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Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a foreign 'tramp' to get home to Australia ends up in big problems because of the author's double; A Baptism of Fire - A young forest ranger of the British Columbia Forest Service fights a fire which puts over a hundred people in a logging camp at risk; The Trek - a minor pioneer adventure in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - happy days in Central America; The Golden Ingot - A West African Confidence Man; Down Mexico Way - Two Jacks ashore get in trouble as they explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - the celebrated Hindu shrine at Kataragama, Ceylon; Pioneer Pilot - Peter Strong; One Thing After Another - good luck finally falls on a hard luck fellow in depression-era Australia; The Burma Road - Nice photos; Strange South Sea Burial-Customs; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American Coal Fields; The Octopus - a young man's nightmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus; and more. Above-average wear. Coupon neatly clipped from atop page 121, articles unaffected. Binding intact. Book
91 pages plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: The Artificial Volcano - an incident of the Italian campaign in the Dolomites; Soko the Stanleyville Chimp - raised by the author J.A. Jordan - with many photos; Seven to One - a vendetta and Arkansas farmer Walter Ridgeley of the Texarkana area; A Lofty Ambition - Tom Needham of Cleveland, Ohio recounts how he tried to perform a high dive from a lofty bridge to become a famous actor - with photos; A Canadian Lumber Camp at Riviere aux Ecorces, Quebec - Part II - with photos; In the Casting Pit - a tale of one of the finest deeds of courage and self-sacrifice on record; On the Road in the country of Georgia, by R.Courtier-Forser - illustrated; The White "Maori" - Kimble Bent spent 50 years in the bush - with photos; The Old Firm - a remarkable mystery is recounted from the documents and personal narratives of W.H. Holloway; The Strength of Dan Dempster - this Canadian frontier railway track foreman saved the men of a work-train from destruction with a superhuman act of strength; Round Labrador and Hudson's Bay - Part 1 of E.W. Hawkes' 3,000 mile journey, with great photos; Finding a Wife - S.A. Beattie went hunting for Jaguars in the British Honduras... but ended up with a wife; Throssell's "V.C." - How Hugo Throssell won the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli; Photo of two Jewish street merchants in New York's east side. Lovely color ad for the Vose Player Piano on back cover. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a tramp steamer to return to Australia, John Winters meets his double... except the double is already dead; A Baptism of fire - the experience of a young forest ranger with the British Columbia Forest Service when over 100 people are trapped in a logging camp, by J.L. Henslowe; The Trek - story from a pioneer in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - an amusing tale from Central America by Capt. Frank H. Shaw; The Golden Ingot - a confidence trick by a West African criminal; Down Mexico Way - 2 Jacks ashore get themselves in trouble in the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - a story from Ceylon; Mr. Peter Strong, Pioneer Pilot, by D.N.E. Kain; One Thing After Another - down on his luck during depression days in Australia a man's luck finally turns; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-servicemen - great photos; South Sea Burial-Customs - how they do things on the remote Cook Island Group; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American coal fields; The Octopus - a young man's nighmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus brings happiness to a remote South Sea Island; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa - part 2 - tales from the log book of an R.A.F. officer during the campaign in German East Africa - article with interesting photos; Torn by Starving Jackals in Macedonia - Private James McDade of the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers recounts his experience - with photo of McDade; Death-Struggle with An Alligator - what happened to Van Campen Heilner when he was photographing an alligator in a Florida swamp - photo-illustrated article; The Thrills of Parachuting - early and marvelously photo-illustrated article on this topic; Photo of tourist party in Solomon's Quarry, the world's most ancient quarry; My South African Adventures - part 1 of Jack West's incredible recollections, including photo of him aged 17; Ship Built By One Man - Liberian missionary, the Rev. James E. Lewis - photo-illustrated article of him, his wife and "The Coloured Missionary Yacht"; John A. Jordan and his African Leopard-Hunting Adventures; Our Trip to Catch Murderers - the rough and ready methods of achieving justice in Bolivia; An Exciting Night Drive - 35 miles in a South African Cape Cart; Relief Workers' Adventures - part 2 of this superb photo-illustrated article on thrilling experiences among the War Victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia; With a Caravan in Corsica - photo illustrated article which relates the primitive life of the people; A Mountain of Gold - photo-illustrated article about the discovery made by the Fisk Expedition - Captain James L. Fisk and Dr. William Denton Dibb; In the Wilds of Siberia - part 2 - fascinating article with great photos document the explorations of Harry Somerset-Lister; The Adventures of a Newspaper-Man - part 4 - Exploring New York - article with nice photos and fascinating observations of the people; A Butterfly Farm in France - French Entomologist M. Andre's farm near Macon - article with photos; Fascinating photo of flume in British Columbia, by which logs are carried to the sawmills; Photo of amber mine on the coast of Samland in the eastern Prussian peninsula. Somewhat above-average external wear. Openings and loss at each end of backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this marvelous issue. Book
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
Features: Dead Man's Double - the strange story of a landsman who, anxious to get home to Australia, shipped aboard a foreign tramp to work his passage; Baptism of Fire - the story of a young Forest Ranger employed by the British Columbia Forest Service in 1927, and how a fire trapped over 100 people in a logging camp; A Case of Contraband - An amusing story of how, between revolutions, men had ways of their own of getting around difficulties; The Golden Ingot - the diverting story of an ingenious Gold Coast version of the time-honoured "confidence trick"; Down Mexico Way - The exciting adventure of two young seafarers who light-heartedly set out to explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker; Pioneer Pilot - Mr. Peter Strong flew over the Drakensberg Mountains between Basutoland and Natal; One Thing After Another - Recalls the narator's fall and subsequent rise in the depression days of Australia; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-Servicemen; South Sea Burial Customs - Visiting the outlying islands of the remote Cook Group, in the South-East Pacific, the authoress came upon many curious death-customs; Olsen's Secret - A grim story from the American coalfields; Front cover was attached with tape but is now detached. Back cover missing. Contents unmarked and in decent condition. Magazine
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
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Striking dustwrapper artwork by Lynton Lamb
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations(many full-page) in the text; coloured pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Covers heavy draught horses, army and police horses, ponies and all manner of equestrian sports.
8vo., Second Impression, with a frontispiece, 7 plates and 24 illustrations in the text; original pictorial brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy. C DAY LEWIS'S COPY, PRESENTED TO HIM BY HIS FATHER IN APRIL 1934 AND WITH THE LATTER'S INITIALLED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Second appearance of Sturt's classic account (first published in 1923). Complete with extended glossary.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and title-vignette by Reynolds Stone, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted, browned and frayed at edges, and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip (not affecting lettering). The second volume of Sassoon's factual autobiography. Increasingly elusive in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Keynes, A49; V&A Catalogue 124.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and title-vignette by Reynolds Stone; blue cloth, gilt back, a very bright, clean copy. Second volume of Sassoon's famous factual autobiography. Keynes, A49; V&A Catalogue 124.
VG in green cloth with black spine lettering. Cover spine sunned. Previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper. 13357. eng
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue-green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; yellow cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by A.E. Barlow. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
8vo., First Edition, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; green tweed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Leigh Taylor.
374 pages. Index. Appendices. Heavily-worn former library copy with usual markings. Spine slant. Some plates and maps missing. Binding intact. Offered as is. A worthy reading copy. Book
Contents: Photo of a troop of British Lancers in Northern France; Triumph of the Aeroplane in the War - specially written for this publication by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper; The Coming of the Aerial "Baby-Killers" - photo of Zeppelin and four photos of damage they wrought; Futile Zeppelin Savagery on Norfolk Coast - eight photos; Effective Measures against Marauding Air-Hawks - five great photos of WWI anti-aircraft hardware and techniques; Egypt's Shpinx-like Calm at Turkish Threats - four photos; Our Photographer with the Canadians at Salisbury - five photos; Sons of the Dominion prepare to meet the Foe - five photos - 12th Battalion 1st Canadian Expeditionary Force; Monster British Guns in Action and Transport - three photos; The David and Goliath in Gun Power - three photos; Centerfold illustration entitled "The Epic of Soissons - How Our Heroic Allies held firm the Paris Road; Five photos with the valiant leaders of our French Allies; "Blonde Bestiality" and some of its exponents - six photos villainizing the Huns; Russia's Warm Campaign in Cold Regions - five photos; Tragedy & Triumph in Serbia's Fight for Freedom - two photos; The War by Land -article by F.A. McKenzie; The War by Sea - article by Commander Carlyon Bellairs; Firing-Line Fashions for Winter's Cold and Mud - two interesting photos; The War in the Air - article by C.G. Grey; The Lonely Vigil of the Courageous Scout - five photos; Photos of nineteen Brit's killed in recent action. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. All pages present. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow; a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Uncommon novel by the brother of H.J. Massingham. Dustwrapper artwork by Leslie Wood
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, neat signature on front paste-down; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. The author's second work and first novel. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
xi + 281 pages, illustrated, bibliography, index. eng
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly browned; blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a good, clean copy. Uncommon.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The author's second book, describing the natural history of cities and suburbia and a landmark of the ecological movement. The original edition is very scarce in the dustwrapper
8vo., with illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Plain spoken book of English country life, first published in 1947.
