Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The Royal Thames founded in 1775 and the UK's first club has witnessed the development of yachting in Britain. This beautifully illustrated book relates not only the history of the club and its members, but also delves into the customs and culture of each era to modern times.
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: USED_FAIR. Cuneo, T.T.; Holloway, Cyril; Osmond, Edward; Brock, H.M.; Treslian, S. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 117-176 plus several pages of vintage ads. Features: Forty-Eight Days Adrift! - after being torpedoed, nine Norwegian seamen spent weeks adrift; Three Mean Killers; Revenge! - in 1916 North Bay, Ontario Pole Leo Leopold vows to get Detective Fred Fefbyre when he gets out of prison; The Fatal Watch; Lost Mines; Cowboys Adrift - two youngsters from a Cariboo, British Columbia ranch make their first trip to Vancouver; Deck Passage; The Ming Jar - what happened after the author purchased a choice piece of porcelain; "Prickly Pete"; The Relapinawa Buffalo - an outlaw buffalo terrorizes an entire Ceylonese district; The Yellow Box; The Amateurs; The Finger of Fate; The Interlopers - an Australian cattle drover story; Adventures with Polar Bears; and more. Above-average wear to front cover and back strip so front cover holding loosely. Small bit of sticker remnant on front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy copy.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1926
First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Abbey, S.; Bird, L. Pern; Prater, Ernest; Gillett, F.; Sindall, A.; Carruthers, G.P.; Holloway, Cyril; Potts, Leonard; Soper, G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, Ernest (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Car No. 13 - A routine train trip enmeshes F. A. Malcomson aboard Car No. 13 of the "Californian Limited" at Los Angeles; My Mad Mate - The reason why young Harry Neild's hair was white; Among the Amazons - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of the Wai-woi, a little-known tribe of Indians; My Buffalo - How a hunter's first shoot was nearly his last in the Himalayan foothills northeast of Ghaggar; A "New Chum" in New Zealand - Part I - Jottings from a recently emigrated young farmer who took the plunge and began farming ; The Mozampur Dacoity - A curious robbery in India; Behind the Himalayas - Part II of II - A wonderfully photo-illustrated account of an exploration to the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Cannon Idol of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies; A Duck-Shooting Adventure - Using ice-scooters to hunt ducks on the Great South Bay of Long Island; The Black Hand - A recent adventure in Kuling, China, which is currently experiencing a wave of serious brazen crime; Two Girls in a Typhoon - The trying experience of two young ladies aboard a tramp steamer from Hong Kong to British North Borneo; A Matter of Promotion - The story of a long, hard chase , in the depths of winter, of two half-breed outlaws by a constable of the Royal North-West Mounted Police at Saddle Lake, Saskatchewan; Through the Inner Deserts of Arabia - Part I - The exciting adventures of the Countess Malmignati, the first European woman to penetrate the little-known Inner Deserts of Arabia - this part describing her time in Damascus before the journey - with photos; Letters; The Phantom Tiger - Jean M.F. Dubois, a former planter in Lokop Province, Sumatra, explains what happened when he pursued a tiger which had caused a local reign of terror - with photo. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Average wear and soiling to back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue.
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1922
First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Wood, Stanley L.; Carruthers, G.P.; Holloway, C.; Wigfull, T.C.; Hiley, F.; Tennant, Dudley; Williams, C. Fleming (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part II - The U.S. attempts to prevent the arming of revolutionaries in Dominica in 1906-7; Hunting Wild Goats By Seaplane and Motorcycle Near San Clemente - article with photos; Remanded - a perfectly blameless man is blamed for a crime; Full Speed Astern - 400 men aboard the steamer Remiji Maru are saved by the action of a young engineer on watch two days out of Hong Kong; The Wild Men of Borneo - Wonderful photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Dyaks; Photo and letter from a reader who, with five friends, dressed up in KKK outfits and brought along a relative in blackface to entertain at a fancy-dress ball in Leeds; Across Remote Yunnan - Part II - Capt. F. Kingdon Ward continues his journey through the little-known region where the frontiers of China and Tibet meet - article with nice photos; Two Men and a "Pink" - terrifying experience of two returned Canadian soldiers off the coast of Labrador aboard their vessel Terra Nova, nicknamed the Turn Over; "Gentleman" Girard - Frenchman Henri Girard made a profession of poisoning people whose lives he had insured; The Ghost Dancers of the Imst - unusual customs in the Tyrolian valley village of Imst - article with photos; Down the "Old Delph" - two men venture into a disused mine near Roby Mill in Lancashire; Marooned On a Precipice - Three mountain climbers, Karl Aichner, Alois Netzer, and Conrad Schuster, are stranded for six days in the Northern Tyrol; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 180-264, 9-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear and some soiling to back cover. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue.