; Nice one-page color ad for Betty Crocker Pea Soup; Ceramics from California; Growing Independence in Children; Nice Cocomalt ad shows playground scene; Two pages of lovely formal fashion photography - New York Couture; One page color ad for Woodbury Beauty Cream features beautiful image of Shirley Temple; Marlboro cigarette ad features fashionable woman in black dress with purple accessories. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Book
Pages 265-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Hunting the Giant Crocodiles of the Bayano, Central America - with amazing photos; The Radio Man's Adventure - terrible experience for Ross Knight in the High Sierras of California; The Golden River - The Kawarau River in New Zealand is to be dammed so its bed may be mined for gold - photo-illustrated article; The Missing Necklace - a tale from the Malay Peninsula; The Lady and the Python - photo-illustrated story from Port Elizabeth; My Novel Holiday - Mercer Sherwood Maloney works as a 'messman' on a cargo-steamer in order to visit Europe; My Search for the King's Treasure, by Lieut. Colonel K.M. Foss, Late Indian Army; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - the log of the "St. Francois Xavier" reports a sighting, according to a 1903 news clipping from the 'Vancouver Province'; Where Cannibals Roam - part 3 - wonderfully photo-illustrated article from Papua; The Looker-on - how card sharks on an Atlantic liner were unmasked; Saved by "The Wide World Magazine" - how reader Hubert H. Arthur benefitted from a 1922 article on a Japanese science called 'Katsu'; Johnny Mackay's Last Hand - a half-breed card player in Canada's northland; Man Versus Lion - South African game ranger is forced to kill lion with sheath knife; Remains of man found in hollow tree - news clipping from the World Herald of Omaha, NE; Two Years in Borneo - part 2 - a strange story of love potion; Some Adventures with Bears - bear stories from Alberta and British Columbia; One-page General Electric ad features 'electric logger' in the Washington woods; One-page Lionel Strongfort ad entitled "When Marriage is Fatal". Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
90 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: Colour photos of Jackie Chan and Lin Ching Hsia holidaying at Redondo Beach, California; Lin Fong Chiao - two pages of nice colour photos; Kenny B - two pages of colour photos; 26th Asian Film Festival, Indonesia; Jenny Tseng's Monte Carlo Show in Monaco; George Hamilton meets Fanny; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Features: Cover photo of Berkeley Students; More Power to the President, by Louis W. Koenig; Freedom to Learn but not to Riot - campus demonstrations at the University of California; Our Guilt for the World's Evil; Smiling through with Thanom of Thailand; The two worlds of Jimmy Nkosi - a black man who works in Johannesburg but lives in a 'Bantu township' 40 minutes away (with photos). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Contents: The Man from the Coffin - the amazing story of Albert Juge of Paris; The Fire-Walkers of Singapore - at a Tamil Temple, with photos; How Willy Saved the Orange Crop - a resourceful schoolboy in California; My Strangest Experience; The Hidden Treasure of Santa Fe; Into the Unknown - III - Chasing Outlaws in New Guinea, with 5 photos; The Pirates of the 'Souirah'; Anthropop - Apology; The Passing of the Queen - Mother of Siam, Many Photos; The Cruise of the Dream-Ship I, by Ralph Stock, with photos; The LIfted Veil - VII; Our Adventures among the Berbers - I, the 'White Arabs' of Algeria, with photos; The Road to Fortune; Three Times!; plus many very unusual contemporary advertisements for such things as nose-straightening devices! Unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Covers present but detached as one. A worthy copy of this rare issue. Book
Pages 422-504 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Ten Months Overdue - a stirring account of the luckless voyage of the Liverpool ship Denbigh Castle, which finally reached her point nearly a year overdue; Hunting the Tapir; Imam Baksh's Escape - a murder story from India; Sanna's Eagle - the strange fate that befell a South African lammarfanger, or lamb-eating eagle, which attacked a little Boer girl and caused her death; The Death Circle - two men wander in a Canadian prairie blizzard - one finds shelter, the other dies; In Quest of Gold - gold-seekers from San Francisco on their way to the land of the Yaqui Indians are forced to turn back; Levenson's Ordeal - Albert S. Levenson, a prominent California merchant, goes missing for five days while on a mountain holiday; Life in a Land of Death (part II) - adventures among the head-hunters and other picturesque inhabitants of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea - article with great photos; The Way of the East - a curious story from Vancouver's Chinatown; The Mitimoni Man-Eaters - two white men get involved with African native witchcraft, resulting in their responsibility for fatalities caused by two man-eating lions; "Square Pegs" (part II) - This absorbing tale will teach prospective immigrants more about Canadian prairie life than stacks of guide-books and official pamphlets; Wind - a tale told at the Roscoe Hotel in Campbell River, B.C. which explained why a man dreaded wind; The Yellow Box - a missing box sets a whole West Africa colony seething; The Smallest Park in the World. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
66 pages. Short Stories: Queen's Gate Incident; Competition at Slush Creek; Big Game; Jacobs' Beachcombers. Articles: Basketball Beanpoles - with action photo of 6'-7" Howie Schultz of Hamline; Delayed Combat Fatigue - an alarming new trend in the increase of neuropsychiatric disorders among veterans who have been discharged for a year or more;; Inside Spain; I Deserted Franco - a Spanish Republican who was forced into Franco's Army goes over the hill and describes what made him desert; Eager Beaver - photo-illustrated article on playwright Garson Kanin - with sexy backdoor photo of Judy Holliday; Bradley's Beachhead - General Omar N. Bradley reviews his first year as chief of the VA (Veteran's Administration); How Job Training Became a Scandal; My Lost Division - John Hillard Dunn, his 106th Division, and the Battle of the Bulge; Robbers on the Racetrack - Don Meade says Arcaro and other jockeys will steal a horse race as quick as they flash a whip ; Murder in the Soap Operas - Dan Banion detects too many corpses among the cornflakes; Iron Roof Over Harlem - article on prospects for the people of Harlem, with photos of Billie Holliday, Canada Lee, Romare Beardon, Bert Alves, Kenneth Spencer and Vivian Richardson; You Don't Die Bored; Happy Landing - Gerald L.K. Smith is now on Los Angeles City Council - article with photos. Picture Stories: Anything Goes - great photo-illustrated feature of "The Painted Post - America's only True Western Dance Hall", in the San Fernando Valley; Hot on Ice - people pay big money to see figures skaters such as Donna Atwood, Phil Taylor, Don Condon and Mary Irwin. Labor's Publicity Battle - with sexy photos of Colleen Sullivan of Detroit, and Elayne Keenan of Detroit; Bergen College Boom - great photo feature on how this sleepy college suddenly snapped awake under the GI Bill of Rights; One Block West of Broadway. Special Features: Merry Christmas; Salute of the Month - one-page photo of Elliott Roosevelt; Reconverted; Photos of three vets in the new lives - Alan Rockwell, David Pressman, and Milton Burns; Pin-Up - Martha Vickers. And more. Ads: Great one-page ad for movie "Never Say Goodbye" with photo of Errol Flynn and Eleanor Parker; Lovely back cover color ad for Eagle Clothes features man and woman at airport. Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A high-quality vintage copy. Book
Features: Two Fine Passenger Stations To Open in May - the Northern Pacific Station at Tacoma, and the Oregon-Washington station at Seattle; Professional biography of A.P. Chapman, Jr. who has just moved from Chicago to serve as general agent of the passenger department, Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound (with photo of Mr. Chapman); Passing of well-known railroad man Francis B. Clarke in Portland at age 73; Illustration of the World's Longest Locomotive - 121 Feet Long - a Mallet 2-10-10-2 rebuilt at the Topeka shops of the Santa Fe; Proposed Swiss Village to be built at Golden, British Columbia to house Swiss guides who are brought annually to assist mountain climbers - interesting illustrated article; Alaska Steamshop Co. to Erect Modern Water Terminals; Robert Dollar Discusses Shipping; Death of W.H.(Billy) Bush, prominent Northwest steamship man - informative article with photo of Mr. Bush; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; B.N. Baker Discusses Influence of the Panama Canal; Discussion of Panama Canal Tolls; New Plant for the Columbia Steel Company at Black Diamond, California - article with illustration; Tacoma News; Testimonial for A.B.C. Wood Life Preservers; Nice one-page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle with San Francisco; Nice half-page photo ad for the Willamette Iron & Steel Works features the fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching smoke and pumping water into the sky; Nice half-page illustrated ad for Speedway launches and engines; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships Schedule for the S.S. "Princess Victoria" and S.S. "Princess Adelaide" connecting Seattle with Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
96 pages. Features: Nice one-page Canon camera ad features color photos of Winter Olympic medalists; Safire on vocabulary; Cold Comfort; On the Brink of Altering Life - the work of John Baxter and his team's research into human DNA at the University of California in San Francisco; Canada Confronts its West - tomorrow's election between Joe Clark of the west, and Pierre Trudeau of the east; Struggle to Stop Mexican Migrants from entering the US - article with color photos; Politician John Anderson - he won't win the Replubican nomination, but he has excited a lot of disenchanted votes - article with photos; Fashion - Men and Women Wearing the Same Clothing - article with color photos; Architecture - closing in the terrace space of a Greenwich Village apartment; Nostalgic Maxim coffee ad; Real estate and Camp ads. Small library stamp on each cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
112 pages. Features: On Language; Handling Hogs; Hard Times in Chicago - article with five photos of new Mayor Jane Byrne; A New Kind of Man in the Making - Alvin Toffler explains the Third Wave; Whatever Happened to Jerry Brown? - nice color photo and article on his quest for the Democratic nomination - also includes photo of Jerry Brown with Linda Rondstadt, and another of Brown with Jane Fonda, Helen Reddy and musical group Chicago; Russia - Changed but Unchanged - photo-illustrated article by Anthony Austin who returns to Moscow after an absence of 20 years; Two-page color Jordache ad features boy, girl, and chimp on skateboard; The Bright Whites - Fashion for kids; One-page ad for Wynmoor Village real estate development in Florida; Datsun 200-SX ad; Nice one-page color Ferrari ad; Cunard ad featuring photo of the QE2 with twin towers in background; Real estate ads; Many camp ads; and more. Average wear. Two library stamps to front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
88 pages. Features: Abandoned in Vietnam - the plight of the children Americans left behind - article with sorrowful color photo of children hoping to be connected with their American fathers; Ad for Chevy Maliby station wagon inside front cover; Stings and Scams - Safire on vocabulary; Lauren Bacall is featured in a one-page black and white photo ad for Fortunoff, the source, on fifth; Popping up in (TV Show) '60 Minutes'; The Packaging of novelist Judith (Judy) Krantz - article with great one-page color photo portrait; German Photographer August Sander - He Changed the Face of Photography; Sharif Khan - The Colossus of Squash; Interesting color-photo Chanel ad with model holding extended lipstick case in her teeth; Talented young black clothing designer Jeffrey Banks; Real estate ads; European Men's Fashion; California Beach Style - 'gooneytecture' architecture; Camp ads; Chivas Rigal ad on back cover with chain through bottle handle. Average wear. Library stamp on front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "The White Brother of the Sheik" - Part I - W.B. Seabrook's strange experiences among the nomad Bedouins - the Brethren of the Black Tents - and the weird sects of the Whirling and Howling Dervishes, all on his way to meet Mitkhal Pasha El Fayiz, Sheik of Sheiks of the Beni Sakhr - with photos; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part II - C.V. Warren describes a tea-planter's life in Ceylon; The Blank Space on the Map - A district officer ventures into the unexplored interior of British New Guinea; A Trip to Eskimo-Land - C.V. Tench had a memorable summer vacation steaming 2,000 miles from Waterways, Alberta to Aklavik in the Arctic Circle - with many nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part II - The continued amusing account of John Gibbons' tramp from the coast of France to Lourdes; Captured by the Liquor-Pirates - A British ship is seized and its entire cargo stolen by American prohibition-era thugs; In Search of a "Missing Link" - A trip to the Republic of Dominica to observe the world's rarest animal, a strange beast called the Solenodon Paradoxus The Strangest House in the World - "Spirit Home", built by Sarah L. Winchester in the Santa Clara Valley of California - with photos; Mistaken Identity - A Canadian trapper in the Rockies has an unpleasant ordeal; Recalled to Life - Certain castes of Hindus firmly believe that the wandering priests known as Yogis have uncanny powers in connection with snakes which can even restore the dead to life!; Sandy Haggett's Secret Mine - Seeking to retire from the strenuous goldfields to the life of a storekeeper, the author and his brother are soon enmeshed in a puzzling affair. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
162 pages. Features: Vogue's-Eye View - Girl Power; Mainbocher - the soft and pretty evening looks worn by Lauren Hutton; The new bathing suits; Bare Legs in Town - with shorts, short skirts, long slits, the coolest little dresses, tiny tops and the leotard idea, the perfect coat, black day and night, romantic evenings; Vogue Patterns - Berber blue for summer; You've Come a Long Way Baby Oil; Perfume is for Wearing; Diary of a Glad Houseguest - or, The Inside Story of Beauty and the Beach; Tension - that everyday threat to American women - and what to do about it; The New Freedom of Domestic Bliss - Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Dillman, Mrs. David Hemmings, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Peake, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sakowitz; Family-Power - Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy; The Ties Women Cannot Shake - and Have; Elaine - her restaurant, her famous friends; Gloria Steinhem - Coming of Age in America; Top Woman in the State Department - The Honorable Barbara M. Watson; Fighting Hard; Fighting Soft; Freed Spirits - Eleanor Holmes Norton, Bricktop, Barbara Roquemore; On Target - Judith Peabody; On Target - Shirley Verrett; Most Wanted 1971 - Sexy Ann-Margaret; Most Wanted 1971 - Funny Lily Tomlin; Two Faces of Suzy; Couple-Speak - Happy Marriage; Couple-Speak - rape true and false; Wife-Power - Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson; The Go Decor; Candice Bergen and her California House; and more. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Clear tape along spine. A worthy reference copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Lovely color fashion ads; Anatomy of the Goldwater Boom - great photo-illustrated article; Once More - The K.K.K. - photo-illustrated article, including burning cross and Robert M. Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America; Hopeful Dialogue of the Races - Whites and Negroes set a bright example in Knoxville, TN; Britain's brilliant Minister for Science, Viscount Hailsham; Drama at the House of Morgan - Dramatic photos taken at the corner of Broad and Wall Streets, including the aftermath of a bomb which exploded in 1920 killing 30; The Titles attached to our Rulers' Names - Fhurer, Renovator of the Nation, Duce, Maximum Leader, etc.; Our teen-agers are suffering from 'Automania' - an overobsession with the automobile as a status symbol, as a means of getting someplace in a hurry, as a vehicle for a flight from tensions, or to indulge in a craving to show off; Cose View of Kremlin Boss Premier Nikita Khrushchev; Lovely color-photo ad for Helen Harper features Susie King of San Gabriel, California; Now the Earlier, Earlier Show - more and more movies are being shown on TV - even in prime time - article with photos; Motorola ad highlights their new 18-Amp silicon controlled rectifier used in home appliances; Fantastic color photo centerfold Rheingold Beer ad features contestants in the Miss Rheingold 1964 competition, Joyce DeHardt, Kay Hughes, Sondra Kates, Sheri Rice, Barbara Julian and Celeste Yarnall; Nice photos of college fashions; Nice color-photo Milk ad called "Milk Has Staying Power"; and more. Four ink stamps on Peugeot ad on page 25. Above-average external wear. Library stamp on front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Crowsnest Holdup - a spectacular hold-up on the Canadian Pacific Railway and the tragic manhunt that followed; The Fire-Walkers of Fiji - a mystery that has never been solved - great photo-illustrated article; Roaming the Wild South Seas (part I) - Jack McLaren relates some of his strange and exciting experiences there; Hunting Bighorn Sheep in Mexico - a most exciting shooting trip in the wild Cocopah Mountains of Mexico - fantastic photo-illustrated article; Alone Across the Atlantic - Mr. Alain J. Gerbault sailed alone from Gibraltar to New York in 142 days; The Road to Timbuctoo (part III) - readers who enjoyed 'Three Asses in the Pyrenees" will find this narrative even more amusing; How "Mac" Won His Wife - a New Zealander abducts and marries a beautiful girl - with revengeful natives in pursuit; In Search of Sea-Monsters (part V) - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out in 1921 on an expedition to the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and caught multiple world-record-sized fish - article with photos; Zulliver's Travels - an ill-fated auto trip to California; Snapshots in China - great photos; Unknown Peru (part IV) - travel and adventure in the Andes - article with photos; Anstruther Gets a Job - an unemployed engineer in South Africa meets the promoter of a mine; The Two Strangers - an interesting sequel to "A Bunch of Keys" which appeared in the December 1923 issue; Great one-page illustrated General Electric locomotive ad speaks of the Mexican Railway between Orizaba and Esperanza where 10 electric locomotives will replace 25 steam locomotives; and more. Covers loose as one but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
64 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of sledding scene; Classy two-page 1934 Chevrolet ad with prominent illustration of handsome grille; One-page yeast ad features photos of Dr. Edouard Antoine of Paris; Australia's Central Bank - interesting article on contemporary developments in central banking; One-page color Crisco ad; Mean People (short story); The Beginning (short story); Taking Children to Sea - interestin photo-illustrated article on attractions offered for children aboard ocean liners; The Trimming of Paul Lumiere (short story); The Girl in Green (short story); White Cargo (part 2 of short story); Tomorrow's Transportation - interesting photo-illustrated article; The Impregnable "Mountain" - photo-illustrated article on Stony Mountain Penitentiary and its escapee California Bill; Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Henry Field of Chicago; Two-page Dodge photo ad features crowd gathered around car and another photo of car flying over cliff; Photos of Hollywood stars; Interesting Lux ad includes photo of Barbara Rainforth; Movie News and photos; Nice two-page photo ad for the New Plymouth Six includes photo of Walter P. Chrysler; Radio Stars - news and photos; Movie Reviews; Beauty article; Cooking article about Tea; One-page ad for Magic Baking Powder features photo of Madame R. Lacroix; Interesting Bovril ad includes photos of their product being loaded onto ship, the "Bear of Oakland", of Antarctic explorer Admiral Byrd; Fashion illustrations; One-page Kodak ad entitled "Snapshots at Night!"; Magnificent colour ad for Heinz ketchup inside back cover entitled "Wonderful Wedding" depicts 'blue-blood' female tomatoes being paired with Asian spicy males!; Colour Dutch Cleanser ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Pages 354-440 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: My Bear-Hunt - Part 1 - the author encounters outlaws in the High Sierras of California; Ning Wo Takes a Hand - a detectives story from the Malay Peninsula; The Hunting Down of Manuel Garcia - the Americans take extraordinary measures to capture the man who killed one of their citizens in a Central American republic; Across the Great Sahara - part 1 - Captain Angus Buchanan traverses the Sahara south to north on camel-back; A Miracle of the Air - Rosalie Gordon is saved after hanging to a rope beneath a plane at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas; A Canadian Wonderland - Jasper Park - article with wonderful photos; Roaming the Wild South Seas, part 2; "Dreamy Draw' - great photo-illustrated story of how a Londoner set up house in the Arizona wilderness for the health of her husband, only to see a settlement of health seekers set up around her; A Girl Among Brigands - Miss C. Berenguer is kidnapped by bandits in the Pyrenees; Pig-Sticking Thrills - high adventure and humour hunting wild pigs in India; In Search of Sea-Monsters - part 6 of 6 of this photo-illustrated article which describes F.A. Mitchell-Hedges' travels to catch the world's largest fish - incredible photo of huge male saw-fish; Some True Snake Stories; Nice one-page muscle-building ad by Earle E. Liederman of New York; Crazy back cover ad for the Allied Merke Institutes, Inc. shows man with what looks like a jelly mould on his head - purportedly in an effort to regrow his hair. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 386-478 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Price of Gold - an appalling catastrophe strikes a prosperous mining camp at South Porcupine, Ontario; Besieged by Cannibals - a solitary man in the Congo is besieged in his house by a mob of bloodthirsty savages; The Bull and the Barque - a bull on board a ship is worse than a bull in a china-shop; A Bad Bargain - a young Englishmen is tricked into years of misery on the deadly Niger coast before turning the tables on the tricksters; The Empire's Secrets - a British soldier consents to sell plans and photos of the defences of one of Great Britain's most important bases in the East - before disaster overtook him; Out of the Darkness - a rash young man crosses the Rocky Mountains alone in winter-time; Wanderings in Northern Persia (part I) - great photo-illustrated account of a journey beginning from Enzeli; From Job to Job Around the World (part I) - two young Americans with ten dollars between them set out to work their way around the world; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth (VI) - the author's expedition fights nature and hostile natives; McGrath's Voyage - a white trader, a boy, and a pig make a wonderful 2,000-mile trip across the South Pacific in an open boat - safely passing through a hurricane; photo of a hot-water geyser struck by drillers in Calistoga, California; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
200 pages. Features: California Evil - Death is most attractive in Californai; Charlie Manson's Home on the Range; Photo of topless SharonTate hugging Roman Polanski; Princess Leda's Castle in the Air; The Art of Evil; Banality of the New Evil; The Style of Evil; Light in the Heart of Darkness; Our Country 'Tis of Thee, Land of Ecology - by Jon Margolis; Femina Sapiens, by George P. Elliott; They're Going to Fry Ahmed's Black Skinny Ass - a Cleveland story; The Great Western Bus Ride, by Jack Kerouac; This is How the Ride Ends, By Jack McClintock; Robinson Crusoe Liebowitz; The Drinking Habits of the Very Young; Hurray for Hats; The Greatest Writing Ever Wrote, by Ed McClanahan; Fashion Photos; Stacked Up Over Stornoway - phooey on the great age of popular travel; Morton Sobell - Slightly at Large; Many other great vintage photo ads. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
135 pages. Dozens of wonderful vintage black and white photos. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Binding intact. Sunning to spine. A sound copy. Book
Dozens of wonderful vintage black and white photos. Unpaginated. 3/4" thick. Color-decorated front board. Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Binding intact. Tiny pen markings to one page otherwise unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Pages 178-264 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Mystery of Ayers Valley - Miss Dorothy Belle Ayers receives an unexpected inheritance which leads to deadly peril; The Smuggled Diamonds - a perplexing mystery in Brazil; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-out Canoe - the experiences of a missionary-explorer during a trip down a little-known river in Brazil, visiting strange Indian tribes - with excellent photos; The Motor Thieves - a remarkable case of stolen vehicle recovery in southern California - with photos; A Woman in Albania - part 4 - Mrs. Lane's adventures among the remote northern mountains; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 7 of the continuing adventures of a husband and wife with their donkey; Our Trip to the Bird Islands - John Hogg's perilous journey - with many wonderful photos; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - Idelle Meng's 11 months on a deserted group of uninhabited atolls - with photo; Among New Guinea Cannibals - interesting experiences of H.C. Pratt - with photos; The Wonders of Cuba - article with nice vintage photos; Up in the Air - a ballooning story; The Ghost of Fort Severn - the story of an apparition that haunted a Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) post in the Canadian north. Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Faint pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 502-598, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: The Hunting Down of Tiburcio Vasquez, the Dick Turpin of California; "Red Fagen" - a veteran shipmaster's story of the undoing of a villainous 'crimp'; A Cycling Tour Through Central Africa (part II) - photo-illustrated adventures on the way from Rhodesia to Egypt; The Spectre of Mekeo - a supernatural tale from British New Guinea; Spiders; The Javelin Throwers - an exciting adventure with Venezuelan savages; Following the Fur Trails - photo-illustrated article of a Canadian government naval survey crew's winter on the ice-bound shores of Hudson Bay; Lost in an Underground Labyrinth - photo-illustrated account of a man who was thrown into the sewers of Milan and lost for many days; The Eagle's Nest - the mountaintop town of Peillon in the South of France - article with many photos; The Mystery of Fraser Island - a strange sequence of events on an island where the Queensland 'dumped' troublesome blacks; Our Lunatic; A Matter of Business - a West African trader is charged with removing stock from stations set to be closed - despite native objections; The "Crooked House" - at Kingswinford, near Birmingham; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
