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Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The Wide World Magazine: The Magazine for Men - December 1929 - No. 380, Vol. 64. Uncommon British monthly magazine/journal. Several contributors, including Nemo, Frank Hives, Anton Hauptmann, Elliot Bailey, James Vance Marshall, John Gibbons, & several others. Cover story is "The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery", by "Nemo", & illustrated by Ernest Prater. This mystery is set in Western Australia. The introduction notes it's "the story of one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the Western Australian police". Numerous b&w illustrations & photographs throughout, plus many wonderful classic vintage advertisements. Includes b&w frontispiece. Great front cover artwork by W.C. Nicolson. Front & rear covers printed in colour. Printed & published in Great Britain. "The Wide World Magazine was a British monthly illustrated publication which ran from April 1898 to December 1965. The magazine was founded by well-known publisher George Newnes, also famous for Tit-Bits, The Strand Magazine, Country Life & others. It described itself as 'an illustrated magazine of true narrative' & each month purported to feature 'true-life' adventure & travel stories gathered from around the world. Its motto was 'Truth is stranger than fiction'. Some famous names occasionally wrote for the magazine, & it was copiously illustrated with photographs, as well as black & white drawings." Staplebound pictorial wraps. NOTE: A FAIR to GOOD COPY ONLY. Much handling wear, soiling & wear & creasing to covers & spine, covers almost detached, insect nibbling & staining & rubbing to rear cover, mild foxing, slight rippling to pages, staples rusting, otherwise a solid complete softcover copy. Internally VERY GOOD. 87-168pp + 32pp vintage advertisements. Uncommon. SB-29.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian, S.; Peddie, T.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Goss, G.W.; Prater, Ernest; Williams, Fleming; Bendall, C.; Sindall, A.W. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 87-168 plus 32 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Queer Side of Things - The Haunted Rest-House - an occult story from West Africa; In the Hands of the Bedouin - part I of Anton Hauptmann's story; Hitting the Iron Trial - part I of the author's train-hopping adventure from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York before he carried on to England; Update on the "Harpist of Alexandria", made famous in the July 1928 issue of this publication; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - part II; "Lo! The Poor Indian" - An amusing account of the ways and wiles of the Red men of British Columbia - with photos; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery - one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the West Australian Police; The Elephant-Slayer - an amusing story from Kenya colony in 1905-6; A Weighty Problem - young Captain Gillon and the vessel Saragossa; Piano Tuner Kenneth J. McCombie's Adventure; In a Hole - the author fell into a hole at a New Mexico gravel pit; "Wide World" Sequels; The "Fleet of the Lost" - great article about the old windjammers residing at Alameda, on the shores of San Francisco Bay - article with nice photos; Man and his Needs; House and Garden; Stamps of the World. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.