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Pages 209-308. Features: Frontispiece photo of George F. McCorquodale; Natural and artificial methods of salmon production - a short review of Canadian results; Salmon Fisheries of Norway; Defective Bones in Hand-reared Trout; The Grayling - part IV - bait fishing; Rod Joints and Whippings - how to recondition them for difficult climates; The Value of Hatchery Trout for Stocking Rivers; De Profundis - a tale of a fisherman's Dilemma; Experiments on the Starvation of Trout Fry; Artificial Propagation of Brown Trout - Hatchery Mortality; Reviews of new books; The Jolly Angler (continued); and more. Average wear. Few institutional library markings. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 308-412. Features: Frontispiece photo of Horace Brown; Salmon marking in Norway - the lessons of 1935; In Praise of Horsehair and How to Use it; ; Scotland's Salmon Season - a good year for grilse, but poor for autumn fish; A Book of Two Peoples - Norwegian trout fishing in the 1880's; In the Outer Isles - Trout Fishing in the Sandy and Peaty Lochs of Uist; ; How to Select and Preserve Sandeels - some suggestions for the salmon fisher; Freshwater Fisheries in North America - some notes of a tour in parts of Canada and teh U.S.A.; Biological Notes; Reviews of new books; The Jolly Angler (continued). Average wear. Few institutional library markings. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo. Pp. 57, 21 illus. in text, refs. Orig. stiff wrs.
96 p., illus. & melodies by the author. Translated from the Norwegian by Evelyn Ramsden; lyrics translated by Leila Berg Hardcover Very good condition good
Photos include: The capture of the capital of Saar; Naval pictures from the Pacific Ocean; New pictures from the battle-line in Germany; Fighting in Mandalay; photos from the Russians; Coblenz (Koblenz) and Remagen; Massive captured German rail-mounted guns; The German citizen and the war; Iwo Jima conquest completed; The R.A.F. attack in Burma, Yugoslavia and Norway; Photos of the great 10-ton bombs of the R.A.F.; British scenes in field and shipyard; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
314pp., limited and numbered edition of only 600 copies: this is no.20, 26cm., pages uncut, in the series "Rijksuniversiteit te Gent. Werken uitgegeven door de faculteit van de wijsbegeerte en letteren" 126e aflevering, text in English, very good condition, T83841
314pp.+ 1 page of "theses", Academic dissertation, limited and numbered edition of only 600 copies: this is one of the 50 copies reserved for the author himself (no. XXXVIII/L), 26cm., most pages still pages uncut, [published in the series "Rijksuniversiteit te Gent. Werken uitgegeven door de faculteit van de wijsbegeerte en letteren" 126e aflevering], text in English, very good condition, T83861
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to lower front edge. 240pp. A complete survey of the art of the Nordic countries - Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland during the 200 years from around 1740 to 1940. Extremely well illustrated.
Features: The Vengeance Trail - A murder-mystery from Ecuador, with photos; Our New Guinea Cruise - curious sights and scenes, with photos; Northland Mountaineering - interesting climbs in Arctic Norway - photos; Carlson's Mermaid - a fantastic story from the Niger delta; The 'Hidden Gold" Murders - a German case; Ghulam Haidar - Opium Peddler; Two Bad Men - murderers are eventually captured in America's rugged North-West; A Weird Quest - seances are held to help locate 'lost' gold-mines; Behind the Door - a tale from a Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy; Bush Nightmare - an experience in the wilds of Queensland; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Vengeance Trial - An unusual murder in Ecuador; Our New Guinea Cruise - the natives of New Guinea have acquired a certain level of sophistication, with photos; Northland Mountaineering - ascending some difficult peaks in Norway, with nice photos; Carlson's Mermaid - a fantastic story from the Niger delta; The Hidden Gold Murders; Ghulam Haidar - Opium Peddler; Two Bad Men - tracking down two killers in America's wild North-West; A Wierd Quest - seances are held to help prospectors find gold in the U.S.; Behind the Door - a curious story from a Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy; Bush Nightmare - tough luck for a wanderer in the wilds of Queensland; Forewarned - a puzzling affair in Nigeria; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
Stories: Murder on the Border; The Laplanders of Norway; Hummingbird Haven; Murmansk Convoy; Hunting the Cattle Rustlers; Happy; Entombed Beneath the Sea; The Skull Tobacco Box; Sharks on the War Front; Koch of the Corio; Lobengula's Treasure; Jurisprudence; Crocodiles Kill in Africa; Goanna Hunting. Average wear. Book
Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates on 8; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly written account of the unmasking of a German spy-ring based at HMS Raleigh in Plymouth.
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates, and endpaper charts in blue, contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy. With series catalogue preceding half-title and 6pp publisher's advertisement at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1st edition. Good hbk bound in rubbed brown cloth, blue decoration and title lettering. Former public library copy. xiv, 152 pages, black and white plates, maps on the endpapers. With a preface by Karl F. Knudsen. 23823. eng
19x13. 240p. Sello anterior poseedor. Trad. Pérez Bances.
20x12. 209p. Trad. P. Bances.
18x11. 156p. Núm. 169. Trad. R. Pérez Bances.
Broch?. 193 pages. Jaquette.
22 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Faint label removal patch on first page. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 13 plates on 8 and 2 full-page maps in the text (repeated as endpaper maps); green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Dustwrapper artwork by Peter Rudland. Classic account of the author's exploits as a shipping observer/radio operator in occupied Norway. UNCOMMON. Enser, p.300.
Broch?. 277 pages.
