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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
11 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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
598p. Large 8vo. Penciled underlings. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket over a Maritime New York State College dust jacket. AFRICA/3
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth (green/brown respectively), gilt backs, both very good, bright, clean copies in unclipped dustwrapper.
321p. + Plus frontis and full page photographs. Penciled ownership. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn and torn. AFRICA/1
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.
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 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.
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
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.
PARIS, Western - 1977 - In-4 - Broché - Couverture illustrée en couleurs - Illustrations noir et blanc et en couleurs, dans le texte et hors texte - 173 pages - Bon exemplaire
np. 8vo. Numerous illustrated advertisements. Original printed wraps. Listed in pen on rear cover are the 16 Indian tribes represented. AMERICANA BOX 4
Fine Fine English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (28 x 23 cm). In English. 128 p., b/w photographs. Atatürk's children: Turkey and the Kurds. Foreword by John Simpson. "For more than a decade, rebels of the Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, have been at war with Turkish security forces, a conflictthat has claimed more than 19,000 lives. Whilst the PKK says that it is campaigning for the cultural and political rights of Turkey's Kurdish minority, the Turks counter that they are fighting terrorists who want to tear their state apart.".
Fine Turkish Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 128 p. Bir aydin, bir örgüt ve Kürt sorunu. Belgeler. First Edition. A comprehensive study on Kurdish question in Turkey.
New Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 128 p. Bir aydin, bir örgüt ve Kürt sorunu. Belgeler. First Edition. A comprehensive study on Kurdish question in Turkey.
Fine English Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (19 x 13 cm). In Turkish. [xx], 255 p. Doguda degisim ve yapisal sorunlar (Göçebe Alikan Asireti). First Edition.
IN-8°, PP. 342 (2), TAVV. B.N. F.T., CART. EDIT., SOVR. ILL. COL. (LIEVISSIME TRACCE D'USO), LEGGERE BRUNITURE AI MARGINI DELLE CARTE, DATA A PENNA AL FOGLIO DI GUARDIA VOLANTE ANT., OTTIMO STATO (F/F), (STORIA E DOCUMENTI, 38). PT6B 107
Mm 170x240 "Collection de l'Ecole Française de Rome". Brossura editoriale con bandelle, pagine XIII-457 con 5 carte, di cui 2 a colori, fuori testo. Opera in stato di nuovo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Green cloth boards with darker green swede spine. Edge wear to cover. Deckle edges. Dramatic black and white illustrations by Keith Henderson. No date given; circa 1920's.
in-8, 227 pp., ill. h.t. coul., broché, couv. ill. Bon état. [CA27-1] Les Peuls, les Pygmées, les Esquimaux, les Aborigènes, les Yanomani.
IN-8°, PP. 301 (3), 115 DISEGNI IN NERO E 2 CARTINE IN NERO N.T., TAVV. (23 ILLUSTRAZIONI) B.N. F.T., LEG. EDIT., SOVR. ILL. COL. (LIEVISSIME TRACCE D'USO), LEGGERISSIME BRUNITURE AI MARGINI DELLE CARTE, OTTIMO STATO (F/F), (STORIA E DOCUMENTI, 47). PT7A 100
