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Light Green Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. Very clean and tight textblock with minimal edge wear and a lightly sunned spine. 35p. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. B&W Photographs (ilustrador). Paperback.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1st. overseas or priority orders may have to be folded for shipment; stapled wraps; 120 clean, unmarked pages; includes items by/about: Life Goes to Mackay Day and the Uiniversity of Nevada; Old Gothic architecture in America; Katharine Hepburn Returns to Hartford in New comedy; Barse Mill Paints US Soldiers; David Freeman Unbeatable in Badmiton; George Sessions Perry (Flying Cdet James "jim" McIlyar; Photo Essay (Hawaii at was); Cecil Brown (How Japan Wages War); Melvill Jacoby Death; War on Inflation; Sargeant York; etc . slight tingr of marginal stain. Muriel Stanhope, US Fighter Pilot's Wife on cover; b/w Photos Throughout (ilustrador).…

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 208 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.52 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good +. 708pp. Figures and diagrams in text. Blue cloth w goldstamp logo and lettering to cover and spine. Bumping to bottom corners. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Reprint of 1898 edition. The first ed. has title: Seamanship. Rear Admiral Stephen Bleecker Luce (1827-1917) was founder of the US Naval War College. Seabury, S. (ilustrador). …

hardcover. Condición: Good. 4th Edition. A used book with light to moderate shelf wear to blue cloth boards. No dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front end page. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Africa's Mystery Beasts - Remarkable stories concerning what may be the progeny of prehistoric monsters, several of which appear to be formidable opponents for any hunter; Through the Heart of Afghanistan - Part I - Emil Trinkler had exceptional opportunities for travelling in untrodden regions, with photos; The Dancing Dead - A veteran gold-seeker's account of a weird and terrifying experience that befell a party of prospectors in New Guinea, with photo of witch-doctor; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part II; "King Kauri" - The Kauri tree is to New Zealand what the oak is to England - article with photos; The Two Sheriffs - A strange murder situation is encountered by a veteran cow-puncher in the wilds of Montana; My Wild Boar - A newcomer to India is warned not to shoot wild pig; "Next Time" - An amusing story from the Yukon country; Lachmee's Vow - A tiger tale from Hindustan; The Sacred White Crow of Yaunghwe - brief article with two photos; The Great Boulder Murder Case - The story of one of the most remarkable murder mysteries in the annals of Australia, with photo and map; Photo of salt prospecting in Cheshire; "Bushman's Luck" - A remarkable story from New Zealand; Out of the Deep - The strange story of a famous schooner that sank off Sable Island, the "graveyard of the Atlantic," to reappear in most dramatic circumstances; Sequel to the "Lost Cabin" Mine Mystery - New information regarding this story which appeared in the September, 1920 issue; Trailing the Beaver-Poachers - Game law enforcer Frank Mossman relates some of his experiences with illegal trappers in the North-west, who often do not hesitate to shoot - with photos; "Baldy Red's" Come-Back - A bootlegger smuggles illicit whisky into the forbidden Northland of Canada. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Lower half of backstrip missing. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Peddie, T.H.; Inns, Kenneth; Gale, W.J.; Wightman, W.E.; Goss, G.W.; Tresilian, S.; Soper, George; De Walton, John; Wigfull, W.E.; Thompson, Kenneth (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Dead Men's Tracks - Part I - A story from Western Australia about a lost mine; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part II - How the first white woman in history succeeded in entering Lhasa, the mysterious Forbidden City of Tibet; Stumbling Pete (Peter Dawson) - a tale of two trappers on the northern coast of British Columbia; Down the World's Most Dangerous River - A thrilling 750 mile boat voyage down the Colorado River, with photos; Muskrat Farming in Canada - One of the latest industries to be established in Canada - breeding muskrats for their pelts on a commercial scale; Marooned in the Swamps - A veteran hunter is abandoned in the heart of Africa; Murder will Out - How R.N.W.M.P. Constable Pennecuick searched for three missing travellers - one of the most remarkable cases in the annals of the famous Mounted Police of Canada, with photos; The Gorilla of Ubangui - A trip to French Congo in search of a huge gorilla; The Promotion of Constable Sidi, a Nigerian Policeman; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part III - The continued adventures of two city-bred sisters who took up homesteading in South Dakota. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Robinson, T.H.; Tresilian, S.; Leigh, Conrad; Prater, Ernest; De Walton, John; Wightman, W.E.; Tresilian, S.; Sindall, A.W.; Brock, R.H. (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. 84 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: An Elephant-Hunt in Canada - a six-week hunt results when seven valuable elephants escaped from a circus and took to the British Columbia woods - article with photos; A Fugitive in Thirstland - A former German officer who became a adventurer is South Africa is continually chased by the police; Trekking in Unknown Abyssinia - great photo-illustrated article; The Friendly Mosquito - how a mosquito saved the life of T.A. Shields; Our Salvage Job - a plucky attempt to salvage the crippled vessel Stiklestadt; The Decree of the Wild - a grim tale of the Canadian Far North, 1,200 miles north of Edmonton; "The White Man's Great War-Game" (part III) - amongst the savages of the Sura, Angas, and other primitive tribes of Northern Nigeria, Geoffrey Barkas produced a film founded upon the history of British Administration - article with great photos; Gulbaz Khan's Revenge - the story of a long-delayed vengeance for a trifling action that had far-reaching consequences; Where Everybody Plays "Cat's Cradle" - photo-illustrated article on the people of the Pelews (Pelew Islands); Fur-Getting in Australia - Australian men make a good living hunting rabbits and foxes for their furs; The Partnership That Went Wrong - four U.S. Army soldiers pool their savings to run a sawmill; What Happened to Wilson - struggle for life with an enraged tiger in the heart of a big city; Through France with "Sylvabelle" (part II) - Mr. Leslie Richardson's yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, Ernest;; Piffard, H.; Wigfull, W.E.; Vedder, S.H.; Sindall, A.; Goss, G.W.; Soper, G. (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Bill Carlisle, Train Robber - An account of the amazing exploits of a man described as "the last of the train-robbers", who would notify officials when he was about to rob a train!; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part I - A thrilling account of adventures on a remote Dutch East Indies island in pursuit of prehistoric flesh-eating lizards (the Komodo dragon) - with photos; The City of Golden Geese - A lively photo-illustrated account of the foie gras industry in the old city of Strasburg in Alsace; Mungoro Meets His Match - A Rhodesian tale; The End of the Chase - A hunt for a monstrous elephant near Lake Nyasa; Photo of a Kentish stilt-walker in field of hops; The Man in No. 35 - How a British officer discovered, in a Russian prison, Julius Weinberg, a Jewish banker who had actually handed Lenin and his accomplices ten million marks from the German Government in order to finance the Bolshevik revolution that destroyed Russia as a fighting force - the little man knew too much, and paid with his life for his refusal to surrender the incriminating receipts; Cycling Round the World - Part II - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years riding over 20,00 miles! - with photos; The bachelor Homesteaders of British Columbia - A breezy photo-illustrated account of the adventures and hardships of this cheery, happy-go-lucky class of men; The Girl Stowaway of the Cecilie - Part II - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; A Ride in the Night - An officer of the King's African Rifles falls ill on the Abyssinian frontier of Kenya Colony; The Chief's Gift - A tale from a New Zealand sheep farmer; Teddy Murphy's Close Call - A child disappears into a well in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, November 1928, Komodo, Butirski, Caucasus British Military Agency, Cheka, Tcheka, Butirski Prison, Julius Weinberg, Trotsky, Djerjinski, Bolshevik Financier, Bill Carlisle - Train Robber, Bill Carlisle, train robbers, In Quest of the. Illustrated by Sutcliffe, Norman; Lance; Sindall, A.W.; Holloway, Cyril;Prater, Ernest; Spence, Percy; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Inns,Kenneth; Seper, George (ilustrador).…

No Binding. Condición: As New. Limited Edition. Art objects collection. Plastic box and fitted lid, 15 x 11 x 4 1/2 inches. Limited to 100 copies. Containing eight works on paper, one floppy disk, 17 multiples, nine artist's publications, 15 printed leaves, one collage, one subscription card, one CD, one photograph, one slide transparency and one poster. AS NEW. Undisturbed in original packaging. With original cardboard shipping box. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.…

Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Half blue grained morocco over blue beveled boards. Occasional signs of usage. Gilt particulars to spine. Marbled endpapers; five raised bands. C.P. Hall to foot of spine. Smyth sewn with covers nicely tabbed in. Retains all ads. Contains nice foldout map of California. Wear to spine (see image). Nice clean copy. Please expect possible extra postage as this is a heavy book. 11.25 x 14 in. Petruccelli, Allen Saalburg, Fred Chance, S.W. Crane, Joseph Binder (ilustrador).…

Softcover. Condición: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 66 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1856. Text in English. This logbook documents two voyages of the Hopeton, a schooner and later a brig, from Sippican. The first voyage, from 7 December 1856 to 1 May 1857, was non-whaling and mastered by S.W. Luce, with Seth Crowell as keeper. The second voyage, from 17 June 1857 to 25 January 1859, was a whaling expedition in the North Atlantic, mastered and kept by Obed Delano. The log provides detailed accounts of maritime activities during these periods. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…