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Wrappers 276 Pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 518 Pp. Red-Brown Cloth Lettered In White. First Printing, 1935. Slight Usage, No Marks Or Stains, Clean, Would Be Near Fine But White Spine Lettering Has Mostly Popped Out (Not Worn) With Embossed Lettering Very Strong. Published Inauspiciously In 1935, When Philosophy Was The Least Of People's Concerns.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Ernest W. Haslehust Ilustrador. A beautiful illustrated ten volume collection of works from the Our Beautiful Homeland Series. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings.These copies are undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held at the National Library of Scotland and the University of Birmingham Libraries.This is a eight-volume set of this charming early 20th-century travel series showcasing the historic towns, rural landscapes, and iconic landmarks of Britain.Each copy of Our Beautiful Homeland features 48 full-page colour plates of watercolours, painted by Ernest W. Haslehust, R.B.A.This set includes volumes exploring: Norwich: Shakespeare Land: The Peak District: The Dukeries, described by Walter Jerrold & R. Murray Gilchrist Exeter: Heart of Wessex: Dartmoor: Bath and Wells, described by Sidney Heath & Arthur L. Salmon Hereford: Chester: Oxford: Warwick & Leamington, described by Charles Edwards, F. D. How & George Morley Canterbury: Winchester: The Isle of Wight: Swanage, described by Edward Thomas, Sidney Heath & Canon Danks York: Ripon and Harrogate: The English Lakes: Scarborough, described by George Benson, A. G. Bradley & R. Murray Gilchrist The Thames: Windsor Castle: Hampton Court: Dickens Land, described by G. E. Mitton, Edward Thomas, Walter Jerrold & J. A. Nicklin Edinburgh: The Scott Country: The Shores of Fife: Loch Lomond: Loch Katrine & The Trossachs, described by John Geddie & George Eyre Todd The Heart of London: Through London"s Highways: In London"s By-Ways: Rambles in Greater London, described by Walter Jerrold In original publisher's cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight age toning to cloth, more so to spines, particularly "Norwich". The odd minor handling mark to boards. slight soiling to cloth. The odd hinge strained, but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound, aside from pages 13-16 in "Oxford", which are fully disbound. Pages bright and clean, if slightly age toned. The odd spot, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edge. Very Good. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. Prater, Ernest; Nicolson, W.C.; Sindall, A.W.; Cleaver, Reginald; Carruthers, C.P.; Holloway, Cyril; faulks, Jack; Wood, Stanley L.; May, J.A.; Abbey, S. Ilustrador. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Baptism of Fire - A young British Columbia Forest Service Ranger helps to save 100 people trapped in a logging camp from forest fire; Through Arctic Seas - Part II - Wonderful photos accompany this continuation of the cruise of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life; "Kruger's Millions" - ;A diagram is found which may lead to an enormous quantity of gold hidden by President Kruger after the Boer War; How We Fought the Famine - In East Africa Captain Anthony Parsons needed meat to trade to the Angonis for flour for his "boys"; Through Spain in Disguise - Part VI - Count and Countess Malmignati sing and dance their way across Spain disguised as Arab beggars; Photo of river gardens in Siam; The Adventures of a "Sand-Hog" - Photos of brutal subterranean conditions accompany this story of the men who dig tunnels and tubes beneath the Hudson River, between New York and Jersey City; The Thief Who Lost His "Luck" - A Chinese burglar lucks out; "Crawling Cavern" - Close call for Mark Howard in the spring of 1907 while on outpost duty on the coast of Mindanao; Across Central Africa from East to West - Part I - Major Frederick G. Jackson describes his 6,000 mile trans-African trek - with nice photos; The "Phantom Bandits" - In 1923 Joe Tanko and Floyd Hall escaped from San Quentin Prison and terrorized the countryside before they were finally subdued - includes facsimile of their wanted poster; The Mystery Man of Arnhem's Land - a man goes wrong so flees to the wilds, intent on earning enough to make restitution, but ends up in a lonely grave on the Australian coast; The Hakim - A doctor in Kenya includes fortune-telling in his treatment of disease. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Bits of peripheral nibbling, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. Sutcliffe, Norman; Lance; Sindall, A.W.; Holloway, Cyril; Prater, Ernest; Spence, Percy; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Inns, Kenneth; Seper, George Ilustrador. 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.