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Visit to the Circus
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light edge wear. 8 3/4"w x 11"h. Unpaginated.
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64 p., nbr. ill. n/b; et coul. Inv. 29117
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light edge wear. 8 3/4"w x 11"h. Unpaginated.
Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa (part I) - adventures from the flying log-book of an R.A.F. officer during ther campaign in German East Africa; My Adventures in Bolivia - Frank Rose was arrested as a dangerous revolutionary but managed to escape; Relief Worker's Adventures (part I) - thrilling adventures among the war victims of Armenia, Syria, and Persia, with photos; Hunting Big Game by Motor-Car - Captain F.A.M. Webster describes how he does it, with photos; The Adventures of a Newspaper-man (part III) - Frederic Martyn's adventures - with photos; Pukalofa's Tragic Revenge - Captain Samuel Randall recounts the brutal behavior of a whaling captain towards his crew in 1868, and what followed; In the Wilds of Siberia (Part I) - great photo-illustrated article by Harry Somerset-Lister describes his adventures; The Theft of the Zuni God - in New Mexico three U.S. Cavalry troopers stole the idols of the Indians, thus incurring their wrath; "The Surf Deer" - Reminiscences of the Dover Destroyer Patrol by Captain E.R.G.R. Evans, the Commander of the destroyer Viking; Shooting Elephants in the Middle of a Battle - what happened during the German East African Campaign; Hunting an Elephant During War - another thrilling incident of an elephant hunt during stern fighting in German East Africa, related by a Rhodesian soldier; Our Life at Holzminden - Lieut. J. Whale describes his life in this German POW camp in Brunswick, and provides his own illustrations; The Making of a Mandarin - photo-illustrated explanation of the curious and picturesque examinations which are held every three years in China and Indo-China for the coveted diploma of Chu-Jen, which entitles the holder to call himself a full-fledged Mandarin; Smugglers' Strategy Unveiled - photo-illustrated article explaining the many ingenious methods used by German and Swiss smugglers to get food and other things into enemy territory; The Tragedy of the Sling-Chain - Miner Bill Burton is killed in Australia; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Full gray cloth boards with elephant illustration on front cover. Light wear and small tears to dust jacket. 5"w x 5 3/4"h. "A picture book without words, Elephant celebrates a little girl's happy discovery of the difference between the world of fantasy and the world of reality--and the pleasures of both."
Folio unp., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. Large format: 10"w x 12 1/4"h. 88 pages. Many full-page color and b&w illustrations by Jacob Bates Abbot.
In -folio, pp. (6), 104, (1), XIV tavole a piena pagina, una ripiegata; illustrazioni nel testo. Cartonato posteriore, copia a pieni margini, qualche strappetto restaurato e lievi macchie di umidità. Ex libris manoscritto Biblioteca Pinelli, 1789, al margine superiore del frontespizio; altre note di possesso successive riportate sul foglio di guardia. Alcune delle tavole sono state rilegate in disordine ma il libro è completo anche del foglio di errata alla fine (in alcuni esemplari l’errata precede p. 3). L’ordine dell’Elefante è il più alto ordine cavalleresco danese, conferito per tradizione solo ai capi di stato, con rare eccezioni fra cui l’astronomo Tycho Brahe, lo scienziato Niels Bohr e il Generale Montgomery successivamente alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Il libro è un trentennale lavoro di raccolta di materiali sulla storia dell’ordine e sulla sua iconografia, ricerca estesa all’iconografia dell’elefante in generale (si veda la tav. I che riproduce insegne, monete, sculture raffiguranti l’elefante o afferenti a esso - c’è anche la scultura sottostante al noto obelisco del Bernini), materia della quale questo libro costituisce un esempio a suo modo unico e irripetibile. Some of the plates have been misplaced in bound but the book is complete also of the errata leaf at the end. The Elephant one is the highest herald order in Denmark, given only to heads of State, with rare exceptions (as, for instance, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe). The book comes from a 30 years research and collection of stuff about the history of this order and its iconography. In a wider sense the book can be considered an original research on elephant iconography, a matter of which this book is a unique example.
Arthéme Fayard 1959, In-8 broché, couverture illustrée, 250 pages. Trés bon état.
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, decorated endpapers. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 189 pages, all b&w. Contains issues #19 through #24: Hills Like Pink elephants, Eye of Confustion, In the Lion's Mouth, ... A Monster Lost in the Sky, etc. Signed by Bob Burden on title page. copyright Pistil Books, 2011
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 119 pages. Many very large, full color photos. Large format: 9 3/4"w x 12 3/4"h. Tiny tear on dust jacket. Full of color photos.
Pierre Horay 1959, In-8 broché sous jaquette illustrée. 301 pages + photos. Bon état.
Unpaginated. "Here is a big, beautiful, learn-about-colors book starring one of the most beloved characters in children's literature - Babar!" Assorted defects but remains a decent copy for informal use. Book
56 pages. Features: Babies for Export - Province of Alberta trafficking in illegitimate babies(!); Billy Butlin - great photo-illustrated article on this Canadian who went to Britain with $25 and made a fortune out of holiday camps; Brutal Vancouver Murder - Who Killed Woo Dack? - Famous Canadian Crimes #18; What's New in Toys? - Four pages of great photos, including a super-streamlined aluminum bicycle; Bach to Boogie - Quebec's 18th Century Orchestra of Chamber Music - article with photos; Drunken Elephants battle in India! - article with photos; Adele Inge - The World's top ice-acrobat - article with photos of her forward and backward somersaults on skates!; Tail Spin; Holiday Stills - Christmas glamour shots featuring Patricia Roc, Jane Hylton and Diana Dors; Jo-Anne Chong of Toronto; Harry Mathers; Thor Hansen; Spotlight on Oscar Peterson - article with photo; FDR film review with many photos; Birth of a Monkey - Ruby at Philadelphia's Zoo; Alice Bradshaw; Ruth Warwick's Wardrobe. Stories: The Gift of the Magi; Miracle of the Bells (condensed book). Average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
284p. + Plus full page maps and photographs, most in color. Photograph endpapers. Inked ownership. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. AFRICA/5
At the age of thirty, Adrian Rookwhistle's life hasn't quite turned out the way he'd have hoped. Working an unfulfilling job as a clerk in the city and living under the tyranny of his fearsome landlady, he can't help but think that there is more to life. However, all of this suddenly changes when he receives a curious letter from his dying uncle who has bequeathed him 500 pounds and an elephant by the name of Rosy who has a seemingly unquenchable thirst for liquor. At a loss of what to do with his unexpectedly gargantuan - and rarely sober - inheritance, Adrian sets forth on a journey believing to have the answer to his dilemma; he'll give her away to the circus. Together Adrian and Rosy carve a trail of destruction through the peaceful countryside of southern England, meeting a curious cast of misfits along the way. Drunk or sober, Rosy spreads chaos in her wake, until the full weight of the law finally catches up with her. 222p. Crisp tight copy, but paper age-toned Book
112 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Great Robin Hood-themed ad for Patty Petite fashions; Nice one-page black and white photo portrait Hohner harmonica ad features Al Hirt; Lovely Springmaid color-photo centerfold Springmaid ad features Sandy Hilton; Nice Jade East ad; Great Jane Irwill ad entitled Knitticism!; Martin Luther King Defines "Black Power" - photo-illustrated article in which King says Blacks respond to violence because they lack influence on American thought, and he advocates the use of Black economic, political, and ideological power (Fisher, page 10); What's Wrong with American Newspapers? - a newsman's critique of the press; The Ibos go it alone in Nigeria - photo-illustrated article; WWII sex education cartoon by Sgt. George Baker features Sad Sack after watching an Army sex hygiene film; Lovely two-page Faberge lipstick ad; Nice color ad for Rooster square-bottom ties; What We're Learning About Learning; Italian villa of Romano Rui designed by Gian Case; Great photo of 1920s New York newsstand; Elephants to the Rescue in Vietnam; Fantastic very colorful one-page photo ad for Pinch whisky appears to feature Benny Goodman and friends; and more. Please note: Missing pages 87-92. Above-average wear. Some pages loose but present. Covers loose but present. Faint library stamp and handwritten date upon front cover. A rough but worthy reference copy. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, plates and full-page map; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A big game and South African classic first published in 1916. This edition is now uncommon in its own right.
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
Natural history on a Kenyan ranch. 140 pages. Some rubbing to surface of dust jacket. Large inscription on front pastedown.
85, 16 [ads] pages. Many black and white reproductions of photos. Features: "As I ran for the cliff a shell struck the truck just behind me, blowing it to pieces" - Arthur H. Griswold on the horrors of Gallipoli; Capturing Wild Elephants Alive, by St. Nihal Singh - including *amazing* photos of the Maharajah of Mysore's hunt; Tales of the Service - part VI - my smuggler-catching adventures, by G.W. Hindmarch, a retired customs and excise officer in the Shetland Islands; Behind the Scenes in Russia - part II - Robert Wilton reports on the war in Russia with many excellent photos including a German propaganda sheet (in Russian) which blames England for the war; Queer Fixes - trapped by rattlers, and 'twixt bear and rapids; In Unknown British Guiana - part II - many great photos; The Hold-up at the "Gem" - a tale from Lordsburg, New Mexico; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - part VI, by Fanny Bullock Markman and William Hunter Workman - with many super photos; How "Big Walsh" Held His Own - a mining experience in Bolivia; The Carrier-Pigeon in Wartime - many excellent photos; German Raids on the Cables - the first true account of Germany's daring efforts to cut Britain's underseas cable systems, with photos; The Falling Bucket - adventure involving a Bolivian silver mine; The Quaintest Horse-Race in the World - the annual Palio of Siena, Italy; Amazing photos of Mooseback riding in Rainy Lake, Ontario!. Sewer cleaning with an alligator in Fort Meade, Florida. Wonderful full-page WWI ad by AT&T with caption "How Belgium Stemmed the Tide". Clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved copy of this fascinating issue. Book
pp. x, 294 + Plus frontis, numerous full page photographs. Title page printed in red and black. Bookseller's label. Decorative endpapers. Large 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding, spine repaired. Eleventh impression. AFRICA/2
A rare surviving issue of this publication which was renamed Maclean's in 1911 after its founder Lt.-Col. John Bayne Maclean and remains in publication with the same over one-hundred years later. "Containing the choicest and most entertaining articles and short stories appearing in the current numbers of the leading magazines of the world." - front cover. 9.25" x 6.25" in red card covers. 176 pages including 38 pages of wonderful ads, many illustrated. Contents include: James Bryce, LL.D., new British Ambassador to the U.S.; Lumber king and billionaire Frederick Weyerhaeuser; The Rapid Advancement of George Bruce Cortelyou; The Lords as the Supreme Court of Appeal; Great Men as Commercial Assets; A Solution to the Problem of the Unemployed in large English cities; The Financial Supremacy of London; Guatemala - land of opportunity; The Great Jewish Invasion - the industrial and social progress made by the Jewish population of New York; A Contrast between the American and British City; New York Businessman Pearcy K. Crocker in Jamaica; On the Value of Thrift; Work is the World's Law; Short Stories; Fire Waste and How to Reduce It; Capturing Wild Elephants in Mysore; Hints on Dismissing Unwelcome Callers; Brawn and Character; Cattle Raising in the Argentine; Other Contents of Current Magazines; and more. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 449-536, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Mystery of Dominic Pietro - how an innocent man was saved from the gallows; The Trials of A Naturalist's Wife - part 4; A Woman's Ordeal - Mrs. C.T. Sturgis was a prisoner of Mexican bandits; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - Part 2 of the great photo-illustrated story of the author's travels among the Wahhabi Arabs; Hunting the Addo Elephants - they were marked for extinction at the hand of famous hunter Major Pretorius - article with many photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 5 - Adventures in Peru, with great photos, including carrying a piano up a mountain!; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season - terrible flooding makes travel very difficult; Photo of 30,000 coconuts being sprouted in Tobago; In Old Madrid - two Americans are left behind in Madrid with an elephant and soon the animal is matched up for battle with a fine Spanish bull!; Photo of London "Dog Market"; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron - Part 2; Photo of the only inhabited "Cloghaun" in Ireland; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 4 - The Adventures and Daring Escape of Airman Capt. T.W. White; A Land of Gods - photo-illustrated article about the people and places of the Kulu Valley of India; The Hunting of Lot Shumway - the pursuit and ultimate capture of this Northern Arizona badman; How Nixon Made Good - a western railroad tale; Photo of Harry Rich of Kansas City - the Human Gun Carriage!; Photo of large tree growing up through millstone at Sheldon's Mill at South Dover, New York. Somewhat above-average wear with openings along backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
72 pages. Features: Great Volvo photo ad shows six Volvos stacked on top of another!; Two-page Mutual Life shows photos of dozens of their top sales agents from across Canada; Colour photo Canadian Club ad shows Mr. and Mrs. Tony Parkinson firing darts at elephants in Kenya; Alden Nowlan's Canada; What Went Wrong for the Class of '71? - feature article by Barbara Frum with statements from six university valedictorians from across Canada; Three men from three generations talk to Adrienne Clarkson on love, sex, adultery and what marriage is all about; The Guess Who - Canada's richest and raunchiest rock band - article with large photo of band on stage; The radicalization of Robert Lemieux - lawyer for the FLQ; The West is Ready to Revolt - John Barr and Owen Anderson state their case for separatism; The Table Talk of Marshall McLuhan - article by Peter C. Newman with nice photo of McLuhan; It's No Longer Possible to be an Indian - Chief John Henry describes the impact of white man's ways; Paris Smiles Again; Nice full-page CBC Radio/TV colour photo ad shows a group of famous Canadian athletes wearing their gear - including Mel Profit of the Toronto Argonauts and boxer Clyde Gray; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Book is in excellent condition, as new with deep red covers and gilt print in very large format. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, printed on heavy, glossy paper Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 263 pages with large full color photos throughout with sections on the school of Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, Rattanakosin (1st and 2nd periods) the ddhas of the past, Ten great Jatakas, The Buddha, Personas of high rank, Secondary persons; with a map, notes, bibliography, glossary at the back. Lots of boobs, abductions, the occasional cock n' balls, demons, big hats, elephants.
