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Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Premiere issue. 30 pages. Features include: Second annual Victoria and Nanaimo Antique Bottle Show; Letters; We Dig Bottles, by "Bob & George"; Blowing Off Foam! - The Karbonated Korner, by Bob & Donna Skrill; What on Earth Is It?; George Coletti & Son of Nelson, B.C.; Jewels of Talking Wire - insulators; Cecil and Joan Harris of Vernon, B.C.; Books in Review; Relics, by Jim Heidt; License Plate Collecting by Allan Gadsen; Old Ads from Victoria Colonis, Christmas 1874; Photos of Free blown bottle; Pottery Jugs; Ads; Club News. Printed on glossy stock. Covers and first few pages wavy from moisture exposure, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A worthy collectible copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Book
Very good condition, cover has some small brown spots at head of upper board and spine is sun darkened, clear, bright and tight. Used
Published in hardcover. Jacket is well worn with markings and a tear at the spine foot. Boards have some minor edge-wear but are otherwised unmarked. Rough cut page block. Pages in the main body remain clean and clear. Illustrations are included. GE Used
Library-bound hardcover (no jacket); gilt titles and shelfmark label on spine. Lending history on FEP; stamps on page block and one or two pages. Minor wear to a handful of upper page corners. All content is clear. Fold-out rainfall map at rear. Memoirs of the Geological Survey, England and Wales. Ex-academic library. TS Used
Library-bound hardcover (no jacket); gilt titles and shelfmark label on spine. Lending history on FEP; stamps on page block and one or two pages. Lower page corners are a little bumped. All content is clear. Fold-out rainfall map at rear. Memoirs of the Geological Survey, England and Wales. Ex-academic library. TS Used
Hardcover (no jacket, rebound by library into contemporary brown boards, with shelfmark on spine foot). Ex-academic library, with sheet on FEP, serials on reverse of title page, correction fluid and stamp on preface page, and further stamps on page block. Binding reinforced with tape at title page. Lower page corners are bumped; creasing elsewhere at points, though never impacting on legibility. All text is clear. Memoirs of the Geological Society (England and Wales). TS Used
Library-bound hardcover (no jacket); gilt titles and shelfmark label on spine. Lending history on FEP; stamps on page block. Very faint wear to lower page corners, with taped repair to title page's lower corner. All content is clear. Memoirs of the Geological Survey, England and Wales. Ex-academic library. TS Used
Cover illustration of British soldier on skis in North Russia. Illustration of the French deliverers in Saverne (Zabert). War Reputations Lost and Won - article by Hamilton Fyfe. British Ships Against Bolshevism in the Baltic - 3 photos including the H.M.S. Calypso and Caradoc plus H.M.S. Angora and Wakeful. U Boat U44 Salvaged - 4 photos. Under the White Ensign in Kiel's Black Waters - 3 photos including the H.M.S. Hercules. Some of the Naval Inventions Employed in the War - article. Photos of the famous German Battle Cruiser Goeben. Two photos of Allenby and his men in Cairo. The Price in Blood and Treasure - article. Photo of earth removal at the base of the Vendome Monument in Paris. Several interesting photos of British mines and the mine-layer 'H.M.S. Wahine.' Four sensational photos of the Handley Page 'Giant'. How Paris & Dunkirk suffered by Bomb and Shell - two maps. Three photos of Holzminden, the worst camp of all. Hun Inhumanity to Helpless Men - some facts about German Prison Camps. Photos of Winners of the V.C. in the last weeks of the war. Demobilising the V.A.D.'s. Some soiling to covers. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
Hardcover. Ex - library. Spine ends are lightly bumped. Lightly scuffed dust jacket is torn right across front and has been repaired with tape; additional smaller tear. Spine ends of jacket are nicked. Library stamps on page block. "Withdrawn" stamp on front pastedown. Library plate on front endpaper. Pages are clean, binding remains intact, contents are clear. T Ex - Library
Hardcover. Light wear and sunning on jacket spine. Pages are clean, and the text is clear. AF Used
Slight discolouration to front cover, otherwise clean, bright and tight Clean Copy
Paperback in acceptable condition. Extracted from the Linnean Society's Journal - Botany, vol. xlviii, June 1929. Covers are lightly marked, scored and creased. Leading corners, edges and spine are worn, bumped and creased, affecting pages within. Spine ends are nicked. Front lower leading corner is taped. Page block is lightly marked. Light creases, marks and foxing on a few pages. One or two pages are still sealed on edges. Contents are clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW Used
Staplebound paperback in very good condition. Small surface tear to front cover and crease to rear upper leading corner. Internal contents are excellent. AD Used
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 12plates, 11 diagrams in the text and a large folding coloured map at end, some light and scattered spotting; original navy blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, firm copy.
Good + Hardback. Illustrated with maps, diagrams, and figures of fossils. Boards worn with light marks on front and some minor tears on spine. Pages beginning to loosen around spine. Small brown marks on some of the bottom corners of pages throughout copy. Some light pencil markings on some pages. xiii + 590p Used
152 pages. Features: A Manifesto for Earth; Return of the Plains Bison to the prairies and the return of honor; An ecological ethos in presocratic thinking - can we really learn anything new from the past?; The reflecting pool - place of the ten thousand things; Can universities promote an ecological ethos?; Archtiecture and the global ecological crisis - from Heidegger to Christopher Alexander; Art and the Big Picture; The Road past the selfish landscape; Philosophical urbanism and deconstruction in city-form - an environmental ethos for the twenty-first century; Biocentrism and the Bauhaus; An imaginary trialogue on abstract art - Kandinsky, Kupka, and Mondrian in conversation; For a dialogue on the future of abstract art; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Like new, no faults. AD Used
88p. Presentation copy to Rev. D. Baldwin. Sm. 12mo. 153 mm. Original cloth over paper boards, heavily embossed in blind. Gilt lettered title on front cover. Front cover very fragile. Very good copy. SPACE BOX 7
Hardcover in very good condition. No jacket. Boards are lightly marked and edge-worn. All pages and fold outs are clear. CM Used
Gold embossed hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition for its age. Includes map in pocket at rear pastedown. Jacket is discoloured, and worn and nicked at the edges. Board edges are slighly rubbed, and spine ends are mildly creased. The pages, plates and text are otherwsise clean and unmarked throughout. LW Used
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Ex-academic library. Includes fold-outs. Plastic-wrapping on jacket is torn. Jacket is marked, tanned and creased, with one or two nicks. Labels on jacket spine foot and FEP. Hardcover leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped and worn. Upper edge of front board is nicked. Stamps and light marks on page block and a few pages. Security bar pasted under rear pastedown. Pen on reverse of frontispiece. Light creases on a few pages. Binding is slightly exposed at title page but remains intact. Contents remain clear throughout. HCW Used
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 100 pages. Covers the physical properties, biological aspects, and man's uses of the Puget Sound.
Ex - library book with library markings on front cover and early pages. Paperback with lightly chipped spine ends and slightly creased leading corners. Small tear on upper edge of rear cover. Foot of page block is slightly grubby. Leading corners of early pages are lightly creased. Binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. T Ex - Library
Hardcover with no dust jacket in good condition. Some shelf wear. Used
