Rees-Thomas, David M.MareMagnum
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63 pages. Many excellent black and white photos. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. Book
96p. Comic illustrations by M. A. Bowles. 8vo. Original color pictorial wraps, slightly soiled. Nice copy. Puns, etc. from the era of the St. Louis World's Fair. HUMOR 8
14 pages. Who's making all that noise? Why it's Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends at work on the Island of Sodor. Join in their exciting adventures by reading the stories, looking at the pictures and pressing the buttons to hear all the voices of the railway, as well as the voice of the Fat Controller himself! Sound effects all working. Book unmarked and in Good+ condition but for the fact that binding is open at last page. Book
270 pages. References. Numerous reproductions of archival black and white photos. Title of the thirty-one chapters include: The David Thompson Party; Fort Kootenay; Gold on Wild Horse; Old Times on Perry Creek; Two Isadores of East Kootenay; International Railway Rivalry; Steamboat Days on Upper Columbia. The North Star Mine; Sullivan Mine Early History; Pierre - Kootenay Indian; Building of the Crowsnest Railway; Early Cranbrook; THe Frank Slide; Fernie; The coming of the Automobile; The Blue Bell Mine; Early Days in Kaslo; Beginnings of Nelson; Rossland Camp; The Salmon-Beaver Valley; The Doukhobors; and many more. Contents moderately toned with age. Heavy external wear and soiling. Usual library markings. Back free endpaper removed. Binding intact. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy. (Hale & Barman #359) Book
Book is in excellent condition with grey cloth boards, black print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered with edge and corner wear, multiple small tears. 192 pages with 1 - 8 b&w photos on every page.
32 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. "This is the story of Williams Lake, a young town in an old setting, and of the historic Central Cariboo it serves. [This book] explains why Williams Lake with its friendly people and tremendous future is a good place to live." - Foreword. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Hale & Barman 910. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and full-page plan in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) and commercial 'advertorials' at end. Otto's own account of the planning, construction and control of the vast modern railway layout exhibited at the Model Railway Exhibition at Eastbourne in 1957. The layout features all forms of landscape (including a volcano), Swiss Mountains, German Terminus, Airport, Harbour, Uranium Mine, Trix-Town, Dockland, America (Grand Central), Lilliput Land, Space Station, City of the Future and even a POW camp! Otto went on to create the world's greatest model railway for the New York World Fair in 1964. This display was later exhibited at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu before mocing to a permanent home in Ireland in 1996. Otto describes his achievement in considerable detail, naming manufacturers, suppliers and assistants, and providing in some cases step-by-step instructions of construction and adaptation. An absolute must for the railway modeller, and a rare survival.
Hardback in-4, 264 pp, frontispice sous serpente, nombreuses photographies et gravures (plusieurs en couleurs pleine page), reliure demi-cuir à coins, dos à 5 nerfs, titre doré. VG COPY. [VER-2]
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Six Skulls - Part I - Sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings" - the twenty-five year persecution of Walter G. Patterson who, while a young man in Butte, Montana, was compelled to join a lawless Chinese tong; An Amazing Voyage - The escape from Spain of a number of interned German officers; A Flying Man in South America - Part VI - The adventures of John G. Barron, who spent 2.5 years giving flying exhibitions in South America, often to people who had never before seen an aircraft; The Child of Terbeeke - How a child saved a British Battalion from annihilation; Humours of the East African Campaign; Panton's Feud - how aviators and artillery co-operate at the Front; On the Borders of Tibet - Part V - Photo-illustrated account of the author's two years wanderings in these wild lands of wilder people; A Bandit's Bride - Part III - The strange story of Pancho Villa's wife, with photos, including photo of Villa and Zapata on horseback in Mexico City in 1915 when they practically controlled Mexico; Railway Building in the Wilderness - Part I - Construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific through the Canadian Rockies, with great photos; The Faithful Lover - The history of William Anderson and Catherine Burthe; Photo of Mashukwlumbwe tribesmen with hair spikes over two feet tall!; Ten-page investment ad for the Sugar Cane By-Products Co., which apparently sought to solve the shortage of wood pulp by using sugar cane; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 388-472, 8-24 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part I of the First True Account of the Exploits of the World's Most Noted Outlaws, by Emmett Dalton, the only survivor of the "Dalton Gang" - article with photos and great cover illustration; Wonders of the Teleferica - an interesting account of the remarkable aerial lines/cableways used by the Italians to transport men, guns, and provisions in the high Alps - article with many photos; The Youngest Soldier in the French Army - photo of 11-year-old Charles Meux of the French Army; Tales of the Service - Part I - A Night in a Vat; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part II - Eva J. Jordan, F.R.G.S. travelled with her husband for four-thousand miles through the great Equatorial Forest of Central Africa, becoming the first woman to penetrate this area - article with photos; A Night of Terror - an associate of Izaak Walton sinks into quicksand while fishing; Buried in a Snowdrift - a mining engineer is caught in an avalanche in the Andes; "Hooshta!" - the Tragedy of an Australian camel race - a stirring story from the West Australian goldfields; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part I - Fanny and William Workman describe their Himalayan mountaineering exploits - article with map and great photos; Thrice Through the Jaws of Death - Sergeant J. Harte of the Inland Water Transport relates hair-breadth escapes at sea and on land; How We Built the Bridge - War story related by a corporal of the canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps; Crossing the Canal - A despatch orderly attempts to cross the Suez Canal at night; Some Adventures of a Newspaper Woman - Marie Harrison provides a graphic and thrilling account of her startling adventures in search of 'copy'; The Railway Conquest of the Bay - a photo-illustrated account of the building of the Hudson Bay Railway; A Happy Family - humorous account of the antics of a number of strange pets belonging to a party of colonials in Singapore; A Modern Grace Darling - Miss Ella Trout rescues a sailor from a torpedoed ship off the coast of Devon - article with nice photos of Miss Trout; Photo of a group of Solomon Islands head-hunters reading The Wide World Magazine; Interesting four-page illustrated stock offering by Guaranteed Tractors, Inc., Edmund G. Soward, President; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 4-88, 9-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: How I Saved My Husband From Execution - Mr. Yaro Galvon had been condemned to be shot by the Mexican Government; An Unknown Switzerland - Canada's Unknown Alpine Wonderland - The Canadian Rockies; Across the Atlantic in a Tug - Captain J.W. Penberthy spent 2.5 months taking a tug from Argentina to England; A Flying Man in South America - Part I - John G. Barron imported a monoplane to South America and spent 2.5 years their giving exhibition flights, often to people who had never seen an airplane - article with great photos; The Third Attempt - How I Escaped From Germany - Corporal John Southern explains how he succeeded on his third attempt; Seaman Blake Discovers Coney Island - an exciting day for two unsophisticated bluejackets of the Royal Navy; The Dogs of War - All abou the "Four-Footed" Soldiers of France, with nice photos; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - Part II - E.W. Hawkes travelled 3,000 miles in Labrador and Hudson Bay, gaining a vivid impression of its lonely trading ports and mission stations, and the curious manners and customs of the Eskimos - article with photos; "Back to the Land" - city-worker Frank Hemstreet decides to try his luck as an extra hand on a farm during harvest near Vanguard, Saskatchewan; "Red Rube" - an account of the lurid career of one of the most daring and successful train robbers to plague American railroad and express companies; The Saving of Paris - how the wit of a humble woodman's widow led to the preservation of the Western Railway of France in the early days of WWI; "What Happened to Glenholme" - a merchant ship is sunk by a German U-boat in the Mediterranean; and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 483-572, [16] ads. Covers detached as one but present. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
88 Pages plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Burning of the Prisoners in the Punishment Hut - Germany's Dastardly Crime, as told by Pedro Dominguez, a Spanish seaman and eye-witness of the tragedy ; The Six Skulls - Part III of a sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings" (Chinese Secret Society /Tong story); The Mast-Shooters of Belgium - how quaint and novel archery contests were conducted in Belgium and Northern France - with great photos; The Unlucky Motor-Boat - the "Jean"; Queer Fixes; The Seaplane Patrol - our narrow escape in the North Sea; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; The Port Elizabeth "Spook" - a very unusual ghost story; Strange Stories of the War - how we rescued the Commander/How a Dog Outwitted the Germans/Into the Hand of a Woman (a story of the invasion of Lithuania); The Death-Room - solving the mystery of how three men died in the same room in the same house; Pumping a Great Sea Dry - Holland's gallant attempt to reclaim the Zuider Zee (with photos); An Underground City of Salt - near Cracow, in Galicia - article with photos; Railway Building in the Wilderness - Part III - Construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific, the second great transcontinental line to pierce the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; The World's Smallest Railway, The Grand Island Railway (text with photos); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Stories: Valley of Headless Men; Typhoon Warning; How Pond Creek Fought the Railroad; A Memorable Lion Hunt; Find the Woman!; The House at Luzolo; S-A-L-T!; The Python; Arab Dhows; The Lost Oasis; Hunter's Luck; Australian Diviners. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
85 pages plus six pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part I - Robert Wilton and his adventures as a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front, with photos. (Wilton's book entitled 'Russia's Agony' was first published in 1918); The Man-Eating Tigers of Rengarih; My Bear Hunt in the British Columbia Rockies - Part II, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; The Water-Wheels of Hama, Syria - with photo; Beyond the Law - part V - The Dalton Gang, the Condon Bank and the First National Bank at Coffeyville, Kansas; Fishing as a Vocation for War Heroes, by Ralph Stock; Photo of a fallen California Redwood - said to have been the largest tree in the world; In Unknown British Guiana - Part I - many nice photos; Tales of the Service - Part V - My Smuggle-Catching Adventures - by G.W. Hindmarch, a retired Customs and Excise officer in the Shetland Islands; Wonders of the Silver Spruce of British Columbia - in high demand for aircraft construction; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part V - by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with excellent photos; Our Seaplane Adventure - Captain Abbott Meade and his plane go down in the Indian Ocean; Photo of large pile of licorice root at Aleppo; The Revenge that went Wrong - James Bestow and his problem with a Yaqui Indian in Mexico; The Railway Conquest of the Australian Desert - construction of the thousand-mile transcontinental railway, from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta - with many excellent photos; The "War Wolf" - Serbia's war hero Colonel Voyin A. Popovich; Whale Flesh as Human Food - informative brief article on the growth of the whale processing industry in Canada, with photo; Doctoring War Horses - the personal experiences of Blue Cross worker Charles W. Forward in France and Italy. Nice ad for the Hudson Navigation Company's New York - Albany - Troy route. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Features: 'Twixt Sea and Sand - Part I - Those who man the lightships that keep the world's shipping off the dreaded Goodwins; Build or Die - an Igloo story; Diamonds are Dangerous - Diamond Smugglers and the 'big men' behind them; Danger - Loco Adrift - a giant locomotive slips its lashings in a stormbound ship; Destination Unknown - the second instalment of the adventures of Peter Pinney; The Rain Stoppers - on the West Coast of Africa; Search for Living Gold - Andean Chinchilla; Ghost of the White Chief - John Roberts; The Very Mysterious Eel; A Thousand Miles to Railhead - Motor Transport in North Australia - Road Trains; Horses on Showshoes - an idea which originated 75 years ago at Lardo, British Columbia; Jungle Hideout - the adventures of a white woman who spent nearly 4 years in the jungle running from the Japanese, eating dog, and teaching Guerillas to sing; Paddy's Lapse - A Merchant Navy Officer's Scary Experience; Covers holding but weakly; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
Features: The Death-Bore - A nightmare experience on a railway in the Andes of South America; Wilderness Wandereres - the barren ground caribou of Canada, many photos; Terror by Night - visiting the lonely northwest coast of Australia in search of the alleged footprints of a prehistoric dinosaur; The Spell-Binder - a Natal farmer describes a curious incident related to an African courtship; The Rest Cure - recuperating from tropical fever, the author takes an open-air job hoping it will aid his health...; A Papuan "Pig Festival", with great photos; Time is Money - a story from Bombay by P. Stones; The Steamer will not call; Stolen Gold - ramifications of Far East Gold Smuggling as revealed in Western Australia; The Onlooker - making the only pleasure cruise of his life, a ship's officer is unable to enjoy himself; Slumach Lost Creek Mine Ltd.; and more. Average wear. Chips and openings along backstrip. Binding intact. Book
Stories: The Nazco Patrol; North for Timber; The Keeper's Tale; The Editor's Post Bag; The Hunting Down of Sultana; Three Dogs; The Grey Shark; Blackmailing a Railway; The Grey Shark; The Blue Grass Amulet; New Zealand Hermits; Missing; The Blue Glass Amulet; Indian Jugglers; Major the Outlaw. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Features: Terror of the Zambezi Swamps - Crocodiles Story; Dance of the Pygmies; Target Lightship - "Twixt Sea and Sand," Continued - the story of a lightshipman who helped to man the North Goodwin vessel; The Secret of the Reef - a treasure hunt on the coast of Western Australia; Riding in Rough Waters - a canoeist in Britain's Backwaters; Short Cut - a Sierra Leone Railroad Tale; Sutty of the Railroad - a tale from the Kootenays in British Columbia; Sons of the Snake - the bushmen of Southwest Africa; Tin-Tacks - the author and his wife are captured by Japanese Pirates; The Rogue Male of Kazimvimba - an elephant adventure; Australia's Lonely People - Lighthousemen; Bypaths to Adventure - the third instalment of the gripping story of world traveller; and more. Average wear. Price adjusted in ink upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features include: A Matter of Magic - a battle of wits between a white man and an East African witch-doctor; Hill Section - a 115 mile section of railway linking Northern and Southern Assam; The Amateur Elephant Hunter; The Lead-Dog's Warning - Told by a Canadian trapper, illustrates the perils awaiting dwellers of the far north; The Captain's Mutiny - Captain Arnas Loivikas in 1931; The Lion-Men of Ussure (Part 3); Philo's Dream - an amazing affair in a tribal village in Papua; Monkey Business - A Moroccan Story; Spawn of Evil - A wild stallion the author endeavoured to break; Memorable Voyage - A South African Story; Pennies for Fools - The Australian Prospector; Four Shark's Teeth; Chasing Red Sea Smugglers - a breezy account of a decidedly interesting job; Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to covers. Contents good. Name atop back cover. Magazine
Features include: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom - the story of nine survivors of the Japanese capture of Rabaul; The Land Sharks - Would-be settlers in Canada fall victim to wonderful stories from plausible strangers of how to 'get rich quick'; Man-Eater - A former member of the Burma Frontier Service describes the eventful career of a tiger; Vale of the Gods - a curious blend of immemorial ritual and popular merrymaking in the Northern Punjab; The Ju-Ju Doctor - The facts of an amazing occurence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - Author gets the scare of his live on an East Indian Island; The Sea-Dayaks of Borneo - Author finds the fromer head-hunters to be charming hosts; Section Man - A glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - A puzzling American murder case. Exterior heavily worn with chips missing from spine and front cover partially detached. Contents good. Pencilled name upon back cover. Magazine
Features include: The World's Loneliest Island - Arthur Scholes on Heard Island, Antarctica; All Aboard for Adventure (part II) - Five young Americans set out in a sailboat for tropic seas; The Indians of Guatemala - colourful glimpses; Mountain Rescue - A Night Adventure on Bedean nam Bian, the loftiest mountain in Argyllshire, Scotland; The Warning - a tale of premonition; The Mysterious Stranger - a tale from the wilds of Tibet; Poll Chunk's Son - A Drama of Real-Life in the mountains of Kentucky; Noosing Wild Buffalo in Ceylon; The Hidden Pass - A strange story of the early days of Canadian railway development and the "Ice-Man of Revelstoke"; Land Without Women - the holy community of Mount Athos and its monestary of Simonpetra; A Riddle of the Bush - an Australian story; The Robin Hood of Sicily; In the Shadow of Ju-Ju - remarkable cases from West Africa; Pirate Treasure - Pirates were not unknown in Newfoundland at the time of the American War of Independence; Quack Doctors in Burma. Illustrated in black and white. Above-average wear to exterior with openings at covers. Contents good. Magazine
Pages 338-420 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: By Water in the Desert - an African witch doctor puts a curse on three white men; "Highclimbing" in the Tall Timbers - photo-illustrated article on high-climbers (high-riggers) of the Pacific Northwest which provides a vivid account of their work and its perils; Kwis-Kwis The Killer - British Columbia police sergeant Letherdale brings to book a most cunning and dangerous murderer in the vicinity of Queen Charlotte Sound; "Within the Law" - an unscrupulous Winnipeg estate agent tries to bring off an extra-smart deal; An African No Man's Land - the first crossing by white men of a queer region in the heart of the Belgian Congo - with photos; My Grandfather's Watch - after a watch is stolen in India, a servant suggests an unusual - and successful - method of retrieving it; Shark Catching Extraordinary - a local fisherman devises a novel method to take care of a shark which is threatening swimmers at a New Zealand resort; Through Spain in Disguise (part II) - Count and Countess Malmignati travel through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars; The Guru's Message - Journalist Colonel Charles Harrison Gibbons lay at death's door near the Khyber Pass but was relieved by a friend from a thousand miles away who was somehow contacted by an old native priest; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" (part IV) - the adventures of six young men sailing from Shanghai to Copenhagen; "On Construction" - the adventures of trying to build a new railway through the wilds of Africa; Experiences with the Alligators of Cambridge Gulf in Australia, with illustration of a Carl Jacobs alligator trap and photo of a massive 'gator caught at Wyndham; A Night with Lions - the appalling experience of corporal Fairweather of the B.S.A. Police on the banks of the Zambezi; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
xxiv, 129-194 pages. Features: Heroes of the Tractor Trails (with cover illustration) - photo-illustrated article on the men who blaze tractor trails across the frozen north to supply mines and the military; Full Ahead to Destruction - a ten million dollar smuggling operation in the Mediterranean - article with photos; Red Eyes of Evil - hunting a 15' crocodile on the Zambezi; The Temple of Snakes - five white men filming a documentary amongst the savage Arusi tribesmen find trouble; Murderers in my Kitchen - the author's two jungle workers were convicted murderers; Trapped in a Floating Tomb - an astonishing sea story from off the Prussian coast involving the "Aurora"; Tooth for a Tooth - a Scotish flyer creates trouble in the city of Kandy on Ceylon when he violates a sacred shrine; Squeeze to Freedom - the amazing escape of a British P.O.W. from a German train in WWII; Caught in a Whirlpool in the Vialala river in Eastern Papua - article with photos; Sports Day with the Veiled Warriors - the Oulliminden Tuaregs of the French Sudan - article with photos; Jungle Guinea Pigs - Sgt. Ken McConnell's Auster crashed in Malaya - his nightmare trip to safety; and more. Bit of pencil writing on front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
