R l carruthers (41 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. Hardcover and dust jacket in excellent, unmarked, near-pristine condition (slightest handling, page slightly age-yellowed). 110 pages, with photographs and illustrations. [11oz]. Book.

Condición: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Arco, NY, c.1973, 8vo., cloth, 110pp.+ color photos., VG/VG.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Ships Out Tomorrow.

hardcover. Condición: Good. ***GOOD CONDITION***CLEAN PAGES*** [Ex-library: call number, 2 stamps, 2 stickers.] Ex-library Dust Jacket glue inside covers. Light edge wear to cover. Moderate cover wear. No dust jacket. Age spoting iside covers. We specialize in non-fiction books. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.…

Condición: Good. *FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING until Mnoday, Oct. 19* 126 pp., paperback, ex library, else text and binding clean and tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1973 Arco Pub. Pages all clean and unmarked red cloth hardcover clean and strong dust jacket clean and bright.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 122 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.31 inches. In Stock.

110 pp., index, appendices, ill. with excellent color photos and line drawings. a very useful comprehensive work on the genus. very good copy in d.j.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Publisher: Arco Publishing Company, Inc., 1973, Good, HB, ISBN: 0-668-02966-8. Book.

Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Second Edition. 175pp + 4 fold out charts in rear pocket still in original folds. Still well bound within useage stained cover with owner's details (1926) in top corner. Interior in nice clean condition including one large and 5 small fold out maps (in original folds) & 2 plates. One page has a small corner of margin torn off.…

Condición: New. In English.

Condición: New. pp. 267.

Condición: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 267 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. 146pp + 4 fold out charts in rear pocket still in original folds. Some looseness at hinges but still well bound within useage stained cover. Interior generally in nice clean condition including one large and 5 small fold out maps (in original folds). One page has a small corner of margin torn off.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. 110pp + 6 fold out charts in rear pocket still in original folds. Some looseness at rear internal hinge but still well bound within useage stained cover. Interior in nice clean condition including both fold out maps.

Condición: New.

Gebunden. Condición: New.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Car No. 13 - A routine train trip enmeshes F. A. Malcomson aboard Car No. 13 of the "Californian Limited" at Los Angeles; My Mad Mate - The reason why young Harry Neild's hair was white; Among the Amazons - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of the Wai-woi, a little-known tribe of Indians; My Buffalo - How a hunter's first shoot was nearly his last in the Himalayan foothills northeast of Ghaggar; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - Part I - Jottings from a recently emigrated young farmer who took the plunge and began farming ; The Mozampur Dacoity - A curious robbery in India; Behind the Himalayas - Part II of II - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of an exploration to the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Cannon Idol of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies; A Duck-Shooting Adventure - Using ice-scooters to hunt ducks on the Great South Bay of Long Island; The Black Hand - A recent adventure in Kuling, China, which is currently experiencing a wave of serious brazen crime; Two Girls in a Typhoon - The trying experience of two young ladies aboard a tramp steamer from Hong Kong to British North Borneo; A Matter of Promotion - The story of a long, hard chase , in the depths of winter, of two half-breed outlaws by a constable of the Royal North-West Mounted Police at Saddle Lake, Saskatchewan; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - Part I - The exciting adventures of the Countess Malmignati, the first European woman to penetrate the little-known Inner Deserts of Arabia - this part describing her time in Damascus before the journey - with photos; Letters; The Phantom Tiger - Jean M.F. Dubois, a former planter in Lokop Province, Sumatra, explains what happened when he pursued a tiger which had caused a local reign of terror - with photo. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Average wear and soiling to back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Abbey, S.; Bird, L. Pern; Prater, Ernest; Gillett, F.; Sindall, A.; Carruthers, G.P.; Holloway, Cyril; Potts, Leonard; Soper, G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, Ernest (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Sutcliffe, Norman; Goss, G.W.; gale, W.G.; Sindall, A.W.; Moorsom, F.G.; tresilian, S.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Carruthers, G.P.; Saunderson, E.J.; Prater, Ernest; Cleaver, Reginald (ilustrador).…

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). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, March (Mar.) 1928, Vol. LX, No. 359 - Slave-Raiding Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police offi. Illustrated by Prater, Ernest; Carruthers, G.P.; Hiley, F.E.; Holloway,Cyril; Wigfull, W.E.; Briault, S.; Gale, W.G.; Goss, G.W.; Tresilian, S.;Potts, Leonard; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, H.M. (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Soper, G., Nicolson, W.C.; Holloway, W.H.; Hodgson, E.S.; Webb, Arch; Carruthers, G.P.; Prater, E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Valda, J.H. (ilustrador).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. First Edition. Pages 178-264 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Mystery of Ayers Valley - Miss Dorothy Belle Ayers receives an unexpected inheritance which leads to deadly peril; The Smuggled Diamonds - a perplexing mystery in Brazil; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-out Canoe - the experiences of a missionary-explorer during a trip down a little-known river in Brazil, visiting strange Indian tribes - with excellent photos; The Motor Thieves - a remarkable case of stolen vehicle recovery in southern California - with photos; A Woman in Albania - part 4 - Mrs. Lane's adventures among the remote northern mountains; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 7 of the continuing adventures of a husband and wife with their donkey; Our Trip to the Bird Islands - John Hogg's perilous journey - with many wonderful photos; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - Idelle Meng's 11 months on a deserted group of uninhabited atolls - with photo; Among New Guinea Cannibals - interesting experiences of H.C. Pratt - with photos; The Wonders of Cuba - article with nice vintage photos; Up in the Air - a ballooning story; The Ghost of Fort Severn - the story of an apparition that haunted a Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) post in the Canadian north. Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Faint pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, H.M.; Carruthers, G.P.; Woodville, R. Caton; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, F.E.; Sherie, E.F. (ilustrador).…