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Published by Methuen and Co., Ltd. January 1956, 1956
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.
Published by Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1956
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Seller: Books for Libraries, Inc., Santa Clarita, CA, U.S.A.Books for Libraries, Inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1956 Hardcover, First Edition stated. Ex-Library. Text is clean, Binding is strong. Nice green cloth cover, spine is slightly age-darkened.
Published by London: Methuen, 1956
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. viii 166p cloth, dustjacket, fresh Language: English.
Published by London, Methuen / New York, John Wiley, 1956
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Seller: Pallas Books Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, NetherlandsPallas Books Antiquarian Booksellers
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Add to basketcloth, dustjacket, 12mo ix+166 pp. binary alloy ordering; non-stoichiometric alloys; solid state physics; good condition (pencil notes and underlining on ca. 60 pp.).
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Language: English
Published by London, New York, Methuen, Wiley, 1956
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Add to basket1956 Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, kaum Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, few traces of use. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Published by Methuen & Co, 1956
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Add to basketCondition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN.
Language: German
Published by London, Methuen, 1956
- Hardcover
Seller: Antiquariat Thomas Haker GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, GermanyAntiquariat Thomas Haker GmbH & Co. KG
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Add to basketHardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Gut. 166 S. Good condition. Ex llibrary with stamps and back label. Cloth binding with additional foliation. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 190.
Published by Chichester, Horwood 1977., 1977
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Add to basketGr.-8°. 630 S. m. einigen Fig., OKst., ausgeschiedenes Bibl.-Expl. mit entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen. ISBN 0470990597.
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The Wide World Magazine, Vol. XLVI - No. 272, December, 1920 - Saving of the "Cardium" / Among Bolshevists
Evans, E.A.; Heighton, J.; Tinsley, H.G.; Webster, F.A.M.; Nicoll, J.M.; Woods, E.P.; Wetgen, A.R.; Jones, E.H.; Dunn, H.H.; Koppel, H.; Masters, D.; Chinnery, E.W.P.; McMaines, Frank; Augustin, James F.; et al
Published by George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1920
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: My Rest-Cure - experience on a house-boat in Kashmir; The Saving of the "Cardium" - what happened with this oil ship caught fire with 12,000 tons of benzene aboard; The Hinton Murder Case, and George W. Pendleton; "Little Wom…an of Flame" - what happened with two solitary white women took up farming in East Africa; Photo of steeplejack Jack Hassler climbing a building in Philadelphia; "My Strangest Experience"; The Lifted Veil, part 6 of a strange story of two British officer POWs in Turkey; The Temple of the Tapirs - an exciting trip into the wilds of Mexico; "Draw Poker" - a detective recounts a New York story; Among the Bolshevists - an R.A.F. officers interesting sidelights on the operations against the Bolshevists in North Russia - with great photos; Into the Unknown - part 2 - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea; A Cowboy Adrift; A Kedah Buffalo-Fight - photo-illustrated story of this little-known Malay (Malaysian) sport; Photo of huge (dead) gorilla in the Cameroons; Anthropop-Apology; The Long Arm of the Law - murderers who were detected years after their crimes; The Battle of Ludlow - strikers battle state militiamen in the Colorado coalfields. Covers detached but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Sheldon, C.M.; De Walton, John; Sutcliffe, J.E.; Whittaker, W.G.; "Robin"; Elcock, Howard; Small, A.G.; Wright, Frank; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, Ernest; Paxton, R.B.M.; Morrow, Albert (illustrator).
BUILDING - WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED 'THE BRITISH BUILDER'; Published Every Month at 33, Tothill Street, Westminster, London, S.W. 1. - A PRACTICAL JOURNAL FOR ARCHITECTS, QUANTITY SURVEYORS, BUILDERS, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS, Heating, Lighting and Ventilation Engineers, Sanitary Engineers, Decorators, Manufacturers and Merchants of Building Material, and Estate Managers. - FIFTH VOLUME (Vol. 5), JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1930.
No Editor stated / 'BUILDING', Architectural Magazine ('The British Builder') / J. H. Bennetts; Oliver P. Bernard; R. V. Boughton; G. Basedon Butt; A. Trystan Edwards; J. Millar; Prof. C, H, Reilly; F. E. Towndrow; E. G. Warland; a.o. (Principal Authors and Correspondants) / Holden Adams & Pearson; H. WV. Ashley; Winston Newman; Sir Frank Baines; Sir Herbert Baker; J. Stanley Beard; Brierley & Rutherford; Sir John Burnet & Partners; Campbell Jones Sons & Smithers; C. W. Clark; Elcock & Sutcliffe; P. D. Hepworth; Mewes & Davis; Sir Giles Gilbert Scott; Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie; Perca S. Worthington; a.m.o. ('Architects' Works Illustrated'): [F. J. PARSON]
Published by London; 33, Tothill Street, Westminster, S.W.I (no Printer or Publisher stated); 1930., 1930
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Seller: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, GermanyC O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany .
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Add to basket(3) pages 'Index Supplement [Fitfth Volume, January to December 1930], Building, December 1930'; 564 annually counted pages on medium-glossy paper; fully illustrated throughout with photographs of buildings or their details and ground and floor plans; 8 multiple (partly huge) folded plans and views ('Baker Street Station Buildin…gs', 'Builders' Administration', 'New Olympial Hall', 'New Headquarters Martins Bank Liverpool', 'New Midland Bank, new Headquarters, London', 'Liverpool Cathedral Organ Cases', 2x 'Thames House Westmister London', 'New Masonic Peace Memorial, Queen Street, London'). - Gilt-titled 'olive-grey' cloth-binding of the period with red-sparkled edges; 4to.(ca. 30 x 23 x 4 cm; ca. 2,5 kg.). *** [Verlängerter ERWEITERTER SOMMERVERKAUF / Ongoing EXPANDED SUMMER-SALE: um über 30% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Donnerstag, den 30.07.2026 / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30% until Thursday, July 30; ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 300,-] --- FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE ANNUAL OF THE AS IMPORTANT AS NOWADAYS RARE ARCHITECTURAL MONTHLY; CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL, Fifth Year in 12 monthly Issues complete. - Cloth-binding minimally used, last two sheets with short central tear, corners of last page slightly dusty; A BEAUTIFEL COPY.
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The Wide World - The Magazine for Everybody, March 1920, No. 263, Vol. 44
Foster, Harrison L.; Philby, H.St. J.B.; Shaw, Captain Frank H.; Walmsley, Lieut. Leo; Webster, Capt. F.A.M.; Noble, Lieut. W.; Moss, Capt. T.R.; MacAttammany, A.B.; Heighton, Joseph; White, Captain T.W.; Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak
Published by George Newnes, London, 1920
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- First Edition
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 362-448, plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Girl With the Red Hair; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 1; A 'Q" and a "U"; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season; "Bully's" Last Battle; With a Bristol…Fighter Squadron; Queer Fixes - Falling Ten Thousand Feet; What Happened to Marshall Mabey; Gassed on a Chimney; My Two Years of Captivity Among the Turks - part 3; Among the Dyaks; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - part 3; On Foot Through South America, part 4; Silas Seeks London; In Little Known Afghanistan; Odds and Ends. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World - The Magazine for Everybody, March 1920, No. 263, Vol. 44 The Girl With the Red Hair; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 1; A 'Q" and a "U"; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season; "Bully's" Last Battle; With a Bristol Fighter Squadr. Illustrated by Broadhead, W. Smithson; Cleaver, Ralph; Reynolds, Warwick;Avis, W.; Thomas, E.H.; Elcock, Howard; Soper, G; Prater, Ernest;Brightwell, L.R.; Horne, A.E.; Ambler, C. Gifford (illustrator).
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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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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle 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).
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The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, October (Oct.) 1914, No. 198, Vol. 33 - My Escape from Kelantan / Across Canada By Motor-Car
Rudolf, W.; Ranee of Sarawak; Sprigle, R.; Wilby, T.; Morphy, E.; Tickell, G.; Birkhead, J.; Glazier, G.; Drevey, P.; Et al
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1914
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- First Edition
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages 503-598, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Eight Days On a Capsized Ship - three seamen tough it out upon the overturned hull of the 'Anna Rebecca' in 1906 off Memel (with photos); My Adventures in Sarawak (part I) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describ…es her experiences getting to know 'the loveable little people and their language' (with photos); The Girl Who Came to Copperfield, Oregon - Miss Fern Hobbs was sent at the head of a regiment of soldiers to restore order in the lawless town of Copperfield - article with photo of Miss Hobbs; Across Canada by Motor-Car (part II) - Photo-illustrated account of the second half of Mr. Wilby's arduous journey, ending in British Columbia; My Escape from Kelantan - a veteran pioneer of Malaya, W.E. Nash, relates how he took a frail stern-wheel river steamer across the China Sea in the teeth of a monsoon; The Case of "Jack Thompson" - an Englishman in a Bolivian prison; The Haunted Trees - The Malays believe evil spirits take up residence in certain 'hantu' trees; Pieter Erberfeld, Traitor - the story behind this man and a memorial tablet, bearing his skull, in Batavia, Dutch West Indies (Indonesia); The Hermit of Smith's Mountain - a strange character in San Diego County; Man-Eaters - the menace wild animals constitute to dwellers in less-favoured parts of the world; Sport in the Ukraine - with photos; Freshwater Pearl-Fishing - clam-fishing as carried out on the rivers of Illinois - with great photos; Wanted, A Wife - the amusing adventures of Dominick Forese of Butte, Montana; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Wigfull, W.E.; Somerfield, T.; Elcock, H.K.; Leake, Gerald; Simmons, Graham; Coller, Henry; Reynolds, Warwick; Rodger, Biron; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator).
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The Wide World - The Magazine for Everybody, October (Oct.), 1921, No. 282, Vol. XLVII: The Truth About Louis De Rougemont
Rutzebeck, H.; Cornell, F.; Pitt-Kethley, V.; Lamont, M.; Woolley, C.; Clarke-Kennedy, S.; Cunningham, E.; Still, G.; Walkey, C.; et al
Published by The International New Company, New York, 1921
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia -… 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Pearse, Alfred; Brock, R.H.; Crombie, Chas.; Whitaker, W.G.; Small, A.G.; Peddie, Tom; Elcock, Howard; Soper, G.; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Waddell, J. (illustrator).
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The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, December (Dec.) 1914, No. 200, Vol. 34 - Among Head-Hunters and Cannibals / Penelope Visits Finland
Browne, J.; Heighton, J.; Thomas, T.; Armour, C.; Hollingsworth, F.; Ranee of Sarawak; Fagan, D.; Et al
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1914
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 102-196 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mutiny of the "Ziba" (part I) - a brutal captain and mates are murdered by their crew; Among Head-Hunters and Cannibals - great photo-illustrated article on some of the experiences of Captain W. Sinker who… for years cruised the South Sea Islands in command of the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross"; The Rivals - two men were in love with the same lady; The Bluffing of Din Mahomed - a rascally Indian postal worker is brought to justice; The Runaway Train - story from a branch line of the C. and N.W.R.R. in Nebraska; My Adventures in Sarawak (part III) - adventures of the Rajah's bride amongst 'the lovable little people'; Hona's "Tapu" - what happened to to men who attempted to brave the curse of a Maori chief upon a rich gold-reef; An Unlucky Ride - in New Zealand a man sets of on a perilous 120 mile journey to see his lady, only to arrive late and offend her; Our Travels in Safari-land (part I) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) travels through British East Africa; The Night-Watchman's Story - an 1885 tale from the steamer 'Bengal Tiger' shipping from Paducah, Kentucky, as told by Ernest Prentis; Penelope Visits Finland - holiday jaunts to the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes"; Parker's Lesson - a 1913 story of a young man from Cambridge who went to Nigeria with ideas of how the natives should be handled; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Gordon, Alexandre; Evans, Treyer; Pride, Sid; Somerfield, T.; Evison, G. Henry; De Walton, John; Holloway, W.H.; Elcock, H.E.; Wigfull, W.E.; Webb, A. (illustrator).
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, April [Apr.] 1923, Vol L, No. 300: Search for the Grosvenor Treasure
Lane, Rose Wilder; 'Gulbrandsen'; Dawson, E.B.; Casserly, Lieut.-Col. Gordon; Walmsley, Leo; Wills, Archie; 'Traverse'; Miller, T.S.; Ward, E.D.; Butt-Thompson, Captain F.W.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1923
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: A Soldier of Fortune - a story smuggled in bits from a French prison (part 1); A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part I - Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mo…untains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish - article with photos; The Election at Rodeo - an account of the happenings at a town in Argentina on the occasion of the Presidential election of 1914; The Search for the Grosvenor Treasure - an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor on the lonely coast of Pondoland, South Africa, and operations of seekers of her sunken treasure of precious metals and stones - with photos; The Terror of the Terai - the story of one of the most remarkable elephant hunts on record - a twelve days' chase after a man-killing 'rogue'; Photo of a Venetian funeral; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - the humourous travels of a huband and wife with their donkey (part 4); Across the Pacific in a Chinese Junk - Captain George Ward and his voyage from Amoy, China to Victoria, British Columbia - article with photos, one of which includes Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford aboard the vessel; Forgotten - the terrible experience of a young surveyor off the coast of Trinidad; The Witching of the M'Bumbo - a tale of native witchcraft and trial by ordeal in Nigeria; Our Unlucky Day - an account of a series of disasters which struck a steamer, the S.S. Z_____ in the Gulf of Mexico; The Village of the Greeks - visit to a tiny hamlet in the Sicilian Mountains - with photos; The Gower Affair - a story of black magic at Porto Lokkoh on the West Coast of Africa. Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Elcock, Howard; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Pears, Charles; Holloway, W.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, Francis G.; Soper, G.; De Walton, John; Wigfull, W.E.; Prater, E.; Pears, Charles; Holloway, W.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, Francis G.; Soper, G. (illustrator).
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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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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle 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).
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The Wide World Magazine, Vol. XLVI - No. 271, November (Nov.), 1920 - Adventure in Sing Sing / Ghost of the "Lycaon"
Webster, F.A.M.; Lincke, C.J.; Craven, B.; Koppel, Harwood; Johns, Geoffrey; Neill, Thomas; Allen, Louis; White, J.; Chinnery, E.W.P.; E'Easum, B.C.; Jones, E.H.; Et al
Published by George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1920
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 90 pages plus 16 pages of nice ads. Features: Our Hunting Trip in Brazil - dealing with giant snakes and jaguars; Photo of Sulphur Bottom Whale leaping out of water to avoid swordfish; Stalked by a Mountain Lion (cougar) - while mining in the Selkirk Mountains near Golden, B…ritish Columbia; The Leaf-Wearers of Orissa - great photo-illustrated article on these native people's of India; My Adventure in Sing Sing; Silk Mask Jim - this amazing Chicago criminal, James J. Harrigan, was head of a great thieves trust responsible for over seven hundred robberies in a single year; My Strangest Experience; A Fight on a Mountain Top - the Philippine Constabulary seeks out remnants of Aguinaldo's forces - article with photo; Into the Unknown (part 1) - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea ; The "Pinto" of Great Black Pine Mountain - the life and death of a wonderful wild horse in Southern Idaho; The Lifted Veil - part 5 of the story of two British officer POWs in Turkey who apply Spiritualism to escape; Where No Writ Runs - photo-illustrated article on life in the highlands of Kurdistan; The Ghost of the "Lycaon" - a steamship of the Blue Funnel Line; Wolves in Sheep's Clothing - when policement become criminals; The Rector's Story - a South African clergyman's story; Odds and Ends - photo of Arizona Gila Monster listening to phonograph. Covers beginning to detach from textblock. Average wear. A nice vintage copy. Reynolds, Warwick; Small, A.G.; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; De Walton, J.; Hodgson, E.S.; Holmes, Fred; Bates, Leo; Wood, Stanley L.; Edwards, Lionel; Elcock, Howard; Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Ferrier, A.; Soper, G. (illustrator).
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Men, September 1916: Hunting the Swordfish
Patterson, Walter G.; Amy, Lacey; St. Lawrence, B.; Harold, S.J.; Johnson, A.E.; Wise, Frank; Martindale, F.W.; Lincoln, Robert Page; Smith, Albert E.; Fletcher, Alfred C.B.; Davis, Minnie B.; Smith, Mrs. L.V.
Published by George Newnes Limited, London, 1916
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- First Edition
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood…- a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Men, September 1916 in the Grip of Hip Sings Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; Th. Illustrated by Gilbert, A.; Elcock, Howard; Evison, G. Henry; Webb, Arch;Buchanan, Fred; Somerfield, Thomas; Gillett, Frank; Evison, G.H. (illustrator).
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, September [Sept.] 1923, Vol. LI, No. 305: The Most Wonderful School in the World / Captain George Ash
Thomason, Hugh; Collinson, Clifford W.; Herschin, Abraham; Masters, David; Hunter, R.C.; Spencer, E.R.; Read, Oliver; Bredon, Juliet; Litten, Ernest A.; Jepson, Captain S.; Jehaz, Hawai; Shearwood, F.F.; Ash, Captain, George; Thane, Rodney; Rowe, John G.
Published by The International New Company, New York, 1923
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II… - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (illustrator).
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The Wide World, True Stories of Adventure, February [Feb.] 1922, Vol. 48, No. 286: Battle with a Giant Conger Eel
Plummer, Ernest Arthur; Bailey, Elliot; Kingston, Charles; Darling, Eugene; Reynolds, Frank S.; Dickens, James; De Mello Saraiva, Propercio; Walmsley, Leo; Evans, Capt. E.A.; Rutzebeck, Hjalmar; Fagan, D.W.O.; Verrill, A. Hyatt; Monsell, J.R.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1922
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Great Green Eel - three-day battle with a Conger eel in Trinidad; De Rougemont Right After All! - Shortly after his passing, the incredible stories by Louis de Rougement…of adventures with the wild blacks (aborigines) of Australia are proven true! - article with great photos; The Lure of the Jewel - The Forcing of the Duke of Brunswick's safe; Crossed Trails - A remarkable tale of linked lives; The Midnight Visitor - A grim tale of the famous North-West Mounted Police of Canada; Trapped in a Well - two men in Nebraska set out to deepen a well; The Moffat County Mystery - an odd tale from Colorado; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part II - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interest of film-making - article with interesting photos; A Christmas Hunt in East Africa - sometimes 'exiles' can have a good Christmas; A Double Escape a thrilling royal tiger hunt in India; A Man's Luck - Part V - the true story of a man who set out to build an Alaskan home for the girl of his dream but kept being jailed; The Accursed Lake - The strange story of David Burton and Charles Snisted in New Zealand; The Living Death - an explorer's grim story from the South American jungle; Anthropop - Apology; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 268-351, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Holmes, Fred; Elcock, Howard; Prater, E.; Tennant, Dudley; Peddie, Tom; Elcock, Howard; Sindall, A.; Peddie, Tom; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, E.; Hiley, F.E. (illustrator).
