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Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer (Paperback))
Deitel, Paul J; Deitel PH.D., Harvey M; Deitel, Abbey; Morgano, Michael
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Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer (Paperback))
Deitel, Paul J,Deitel PH.D., Harvey M,Deitel, Abbey,Morgano, Michael
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Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer (Paperback))
Paul J Deitel; Harvey M Deitel PH.D.; Abbey Deitel; Michael Morgano
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CANADIAN WOMEN WRITING FICTION
Pearlman, Mickey (editor) (Georgeann Murphy; Diane Simmons; Marilyn C. Wesley; Roberta White; Martha M. Vertreace; Margaret K. Schramm; Katherine K. Gottschalk; Virginia Tiger; Abbey H. P. Werlock; Heather Zwicker)
Language: English
Published by University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, 1993
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (vi) 177 pp. Black cloth lettered in red on the spine; red endpapers. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction by Mickey Pearlman; The Art of Alice Munro: Memory Identity and the Aesthet…ics of Connection by Georgeann Murphy; Remittance Men: Exile and Identity in the Short Stories of Mavis Gallant by Diane Simmons; Anne Hebert: The Tragic Melodramas by Marilyn C. Wesley; Margaret Atwood: Reflections in a Convex Mirror by Roberta White; Ties That Bind in Marie-Claire Blais's Deaf to the City by Martha M. Vertreace; Identity and Family in the Novels of Janette Turner Hospital by Margaret K. Schramm; Isabel Huggan and Jane Urquhart: Feminie in This by Katherine K. Gottschalk; The I as Sight and Site: Memory and Space in Audrey Thomas's Fiction by Virginia Tiger; Canadian Identity and Women's Voices: The Fiction of Sandra Birdsell and Carol Shields by Abbey H. P. Werlock; and Canadian Women of Color in the New World Order: Marlene Nourbese Philip, Joy Kogawa and Geatrice Culleton Fight Their Way Home by Heather Zwicker. Size: 8vo. Book.
Language: English
Published by CSIRO Publications, Canberra and Melbourne, 1991
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 27cm x 20cm. vii, 278 pages, illustrations, some colour. Pictorial glossy papered boards. Minor foxing. Category: Natural History; Australia; ISBN: 0643051368. ISBN/EAN: 9780643051362. Inventory No: 0036387.
Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer (Paperback))
Deitel, Paul J; Deitel PH.D., Harvey M; Deitel, Abbey; Morgano, Michael
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Language: English
Published by CSIRO, Canberra and Melbourne, Australia, 1991
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This hardcover has some corner bumping on the lower corners with board just showing. Light rubbing of the covers. Small sticker upper corner of the front cover, another sticker lower corner of the back cover. Hinges and gutters are solid, no shadowing. Owner's mark inked out upper corner of… the title page. Faint darkening or edges. Interior text is clean and tight in binding. Numerous illustrations throughout including center section of full color photographs. Due to the size and weight of the book, it will require additional shipping. various (illustrator).
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Published by Weekes & Co, London, 1897
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published in 1897, this is a very scarce publication of Hymns to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's reign, bound in cream cloth titled in gilt to upper cover, 8.75 inches tall approx., 17 pages plus three pages of adverts, loosely inserted at rear is a chromolithograph…ic colour card printed by Ernest Nister. There is foxing to upper cover, else in very good condition. this is a lighter item, overseas shipping costs will be reduced accordingly at checkout where possible.
Knowledge Coupling: New Premises and New Tools for Medical Care and Education (Health Informatics)
Weed, Lawrence L.; Abbey, L.M. [Contributor]; Bartholomew, K.A. [Contributor]; Burger, C.S. [Contributor]; Cross, H.D. [Contributor]; Hertzberg, R.Y. [Contributor]; Nelson, P.D. [Contributor]; Rockefeller, R.G. [Contributor]; Schimpff, S.C. [Contributor]; Weed, C.C. [Contributor]; Weed, Lawrence [Contributor]; Yee, W.K. [Contributor];
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Letters to the New Island
Yeats, William Butler [Edited by Horace Reynolds] T. Sturge Moore and H. M. Paget. [William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as a Senator of the Irish Free State for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others].
Published by Published by Harvard University Press, 5 Randall Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts First Edition . 1934., 1934
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Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated green cloth designed by T. Sturge Moore, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains xiii, [3], 222 printed pages of text with tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Yeats at the age of…23, from a portrait by H. M. Paget. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with slither of paper missing to the top front gutter, not price clipped, $2.50. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. IRELAND (Éire).
The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, May 1926, Vol. LVII, No. 337: Behind the Himalayas / A Pearler in the Philippines
Tench, C.V.; Ward, Capt. F. Kingdon; Hunter, Reginald P.; Le Mesurier, B.G.; Macgowan, Capt. Gault; Barker, Reginald; Wetherell, M.A.; Ingalese, Rupert; Bailey, Elliot; Burdett, F.D.; Parsons, Capt. A.H.H.; McLaren, Jack
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1926
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reac…hes of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian, S.; Abbey, S.; Peddie, Tom; Inns, Kenneth; Wigfull; Faulks, Jack M.; De Walton, John (illustrator).
The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine For Everybody, April 1921 - Comacchio, the Venice of the Eels
Langdon, Richard; "Baturi"; Vivian, Herbert; Hall, A.S.; Tullis, Roland Lester; Rose, C.; Harrell, C.J.; O'Hara, G.; Morse, Major A.H.E.; Stock, Ralph; Iliff, Flora; Vero, F.; Heighton, Joseph; McMaines, Frank M.; Hilton-Simpson, M.W.
Published by George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1921
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- Periodical
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Features: Was it Coincidence? - a Zulu witch doctor and his magic; The Man Who Hesitated - a dramatic story from West Africa; Comacchio on the Adriatic - the Venice of the Eels - article with photos; The Brophy Will Case - an unusual American detective case; The Wily Coyote…- interesting stories of these hated coyotes and their ways in the Western States; McNeill's Lapse - a good man falls victim to temptation; Climbing the White Elephant near the Tom Reed Mine at Oatman, Arizona - article with nice photos; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone (part II) - tales from two young naval officers who set off to see the world with five dollars between them; Lion Hunting in Somaliland - article with many photos; The Cruise of the Dream Ship - part IV of Ralph Stock's sailing through the enchanted South Sea Islands - article with nice photos; Trapped by a Flash-flood in a canyon; Down the River - two youngsters seek fortune and adventure running a little launch on a New Zealand river; Robert Tipp's terrible ordeal at the top of a lofty flagstaff; My Visit to Mexico - why the author didn't want to go and now likes Mexico less than ever; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - the author's experiences with the Shawia Berbers of Algeria - article with great photos; That Donkey! - the pathetic story of a journalist and the donkey he bought; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine For Everybody, April 1921 Zulu witch doctor and his magic; The Man Who Hesitated - a dramatic story from West Africa; Comacchio on the Adriatic - the Venice of the Eels - article with photos; The Brophy Will Case - a. Illustrated by Elcock, Howard; De Walton, John; Abbey, S.; Small, A.G.;Bates, Leao; Wood, Stanley L.; Oakdale, E.G.; Wigfull, W.E.; Pitcher, S.;Holmes, F.; Brightwell, L.R. (illustrator).
The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventures, June, 1925, No. 326, Vol. LV - Artist on a Tropic Isle
Taylor, M.; Borders, A.; Piers, Sir Charles; Brightwell, L.; Silas, E.; Domville-Fife, C.; Crockkett, C.; Macgowan, G.; Cursham, A.; Elwyn, J.; Hogg, J.; Charnley, W.; Hayter, C.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1925
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- First Edition
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: 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 escap…ed 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. (illustrator).
The Wide World Magazine, July 1924, Vol. LIII No. 315 - The Road to Timbuctoo
Evans, E.A.; McMillan, R.D.S.; Walmsley, L.; Carleton, W.F.; Smith, C.P.; Hunter, R.P.; Bevan, J.M.; Pound, R.; Cobb, E.; Mitchell-Hedges, F.A.; Denys, C.; Bailey, E.; Truscott, C.; Casserly, G.
Published by George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1924
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 177- 264 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Prime Minister's Story - a tiger adventure from India; Filming in a Land of Mystery - amazingly photo-illustrated article on a visit to Lhasa, Tibet; The Road to Timbuctoo - part 2 - funny adventures; Photo of path…etic beggars in India; My First Man-Hunt; The Missing Money Bag a story from Rajputana; Hate - an exciting tale from Malaya; Unknown Peru - part 3 of a photo-illustrated article about investigations in prehistoric Inca towns and treasure caves; Hunting Big Game in India - the Vernay-Faunthorpe expedition - article with great photos; Rescuing the Doctor - a doctor and his wife are surrounded in the Peruvian jungle by cannibal Indians; In Search of Sea-Monsters - part 4 of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges' world travels to catch the largest fish in the world - with great photos; The Gandipur Man-Killer - putting down a brute tiger; The Mysterious Mine - owned by Sir George Cooklin; Revenge! - a young Pole named Leo Leopold (Leo Rogers) vows to get the policeman, Fred Lefbyre, responsible for his incarceration in a Kingston, Ontario penitentiary; Nightmare - terrible experience of an Indian Army officer; photo of wonderfully decorated stern of a Chinese junk (boat); Nice back cover ad for the Security Pen Co. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); Vedder, S.H.; Gillett, Frank; Abbey, S.; Sindall, A.; Vedder, S.H.; Soper, G.; Tennant, D.; York, W.G.; Prater, E.; Leigh, Conrad; Rogers, Stanley; Holmes, Fred (illustrator).
DE OORKONDEN DER ABDIJ TONGERLOO [VAN 1130 TOT 1365]. - 4 Volumes, COMPLETE.
M. A. Erens; H. M. Koyen (Editors) / 'Commissie voor Geschiedkundige en Folkloristische Opzoekingen der Provincie Antwerpen (Publisher) / Giselbert of Kasterlee (Abbey Founder); Saint Norbert (Founder of the Premonstratensian Order):
Published by Tongerlo, St. Norbertusdrukkerij - uitgave van de 'Commissie voor Geschiedkundige en Folkloristische Opzoekingen der Provincie Antwerpen', 1948-1958., 1958
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423 / 489 / 488 / 440 pages on untrimmed paper. - Publisher's titled grey cardboard bindings; Folio (ca. 31 x 24 x 15 cm; ca. 7 kg.). *** FIRST EDITION, LARGESIZE HARDCOVER ORIGINALS; 4 VOLUMES, COMPLETE. - Contains 1.165 medieval documents of Tongerlo-Abbey, a premonstratensian monastery in Westerlo near Antwerp-Belgium, which…later owned one of the largest libraries of the wider area. - COMPLETE SET IN BEST CONDITION.
The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, December [Dec.] 1923, Vol. LII, No. 308: Exploring in Central Brazil / The Signalman Baboon
McAgee, M.; St. Lawrence, Bernard; Smith, L. Marsden; Fitz-Simmons, F.W.; Lees, Frederic; Weddall, A.; Walmsley, Leo; Turner, Captain Fred; Evans, Captain E.A.; Greenwood, Charles; Ferguson, R.Muir; Read, Oliver; North, P. Escott
Published by The International New Company, New York, 1923
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in lo…cal mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustrator).
The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, November [Nov.] 1923, Vol. LI, No. 307: The Woman of the Island
McMullan, E.N.; Ford, John Anson; Harrell, C.J.; Grimshaw, beatrice; Thomason, Hugh; Kelsall, Capt. RAymond; Smith, L. Marsden; Wilkins, Benjamin Ogden; Pitt-Kethley, Victor; Waddall, A.; Sabine, Louis A.; Pound, Reginald; Grimes, Oliver S.; Armstrong, M.
Published by The International New Company, New York, 1923
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- First Edition
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's… abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in ports of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman, Matthew Armstrong, Nanaimo, British Columbia The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exporting in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in parts of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman Matthew Armstrong's terrible ordeal in the woods near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, E.; Hiley, F.; Wood, Stanley L.; Whitaker, W.G.; Webb, Arch; Robinson, T.H.; Abbey, S.; York, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Waye, A.S. (illustrator).
The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, January [Jan.] 1924, Vol. LII, No. 309: To Afghanistan in Disguise
"Lanham"; Dickson, John; Cronstedt, Count Nills; Truscott, Charles; Digby, Bassett; Weddall, A.; Albert, Captain M.H.; Verrill, A.Hyatt; Denys, Courteney; Grimshaw, Beatrice; Smith, L. Marsden; Richards, Kenneth F.
Published by The International New Company, New York, 1924
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghani…stan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos; "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; The "High-Jackers" - an audacious gang of murderous bank robbers terrorize the Canadian prairies, beginning in Moosomin, SK and ending in Pipestone, MB; The Islands of the Mammoths - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia is the world's best hunting ground for the tusks and bones of the prehistoric mammoth - article with photos; The Three Angleteers - Part III - The troubles and adventures of three bored young men who leave England to travel in Europe; With Canoe and Camera - Capt. M.H. Albert explored Northern Ontario and Quebec to photograph wild animals - article with photos; The Mystery of Diablo Canon - The adventures of Senor Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Two photos of two-room house built in the trunk of an immense California redwood; The Terror of Rampur - two hunters undertake to kill a murderous tiger in India; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part I - Photo-illustrated article by Beatrice Grimshaw describing her trip up the Sepik river in New Guinea, where she met the local native peoples - who were none-too friendly; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part IV - A small English expedition sets out to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study their local peoples; Some Sensational Prison Escapes - Carl Otto and Jack Foster bust loose from Folsom Prison; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Davis, G.H.; Abbey, S.; Soper, G.; Wood, Stanley L.; Edwards, Lionel; De Walton, John; Webb, Arch. (illustrator).
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Four volume set, of very heavy books (5 lbs. each) with very heavy bindings: brown cloth with elaborately embossed covers and spine in gilt and black. Covers are very clean. Spine edges are slightly frayed or worn with slightly worn corners, some slight edge wear otherwise. Back cover…s are as elaborately embossed as front with no gilt or black. Each volume about 575 pages with illustrations in steel plates ("pure line"), covered in tissue and leaving shadow on opposite page. Most are wood engravings, all b&w. Binding are very solid and square, exteriors show no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save one mark of previous owner's signature and date, vol. I only. Occasional foxing at front endpaper or around steel engravings, and at frontspieces, which are few. Small coffee stain on page ends of Vol. I. "The drawings have been executed upon wood and steel by the first engravers in this country and in Europe. No original work, therefore, equalling this in the variety and excellence of its illustrations, has ever before been offered to the American public." Over 300 illustrations in Vol. I. , the remainder volumes are equally profuse. End of volume four takes us to The closing scenes of the war: including Richmond and Petersburg, Early's raid in Maryland and Pennsylvania, Burnside's mine at Petersburg, Battle of Five Forks, Sherman's march through teh Carolinas, Assassination of the president, Capture of Jefferson Davis, amidst other sections. Keywords: 1800's, 19th Century, American History, Illustrated, Engravings, Steel Engravings, Wood Engravings. Charles Burt, Hinshelwood, Hollyer, Emil Bayard, Thomas Moran, G.H. Boughton, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Alfred Fredericks, E.A. Abbey, M.A. Hallock, A.R. Waud, W. L. Sheppard, Sol Eytinge, A.C. Warren, Granville Perkins, et, al. (illustrator).
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Comprehensive guide to the Australian dragonflies, giving brief descriptions of the biology of dragonflies, and the Australian odonata in general, before providing identification keys to all families. Canberra & Melbourne. CSIRO. 278 pp., num. figs, hardback 4.
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1901 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 repri…nt. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 180 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: 180 Language: English.
