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Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic photo-illustrated article on some of the 500 ships saved by the Admiralty Salvage Section in WWI; The Sun Dance - photo-illustrated account of a trip to Alberta, Canada to witness the Sun Dance, an annual festival of the Indians; My Dashes fro Freedom - Lieut. E.H. Garland's account of how he escaped from 12 German prison camps in WWI - article with illustrations and photos of the Holzminden Tunnel; ; In Search of Gold - John A. Jordan in East Africa; Our Disastrous Cattle Drive - tale of an horrific Australian cattle drive; Fascinating photo of a "Tramps' Hotel" in the fashion of a jail - they are required to break a quantity of rock for use in road construction before they can leave; The Kaiser's Girls - a tale of 'amazing political intrique and cold-blooded devilry' from German-occupied Russia; The Serpent Garden of Butantan, near Sao Paulo, Brazil - photo-illustrated article; My 'Roo (Kangaroo) Hunt with the 'Flying Gang' - hunting on the banks of the Murray River; With the Ortolan Trappers - photo-illustrated article on how these birds were caught; and more. Half-page photo ad for the Granliden Hotel of Lake Sunapee, N.H.; Lovely illustrated one-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines - "Shooting the Rapids of the Historic St. Lawrence in 1819"; Uncommon ad for "Tobacco Redeemer" by Newell Pharmacal inside back cover claims to help smokers kick the habit in 48 to 72 hours. Covers detached as one, but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with 5 coloured plates on 4 and 28 monochrome plates on 20, inscription on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with 48 plates of coloured paintings, and numerous illustrations and maps throughout; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
139p. Hardcover Very good condition good
44 pages. Features:;Six by Two - article on the ship's bunk; British Signals for a Pilot; The Bermuda Race; Shipwrights of Buckler's Hard - this tiny hamlet was once an important shipyard; Intuition of Sea-going rats; Looking at Lisbon - City of Ulysses - article with nice photos; The Gannet - the largest and most impressive of British sea birds; Cleared Foreign; Sailors' Warning; Danish Captain Christiansen , Pilot - A photo-illustrated admiring article of this highest order seaman and navigator by Commander J. Radford, R.D., R.N.R., Retired; Oil Tankers To-day - photo-illustrated article; H.M. Queer Craft - strange vessels which did and did not see operation in WWII, including several two-million ton artificial icebergs envisioned as floating aircraft carriers by Churchill; and more. Numerous excellent illustrated ads. Unmarked with above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 77pp. A report by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust on the wildlife and conservation of the Suffolk Estuaries.
Observations on nature. Index. Very nice small engravings. Wear to top/tail of spine and a little on cover corners. Signature on front pastedown.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 263 pages. Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored By the Pacific Seabird Group, the Canadian Wildlife Service, and the British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks, 22 and 23 February, 1990.
VG/VG price-clipped. no inscriptions. a clean attractive copy. well bound. 1st edition. fully wrapped in plastic covering, which is loose-fitting - not attached. very faintly lightened to spine. Prepared by the British Ornithologist's Union deals with all the species known to occur in the British Isles, giving the latest information on their status and movements. each bird has been drawn by ROBERT GILLMOR.
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 or creased with very faint indenting to rear. 181pp. A good description of all the aspects involved in the landowner improving a roughshoot and on how the roughshooter can find and make the best of a roughshoot plus a chapter on the roughshooter's dog.
284 p., illus. Hardcover Good condition; dampstained pages, some unopened p.
Quarto in rustic red cloth with gilt titles to front and spine; 135 pages ; 20 cm; photo illus. throughout. Heavy stock. Author's first attributed book. American Women Authors of the 19th Century. Birds -- Fiction. Cardinals
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with small piece missing from spine foot, tiny enclosed tear to sunned spine and nicks and chips to edges. 319pp. Features articles on game biirds, small animals, guns, the law, characteristics of birds of prey etc and a few anthologies. Undated ca 1940s.
Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps. The contents are very good (+). No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with tape-free black cloth boards with tiny marks to lower front edge and no bumping to corners. Half-title page missing. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with lioght creasing and traces of handling. 122pp. The fascinating array of wildlife and scenery through the changing seasons is captured in Michael Leach's outstanding colour photographs, and his text is an impassioned plea for the preservation of Snowdonia.
140 pages. Features: Nice one-page color ad for Kraft Cocoa Mix; 1-page color ad for Emery 'Magic Candle Bars'; Nice 1-page color ad for Pan American Airlines featuring Rio; The Truth About the Klan (KKK) Today - article with three photos including Dr. Lycurgus Spinks and Sam Roper; Stop That Shoplifter - article on shoplifters - mostly women - who steal $75 million per year; My Unsuspecting Bride (fiction); Kids Will Swallow Anything - the bronchoscope is used to safe children who swallow many strange objects - photo-illustrated article; It's a Man's World After All (fiction); Massive Foul-up - Our Planes, Tires, Tractors and Clothing - meant for the Nationalists - end up with China's Communist forces - article with photo; Mr. Technicolor - article on Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus with six color photos; The Hairbreadth Escapes of the USS Barb - article and photos of this US submarine which attacked Jap factories, made cities black out - and even blew a railroad train sky-high; The Du Ponts - part 3 of a photo-illustrated article on this family of industrial wizards; The Failure (fiction); Photo-illustrated feature article on Concord, New Hampshire; The Woman Who Wouldn't Run (fiction); Jack of Swords (fiction); Very attractive 1-page color ad for Campbell's soup; 1-page color ad for Ford cars; Homicide House (fiction); 1-page color Birds Eye Lima Beans ad featuring Carrie; 2-page black and white ad for Silver Star shaving blades features photos of Gene Cavallero, Wallis Rigby, Dr. A.W. Lindberg, Armand Denis, H. George Petrie, Rockwell Gardiner and Captain Arthur W. Pierce; Gorgeous colour 1-page Cadillac ad; Webster Cigar ad featuring large illustration of H.D. Hover, owner of Ciro's of Hollywood; Crosley television ad; Beautiful 1-page color ad for Studebaker trucks; 1-page 2-color ad for Frigidaire electric ranges; Borden's cheese ad features Elsie the Cow; 1-page color photo ad for Simmons hide-a-beds; 1-page color-photo ad for International Trucks mentions James Melton and the 'Harvest of Stars' radio show; 1-page color ad for Johnson & Johnson surgical dressings features reproduction of painting by Gladys Rockmore Davis showing boy tending to a girl's leg; Upjohn ad features reproduction of painting of young boy by Lawrence Beall Smith; 1/2 page color ad for Pixie cameras; 1-page Dumont tv ad; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features photo of Aqua-skiing stars Martha Mitchell and Margie Fletcher plus a photo of ace bowler Joe Wilman. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Surprising island of the Northern Sea - Iceland; The Flowers Known as Birds - the Bird of Paradise from South Africa; What Maestros Look like to me - Sol Nemkov tells his adventures in the concert world while playing for such temperamental geniuses as Toscanini and Stokowski; You can't live in New York - untold miseries plague those who set up housekeeping in Manhattan, says long-time resident Horace Sutton; My Next 60 Movies - James Stewart (conclusion); Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - Satchel Paige, the American League's first Negro pitcher; The Coyote - World's Champion People Taunter - some claim he is one of man's best friends. Above-average wear. Covers almost detached. Small clipping from ad on page 55 - text unaffected. 1/6 page photo of coyote clipped from page 42. Top 2/3 of page 81 clipped out - this seems to have removed part of a novel. Nice color Coke ad on back cover. Book
92 pages. Features: Are we driving Japan into Red China's Arms?; We Run a Hospital for Birds; Amazong two-page photo of TBM Avengers being melted down in the Arizona desert; "Let's Legalize the Spitball!"; Helping Hands from Mexico - photo-illustrated article in the 435k Mexicans who legally work on US farms; Don't Let Medical Bills Bankrupt You; Secrets of the Unknown War (part 2 of 5) - photo-illustrated article of what happened in Greenland during WWII; The Case of the Dead Man's Daughter (part 1 of 8); California Passage (part 7 of 8); Miracle at Fort Morgan, Colorado - the town goes on an all-out weight-loss spree. Short Stories: One-Woman Man; Stroll into Danger; High-Pressure Girl; Bandit in the Sky. Ads: Pink GE washer and dryer inside front cover; Gorgeous color-photo Cadillac ad; Borden's Buttermilk; Nice Wheaties ad shows lady golfer; GM ad features Charles Fassinger and his family; Nice Oldsmobile color ad features golf illustrations; Color ad for the Winchester model 70 rifle; Motorola portable TV; Pepsi - one-page beach scene; Ford cars; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
140 pages. Short Stories: Hard-Luck Girl; The Words of Love; Dangerous Bluff; His Sister's Keeper. Articles: Why do they Hate us in Panama? - photo-illustrated article about anti-American riots; The Birds' Last Stand - 6,000 exotic birds may be evicted from their Stone Harbor, New Jersey haven; Pilots Aren't Obsolete Yet - the recently-cancelled B-70 Valkyrie bomber may be necessary for our survival; Los Angeles' Cure for Drunks - California desert rehabilitation farm; The Movies' Modern Marco Polo - Stanley Goldsmith is Twentieth Century Fox's chief trouble shooter for pictures filmed overseas; They Call Me Madam (part 2 of 4) - Washington's legendary hostess Perle Mesta; Fabulous Mine in the Sea - The Grand Isle Sulphur Mine in the Gulf of Mexico; Touring Russia Made Easy. Serials: If Hitler Had Invaded England (part 2 of 3); The Tewksbury Feud. Ads: Dogde Trucks (inside front cover); Employers Mutuals of Wausau - with photos of John M. Fox of the Minute Maid Corporation and company driver Eddie Mew plus Ed Waters; GE Appliances; Spring cigarettes; Fantastic two-page color-photo (red) Corvair ad features gents in black suits and hats checking out the car; Old Crow Whisky, with one-page color illustration of James Crow with his neighbors; Two-pages of the Ford Galaxie; Lowry organs; Quaker State Oil; The BMC 850 (Mini) (2 pages in color); Canadian Pacific Dome Cars (1 color page); Nice color photo ad for the (red) Chrysler Imperial in a horse-racing setting; Hotpoint fridges; Cadillac Guide-Matic; Scott Paper; ScottTowel multi-color towels; Schlitz beer - flying a kite; Kem-Tone and Kem-Glo Paint; Johnson V-75 outboard motor; Toro lawn and garden products; Admiral TVs; Cracker Barrel Cheese; Caterpillar; Smith-Corona typewriters; Hertz rental cars; Boeing 720; Samsonite luggge with Queen's guards in background; The Denver Hilton Hotel; Karpen furniture (very funky); Nabisco Veri-Thin Pretzels; American Seating Company; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
120 pages. Features: Nice 1-page color ad for Cutler-Hammer motor controls; 1-page color ad for Old Gold cigarettes; color ad for Pitney-Bowes Postage Meters; Zippo Lighter color ad; My Wonderful Uncle, Levi Coombs Gould - article with photos; Challenge the Tempest (fiction); My Three Years in Moscow, Part 3 - Why the Russian People Don't Rebel - with photos; The Camouflaged Crime (fiction); Robert Jones of Ohio Refused to be Smeared by Drew Pearson - article with photos; The Rape of Albania - how this former paradise between Tito and the men in the Kremlin is being slowly bled to death - article with photos; One Divorce is Enough (fiction); Charley Callahan is the shrewd press agent for Notre Dame football - article with photos; The Odds on Murder (fiction); Training New Kinds of Methodist Pastors in Denver at the Iliff School of Theology - article with photos; The Doctor of Unkown Island (fiction - conclustion); Colour photos of the Arseneau family's home and birds on Great Bird Rock; Nice 1-page color Lucky Strike ad features Raymond W. Crutchfield of Reidsville, NC; The Innocent Buccaneer (fiction); RCA Victor TV ad; Nice half-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes features Mrs. Ralph Ellis of Chicago, Mrs. Mary C. Wurdeman of Los Angeles, Mr. James S. Winterhalter of Detroit, and Miss Pamel Hendricks Bookman of New York; Nice two-color Shelby bicycle ad features Donald Duck; Nice color centerfold ad features General Electric (GE) Christmas lights; Color ad for Winchester's glowing flashlight; Honeywell thermistat ad features black and white photos of Linda Darnell; La Choy Chinese Food color ad features interesting drawing of Chinese man in pigtail; Nice 1-page 2-color ad for Fruehauf Trailers features Frank Benitz of Dugan Brothers Baked Goods; Nice color ad for Sunkist oranges on back cover. Average external wear. Moderate external soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Large octavo in an orange DJ ; vii, 248 p, sources, index : illus (some col.) ; 25 cm Ornithologists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Birds
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and photographs, illustrations and charts in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
6 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 6 fine chromolithograph frontispieces (all original tissue guards present), 66 fine coloured chromolithograph plates (all original tissue guards present), 1600 superb monochrome wood-engravings (57 full-page) in the text and terracotta endpapers; uniformly bound in full navy buckram, gilt backs, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, clean, remarkably well-preserved copy. Nice set of this classic survey of the animal kingdom at the end of the neneteenth century. The plates and illustrations are by Kuhnert, Specht, Smit, Muetzel, Elwes, Wolf, Gambier Bolton and many other leading wildlife artists of the period. The set comprises: vol. I: Mammals; vol. II: Mammals; vol. III Mammals-Birds; vol. IV: Birds; vol. V: Reptiles, Fishes, etc., vol. VI: Invertebrates. Freeman 2362.
Book in mint condition. 115pp. No other bird evokes more myth, mystery an misinformation than the raven. Follow the vocal, acrobatic raven through art, literature and folklore to its role in the natural world today. Very scarce in the UK.
