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Nutshell News Magazine - For the Complete Miniatures Hobbyist, August 1987 - Bearfoot on Bonnie Beach
Features: Cheryl Adams portrays the simpler times of yesterday; Bonnie Franklin's Childhood Capers and Bear Facts; Maude Boehnert re-creates the great outdoors; Vacationing and Miniatures Hunting - a great combination!; Lloyd McCaffery's Voyage Through Time - historic ships; Dolores Duran-Cerda - a miniaturist since age 5; Faberge - treasures to delight royalty; Britannia House - a peek inside; Hollywood of the 40s is captured in several panoramic displays; Tu Moonwalker and her woven heritage of native designs; Lovely sewing chest and accessories; Rush weave this elegant chair; Camel back sofa; The perfect Pergola - a flat-top pergola and patio furniture for outdoor settings; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, January 1972, Volume 2, Number 1
Features: Geodes at Rabbit Springs; Buyer's Guide to Wax Pens; Dowsing for Jade; The Bola; 50 Bola Tie Ideas; 'Tuffa' Casting; Color in Rocks and Gems; Findings and Mountings; Good Hunting in the Badger State; $5 Soldering Short-Cut; The Gems of Idar-Oberstein. Above-average wear. Sound copy. Date stamp and some crayon marks to front cover. Magazine
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Rock and Gem Magazine, September, 1983, Volume 13, Number 9
Features: Buckling Up with a Cabochon; Gold Alert!; Gold Panning Goes High-Tech; Field Trip - Utah Wonderstone; Team Channeling; Field Trip - Wiley's Well; Rock Art; Field Trip - Mount Antero Crystals; Peridot; Treasure Hunting; Today's Metal Detectors; Seashell Pendant; Follow the Rules. Average wear. Date stamp on front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.31. No. 4 - July-August 1985
Features: New trouble in the tide pools; Northern elephant seals return; Sunburst after nightfall; Will the Caribbean hawksbill turtle survive?; Unwanted oil and gas production; Li'l Red; Shark hunting on the Arkansas ocean deep; Follow up - Source of the Bermuda freak waves. Sound copy. Book
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The Atlantic Magazine, November 1955 *Other Worlds Than Ours*
114 pages. Features: Reports on Canada's Boom, Washington, and Jordan; Other Worlds Than Ours, by Donald H. Menzel; British Cultural Fatique, by Kenneth Tynan; Hunting Moon, by William Wister Haines; The Kidnaping of Kamlon, by Agnes Newton Keith; Horizon Thong (a poem), by George Abbe; Soviet Industry, by Edward Crankshaw; Cockles, Brambles, and Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Saturday Night, a Story, by Marjorie Anais Housepian; Educational Television, by Leland Hazard; The Wreath - a story, by Frank O'Connor; T.E. Lawrenc- Man or Myth?, by B.H. Liddell Hart; Charles de Gaulle, by Curtis Cate; Air Travel with Stopovers, by Mitchell Goodman (part 2). Interesting colour ad by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover; Black and white photo ad by the Bell Telephone System shows damage of Hurricane Diane. Nice black and white photo ad by Columbia Records features pianist Robert Casadesus; Colour ad for the European Travel Commission inside back cover; Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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The Edmontonian, January 1962 - Published monthly in the interests of employees of the T. Eaton Co., Western Ltd., Edmonton
12 pages. Features: Behind the Scenes photos of employees at work in the Men's Wear Tailor Shop; Jim Dowell and Cliff Carter - photos of their hunting trip; Christmas party reports; Great collage of photos in centerfold shows bowlers (named) at the "Turkey Shoot for Eaton's Bowlers"; Eaton's Berkley brand; Mourning Mrs. Ida May Cochran. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, December 1988
Features: Capturing Satellites in Space looking back at earth; Waiting for a Vision; Exploring Earth's Life Support System; Hunting Wildlife with Pen and Palette; Ecuador's Forest Refuge; The Rock Art of Cape York Peninsula; Indian Sites of the Alaskan Islands; Why we do it; The Great Horned Owl. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, December 1, 1962 *BERLIN'S TUNNELS TO FREEDOM*
Features: Why husbands die young, by Peg Bracken - they think it's sissy to admit they're sick - until too late; Our New Strategy - the alternatives to total war; "My Favorite Quotation" - provided by many famous people; Artist of the Third Eye - Marc Chagall; ; Now Ruthie Newton is in Step - she was found half-dead when she was an infant in India; Digging a Way to Freedom - the human story behind tunnel 29 from East to West Germany; Coaches on a Collision Course - Army's Paul Dietzel and Navy's Wayne Hardin drive their teams toward a showdown in Saturday's gridiron classic; Why I Quit Hunting - a hunter tells how the slaying of an antelope struck him with so deep a sorrow that he put away his guns forever; Stormy Sage of Weather Control - Dr. Irving Parkhurst Krick not only predicts rain, he makes it for his clients by seeding rain clouds from planes; Hollywood's new breed of Soft Young Men - Richard Beymer, Troy Donahue, George Hamilton, Mickey Callan, George Chakiris. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, July 17, 1965 *SEAN CONNERY COVER PHOTO*
Features: Must we woo Red China? - by Arnold J. Toynbee; A time of trouble (Affairs of the State); Should Women give Men the Vote?; America's new big rich - despite high taxes, a small number of little-known men have made huge postwar fortunes - John D. MacArthur, Dr. Edwin Land, Howard Ahmanson, John Mecom, W. Clement Stone, Henry Crown - with photos; The Great wild-bee safari - bee-tree hunting; Last of the Divorce Rances - Donner Trail Ranch; Adak - "A woman behind Every Tree" - a return to the Aleutian/Alaskan Island manned by 80,000 Americans during World War II; Discovery that helps prevent miscarriages - 'Skin Patch'; The big (James) Bond bonanza - great photos of the 'Thunderball' shoot and more. Colour Chevrolet Truck 'Workpower' centerfold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, October 31, 1954 *The CIA and America's Secret Agents*
178 pages. Features: Colour Parker Pen ad inside front cover; Douglas aircraft ad featuring the Skyrocket; Nice colour Brach's candy ad; Colour 2-page ad for Studebaker featuring the new 1955 models; Nice 20-page colour ad for Sun-Maid Sunsweet dried fruit products; The Mysterious Doings of CIA - America's Secret Agents - an exclusive report on its methods, how it recruits, how it is funded, and its accomplishments in Guatemala, Iran and behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; Frontier Frenzy, by John Reese; Will China Stay Red? - Joseph Alsop reports some curious and little-known truths about China - article with photos; The Man-Handler, by Williams Forrest; The Luckiest Girl in Hollywood - Grace Kelly - article with wonderful colour photos; Outcast of the Florida Keys, by Frank Skipp; The Truth About Congressmen - by Martin Dies, Congressman at Large, Texas; Confessions of a Football Recruiter - the hilarious adventures of Herman Hickman while hunting athletes - with photos; Tugboat Annie's Long Shot, by Norman Reilly Raine; My Old Man Groucho (Marx), by Arthur Marx (Part 7); The Zone of Sudden Death, by William Chamberlain; A Ten-Day Tiger Hunt costs $1,000 - with a kill guaranteed - Tigers are so plentiful in Central India that there is no limit on the bag! - with photos; Howard Morris has taught over 7,400 tourists to hula aboard the Lurline - with many great colour photos; House of Hate, by Storm Jameson; The Case of the Restless Redhead, by Erle Stanley Gardner - Perry Mason's informant learned the hard way that you can't make deals with criminals; Black and white photo ad by Chrysler Corp. shows their auto stylists at work; Nice colour 2-page photo ad for Admiral televisions; Two-colour ad for Pendleton shirts; Nice two-colour ad for Oliver tractors; Stromberg-Carlson television ad; Interesting 2-page Borg-Warner ad in 'Ripley's Believe it or Not' format; Glamorous colour Philip Morris ad; Two-page ad by REO Motors featuring the new mighty REO V-8 Gold Comet Truck Engine; Buck Skein Joe sport fasion ad; Colour ad by the Philadelphia Electric Company; Nice color Cream of Wheat ad features cartoon characters by Al Capp; Frank Thomas on "The Best Player I Ever Coached" - Dixie Howell; Colour ad for Dictaphone; Coke ad on back cover promotes Eddie Fisher on "Coke Time" NBC television twice each week. Average wear. Ink drops to top edge of last few pages. A sound copy. Book
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The Tatler and Bystander (Magazine), October 10, 1951
56 pages. Features: Lovely ful-page black and white photo ad for ballito Nylo-wisp Nylons; Photo Portrait of the Hon. Denys and Mrs. Buckley at home; Summer Revisited Waldershare for Lady Barbara's Wedding; Some Portraits in Print, by Gordon Beckles; Tamburlaine by Lightning; At the Theatre, by Anthony Cookman; Seductive full-page black and white photo of Edwige Feuillere gazing into mirror; At the Autumn Collections - Jennifer's Social Journal; Large photo of young Orme Roosevelt Clarke at wishing well; Hunting Notes - with many photos; Priscilla in Paris - interesting social news and photos, including nice seaside photo of dancers Nathalie Krassovska and Boris Trailine; Centerfold montage of black and white photos entitled "The Stage's Great Welcome tot the Players from France; Nice full-page photo of Ann Todd and her Sealyham Whisky resting on the grass; At the Pictures, with P.L. Mannock; Standing by, by D.B. Wyndham Lewis; Parade Ground at Sandhurst Became Show Ring for a Day - seven photos of the annual horse show; Cartoon page; Knights of the Round Table dinner honours those who defended Hong Kong; Sabretache; Thame Recreation Ground Horse Show - seven photos; Cleaning up the Preselector - a motoring column by Oliver Stewart; Anglo-American Air Conference photos; Irish Yearling Sales records broken at Ballsbridge - with seven photos; Group photo of members of Flying Training Command; Autumn Coats for a Young Girl - fashion photos; Nice full-page photo ad for Peter Jones fashions; Photos of engagements and marriages; Group photo of Old Whitgiftians XV, 1951 Rugby team; Nice colour ad for Simpson ski apparel inside back cover. Back cover colour ad for Dewar's Scotch Whisky shows smiling fellow staring at himself in mirror. Covers detached but present. Coverfold open, save for the top three inces. Bit of writing on front cover. Contents in good unmarked condition. An enjoyable vintage issue. Magazine
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The War Illustrated - 12 January, 1918
Features: What really happened at Kut (article); Winter photos from the western front; Photos of massive guns in France; Cairns to the memory of Verdun; Why were we misled? - an article to shed some light upon the corruption and ineptitude in Russia; French allies who aided in Allenby's advance; Article - Meeting the Spy Menace - how Britain's counter-espionage was successfully carried out; Help for homeless Hun victims; Airplane caught in mast of wireless station!; article - dealing with the U-Boat - some wonderful episodes in the hunting of the Submarine Hun; Photo of Col. J.H. Patterson, D.S.O. inspecting the Jewish Battalion; glimpses of some warships in the American Navy; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - Volume 18: November, 1906 Through April 1907 (missing February 1907)
Features: Robinson Cruesoe's Island; A Fight with a Leopard; The White Slaves of the Grand Banks; In Search of Pearls; The Guardians of the Yukon; The Adventures of a Miniature "Strong Man"; My Tour Through Java; An American "Oliver Twist" - II; The Tragedy of the Tower; In Quest of the Bird of Paradise; A Race with Death; Down the Crank-Pit; "The Land of Enchantment"; The Demon Snake; The Ghost of Musket Flat; Two Days in the Under-World; A Treasure-Hunt in the Arctic; Down the Grand Canyon; Father Raymond's Burglar; Stealing a Secret; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - I; My Friend the Leopard; The Convict's Story; Hunting the Wild Carabao; Six Days in a Swamp; Frog Farms; The Garo's Oath; Tracking the Wire-Thieves; A Tale of Two Tigers; A Lady in Far Fiji - I; "Bud" Turner of Missouri; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - II; Dublin and I; Monsters of the Forest; How Hassan Captured the Battleship; The World's Model Prison; Beseiged by Monkeys; Christmas in Montenegro; The Poacher's Daughter; Through Friesland on Skates; A Speculation in Turkeys; Searching for Castaways; In the Land of the "Long-Lips"; A Chapter of Accidents; A Lady in Far Fiji - III; What Befell the "Kathleen"; The Tragedy of a Swiss Mountain; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - II; The Sea-Hedgehog Harvest; The Sheriff and the "Bad Men"; The Vanished Islands; On the Frontier in Central Africa - I; Running the Blockade; What Happened in Carpenter Creek; 'Twixt Ice and Sea; A Pedestrian's Predicament; Four on a Raft; The Perils of Walrus-Hunting?; The Story of Maungawahati; Sergeant Daley's Ordeal; On the Frontier in Central Africa - II; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - III; The Village of "Scissor-Grinder" Guides; "Slippery Letts"; The Company of Mercy; The Mummy Head; Wide World Picture Tours - I; Two Stowaways; The Mystery of the "Placer"; An Iceberg Ship; Life on a Dahabeeyah; Cornering a Cattle-Thief; Among Brigands and Wild Sheep in Mongolia; Two Men and a Shark; Through the United States on a Bicycle - I. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - Volume 22: November 1908 Through April 1909 (Does Not Include February 1909)
Features: Vivillo, The Brigand; Walrus Hunt in the Arctic; Sporting Stories - iv - Corker's Alligator - v - A Brush With a Bear - vi - Man v. Python; Guardians of the Wilderness; The Legend of the Wailing Woman; Mountaineering by Telescope; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - III; Some Experiences in Malaya; "Jack Ashore"; A Daring Voyage Down the Grand Canyon; A Romance of Two Islands - II; Courtship and Marriage in Savage Africa; The Capture of Antonio Barracola; Barmaid's Steeplechase; The Greatest Horse-Race on Record; The Promotion of Petroff; The Humours of a Rectorial Election; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - I; Climbing in the "Land of Fire"; The Spider's Web; Dolphin-Hunting; A Tragedy of the Nile; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - I; Recollections of a Texas Ranger; Short Stories - My Adventure at Arad, The Horror in the Pit; The Cruise of the "Crocodile"; Propitiating the Weather; The Affair at Greenville; The Terror in the Sanctuary; Across America by Airship; Fighting a Typhoon; A State Trial in Montenegro; Crossing the River; A Belgian Smoking Competition; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - II; Hunting the Hippopotamus; The Tale the Doctor Told; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - II; Short Stories - A Bluff that Worked, and The Yellow Fiend; My Experinces in Algeria - I; My Alaskan Christmas; Short Stories - Whave v. Sharks, A Battle in Mid-Air, Up in a Balloon; Some "Freak" Memorials; Down the Chute; Where Women Wear Trousers; Retribution; Mountain Tragedies of the Lake District; Cupid and the Dentist; My Experiences in Algeria - III; Ways that are Dark - My Adventures in 'Frisco, A Sharp Lesson, Seeing it Out; In the Land of the Reindeer; "Tapu"; The Finches' Festival; The Fight at the A-T Ranch; How I Got My Jaguar Skin; Out of the Skies; A Night Adventure in Yokohama; Ten Lions in a Day!; My Friend Dalton; Two Girls in Japan; The Last Creek; The Romance of Wild Animal Catching; How We Captured the Rebel Chief; Round the World with a Billiard-Cue; When "Tenderfeet" Go Hunting Bears; The Life of a Steeplejack; The Longest Chase on Record; The Land of Superstition; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Several pages partially loose, otherwise a sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, April 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Trailing the King Elephant - an amazing story from India with photos; The Hermit of the Barrens - Tragedy befalls Jack Hornby and two Englishmen in the Canadian Arctic - photos; Hunting Down the Black Jack Gang - a desperado gang in the American Southwest; War on the Dingo in Australia; The Man from Berlin - travelling through Somaliland the author picks up a German who is hitch-hiking from Berlin to South Africa; Word of Parrot - a story from the Bisichi tin-field in Nigeria; Ju-Ju in Modern Africa; Antarctica's 'Bachelor's Hall' - masculine housekeeping at the base camp of desolate Heard Island; and more. Chips from top of backstrip else average wear. Decent copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August (Aug.) 1918: Thrilling Stories of the Air
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1911 - Across Unknown Labrador - Part IV By H. Hesketh Prichard
Pages 314-416 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Mystery of Grenville Park - The Countess Mannati D'Induno Olphert; Hunting the Wild Bull in New Zealand - D. W.O. Fagan; The Black Band - D.H. Low; A Houseboat on the Euphrates - John Horne; A Fight with a Golden Eagle - Frederic Lees; The "Zincali" Knife - H.J. O'Brien; An Ocean Death Trap; James G. McCurdy; Two Years Among Strange Tribes - Part I - W. Hilton-Simpson; The Adventures of "Babi" - W. Dingwall Fordyce; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part 5 - Mrs. Fred Maturin; The Sacrifice - D.D. Kennedy; A Church Built in a Day - H.J. Shepstone; A Nightmare Voyage - Chandos St. John Brenon; Across Unkown Labrador - Part 4 - H. Hesketh Prichard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1936
Stories: Kultis Jim's Totem Pole (A droll story from Alaska, showing how a 'simple' Indian got the better of a bunch of astute business men and incidentally landed them in a most embarassing situation); My Adventures on Lundy; Trial by Ordeal; The Far East's Wild West; Murder Valley; Tough!; Illicit Ivory; The Shadow; Flood on the Alto Paraguay; The Soda-Siphon Bulb; The Timber Thieves; The Hunting of Wild Toby; Nigerian Ju-Ju; Queensland's First Hunt-Club. Average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1947
Stories: El Dorado of the Fogs; Forbidden Territory; The Man Who Didn't Understand Pictures; The Haunted Woman; The Great Idea; The Old Gent Gets Tough; The People of the Caves; The Wooden Horsemen; When the Rain Came; Hunting the Giant Octopus; Dennis; Delayed Action; Fourteen Days. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1939
Stories: The Hunting of Bad Young Man; A Doctor In Korea; British Columbia Loggers; The Ways of Crocodiles; The Man Who Blundered; Down Channel; The Thieves Market; Our Treasure Hunt; The Odyssey of Idle Hour; To the Congo Volcanoes; White Man's Magic; The Uninvited Guest; Old Silas; A Bush Christmas. Prior owner's name upon front cover. Average wear. Covers separated from textblock but present. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1941
Stories: The Clue of the Broken Needle; The Seer of Kantara; A Day to Remember; Hunting Wild Horses; Stope Number Five East; River Death; A Cant.Mag. on Trek; The Witherell Kidnapping Case; The Derelict; Adventure Ahoy; The Haunted Bungalow; The McGuire Mystery. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1951, Australian Edition
Features: Exploring the Green Hell - describes journeys to Brazil's Matto Grosso; Ning Wo Intervenes - reprint of a 1928 story involving a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; The Mystery of 'Lost Creek Mine' - sequel of a 1941 story of a lost gold mine in the wilds of British Columbia; The 'Man-Leopards of Malimbu - a Nigerian story; Among the Hairy Ainu of Japan; The Mosquito Net - another elephant hunting tale by Capt. B.B. Celliers; The Train Robbers - Indian Railway Thieves; The Accursed Island - landing on an uninhabited atoll to repair his schooner, the author made an amazing discovery; The Hirazawa Case - a strange mass murder/poisoning case in Japan; and more. Covers loose but present. Tape along backstrip. 2"x2" chunk missing from back cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, December 1954
Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1940
Stories: The Fugitive; The Odyssey of Idle Hour; Nine Days; The Outlaws of Canlubang; Two Dogs Legacy; The Knock-Out; Hunting Rattlesnakes For Fun; Black Alec's Gate; The Girl Gold-Miner; The Cane-Cutters; Antonio the Counsellor; The Belt; With Tooth and Claw; Kevin's Dingo. Somewhat above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1952
Features: Hopper No. 47 - an adventure in Home waters which resulted in tragic events; Mra Toons 'Lemon' - an astute Oriental plans to get rich by smuggling opium into Burma; Chinchilla Ranching; South Sea Island Pests; Water-Divining in India; South American Excursion - a colourful motor-car trip in Venezuela; Out of the Past - recent alarming revelations as to the extent of drug addiction in the U.S. lend additional interest to this story, first published in 1936... it describes the perilous experience in which a particularly sinister form of 'dope' involved the narrator, Somers Paul; By Pony to Ladakh - a trip through a little-known region on the borders of Tibet, with nice photos; Prophecy Fulfilled - an interesting Indian story; Hunting the Bearded Wonder - a sinister terrorist leader, Liew Kon Kim, in the Malayan jungle; Photo of a Giant's Footprint (?) in South Africa; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1953 - Australian Edition: Escape From Guiana
Features: Hunting Trouble - Wilmon B. Menard describes how a shooting-trip in the Austrian Alps nearly landed him in a Communist jail; Last Voyage - an old tramp steamer's trip across the Atlantic during World War II, by Patrick O'Connor; The Haunted Engine Room - a curious tale be the chief refrigeration engineer of a big liner; The Long Arm - a remarkable chain of parallel experiences and a startling sequel, by T.W. Dresser; Women's Tears - an ancient custom of Baluchistan; Frontier Valley - fond memories of a Pathan village in India, with photos; The Man from the Coffin - reprint of the 1920 story of Albert Juge, a French convict who escaped the penal settlements of Guiana and then for 12 long years roamed South America; Forgotten Island - The primitive monastic settlement on the "Great Skellig" off the coast of Ireland; The Fish Tamer, by R.S. Richards of Picton, New Zealand; Pylons in the Bush - erecting high-tension transmission lines in the wilderness; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy., Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: The Vanished Trophy - a story for horse-lovers, the missing King George V International Jumping Championship Trophy; Saharan Adventure (continued) - fascinating account of a trip across the Sahara - Tuareg Tribesmen; Death in the Jungle - exploring the Rio Bobonaza for gold; Catching Wild Pigs Alive in Australia; Cyclone - a young seaman's description of his first experience of a circular storm; The Pay-Back - hunting a cattle-killing lion in Rhodesia; Kenai - deaf lead sled dog; The Big Fish - what happened to two young men night-fishing at the northern end of the Inner Sound of the island of Skye off the west coast of Scotland; Wealth in Bird's Nests - in search of the ingredient for the Chinese delicacy birds'-nest soup; and more. Chips from spine else unmarked with average wear. Back cover partially loose. Decent copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1957, Australian Edition
Features: Abdullahi's Quest - treachery and death in the East Africa Protectorate; Battle of the Dragons - I Know and Island, Part VIII - monstrous flesh-eating dragons of Komodo; Savage Vengeance - Japanese Pearl Fishers and Australian Aborigines; Terror Takes Over - an instalment of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' in the French Guiana jungle; Timber Wolves of Beaver Lake - Alford Harrison waged a ceaseless war on the killer wolves of British Columbia; Fugitives Adrift - a stolen whaleboat in the Cook Islands; Kesobo's Warning - An Indian senses a message from his father 150 miles distant; Maneater of Sirni - a giant crocodile in the Ghandak River; Hunting the Drug Smugglers - Drug Traffickers in Singapore and the chandu scourge; The Dead Carried Gold - a tale from the Isle of Anglesey in 1859; Yafouba Magic - a tale from the Ivory Coast; and more. Chips from backstrip. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, January 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Few chips from backstrip. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, July 1937
Stories: The Nazco Patrol; North for Timber; The Keeper's Tale; The Editor's Post Bag; The Hunting Down of Sultana; Three Dogs; The Grey Shark; Blackmailing a Railway; The Grey Shark; The Blue Grass Amulet; New Zealand Hermits; Missing; The Blue Glass Amulet; Indian Jugglers; Major the Outlaw. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, June 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: A Boy in the Bush - a young boy kills wild scrub bulls for bounty in Australia's outback; In the Dark - An Australian is tasked with catching gold thieves in a mine in Southern India; The town that was reborn - Williamsburg, Virginia; The Seaquake - adventure on a voyage from British Honduras to Yucatan; Hunting down the Black Jack Gang (conclusiont) - the worst band of desperadoes to ever trouble the south-western States of America; Frontier Gateway - Peshawar (great photo of a 'walking teashop); The Forgotten Islands - The Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia - several photos; Arctic Derelict - a strange sea-story from the Canadian Arctic; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1947
Stories: The Christmas Tree Derby; The Last of the Conquistadores; Solving Five Thousand Mysteries; Climbing under a Mountain; Searching for Smith; The Land of Mud Castles; South Sea Sugar; We Covered the Water-Front; Shark Hunting; The Spell; Mystery Moths; The Pursuit of the Breelong Blacks. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1952 - Australian Edition *Includes Marijuana Story from the USA*
Features: Hopper No. 47 - tragic events in home waters; Mra Toons 'Lemon' - a former revenue officer's account of an encounter with an astute Oriental who planned to make a fortune by smuggling opium into Burma; Chinchilla Ranching; South Sea Island Pests; Water Divining in India, by S. Jepson; South American Excursion - a motor car journey into Venezuala; Out of the Past - Marijuana - reprint of a 1936 article which describes the perilous experiences in which a particularly sinister form of 'dope' involved the narrator, Somers Paul, in the United States; By Pony to Ladakh - a trip through a little know region on the borders of Tibet, with photos; Prophecy Fulfilled - an odd story from India; Hunting the "Bearded Wonder" - a sinister terrorist leader in the Malayan jungle; Giant's Footprint? - an amazing photo from South Africa; and more. Chipping to backstrip. Covers almost detached. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Unknown New Zealand - misadventure leads to one of the most remarkable and difficult rescues in New Zealand annals; Saharan Adventure - A memorable camel journey right across the Sahara; Six Wild Sheep - experiences while capturing Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo - several photos; The Pirates of the 'Ethel' - An authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Slippery - a cat goes to sea; Oakhill's 'Souvenir' - Crocodile hunting on the Gregory River; The Tame Bandit - a Chinese achieves vengeance during the troubles in Malaya; Phases of Life from all over the world - Cockeye, ex-inspector, British South Africa Police; Guardians of the Mountains - the Warden's of Canada's western National Parks; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1954
Features: A Tigress for Escort - an amazing story of Indian big-game hunting; Football Crazy - An amazing story of the merchant navy in South Africa; Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a long-delayed 'sequel' to "The Wreck of the General Grant", originally published as far back as 1899; Garcia - by Kerry Wood of Red Deer, Alberta; Saskatchewan "Snowplanes" - includes photo of the winner of the 1938 'Derby Cup' race; The Land of Wonders - a visit to a little-known region in the heart of Turkish Anatolia; Diamonds Cut Diamonds - a quaint story from Queensland involving beachcombers collecting loot from a wrecked steamer; Search and Rescue - stirring stories of rescues by the Royal Canadian Air Force; Alpine Killer - an unusual story from the Austrian Tyrol by a chamois hunter - involves a savage ibex; The Death-Track - a white man seeks to develop land considered sacred. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Dead Men's Diggings - Diamon seekers in British Guiana; Hunting down the Black Jack Gang in the South-West United States (Part 2); Bush Pilots of the Northlands - the far north of Canada and Alaska - photos; The Golden Chain - a delicious story from Malaya by a Quantas engineer; Unlucky Ship - the Ecola; The Silent Killer - a python story; Phases of Life from all over the world - kilometre eight in Venezuela; Stretton's Luck - Gold Prospecting in Sokoto, Nigeria; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Front cover partially loose. A worthy copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, September 1945
Stories: Murder on the Border; The Laplanders of Norway; Hummingbird Haven; Murmansk Convoy; Hunting the Cattle Rustlers; Happy; Entombed Beneath the Sea; The Skull Tobacco Box; Sharks on the War Front; Koch of the Corio; Lobengula's Treasure; Jurisprudence; Crocodiles Kill in Africa; Goanna Hunting. Average wear. Book
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The Youth's Companion, February 11, 1926
Features: Lost from the Fleet, by George Allan England - 1; President Lincoln's Beaver Robe, by C.A. Stephens; The Epidemic at Hemingway's, by Ruth and Robert Osborne; The Adventures of William Tucker - IX, by George Halsey Gillham; Hunting with Bow and Arrow, by Edward W. Frentz; Fact and Comment; The Miscellany Page - hands of good men; This Busy World - Mussolini on Democracy, Did Civilization begin in Brazil?; Poise instead of shyness. The Bobbed Monkey - E.W. Frentz. Cleansing Delicate Garments - lovely Ivory Soap Flakes ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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The Youth's Companion, February 18, 1926
Features: Boys will be - Men, a boxing story by Jonathan Brooks; Lost from the Fleet, a seal hunting adventure by George Allan England - II; Use What You Have by Margaret Warde; The Adventures of William Tucker - X, by George Halsey Gillham; What Was He Like at Work? - 6 - Woodrow Wilson; Four Ways with a Filet Crochet Pattern; A Scientific Way to Construct Model Sailboats; From Girl to Girl - fifty years of college; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, December 1969 *SPECIAL TREASURE ISSUE*
Features: Christmas at the Rocky Point Crossing on the Missouri in Montana; Devil Sam's Gold; Russell Watercolors Found!; The Nightmare of Old Folsom Prison; Half-Million Dollar Stage Coach Robbery - Jacksonville, Oregon and stage driver Jack Montgomery who would only stop for a blown up road!; Perils of Desert Treasure Hunting... and how to survive them! - snakes, bugs, scorpions, Gila Monsters; Mystery of the Sansbois - a taste of the supernatural; Retribution at Fort McLane - the four versions of Mangus Colorado's death; The Aerial Liner for the Forty-niner! - this airline never got off the ground; Child Bride of a Buccaneer - Jean Lafitte's Captain; Lovely old postcards; Wild Old Days!; Missouri's Possible Fortune in Silver?; What Happened to Edna Wilson?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, December 1979
Features: Garett's Death - Conspiracy or Doublecross? - Patrick F. Garrett; Scotty Lovelock's Mysterious Assayer - Andrew H. Scott; Queen Caches in the Old West; Hunting Redskins and Their Nests - Colonel George Hunter in Washington state; Roaming the Back Country - "Chicken Red"; On to Telluride and Gold! - Julius Hansen; Ross' Bad Leg - Ross Estes; Rainbow Over the Dragoons - Courtland, Arizona; The Legacy of Jean Lafitte - in the Neutral Strip of Louisiana; Hudson's Bay Company - oldest and most powerful North American Enterprise. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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True West Magazine, November 1984
Features: Rodolpho Fierro - Bloody Butcher for Pancho Villa; Guthrie - Grand Old Lady of Oklahoma; Ten Days to Die - the battle of Fort Ridgely; Green River Knives - They Played a Role in Opening the West; The Pioneers Talked Turkey - old west cookery; Kansas State Historical Society Museum opens; Recollections of an Early Montana Cowboy - Roland Matthews. Western Hunting Knives; Bowie Knife - Legend in Steel; Jim Bowie and the 'Sandbar' Fight; Mississippi Rifle on the Plains 1848-1860; Mountain Man Rendezvous; She faced the Cheyenne alone - Ada Reed; Kerrville, Texas - home of the cowboy artists of America. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Western & Eastern Treasures - Volume 14 Number 2 February 1980
70 pages. Features: Traumatic tumbler tells all; The high risk road to treasure; how to pick a treasure-hunting buddy; The pearls of Concho - it's true, there is a pearl rush in Texas; Safe in doses large or small - a Rhode Island dump yields bottles; Don't give up - there's treasure to be found; Placer mining in the Arizona desert; Coler Gulch gold; Getting more out of treasure hunting; A few words about geodes; if you like variety in your diggin's try New Hampshire; Some Kansas ghost towns; Warm spring treasure - a Montana TH'ing spot; Quartz and Feldspar crystals north of Mohave California; Relic hunting Louisiana. Average wear. Book
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Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine - Volume 13 Number 10 - October 1979
62 pages. Features: Around the corner and out of the way - some forgotten places with hidden treasures; Handcrafted Jewelry not that tough to do; locating collection sites; The mysteries of Hollister Peak; Hunting gemstones in New York - quartz, chrysoberyls, tourmaline, and diamonds; A bottle collector's heaven - Washington State; Trash and the treasure hunter; valuable dime found with low-priced detector; Don't give up - a story to encourage you; Mine hopping in Idaho; West Tennessee relic hunting - all civil war camps have not been worked out; Whiskey Run - a Pennsylvania ghost town; Time out to put on a hunt; Coin hunting in the world's greatest gold camp. Average wear. Book
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Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine - Volume 14 Number 9 - September 1980
78 pages. The Wilderness - relic hunting in Virginia; Seminoles invaded!; Canning jars have soared in value; We make a cabochon; Prospecting small creeks for gold; National Forests - happy hunting grounds; Apache tears, crystals, and even gold - directions to an exciting spot; Identifying Minerals - a step-by-step course; Last but not least - after the hurricane; Treasuring Mouse Island - More fun than profit; Herbie and the innertube - a Rouge River experience; Buying cheap can be expensive; Fort Erie - the hardluck outpost; Pick a ghost town; Delamar - the 'widow-maker town. 2"x5" Chunk missing from bottom corner of back cover else average wear. Book
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MUN (Adrien de).
Livre de chasse pour l'année []. dessiné à la plume par Mr le marquis de Mun, et lithographié par A. Collette
Paris, Susse frères, s.d. (vers 1855) in-folio oblong (33 x 42 cm), titre et 10 planches lithographiées en couleurs, toile chagrinée, dos lisse muet, encadrement de filet à froid et de filet doré sur les plats, titre poussé à froid au centre du plat supérieur (reliure de l'éditeur). Plats frottés, dorure et estampage passés, une déchirure à la première garde volante.
Riferimento per il libraio : 228228
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MUNIER, Achille
NOTES SUR FRONTIGNAN. Pour servir à son histoire
Montpellier - Paris C. Coulet - E. Dentu 1869 in 8 (22,5x16) 1 volume reliure demi basane verte de l'époque, dos lisse, filets dorés, VIII et 330 pages, avec 12 lithographies hors-texte en couleurs, 9 représentant des scénes de chasse au marais, petits cachets ex-libris de l'entomolgiste montpelliérain Jean Suire. Deuxième édition. Rare. Bon exemplaire
Riferimento per il libraio : 38651
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MURAZ Gaston (Dr)
Satyres illustr?es de l'Afrique Noire. 152 photographies originales et 2 cartes.
Broch?. 464 pages.
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MURAZ, Docteur Gaston ; ( MILLE, Pierre )
Sous le grand Soleil, chez les Primitifs. Images d'Afrique Équatoriale [Edition originale ]
Préface de Pierre Mille. Imprimerie Paul Brodard, Coulommiers, 1923, 197 pp.
Riferimento per il libraio : 71391
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MURET, Albert.
Nemrod & Cie. Souvenirs d’un chasseur honoraire.
Lausanne, A l’Enseigne du Clocher 1949, 190x145mm, frontispice, 263pages, broché. Exemplaire sur beau papier vélin banc des Papéteries de Serrières, numéroté n.° 815 / 2500.
Riferimento per il libraio : 77315
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