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4to., First Edition, with photographs and coloured illustrations; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
98 pages. Fiction: Roman Mosaic; Old Sorority Sister; Stranger Than Truth; Tiger Swamp Campaign; The Spur; Faster Than a Mule. Articles: A Republican suggests solutions for our major problems; Peace Street / Rue de la Paix - The Wall Street of Fashion in Paris - article with photos of Rambaud, Schiaparelli; Billions in the Mud - article and photos of our pacific bases - wrestled from the Japs - which are now monuments of neglect (photos of acres of equipment); Brains in the Ballet; Ted Williams - The World Series and Me; Curare may be a cure for Polio; Pictures in Stones. Ads include: Sheaffer's pens; B.F. Goodrich tires; Seiberling tires; Rensie Watches; Knox men's fashions; Borden's Instant Coffee; Hudson Cars - a very attractive color ad; Firestone tires; Columbia Records - featuring Frank Sinatra; Ford cars; General Motors - featuring image of boy at wooden school desk; Miller beer; Jeep station wagons; Remington shavers; "No Leave No Love" movie ad featuring Van Johnson; Fantastic color photo ad for Caterpillar bulldozers; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring kindly old doctor. Openings along coverfold. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 20 plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, backstrip moderately faded (but all lettering entirely legible), a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter age-soiled and faded with minor loss at extremities. Detailed account of one of the RAF's greatest fighter squadrons, which served with distinction at both Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain. Appendices include WWI aces, and fighter pilots with more than twelve confirmed victories (to June 1941). Enser, p.377.
156 pages of children's stories by many of the world's most famous authors including Jack London, Herman Melville and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Wonderfully illustrated in glossy coloured boards. 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.
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Babes In A Boat - Part I - A couple knowing nothing of navigation decides to set sail from Victoria, British Columbia and cross the Pacific; The Big Redwood - Story of a dog's uncanny instinct; A Holiday in the Sunderbunds - Pursuing a Royal Bengal Tiger - with great photos; A Matter of Habit - An amusing tale of two mean men at that 'sun-baked cinder-heap Aden'; In Search of the Lost Oases - Part III of an amazing expedition from Sollum to El Obeid, over two thousand miles, across the Sahara, visiting much previously unexplored territory, with nice photos; The "Lone Star Kid" - Young Harry Wells purchases a pony, sombrero and revolver before proceeding to carry out a 'hold-up'; Ram Kumar's "Cure" - a common fraud/confidence trick practiced in India; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part III of the extraordinary adventures of G.M. Dyott, who was abandoned by his guide in the upper Amazon - includes photos of shrunken heads; The Great Snake - A native Basuto legend comes true in the Orange Free State; Full-page photo of the 'Santa Cruz Monster' that washed up on shore; Photo of the Emir of Kano's Bodyguard; "Black Foxes" - An amusing story from near Mink Landing, Alberta which proves not every black fox pelt is worth the money; Two Men and a Leopard - Story of a terrific hand-to-hand battle with an infuriated leopard; A Weird Quest - Daily seances are held to aid in finding lost California gold mines; Up and Down in Kurdistan - Nicely phtoto-illustrated article about David F. Anderson and his flying excursion in Mesopotamia which began as an ibex hunt and ended with a bear. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
12 papers on entomology. 120 pages.
xix + 344pp., 23cm., hardback (cart.cover, spine in brown leather with engilded title), original wrappers preserved, marbled edges, nice copy
n-12, 299 pages, illustre h.t. n/b, 1 carte, broche, jaquette illustree plastifiee. Bel exemplaire. [CA33-2]
France Empire 1954. In-8 broché sous jaquette de 302 pages illustrées. Très bon état
76 pages. Features: Colour ads for Parker Pens (Fit for a King!), and Canada Dry; What is to be Settled at San Francisco United Nations Meeting?; One-page Trans-Canada Telephone System shows smiling Canadian soldier with crutch using payphone; Editorial on Postmaster's call that mail be more carefully addressed; Great one-page ad for movie National Velvet, starring Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor; Can Science Bring Back the Dead?; A Jump to Conclusions (short story); Let's Give Away A Million Square Miles! - proposal to give away a huge chunk of the North-West Territories to the U.S. who can then finance its settlement; The Flying Tiger of Tuttle Hollow (short story); Will We Want International Sport? - photo-illustrated article on international sport and its future after WWII (with photo of Canada's Percy Williams winning the 100m at the Amsterdam Olympiad in 1938; The Affair at Saltover Priory (short story); The "So-Creds" (Social Credit) Come to Town - interview with federal party leader Solon Low with photos of him and Alberta Premier Ernest Manning; Love at Second Sight (short story); One-page Kodak ad features photo of Cpl. A. Romeike of Medicine Hat and his sister Lieut. Amy Smith of Vancouver, taken at a Canadian hospital in northwest Europe; Ventures in Victory Gardening; Classy one-page "Buy Victory Bonds" ad sponsored by Northern Electric features the Soldier's Creed and the Civilian's Creed; Photo of Joan Davis in Arrid ad; 1/3-page ad for the Canadian Ice Foundation features photo of bayonet; Preventing colds in children; Interesting centrefold ad by the National War Finance Committee describes the eight types of Canadians; Article entitled "A Letter From Home" about Canadian seamen includes photo of Leading Seaman James M. Baxter, of New Westminster, B.C. distributing mail to his mates; Photo and description of newly discovered German landmine made mostly of glass to avoid detaction; One-page ad by the Department of Veterans Affairs explains that War Veterans Insurance is now available; Jergens Lotion ad features photo of Marguerite Chapman; Nice one-page colour-illustrated Singer sewing machine ad; Colour Charlie McCarthy comic in Chase & Sanborn ad; Cooking article on the skillet; Conservation tips; Fashion illustrations; Charming colour illustration of Shirley Temple in Woodbury Powder ad; World Sayings; One-page ad by the Department of Veterans Affairs inside back cover explains government credits for education or land settlement available to returning veterans; Excellent colour back cover Coke ad features sailor in soda shop with two lovelies; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Lower seven inches of coverfold secured with archival tape. A worthy vintage copy. Book
84 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: An Elephant-Hunt in Canada - a six-week hunt results when seven valuable elephants escaped from a circus and took to the British Columbia woods - article with photos; A Fugitive in Thirstland - A former German officer who became a adventurer is South Africa is continually chased by the police; Trekking in Unknown Abyssinia - great photo-illustrated article; The Friendly Mosquito - how a mosquito saved the life of T.A. Shields; Our Salvage Job - a plucky attempt to salvage the crippled vessel Stiklestadt; The Decree of the Wild - a grim tale of the Canadian Far North, 1,200 miles north of Edmonton; "The White Man's Great War-Game" (part III) - amongst the savages of the Sura, Angas, and other primitive tribes of Northern Nigeria, Geoffrey Barkas produced a film founded upon the history of British Administration - article with great photos; Gulbaz Khan's Revenge - the story of a long-delayed vengeance for a trifling action that had far-reaching consequences; Where Everybody Plays "Cat's Cradle" - photo-illustrated article on the people of the Pelews (Pelew Islands); Fur-Getting in Australia - Australian men make a good living hunting rabbits and foxes for their furs; The Partnership That Went Wrong - four U.S. Army soldiers pool their savings to run a sawmill; What Happened to Wilson - struggle for life with an enraged tiger in the heart of a big city; Through France with "Sylvabelle" (part II) - Mr. Leslie Richardson's yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. 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
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
36 pages. Features: Cover photo of Bishop G. Breynat's Waco inspection plane being refuled on the beach at Chesterfield, Hudson Bay; Repercussions of an Old Case - the 1933 crash and death of Archie McDougall at Sanford, Manitoba; Nice full-page ad for Gold Flake cigarettes; The Percival Q6 - article and photo, plus photos, in flight and on the ground, of the first Pou-du-Ciel, constructed by Oscar Demine of Montreal, to receive a license in Canada; Full-page photo collage of many of the best-known flying people at the Miami Air Manoeuvres in early December - including Rudy Kling and Frank Haines who were killed in the first minute of the first race; New De Havilland Tiger Moth ready for delivery; Nice full-page cutaway illustrated ad for the De Havilland Dragon Rapide; Siam Soars - Reginald Jackson operates Aerial Transport Company of Bangkok, Siam; Full-page Stinson ad with photo of a Model SR-9FM; Saskatchewan Good-will Tour; New Test House for Aircraft Engines - Pratt & Whitney facility at East Hartford, CT - article with photos; Nice illustrated full-page ad for the BG Corporation and its spark plugs; Arctic Sky Pilots - Bishop G. Breynat, Vicar Apostolic of the Mackenzie; Nice two-colour full-page ad for the new 1938 Canadian Custom Waco by Fleet Aircraft; Regina Flying Club Highlights; Junkers Introduces the Ju 90 - interesting article with photos; Nice McLaughlin Buick ad shows the Series 46-19 5-passenger sedan with trunk; Great full-page photo ad for Canadian Marconi Company with photo of Pilot G.R. Spradbrow who rescued missing Quebec surveyors; How the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce Reports on Accident Investigations; New 50-h.p. Continental Engines; Full-page ad for Cub Aircraft features photo of Glenn White of Hamilton, aged 14, who soloed in a Cub after 7 hours and 20 minutes dual; New Marconi appointments - with photos; Sensational photo ad for Imperial Airways inside back cover features a great shot of the Canopus, and an endorsement by Mrs. Martin Johnson, the famous American explorer and air traveller; Who Wants a Transport License?; News from the West Coast; M.A.L.C. news; Pratt & Whitney ad inside front cover boasts of their 3 December 1937 flight from New York to Havana in just over 5 hours - pilot Major Alexander P. deSeverskey, while on the same date Jacqueline Cochran flew from New York to Miami in just over four hours; Super full-page illustrated ad for the Junkers JU 90; Three-colour Imperial Oil Asphalt ad on back cover shows the new hangar apron at Rockliffe Airport; and more. Average wear. Lower corner missing from page 21 - no material affect to contents. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Car No. 13 - A routine train trip enmeshes F. A. Malcomson aboard Car No. 13 of the "Californian Limited" at Los Angeles; My Mad Mate - The reason why young Harry Neild's hair was white; Among the Amazons - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of the Wai-woi, a little-known tribe of Indians; My Buffalo - How a hunter's first shoot was nearly his last in the Himalayan foothills northeast of Ghaggar; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - Part I - Jottings from a recently emigrated young farmer who took the plunge and began farming ; The Mozampur Dacoity - A curious robbery in India; Behind the Himalayas - Part II of II - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of an exploration to the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Cannon Idol of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies; A Duck-Shooting Adventure - Using ice-scooters to hunt ducks on the Great South Bay of Long Island; The Black Hand - A recent adventure in Kuling, China, which is currently experiencing a wave of serious brazen crime; Two Girls in a Typhoon - The trying experience of two young ladies aboard a tramp steamer from Hong Kong to British North Borneo; A Matter of Promotion - The story of a long, hard chase , in the depths of winter, of two half-breed outlaws by a constable of the Royal North-West Mounted Police at Saddle Lake, Saskatchewan; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - Part I - The exciting adventures of the Countess Malmignati, the first European woman to penetrate the little-known Inner Deserts of Arabia - this part describing her time in Damascus before the journey - with photos; Letters; The Phantom Tiger - Jean M.F. Dubois, a former planter in Lokop Province, Sumatra, explains what happened when he pursued a tiger which had caused a local reign of terror - with photo. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Average wear and soiling to back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Pages 223-290 plus ads. Features: The Taxi-man's Revenge - officers shot at Prince Rupert, British Columbia Court House in 1937; The Miracle; The Shooter; The Man Who Waited - a story from Oto in southern Nigeria in 1911; Loot From Peking - an important ring and tablets circa the Boxer Rebellion; The Human Tiger; First Blood - an amusing tale from India; Burton's Boots; My Wife; The Clue of the Single Finger-print, Part II - the hold-up of the First National Bank at Lamar, Colorado, and its bloody aftermath; O-I-L - a story from the wilds of Patagonia; Diamond Cut Diamond - A Gold Coast mining struggle; The "Debbil-Debbil" Stone - what happened when the grave of a medicine man was unearthed; short article on the "Padley Martyrs" with photo; many nostalgic ads; and more. Covers present but detached as one. Bit of price sticker remnant on front cover. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
Mm 160x245 Volume rilegato in mezza pelle con titolo oro al dorso, xvi-468 pagine con 8 tavole in nero non comprese nel testo. Fioriture ai margini e qualche rara sottolineatura a matita, le legature sono ben salde. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates, illustrations in the text and a full-page map; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frames, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Masters' classic narrative of his service with 4th Gurkhas, Indian Army in the years preceding WWII. The best account of its kind since Yeats-Brown's 'Bengal Lancer' nearly thirty years earlier.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
in-8°, 236 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, broche, jaq. ill. Tres bel exemplaire. [CA27/3] [GE-1] En 1955, Gavin Maxwell accompagne l’ethnologue Thésiger dans un de ses voyages à l’embouchure du Tigre, une contrée qui, avant ses travaux, constituait un des rares « blancs » de la carte…
46 pages. Features: Mother and Son - Dorothy Berryman and Malcolm McGuire; Marketing Your Finished Product - Part 2; Jewelry - Dorothy Kamm; Fanciful Ladies - Solbritt Nannis of Sweden; Red Grapes on Porcelain - Paula White-Hosmer; Grape Platter; Donna Fairman; Meet Nina Elbrechtz; Peony Chinese Style - Ana Quiros; Master Artist's Lesson #3; Calla Vase; Wild Rose Plate; Painting a Tiger; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Garzanti, luglio 1965. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Ordinarie tracce d'uso. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
Copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo originale completo de "La Domenica del Corriere" del 9/06/1946
Pages 273-360, plus 24 pages of great ads. Features: The Black Hand - a curious story of the abortive Egyptian revolution; The Land of Model Husbands - In the Marshall Islands women are the queen of all they survey - fascinating article with many wonderful photos; "Blue Mary's" Last Run; Photo of petrified forest in Arizona; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 2; The Smallest Republic in the World - interesting photo-illustrated article on San Marino; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 4 - Exploration and Adventure in Unknown New Guinea; The Ship That Sought Adventure - The skipper of the "Zodiac" was a glutton for excitement during the anxious days of the submarine campaign during WWI; Cave-Dwellers of Today - article with wonderful photos of cave-homes around the world; Blue Bandits - Part 2 - criminals who operated near the Italian/French border murder the Abbe Rossignol of La Bessee; On Foot Through South America - Part 3 - the wilds of northern Peru; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 2 - the adventures and daring escape of airman Capt. T.W. White; A Human Tiger - a man in British Baluchistan declares war on the government; Photo of airplane caught high in a tree near Coshocton, Ohio. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book