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297 p. Hardcover Very good condition edge-worn d.j.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 174 pages. 7 7/8"w x 9 1/4"h. Many b&w photos and illustrations.
Pages 401-440. Features: The Truth About Those "Undress" Shows - where is the modern stage fashion leading us? - argues for stricter censorship over stage 'fashions' - with reproductions of scandalous photos; The Man Who Hadn't a Chance (story); What Did Christ Mean? - who are the meek and how can they inherit the earth?; Mother Love - an appealing little story; How the Cup is Won - secrets of the great vitory final by the Captain of Cardiff's winning team last season - article with photo; A Stranger in the Wild - a January nature story; Making the "Stars" Twinkle - some facts about filmland's unseen army, the people who do the behind-the-scenes work - article with photos, including "Our Gang" kids and an aerial photo of the MGM lot; Photo of 'land yacht' (early RV); Photo of world champion unicyclist Walter Nilsson riding on top of the Cheops pyramid; Adventure - a short story; Wit of the Week; Fishing With a Kite! - Photo-illustrated article about queer ways of catching the ocean's finny monsters, including photo of Rex Ingram with a huge fish he caught off Florida; Angel Esquire (continued); The World's Largest Building Society - The Halifax Building Society - started in a coffee house and now has capital of 40 million pounds. Openings along coverfold. Clean six-inch opening to central portion of front cover and following several pages, apparently by an errant knife cut. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
229p. illus. Signed by the author. Hardcover Very good condition very good d.j. good
Appears unread. Traces of foxing to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. Tiny creases to upper front corner and rear lower corner of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 126pp.
IN 4°, 312-(2) PP., MOLTE ILL. A COL. E B.N. N.T., CART. EDIT., SOVR. ILL. A COL. (LIEVISSIME TRACCE D'USO), COME NUOVO (M/F).<BR><BR>DAL SOMMARIO:<BR>GLI ALBORI DELLA NAUTICA,<BR>LA PRIMA GRANDE STAGIONE DELLO YACHTING<BR>GLI ANNI TRENTA<BR>VERSO LA RIPRESA: UN NUOVO YACHTING<BR>REGATE NEL FINIRE DEL MILLENNIO<BR>GLOSSARIO E INDICE<BR>BIBLIOGRAFIA<BR> FL 739
Oversize. 80 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Presentazione di Beppe Croce - piani velici disegnati da Angelo Cressi 1 23,2x15,7 cm., legatura in piena tela protetta da acetato piccola mancanza al piatto in alto a destra, , pagg. 642, numerose tavole in nero fuori testo, piani velici e tabelle ripiegate, prima edizione, in italiano, buone condizioni.
338 p. incl. col. mounted plates. col. mounted front., illus. (incl. map) ports., plates. 30 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, small stain in top margin of last 100 pages, not effecting text
Folio, First Edition, on laid paper, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, 15 fine mounted coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), and numerous monochrome photographs in the text; blue pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked with Royal Standard and lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 459). Published by gracious permission of His Majesty the King.
102 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good Story of the storm disaster during the 1979 Fastnet ocean race with 21 boats & 15 lives lost.
202 p. Anthology of excerpts from accounts of cruises made in sailing yachts. Hardcover Good condition in chipped d.j.; last page skinned fair
245 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
245 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
Folio. Unpaged, illus. w/ color photographs by Forster. Text by Jay Broze. Hardcover Very good condition good
149 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
168 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Folio 256p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Oversize. 256 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Oversize. 152 p., illus. w/ color photographs Hardcover Very good condition good
1st edition. Very good condition hardback in a very good condition dust jacket. 160 pages, ISBN 0540071609. 50884. eng
Folio 256p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Folio 256p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Red Witch of Modjaji - A weird story related by a member of the old South African Constabulary on the edge of the Great Bushveld; In Search of Sea-Monsters - Part I - In 1921 F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out on a two-year trip to the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea to discover the world's largest big-game fish - photo-illustrated article; The Convict Who Captured a Prison - Murderer Tom Slaughter was able to escape from the Arkansas State Penitentiary's "death cell" and escape from the prison, leaving all other prisoners and guards lock up! - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part III (conclusion) - Winifred S. Blackman spent three winters with local people in Upper Egypt - article with photos; Photo of man in India who has committed to roll his body for two thousand miles from Rameswara to Benares! Trade-Wind Cay - Three men find themselves stranded on an uninhabited islet, once the lair of pirates, in the Spanish Main; Our Andean Adventures - Harriett Chalmers Adams travelled into the region across the Peruvian Andes and the mysterious "inside" country beyond, which she was the first white woman to penetrate - article with photos; The Great Dog Derby of La Pas - Photo-illustrated account of the annual race for men and dog-teams over two hundred miles of snow-covered wilderness at La Pas, Manitoba; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part IV - The story of a British officer's journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; The Bell of Solavetski - Ralph Durand spent twenty pounds to travel to faraway Archangel and the ice-covered Arctic wastes of Nova Zembla - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part IV - A bull-terrier spared from death rewards his new owner, Count Nils Cronstedt, by saving him multiple times during his time as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; Across the Atlantic in "Shamrock" - Sir Thomas Lipton's racing yacht travels an adventurous 3,000 miles home to Britain for a refit (with photos; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part IV - Beatrice Grimshaw explored up the Sepik River of New Guinea where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; The Grey Devils - A grim story of hungry wolves in the Canadian North-West; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book