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Features include: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom - the story of nine survivors of the Japanese capture of Rabaul; The Land Sharks - Would-be settlers in Canada fall victim to wonderful stories from plausible strangers of how to 'get rich quick'; Man-Eater - A former member of the Burma Frontier Service describes the eventful career of a tiger; Vale of the Gods - a curious blend of immemorial ritual and popular merrymaking in the Northern Punjab; The Ju-Ju Doctor - The facts of an amazing occurence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - Author gets the scare of his live on an East Indian Island; The Sea-Dayaks of Borneo - Author finds the fromer head-hunters to be charming hosts; Section Man - A glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - A puzzling American murder case. Exterior heavily worn with chips missing from spine and front cover partially detached. Contents good. Pencilled name upon back cover. Magazine
Features include: The Donkey - A humble donkey co-operates to bring about the discomfiture of sundry Arab thieves; It Pays to Advertise - The Amazing result of the nefarious activities of a rascally 'wild-cat' company promoter and an unscrupulous newspaper reporter in Canada; Mr. Zaru - story from a ship; Into the Unknown - exploratino work in Tanganyika; Farm Life in South Africa - intended for aspiring British immigrants to South Africa; Through the Iron Curtain - an ambitious motor-cycle voyage through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey; Beyond the Barrier - Extraordinary incidents related by a famous stage magician, Jasper Maskelyne; A Matter of Boundaries - an amusing tale of a tribal land-dispute in Nigeria; The Little Gold Disc - A veteran seafarer's account of a remarkable experience on the China Coast; The Tiger That Thought; The Red Lacquer Pagoda; The Ship That Became a House; Guarding New Zealand's Forests - Illustrated in black and white. Chips from and tears to base of spine else average wear. Two inch opening at top of back cover. Magazine
118 pages. Features: The Great Bear Hunt; Bighorn Mountain Trout; Hawk Call - Reconverted; Moose on the Loose; The Dove; Midwinter Rainbows; Darby Creek Honkers; Confessions of a Goat Hunter; The Springer's Surprise; Duck Shooting; Big Bomber; Repairing Bamboo Rods; Deer Hunter's Cabin; The Passing of "Take 'Em" Sue; Christmas at North Crossing; Man-Eaters of Kumaon - part 3 - the Chowgarh man-eating tiger killed 64 humans before Jim Corbett caught up with her;; Magnum Loadings. Nice one-page hunting cabin photo ad for Zenith Radios; Photo of Frank M. Gale holding his winning largemouth; Photo of Mrs. Julian T. Crandall with her 121 pound tarpon; funky 2/3 page red and black ad for Prince Albert pipe tobacco explains that the man in the ad gets ladies because of his P.A. (Pipe Appeal!); Cute color ad for Calvert Whisky inside front cover features bear cub on ski hill; Nice color one-page illustration of Duck Shooting by Lassell; Nice red and black 2/3-page ad for the new Higgins Camp Trailer; Nice photo ad for Feather Foam coats by the Arctic Feather & Down Co. of Seattle; Trav-Ler Radio ad; Selecting and Using an Outdoorman's Ax; Nice photo ad for Gephart salt water fishing rods; Nice one-page red and black hunting-theme photo-ad for Gaines dog food; Front cover beginning to separate. Back cover missing. Most of pages 67/68, and 85/86 missing. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Stories: The Advance Note; The Two Portraits; The Goldenburg Coward; Sitting Up for Tiger; Double Dummy; The Colonel's Diamond; The Vengeance of Devi Chand; My Turtle; Tankeritis; Round the World on Four Shillings; The Avenger of Blood; Devils and Cow-Tails; Witchcraft in the South Sea Islands; Boneyard Farm. Somewhat above-average wear. Prior owner's name upon front cover. Book
60 pages. Features: Canadian Troops to Cyprus; Feature Article on Alberta - The New Industrial State; Eric Lafferty Harvie, Q.C.; Building Empires in the Oil Sands; Major Coverage of The Fateful Vote to Impeach Richard Nixon; Chairman Peter Rodino; Support for Nixon at San Clemente; Passing of Wayne Morse, "The Tiger", of Oregon; Greek Military Junta Resigns; Constantine Caramanlis returns to Greece; Tense aftermath of three-da war between Turkey and Cyprus; South Korean politics and Park Chung Hee; Celebrity photos of Johnny Unitas, Gloria Swanson, Hank (Henry) Aaron and Mark Sptiz; Bufo Plague in Australia; Rev. George von Hilsheimer of the Green Valley School for troubled children in Orange City, FL; Return of a Supergroup - CSNY (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) - article with photo of the band at Seattle sound check; Cellist Janos Starker; Desegregation - Historic reversal in Detroit; Back to the Unfabulous '50s; Fashion - The Loose Look; Ad for the Skyline Hotels; A Challenge from Evangelicals; Dealing with Inflation; Federal Reserve Chairman-Designate Alan Greenspan - article with photo; Race for natural resources in Wyoming; Battle of the Little Big Cars - short article with photos of the Ford Monarch and Granada; Inflation, Communist Style; Nice half-page ad for the CBC's news show "The National' with photos of seventeen of its journalists; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Cover shows smiling cowboy on rearing horse. Features: Wise Old Man - Adventures of author while conducting scientific research in remote Amazonia; A Sailor on Horseback - The American adventures of a former British Merchant Seaman, first as a lumberjack and then as a cowboy on a 'dude-ranch'; He Knew Too Much - A grim story of dope-running on the Egyptian border; Lunch-Time Tiger - Author is called upon to deal with a tiger which was terrifying the inhabitants of a Pathan village; The Castaways of the 'Dundonald' - reprint of one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - describes how a British ship was driven ashore on a barren islet in the remote Southern Pacific, where for many weary months the survivors endured many privations in a desperate struggle for existence; A Taste of Freedom - Three firemen jump ship in a South American port... but fate was against them, and they were almost glad to get back; Ghost-Town Memories - Tourist visit the Western U.S. abandoned mining-camps of long ago; Across the Kalahari Desert - The author traversed the trackless Kalahari in a motor-car by way of a dried-up river bed. Black and white illustrations. Chipping to spine. Above-average wear. Magazine
Stories: The Stowaway; The Ship of Mystery; In Quarantine; Guest of a Robber Chief; Lawson's Tiger; The 50 Quid Explorer; One-Man Mutiny; Jungle Terror; The Money Finder; Amok; The Lure of Gold. Above-average wear. Book
66 pages. Features: 55th Boxing Writers' Association Dinner - article with photo of Sugar Ray and Lew Eskin; On the Fistic Scene; Pushing Leather; Meet Hilmer Kenty - The Unassuming Champion; Forgotten Champion - "The Georgia Deacon" Theo Flowers earned the nickname "Tiger' Flowers; Jeff Chandler - a no-nonsense talent with a BIG appetite; W.B.C. Ratings; Boxing Illustrated ratings; New York's Gyms - A Dying Breed; LeConte Focuses on New York; 'Captain' Don Myers; Harry Keck and Harry Greb; Leo Randolph - third member of '76 Olymians to gain crown; World Boxing Hall of Fame; International News; Many hilarious sleazy ads at back. Above-average external wear and soiling. A worthy reading copy. Book
360 pages. Index. Bibliography. Decorated endpapers. "A fascinating history of the Sailortowns of the world: Tiger Bay, the Barbary Coast, 'Frisco, and many others... We are shown what happened to Jack after he had chased his delight up the street, the people he met and the time he had - very often the dangers he found were far greater than those at sea. Shanties complement the text in each chapter." - from dust jacket. Average wear to book. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Book
58 pages. Features: Gorgeous title page photo of Jeanine Siniscal in 'Paper Tiger'; Ad for 'Funny Lady'; Ad for 'The Gambler; Ad for 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime'; Interview with Signey Lumet - discussing the director's dilemma of the ever-changing artistic climate - with photos; 'Dog Day Afternoon' - photos; 'The Last Fifites Picture Show'; Jackals and Judges - Kenneth Ross describes some of his adventures with directors; Richard Lester's 'Royal Flesh' - photos; Reviews of 'Tommy', 'The Valley', 'At Long Last Love', 'The Spiral Staircase', 'Rosebud', 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry', 'The Great Waldo Pepper', Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Mean Machine, Funny Lady, Escape to Witch Mountain', 'The Land That Time Forgot'; 'Lenny' - photos; Photo-illustrated Article on Cult Movies; 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime?' - photos. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Stories: Local Lad Makes Good; Out of the East; The Hot Water Bottle; A Fearful Five Minutes; To Labrador in the Dolphin; Birsa the Firebrand; The Storekeeper's Story; The Tiger of Sampillay; The Missing Urn; The Ant-Man; Ruined; Father Neptune's Postal Service; A Queensland Droving Trip. Above-average wear. Book
Stories: The Convict Who Captured a Prison; Adventures in Manchuria; The Big Redwood; Ocean Tramps; The Personal Touch; Ripple Rock; The Man from Cork; The Reluctant Tiger; Blood Money; Breach of Contract; Nigger Goes Shark Fishing; Passage to Bahia; Gold Coast English; The Sea-Cook's Day Out; What Happened at Hossainpur; The Wide World and the P.O.W. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
Stories: Through the Swiss Alps in a wheel chair; Operation Fort Ross; village life in India; the passenger; last voyage; brand of the tomahawk; island skipper; the climbing tiger; eight thousand dollars; an African Houdini; new chums luck. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
64 pages. Many black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features include: Transcending Materialism - Tibetan Buddhism in America; The Way of the Buddha; The Meditative Tradition of Tibet; Jamgon Kontrul of Sechen; Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche; Tail of the Tiger/Karma Dzong Meditation Centers; The Bodhisattva Path; The Ten Oxherding Pictures; and more. Average wear. Some soiling to front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy of this interesting work. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of the cross-Channel ferry nf Tiger; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; Cruise Ship Review; Ports of Call; HMS Canada - J.W. Duckworth describes the career of this First World War battleship which became the last surviving warship to have seen active service at the Battle of Jutland; Ferry Fleets Updates; Bristol's Collier Fleet - the story of Osborn & Wallis Ltd.; New Ship News; Sail on the Tyne; Passage in a Paperboat - the shipping company of the mighty Bowater Paper Corporation; Ship Sales; Full-page photo of the Scol Venture; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition with plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. This scarce study was not published in the UK. Enser, p.466.
In-16 p., tela editoriale, pp. 177,(3),28,(4). Prima edizione. Ben conservato.
116 pages. Features: Reports on Tropical Africa, Australia, Science and Industry; Bugles and a Tiger - Adventure on India's Frontier, by John Masters; The Way the New India Thinks, by Aubrey Menen; Christmas Eve at Chartres (a poem), by Winifred Hare; Billingsley's Bird Dog, by Dillon Anderson; The Bounds of Space and Time - How Long Will the World Last?, by Crary Moore; Hark, Hark, the Lark (a poem) by Marie De L. Welch; Creating a School, by Agnes and Ernest Hocking; The Army Invades the Wichita Mountains, by Clark C. Van Fleet; Dr. Flesch's Cure-all, by Virgil M. Rogers; The Spoiled Honeymoon, by Robert Graves; Renewals if Needed - They Shall Have Music, by John M. Conly. Color ad by the European Travel Commission inside front cover. Fantastic colour photo ad for RCA Victor Colour Televisions on page 19 features family and home in white; Color full-page ad for Old Smuggler Scotch on page 20. Columbia Records ad on page 32 features large black and white photo portrait of Winston Churchill. Very attractive colour ad for Drambuie inside back cover features Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745. Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Long Journey of a Mormon Girl - Ann Willden Johnson; Lost Singer Sewing Machine Treasure - one of the true treasure tales of Padre Island; Tiger of the Wild Bunch - Knoxville Jail Break by Harvey Logan; Ponca City's Arcade - Homeof Instant Millionaires; Games and Schemes of Deception; Princess Angeline of Seattle - pawn of two worlds; The got back with the gold - in spite of six-toed Pete; Silver Stars - the Baseball Champions of Nevada. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
"Spillato in brossura editoriale illustrata, cm 31x24, pp (16), fotografie in nero. Particolare narrazione che accompagna didascalie a immagini in sequenza, sorta di fotoromanzo firmato con lo pseudonimo di GUIPAR e apparso sulle pagine del periodico Brescia, qui estratto con propria copertina editoriale e alcune pagine pubblicitarie (mezzi FIAT per l’Africa Orientale, vettura Bianchi modello Riccione, pompe Marelli, automezzi O.M., attrezzi agricoli Gialdini Pietro, Fabbrica Nazionale d’Armi Brescia). Il narratore, volontario della MSVN assegnato alla Seconda Divisione Camicie Nere ""28 Ottobre"" comandata dal generale Umberto Somma, rende conto della marcia da Qwiha nel Tigré a Senafé in Eritrea meridionale, citando ufficiali e illustri partecipanti (""marcia pure l'Eccellenza futurista legionario Marinetti""), località attraversate e parecchi mezzi utilizzati (vetture Ardita, autocarrette OM), con una novantina di fotografie di militari, paesaggi, popolazione locale e ascari, mezzi, ecc. Non comune."
64 pages. Features: New poll finds Canadians are envied - happy; Too Many Tears - News about abused kids just keep getting worse - Patricia Johnson and her daughter Shanay; Letter from Beauce, Quebec; The Pearson Airport case may soon be resolved; Road to nowhere - Palestinians see home dimming for a real peace; Rise of Racism in Australia; Busang Mystery - Bre-X investors demand answers - geologist Mike de Guzman turns up dead; Misery on the markets - higher interest rates spell trouble for stocks and home buyers - Canadian dollar falling; Bre-X and the dark side of capitalism, by Peter C. Newman; The New Outlaws - Defiant smokers tell the government to butt out; Garfield Mahood makes no apologies for his aggressive tactics against Big Tobacco; Cigarette industry on defensive as pressure builds; Tiger Woods - ready to roar at the Masters in Augusta; Who should pay for ESL?; Breast cancer and the fat connection; Nova Scotia pays tribute to artist Maud Lewis; Lionizing athletes is a disservice to Blacks - so says Allan Fotheringham; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Outstanding Dogs; Jacks are Wild (part 2 of 2); Gunning the Willow Ptarmigan; El Tigre; Sports Tid-Bids; Canadian Sportsmen's Corner; Fletcher Lake and Trout; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
38 pages. Features: "Unwanted Hair Problem?" - Struggling to Re-present our Bodies; Escaping the Cultural Imperative; Yes + No - Letters from post-referendum Montreal; Scaffolding of the Bone House; Lamayuru; Faceless Elements; Beyond the Body Project - Art and the Interaction of Communities; In Her Own Image; To Visit the Tiger in Review; To Visit the Tiger Artist's Statements; "Be it Resolved..." - The Writers' Union and Cultural Appropriation; In Inglish - Writing with an Accent; A Sari Tale and Hair Scare. Address labels on back cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Mm 230x280 Volume in copertina rigida, sovraccoperta originale, 304 pagine profusamente illustrate in nero e a colori. Testo in lingua inglese - english text. Libro in condizioni di nuovo, brand new in original shrinkwrap.
With 673 illustrations. Rough-cut page edges. Wear to top/base of spine, and joint of spine/back cover, cover corners also worn.
