Halton, Matthew; Berton, Pierre; LeBourdais, D.M.; Buckler, Ernest; Porter, McKenzie; et alMareMagnum
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48 pages. Features: Cover illustration by W.A. Winter of happy evening horse-drawn sleighs; O'Keefe's ad inside front cover features Clare Shragge illustration of boy dreaming of becoming a flyer; The Quarrel - winner of the $1k first prize in Maclean's story contest; Will the Atlantic Pact Work?; The Amazing Career of George McCullagh; The Starling - Saint or Sinner?; Why They Won't Let You Have Television - Ottawa balks the CBC and the CBC balks private showmen; Full Circle Round Shahli's (fiction); What, No Opium Dens? - Vancouver's Chinatown (article with nice photos); Smallpox - a sleeping killer; Arrangements by Cable - Radio's Howard Cable; The Vindication of Suzanne Pas-de-Nom; Li'l Abner cartoon in Cream of Wheat ad; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad shows bulldozer plowing through smouldering dump - a scene younger viewers may not believe!; Back cover colour Coke ad shows cooler with industrial backdrop, encouraging workers to drink up; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: Hopper No. 47 - an adventure in Home waters which resulted in tragic events; Mra Toons 'Lemon' - an astute Oriental plans to get rich by smuggling opium into Burma; Chinchilla Ranching; South Sea Island Pests; Water-Divining in India; South American Excursion - a colourful motor-car trip in Venezuela; Out of the Past - recent alarming revelations as to the extent of drug addiction in the U.S. lend additional interest to this story, first published in 1936... it describes the perilous experience in which a particularly sinister form of 'dope' involved the narrator, Somers Paul; By Pony to Ladakh - a trip through a little-known region on the borders of Tibet, with nice photos; Prophecy Fulfilled - an interesting Indian story; Hunting the Bearded Wonder - a sinister terrorist leader, Liew Kon Kim, in the Malayan jungle; Photo of a Giant's Footprint (?) in South Africa; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
Features: Hopper No. 47 - tragic events in home waters; Mra Toons 'Lemon' - a former revenue officer's account of an encounter with an astute Oriental who planned to make a fortune by smuggling opium into Burma; Chinchilla Ranching; South Sea Island Pests; Water Divining in India, by S. Jepson; South American Excursion - a motor car journey into Venezuala; Out of the Past - Marijuana - reprint of a 1936 article which describes the perilous experiences in which a particularly sinister form of 'dope' involved the narrator, Somers Paul, in the United States; By Pony to Ladakh - a trip through a little know region on the borders of Tibet, with photos; Prophecy Fulfilled - an odd story from India; Hunting the "Bearded Wonder" - a sinister terrorist leader in the Malayan jungle; Giant's Footprint? - an amazing photo from South Africa; and more. Chipping to backstrip. Covers almost detached. Book
1758PHO-266In 12°, ix[3]-36 [ie369]pp Reliure de l'époque, plein veau marbré, dos fleuronné doré à nerfs, tranches rouges
a58955Geneva 1929 to 1934 League of Nations. Nine volumes. 4to. each volume approximately 100-300pp. each original wraps. Volume 14 is in two parts. Good to VG. Nine volumes. Pictures available on request. . paperback
182035187ABLeipzig, Richter, 1820. Gr. 8° (23 x 20 cm). 25, (1) S. kräftiges Papier, Dreikantgoldschnitt. Grüner Wachspapierumschlag der Zeit.
16 pages of text and descriptions of 63 full-page sepia-tone reproductions of photos. All text in German. Illustrated front board. Small prior owner's name atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Moderate age-related tanning to some pages. Moderate external wear. Original binding intact. A sound copy of this wonderful von Perckhammer compilation. Book
8578La Haye, Imprimerie Nationale, 1912 - Ministère des Affaires Etrangères. 1 volume in-4, 262-195 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir, couvertures imprimées conservées, enrichi de quelques planches photographiques, discrets tampons sur la page de titre, très bon exemplaire.
183962231Heidelberg: C. F. Winter. 1839. 4 Bll., 352 S. 8°. Moderner Halbleinenband (um 1960) mit goldgepr. Rückentitel..
Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Pages 114-224. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - part X; My Baby Leopard - R.H. Summers describes raising the cubs of a large leopardess he shot - with photos; The Peril of Seaman Diver Young - he spent five hours upside-down underwater while attempting to retrieve a torpedo for the H.M.S. Hood; My Cycle Ride to Khiva - part 3 of 3 of this excellent photo-illustrated recollection by Robert L. Jefferson; Our Baboon Hunt - South African farmer Mr. Charles Wisbey describes how he battled a serious pest - with photos; A Night to Remember - Edith and Leila become lost in a remote tiger-infested Indian jungle; The Jumping Procession at Echternach, Luxemburg - photo-illustrated article; A Masai Massacre - Missionary Rev. James Houghton and his wife are murdered in Central Africa; Through Pygmy Land - part II of a photo-illustrated account of Albert B. Lloyd and his trip; Entombed in a "Drive" - Australian Louis Anson is trapped deep underground; Venomous Snakes and Their Ways - photo-illustrated article, including Lieut.-Colonel N. Montgomery, who was killed by a Mamba in Zululand; Where Women Never Speak - photo-illustrated article on the Abbe Cestac in southwesst France; A Fight with Wolves on the Altar - Galician Stanislaus Bruhs is attacked by three large wolves in a church!; Dramatic photo of Judge Lynch and black man about to be lynched at Texarkansas; Photo of Persian being treated for opium addiction with milk and a twist; Photo of the Rosary Fete in the city gaol, Manila, Philippines; Photo-illustrated announcement of upcoming article on Charles Neufeld, a prisoner for 12 years in Omdurman; and more. Above-average wear. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Book
2091502135500441Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
189228464Gwalior India 1892-93 1892. Paper browning but generally sound; chips and tears at the edges and folds; in very good condition. All approximately 34.5 x 49.5 printed on the recto only in ten columns. Each column serves a different purpose: serial number; date; name of the trader; number of bags; destination; number of wooden crates; weight; taxes; signature of the recipient; and instructions for the tax collector. Documents permitting and taxing the movement of opium by the Government of Gwalior. The name of the trader on one of the documents has been identified as "Bhakim Chand Pijara." These documents were sold in a single lot at Superior Galleries Los Angeles January 16 2001 Session Two lot 847. The translation was done by an academic in New Delhi India for a librarian at Stanford University on behalf of the previous owner a private collector. <br/><br/> Gwalior, India, 1892-93 unknown books
41052503Group of 8 photo postcards color and black and white very clean most unused a few used as a group only. This is an excellent lot of eight period postcards most likely from about 1898-1920's. THE CARDS & THEIR CAPTIONS: a. No caption. Shows what looks like a Manchurian Princess in elaborate gowns sitting beside a Chinese man smoking opium large format 14.5 x 10.2 cm. black & white very good verso blank. . b. "N. AN OPIUM DEN SHANGHAI. "Verso shows publisher as Denniston & Sullivan Shanghai no. 2. b.w. shows two Chinese men sharing an opium pipe usual postcard size unused card. . c. "CHINESE OPIUM SMOKERS." Color card shows 5 Chinese men with queue hair style one smokes an opium pipe one other smokes a 'water pipe' a child looks on verso publisher states: "Published by the Turco-Egyptian tobacco store Hong Kong Queens Road Old Post Office Building else blank card unused. . d. "CHINESE OPIUM SMOKING." Black & white card shows 6 Chinese men with queue hair style one smokes an opium pipe one other smokes a 'water pipe' while others look on. Verso blank unused card. The color photo illustration occupies 2/3 of the card balance 1/3 to the right is blank. Front states: "Edward H. Mitchell publisher San Francisco." . e. "57 UNDERGROUND OPIUM DEN CHINATOWN SAN FRANCISCO CAL" Color card shows the dank dark basement type opium den common to the San Francisco area in the early 1898-1900's. Shows 4 Chinese men one with a long queue 3 smoke the opium pipe. Verso is blank but printed: "Authorized by act of Congress of May 19 1898. This could be close to that date. . f. "SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA UNDERGROUND OPIUM DEN CHINATOWN." This is similar to the above but a full-sized card color view. Front also states: "Published & Manif. by the Galloway Lithographing Co. S.F. Cal." Verso is blank unused. . g. "CHINESE OPIUM DEN 614 JACKSON STREET CHINATOWN SAN FRANCISCO THE CAT HAS BECOME ADDICTED TO THE FUMES OF THE DRUG." Color photo with 1905 dated ink message on the front cover also on the front is: " Britton & Rey Lithographers San Francisco 512." Verso is addressee postmark round dated and cancelled one-cent stamped with 1905 postmark. Shows a Chinese man with queue hair style smoking an opium pipe a cat sits on his body being held in place by the man's hand. . h. "OPIUM AND PIPE SMOKERS." Color card shows 6 Chinese with queue hair styles two smoke opium. Verso is with penned message dated 1910 round-dated stamp with half-penny stamp addressed to Jersey a UK island. CONDITION: All items in very good or better original condition. Please view the photo images posted to our web site if any questions. . unknown
18870016661887 Bruxelles, Weissenbruch, 1887-1889. Deux volumes in-quarto (190 X 277 mm) demi-basane fauve, dos cinq nerfs, pièces de titre et de tomaison rouge et verte (Reliure de l'époque). Tome I : 648 pages - Tome II : 775 pages.
1876000203Philadelphia: Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger 1876. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/None. Original green clothPressed front board with title and design. Spine decoartine gilt design with gilt lettering. Boards are mildly scuffed as is spine top and bottom. Corners slightly bumped. Previous owner's signature in pencil on fly leaf with some ink lines to end paper and same. Another owner' signature on the back end papers in ink.The text is clean tight and bright. Some tiny spots on pp 48 and 49. This is a classic civil war book describing the opium addiction of a former Union Army POW. It describes all of the effects of the drug as experienced by the author and the with drawal symptoms. This is a gem of a little book. Rare. <br/> <br/> Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger hardcover
P003067Berlin: Deutscher Zweig der Internationalen Frauenliga für Frieden und Freiheit 1929. Octavo 24 à 15.8 cm. Original pictorial wrappers; 74 4 pp. Wrappers worn chipped to corners; front wrapper re-attached; else internally good or better. Scarce proceedings of the first public conference held in Germany against opium and other drugs organized by the International League for Peace and Freedom following a visit of delegates to China in 1927. The conference featured an honorary committee staffed by numerous noted women's rights activists such as Helene Stöcker Lida Gustava Heymann Anita Augspurg and the French feminist Gabrielle Duchêne as well as figures such as Käthe Kollwitz Albert Einstein and the writer Ricarda Huch. Related events were organized in other German cities such as Munich Bremen and Hamburg. With numerous ads for other publications by the German branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. With a striking woodcut illustration to front wrapper typical for the period signed Brigitte Nagel or Hagel and the caption "Fort mit den Rauschgiften!" Away with the drugs!. We are unable to find any information on the artist. As of April 2020 KVK and OCLC show only one copy in North America. unknown books
11492Paris, Albert Messein, Editeur, 1921. 1 volume in-12, broché, couverture souple illustrée présentant quelques piqures, surtout sur le 4e plat, 66 pp., page de faux-titre jaunie, intérieur propre et frais, bon exemplaire. Tirage limité à 505 exemplaires. Celui-ci No 368 sur vélin d'Arches. Illustration de Binet sur la page de couverture.
1924178121Singapore.: J. E. Tyler Government Printer. 1924. 74 122 ix 324pp. Text divided into 3 parts. A. Part I. Includes a report list of attendances and minutes of the British Malaya Opium Committee. Material covered inlcudes many aspects of opium use eg origin consumption retail sale of prepared opium by the government registration of users the Chinese community in British Malaya and the anti-opium movement education as the means of eradicating the habit. The section concludes with a 24 point summary by the committee which sat on 23 occasions between November 1923 and February 1924. B. Part II consists of 77 appendices including opium statistics; statistics of consumers of prepared opium of opium shops dross returns and miscellaneous official and unofficial correspondence and memoranda relating to opium consumption. C. Part III deals in detail with the evidence given by witnesses before the committee and lists their names and occupations. Dark blue cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on the spine very lightly marked original blue wrappers bound in. A sound and clean copy of a fascinating and important report. Amongst the most peculiar aspects of British colonial rule of Malaya was the opium trade where in the late 19th and early 20th centuries revenue raised formed a major part of colonial government budgets Bailey & Truong 2001. In the early 1920s revenues derived from the government opium monopoly together with import duties on alcohol and tobacco were the three largest components of the colony's revenues of the Straits Settlement and remained as major sources of revenue until the end of the 1930s. By the beginning of the 20th century the problem of opium addiction in British Malaya particularly among the Chinese community had become a major concern. Under mounting pressure from the Chinese community leaders an Opium Commission was set up in 1907 to investigate the problem and this resulted in the abolition of opium tax farms in 1912 and the subsequent loss of a major source of revenue for the colonial government Turnbull 1989; Sugimoto 2002. In order to address this major loss of revenue the British colonial administration attempted to introduce income tax in the Straits Settlements.' Ern Chen Loo and Margaret McKerchar The Impact of British Colonial Rule on the Malaysian Income Tax System in eJournal of Tax Research 2014 vol. 12 No. 1. . J. E. Tyler Government Printer. hardcover
12961Paris, Société d'Editions Littéraires et Artistiques, Librairie Paul Ollendorf, 1921. 1 volume in-8, VI-274 pp., reliure ancienne demi-maroquin à coins, dos à 2 larges nerfs, légèrement insolé, plats cartonnés marbrés, couverture imprimée conservée, ouvrage illustré de dessins de Georges Jauneau, gravés sur bois par G. Lemoine, bel exemplaire. Première édition de luxe de "Fumée d'opium", limitée à trois cent vingt-deux exemplaires. Celui-ci, No 144, sur Vélin d'Arches.
15418Paris, Bureaux (Imprimerie Mersch, puis Ch. Noblet des numéros 2 à 5 ; Amiens, Imprimerie Nouvelle, N°6-7 ; Paris, A. Lamier et Fils N°8, 9, 10 ; Bordeaux, Gounouilhou), juillet 1887 à juillet 1888, en un volume in-8, broché ; (4) faux-titre et titre général, 472 pp., premier plat de couverture.
189515352Paris, Chamuel, 1895 ; in-12, broché ; 177 pp., (1 bl.), (2) pp. de catalogue, couverture crème rempliée, illustrée, imprimée en vieux-rose et noir, petites figures.
Features: Reasons Why the Canadian Pacific is So Prosperous; Spokane Rate Decision Eagerly Awaited; Value of Steel Equipment Demonstrated in Wreck of the Crack Milwaukee Train, Columbian on May 30th east of Ralston, WA; Continued Smuggling of Opium into West Coast Ports Aboard Trans-Pacific Steamships; Professional Biography of Joseph H. Young, President of Alaska Steamship Co. - with photo; Contracts Let for Coaling Plants in Seattle and Tacoma - article with two photos; $1 Million Available for Improvements at Moran Shipyards; Record Run Between Puget Sound and Callao by Schooner Wilbert L. Smith; After 20 Years on the Seattle-Tacoma Run, Steamer Flyer is Sold - Feature article with photo; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Photo of Steamer Tampico Submerged in Seattle Harbor; Photo of New Boilers for Steamer Charmer built by Commercial Boiler Works of Seattle; Effects of the Panama Canal on Pacific Coast - Oriental Trade; News of Tacoma; Launching of the Titanic - 1/3 page article including photo of the Titanic in drydock with man standing below her massive 100-ton rudder; Charming one-page illustrated ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West" which connected Seattle with San Francisco; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
12718Paris, Edouard-Joseph, MCMXX. 1 volume in-12 carré, 20 pp., broché, couverture rouge à rabats, excellent état.
186718178Paris, Librairie Centrale (J. Lemer, éditeur), 1867 ; in-16, bradel de vélin-parchemin rigide à recouvrement, titre manuscrit en caractères gothiques bleus, plats décorés d’un encadrement doré et rouge orné, dans les coins, d’une composition de fruits tenus par un ruban noué, dragon volant au centre du plat supérieur, d’après celui qui orne la couverture et la page de titre tête dorée, étui bordé (Levitzky) ; 36 pp. , couverture en papier sulfurisé simili parchemin, en rouge et noir, l’eau-forte serait de Delor en frontispice.
