S John Holyoake (3 results)
Published by Manchester University Press, 1972
- Softcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Add to basketCondition: Good. 1972. No Edition Remarks. 226 pages. Paperback book with cream cover. French and English text. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild e…dge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, November [Nov.] 1924, Vol. LIV, No. 319: Hunting the Opium Smugglers
Grant, Captain Gordon; Holyoake, Mabel A.; Sandell, T.C.; Carline, Richard; Denys, Courtenay; Rawson, John; McLaren, Jack; read, Oliver; Buchanan, Captain Angus; Brooke, W.; Olivier, C.J.; Scott, Rev. W.E.R.; Michaelis, Ralph
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1924
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chai…r" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. de Walton, John; Hiley, F.E.; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Cameron, John; Wood, Stanley L.; Brightwell, L.R.; Soper, G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton (illustrator).
Published by Librairie Droz, Genève, 1969
Seller: Libreria Le Colonne, TORINO, TO, ItalyLibreria Le Colonne
Contact seller5-star sellerI due saggi su MONTAIGNE occupano rispettivamente 14 pp. (in italiano) e 29 pp. (in inglese). Il fasc. in-8° (cm. 23,6x19,2), bross. edit., intonso, è completo delle sue 256 pagine e contiene inoltre: 1) Robert D. COTTRELL, "PERNETTE du GUILLET's 'RYMES': an Adventure in Ideal Love", 19 pagine sulla dotta sedicenne poetessa PERN…ETTE (Lione 1520 circa - 1545) e sul suo incontro con il brutto umanista trentacinquenne Maurice SCEVE che s'innamorò di lei, la quale divenne sua alunna e musa. 2) 10 pp. di F. Secret, "Les 'TUMULI' oubliés de Pierre BOULANGER" [Petrus Bulengerus, morto nel 1589), 10 riportanti e commentanti i POEMETTI in LATINO sulle tombe di Jean de Morel, G. Postel, Loiuis Le Roy, Etienne Jodel, Belleau, RONSARD, RABELAIS. 3) Daniel CUISIAT, "La lyre crossèe. Un épisode de la vie de RONSARD (Anet et Fontainebleau, août 1556)", 14 pp. 4) Uwe PLATH, "Nocheinmal 'LYNCURIUS'. Einige Gedanken zu GRIBALDI, CURIONE, CALVIN und SERVET", 28 pagine in tedesco (con un facsimile) su Alphonsus LYNGURIUS, autore di una "Apologia pro Servetus", scritta pochi mesi dopo che, a Ginevra, nel 1553 l'antitrinitario Serveto era stato bruciato sul rogo dai calvinsiti, che misero così in crisi la libertà conclamata dai Riformatori. 5) Georges BONNANT, "Les INDEX PROHIBITIFS et EXPURGATOIRES CINTREFAITS par des Protestants au XVIe et au XVIIe siècle2, 30 pagine con 14 riprod. di frontespizi di lindici di libri proibiti e purgati CONTRAFFATTI dai Riformatori. Ecc.
