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Wraps. Condición: Fine. [Reprint Edition] Vol. IV, No. 3. Pulp-sized. Edited by Paul L. Payne. Cover art by Allen Anderson for "Queen of the Martian Catacombs" (novel) by Leigh Brackett. Includes "The Starbusters" (novelette) by Alfred Coppel; "Stalemate in Space" (novelette) by Charles L. Harness; "The Madcap Metalloids" by W. V. Athanas; "S.O.S. Aphrodite!" by Stanley Mullen; "Peril Orbit" by C. J. Wedlake; "Garden of Evil" by Margaret St. Clair. Features: 'The Vizagraph"; "Per Aspera ad Astra" by Tdcuain. Illustrated by McWilliams, Vestal, Evans and others. Slight handling wear. Magazine. …

Stapled. Condición: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A later pulp.Vol 6 #2. Stories include The Ark of Mars - a novel of distant worlds (Brackett); Bunzo Farewell - a star-flung novelet (De Vet); and short stories - The flight of the Eagle (Galaxan); Miss Tweedham's Elogarsn (Williams); The Un-reconstructed Woman (Howard); Preview of Peril (Coppel); Where Sex Met Space (Groves); & Death Star (McKimmey). Damp stain from the middle to the top of the fore edge. Rear cover mostly separated. Edge chips. Presents OK. An acceptable copy.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condición: Good-. Vol. 6, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Edited by Jack O'Sullivan. Cover art is uncredited (probably Freas). Includes "The Ark of Mars" (novel) by Leigh Brackett; "Bunzo Farewell" (novelet) by Charles V. de Vet; "The Flight of the Eagle" by Sol Galaxan [Alfred Coppel]; "Miss Tweedham's Elogarsn" by Robert Moore Williams; "The Un-Reconstructed Woman" by Hayden Howard; "Preview of Peril" by Alfred Coppel; "Where Sex Met Space" by J. W. Groves; "Death Star" by James McKimmey. Illustrated by Emsh, Freas, Wood, Houlihan, Eberle and others. Front cover was torn off and reglued (2x); tape on cover; creasing and small bit lost from hinge; dealer's marks. Book. …

hard cover. Condición: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood, hard cover book with no dust jacket, bumped edges, sm4to.

Magazine. 80p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, reviews, news, ads, cartoons, photos, lightly worn glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on Willie Carter Spann, President Jimmy Carter's imprisoned nephew at Vacaville. Powerful memoir by Leigh W. Rutledge on his father's death. Also Barry Mehler in Neo-Nazi Germany and Richard Whelan on Mapplethorpe.…

Condición: New.

Wraps. Condición: Good to Very Good-. Vol. IV, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Paul L. Payne. Cover art by Allen Anderson for "Queen of the Martian Catacombs" (novel) by Leigh Brackett. Includes "The Starbusters" (novelette) by Alfred Coppel; "Stalemate in Space" (novelette) by Charles L. Harness; "The Madcap Metalloids" by W. V. Athanas; "S.O.S. Aphrodite!" by Stanley Mullen; "Peril Orbit" by C. J. Wedlake; "Garden of Evil" by Margaret St. Clair. Features: 'The Vizagraph"; "Per Aspera ad Astra" by Tdcuain. Illustrated by McWilliams, Vestal, Evans and others. Cover glued on at hinge with perpendicular tape with short piece of tape on inside; creasing; tanning. Magazine. …

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Thus. Loose DISBOUND sheet music extracted from a previously bound collection. Marvellous cover graphics and a beautiful photograph on front cover, suitable for framing. Some light edgewear, former owners signature on cover, interior fine - music is clean and bright. Ellis and Walery (ilustrador).…

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the September 22, 1892 (Vol. IX No. 12) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Joseph Fitzgerald (J. [James] W. Sullivan served as Associate Editor) and published by The Humboldt Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 12-3/8" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial by Joseph Fitzgerald (on various subjects); column For Justice in the State (with topics: "Rapid Progress of Direct Legislation" and "Organized Labor and the Militia"); "Single-Taxists and the Interest Question" by Michael Flurscheim; "At [John Greenleaf] Whittier's Funeral" by Myron H. Goodwin; one-column "Another Martyr to Liberty" by Henry E. Allen (on Moses Harman); "Is Homestead Portentous of a General Class War?" by Associate Editor J. W. Sullivan ("II. The Story of Homestead"); Correspondence; column Politics and Economics (featuring article "Progress in the Topolobampo [Bay] Colony" by Rudolf Kobitzsch); columns In and Out of the Church and Our Weekly News-Letter; column Literature (reviews by C. L. James [Charles Leigh James]). A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers lightly soiled, particularly along edge areas; light cover wear; covers show four tiny edge or corner chips; closed tear along outer narrow spine fold; pages age-toned.…

Magazine. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the May 5, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 18) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Joseph Fitzgerald (J. [James] W. Sullivan served as Associate Editor) and published by The Humboldt Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial by Joseph Fitzgerald; lengthy poem "Sandro Gallotti" by "H.P." (from "Macmillan's Magazine"); "The Sunday-School 'Evil'" by William Jones (to be concluded in the next issue); "Bigotry" by Frederick W. Taylor; "Anarchism and Logic" by C. L. James [Charles Leigh James]; "Letters of a Stoic to His Friend"; "The Principles of Ethic - The Mystery of Good and Evil" (from the "Westminster Review"); column "Science and the Useful Arts" (science news); column "Politics and Economics"; column "Our Weekly News-Letter." A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers light to moderately soiled, particularly along edge areas; light to moderate wear; covers detached but present; pages age-toned.…

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the July 21, 1892 (Vol. IX No. 3) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Joseph Fitzgerald (J. [James] W. Sullivan served as Associate Editor) and published by The Humboldt Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 9" by 12-3/8" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial by Joseph Fitzgerald (on various subjects); column For Justice in the State: Notes and Points; "Diversions of Opinion" by Hudor Genone [William James Roe] ("The idea of the old theology is that in the port of heaven is a custom-house; that the collector is a very strict constructionist, and the tariff on most imports practically prohibitory"); "The Marriage Laws" by American anarchist C. L. James [Charles Leigh James]; "Morality in Womanhood" by Lydia B. Aldrich (in response to the July 7th article of the same name by Frederick W. Pangborn; she writes, "It is clearly evident that Nature knows absolutely nothing about 'morality' in regard to the physical making of two creatures of the same species"); Correspondence (including a letter from Clinton Loveridge); news and commentary columns Politics and Economics and Our Weekly News-Letter; freethinker column The Voice of Infidelity. A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers lightly soiled, particularly along edge areas; light to moderate cover wear; a few light cover creases; closed tear along outer narrow spine fold; pages age-toned.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 2nd printing ; ix, 310 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9780760739549, 0760739544 OCLC 54409153 ; brown abd maroon cloth in color illustrated dustjacket ; Visions of Ghost Armies introduces you to a side of war you might never have imagined possible. In more than one hundred true stories--reported by eyewitnesses and sometimes verified by the media--you will read eerie and haunting accounts of spirit soldiers and armies of the night who still fight battles decades to centuries after their wars have ended. ; "From the files of FATE magazine." ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Rare and delightful little book. Staples rusting but contents clean and unmarked.

Magazine. 93, [7]p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with b&w & color full-frontal physique photos as well as entertainers and performers, wraps lightly worn, else very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Profile of singer Carol Sloane. Charles Harmon Cagle on Walt Whitman. Travel: Malta.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 3rd. 5.5"x7.63"x1". 498 pages. Beautiful Navy cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. 11th impression. Preface to Third Edition. Preface to Second Edition. Contents for XVIII chapters. Appendix - Tables. Index. Answers. Very exquisite. Chapter I - The Three Simple Stresses. Chapter II - Welded and Riveted Joints. Chapter III - Mechanical Properties of Materials. Chapter IV - Resultant and Equilibrant of Forces. Chapter V - Parallel Forces and Moments. Chapter VI - Static and Kinetic Friction. Chapter VII - Concurrent, Nonoplanar Forces. Chapter VIII - Noncurrent, Noncoplanar Forces. …

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. GD+ Moderate edgewear and creasing, otherwise a solid and square copy.

Gebunden. Condición: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. 4th Printing. A solid spine with very light edge rubbings.The dustjacket has light edge rubbings. Stories .

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. X, 405 Pp. Red Brown Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. An Extended Discussion Of General And Specifically 1947 Issues In Franker Language Than Modern Readers Expect. Book Near Fine, Small Bump To Lower Front Tip, Small Bookseller's Ticket On Front Pastedown, Small Usc Political Science Researcher's Name On Rear Pastedown. Dj Lightly Used, Not Price Clipped, Label Removal Scar In Parts Of Area 1/2" X 1" At Top Of Spine, 1/2" Tear At Top Of Front Panel, A Few Minute Losses.…

Size: Folio. Half leather (rubbed, backstrip missing).

Condición: New. Print on Demand pp. 100.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. A smart three volume set of humorous nineteenth century works, illustrated throughout. A three volume set. In the publisher's original green cloth bindings. Including: (1869) Artemus Ward's Lecture (As Delivered at the Egyptian Hall, London.) The first edition. A work by Charles Farra Browne, an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward. Ward was the character of an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense". Edited by T.W. Robinson and E.P. Hingston. With a frontispiece, and 34 plates. (1869) Carols of Cockayne. An early edition. By Henry S. Leigh,an English writer and playwright. The volume contains a collection of humorous verse and satire. With in text illustrations by Alfred Concanen and John Leech. [1870] Gamosagammon; or, Hints on Hymen. For the use of parties about to connubialize. The first edition. By the Hon. Hugh Rowley. With in text illustrations throughout by the author. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Fading to spines, with bumping to the heads and tails. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste downs. Odd small mark to boards. Binder's label to rear paste down of 'Carols of Cockayne'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting and age toning to the front and rear. Very Good. Not Stated (ilustrador). book.…

Leather Binding. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Essays on Oxford, Christ's hospital, witches, beggars etc. Also includes The Indicator, and Bligh's narrative of the Mutiny of the Bounty. Leather rubbed to extremities, and some rubbing to marbled boards. Spine a little frayed to top edge and missing title label. Some foxing to rear pages. 8vo.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Paymaster's Dillemma - A story of American Army life in Manila; The "Place of the Evil Spirit" - The history of Strathcona National Park on Vancouver Island, with photos; The Blind Seer - A curious story of native "magic" in Egypt showing how a blind "wizard" undertook to discover a thief; Fighting the Dingo - The greatest menace to the prosperity of Australian sheep-farmers - with intersting photos; The Saving of Montague Smith - A West African, condemned to death, evades the death-penalty and turns his 'execution' into a roaring farce; On Patrol in Cannibal Papua - interesting leaves from the log of a Patrol Officer in primitive Papua - with fascinating photos; "Poppy" - A strange story from the wild Bushveld country of South Africa; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part III - Jack McLaren spent years settling on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula; At the End of a Rope - A tale from the oilfields of Venezuela; Two Men on a Raft - Two railroad workers try to navigate a swift stream in the Canadian Rockies on a raft; What Happened to Murphy - A young officer of the Burma Military Police sets out to find a Chinese gambling den in the jungle; Schearer's Man-Hunt - A vivid story about the dogged devotion to duty of a young "Wild Cat" (i.e. Pennsylvania State Policeman); In the Shadow of the Gallows - A timber-cruiser for the Conrad Martin Timber and Exporting Company, of San Francisco, wakes up to find his bed-fellow lying dead, stabbed in the heart with his knife; Some African Snake Stories - Patrick Bowen has been an explorer and hunter in Africa for thirty years. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Leigh, Conrad; Inns, Kenneth; Sutcliffe, Norman; Gillett, F.; Forestier, A.; Peddie, Tom; De Walton, John; Carruthers, G.P.; Board, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Cowes, Dudley S.; Carruthers, G.P.; Dewar, W. (ilustrador). …

Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition. 156 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Duraglas inside front cover; Nice color-photo 1-page ad for Elgin watches features opera star Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett; Sexy 1-page color-illustrated ad for Palmolive soap features amorous couple; Can the Army and Navy Get Together? - photo illustrated article - Secretary of Defense James Forrestal replies to criticism of the way unification of our armed services has - or has not - worked out; Fabulous Iron Ore Strike in Labrador - photo-illustrated article describes what may be the mining find of the century; The Haunted Meadow (fiction); What You Don't Know About Thanksgiving; The Unwelcome Neighbor (fiction); How We Caught Spies in World War II - part 1 of a photo-illustrated article by Stephen J. Spingarn, former commanding officer of the American 5th Army's Counter Intelligence Corps tells the real story of what spy catching was like; The Gay Deceiver of Georgia Tech - Bobby Dodd has made a name for himself as a teacher of football make-believe - article with photos; He Is My Friend - Southern White Boy Hodding Carter describes his friendship with Negro boy Son McKnight - article with photo; Man Trap (fiction); Allah's Oil - World's Richest Prize - conclusion of fascinating photo-illustrated article on Middle Eastern Oil over 60 years ago; First Quarrel (fiction); Everybody Gets In the Act - color-photo illustrated article on the John B. Rogers Company, of Fostoria, Ohio, the country's most prolific producer of amateur shows; Murder for Millions (fiction); 1-page color ad for 1949 Ford cars; Dishonored (fiction); 1-page color-photo Goodyear ad features Norma Halverson of Salt Lake City and Emile Schurmacher of N. Salem, NY; I Might Have Married Him (fiction); Nice 1-page color ad for RCA Victor radios; Nice 2-page Buick ad; Nice 1-page color ad for Mobiloil Arctic; 1-page ad for Martin Aircraft features the 202 Airliner; 1-page Plymoth ad; 1-page ad for the Underwood All Electric Typewriter; Vitalis half-page ad features illustration of Nat Holman; Nice photo-illustrated 1-page ad for radio stations of the ABC network features photos of Milton Berle, Gordon MacRae, Meredith Willson, Arlene Francis, John K.M. McCaffrey, Kay Kyser, Ted Mack, Jo Stafford, Johnny Olsen and Dr. Frank Black; 1-page illustrated ad for General Electric washing machines; 1-page Brunswick bowling ball ad features illustrations of Joe Norris, Ned Day, Catherine Fellmeth and Andy Varipapa; Nice 1-page color ad for 1949 Kaiser cars features a red convertible; 1-page 2-color ad for the new 1949 Remington De Luxe Portable Typewriter; Super 2-page Bord-Warner presents their company accomplishments in Ripley's Believe It or Not format; Very colorful and handsome 2-page Cadillac ad features a large illustration of their new engine and the front end of a red car; Photo portrait of Harry A. Bullis of General Mills in Northwestern Mutual ad; Nice color-photo 1-page Christmas ad for Zenith radios; 1-page ad for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE); Nice 1-page ad for Cory appliances; 1-page color ad for Cutler-Hammer motor controls; Very attractive 1-page color-photo recruiting ad for the U.S. Air Force features young man in flying gear with illustration of jets overhead; Nice 1-page color ad for Corning Glass features woman holding multi-coloured Pyrex cookware; 1-page color ad for the Great Lakes Steel Corporation promotes their Quonset Huts; Nice 1-page color ad for De Beers diamonds features reprint of "Honeymoon at Sea Island, GA" by Andre Girard; Very nice one-page color-illustrated ad for Bell & Howell movie cameras; Nice 1-page color ad for Gibson electric refrigerators features two young ladies scantily clad in Eskimo clothing; 1-page color ad for Sheaffer's pens; Nostalgic half-page color ad for Dow Plastics Styron with illustrations of many vintage toys; Nice half-page color ad for Hi Ho Crackers; Nice 1-page 2-color Kleenex ad featuring Little Lulu; Nice 1-page color ad for Coolerator fridges and freezers; Photo; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Shalett Sidney Leslie Roberts Roger Butterfield Milton Lehman Fred Russell Hodding Carter David Dempsey Dan Herr Virginia Bennett Linton Nancy Rutledge Martha Albrand Sheik of Bahrein Bahrain King Ibn Saud Filmo Duraglas inside front cover; Nice color-p. Illustrated by Alajalov, Constantin (cover); Whitcomb, Jon; Burns, George;Grohe, Glenn; Griffin, Arthur; Sewell, Amos; Nonnast, Paul; Fleischmann,Glen; Briggs, Austin; Prins, Kimberly; Williamson James; Meisel, Ulric;Girard, Andre (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Pages 90-176 plus 18 pages of ads. Features: Where Cannibals Roam - Part I - Merlin Moore Taylor's adventures into the unknown interior of Papua (article with great photos); "Twisted" Harmon - an RCMP officer spends five years and travels thousands of miles to catch an escaped murderer hiding in the protection of the German Secret Service; Life in a Logging Camp - sensational photo-illustrated article on the Abernethy Lougheed Logging Company's operation in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; "Trawler Tidd" - a cat that went to sea; An Artist on a Tropic Isle - the adventures of Ellis Silas as he painted in the Trobriands group of islands north of New Guinea; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part 3 of 3 - the author's adventures as he penetrated deep into Amazonia, with photos (including shrunken head); Feedback on a recent article on the K.K.K.; Chasing the Pulajans - religious fanatics who gave the US authorities in the Philippines untold trouble; To the "End of the World" and Beyond - Captain Gault Macgowan, F.R.G.S. and his wife set out on an eventful journey in the Western Himalayas; Photo of large hawser (3" dia. rope) made of human hair at Kyoto's Higashi-Honganji Temple; The Fatal Slip; One Up on "Homie"; The Taming of the Sheriff - a ranch story from Death Valley, California; Down the Shaft - a West Australian miner's story of a terrible experience at the bottom of a six-hundred foot shaft; Five Hundred Miles in Open Boats - an arduous and eventful arctic journey recounted by retired Mountie, Sergeant-Major C.N.C.Hayter; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. de Walton, John; Carruthers, G.; Prater, E.; Wood, S.; Leigh, C.; Lane, H.; Evans, T.; Abbey, S.; Robinson, T.; Soper, G. (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Crowsnest Holdup - a spectacular hold-up on the Canadian Pacific Railway and the tragic manhunt that followed; The Fire-Walkers of Fiji - a mystery that has never been solved - great photo-illustrated article; Roaming the Wild South Seas (part I) - Jack McLaren relates some of his strange and exciting experiences there; Hunting Bighorn Sheep in Mexico - a most exciting shooting trip in the wild Cocopah Mountains of Mexico - fantastic photo-illustrated article; Alone Across the Atlantic - Mr. Alain J. Gerbault sailed alone from Gibraltar to New York in 142 days; The Road to Timbuctoo (part III) - readers who enjoyed 'Three Asses in the Pyrenees" will find this narrative even more amusing; How "Mac" Won His Wife - a New Zealander abducts and marries a beautiful girl - with revengeful natives in pursuit; In Search of Sea-Monsters (part V) - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out in 1921 on an expedition to the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and caught multiple world-record-sized fish - article with photos; Zulliver's Travels - an ill-fated auto trip to California; Snapshots in China - great photos; Unknown Peru (part IV) - travel and adventure in the Andes - article with photos; Anstruther Gets a Job - an unemployed engineer in South Africa meets the promoter of a mine; The Two Strangers - an interesting sequel to "A Bunch of Keys" which appeared in the December 1923 issue; Great one-page illustrated General Electric locomotive ad speaks of the Mexican Railway between Orizaba and Esperanza where 10 electric locomotives will replace 25 steam locomotives; and more. Covers loose as one but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Leigh, Conrad; Cameron, John; Robinson, T.H.; Davis, G.H.; Gillett, Frank; Soper, G.; York, W.G.; Crombie, Charles; Holloway, C.; Hiley, F.E.; Lloyd, Stanley (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Pages 353-440 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: What Happened to Mary Clark near Indianapolis - her car was hit by a train and she ended up on the front of the train which thundered on through the night!; The Haunted Bungalow - extraordinary story from South Africa; A Thousand Miles From Anywhere - Reverend Martyn Rogers and his family spent three years on the island of Tristan da Cunha - where mail came only once per year!; The Living Death - an eccentric chemist marries an Aztec girl in the hope of discovering the secrets of ancient Aztec dyes; Sands of Destruction - the fierce Atlantic is destroying the coast of Donegal in the north-west of Ireland - article with graphic photos; How I Lost My Job - the author worked as a teamster in British Columbia, until he lost a wagonload of explosives near Burns Lake; Two Years in Borneo - part 3 - the exciting outbreak at the Lubuk Estate; Trial by Ordeal in Africa; A Woman in Unknown Morocco - Fay Sutton's photo-illustrated narrative; Where Cannibals Roam - part 4 of 4 of this photo-illustrated article on a trip to the interior of Papua; The Stolen Telluride - A West Australian gold-miner's story; A Double Event - members of the South African Constabulary gets involved with horse racing; The Montreal Hold-Up - Canada's most daring armoured car robbery in broad daylight; The Downfall of "The Colonel" - a very clever American crook; Anderson's Pole-Cat - an exhausted British Columbia prospector stumbles upon a fortune in a trackless wilderness. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Nicolson, W.C. (cover);Davis, G.H.; Leigh, Conrad; Lloyd, Stanley; Wood, Stanley L.; Holloway, Cyril; Sindell, A.; Soper, G.; De Walton, John; Wightman, W.E.; Gillett, F.; Wood, Stanley L.; Peddie, Tom (ilustrador). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Luck of the 'Moro' - a vessel which possessed an uncanny knack of getting in and out of trouble; Photo of Harry Houdini in a strait jacket hanging from the twenty-story Oakland Tribune building; Old Man Crag - a New Zealand tale of a stolen map to a gold mine; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - the author penetrates deep into Amazonia - with photos, including photo of a floating island (part 1); Eskimo Wireless - a strange story from the Far North of Canada; The Ivory Raiders - paints a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the ivory-raiders and their fierce satellites in Turkanaland, a wild district of Central Africa bordering on the western shores of Lake Rudolf - includes photos; A Woman Travels Across Arizona's Painted Desert - article with great photos; Zaman's Paradise - a story from India; The Resurrection of Klaas - the story of a Kaffir's miraculous escape from what seemed a certain and horrible death; New Zealand Sea Fishing - with photos of huge fish; From the Great Craters of the Congo Game-Lands - with gorilla photos (part 1); The Puzzle of Martenelle - it took 24 years to prove a death was not a suicide; A Missionary on the 'Mosquito Coast' - Rev. L. Taylor recalls tales from nine years spent as a Moravian missionary in Nicaragua - with photos; An Amazing Escape - Creswick escapes in South Africa; Full-page ad for a most unique General Electric electric truck for hauling utility poles. Above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. York, W.G.; Carruthers, G.P.; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; De Walton, John; Woodville, R. Caton; Holloway, W.H.; Goss, G.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Holmes, Fred; Waye, E.S. (ilustrador).…

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1868 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 106 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 106 Language: English.…