Capt John Smith (39 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Good with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. Inventory # D498-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 6, No. 2, Issue 35, February 1953 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown; The Gulls That Saved The Mormons - Freud on Occultism by Cornelius Tabori Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, CONTENTS; ** STORIES (1) The Gulls That Saved The Mormons by Peg Miller (2) Car of Destiny by John Thompson (3) Where Was Admiral Tryon? by Don C. Trenary (4) The Incredible Voyage by Albert A. Brandt (5) Mystery at Penkaet Castle by Edmond P. Gibson (6) What Was the "Thing"? by Phyllis Duncan Brown (7) My House of Evil by Hazel E. Monte (8) Rider Haggard and His Dog by Denys Parsons, M.Sc. (9) The Unfading Roses by F. Terry Newman (10) Edgar Caye - Modern Man of Miracles by Paul M. Vesti; ** ARTICLES = (1) Mystery of the Ghost Bullets by Harold T. Wilkins (2) Fortune-Telling By Cycles by Alan Dorsey (3) The Devils Tramping Ground by John Harden (4) Story of a Closed Mind by Dr. W. E. Farbstein (5) Re-living the Dieppe Raid by Edmond P. Gibson (6) Freud on Occultism by Cornelius Tabor CONDITION; VG spine fray top and bottom; fc top right corner PRICE = $39; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. Inventory # D500-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 6, No. 4, Issue 37, April 1953 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown Viking's Lost Colony; Magdalene Grombach; Opal Whiteley; Woman Sings in Ancient Languages; Ghost Ship, Caodaism; Mirages Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, CONTENTS; ** STORIES (1) Aunt Tishy and the Witches of Ellum Street by Sigman Byrd (2) The Ghost Ship "Seabird" by Bartnet Hyams (3) The Possessions of Magdalene Grombach by John P. Bessor (4) The Visitor by Capt. E. Fairfax-Lucy (5) Karachi Assignment by Maj. Henry F. Hansen (6) Who Is Opal Whiteley? by Alson J. Smith (7) The Possessions of Maria Talarico by Edmond P. Gibson; ** ARTICLES = (1) Lost Colonies of the Vikings by Gordon Cooper (2) The Woman Who Sings in Ancient Languages by Raymond F. Piper (3) Caodaism, the Worlds Newest Religion by Harrison Forman (4) Ghosts in the Blitz by Eliiot O Donnell (5) When the Skies Rained Blood! by Harold W. Wilkins (6) How to Develop Automatic Writing by Horace Leaf (7) The Anatomy of Mirages by Virginia Stumbough (8) Prophecies I Have Heard by Jeron King Criswell; CONDITION; VG; minor spine fraying; spine creasing PRICE = $32; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. …

Condition: As New. First Edition. A very fine, clean and tight copy in slipcase. Stated First Printing, The Library of America-171. A very nice copy in like new and unread condition. As New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows very light wear only with creaseless covers and spine, tiny bit of chipping top and bottom spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents includes: Aunt Tishy and the Witches of Ellum Street, The Ghost Ship "Seabird",The Possessions of Magdalene Grombach, Karachi Assignment, Who Is Opal Whiteley? ,The Possessions of Maria Talarico , Lost Colonies of the Vikings , The Woman Who Sings in Ancient Languages, Caodaism, the Worlds Newest Religion, Ghosts in the Blitz , When the Skies Rained Blood!, How to Develop Automatic Writing ,The Anatomy of Mirages etc. 130 pages on age-toned paper with ads, b&w photos, drawings, prints. Wrapped in protective clear cover. Keywords: Haunted House, Magazine, 1950's, Metaphysics, Occult, Psychic, Phenomena, Spirits, Past Lives, Warning, Mystic, Mysticism, Ghosts, Paranormal, Raymond A. Palmer, Kenneth Arnold. …

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First printing. Library of America no. 171. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, in a price clipped dust jacket. Neat ink name to the first blank, else unmarked and clean. Near fine, as new.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. Inventory # D500-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 6, No. 4, Issue 37, April 1953 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown Viking's Lost Colony; Magdalene Grombach; Opal Whiteley; Woman Sings in Ancient Languages; Ghost Ship, Caodaism; Mirages Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, CONTENTS; ** STORIES (1) Aunt Tishy and the Witches of Ellum Street by Sigman Byrd (2) The Ghost Ship "Seabird" by Bartnet Hyams (3) The Possessions of Magdalene Grombach by John P. Bessor (4) The Visitor by Capt. E. Fairfax-Lucy (5) Karachi Assignment by Maj. Henry F. Hansen (6) Who Is Opal Whiteley? by Alson J. Smith (7) The Possessions of Maria Talarico by Edmond P. Gibson; ** ARTICLES = (1) Lost Colonies of the Vikings by Gordon Cooper (2) The Woman Who Sings in Ancient Languages by Raymond F. Piper (3) Caodaism, the Worlds Newest Religion by Harrison Forman (4) Ghosts in the Blitz by Eliiot O Donnell (5) When the Skies Rained Blood! by Harold W. Wilkins (6) How to Develop Automatic Writing by Horace Leaf (7) The Anatomy of Mirages by Virginia Stumbough (8) Prophecies I Have Heard by Jeron King Criswell; CONDITION; VG+; minor spine fraying; PRICE = $39 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Condition: New.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 67pp, octavo. tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards, gilt to spine, Very Good.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Ten volumes. Softcovers in Good-plus to Very Good condition, 12mo. Blue stiff wrappers, stapled binding, titles and decoration in brown. Each is stamped on the title page "Specimen Copy / compliments of / Maynard, Merrill and Co". Spines are lightly worn, variable soiling, contents are unmarked but for publisher's stamp. No.1, The Discovery of America (Washington Irving), 64 pp; No.2, The Settlement of Virginia (Captain John Smith), 63 pp; No.3, History of Plymouth Plantation (Governor Bradford), 64 pp; No.4, King Philip's War, and Witchcraft in New England (Governor Hutchinson), 63 pp; No.5, The Mississippi Valley (John Gilmary Shea), 49 pp; No.6, Champlain and His Associates (Francis Parkman), 64 pp; No.7, Braddock's Defeat (Francis Parkman), 64 pp; No.8, First Battles of the Revolution (Edward Everett), 58 pp; No.9, Colonial Pioneers (James Parton), 63 pp; No.10, Heroes of the Revolution (James Parton), 63 pp. Bookseller accession no.: 17685.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Dust jacket has some smuging on the lower front, binding straight, the Henry Spelman narrative, 12 pages, marked in pen by William Heath, author of William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest, the rest clean and unmarked. 1329 pages. A very valuable collection of primarhy documents about early American history.…

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. As-new, in publisher's shrink-wrap.The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.…

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

236 pages. 9 illustrations. a little foxing, but a good clean condition hardback in the original green cloth binding, and still retaining the dust-jacket. history of the Glasgow based shipping line, sold to Ellermans in 1901. [Please see our storefront page for shipping information].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NEW! Never cracked open or read. PLEASE NOTE: This is not the black dust jacketed issuance, but rather the green cloth slipcased version housed in the publisher's original slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair - (ex-library). No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" The english Scholar's library No. 16. Two books bound in later grey cloth, 8vo, 980pp in two books. Ex-library with usual marks, notes and marks to text and endpapers, several fold out plates with large tears & tape repairs, toning to edges). A fair reading/reference copy of a scarce history of Capt. John Smith. sold as-is. b/w Illustrations (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Not Issued. First Collected. Volumes I-IV, VII, VIII (6 volumes of an eventual 8), reprinting the papers presented to the Bucks County Historical Society. Uniformly bound in red cloth, spine panels lettered in gilt. All volumes show minor soiling to cloth and slight rubbing to extremities, with text block edges typically a bit tanned by age, mild rubbing to portions of edges. Vol. VIII is minimally ex-library, with call label on lower spine, F&M College (Gift of B. F. Fackenthal, Jr.) book plate mounted inside front cover. Vol. VIII shows minor loss (nibbling?) at top corner through most of text block, not affecting any text, this copy thus Good only, the set overall VG. Firm bindings, clean interiors. Approx. 600-750 pp. per volume. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 60 pages. Features: News digest includes 'a British ministry of propaganda', America's altered mood, free speech in Canada, Moscow bargaining, and from Poland to Rumania; Canada's Prison Shame - intersting article by J. Alex. Edmison includes photos of - the B.C. Penitentiary at New Westminster, youn ladies in the Borstal Institute at Aylesbury, England, Montreal Gaol (Bordeaux Gaol), and members of the Archambault Commission - R.W. Craig, J.L. KKent, Mr. Justice Archambault, J.C. McRuer, and Allan Fraser; Uncle Romeo and the White Pendennings (short story); The Missing Passenger (short story); A Letter to Anne (short story); Samaritan on Wheels - the story of the Empire's greatest philanthropist and leading industrialist William Richard Morris, now Viscount Nuffield - article with photos; Land of Wish-It-Were (verse); If I Die Before I Wake (part 4); Nice one-page ad by the Automotive Industries of Canada features the province of Alberta with map and text; Colgate ad features illustration of the Dionne Quints; Palmolive soap ad features illustration of the faces of the Dionne Quintuplets and (faux) signed photo of Gladys Cooper of 1973 Robson St. in Vancouver; Stewart-Warner radio ad features photos of the 4575, 4351 and 4511 models; When Contagious Diseases Stay Home; Movie news and photos, with brief write-up and photo of Geraldine Fitzgerald, plus additional photos of King Vidor, Alexander Hall, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Sam Wood, Jack Conway, Clarence Brown, Frank Borzage, Tod Browning, George Cukor, Victor Fleming and Norman Taurog; Fashion illustrations; Nice half-page two-colour ad for RCA Victor radios shows the A-2, A-1 and A-4; Scales of Fortune (short story); Half-page tourism ad for Italy (unfortunately, many young Canadians would soon be fighting there!); Beauty article; Charis foundations ad features nostalgic photo; Autumn fashion preview; Pickling Made Easier; Quotes of the World; Nice Heinz ketchup ad inside front cover includes photo of restaurant scene; Vintage colour back cover ad for Canadian-grown fruits and vegetables; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Davis, Clara O.; Clymer, John F.; Maltman, W.; Garland, George; Smith, Ralph C.; Lowthian, Louis R. (illustrator).…

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).…