Richards Captain G H (3 results)

Super octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xx + 476pp, illus: single map only,VG- (moderate-heavy cracking to gutters - boards moderately shaky, moderate scuffing, soiling & sun-fading to boards, light cracking to spine, moderate-heavy foxing/tanning to pages, occasional annotations in light pencil). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Binder a bit damaged Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns prepublication in 1964 "Bunter's Mystery Money" Bunter Bowled out appear unpublished. Summer number H G Wells "The First Men on the Moon" dumas, Alexandre "Twenty Years After" Fortunino Matania artwork Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns. by Johns, Captain W.E. C E Brock full page Barnaby Rudge Frank Richards "Billy Bunter of Grey Friars School" C E Brock The Old Curiosity Shop Frank Richards "Bunter's Mystery Money" "The Spitfire" peter scott Frank Richards "Bunter Bowled out" "marooned on an iceberg" W H G Kingston. Book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos; "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; The "High-Jackers" - an audacious gang of murderous bank robbers terrorize the Canadian prairies, beginning in Moosomin, SK and ending in Pipestone, MB; The Islands of the Mammoths - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia is the world's best hunting ground for the tusks and bones of the prehistoric mammoth - article with photos; The Three Angleteers - Part III - The troubles and adventures of three bored young men who leave England to travel in Europe; With Canoe and Camera - Capt. M.H. Albert explored Northern Ontario and Quebec to photograph wild animals - article with photos; The Mystery of Diablo Canon - The adventures of Senor Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Two photos of two-room house built in the trunk of an immense California redwood; The Terror of Rampur - two hunters undertake to kill a murderous tiger in India; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part I - Photo-illustrated article by Beatrice Grimshaw describing her trip up the Sepik river in New Guinea, where she met the local native peoples - who were none-too friendly; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part IV - A small English expedition sets out to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study their local peoples; Some Sensational Prison Escapes - Carl Otto and Jack Foster bust loose from Folsom Prison; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Davis, G.H.; Abbey, S.; Soper, G.; Wood, Stanley L.; Edwards, Lionel; De Walton, John; Webb, Arch. (illustrator).…