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Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
Pages 169-252 plus 40 pages of ads. Features: A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part 1 - Prof. Propercio de Mello Saraiva travelled 25,000 miles documenting the Amazon - article with photos; That Christmas Dinner - a funny story; A Fairy Land of the Far East - photo-illustrated article on the Court of the Emperor of Annam in Indo-China; A Close Call - what happened when a whaler attempted to replenish its water supply at an unfriendly island; Photo of pelt of the world's record bear, with its shooter, Mr. Lionel J. Tucker, a forestry engineer of Vancouver; My Island of Dreams - Part III (conclusion) - The Adventures of an Amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings; Cycling Over the Alps - G. Butler Morris recounts his interesting experiences, illustrated with his own photos; A South African Man-Hunt - an escaped half-breed was the terror of the district; Hank Vaughn - a young Englishman's experience with a 'bad man'; The Vengeance of Megana Kol - an Indian aboriginal armed only with a bow and arrow kills a panther which had killed over fifty people, including his own two children; A Man's Luck - Part IV of Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the Far North; Tiger's Teeth - tale from a Devonshire village; The Secret Dance - Mrs. S.A. Clarke-Kennedy witnesses a secret Australian aboriginal "corroboree" ceremonial dance; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 265-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Hunting the Giant Crocodiles of the Bayano, Central America - with amazing photos; The Radio Man's Adventure - terrible experience for Ross Knight in the High Sierras of California; The Golden River - The Kawarau River in New Zealand is to be dammed so its bed may be mined for gold - photo-illustrated article; The Missing Necklace - a tale from the Malay Peninsula; The Lady and the Python - photo-illustrated story from Port Elizabeth; My Novel Holiday - Mercer Sherwood Maloney works as a 'messman' on a cargo-steamer in order to visit Europe; My Search for the King's Treasure, by Lieut. Colonel K.M. Foss, Late Indian Army; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - the log of the "St. Francois Xavier" reports a sighting, according to a 1903 news clipping from the 'Vancouver Province'; Where Cannibals Roam - part 3 - wonderfully photo-illustrated article from Papua; The Looker-on - how card sharks on an Atlantic liner were unmasked; Saved by "The Wide World Magazine" - how reader Hubert H. Arthur benefitted from a 1922 article on a Japanese science called 'Katsu'; Johnny Mackay's Last Hand - a half-breed card player in Canada's northland; Man Versus Lion - South African game ranger is forced to kill lion with sheath knife; Remains of man found in hollow tree - news clipping from the World Herald of Omaha, NE; Two Years in Borneo - part 2 - a strange story of love potion; Some Adventures with Bears - bear stories from Alberta and British Columbia; One-page General Electric ad features 'electric logger' in the Washington woods; One-page Lionel Strongfort ad entitled "When Marriage is Fatal". Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
88 Pages plus 16 pages of ads. Features: A Girl of the Island - a beautiful girl is shipwrecked on a lonely tropic island; A Man's Luck - Part III - Hjalmar Rutzebeck story of life and love in the Far North; The Mystery of Charlie Ross - tragic story of the kidnapping of four-year-old Charlie Ross from his home near Philadelphia; My Island of Dreams - Part I of the adventures of amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings - with his photos; Taming the Head-Hunters - author and a party of ten police enter the little-known hill country of British North Borneo to punish a tribe of head-hunting Dyaks; Through Central America on Horseback - Part IV of Eugene Cunningham's trip by horseback through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala, with his photos; Our Canoe Trip - Carleton L. Dyer and a friend canoe in the wilds of Northern Ontario; The Feast of the Vultures - a remarkable annual festival near Constantine, in Algeria; A Pocket Republic - photo-illustrated account of a visit to the remarkable Republic of Andorra; Attacked by an Octopus - a fisherman's terrible experience on the coast of California; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
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
Pages 90-176 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: The Slacker - a young Californian deserts the Army and his lady to flee to Mexico where great misery follows, but he eventually atones; The Mysterious Witch Doctors of Siberia - disguised as a Russian peasant, the author penetrated into little-known Siberia to investigate the uncanny doings of the native Shamans - article with photos; My Island of Dreams - Part II - the adventures of Amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings (with photos); Through Central America on Horseback - Part V - riding through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - story with photos of earthquake damage in Guatemala City; Mountain Mysteries - the strange story of Mr. Crump who was lost for 18 days in the Lakeland crags, plus other cases of mysterious disappearances; Cheating Death - John Edwin Hogg recounts his most harrowing experience; A Bear-Hunt in Lousiana - interesting and successful hunt in the Louisiana Marsh - with photos; My Burglar - a Singapore encounter with a Chinese burglar, stripped naked and greased from head to foot, with fish-hooks in his pigtail and a double-edged sword between his teeth; The Rajah's Lift - the tragic story of a home-made hydraulic lift; The New Moon - information in a diary saves the lives of two men; A Man's Luck - Part III of Hjalmar Hutzebeck's story of life and love in the Far North; Photo and brief write-up of the world's most northerly police post; Photo of the smallest business house in the world in Duncan, Oklahoma; 'House of Gold' built by a wealthy miner in the California's Mojave Desert; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Back cover almost loose. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 102-196 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mutiny of the "Ziba" (part I) - a brutal captain and mates are murdered by their crew; Among Head-Hunters and Cannibals - great photo-illustrated article on some of the experiences of Captain W. Sinker who for years cruised the South Sea Islands in command of the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross"; The Rivals - two men were in love with the same lady; The Bluffing of Din Mahomed - a rascally Indian postal worker is brought to justice; The Runaway Train - story from a branch line of the C. and N.W.R.R. in Nebraska; My Adventures in Sarawak (part III) - adventures of the Rajah's bride amongst 'the lovable little people'; Hona's "Tapu" - what happened to to men who attempted to brave the curse of a Maori chief upon a rich gold-reef; An Unlucky Ride - in New Zealand a man sets of on a perilous 120 mile journey to see his lady, only to arrive late and offend her; Our Travels in Safari-land (part I) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) travels through British East Africa; The Night-Watchman's Story - an 1885 tale from the steamer 'Bengal Tiger' shipping from Paducah, Kentucky, as told by Ernest Prentis; Penelope Visits Finland - holiday jaunts to the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes"; Parker's Lesson - a 1913 story of a young man from Cambridge who went to Nigeria with ideas of how the natives should be handled; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Ju-Ju" Justice - a startling West African Ju-Ju incident and its sequel, involving the Elder Dempster branch boat "Lagoon"; Tales of the Service - The Smuggler's Cave (part III) - stirring stories of the Service contributed by a customs-house officer on the West Coast of Scotland and also in Ireland; The Wooing of Abia - a charming yet thrilling love story involving natives of Papua, with great photos; Beyond the Law (part III) - The Dalton Gang terrorized the Western States of America for years while committing train robberies and holding up banks; The Empire's Only Eskimo Soldier - John Shiwak, of Labrador, the only Eskimo soldier to lay down his life for the empire (article with photo); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram (part III) - the Himalayan exploits of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (with photos); A Nightmare Voyage - in 1905, the American barque Challenger left Port Townsend for Japan in the command of Captain Pedersen; Photo of a Papuan chief's daughter wearing a necklace of hundreds of dog teeth; Lion-Hunting as a Business - Frank Allen of Rhodesia is the only known lion-hunter - article with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa (part IV) - a 4,000 mile honeymoon trip east to west across the Dark Continent - with photos; The Baboon and the Baby - a baboon steals a baby from a home; My Experiences in German East Africa - James Henry Butcher relates his thrilling experiences as a private in the South African Infantry, with photos; The Shining Town - a fascinating photo-illustrated sketch of life and scenes in Granada; The "White" Chief of Penrhyn Island - the shipwrecked author was adopted by a chief in the South Sea Islands and went on to become the ruler of an island and its people; Only a Half-Breed - in South-West Colorado in 1869 a white man's squaw prevented a war; Fantastic ad "Swear Off Tobacco" by the Newell harmacal Company of St. Louis inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
208 pages. Includes the following songs: Acid Queen; Another Tricky Day; Baba O'Riley; Bargain; Behind Blue Eyes; Cache Cache; Can't Reach You; Daily Records; Did you steal my money?; Disguises; Dr. Jimmy; Don't Let go the coat; Five Fifteen; Gettin' in Tune; Goin' Mobile; Happy Jack; How can you do it alone?; I can see for miles; I'm Free; It's a boy; The Kids are alright; La-La-La-Lies; Love Ain't for Keepin'; Love, Reign Over Me; Magic Bus; My Generation; Odorono; Our Love Was, Is; Pictures of Lily; Pinball Wizard; Pure and Easy; Quadrophenia; The Quiet One; The Real Me; See Me, Feel Me; Slip Kid; The Song is Over; Sunrise; Squeeze Box; Tattoo; Who are You; Won't get fooled again; You; You Better You Bet. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid working copy. Book
Includes music, guitar chords and lyrics from the albums: The Who Sings My Generation; Happy Jack; The Who Sell Out; Magic Bus/The Who on Tour; Tommy; Live at Leeds; Who's Next; Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy; Quadrophenia; Odds and Sods; The Who by Numbers. Songs include: Acid Queen; Baba O'Riley; Bargain; Behind Blue Eyes; Call Me Lightning; Disguises; Doctor, Doctor; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Doctor Jimmy; Gettin' in Tune; Goin' Mobile; The Good's Gone; Happy Jack; I Can See For Miles; I Can't Reach You; I'm Free; Instant Party (Circles); Its Not True; The Kids Are Alright; La La La Lies; A Legal Matter; Love Ain't For Keepin'; Love, Reign O'er Me; Magic Bus; Much Too Soft; My Generation; My Wife; Our Love Was, Is; Out in the Street; The Ox; Pictures of Lily; Pinball Wizard; Postcard; Pure and Easy; Quadrophenia; The Real Me; Run Run Run; See Me, Feel Me; Sensation; Slip Kid; Someone's Coming; The Song is Over; Squeeze Box; Tommy Can You Hear Me; You Didn't Hear It (1921); Won't Get Fooled Again. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this large compilation of excellent Who songs. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. Edge wear and small tears on dust jacket. 5"w 7 1/2"h. 42 pages. Discoloration to endpapers.
6 pages. As featured by Jimmy Dorsey. Prior owner's name on front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 18 francs price blacked-out with marker on back cover. Previous owner's name inside. Light wear to cover and creases on spine. No. 78 of the Olympia Press Paris's Traveller's Companion Series.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. In a Very Good slipcase. 64 pages.
56 pages. Cover photo of sport fisherman using an outboard motor which 'has replaced oars for fishermen'. Features: The Golden Key, by Lee Russell; When the Risk Overshadows the Skill - Roger Bannister blames the 'criminal negligence' of braggarts for tragedies which mar sport; Classy colour ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee canned Ravioli; Canada's Busiest Party Givers - Mr. and Mrs. F. Ronald Graham of Marine Drive in Vancouver - with enough dishes for 700 people - nice photos; Dictatorship due for France? - article by George Langelaan with photos; The Low-Down on Hi-Fi - how to tell what you get for your money; My Love Affair with Canada, by Bing Crosby - with photos; I Always Love to Scrap - boxer Yvon Durelle - with photo; The Sinclair Luck, by Gordon Sinclair; Boats are Bustin' Out All Over - an examination of the quarter-billion-dollar canadian recreational boating industry; Predictions for the Oscar Awards; Colour ad for Goodyear tires features colour illustrations of vehicles for each year, 1915 through 1957; Sean O'Malley's Daughter, by Brian Cleeve; Young Man in a Hurry, by Margaret E. Barnard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Book
32 pages. Prince Charles baby photos, including cover photo. Other royal family photos; Japanese police photos; Ostrich farming photos; photos of gathering eggs from seabirds on England's cliffs; Colour ad for the Studebaker Champion; Freda Shetler of Ferndale, WA - sulky driver; Ottawa suburban well baby clinic photos; Spectacular colour centerfold ad for Heinz ketchup; Missionary students at the Moody Bible institute learn to fly; Royal Canadian Air Force ad; Photos at Switzerland's Sanatorium Universitaire; Nice colour Waterman's pen ad; Photos of Wellesley college's doll collection; Plastic musical intruments prove practical; - Bill Glass; Colour Ivory Soap ad - Lovely Girls Love Ivory!; Motorcycle action photos; Navy underwater photogarphy; colour Community brand cutlery ad on back cover. Average wear. Prior owner's name atop front cover. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Circa 1916. "Containing the season's most popular songs especially arranged in the newest dance forms; fox trots, one steps, waltzes, rags." - from front cover. Songs include: And They Called it Dixieland; An Old Fashioned Garden in Virginia; Bo-Peep; Chin-Chin Open Your Heart and Let Me In; Come Back to Arizona; In Honeysuckle Time; I'm Looking for a Girl Like Mother; Izzie Get Busy; Kangaroo Hop; The Murray Walk; Sail on to Ceylon; They Didn't Believe Me; There's a Little Bit of Irish in Sadie Cohn; You'll Always Be the Same Sweet Baby; You're Like a Beautiful Song; Everybody Loves to Dance; In the Valley of the Nile; I Want You Georgia; My Dreamy China Lady; Nay, Nay, Pauline; No One But You Dear Old Dad; Red Raven Rag; She's Good Enough to be Your Baby's Mother; Susquehanna Sue; That Midnight Frolic of Mine; You'll Find a Little Bit of Ireland Everywhere; I Learn'd to Love you in Dreamland; Love Comes a-Stealing; Souvenir Waltzes; Tinkle Bell. Taped repairs to binding. Somewhat above-average external wear. Still a worthy copy of this wonderfully nostalgic compilation. Book
103 pages. Former owner's information upon half-title page. English Canada's reply to the so-called 'French Fact." Imagine the English Canadians finally having their say about Quebec! There's a chuckle on every page - more than one on many occasions - to help make some of the uglier facts more palatable. A perffect blend of humour and history, of laughter and of shock. Perhaps the first real attempt by English Canadians to say a strong 'phooey' to all the French unrest in Quebec. Accomplished with sophistication and wit... agree with it or not... you'll be entertained greatly and probably slightly educated at the same time. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 160 pages. Documents the authors' experiences with sexual aids and the use of dildos, vibrators, blow-up genitals, lollipops in the shape of a penis and the like. - With a catalog and order coupons. Hard-to-find!
48 pages. Songs include: Address Unknown; All or Nothing At All; Down in the Valley (Hear that Train Blow); Hollywood Cinderella; If Anything Happened to You; I'll Remember April; I Love You Much Too Much; Is That The Way to Treat a Sweetheart; It's Like Old Times; My Heart Isn't In It; Sleep, Come on and Take Me; Tangleweed 'Round My Heart; That's My Affair; Tico-Tico; Under Your Window; We Speak of You Often; You Don't Know What Love Is. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Black cloth spine and decorative paper covered boards show slight fading and edge wear. In card slipcase with woodblock print design. 4 5/8"w x 7 1/2"h. 203 pages. A collection of Japanese folk song lyrics (translated by Eric Sackheim) decorated with colored woodblock prints. Chapters are preceded by quotations from American blues songs.
Light wear to cover and creases on spine. Age-toned paper. 144 pages. Designed and illustrated with life sketches by Harry R. Bremner.
6 pages. Nice cover art of Richard Burton and Liz Taylor. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Sheet music
188pp. 19 cm. Paperback Good condition
