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A vivid geographical study and detailed social and historical description of the Zambesi. With twelve illustrations and fold-out map. Index. 239 pages. Dust jacket has a little edgewear and chips to top of spine, tear at top of front flap with creases. Front and back pastedowns are slightly browned.
222p. + Plus frontis and full page photographs. Penciled notes on two pages possibly by a missionary? Small 8vo. Original full printed wraps, front cover detached and soiled. Spine very worn. AFRICA/1
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xv], 184 p., 1 folding huge map. A socio-anthropological study on vendettas in East Anatolia. Kan dâvâlari. Sosyal antropolojik yaklasim.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 507 p., b/w ills. Kurdish nationalism and Cemilpasazade family. Diyarbekirli Cemilpasazadeler ve Kürt milliyetçiligi. Prep. by Abdullah Keskin.
Very Good German Contemporary cloth bdg. with marbled bards. Roy. 8v. (24 x 17 cm). In German. 260-274, [1] pp. Aus dem Religionsleben der Libyschen Wüste. [i.e. From religious life in the Libyan desert]. (Separat-Abdruck aus dem Archiv für Religionswissenschaft). Before Hartmann's "Lieder der libyschen Wüste. Die Quellen und die Texte, nebst einem Exkurse über die bedeutenderen Bedeuinenstämme des westlichen Unterägypten" published in a book form in 1900, this separatum published in 1898, including a list of important Bedouin tribes in western Lower Egypt.
321p. + Plus frontis and full page photographs. Penciled ownership. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn and torn. AFRICA/1
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (green/brown respectively), gilt backs, both very good, bright, clean copies in unclipped dustwrapper.
598p. Large 8vo. Penciled underlings. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket over a Maritime New York State College dust jacket. AFRICA/3
In 8 (18,5x12,5) Legatura in similpelle blu con titolo e fregi in oro al piatto e al dorso in custodia in cartoncino; pp. 1208; Ottimo
11 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Is God Obsolete? - by June Callwood; Banff's where kids work for fun - article with photos; Pierre Sevigny - What Really Happened; How Sir John A. passed out patronage and built a nation all at once, by Eileen Turcotte; Go Riders Go! - the Saskatchewan Rough Riders are super popular! - article with photos; John Valentine (J.V.) Clyne - the BC Supreme Court Justice turned flinty business baron is one of the west coast's most powerful men - the unquestioned master of BC's giant forest industry; Why do you have such a big chest, mom? - when your children ask, give them the facts of life, all of them, by Joy Carroll; The People who have no names - Norman Elder recounts his time with a Peruvian tribe (the Machiguenga Indians) that survived the Inca conquest; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Crown Zellerbach majestic full page black and white photo ad of one of their log-bearing trains crossing a bridge over the Nanaimo River on the way to the booming grounds at Ladysmith. Britain's Pirate Radio Stations - operating from towers built to fight Nazi pirates; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Voice of Afwi - the Toma tribe of Lower Guinea in Africa by Hugo Charteris (continued in a later issue); The Sabotaged Derelict - a tale from a Coast Guard officer on America's eastern seaboard; Little People of the Snows - Penguins (nice photos); Only Two Came Home - Fierce shark attacks documented; The Navy to the Rescue - an event which earned the author, Admiral Lord Mountevans, the only gold medal ever awarded by Lloyds; I was kidnapped by a runaway killer - Walter Boyd James in Penticton , British Columbia - the murder of Constable Geoffrye Ashton aboard the lake steamer S.S. Okanagan; The Curse of Kaimakam - troubles for the El Habr Arabs; Descent from Danger - Part II of "I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone" by Dennis Roberts; Treasure Islands of the Atlantic - where pirates buried their booty; The Manatee; and more. Backstrip open at places else clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
Features: The House in the Woods - the author made a 1908 car journey along a large portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway; Through the Wilds of Persia - by Major P.M. Sykes; A Game of Chess - a remarkable story from South Dakota about how a young chess enthusiast was compelled to play a game, with his own life for the stakes; Among the Gaddis - Nomad shepherds of the Central Himalayans; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part II of a story by Mrs. Fred Maturin; A Holiday in Japan - by Mrs. Ellen Beadnell (lovely photos); Across Unknown Labrador, The Land Where Hubbard Died - H. Hesketh Prichard relates how he attempted to do what no white man had ever done before, to cross this desolate wilderness from the Atlantic to the George River - great photos (part I); The Bandits of the Argentine - the 'Nort Americanos'; The Mysterious Senoussiland - part II of a Saharan adventure; The King of the Sticks - how Connie Chambers of Boston, a solitary white prospector, constituted himself as monarch of a tribe of Alaskan Indians, cleverly turning the tables on a policeman who was sent to arrest him; Lost in an underground lake - the appalling adventure which befell three prominent citizens of Joplin, Missouri at the Hero zinc mine in the spring of 1908; "Baching"; A Mexican Elopement; and more. Fascinating two-page illustrated stock offering by the American Automobile Manufacturing Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Nice Vose Piano advertisement on back cover. Great vintage Budweiser advertisement inside back cover. Lower two inches of front cover open at spine. Average wear. Magazine
82 pages. Features: Harry Shuler Dent; An ABM Primer; Alaska Wildfires; The impoverished Havasupai tribe; Las Vegas reaches a new pinnacle of preposterousnous; Rockefeller's tour of Central and South America; The Lesson of Ben Het in Vietnam; Land for South Vietnam's peasants; Ad for the VW Squareback sedan; Heroin deaths in NYC; Oriole pitcher Dave McNally; Are courts more severe with black defendants; Reinforcement Therapy; Singer Tom Jones - article with photo; The Jackson brothers hog hollering in Spivery's Corner NC; Diagram illustrates bioaccumulation of toxins; The Art of Henry Tanner; Sex as a Spectator Sport - changing sexual attitudes in the U.S.; Conversations on the new Eroticism - article which includes photo of Billy Graham in Times Square smut shop; Article on bank credit cards; Copycat ads; Oakland Raider Art Powell starts successful business Black & Brown Trading Stamp Co.; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Deputy Marshal Johnson Breaks a Long Silence - Boone Marlow Killed; The Vigilante Years - Colonel George Hunter; Bathhouse John Coughlin's Colorado Come-Down - amusement park and zoological gardens in Colorado; Me - An Old-Timer? - Hosstail's 'Small Talk'; Ma-Si... Alias Apache Kid; Artillery has never been given its due in the winning of the west; "Tell the Boys I Died Game" - Fleming Parker; The Spinnin' Horse and the Montana Kid - Leonard Stroud; Indian Georgie - Most famous guide and scout of the Panamint Tribe; Wild Old Days!. A quality copy. Book
New Turkish Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In Turkish and Ottoman documents. [xiv], 408 p., ills., tables, maps, facsimile documents. Includes bibliographical references p. 367-382 and index p. 361-366. Osmanli döneminde Inegöl: 19. yüzyilda sosyo-kültürel ve ekonomik hayat. Inegöl district of Bursa city in the Ottoman documents. Socio-cultural and economic life in the 19th century in Inegöl.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Turkish. 111 p. Intermarriage in Van. Van yöresinde akraba evliligi.
<p>22 cm, brossura editoriale illustrata con titolo al piatto e dorso, p. 280. Minime tracce d'uso alla copertina. Complessivamente ben conservato.</p>
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 384 p., ills. Seddâdîler: Ortaçag'da bir Kürt hanedani, (951-1199). Seddadis: A Kurdish dynasty in the Middle Age, (951-1199).
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 148 pages.
Fine English Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [xii], 180 p., b/w ills. Feodalizm ve Osmanli tartismalari.
New English Paperback. Cr. 8vo (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 416 p. Feodalizmden kapitalizme, Osmanli'dan Türkiye'ye. From the Ottoman Empire to Republican Turkey, from feudalism to capitalism.
80 pages. Features: Who Killed Sir Edmund?; Able Baker; A Matter of Time; Last Bus, Last Round; The Short Honest Life of Walker the Talker; The Slow-Porter Torture; Cross-Country Golf; The Unwelcome Return of the Mimsers; "And Then He Heard The Angels Call"; Study in Leadership; Eggy-Sheggy-Ray; Concerning Clothes; Photos of Jayne Mansfield, Martine Carol and Else Hansen - The Norwegian Firebrandand; How to Cheat at Cards; Tyson, Laker and Tribe; Three pages of men's sweater fashions; and more. Pencilled name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 354-440 plus 24 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Bullet-proof Scotchman - an adventure of John Mundell in the Pampas of Uruguay; ; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - part I - wonderful photos in China; An Exciting Trading Trip - efforts to trade with a warlike tribe in East Africa; Some Strange WWI Escapes from Germany - part II; Interesting photo and short article of Dog Rib Indians in Canada receiving their annual grant of one pound, as well as presents, from the Canadian government; Among the Wild Tribes of Darien - exploring the native tribes of Panama - with great photos; Stories of the War - Thirty Hours in No Man's Land - in WWI an Australian trooper on the Western Front is wounded and must make his way back to his own lines; Siringa's Last Battle - a native boy helps in one of the first fights in German East Africa, A Week in a Lens Dungeon - McLean and Ebbs of the 87th Canadian Battalion hid in a cellar for a week before making their way back to their lines; Miraculous Escapes from Sunken Submarines; An Adventurous Hunt After Man-eating Crocodiles - in Victoria Nyanza; The Mountain Warriors of France - excellent photos; The Zulu Love Medicine - part II of what happend when Zulus killed an Englishman to use his body for love medicine; Wonders of Northern Syria - article with many great photos of architectural remains; Carter's Exoneration - a stirring story of the Australian Mounted Police. Great multi-page advertising feature on the Waterproof Products Corporation. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
New Turkish Original bdg. HC. 4to. (34 x 25 cm). In Turkish. 1144 p., Ottoman archival documents. Osmanli belgelerinde Kocaeli. Edited by Sennur Kaya. Kocaeli city based on Ottoman archival documents.
