Halliday, Hugh A.MareMagnum
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144 pages. Index. Numerous black and white illustrations. "Tells for the first time in detail, the story of one of Canada's greatest fighter pilots. Traces his career from Tiger Moths in Scotland, then on to advanced training and out to pre-war Egypt to his first posting.... Soon Woody's squadron is called to Greece to face an onslaught of Messerschmitts and Junkers." - from dust jacket. Faint small sticker remnant atop front free endpaper, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Excellent copy. Gift quality. Book
Features: Demon in the Dark - Heinkel's 219 Owl; Flying Tiger - Myth, Legend, Reality? - An exclusive interview with General Robert Scott, Author of "God is My Co-Pilot"; New Combat Role for the F-111 - a magnificent fighter-bomber comes into its own. Art: Curtiss P-40E in R.A.F. markings; Grumman F-111B with Phoenix missiles Book
40 pages. Features: New flag for Canada's 98th birthday - article with photos; The Queen Mother - Her Personal Story - part 1 of 4; Jean Seberg's Return to the Top - Burned at the stake on film and in reviews, she begain again in Europe - article with photos; Photo of Miss Patricia Soulliere, "Miss Textile of the Week"; Jerry Marx Survived An Avalanche - article with photos; Fantastic colour photo centerfold ad for the Rambler line of cars; Upsurge in Canada's Track and Field Athletic Performance; Paul Anka and Diana Ayoub, the girl he left behind (and after whom his first hit song is named); Kendo battles on the Fraser River Delta dunes in Steveston - Jim Murray studies the Japanese Martial Art - article with photos; ; Back cover Esso ad with the 'Tiger in your Tank' theme; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
28 pages. Features: The Safety Crusaders versus the Auto Makers - Part 1 of 2 - Will your car protect you if you are in an accident?; Sam Snead's Incredible Eagle - his return to the Canadian Open recalls his famous feat of 1938 - article with photos; Esso ad "Put a Tiger In Your Tank"; The Queen Mother - Her Personal Story (Part 3 of 4); Major photo feature and brief article on Mme. Afsar Kia, wife of Nouredin Kia, Iran's Ambassador to Canada - with photos of the Shah and Empress of Iran visiting Ottawa; Douglas Greeting Card ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with creseless covers and faded spine, appears unread. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. Publisher's page marked "First Ballantine Printing" (m, yr.)
150 pages. Features: The shattering of Tiger Woods' image; Military sniper Russ Crane; The return of Gordon Gekko; What drove Finn Caspersen to suicide?; Artist Maurizio Cattelan; Six youn actresses show how stars are born; The crises behind Warren Beatty's epic 1987 flop "Ishtar"; The play Enron; Christopher Hitchens laments the closing of Gore Vidal's mind; Rocker Patti Smith; An oral history of disco; James Wolcott trashes the latest celebrity sex tapes; Spy novelist Henry Porter; Winners of the Twitter contest; Kentucky's Creation Museum; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
A comprehensive guide to the history and lifestyle of the tiger, thekind of the Forest, including folklore and myths about this magnificent animal. More than 200 hundreds full colour, specially commissioned photographs of the Bengal Tiger plus stunning images of the tigers' co-predators and prey. Detailed information ont eh habitat and the range of all the species of tiger in the world.
Roma, 1909, 26 settembre, copertina illustrata a colori in fascicolo completo di 16 pp. de 'La Tribuna Illustrata'.
124 pages. Contents: James Wilkinson - America's most honored traitor; Mystery Killer Ship; Can a Tiger Whip a Bull?; Betting on Horse Races through the Mail!; College Football is for Boys Alan Ameche explains how much more difficult it is to play professionally; Pioneer Airmen Glenn L. Martin and Lary Bell; Big-bore rifles for downing a charging rhino; Chrysler's design challenge to reduce the height of its cars by five inches; Blowguns - quick, quiet and deadly (article iwth color photos); Turkeys west of the Pecos; Castration - Man's greatest hidden fear; Men's fall coats; Science studies your whiskers; and more. Champion Spark Plug ad features photo of Bobby Unser at the 1956 Pikes Peak Hill-Climb. Unmarked with heavy. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
Book shows light shelf wear only, a few marks to back cover, a bit of edge wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Staple bound pamphlet with 55 pages, lots of b&w photos. Contents include: First Tiger twin, Early postwar years, Alloy engine, Pivoted fork and 649 cc, Duplex and bathtub, Tiger racing, Specs.
Book is in excellent condition with creseless covers and spine, appears unread. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. Publisher's page marked "First Printing" (m, yr.)
66 pages. Features include: Uncovering "Tiger Whiskey" bottle cache; Fabulous gold mine found; Beginners luck no myth; Reservoirs yield fantastic artifacts; Where the coins are; Swamp finds; Ruins give up valuable finds; George Getty - Cache Hunter. Average wear. 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
n-12, 299 pages, illustre h.t. n/b, 1 carte, broche, jaquette illustree plastifiee. Bel exemplaire. [CA33-2]
In-16 (cm 17,8x11,3), brossura edit. illustrata a c. Traduzione di Susanna Comi. I edizione "I libri del Pavone" 62-63. Piccola mancanza al piatto posteriore, ordinari segni del tempo, interno molto buono. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY
France Empire 1954. In-8 broché sous jaquette de 302 pages illustrées. Très bon état
Roma, 1930, 21 settembre, fascicolo di 16 pagine de "La tribuna illustrata", con copertina a colori.
432 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "The autobiography of Rudy Frankel, life president of Tiger Oats Limited and for many years a leading South African industrialist." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely 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.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 9 plates on 4; original photographic wrappers, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE EDITORS ON TITLE. Includes an appendix on Typhoon variants.
308 pages including index. Grave, gay and urbane, this book is sure to delight its readers, while affording them intimate glimpses of pioneer Canadian life that will surprise and perhaps shock them. Moderate wear. Prior owner's name rubber stamped atop each endpaper else unmarked. Several tears under one inch to dust jacket. Excellent piece of Canadiana. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Great Green Eel - three-day battle with a Conger eel in Trinidad; De Rougemont Right After All! - Shortly after his passing, the incredible stories by Louis de Rougement of adventures with the wild blacks (aborigines) of Australia are proven true! - article with great photos; The Lure of the Jewel - The Forcing of the Duke of Brunswick's safe; Crossed Trails - A remarkable tale of linked lives; The Midnight Visitor - A grim tale of the famous North-West Mounted Police of Canada; Trapped in a Well - two men in Nebraska set out to deepen a well; The Moffat County Mystery - an odd tale from Colorado; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part II - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interest of film-making - article with interesting photos; A Christmas Hunt in East Africa - sometimes 'exiles' can have a good Christmas; A Double Escape a thrilling royal tiger hunt in India; A Man's Luck - Part V - the true story of a man who set out to build an Alaskan home for the girl of his dream but kept being jailed; The Accursed Lake - The strange story of David Burton and Charles Snisted in New Zealand; The Living Death - an explorer's grim story from the South American jungle; Anthropop - Apology; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 268-351, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: In Search of the Lost Oases - Part I of a wonderful trip across the desert from Sollum, on the Mediterranean, to El Obeid, in the Sudan, mostly through unexplored territory, with photos; Smugglers Three - Poaching swan eggs; Azizun the Dancing-Girl - Sir George MacMunn owned an uncanny little "frog-girl" in India; The Odyssey of the "Olga" - A trip from Nome, Alaska to Seattle ended up taking over three months!; Photo of sixty-foot-tall statue of the god Gomateswara being annointed with oil on the great hill of Sravanbelgola; Left Behind - A young white woman is left behind at a lonely wayside station in the heart of Rhodesia; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part I - G.M. Dyott was abandoned by his guide in the trackless upper reaches of the Amazon and endured an ordeal to return home - with photos; The Thirteenth Sample - A nerve-trying adventure in the depths of an abandoned mine in Northern Mexico; A Bird-Hunter in the Wilds - G.L. Bates describes a seven-month journey in the remote Cameroon country of Central Africa - with great photos; The Voice in the Darkness - A tragic story of an encounter between a bootlegger and the law during prohibition in Brigson, Alberta; "Sinbad the Sailor" - An American university professor becomes a swindler in Winnipeg; Tiger Tales - Tales from Assam and Sumatra by W.J. Brands; What Was It? - Patrick Brown encountered a mysterious monster in South Africa which appeared to be a survivor of some prehistoric species; The Crocodile Charmers of Java - Javanese witch-doctors 'make love to them, induce them to follow them like pet dogs, and lead them to their deaths'; The Two Strangers - Dr. C.E.Ellis thought he knew a 'bunco man' but then he met two harmless prospectors. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Tragic Pearl - First found off the coast of North-West Australia, a special pearl quickly changes from person-to-person, leaving death in its wake - a famous Australian crime story; The Tiger-Killer - Major Jim Corbett specializes in single-handedly shooting troublesome tigers in the hills of Kumaun, India; Blundering Through the Balkans - Part I - John Gibbons takes his amusing act on the road again; The "White Indians" of North Carolina - A photo-illustrated article about the Croatan Indians, said to be the lineal descendants of Raleigh's ill-fated "Lost Colonists," with whom, in 1587, the friendly Red men abandoned the settlement of Roanoke and went out into the wilds to start life afresh; Left in Charge - A 19-year-old, just six weeks from home, finds himself in charge of a lonely South African sheep farm, only to have alarming things begin to happen, including a skirmish with sheep stealers; The Money-Finder - An amusing story involving a peppery West African Commissioner, a wily native chief who tried to avoid paying his taxes, and a young officer who was a bit of a conjurer; The Boy Who Sought Adventures - Part III - B. Wicksteed continues his amazing young adventures; The Opium-Smugglers - In the ancient walled city of Manila the author met a friend who told him this strange story; My Mystery Job - A queer story told by a builder's foreman concerning a remarkable job he had been called upon to undertake; Whose Hippo? - A nasty legal battle ensues after a Hippo is shot; The Land of Mystery - Part III of III - Col. E. Alexander Powell and his cousin Colonel Gallowhur continue their travels through unexplored Nepal - with many lovely photos; The Djimat - The figurehead of an old sailing ship goes missing during alterations and the superstitious natives of Java are sure trouble is sure to follow; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Guardians of the "Last Frontier" - Excellent photo-illustrated article on the three-hundred men who patrol America's 2,000-mile Mexican border; Brown's Tiger - A decidedly unusual hunt in India in which a herd of buffaloes played an important part; "Blood Will Tell" - What happened after James Vance Marshall saved the life of a young South American; Photo of Buddhist "Rice Boat" in Ceylon; Hunting Sea-Lions - Tony Rosato hunts these creatures near California's Coronado Islands - interesting photo-illustrated article; Law and Order in East Africa - Amusing stories about police work among whites and natives; The Lost Mine - A. Hyatt Verrill was in Panama to study the wild Indians but everyone assume he came in search of Tisingal, the mythical lost Spanish gold mine - with photos; The Interlopers - A cattle drover's story of a strange adventure in Australia's little-known interior; My Monkey - A lonely rubber planter buys a monkey as a pet; The Bear Lake Affair - How two RCMP officers dealt with 150 wild Indians near Fort St. James, British Columbia; More About Africa's "Mystery Beasts" - Patrick Bowen believes hitherto unknown animals and reptiles do actually exist; At Grips With the Desert - Part II of Donald R.G. Cameron's account of a trip across the Sahara in which his party became lost for ten days - with photos; "When No Man Pursueth" - The tragic story of what happened to a 14-year-old boy on his first trip away from home; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Backstrip entirely nibbled away so front cover loose but present and back cover barely holding. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
