Leo E Walmsley (30 results)
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Seller: Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative, Clevedon, United KingdomClevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in a good condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition. If the condition is criti…cal to your decision to purchase, then please contact us and we will let you know our view of its condition. If the book is extremely heavy, we will need to contact you before completion of purchase to advise you of extra postage costs.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Small landscape hard cover, pict. bds, no dust jacket, Very Good-, a little scuffed at extrem.s, contents in colour and two-tone with interesting small chapters on:- The First Fish; The Anatomy of a Fish; Fishing Tackle; Reels and Lines; Popular Freshwater Fish; Fishing Waters; Floats and Lures…; Natural Baits; Fishing for Pike; Hooks; Fishing for Trout; Fishing for Roach and Rudd; Fishing for Tench; Fishing for Carp; Match Fishing and Some Useful Tips. A nice little starter book for new fishers.
Published by Collins 1944, 1944
- Hardcover
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Add to basket8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
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Published by Book & Magazine Collector, London, 1992
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Add to basketBooklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, with UK list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years… on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
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Published by Collins, London, 1942
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Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United KingdomCosmo Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. With a dustwrapper. 48 pages, 8 colour plates, 23 Black & White illustrations, 1 vignette. Number 35 in the Britain in Pictures Series. The Britain in Pictures series, published by Collins beginning in 1941, was one of the most distinctive cultural undertakings o…f wartime Britain, an ambitious blend of education, morale-building, and visual design. Conceived with support from the Ministry of Information, the series aimed to celebrate British identity through accessible, beautifully produced volumes that covered everything from literature, art, and architecture to trades, customs, and regional life. Britain in Pictures offered a humane and confident portrait of national character at a time of profound uncertainty, and remains a touchstone for collectors and historians interested in mid-century publishing, wartime propaganda, and the visual culture of resilience. Size: 17 x 23 cms. Category: Britain in Pictures Series; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.
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Published by COLLINS, LONDON, 1946
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Classic celebration of British culture, published for morale purposes during and after the war. Includes numerous illustrations in colour and black and white. Book near fine in a vg complete wrapper, rubbing to extremities. Great. Book.
Published by Collins, 1946
- Hardcover
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United KingdomThe Guru Bookshop
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.
Published by Adprint, 1950
Seller: Outlet Ex Libris, Bilbao, BI, SpainOutlet Ex Libris
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Seller: Costa Llibreter, Vic, B, SpainCosta Llibreter
Contact seller5-star seller1947 Pan-Books, London Col. Pan Books; 12. 351 p. 18x11 cm. Enc. rustique. A little fatigated Para ver o recibir fotografías de los libros puede ir a nuestra web o solicitarlas., ).
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Language: English
Published by HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. PUBLISHER: HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED * YEAR: UNDATED * ISBN/SBN: UNKNOWN * No OF PAGES: 247 * CONDITION: USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER HAS SOME RUBBING TO THE EDGES AND CORNERS, ESPECIALLY TO THE SPINE WHICH IS ALSO FADED DUE TO SHELF STORAGE. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE, ALTHOUGH THE…RE IS SOME LIGHT FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. THE BINDING IS REASONABLY FIRM, WITH A CRACK RUNNING TOP TO BOTTOM BETWEEN THE FRONT COVER AND FFEP. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A HARD TO FIND EDITION.
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Published by Penguin Books, 1948
- Softcover
Condition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketCouverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60123945: 1948. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 220 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Published by 1930s, 1930
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerOriginal autograph signature of British author Leo Walmsley: ÒYours sincerely, Leo Walmsley.Ó written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4Ó x 3Ó piece of paper. Fine. Leo Walmsley is the author of ÔForeigners,Õ ÔSo Many Loves,Õ ÔLove in the Sun,Õ ÔBritish Ports and Harbours,Õ his Bramblewick trilogy set in Robin Hood's Bay - ÔThre…e Fevers,Õ ÔPhantom LobsterÕ and ÔSally Lunn,Õ the first of which was the basis of the film ÔTurn of the Tide,Õ etc.
Published by Tauchnitz
- Softcover
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Add to basketCouverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60005089: sans date. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 280 pages. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
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Seller: Libreria anticuaria El Hierofante, BUENOS AIRES, CABA, ArgentinaLibreria anticuaria El Hierofante
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Add to basketEncuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Lang: Español 0 0 pages. Publicado Por Espasa-Calpe Argentina, En Buenos Aires, Ca 1950. Plena Tela Editorial, Con Planchas Duras. 48 Pp, En 8º Mayor. Profusamente Ilustrado En Negro Y A Color. Muy Buen Estado. 250G.
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Published by Espasa Calpe
Seller: SoferBooks, Barcelona, B, SpainSoferBooks
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Blanda. Condition: Buen Estado. Dust Jacket Condition: Buen Estado.
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Published by Espasa Calpe
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Blanda. Condition: Buen Estado. Dust Jacket Condition: Buen Estado.
Published by Collins London 1939, 1939
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Add to basketscarce first edition signed by author, blue cloth with gilt to spine, 380pp, VG(v sl bruised lower corners, sl bumped board fore edges, v sl bumped spine head, sunned spine, v sl rubbed & sunned boards, foxing to ep's & edges with v sl to first part text).
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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, June 1923, Vol. LI No. 302: Bali - Isle of Wonder
Thomason, Hugh; Walmsley, Leo; Collins, Dale; Meng, I.; Osborne, H.C.; Vivian, H.; Shepstone, H.J.; Lane, R.W.; Holloway, W.H.; Casserly, G.; Collinson, C.W.; Alexander, A.; Masters, D.; Gilhespy
Published by George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1923
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- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 89-176, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The House of Death - how an Oklahoma rancher saved his own life; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 6 - the continued story of this European adventure trip; Bali - Isle of Wonder - wonderfully photo-illustrated article;… Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - part 1of the adventure of Mrs. Idelle S. Meng and her husband on one of the loneliest islands in the Pacific; The Six Feathers - the unfortunate experience of a New Guinea trader who tried to smuggle the forbidden bird-of-paradise plumes out of the country; The Wood-Carvers of the Tyrol - great photo-illustrated article on a trip to the Groden VValley; The Romance of the Fur Trade - photo-illustrated article on fur trapping and fur farming in North-west Canada, including photo of a large polar bear being hauled into a boat; A Woman in Unknown Albania - part 3; The Trail of the Lonesome Postman - letters being delivered to some of the world's most remote locations; Caught by a Crocodile a British officer attempts to fill his water bottle at a river; The Idol That Jumped - the author purchased a 'devil-devil' figure from a Solomon Island chief, then startling things happened; The Merepur Mystery - a mystery is solved in India; The Man Who Fell Six Miles - Major R.W. Schroeder and his airplane - article with photos; The Written Word - Jim Carter saved himself in India with some clever writing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); Wood, Stanley L.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, F.E.; Sherie, E.F.; Woodville, R. Caton; Holloway, W.E.; Gillett, F.; Sindall, A.; Tennant, Dudley; Prater, E. (illustrator).
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The Wide World Magazine, July 1923 - The Mystery of Ayers Valley
Patterson, Walter G.; Spencer, Charles; Pound, Reginald; Dirking, E.J.; Lane, Rose Wilder; Leo Walmsley; Hogg, John Edwin; Meng, Idelle S.; Pound, Reginald; St. Lawrence, Bernard; McMaines, Frank M.; Spry, Graham
Published by George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1923
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 178-264 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Mystery of Ayers Valley - Miss Dorothy Belle Ayers receives an unexpected inheritance which leads to deadly peril; The Smuggled Diamonds - a perplexing mystery in Brazil; Down the Araguaya in a… Dug-out Canoe - the experiences of a missionary-explorer during a trip down a little-known river in Brazil, visiting strange Indian tribes - with excellent photos; The Motor Thieves - a remarkable case of stolen vehicle recovery in southern California - with photos; A Woman in Albania - part 4 - Mrs. Lane's adventures among the remote northern mountains; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 7 of the continuing adventures of a husband and wife with their donkey; Our Trip to the Bird Islands - John Hogg's perilous journey - with many wonderful photos; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - Idelle Meng's 11 months on a deserted group of uninhabited atolls - with photo; Among New Guinea Cannibals - interesting experiences of H.C. Pratt - with photos; The Wonders of Cuba - article with nice vintage photos; Up in the Air - a ballooning story; The Ghost of Fort Severn - the story of an apparition that haunted a Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) post in the Canadian north. Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Faint pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, H.M.; Carruthers, G.P.; Woodville, R. Caton; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, F.E.; Sherie, E.F. (illustrator).
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIV - No. 264, April (Apr.) 1920 - Across Arabia in Disguise / Dominic Pietro
Koppel, H.; Frost, M.O.; Philby, H. St. J.B.; Cuthbertson, R.M.; Franck, H.A.; Walmsley, L.; Thomason, H.; Noble, W.; White, T.W.; Et al
Published by George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1920
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 449-536, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Mystery of Dominic Pietro - how an innocent man was saved from the gallows; The Trials of A Naturalist's Wife - part 4; A Woman's Ordeal - Mrs. C.T. Sturgis was a prisoner of Mexican bandits; Across Unknown Arabia in D…isguise - Part 2 of the great photo-illustrated story of the author's travels among the Wahhabi Arabs; Hunting the Addo Elephants - they were marked for extinction at the hand of famous hunter Major Pretorius - article with many photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 5 - Adventures in Peru, with great photos, including carrying a piano up a mountain!; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season - terrible flooding makes travel very difficult; Photo of 30,000 coconuts being sprouted in Tobago; In Old Madrid - two Americans are left behind in Madrid with an elephant and soon the animal is matched up for battle with a fine Spanish bull!; Photo of London "Dog Market"; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron - Part 2; Photo of the only inhabited "Cloghaun" in Ireland; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 4 - The Adventures and Daring Escape of Airman Capt. T.W. White; A Land of Gods - photo-illustrated article about the people and places of the Kulu Valley of India; The Hunting of Lot Shumway - the pursuit and ultimate capture of this Northern Arizona badman; How Nixon Made Good - a western railroad tale; Photo of Harry Rich of Kansas City - the Human Gun Carriage!; Photo of large tree growing up through millstone at Sheldon's Mill at South Dover, New York. Somewhat above-average wear with openings along backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIV - No. 264, April (Apr.) 1920 - Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise / The Mystery of Dominic Pietro Riyadh Ibn Saud Faisal Mystery of Dominic Pietro - how an innocent man was saved from the gal. Illustrated by Bates, Leo; Brightwell, L.R.; Tennant, Dudley; Horne, A.E.;Holloway, W.H.; Earnshaw, H.; Avis, W.; Prater, E.; Bates, L.; Wigfull,W.E. (illustrator).
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The Wide World, True Stories of Adventure, April [Apr.] 1922, Vol. 48, No. 288: The Siege of Urfa
Clements, Colin Campbell; Lavington, John; Vivian, Herbert; Rutzebeck, Hjalmar; Pound, Reginald; Cornell, Fred C.; Walmsley, Leo; Porter, G.C.; Saraiva, Propercia De Mello; Swan, H.E.; Fletcher, E.F.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1922
- Softcover
- 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 Five Hundred - Part I - Events attending the siege and fall of Urfa where 500 French troops held out against the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds…and Turks - article with photos; The World's Largest Ice Cavern - in the mountains of Tyrol in Austria - article with photos; The Three "Little People" of St. Gwendron - an odd story from the wilds of Cornwall involving the occult - article with photos; The World's Most Thrilling Sport - photo-illustrated article on the rock climbers of Tyrol; A Man's Luck - Part VII - a man tries to build an Alaska home for the girl of his dreams but keeps being jailed; The Loneliest Briton - Ernest Davies spent eight years in the Paumotus, three thousand miles from the nearest Australian or American ports; Photo of a thirty foot python; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part II - description of an exciting trip into the practically unknown region to the north of Cape Colony, sometimes called the "Mysterious Richtersveld"; Bill's First Lion - things didn't go as planned; The Man Who Fooled a Continent - "Lord Gordon Gordon" nearly brought about an international incident between Great Britain and the USA; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part IV - documenting what was probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies; "Moonshine Valley" - account of a raid on a stronghold of moonshiners in Strawn, Texas; The Death-Trap - A Texas cowpuncher's night of horror; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 444-528, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. de Walton, John; Somerfield, T.; Wood, Stanley, L.; Lane, Harry; Prater, E.; Hart, Frank; Carruthers, G.P.; Peddie, Tom; Woodville, W.P. Caton (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
- Softcover
- 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
- Softcover
- 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 - True Stories of Adventure, August [Aug.] 1923, Vol. LI, No. 304: The Story of John Jewitt / The Children of the Wilderness
Lugrin, N. De Bertrand; Bredon, Juliet; Evans, Captain E.A.; Pound, Reginald; Plummer, Ernest Arthur; Siringo, Charles A.; Collinson, Clifford W.; Walmsley, Leo; Lachman, Leonard; McKissick, Stuart; Lane, Rose Wilder; Carron, Grant
Published by The International New Company, New York, 1923
- Softcover
- 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 Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I -… Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Skelton, J.R.; Robinson, T.H.; Nicholson, W.C.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, G.E.; Hall, Tom; Woodville, R. Caton; Carruthers, G.P. (illustrator).
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, May 1923, Vol. LI, No. 301: A Woman in Unknown Albania / Seeking the Copper Mountain
Wardale, William; McMahon, Thomas J.; Long, Edward E.; Layng, Charles; Verrill, A. Hyatt; Lane, Rose, Wilder; Walmsley, Leo; Sutton-Paterson, J.; Gilbert, Harrie C.
Published by The International New Company, New York, 1923
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Kidnapped by the "Gavilleros"- the British administrator of a large sugar estate on the West Indian island of Santo Domingo is kidnapped; An Island Paradise - photo-illustrated article on the…'progress, civilized, and thoroughly lovable people' of Fiji; Looking Backwards - 25th Birthday of this publication; An Adventure With a Mad Buffalo; Jimmy's Reformation - Jimmy Boncelek used to be the terror of Stigler, Oklahoma; Seeking the Copper Mountain - photo-illustrated account of an eventful journey through the little-known province of Veraguas, part of the Republic of Panama; A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part II - Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains, a picturesque country where the tribal blood-feud still flourishes - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part V - a tramp with a donkey cart, avoiding all modern luxuries; The Tobacco Smugglers of the Belgian Border - photo-illustrated report; A Soldier of Fortune - Part II - remarkable personal narrative smuggled from a man presently incarcerated in a French prison; Splitting the Herd - A cowboy adventure from the Texas plains; Photos of Chinese cave temple at Gunong Rapat in the federated Malay States; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Verpilleux; Prater, Ernest; De Walton, John; Woodville, R. Caton; Cleaver, Reginald; Elcock, Howard; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator).
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, October [Oct.] 1922, Vol. 49, No. 294: Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa
Vivian, Herbert; Taylor, Merlin Moore; Walmsley, Lieut. Leo; Carline, Richard; Casserly, Lieut.-Col. Gordon; Hendrickson, W.E.; Darling, Eugene; Steele, Harwood; De Belabre, Baron; Harvey, K.H.; Pound, Reginald
Published by The International New Company, New York, 1922
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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 Hypnotist Detective - Dr. Leopold Thoma of Vienna is a new kind of detective; Knocking at the Cannibals Door - a very dramatic story of the "white man's burden" near the Kunimaipa River in… British New Guinea; My Misadventures in Finistere - an amusing account of a holiday sojourn on a little island off the northern coast of Brittany; Through the East by Air - Part III - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; The Tiger Calls - an account of what befell two Indian teaplanters; Our Little Outing - An exciting story from a P. Burns and Co. beef camp southeast of Olds, Alberta; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part III - the remarkable story of a man who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever occur in America; The Ship That Disappeared - The perilous adventure of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine steamer "Canadian Importer"; The "Human Leopards" - A Terrible secret society in Sierra Leone, West Africa; The Blue Spot Theory - a funny story about checking for birthmarks on Burmese babies; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part I - Oscar Olsson's aim was to shoot big game with a film camera; My Fishing Trip - a British Officer's touch and go experience in Sopor, a village in Kashmir; and more. 86 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Hossack, J.W.; Webb, Arch; Brock, R.H.; Vedder, S.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, E.; Holloway, W.H.; Brock, H.M.; Soper, G. (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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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).
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Tela. Condition: Nuevo. Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo. LIBRO.
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Seller: Librería Raimundo, CADIZ, CA, SpainLibrería Raimundo
Contact seller4-star sellerLondres, S/F. Edita, Walter James Turner. Cartoné original algo rozada. Exlibris del anterior propietario. Ilustradocon láminas en B/N y a color. 48pp., 22,5x16,5cm. Estado normal. MARINA Y NAVEGACION.
