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pp. vii, 86 + Large Folding Pocket Map. 4to. Original pictorial wraps. Very nice copy. PA PAMPH 20_15 BX1
118 pages. Beautiful colour photogarphy throughout. "...Combines magic and memory to bring you the 1,000 Islands, one of the world's most beautiful year-round vacationlands." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga, King of Uganda (illustrated article); The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field - part 1; Across the Atlantic in an Open Boat - article with photo of Harvo and Samuelson in their rowboat "Fox"; The Mysterious Tramp; Tree-Blazing - how explorers in Australia's interior mark trees to guide those who may come after them; Bagging a Man-Eater - Major A. St. H. Gibbons kills a lion to protect villagers - article with photo; "The Miracle of Moses" - the Platte High Line Canal in Colorado - article with photos; In Search of an Orchid; The Fiery Ordeal of Fiji - walking on coals (illustrated article; In the Ocean Depths - illustrated recollections of ocean diver John Pearce. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Last page is 224. It is uncertain if any pages were included after that. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
in-12, 342 pages illustrees de quelques figures, 4 planches hors texte, broche, couverture illustree. Dos recolle sinon bon etat [TX-11]
Book is in excellent condition with a tiny bit of wear at lower corners only. Dark blue cloth covers with embossed gilt print at cover and 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. 319 pages in oblong format. Chapters include: Beginning in law and order, Causatives in (same), Marshals -- their jails and detention, codes, courts and governments, Agencies develop, Training to professionalism, Death in the line of duty, Progressions in looks, equipment, mobility, communications, etc. Heavily illustrated with photos, some highlights include the contents displayed of two WA St. patrol cars, one in 1960 and one in 1988; air surviellance over the years, crashes, bridge being swept away by log debris, motorcycle cop stunts, Still and pot raids, drug busts and killings, Green River murders, Kenneth Bianchi, Lists of marshals and chiefs from all over Wa state, directors of the Secret Service, State Patrol, etc. Inscribed on the title page by author to noted N.W. historian Paul Dorpat with letter from same to same. First edition #939 of a run of 2000.
4to; 84 pages; Thorough history of the Jewish Community in St. Louis, special attention to the Young Men's Hebrew Association. Shelf-wear and stains to cover, otherwise good ++ condition (AMR-41-32) xxx
Cm. 16,5, br. edit., pag. 58 (2). Con dedica autografa dell'A.. Edizione numerata di soli 100 esemplari (n° 47). Ottimo esemplare.
265, [3] pages. Index of family names. Fold-out map inside back cover indicates original homesteaders of each quarter section. Many diagrams and black and white reproductions of archival family photos in text. About half the book consists of biographies of settlers who arrived prior to 1930, primarily from Minnesota and South Dakota. Prior owner's name atop title page. Title written upon backstrip. Binding holes near top and bottom of spine. A sound vintage copy of this precious local history and genealogical reference. Krotki [2e] 820, Strathern 3007. Book
162 pages. "The raciest, raunchiest, most irreverent yarns and characters ever assembled... A genuine feast of Canadian folk humour." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Waterton Lakes National Park; Adventurers of Bristol; Prehistoric Footprints in Peace River. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. PLEASE NOTE; Pages 57-68, the article on an Arctic sled journey, have been removed and are not included. Magazine
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. This copy is 1 of 100 signed by the author, Armond Fields, on the half title right under the printed title. Otherwise completely clean inside and out. Illustrated in color and black & white. Bibliography. 8" high X 10" wide, 93 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
132 pages. Map endpapers. Majestic colour photography. "The tales and photographs in this book are superb. Both have the feeling of returning, returning to long views, to honour of the land, to honour of the people who see the land. Clear, astonishing work." - Robert Bly. Small faint ink stamp to bottom edge of text, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
197 p. Illustrated. 8vo. Softbound. Near fine. W11
Pages 321-360 plus xx pages of ads. Features: Mrs. Guy Norman's Sicilian Garden - The Seat and Canopy in the Garden Wall, plus color cover photo of her garden; Notable American Gardens - Mrs. Guy Norman's Sicilian Garden at Beverly Cove, MA; Historic Mansions of the James River - I - "Martin's Brandon," the Home of the Harrisons (including one-page photo of front entrance pocked with civil war bullet holes; Wonders of the Gourd Vine; Curtains and Draperies; The Wild Garden - a Plea for our Native Plants; An Old Brick House of Interesting Form at Wellesley Hills, MA - built for E.H. Fay, Esq.; The Summer Home of Thomas Nash, Esq., at East Hampton, Long Island; Something Concerning Driveways; The House of J.J. Storrow, Esq., Lincoln, MA; New Ant Lore; Great one-page photo-illustrated ad for the Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. and its porcelain enameled ware; Photo ad for Flandrau & Co., maker of Automobile Bodies and Carriages; One-page illustrated ad for Chickering & Sons pianos; Charming back cover two-color photo ad for Lenox Chocolates / Necco Sweets made by the New England Confectionary Co.; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
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
Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
pp. xii, 244 + Frontis, Color Map and full page plates. Paste downs and fly leaves stained from unusual dust jacket. 8vo. Original linen binding decorated with drawings of Conestoga wagons. Original coarse grained paper dust jacket. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Slight loss at corners and rear wrap. Spine darkened. OREGON TRAIL is third in the series of main-highway guidebooks prepared by the Federal Writers' Project. Hardbound. Very good. The Federal Writers' Project was one of five independent branches of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) established in the summer of 1935 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Unlike the Civilian Conservation Corps (1932), where young men worked on roads, bridges, and dams, the Works Progress Administration employed non-construction workers, as well as laborers. In Oregon, the Federal Writers' Project was the most visible white-collar agency of the WPA." - The Oregon Encyclopedia. W11
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and endpaper maps, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. The epic stand of 1 Glosters on Hill 235 at the eastern crossing of the Imjin River. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and endpaper maps, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The epic stand of 1 Glosters on Hill 235 at the eastern crossing of the Imjin River.
Pages xxiv, 257-320. Features: Cover illustration of Sugar-Loaf, Rio de Janeiro; The Haunted Mine - 1927 tale of a haunted goldmine in the Township of Timmins, Ontario, Canada; The Rest Cure - a sea captain's story of an unusual Atlantic voyage with a party of cowboys; Norfleet's Quest (part 2 of 2) - for three years Texas cattleman Frank Norfleet pursued a gang of confidence tricksters; Death of British Columbia lighthouse keeper Lawrence Dupuis; The Living Death - as strange 1925 a story from Mexico; The Sky-Riders - photo illustrated article about adventures of RCMP airmen maintaining law and order in Canada's vast Northern Territory; The Lawra Lion - a lion visits the Gold Coast; The Forbidden Path - two British officers in the Himalayan foothills; "Grey" - a close-up of manners and customs prevailing in the Northwest Territories of Canada near Yellowknife; First-Trippers; A Matter of Witchcraft - the strange story of a distinguished visitor who contrived to offend one of the wild tribes in the Territory of New Guinea; many nostalgic ads; The Australian Stockman - life of the drovers of Australia's vast Outback - article with photos and map; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Covers beginning to loosen. Binding sound. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Mm 245x275 Volume nella sua brossura riginale, 160 pagine con numerose figure in nero e a colori. Libro in condizioni di nuovo, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
In 8, pp. (4) + 99 + (1b) + 63 + (1b) + 92 + 172 con 56 tavv. f.t. inc. all'acq + una cartina ripiegata. Legatura in mz. pl. coeva. Traduzione italiana di quest'opera di viaggio della collana 'L'Universo. Storia e descrizione'. Rispetto ai titoli presenti sul frontespizio le parti inserite in questo volume sono differenti. Compaiono la descrizione del Cile di Cesare Famin pp. 99 con 24 tavole; la descrizione delle province del Rio della Plata (Paraguay, Uruguay, Buenos Aires) pp. 63 con 16 tavole; la descrizione della Patagonia, Terra del Fuoco e Isole Maluine pp. 92 con 16 tavole + cartina (mancano la tavola 1 e la 2). L'ultima parte, pero', di pp. 172 non e' 'Isole diverse dei tre oceani e regioni circompolari' di Bory di Saint Vincent come indicato nel frontespizio ma 'Possedimenti inglesi dell'America settentrionale' (senza tavole). Rispetto al frontespizio - che annuncia settantaquattro incisioni - mancano quindi le altre tavole che facevano parte del libro mancante.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps and diagrams; blue buckram, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
Very Good English Original bdg. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. Many b/w plates. [xii], 340 p., 1 folding huge map. A tour through the famine districs of India.
