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Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Bandit's Bride - Part I - Pancho Villa, the bandit-Revolutionist of Mexico, rescued the heroine of this exclusive narrative from a loveless marriage with a Mormon and married her himself - one of the most remarkable stories of love, battle and intrigue ever published; Unknown Animals of the African Wilds - J.A. Jordan describes recent finds such as the Okapi, Bongo, Giant Pig, Pygmy Elephant, the "dingonek", and the "Rhodesian Monster" - article with photos; Private McTosher Discovers London - the adventures of a Highland soldier visiting London for the first time; A Flying Man in South America - Part IV - John G. Barron took a monoplane to South America and performed flying shows for 2.5 years, often before people who had never before seen a plane; How We Salved the Vigilant - While some of the crew headed for safety aboard a Dutch liner, three remaining crewmembers managed to safely guide the Vigilant to port!; The Finding of the "Mollybaun" - the discovery of a big nugget in Coolgardie, Western Australia, leads to multiple murders; Strange Stories of the War - a selection of incidents entitled A Kite Balloon Adventure, The Lady of the Manor, Mixed Identities, The "Phantom Sniper", The Subaltern's Gun, and The Mysterious Message; On the Borders of Tibet - Part III - Reginald Farrar spent two years wandering - largely among wild lands and wilder people whose chief desire was to build the intruding foreigner up in a damp bonfire to smoulder to death - with photos; The Ring - a dramatic story of the old days in New Zealand, before white and Maori had settled down in friendship; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Vanished Boatswain, The Monster of Regendorf, Bavaria; Remittance Men - an account of sundry remittance men the author met during his sojourn in Africa; The Tragedy of Sanborn Harbour - wholesale murder at the cod-fishing station on remote Nagai Island, Alaska; Photo of 'two Indians squaws' casting ballots in California for the Presidential election; Photo of 'The Human Fly' scaling a tall building in Birmingham, Alabama; and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 194-284, 5-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Africa's Mystery Beasts - Remarkable stories concerning what may be the progeny of prehistoric monsters, several of which appear to be formidable opponents for any hunter; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part I - Emil Trinkler had exceptional opportunities for travelling in untrodden regions, with photos; The Dancing Dead - A veteran gold-seeker's account of a weird and terrifying experience that befell a party of prospectors in New Guinea, with photo of witch-doctor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part II; "King Kauri" - The Kauri tree is to New Zealand what the oak is to England - article with photos; The Two Sheriffs - A strange murder situation is encountered by a veteran cow-puncher in the wilds of Montana; My Wild Boar - A newcomer to India is warned not to shoot wild pig; "Next Time" - An amusing story from the Yukon country; Lachmee's Vow - A tiger tale from Hindustan; The Sacred White Crow of Yaunghwe - brief article with two photos; The Great Boulder Murder Case - The story of one of the most remarkable murder mysteries in the annals of Australia, with photo and map; Photo of salt prospecting in Cheshire; "Bushman's Luck" - A remarkable story from New Zealand; Out of the Deep - The strange story of a famous schooner that sank off Sable Island, the "graveyard of the Atlantic," to reappear in most dramatic circumstances; Sequel to the "Lost Cabin" Mine Mystery - New information regarding this story which appeared in the September, 1920 issue; Trailing the Beaver-Poachers - Game law enforcer Frank Mossman relates some of his experiences with illegal trappers in the North-west, who often do not hesitate to shoot - with photos; "Baldy Red's" Come-Back - A bootlegger smuggles illicit whisky into the forbidden Northland of Canada. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Lower half of backstrip missing. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
Stories: Marijuana Story - Author describes how he first encountered this evil weed, and the perilous experiences in which it later involved him (12 pages with illustrations); Pork and Beans; Shanghaied!; The Back of Beyond; The White Death; Almost My Tiger; Flamingo Island; Crocodile Craft; The Border Patrol; Frozen Horror; Georgie the Ant-Bear; The Coolies' Revenge; Stage Coach Triumphant; The Puri-Puri Man; Dead Man's Opal. Somewhat above-average but not excessive wear. Book
Features: The Death-Bore - A nightmare experience on a railway in the Andes of South America; Wilderness Wandereres - the barren ground caribou of Canada, many photos; Terror by Night - visiting the lonely northwest coast of Australia in search of the alleged footprints of a prehistoric dinosaur; The Spell-Binder - a Natal farmer describes a curious incident related to an African courtship; The Rest Cure - recuperating from tropical fever, the author takes an open-air job hoping it will aid his health...; A Papuan "Pig Festival", with great photos; Time is Money - a story from Bombay by P. Stones; The Steamer will not call; Stolen Gold - ramifications of Far East Gold Smuggling as revealed in Western Australia; The Onlooker - making the only pleasure cruise of his life, a ship's officer is unable to enjoy himself; Slumach Lost Creek Mine Ltd.; and more. Average wear. Chips and openings along backstrip. Binding intact. Book
Pages 386-478 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Price of Gold - an appalling catastrophe strikes a prosperous mining camp at South Porcupine, Ontario; Besieged by Cannibals - a solitary man in the Congo is besieged in his house by a mob of bloodthirsty savages; The Bull and the Barque - a bull on board a ship is worse than a bull in a china-shop; A Bad Bargain - a young Englishmen is tricked into years of misery on the deadly Niger coast before turning the tables on the tricksters; The Empire's Secrets - a British soldier consents to sell plans and photos of the defences of one of Great Britain's most important bases in the East - before disaster overtook him; Out of the Darkness - a rash young man crosses the Rocky Mountains alone in winter-time; Wanderings in Northern Persia (part I) - great photo-illustrated account of a journey beginning from Enzeli; From Job to Job Around the World (part I) - two young Americans with ten dollars between them set out to work their way around the world; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth (VI) - the author's expedition fights nature and hostile natives; McGrath's Voyage - a white trader, a boy, and a pig make a wonderful 2,000-mile trip across the South Pacific in an open boat - safely passing through a hurricane; photo of a hot-water geyser struck by drillers in Calistoga, California; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1930002170London: Seeley Service & Co. Ltd. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 288 pp. Scattered light foxing. Mostly clean. <br/><br/> Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. hardcover books
197110899New York: Fantod Press 1971. First Edition. Staplebound. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition. Staplebound. Written and illustrated by Edward Gorey. Flip book style booklet tells the ominous nonsense tale of observation insects and eerie Victorian sensibility. Captions text under images.<br /> Part of a set. Minimal shelf/edge wear sunned/faded/bent corner on wrappers else tight bright and unmarred. Color pictorial paper wraps. Small 4to. unpaged. Illus. b/w. Lacking outer envelope. Fantod Press unknown
Numerous black and white photographs. "...Framed with the object of producing an account of the great contest now in progress, which shall be at once popular and authoritative... An account written by men of great experience in political, military, and naval matters... Will contain a great deal of first-hand material which will be really valuable to historians of the future." - From Preface. Contents: Chapter CLIV - The Battle of the Somme (II). 2-panel map laid in entitled "Area of the Battle of the Somme, July to October, 1916. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
285350kjUSA, The Saalfield Pub.Co.Akron, o.J. Broschur/Heft, mit farbiger Deckelillustration, ca.DinA 5, fast quadratisch, NUR 16 Seiten, Text mit sw-Illustrationen, Einband mit einigen Gebrauchsspuren, stärker gebräunt, fleckig, berieben und bestoßen, Knickspuren, Bindungsklammern rostig, mittige Seiten an den Klammern minimal eingerissen, Schnitt und Seiten papierbedingt gebräunt und fleckig, einige Illustrationen sind mit Buntstiften ausgemalt, insgesamt ordentlicher Zustand
Fine/fine (fine copy in fine unclipped dj, as new, no signs of use) octavo 401pp. First printing. The role of the pig and its relationship to Jews in European Christian culture, a broad study of the complex role of the animal and a close historical analysis of anti-Semitism and the creation of real-life myths.
148 pages. Contributors include: Eve Garrette Grady, Wallace Irwin, Sophie Kerr, Paul Jones, Frank Condon, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Robert Lansing. Wonderful period advertisements include: Whitman's Chocolates, Sheaffer's Pens, Hart Schaffner & Marx, Campbell's Pork and Beans, La Salle V-8, Oldsmobile, General Electric Refrigerator, Ford Motor Company, Brookfield Butter, Republic Steel, Packard, Willys-Knight (gorgeous 2 page colour ad), Reo-Royale (lovely colour ad), Dutch Boy Paint, White Trucks, Franklin Auto (Colour Ad Featuring Amelia Earhart!), Jantzen Swimwear, DeVaux 6-75, Middishade Clothes, Monarch Foods, RCA Victor Superette. Articles include: Is There Forced Labor in Russia?; When Wilson Failed as Peacemaker, Airport Groundsman, Lion Taming. Average wear. Solid, unmarked copy. Book
10 page board book. Prior owner's name atop page one else unmarked. Average to above-average wear. Binding sound. Undated - circa 1970? Book
273 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Extensive reference notes. "Great Britain and the United States reach a final settlement of Northwestern America's water boundary dispute." - from front cover. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
64 pages. Prior owner's first name upon front endpaper else unmarked. Moderate wear. Contents in excellent condition. Binding solid. Nice copy. Book
Pages 147-246 plus approximately 50 pages of ads, front and back. Contents: The Church and the People; The Adventure of Being Human; The Passing of a Brigadier; Judson Harmon - His Record and His Views; Savings or Efficiency? - second article on home making series; The Woman Spoke - article on native americans with quote by Chief Iron Eye of the Omahas; Art and the Average Man; Teaching Our Soldiers to Shoot - photo-illustrated article; The Story of Karl Witte - first of a series of articles on the progress and training of the child; Yankee Doodle in the style of the classical composers; From Stage Coach to Motor Car - great photo-illustrated article on early motoring. Many wonderful vintage ads including a great one-page ad for Rexall "93" Hair Tonic; Heinz Soup, Post Toasties, 2-page ad for R.M. Owen & Co. / Reo Motor Car Co. featuring Reo the Fifth, Quaker Oats - with photo of Prof. A.P. Anderson "The Man Who Invented Foods Shot From Guns", Educator Crackers, Van Camp's Pork and Beans, Dioxogen, Cheney Silks, Strathmore Paper, Hotel Chamberlin (Virginia), Santa Fe California Limited, Hamburg American Line ad for West Indies Cruise, Pebeco Toothpaste, Ostermoor Mattresses, Mott's Plumbing, The Columbia Buggy Company - featuring the self-starting 1912 Model 68-D, The Buick Model 35, Diamond Tires, American Woolen Company, and many more. Two library ink stamps to front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Cover 1/3rd torn up spine, covers generally freyed with edgewear, stains, etc. Binding still solid otherwise, about the size of the Whole Earth Catalog, 752 pages with Movement authors throughout as well as illustrations, photos, all in b&w, often small print. Sections include: The New Americans, Rebellion, Resistance revolutionary action, People of color, Gi's, Learning, People media/pig media, How to live what we do, Theater in the streets, Community of prison, Student rebellion, Revolutionary professionalism The law and the people, Panters in babylon, Women's liberation, Columbia: a watershed, etc.
Paper-covered boards show peeling and cracking, especially along spine. Unpaginated. 6 3/4"w x 8"h.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Front endpaper has been torn out. Edge wear to cover. 64 pages. 6 5/8"w x 9 1/8"h. Lovely, black and white and color illustrations by Clarence Biers.
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'propeller' motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Arguably the finest account of the Battle of Britain by a British fighter pilot. Hillary flew Spitfires out of Hornchurch with 603 Squadron and claimed five victories before being badly burned over the North Sea. An early member of the Guinea Pig Club, he was treated by McIndoe and returned to duty, but was killed shortly after in a training accident. The work was many times reprinted, but early issues are scarce. The US title is 'Falling Through Space'. Enser, p.157
8vo., Fifth Impression; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with 'propeller' motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Published four months after the first edition. Arguably the finest account of the Battle of Britain by a British fighter pilot. Hillary flew Spitfires out of Hornchurch with 603 Squadron and claimed five victories before being badly burned over the North Sea. An early member of the Guinea Pig Club, he was treated by McIndoe and returned to duty, but was killed shortly after in a training accident. The work was many times reprinted, but early issues are scarce. The US title is 'Falling Through Space'. Enser, p.157
1452565805.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Pages 659-702. Features: Cover photo of the Victor of Ashangi, Marshall Badoglio, commander-in-chief of the Italian forces in Abyssinia; Photo of Gen. Smuts appealing for peace in Europe; Photo of the Kadir Cup "pig sticking"event in India, with photo of winner, Capt. P. H. J. Tuck with his horse Manifest; Two-page pictorial map of the Franco-German and Belgo-German frontiers - of world interest since the Rhineland was reoccupied; Two pages of photo of massive Burmese Leogriff (Cinthe) under construction as the funeral pyre for the cremation of a dead priest; Photo illustrated article on Brazil nuts - a minor mystery; Six photos from filming of "Kliou", the first Technicolor film to be photographed entirely in the jungle; Two pages of photos of the "Alps" of South Africa; Page of fascinating photos illustrating the world's greatest telescopic "eye", this great 200 inch telescope disc is twice the diameter of the disc in the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, the biggest at present in use; Page of photos of medieval ship carvings in a Devonshire church - sculpted 16th-century three-masters; Page of photos illustrate the coldest Easter of the century; Page of photos of the king personally bestowing the Royal Maundy to aged men and women; Magnificent centrefold aerial photo of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia - before construction of the Lion's Gate Bridge - as she celebrates her Golden Jubilee; Two pages of text and photos present a mysterious 12th Dynasty hoard - Treasures of Asiatic origin found at Toud, near Luxor; Photos of personalities of the week include Herr Leopold von Hoesch, Señor Alcala Zamora, Dr. Constantine Demerjis, Señor Martinez Barrio, and the king inspecting the Grenadier guards; Photo illustrated article on Galapagos wildlife; One-page photo illustrated Harrods ad presents pocket watches; One-page Johnnie Walker ad shows him inspecting barrels by flashlight; Interesting photo shows crowd gathered around an Imperial Airways airmail service plane at Kai Tak aerodrome, Hong Kong, after it arrived from Penang for the first time; Photos of Lt. Col. F. J. Popham, and Mr. Francis A. L. Would; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Humber Twelve car; Back cover two-colour ad promotes The Sphere, The Tatler, The Sketch, Sporting and Dramatic News, and the Illustrated London News. Please note: pages 685-686 missing. Several interior pages loose but present. Faint store ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy vintage issue. Magazine
Cover: Queen Elizabeth in a Fragonard Setting. Features include: Our Notebook; The Great World War: Behind the Fronts in Russia; The Glorious Wild Life of Africa; The World of Science: A Citizen of the World - The Pig; and Books of the Day. Pictorial Journals include: The End of the Papua Campaign: Japan's Army Annihilated; Three Vantage Sites of Recent Importance: The Siege of Leningrad Lifted, The Germans Surrounded at Stalingrad and Veliki Luki Captured; The Great Russian Drive to the West Goes On; Tripoli, City of a Million Palms, Falls to the Eighth Army; The Mareth Line, Which Rommel May Defend: Some of the Forts (inc map); Christmas Day in Tripolitania: Seasonal Fare and Concert Parties; The "Priest": 8th Army Howitzer Which Beat the German 88-MM Gun; Men Behind Montgomery's Victory: The R.A.O.C., Who Provided the Eighth Army with the Sinews of War (illustrated by Captain Bryan de Grineau); Tunisian Background: Scenes from the Area of the North African Campaign; Tripoli Surrenders to Montgomery: Scenes at the Triumphal Entry; Camera Occasions: News Items of Interest at Home and Overseas; Remains of the Great Roman Empire on the Route to Tripoli; Bombs Fall on Lille and Berlin; Daylight Raid on London; and How Pre-Fabricated Sections are used in the Building of Merchant Ships in British Shipyards (illustrated by G.H. Davis). Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Binding loose, staples rusted. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy copy. Book
197141498New York: Fantod Press 1971. First edition. Near fine. The scarce third installment of Gorey's three-book series issued by Fantod between 1966 and 1973. Three volumes 5'' x 6'' each. Original illustrated stapled wrappers. Lacking original outer envelope. Mild toning toward spine edges. Otherwise clean sharp. Fantod Press unknown
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 54 pages. Colorful illustrations. From the novel, "Journey to the West."