Macmunn George Major (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. No. MCLXI; No. MCLXII; No. MCLXIII; 8vo; 424 pages; Contents clean and complete in brown polished buckram binding with leather title label and gilt lettering at spine; leather label rubbed. Three issues of this wonderful journal bound together. Some of the articles in these three issues include: Will Home Rule be Rome Rule? by J. P. Mahaefy; The Lady of the Canaries by St John Lucas; Stalking the Red Deer of Otago by A. E. Leatham; From Sepoy to Subahdar by Major MacMunn; Tales of the Mermaid Tavern by Alfred Noyes; The Burial of a Queen - Hocken and Hunken ; "The Great Straloch"; The Folly of International Sport - The "Decay" of Cricket - The Game and the Spectator; The Making of the Panama Canal by Charles Paxton Markham; The Constitution under Cromwell and under Asquith by Arthur Page ; Omar, the Policeman of Beyrout; With the Abor Expeditionary Force by Wanderer; Shipwrecked by George Forbes, F.B.S.; etc. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback; pages heavily yellowed (low quality paper) otherwise good in yellowed, faded and price-clipped dustjacket.; A history of the Indian regiments from the eighteenth century down to 1911. Colour uniform plates by Major A. C. Lovett. Reprint of the edition published 1911.; 224 pages. Alfred Crowdy Lovett (illustrator). …

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Dust wrapper sunned at the spine. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned although the plates remain very pleasant; Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5½" (0.9 kg); pp (xiii) 224; Index; Preface by Field-Marshal Earl Roberts; Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates; Black & White Drawings; Tables; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #176458 ||. A. C. [Alfred Crowdy] Lovett (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: In Search of the Lost Oases - Part I of a wonderful trip across the desert from Sollum, on the Mediterranean, to El Obeid, in the Sudan, mostly through unexplored territory, with photos; Smugglers Three - Poaching swan eggs; Azizun the Dancing-Girl - Sir George MacMunn owned an uncanny little "frog-girl" in India; The Odyssey of the "Olga" - A trip from Nome, Alaska to Seattle ended up taking over three months!; Photo of sixty-foot-tall statue of the god Gomateswara being annointed with oil on the great hill of Sravanbelgola; Left Behind - A young white woman is left behind at a lonely wayside station in the heart of Rhodesia; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part I - G.M. Dyott was abandoned by his guide in the trackless upper reaches of the Amazon and endured an ordeal to return home - with photos; The Thirteenth Sample - A nerve-trying adventure in the depths of an abandoned mine in Northern Mexico; A Bird-Hunter in the Wilds - G.L. Bates describes a seven-month journey in the remote Cameroon country of Central Africa - with great photos; The Voice in the Darkness - A tragic story of an encounter between a bootlegger and the law during prohibition in Brigson, Alberta; "Sinbad the Sailor" - An American university professor becomes a swindler in Winnipeg; Tiger Tales - Tales from Assam and Sumatra by W.J. Brands; What Was It? - Patrick Brown encountered a mysterious monster in South Africa which appeared to be a survivor of some prehistoric species; The Crocodile Charmers of Java - Javanese witch-doctors 'make love to them, induce them to follow them like pet dogs, and lead them to their deaths'; The Two Strangers - Dr. C.E.Ellis thought he knew a 'bunco man' but then he met two harmless prospectors. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, October 1925, Rosita Forbes, Kufra, Rohlfs, Senussi, Siwa, Sayed Idris Sennusi, Qayi-m-qana, In Search of the Lost Oases, Sahara desert, Sollum, El Obeid, Sudan, Smugglers Three, Swan eggs, Swan Egg Poaching, Azizun the Dancing-Girl. Illustrated by Woodville, R. Caton; Gillett, F.; Leigh, Conrad; York,W.G.; Sutcliffe, Norman; Somerfield, T.; Eyles, D.C.; Brock, H.M.; Holmes,Fred; Briault, S.; Prater, E.; Goss, G.W.; Peddie, Tom; Lloyd, Stanley (illustrator).…