Kingston Capt L C (2 results)
A Tale Of Three Lions and On Going Back plusThe Cabin Boy
Haggard, H. Rider (1st two); Kingston, Capt. L.C. (last one)
Published by Hurst & Company, New York, 1888
- Hardcover
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.My Dead Aunt's Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHARDCOVER. Condition: GOOD. NONE. No jacket: 5-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches, 48 pgs for first two stories; 91 pgs for The Cabin Boy, plus ads at back. Hardbound with clean pages after Inscription dated 1888 in pen on flyleaf. Embossed burgundy and black cloth boards with gilt rectangle on spine with title is worn at all bumped corners and… top and bottom edges of spine are bumped and heavily worn. All pages are tanned in margins but not over text.
The Wide World, True Stories of Adventure, June 1922, Vol. 49, No. 290: Cover Illustration of Roy Gardner, The "Smiling Bandit"
Richards, Kenneth, F.; Scherer, H.C.; Ward, Capt. F. Kingdon; Shirley, Alfred Henry; King, James; Verrill, A. Hyatt; Clements, Colin Campbell; Kingston, Charles; Ransome, Stafford; Dickie, Francis
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1922
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: IOBA
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 300.74
£ 14.78 shippingShips from Canada to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Roy Gardner - Californian Bandit Extraordinary; Exploring the Salton Sea - an exploration by two motorcyclists - article with photos; Across Remote Yunnan - Part I - account of a journey throu…gh the little-known region where China and Tibet meet - article with photos; Besieged by Man-Eating Lions - a woman's terrible ordeal in East Africa; Shipwrecked in Bering Sea - Thrilling story of the passengers and crew of a schooner wrecked in the icy Bering Sea; Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part I - the United States tries to preserve peace in the Negro Republic of Dominica in 1906-7; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part III - French troops are overwhelmed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; American Crooks in Europe - sketches of the meteoric careers of Walter Sheridan, Max Shinburn and Adam Worth; The Decoy Telegram - an engineer's narrow escape from death; A Model Town Made From Corks - model town built by M. Jean Bertrand, musical director at Maskelyne's Theatre of Mysteries, London; The Limits of the Law - an illiterate Justice of the Peace is called on to administer justice in Mink Lake, in the Lesser Slave Lake district; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Prater, E.; Holloway, C.; Oakdale, E.G.; Hodgson; E.S.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Whitaker, W.G.; Coller, H.; Waddell, J. (illustrator).
