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12 page board book featuring lovable Dumbo and his happy adventures in the circus. Book
24 pages. Contents: Can You Outplan the 17-Year Locusts?; Commodity Exchange Act; Dismissal Wage Plans; Extensive soil erosion; Foreign News; Violence in Palestine near Tulkarem; Jews flea Minsk for Warsaw; Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Philippine defense plan; Anglo-Italian Deal Negotiated - Sanctions Ended, and League of Nations' future debated; Current Events; Hindenberg makes third crossing of North Atlantic in record time of 59 hours 50 minutes; National News - with photo of former Governor "Al" Smith; Congress; Editorial; Marketing; Declaration of Independence Says All Men Created Equal; Science News; American Elephants; Illustration of Mme. Irene Joliot-Curie; Tennesse Chiropractor Dr. W.E. Mephvin makes flight discovery by observing pigeons; Social Security Law Intended to Banish Poverty Fear of the Aged and Jobless; Vintage ads; and much more. One-inch by two-inch hole in front page. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
Features: Galleon Gold - Lieut. Harry E. Rieseberg is continually drawn to the silver shoals off the Bahamas to search for underwater treasure; Trapped by the Bor Herd of Elephants; The Mowha Maneater - a tiger story in the Indian jungles; We Chose Danger - an adventure of Frank Illingworth in troubled Morocco; Badboy of the Fisheries - the common seal; H.M.S. Thule Intercepts - an intensely dramatic story of a submarine at war as told by its Commander, Alastair Mars, D.S.O., D.S.C. and Bar; Volcanic Island - "I Know an Island"; Swallowed by the Jungle - the conclusion of "Manhunt in Green Hell", a story from the French Guiana jungle; Iceland Pony Race; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Chip from spine. Sound copy. Book
Features: Jungle Man-Hunters - horse-mounted frontiersmen of Ecuador - photos; The Secret Submarine Agent - describes the author's meeting with "Storsand," a Scandinavian inventor who devised a curious one-man diving bell; Terror by Night - Man-Leopard killings in Nigeria (part I); Vagabond in Corsica - a tramp through the interior of Corsica - photos; The Dope-Runners - illegal drug traffic in South Africa; Diving for Crocodiles - at the Tanganyila-Nyasaland border; The "Mulga Wire" Mystery; The "Football Wallahs" - an amusing story from India of how a British soldier made friends; My Friend Sung Li - the companion of an ex-sailor; Beware of Elephants - encounters with elephants on the Queen's Highway; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
Stories: The Ice Jam; The Manila Fireflies; Squaw Mike; Crashing into Burma; The Wheat Stealers; What Happened to the Bullion Box; One Christmas Day; The Railroad Boomer; There She Blows!; Rounded-up Wild Elephants; Tracking Down Hot Oil; Witchcraft; A Ride for 1000 Pounds; On Patrol with the B.P.P. Average wear. Book
Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
Illustrated in colour, binding repaired. eng
8vo., with additional portrait frontispiece, frontispiece, coloured plates, plates in monochrome and large folding map coloured in outline, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. African Hunting Reprint Series, vol. 6. High-quality facsimile reissue of the scarce Rowland Ward edition of 1898. The plates are by Millais, Caldwell and Lodge.
Vanbart, Jan SvanteIn Pristine Condition. unknown
ORD-7885Couverture et têtes de chapitres de René Garcia. Arthaud. 1952. In-8 br. jaq.ill. 198pp. 14 photos h.-t.
194625647Paris Durel 1946 In-4 172 pp - 1ère couverture conservée
5772in 8 broché,couverture jaquette illustrée.Faux-titre, titre 195 pages,2 pages de table des illustrations, table des matières.En tête et illustrations photos horstexte. Arthaud 26 juin 1952
2010500101275Parragon Inc 2010 27 pages 18 034x1 524x22 352cm. 2010. Relié. 27 pages.
1863LFA-126738991Un ouvrage de 554 pages, format 190 x 270 mm, illustré + 2 cartes dépliables, relié percaline dos cuir à nerfs, publié en 1863, Michel Lévy Frères, Libraires Editeurs (Paris), bon état
1965LFA-126720276Un ouvrage de 49 pages, format 135 x 210 mm, illustré, broché, publié en 1965, bon état, peu courant
1803PHO-1636Paris, Dentu, an XI (1803). 2 volumes in-8 (191 x 124 mm). 4 cartes et plans repliés hors texte : une carte de l'île de Ceylan par Arrowsmith et de la pêche des perles et les plans des ports de Trinquemale et Colombo, basane mouchetée de l'époque, dos lisses ornés avec pièces de titre et tomaison, dentelles dorées sur les plats, frottements et vieille épidermure au tome 2.
195128287Paris Payot 1951 In-8 239 pp. Cachets discrets de la société de géographie de . préface de Paul Masson-Oursel
1277Hanoï-Haiphong, Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, Bulletin des Amis du Vieux Hué, 10e année, Tome 3, Année 1923 (juillet-septembre). Tirage limité à 600 exemplaires. 1 volume in-8, 102 pp., broché, couverture souple illustrée, enrichi de XXXIII planches (photographies-dessins-aquarelles), très bon état.
11183in 4 broché, couverture rempliée illustrée, titre en long au dos. Faux-titre, titre, 146 pages, 1 page de table des matières. Préface d’Henri SCHOUTEDEN. 4 planches hors-texte et culs de lampe gravés de Paul de MASY. Une carte, et nombreuses reproductions photographiques prises par l’’auteur. Raymond DUPRIEZ éditeur, Bruxelles Mars 1939. Un des exemplaires numérotés 425/500, sur simili japon teinté ivoire. Très bon état Route dans l’est africain- Départ de Namanga- Rhino camp- Après midi à rhino camp-Ngarongoro- vers les plaines du serengeti-Seronera-dix lions-campi ya simba Mbaya-A travers la brosse- les chutes de Murchison- glossaire
193678885[Ca. 1936]. Bildgröße 12,5 x 16 cm. Unter Passepartout (24 x 30 cm).
424 pages. Excellent photography, primariliy in colour, throughout. "In the final analysis, this book should serve as an homage to the African elephant and as a celebration of African creativity." - From Preface. Needs rebinding. Hanging together but loosely. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. A wonderful work worth preserving. Book
198632640N.Y., Alfred A.Knopf Publishers, 1986. origi.Pappband mit Schutzumschlag, quer kl.4°, ca.20 Seiten. Illustrated by Tim Raglin.
86501(Köln), Wolf Weitzdörfer, o.J. Kl.-4to. 26 cm. Mit farb. Deckel-Illustr.
188195467Paris, Amand-Durand, [ 1881]. 12,8 x 10,2 cm (Einfassung). Blattmaß 14,4 x 12 cm. Verso mit dem rotem Orig.-Stempel des Stechers. Unter Feinkarton-Passepartout.