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8vo., First Edition thus; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition.
4to., First Edition thus, text in Japanese (primarily) and English, with coloured and monochrome photographs and facsimiles, type profiles and liveries, and many hundreds of detailed technical drawings in the text, and superb cut-away illustrations as endpapers; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in publisher's card slip-case with dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and plates; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper taped to boards. With personal bookplate and signature on front free endpaper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
Oblong 4to., with numerous photographs and line illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
Ex-library vinyl binding with the usual stamps and markings. 52 pages. Many black and white photos and illustrations.
Book is in excellent condition in every respect with sharp corners on the covers. Text is clean and unmarked, solid, square, straight binding showing little to no wear of any kind. Dust jacket has edge wear, and chipping at corners, a few small tears. Many b&w photos, very detailed text, 189 pages. Former owner's embossed stamp on front end paper. Chapters include The air staff have doubts; Mosquito in five editions; low level and shallow dive; Embry and the Pinpoint raids; the Mosquito goes to sea;
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, brght, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at edges. UNCOMMON, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8; white boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations throughout, small stamp on front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Noffsinger 545.
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
Pages 89-176, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The House of Death - how an Oklahoma rancher saved his own life; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 6 - the continued story of this European adventure trip; Bali - Isle of Wonder - wonderfully photo-illustrated article; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - part 1of the adventure of Mrs. Idelle S. Meng and her husband on one of the loneliest islands in the Pacific; The Six Feathers - the unfortunate experience of a New Guinea trader who tried to smuggle the forbidden bird-of-paradise plumes out of the country; The Wood-Carvers of the Tyrol - great photo-illustrated article on a trip to the Groden VValley; The Romance of the Fur Trade - photo-illustrated article on fur trapping and fur farming in North-west Canada, including photo of a large polar bear being hauled into a boat; A Woman in Unknown Albania - part 3; The Trail of the Lonesome Postman - letters being delivered to some of the world's most remote locations; Caught by a Crocodile a British officer attempts to fill his water bottle at a river; The Idol That Jumped - the author purchased a 'devil-devil' figure from a Solomon Island chief, then startling things happened; The Merepur Mystery - a mystery is solved in India; The Man Who Fell Six Miles - Major R.W. Schroeder and his airplane - article with photos; The Written Word - Jim Carter saved himself in India with some clever writing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
130p., illus. Aerial reconaissance photographs of World War 1. Hardcover Very good condition good
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of Helifor's Dave Morrison splitting an oversize hemlock; Remember the Axe - Illustrated article by noted axe author Allan Klenman; Canlog 1992 Schedule; Booming and Barging - what's happening today; Prince George Regional Forest Exhibition; In Camp with Helifor - on the ground and in the air; Helifor's Eclipse Camp; The Big Bang; Campbell River Fish and Forest - special Campbell River Supplement; Logging vs. Environmentalism; Lots of great ads; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates and diagrams in the text; purple cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Sm. folio, Second Impression, with many hundreds of photographs and detailed illustrations in the text, and graph endpapers, tiny inscription on front free endpaper verso; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference, and uncommon in this condition.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., with folding maps (a number coloured in outline); blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrspper, the latter with closed tear on front panel. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1928. Enser, p.17 (recording the first edition).
8vo., with folding maps (a number coloured in outline); blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1928. Enser, p.17 (recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition, with full-page maps in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original black buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.19.
8vo., with maps in the text; series binding of blue buckram, gilt back, blue top, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1922. Enser, p.19 (recording the original edition).
8vo., Second Impression, with 84 plates on 16 and a full-page map in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY DUKE ON SMALL BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON TITLE. first published in 1995.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.