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Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Regional Grand Lodge of Wessex, Loyal Order of Moose, 1963, first edition; 8vo, 145 x 220mm, pp 192, eight full page photographic plates each mainly with several head and shoulder portraits of prominent Wessex Moose; blue boards, spine gilt, some light foxing, dustwrapper lightly frayed at the head and with some dust or other markings, particularly on the back cover, but generally a good or better copy. . . . The work is the first book on the order published in the UK and describes the origins of the movement and its growth in the south of England following the establishment of the first lodge there in 1928.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition. Hardback. With dust jacket. First Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 54 pages. Articles: The U-Boat Menace - by Winston Churchill; The Private Life of One of the Prettiest Things on Legs - Carol Bruce from Brooklyn; My Old Kentucky Horse - some gay indiscretions by Bob Hope; What a Young Woman's Love Means to an Old Man - Renee Dahon is 40 years younger than her husband Maurice Maeterlinck; I Saw War's Hell in the Mountains of Albania; I Fought Joe Lewis with One Hand - This Time I'll Win! - Jewish Boxer Abe Simon. Short Stories: I Love You and Good-bye; Mr. Winters and the $10,000 Baby; Dear Ol' Deadline; Painless Extraction. Serials: War Girl - Part II; The Unobstructed Universe - Life Beyond the Grave- Part 4; Footloose - part 6. Ads: Great photo ad for Canadian War Savings Certificates features photo of dozens of kilted troops on the march; Mutual Life of Canada; Pepsodent Tooth Powder; Castoria laxative; Cameo Cigarettes; All-Bran Cereal; Colgate's Ribbon Dental Cream; Mum sanitary napkins; Grape-Nuts; Nabisco Shredded Wheat; Stetson hats for men; Champion Spark Plugs; Sani-Flush; Nostalgic Three-colour back cover ad for Lifebuoy Soap. Nice cover illustration by John Murphy shows wealthy lady with mountain of luggage - and her exasperated porter. Average wear. Minor moisture exposure. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Murphy, John (Cover); Schmitt, Felix; Rubin, Hy; LaSalle, Charles; Robard, Norman; Henry, Edwin; (illustrator). …