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‎The Standard, 22 March 1947 - Weekly Montreal Pictorial Newspaper‎

‎16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Fascinating photos and text present harsh life behind bars for Netherlands black market criminals; Beautiful large photo of Penny Edwards - discovered for movies because of her 'lovely legs'; Colour ad for Chase & Sanborn coffee; Armadillos on Texas Farm turned into lampshades by Mr. Apelt; King of Lumberjacks - Benoit Turcotte averages 3.5 cords a day - fantastic photos and text *Will be of considerable interest to anyone who has marvelled at William Kurelek's book "Lumberjack"; Icebreaker - opening of Stl Lawrence ship channel marks the first coming of spring - with photos of icebreaker the N.B. McLean at work in the St. Lawrence; Experiment in Socialism - A.J. Cummings reviews Labor's 20 months of office in London; Bulls and Banderilleros - Mexico ads new color to the traditional Spanish sport of bullfighting - photo and article; NHL Hockey Playoffs Are Here Again - Article and photos of (much smaller) Stanley Cup; Experts predict world mineral supplies will not last another war - major article by C. Fred Bodsworth; Big Business Comes to Ste. Marie - story by Eric Morris; Roy Thomson and Jack Kent Cooke - They Built a warehouse of radios into a gangling Canadian business empire - photo and article; Leave it to the Ladies - fiction by Gregory Clark; The Peer and the Pit-Lamp - fiction by Peter Carter-Page; A Lady to Dinner - fiction by Marsden Starkey; 20 page colour comics section; Prescription for Murder - fiction by Jane Layhew; Amazing photo of a "Snow Egg" on Plateau Mountain in northern B.C.; Pint-Size Pottery - Mrs. Trasey Bond lives near New Westminster, B.C. - photos and article; Isaac Kert creates crossword puzzles - photo and article; New Diamond Industry beginning in Montreal - Julius Gutwurcel and Hermann Good and their diamon cutting operation in the CNR's Bonaventure station - photos and article; Richard Pifer - leader of northwestern Ontario's Secession Movement - photo and article; Electronic Piano - Don L. Hings is in charge of the Vancouver Electronic Laboratories - great article and photos; Net Factory - The manufacture of fishing nets at Drummondville, Quebec - interesting article and photos; Photo of Canadian WREN Frances Conley - Canada's newest screen starlet; Randi Andersen - flew to northern Manitoba on a picture-taking assignment and stayed to become the region's most beautiful prospector - story with photo; Geophysics Expert Dr. John Tuzo Wilson; U.S. company General Analine and Film Corp. received secret patents from Hitler's scientific plotters; Fishwife Extraordinary - Margaret Chambers of Toronto manages four highly-successful fish shops; Streamline Your Bathroom - design article with illustrations; Dorothy Henzel Willis Paints Her Dreams - photo with article; Hope for the Blind - Canadian government seeks to help Canada's 14,000 blind persons; Sports News; Story and photo of "Knucker" Burns of Halifax - the Boston Bruins' number one long-distance fan; Roger Whynott of Mahone Bay, NS - Middleweight Champ - photo and article; First Canadian surgery to insert esophagus into baby at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children - illustration and story; Flying Fairies - Arthur Kirby Trains Aerial Ballets for England's Theatre Pantomimes - wonderful photos with brief write-up; Water Polo Revial in Montreal under the coaching of Jimmy Rose - write-up and photos; Barmen's School - Stan Owen and Pat Morell train 200 bartending students after 31 arid years in Toronto; Great colour ad for Horlicks Malted Milk on back page; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Unmarked. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper‎

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‎The Standard, 5 April 1947 - Weekly Montreal Pictorial Newspaper‎

‎16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Photo-illustrated story of Royal Tour (King, Queen and Princesses) of South Africa; Fantastic full-page colour ad for Heinz Baby Foods; Great swimsuit photo of Gerry Pattison; Pond's Angel Face ad; Photo-illustrated article on British Columbia's Cancer Institute; Gemology - photo-illustrated article; 20-page colour comic section; The Madman of Bergerac, by Georges Simenon; Bootleg coal in Cape Breton - article and photos; Ernest Cormier - U.N. Architect - photo and story; Shallow oil gusher on farm of D.F. McFadyen in Calgary; Ivan Petelka - Sault Ste. Marie Linguist has invented a new number language; Abandoned BAnk Accounts; Talking Books for Blind Students; Democratization of Japan Designed on American Lines; Pictou Women's Craft Guild; Winnifred Pickering - successful Toronto underwriter; Master Swindler Joseph George Gouin; Sports News; Mike Spack - captain of the University of Manitoba Bisons; Quebec's Liquor Racket - pay the politicians or go out of business, by Ken Johnstone; Today's Athletes are Beating Yesterday's Records - great photos and article; A Big Country - short story by Edmund E. Pugsley; Kenneth Ford writes of being tall - 6'-6""; Robert LaPalme writes of being short - 5'-0"; Noteworthy Canadians - brief write-ups and photos of skiers Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, novelist Edwarde Meade, violinist Donna Grescoe, harpist Winifred Bambrick, ecologist Pierre Dansereau, and poet Patrick Anderson; Picking Germany's Brains - 300 of Hitler's top scientists now in the US working for the Allies - article with photos; Peace - Perfect Peace, story by Gregory Clark; Emperor Bing Crosby and his business interests, by Jack Hirshberg; Which Came First? - A Short Story by June McFeely; Lovely full-page colour ad for Yardley cosmetics; Russian Producer Eisenstein Screens Part I of the Notorious Czar Ivan's Career; Full-page colour ad for Jell-o puddings; Ontario Society of Artists Celebrates its 75th Anniversary - photos and story; Fight Training - Super photo and article on boxer Joe Baksi; Interesting Pepsi ad; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper‎

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‎The Tatler and Bystander (Magazine), December 3, 1947 *Royal Wedding Number*‎

‎36 pages. Cover photo portrait of newly married Princess Elizabeth walking corgi and holding large bouquet; Sean Fielding reflects upon the Royal Wedding; Wonderful wedding photos of Princess Elizabeth and her new husband; Jennifer tells the Wedding Story; Sketches of current fashions in evidence at the big event; Jennifer's Social Journal, complete with many photos of personalities who attended the Abbey; Majestic photos of the bride's arrival; Priscilla in Paris - her comments on Elisabeth et Philippe; Photos of Princess Elizabeth from girlhood through womanhood; Graceful colour centerfold illustration by Eric Earnshaw shows the royal couple by their fireplace; Photos of Philip Mountbatten - boyhood through manhood; Photos of many wedding gifts at St. James's; Column by Sabretache, including photo of horse given to the Princess on her wedding by the Aga Khan; Column by D.B. Wyndham Lewis; Lovely fashion ads; Photos of three other newly married couples; Nice colour ad for Huntley & Palmers Buscuits inside back cover; Excellent colour ad for Dewar's "White Label" Scotch Whisky on back cover shows a crate of their finest being hoisted aboard an impressive vessel named the Elizabeth. Average wear. Bit of writing on front cover. A sound copy of this momentous issue. Magazine‎

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‎The War Illustrated - 11 August 1917: No. 156‎

‎Illustration Features: Surrending Germans pass through the French lines; The Battle of the Nieuport Dunes - Matchless story of the Northamptons and the King's Royal Rifles (article by Max Pemberton); Canadian Pioneers at work and at Liesure (5 photos); Men of many climes who fight for France; Italians in the Alps and in the air; These Three historic years - article by Lovat Fraser; Aerial activity of four warring nations; Immortal Heroism of K.R.R.C. & Northamptons; Incidents in the Battle of the Nieuport Dunes; British Women's Mission of Mercy in France; How the Hun encourages neutral powers; 'Pipsqueaks' that served to alarm all London - 5 photos of air raid sound rockets; When Paris was in Peril - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Fire and Fury Flaming upon the foe in France. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book‎

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‎The War Illustrated - No. 179: 19 July 1918: The Pan-Germans' New Dreams‎

‎Photos with the following captions: Lines that all lead to the Hindenburg Line; Wreckage and Waste from Ypres to Cambrai; Freed by British Bravery from the Terrible Turk; 'Tanks' Advance into action & Tow Back a Prize; On the Edge of Great Events among the Alps; Rare and Ready Courage to the Rescue of a Comrade; 'Graft' and Bribery in Russia (story); Clearing the Crescent off the Permanent Way; Weather Difficulties defied by daring and work; Unmasking Spies in London (story); 'Ghost' that Fails to Frighten our Flying Men; Happiness in Hospital in Barge and Burrow; Art's Spirit Shining Amid the Murk of War; The Terriers of the Pack - some of the remarkable doings of the "M.L." Craft (story); Last Moments of the Torpedoed Transport Medie; From London's Roads to Flanders' Muddy Fields; The Royal Highlanders of Canada (story). Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book‎

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‎The War Illustrated - Part 180: 26 January 1918 - The Vision of a New Europe‎

‎Features: The Story of the Growth of the Admiralty War Staff (story and photos); The Queen of the Adriatic and the Holy City; Venice Preserved and Jerusalem Delivered; Intervals of play in the wearying work of war; Duty and Piety from Dieppe to the Piave; American Ardour at home, abroad and afloat; The Vision of a New Europe (story); Vain German Rain of Bombs and shine of armour; Labour that paves the way for further progress; Theft and 'Protectsie' in Russia - Some Evils of the Old Regime as I saw them, by Hamilton Fyfe; Side Shows in the Panorama of War; Kaiser Wilhelm Gloats over Italy at Gorizia; Where Allies are Aiding the Intrepid Italians; Destroyers and their doings (story); New signs in the sky of coming air activity; U Boat Outrage on a Helpless Hospital Ship; Scarred Heroes Reach the Sanctuary of Home; The Somerset Light Infantry (story). Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book‎

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‎The War Illustrated, No. 185 - 2 March 1918‎

‎Illustration of horses pulling British soldiers in boats across the River Scarps. What a Bolshevist 'Peace' Means, by Lovat Fraser. 5 photos of Canadians homeward bound, their duty done. Quaint Quarters of the Fighting Men in France - 4 photos. 2 Photos of Shell-Smother Caught by the Camera. Trifles picked up on the blazed trail of war - 5 photos. Waiting for the opening offensive on the West. The True Story of Henry - by 'Vedette'. Illustration of an early version of the caterpillar tractor at work in Palestine. British mouth organ band in Palestine. Canine helpers in battle. A Serbian Supper-Party - some lively memories from the Lower Danube, by Hamilton Fyfe. Builders of the fleet that flies - 5 photos. Six great photos of Britannia, the Tank that rules the trenches. Photos of concrete vessels - can be built in a third of the time. Australia's Great Achievement - Heroic doings on land and sea, article with 6 photos. The Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, article by John S. Margerison. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book‎

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‎The War Illustrated, No. 234 - 8 February 1919‎

‎Cover illustration entitled 'The Happy End'. Large photo taken on-board a British dirigible. The story that can never be told, by Lovat Fraser. Coastal Motor-Boats Cutting Their Arrowy Way - two great photos of the Auxiliary Patrol Service. Photos in Belgium Before the Enemy was Expelled. With the Kaiser in Bruges - Hun Camera Records (6 photos). Turey's Waning Prestige in Europe and in Asia - 3 photos. Maintaining Law and Order in Occupied Lands - 5 photos. 'Russia, The Unexplainable' - article by Hamilton Fyfe. Photo of the arrival of President Poincare at the opening of the conference to establish a League of Nations. Photos of French Bridge-Builders at work on the Rhine. Photos of large German interned submarines at Cherbourg, including the Deutschland. Full-page photographic portrait of Lord Roberts, who warned his countrymen of the German menace - accompanied by article by Coulson Kerrnahan. 'Red' Victims of Chaos in the Prussian Capital - 7 photos. Ebert Beats Extremists in Barricaded Berlin - 6 photos. Speeding up the Surrender of Hun Submarines - 6 photos. Two photos of the Italian Caproni Triplane. First photograph permitted of the 'M1', a submersible monitor which carried a 12 inch gun. Three photos of the newly revealed 'K' submarine, the largest craft of the kind produced by any nation. Britain as Queen of the Air - How we outbuilt and outfought the Teuton (article). Preparing the Soil for the Harveset of Peace. Few drops of soiling. Somewhat above-average wear. Staples disintegrated with age. A sound copy. Book‎

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‎The Western Horseman - The Magazine for Admirers of Stock Horses, November 1953‎

‎68 pages. Features: Arapahoe Ranch - near Thermopolis; Yesterday's Cow Roundup; Your Vacation is my Work - a story of pack-horses; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Fundamentals First (part II); Down the Straightaway; Can Roping Clubs Make Money?; Los Latigos De Cuero (The Rawhide Latigoes); Made it Myself; When Goldie Rode - Goldie Griffish Cameron; The Little Dogie Roping Gate; The Cowboy's Bandanna - photos of its many uses; Horseman's Scrapbook. Full-page black and white photo ad for Porter Mansfield saddles featuring "Toots" Mansfield. Full-page ad for Disney hats. Great colour ad for Fred Mueller Inc. boots inside front cover. Full-page black and white ad for "The Panhandle" hat by Bandera. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine‎

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‎The Western Socialist - The Journal of Scientific Socialism in the Western Hemisphere: Volumes 12 and 13 Bound in One Volume, Including All Issues 1945-1946‎

‎Unpaginated. 12" x 9" x 0.7". Contains issues from January 1945 through December 1946, a tumultuous time for labour in the wake of World War II. Topics include: Tennessee Poll Tax Fight; A New Revision of Marxian Economics, by Raya Dunayevskaya; Barriers on the Way to Socialism, by CARP; C.C.F confusion, by C. Luff; Marxism in New Zealand by R.R. Everson; Labor Conscription - the May-Bailey bill calls for a compulsory labor draft of 18 million workers from 18 to 45 years of age; Labor and Political Action, by Harmo; Vocationalism in Ireland; Comrade Adolph Kohn; The Future of Cartels; Capitalist Justice; An admittedly Imperfect World; 60 million jobs?; Will War Delay Socialism?; Success Story; The Meaning of Social Revolution; When G.I. Joe Comes Home; The Tinplate War; The Jinni and the Master; Inquiring Student Answered; Mexico; Do away with the Working Class; Human Nature as it Really is; Parasites in Fact and Fiction; Is the Status Quo Unchangeable?; Blood and Iron - contemplating the effect of WWII; Is Socialism Inevitable?; Scientific Socialism; Now that Germany has been knocked out, What Next?; The Nature of Co-ops; A Will for Socialism; Who ar the Workers?; Edward Bellamy; The Irish Scene; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Welcome Home, Joe; Canada Goes to the Polls; A Summer Morning in Dublin; Whom the States Serves; Forced Labor in Russia; A Philosopher Squelched - San Francisco Conference; British Election Message; Willow Run - this massive plant will soon be closed after making B-24 bombers for the war; The Great Divide; Guaranteed Annual Wage; Tobin and the Teamsters; S.P.G.B. Election Message; The War's End; Socialism in Britain?; War Memorials and Poverty; Detroit seething with unrest due to postwar industrial reconversion; Russia as she is; Poverty in New Zealand; From Military to Trade Wars; Atomic Energy; Has Britain Turned Socialist?; A Job with the City; Economics of Control; The Case for Socialism; Reformers Emasculate Unions; The Communications Revolution; Guaranteed Annual Wage; Insurance and Security; So this is Peace!; Wages and Prices; A Soldier Thinks; A Program for Workers; Yours - When you want it; The General Motors Strike - the union wants 30%; An American Seaman in India; Homeward Bound; Delusions of A White Collar Worker; Veterans are workers too; Who owns large corporations?; The Truth about Russia; Socialism and Personal Ethics; The Lenin Legend; Tale of Two Continents; Kaiser-Frazer Bonus Plan; Atomic Policy; Fetish of Full Production; What? - No Money!; Growing Tensions of Capitalism; Two Worlds; India; Henry in Wonderland; Family and Education in U.S.S.R.; How to Deal with the Atomic Bomb; Recruits Wanted; Opportunity under Capitalism; United Nations and War; Catholicism in America; The Rail Strike; From Boom to Bust; T.B. and Capitalism; Stocks don't make a capitalist; Know the Enemy; Fruits of Victory; Unions in Politics; A Note on American Culture; British Labor Government; Between Two Wars; Who Owns America; Materialist Basis of Religion; Selfishness; Occupational Trends in America; Letter to a Jewish worker; OPA - The Price Sieve; Ireland Today; Serfdom in a Free Society; Questions and Answers; Paris "Peace" Conference and World War III; The Sacred Cow; Full Employment and the Liberals; Berlin Letter; The Worker - That's You!; Unity; The Atomic Age; Where are the Unions Going?; Land of Plenty; The "Flood-Like" Form; Socialism or Capitalism?; An introduction to Economics; How About a 51% Majority; What do we mean by Socialism?. Sturdily bound in maroon boards. Unmarked. Average external wear. Contents clean and gently toning with age. Lettering upon backstrip dull but legible. A sound copy. Book‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine - August 1949 Vol.103, No.616‎

‎Features include: The Donkey - A humble donkey co-operates to bring about the discomfiture of sundry Arab thieves; It Pays to Advertise - The Amazing result of the nefarious activities of a rascally 'wild-cat' company promoter and an unscrupulous newspaper reporter in Canada; Mr. Zaru - story from a ship; Into the Unknown - exploratino work in Tanganyika; Farm Life in South Africa - intended for aspiring British immigrants to South Africa; Through the Iron Curtain - an ambitious motor-cycle voyage through Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Turkey; Beyond the Barrier - Extraordinary incidents related by a famous stage magician, Jasper Maskelyne; A Matter of Boundaries - an amusing tale of a tribal land-dispute in Nigeria; The Little Gold Disc - A veteran seafarer's account of a remarkable experience on the China Coast; The Tiger That Thought; The Red Lacquer Pagoda; The Ship That Became a House; Guarding New Zealand's Forests - Illustrated in black and white. Chips from and tears to base of spine else average wear. Two inch opening at top of back cover. Magazine‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine - January 1950‎

‎Features include: The Road to Wonderland - Construction of a highway and tunnel through a mountain wilderness in the South Island of New Zealand; Kamal Ram's Come-Back - tale of a stationmaster at Manijan, in northern Assam; Saga of the Snow-Dogs - An account of the Arctic Husky; The Hut-Tax Affair - a tale from Northern Nigeria; All Aboard For Adventure - Part I of a tale of 5 young Americans who set out on a sailboat for tropic seas; The Beneficent Bamboo; Dogsbody - an amusing incident involving a very junior officer aboard a British freighter; The Telephone Mine - Adventures of two South African prospectors in search of King Solomon's Mines; Our Leopard - A Kenyan farmer's story; Down Texas Way - the story of 3 youngsters, a gang of desperate escaped convicts, and a night alarm; Appointment with the Devil - An extraordinary story from Abyssinia; Illustrated in black and white. Covers and spine missing. Contents in decent condition. Magazine‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine - July 1953, Australian Edition‎

‎Features: My Life in the French Foreign Legion, by Trevor S.H. Jones, late 1st Regiment Legion Etrangere Infanterie; The Snow Surveyors - men who keep track of the snowfall in the wild mountain ranges of Canada and the United States; My Pistol - a bride not experienced with firearms receives an automatic as a wedding present; A Sailor Adrift - a sailor ends up working at a Rocky Mountain lumber-camp where he has memorable experiences; Through the "Big Bend" of the Rio Grande by Canoe; The Ordeal of Juan Rosas - an Ecuadoran enters the wilds to cut balsa wood; Hair of the Dog - a story of African superstitions; The Will to Live - An Australian example of human endurance along the coast south of Cairns; A Fool Afoot in France - reprint of a 1929 story of an English Walker in France; One Day's Work - New Zealand Volcano; Military Mystery at Benghazi; and more. Two-inch opening at base of front cover fold. Average wear. Binding sound. Book‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine - June 1949‎

‎Features include: Sunken Treasure - In 1799 the British frigate Lutine sand off the Dutch coast and in 1933 a new method of salvage was attempted; A Burmese Houdini; Tiger's Teeth - An English Adventure; The Major's Panther - Amateur big-game hunters get lucky; #20,000 - the eventful life of a banker; On the Trail in Wonderland - Travels through Navajo Indian country; Three Queer Mysteries from Malaya; Our Trip to the Buffalo Country - An Australian Journey; Looking Down the Devil's Throat - A trip to Iguassu Falls in Brazil; The Naga Head-Hunters of Assam; Where Water Burns - An Alberta Story; Passed with Honours - by Lieut.-Col. M.C.A. Henniker. Illustrated in black and white. Somewhat above average wear. Openings at each spine end. One inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Magazine‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine - May 1953, Australian Edition‎

‎Features: Millington's Lesson - Lawlessness in Burma prior to the British withdrawal; Glider Snatching - a story from Burma in World War II; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I of the adventure of an English walker in France; The Mayas of British Honduras; Unlucky Ship - the chief officer of a tramp steamer recalls the events which befell the ship; The Men-Lions Mystery - the shocking toll of human life levied by maneaters in Africa; Tow Boating Down the Mississippi - a voyage from Memphis to New Orleans, with photos; The Nukoni Ju-Ju - the abandoned Gold Coast Mines was avoided by natives; Death at Sundown - a curse which was fulfilled in startling fashion; Hurricane Journey - returning to his police job from war service, the author expected a quiet life; The Firebrand - a former Eritrean corporal in the Italian colonial police becomes a bandit; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine - October 1949 Vol.104, No.618‎

‎Features Include: The Fruit Ranch Riddle - An interesting murder investigation at the Morrisey fruit ranch near Selah, Washington, USA; Interviewing an Eruption - Filming a volcano in the Belgian Congo; The "Lion-Men" of Ussure (Part 2) - The amazing story of Tanganyikans posing as "lion-men"; Exploring the "Great Diagonal" - an ambitious attempt to open the interior of Brazil; Stowaway to Spitzbergen; "Book-Keeper Wanted" - a colourful story from Western Australia; The Blind Malik - A Quaint Tale from Waziristan; The Dingo - An amusing story from the outback; The Bull-Gang - a young Englishman finds his way into a dirty pulp mill job in Canada; Ship's Guard; Ramaswamy's Pal - from 'the queer side of things' . Average to above-average wear. Some staining and prior owner's name upon back cover. Chips from spine. Decent copy. Magazine‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine - Volume 21: May Through October 1908‎

‎Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine - Volume 24: March and April 1904 Plus November 1909 Through February 1910‎

‎Features: The "White Avengers" - III; A German Venice; Hassoo the Traitor; A Record Trip in the Yoho Valley; The Raiding of Robben Island; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - II; A Bolt from the Blue; Across America on an Automobile; How I became a Lion-Tamer; The Bird-Charmer of Paris; The Strange Story of John Evans; On Foot to Thibet (Tibet) - I; The Stronghold of the Snakes; My Spanish Servants; The Mystery of the Cross-Marked Trail; Sword-Fishing; Caught in a Death-Trap; The Haunted House by the Creek; On Foot to Thibet (Tibet) - II; At Sea with a Lioness; A Railway Race with Robbers; Through the Copland Pass; The Tale of the Tiger-People; The Voyage of the "Vaskapu"; Two Remarkable Walking Competitions; The Story of Vasili the Fisherman; "Up a Tree"; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - III; "Dead or Alive"; In Search of a Treasure Island; The Fairy-Tale Castle; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - III; In the Far North-West - II; The Medicine Wagon; A Wonderer in Asia Minor - II; The "Bandit Hunters" - The Disappearing Islands; The "Mountain Mystery"; A Californian Rabbit-Drive; Two Bachelor Girls in Madeira; A Home in a Tree-Top; The Great Feuds of Kentucky - I; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - III; The Legend of Manaia; The "Boy Police"; Amidst Snow and Swamp in Central Africa - I; Christopher the Bear; The Monkey Gods of India; How We Settled the Tie; The Last Fire-Dance of the Sabobas; The Story of Kusanga; A Training School for Cowboys; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - IV; The Hold-Up at Hugo; On the Trail in Texas and New Mexico - I; Peasants at Play; The Great Feuds of Kentucky - II; An Open-Air School in France; The Grey Scourge; Mistletoe Farming; The Bear and the Barrel; The Hut in the Jungle; The Romance of Seal-Hunting; The Haunted Ferry; A City inside a Palace; What Happened to Ferguson; Christmas in Many Lands; The Great Feuds of Kentucky - III; Amidst Snow and Swamp in Central Africa - II; The Squatter's Cup; Riding on the Sea; On the Trail in Texas and New Mexico - II; Down the Wire; The Alligator Pool; A Race with a Flood; A Maori Wedding; My Debut at Kimberley; The Wild Ponies of Exmoor; The Quest for the "Biggest Bear"; Fun on a Liner; Two Ladies and a Pony-Cart in Central Japan - I; Captured by Filipinos - I;; The Dog-Derby of the Far North; My Turkish Wife; Into Unknown Papua - I; The Strike; The "Servant Problem" in East Africa; A Battle with Ice-Floes. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine, April 1952‎

‎Features: Land of Nightmare - grim events in the conflict between French Troops and the Viet Minh rebels in the jungles of Indo-China; Churinga - investigating a mysterious aboriginal 'grave'; Roles Reversed - a female climber aids her male guide to safety from a 9,000 foot peak; To the Forbidden City - Mecca, with photos; The "Devil-Leopard"; Jumbies - a tale from Trinidad; Japanese Inns - a westerner has his eyes opened; The Radio Record - one of the most fantastic cases involving the Boston police; Shore Gang - nerve-trying experiences for the author; A couple of Fools - demonstrates how easy it is to become bushed in Western Australia; What Happened at Makene - a very curious story from West Africa; and more. Above-average wear. Book‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine, April 1954‎

‎Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. 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 1952‎

‎Features: Operation Sikh - An incident connected with the strange hide-and-seek war now being waged in the steamy jungles of Malaya; A Sailor on Horseback - Jack ashore takes to riding at his peril; Two Miracles - An Army officer's experience in the Western Desert during World War II; Phantom Fortune - the fascinating history of sundry vanished gold-mines in the wilds of British Columbia; Tasmania's Wild West; A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" - a cowboy's weird experience in the Badlands of Wyoming; The Figurehead - a story involving the windjammer L'Avenir; Gold Coast Ju-Ju; Box of Tricks - an isolated Army camp in Palestine is cursed with cunning Arab thieves; Personal-Column Crusoes - advice for prospective adventurers; Leturc's Island - Jacques Leturc took over an uninhabited South Sea Island and turned it into a profitable enterprise, only to encounter disaster; Desert Hitch-Hike - 1,200 miles across Northern Africa to catch a steamer; and more. Three inch opening at bottom of cover fold; Somewhat above-average wear. Small opening at top of backstrip. Sound copy. Book‎

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‎The Wide World Magazine, August 1954, Australian Edition: The Galapagos Islands‎

‎Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. 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 1952 - Australian Edition‎

‎Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a tramp steamer to return to Australia, John Winters meets his double... except the double is already dead; A Baptism of fire - the experience of a young forest ranger with the British Columbia Forest Service when over 100 people are trapped in a logging camp, by J.L. Henslowe; The Trek - story from a pioneer in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - an amusing tale from Central America by Capt. Frank H. Shaw; The Golden Ingot - a confidence trick by a West African criminal; Down Mexico Way - 2 Jacks ashore get themselves in trouble in the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - a story from Ceylon; Mr. Peter Strong, Pioneer Pilot, by D.N.E. Kain; One Thing After Another - down on his luck during depression days in Australia a man's luck finally turns; The Burma Road - will recall poignant memories to many ex-servicemen - great photos; South Sea Burial-Customs - how they do things on the remote Cook Island Group; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American coal fields; The Octopus - a young man's nighmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus brings happiness to a remote South Sea Island; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book‎