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Air Combat: The Ghostly Warriors of World War II - Special Edition
98 pages. Features include: Halifax W1048; Holscher's Heinkel; Death over Flak City; Ghosts of '44; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; The Day it Rained P-40s; and many more. Above-average wear. Prior owner's details inside front cover. Book
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The Illustrated London News - September 30, 1961
Features: Death of Dag Hammarskjoeld; Channel Collisions - Two Fog Disasters in a Single Day; Uneasy Peace in Katanga; Culloden by John Prebble; 400 Years of Hasanlu - The Mannaeans and their predecessors; The International Caravan Exhibition; Hovercraft illustration - Past, Present, Future; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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The Illustrated London News - May 30, 1959
Features: Death of John Foster Dulles; British Royal Visitors in Nigeria; Photo of one of the world's largest floating docks; Remains Lydian, Roman, Christian - from Sardis; 2-page illustration of the Westminster Clock Mechanism; Hovercraft Diagrams; New Black and White Cameras; St. Felix School, Southwold; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News - February 16, 1952
Special Edition - The Death of King George VI. Many dozens of black and white photos. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Worthy reference copy. Book
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The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - April/May 1995: War on Lake Ontario
56 pages. Features: War on Lake Ontario - a costly victory at Oswego, 1814; Rescue Mission - Canadian soldiers and airmen in an arctic ordeal; Quebec and Conscription - the death of Ernest Lapointe and a fateful change of policy; Mysterious deaths at Onion Lake - were two union men murdered?; Reflections from The Beaver 1936. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Mayse, Susan
Ginger : The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin
230 pages including index, bibliography and black and white illustrations. The story of a remarkable man, and a fascinating period in B.C. history. From fragments of recorded history, official documents, and exhaustive interviews with the coal miners who knew Cumberland and knew Ginger Goodwin, she has pieced together an extraordinary tale. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Little, William T.
The Tom Thomson Mystery
239 pages. "In 1956, nearly forty years after the death of Canadian artist, Tom Thomson, William T. Little and three companions set themselves to a macabre task. Ever since July 16, 1917, when the artist's badly decomposing body was found floating in the waters of Canoe Lake, controversey and conjecture hovered over the matter of how Tom Thomson really met his death. It was as a result of this prolonged uncertainty that the four men began digging in the little cemetery in Algonquin Park where Thomson was supposedly buried... On the one hand William Little has been able to give us a fuller understanding of both Thomson's personality and his instincts as a painter. On the other, he has amassed considerable evidence that suggests a murder, a suspect, and a motive." - from back cover. Gift greetings inside front cover and at foot of back flyleaf. Covers carefully preserved in glossy clear adhesive laminate. Tight and square with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News Magazine - June 13, 1970 No 6828 Volume 256
Features: Newspaper crisis; A summer of tension for Pakistan?; Taxation - the penalty for living, the punishment for death; The Ghurkas - bravest of the brave; After the moon - what next?; Apollo's heatshield helps the housewife; Original sin - and that man on the moon; May God preserve us from good taste!; What price pageantry?; Divine antics in Arcadia; Will man become a mole?; Aiglon - the school in the Alps; Healey and the great defence 'delusion'; Gainsborough at the Queen's Gallery; Tabarka; The Rolls Royce story; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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The Illustrated London News - July 24, 1965
Features/Photos: Last photo of Adlai Stevenson/his farewell and review; State visit by President Frei of Chile; New plan for Whitehall and Parliament Square; Greek vessel Nymfea grounds near Beachy Head; Mr. Cousins and the Cabinet; Mars from only 9000 miles; Alpine Celebrations for Matterhorn; Dame Laura Knight looks back over 88 years; Syon House welcomes a new garden centre; New discoveries in Carian Iasos; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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The Illustrated London News - March 14, 1964
Features/Photos: Death of King Paul I of the Hellenes; The UN considers Cyprus; USS Enterprise exercising with the Sixth Fleet; Surprising discoveries from the Sardis Synagogue; Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
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The Illustrated London News - April 11, 1964
Features/Photos: The Queen and her baby son; Uncovering a 7th Millennium Settlement in Macedonia, Nea Nikomedeia - Part I, Site and Pottery; The cutting up of Abu Simbel; Death of General Douglas MacArthur; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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The Illustrated London News - September 23, 1961
Features/Photos: Karsh portrait of Dag Hammarskjoeld; Bitter fighting in the streets of Elisabethville - Scenes of violence in the struggle between the Katanga government and the United Nations; Samos III satellite destroyed at launch; The last days of Mycenae; The Goldsmiths' Hall; In the trail of hurricane Carla - Death and disaster in Texas; Anti-nuclear protests; The new Renault 4L; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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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, November 1941
Stories: Adventure Ahoy; A Deal in Diamonds; Pattern for Blitzkrieg; Fairy Godfather; The House of Death; Fish and Chips; How I Won My Horse; The Lone Star Kid; The Promotion of Constable Sidi; The Battle of Santiago; The Crocodile-Charmers of Java; The Stolen Telluride. Above-average wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, February 1937
Stories: Adventures in Bunk; The Daybreak Raid; Live Wires; A Man-Hunt in Jamaica; The Lizard-Master; The Last of the Seris; Prospecting in Peru; Down the Mine; A Call in the Night; A Grips with the Head Hunters; Death in the Air; That Christmas Dinner; Pay-Day at Anna Regina. Average wear. Covers present but separated from textblock. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1936 *Includes Marijuana Story*
Stories: Marijuana Story - Author describes how he first encountered this evil weed, and the perilous experiences in which it later involved him (12 pages with illustrations); Pork and Beans; Shanghaied!; The Back of Beyond; The White Death; Almost My Tiger; Flamingo Island; Crocodile Craft; The Border Patrol; Frozen Horror; Georgie the Ant-Bear; The Coolies' Revenge; Stage Coach Triumphant; The Puri-Puri Man; Dead Man's Opal. Somewhat above-average but not excessive wear. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1934
Stories: Death Rides with the Mounties; My Record Canoe Trip; The Girl World Tramp; The Desert Will Get Me; The Were-Tiger; When Rats Go West; My Wife; Kidnapped; The Clue of the Single Finger Print; Confessions of a Smuggler; The Ways of a Rogue; Special Circumstances; Man-Lion; Jackaroo. Above-average wear. Book
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Air Stories - Flying Thrills and Aerial Adventure: October 1936, Vol. 3, No. 4
96 pages. Long Complete War-Air Adventure - Raiders of the Night - Up from a Darkened 'Drome on the Western Front Rose the Strangest Convoy that ever Sailed the Night Skies of Flanders, a German Bomber and a British Fighter, Bound Together on a Desperate Mission of Death; Ace of the Black Cross - The Authentic Story of the War-time Adventures of Germany's Greatest Living Air Ace, Victor in 62 Aerial Combats and Former Member of the Richtofen Circus; The Zeppelin Fighters - The Epic Story of the men who Freed Britain's Skies from the Terror That Flew By Night; Thriller - The Airship Alibi; Dramatic Story - Chivalry prevails in the Mad Lust of Battle; Dramatic Story - A Great Story of War-Time Adventure in a Pup Squadron on the Western Front; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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Air Stories - Flying Thrills and Aerial Adventure: January 1938, Vol. 6, No. 1
96 pages. Features: Traitor's Tune - A strange clue links a lonely graveyard behind the enemy lines with the mysterious disappearance of Britain's Greatest Air Fighters; Flight of a President - Two men made foolproof plans for a life and death flight - but each planned a different result; True Story - Naval One - The Amazing Exploits of No. 1 (Naval) Squadron, R.N.A.S. which made air history on 3 fronts; Footlight Ace - The 'Balloon Busters' had no stranger member than Basil Harlow, Actor-Airman; The Last Throw - Deep in the Trackless bush of the Canadian North, a Reckless Air Fighter prepared his bold attempt to Sever a life-line of the Allies; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: May 1938, Vol. 6, No. 5
100 pages. Features: Valley of the Missing Men - Major 'Monty' Hardcastle saves the remnants of a Squadron from the greatest Sky-Trap of the War; Silent Wings - Blind in the Darkness above the Scottish HIghlands, a Sailplane Pilot Gambled with his Life to Save a Nation's Secrets; The Case Against Death - Peter Mohune - and his dramatic exposure of a ruthless Plot; True Story - the Continuation of a stirring year-by-year account of the achievements of Britain's Air Services during the Great War; The Fall of Peter - Peter Brown may have been the unluckiest Pilot in R.F.C history; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
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Air Stories - Aerial Adventure in Fact and Fiction: June 1939, Vol. 8, No. 6
96 pages. Features: Bats Fly Too - 'Bats' Trevor came within an Ace of Death before a flaming raider in the NIght Skies of London showed that Bats fly best at night; Battlefleet in Blue - A short moment of intense fright upon an Aircraft-Carrier; The Colonel Remembers - A Dramatic Story of Warfare in the Desert; Thunderbirds Fly Fast - Dick Reynolds was almost the Perfect Pilot of the Canadian North; The Gas Cow - Down from the clouds above the western front fell a strange derelect of the skies; Behind the Lines - An R.F.C. Officer experiences the Dark Labyringhts of Espionage; and more. Above-average wear. Small doodle upon front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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The Gun Report Magazine - August 1990
Features: Preservation and Maintenance of the Antique Gun Collectoin; How Many? - Serial Numbers, Statistics and Survivability; F. Smith Combination Rifle and Smoothbore; Andrew Pettit (-1854); Death of a Gambler. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Hibbs, Ben
The Saturday Evening Post - July 19, 1958 Issue, Featuring "My Own Story", The 1st of 3 Articles By David Niven
80 pages. Contents: The Apprentice Assassin; The Well-Adjusted Husband; The Girl Who Did Everything Wrong; Showdown in Death Canyon; I'm Always Surprising Myself; The Face of America - The Young Rocketeers (2 page colour photo); I Played (Baseball) Without Eating - Bob Cerv of the Kansas City Athletics played 28 games with a broken jaw!; Mr. Astor Outfits the Army - with several old black and white photos; Colossus on Broadway - The Story behind the $75 million effort to establish New York's new Lincoln Center project; This Dirt is Worth Millions - Powerful U.S. aluminum companies encountered many problems when they undertook to mine the valuable bauxite on the racially complex island of Jamaica; I Married Murder;. Above-average but not excessive wear. One by two inch chip from bottom edge of back cover which features colour ad for Camel cigarettes. Binding intact. Worthy copy. Book
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Shaw, S/Sgt. T.E. G.: Editor
The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Quarterly - January 1972 Vol. 37 No. 1
80 pages. Features: They Tamed The East - Insp. J.P. Blakeney; A Little Bit of Luck - Montreal; Sudden Death - Winnipegosis; Underwater Investigators; Late Cst. H.S. Seigel; Loan Sharks "Landed"; Unique Apprehension; Death at Pouce Coupe Prairie; TV Influence; Devious Methods Pay Off; Swift Current 1934; and more. Prior owner's details blacked out upon title page else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound cpoy. Book
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Basque, Garnet: Editor
Canadian West Magazine - The Pioneer Years: Jan./Feb./Mar. 1993, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Collector's #31)
46 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: The Origins of the Fraser River Gold Rush; Donald McLean - Hudson's Bay Company Man at Hat Creek; Death in the Barrens of the North West Territories; Rocky Mountain Rangers - Southern Alberta Milita. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Canadian Collector Magazine, March/April 1978, Vol. 13 No. 2: June Bramall
Features: June Bramall - Art Restorer; Auction Review - 1977; Niagara Furniture Makers - III; The Hamilton Pottery; Quebec Folk Art - A Continuing Wonder; Shawahanelezhih Returns to Alberta; The Bell Organ Company; Silver Creamers; 'Death of Wolfe' on English Sugar Bowl; The Shannon and the Chesapeake. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.22. No. 6 - November/December, 1976
Features: Feather Dusters (serpulid polychaete worms); The SSIT - The Semisubmersible Icebreaking Tanker; A 'Narrow Squeak' for the Brown Pelican; Europe to Harness the Power of the Sea; Puffers (Fugu) - a Taste of Death; Coral Reefs of Moorea; The Fire of St. Elmo; Puerto Rico's Changing Fisheries. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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De Clifford, Norman Frederick
Egypt - The Cradle of Ancient Masonry
[20], 644 pages. Index. Twenty-six black and white photographic plates. Leather binding. "Comprising a history of Egypt, with a comprehensive and authentic account of the antiquity of masonry resulting from many years of personal investigation and exhaustive research in India, Persia, Syria and the Valley of the Nile." - title page. After first receiving the Light in India, the author was moved to "investigate, to the fullest extent, the meaning and purport of the numerous hieroglyphic inscriptions, symbols and characters found upon the ancient tombs and temples, so that the Masonic Fraternity might understand, appreciate and apply the teachings of the hierophants and sages of bygone days." - Preface. Chapters: Alexandria - the Antiquity of Masonry; Ruined Temples - Masonry and Masonic Symbols; Ancient Cities - Soirian Myth - Karma; the Nile - Origin of the Name Free Mason - Scottish Rite Philosophy; Ancient Mysteries - Scottish Rite philosophy; Suez Canal - The Druses, Their Manners and Customs; Agriculture - Irrigation - Lotus - Papyrus; The Supreme Architect of the Universe; Mosques - Tombs - Massacre of Mamelukes - Heliopolis; Esoteric Teaching of the Scottish Rite - Brain and Thought; Pyramids - Sphinx - Tombs; Solomon - Death of Hiram - Cross - Swastica; Mummification - Transmigration - Re-incarnation; Sixteen Saviours - Lost Knowledge; The Golden Fleece - Roman Eagle - Masonic Apron - What it Teaches; Pyramids of Sakkarah - Lisht - Medum - The Fayum - Labyrinth; Sun Worship - Zodiac - Masonic Allegories; A Voyage up the Nile - Description of Tombs and Temples - Pro Doric Columns; Ineffable degrees - Thoughts on Ecclesiastes - I.N.R.I. - Voyaging up the Nile - examining Tombs and Temples - Paintings - Sculptures; Masonic teachings - Hindu beggar - Roman Catholicism; Thebes - Colossi - Der-El-Bahari - Luxor - Karnak; Ceremonies - Initiation - Blue Lodge - Transmigration - Mystery Language; The Gawazee - exploring Temples and tombs - Philae and its ruins - Nubia; Jewish Traditions and customs - Cable tow - Ceremonies of ancient Initiation - book of the Law; Circumsision - upon what the Ancient Craftsmen were obligated - the lost word. All edges gilt. Protected frontis portrait of author. Ornately embossed boards. Raised bands to spine. Partially rubbed gilt lettering and decoration upon back strip. Marbled endpapers. Hinges intact internally, open or opening externally. Front board partially detached. Somewhat above-average wear to boards. Unmarked. A worthy original copy of this monumental work. 12" x 9.5" x 2.5". 11 pounds. Book
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The Wide World Magazine - January [Jan.] 1926, Vol. LVI, No. 334: The Romance of Kilimanjaro / An Australian Robinson Crusoe
Features: An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Jack McLaren spent eight years alone among savages attempting to make a coconut plantation out of the primeval jungle; Beating the Black Death - Dog teams bring antitoxin serum to save the residents of Nome, Alaska, who were afflicted with diphtheria; The Fakir - sequel to "the Jogi's Curse"; The Secret of the Consulate - Italy responds during World War One to the destruction of its warships due to the activities of Austrian Secret Service agents operating in Switzerland; Among the White Arabs - The Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; My Day Off - an ex-inspector of the Federated Malay States Police; The Romance of Kilimanjaro - with photos by F. Ratcliffe Holmes; Perinco the Outlaw - cattle-rustling in Argentina; A woman's fight with a leopard; In Search of the Lost Oases - Part V (conclusion) - a trip from Sollum to El Obeid, in the Sudan (photos); The Red Lamp - a benighted traveller's terrifying adventure in a French town; The Poison Peddlers - an exciting tale of life in a railroad construction camp in Canada when illicit liquor is supplied to the workers; Interesting letters. Faint prior owner's pencilled name atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy. Book
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Cornwell, Rupert
God's Banker - An Account of the Life & Death of Roberto Calvi
260 pages including index and black and white plates. The death in London by hanging of one of Italy's leading bankers, Roberto Calvi, focused the world's attention upon the affairs of the Banco Ambrosiano, a bank closely involved in Vatican finance. After intensive research, including interviews with leading figures in the Italian financial world, with Calvi's family and associates in the United States and with bankers in the capitals of Europe, author has been able to unravel the complex story of Roberto Calvi and his world, and to piece together this amazing chronicle of financial malpractice in high places. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
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Davis, I. M.
The Black Douglas
184 pages. Index. Bibliography. "The first full account of James of Douglas' eventful and dangerous career up to his celebrated death carrying Robert Bruce's heart into battle against the Moors." - from dust jacket. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Poole, Otis Manchester
The Death of Old Yokohama in the Great Japanese Earthquake of September 1, 1923
135 pages. Index. "This is the story of the disaster, told by a survivor, of his search for wife and children, relatives and friends, of their flight from the fire, their escape down the cliffs to the shore, and their eventual escape by the ships in the harbour. It is a gripping narrative, simple but accurate and clearly authentic, having been written immediately after the earthquake." - from dust jacket. Numerous horrific black and white photographic plates. Usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Somewhat above-average wear. Worthy reference copy. Ex-Library
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Barrett, Sylvia
The Arsenic Milkshake: And Other Mysteries Solved by Forensic Science
207 pages. Index. "Provides a behind-the-scenes look at a wider group of modern scientific sleuths in Canada." - from page xi. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
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Frontier Times Magazine: July, 1970
Features: Sheep Camp Murders - Brushy Basin 1903; The Puzzle of Baptiste Charbonneau; Motion picture vignettes; Cook's Peak and the Bones of Sing Lee; The Border Jumpers - American settlers cross the Canadian border into British Columbia to lynch accused murderer Louie Sam; Lost Rhoades Mine - Brigham Young's Klondike; Trained for Trouble - Collies protected sheep; A Gambler who never quit - Dutch Jake Goetz; Tunnel of Death - tunnel to the bank vault of the First National Bank of Las Vegas; End of the Trail for Red Buck - George Waightman; The Barker Spread in the Sangre de Christos; Jessie Benton Fremon appraises Kit Carson; The Butterfield Trail in Texas; and more. Two-inch tear to front cover near spine else unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: November 1973 *BADMAN-LAWMAN SPECIAL*
Features: Oregon's Legendary Sheriff - Jim Blakely; Saddle Mountain's Lost Mine; That joint down by the river; The Moline Dreadnaught - an early auto adventure over 5 states; Samuel MacDougall's Great Gold Hoax; The James Connell Murder Case - a beef contract turned out to be a death warrant; Horse Traders and Gypsies; Bloodshed on Lightning Creek, Wyoming - a border dispute; Deputized Sawmill Man - James William Anderson; Newt Israel's last trip to Tucson; A close call at Red Fork; Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Frontier Times Magazine: January 1974 *SPECIAL TREASURE EDITION*
Features: Indians and Treasures don't mix! - Jacob Snively's search for fortune; Monument to Bitterness - in the cemetery of Hiawatha in northeast Kansas; The Lost Butte Gold; New Show in Town - the troupes who played the communities of the West; Gold in the Bottom of the well; Cass County Poor Farm - to be on charity in pioneer times held a special dread; El Dorado - from 'Oregon and California in 1848"; Drop in, cut loose, and dance in earnest - ranch life's bright side; Kang's Gold - a young Chinaman in Arizona; A rope for Mary Rose - townspeople avenge her death; Ghosts of the Star Range - along the Nevada border; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine - Spring, 1972
Features: Frontier legend - Captain William F. Drannan; Mad Dog Dilda - Dennis W. Dilda; Backsliders and Brush Arbors - religious people rush to the newly opened Indian Territory; 30,000 Yesterdays in photos - wonderful early photos from Port Angeles, Washington and environs; Ambush in Wingate Pass - Death Valley Scotty; Broncho Billy's Last Ride; Double Shooting in Hays, Kansas; Almenzo Yerdon's Deep-Freeze Bank - loner died without revealing where his money was hidden; Two Bachelors and a Lighthouse - Aroya, Colorado; Would a Fur-Trading man know Gold? - Bear Butte; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine - Winter, 1966
Features: rare book reprint - West Wind, the life of Joseph Reddeford Walker, by Percy H. Booth; Men who wore the Oregon Boot (Gardner Shackle) - life in a makeshift territorial prison; Prairie fire - Walt Coburn; A ranch on the Nueces - Jim Ray builds a new home in Texas; the strange story of Quantrill's Surgeon - John W. Benson; Helena's hidden channel of gold; the freighter from Scotland - William Duff Stewart; Fortune's Little Casinos - scattered through Colorado's canyons; 'Tramp' General - Jo Shelby; Ghostly Camp Crittenden; Headhunting was their hobby - savage Haida raiders drew the last blood in their feud with Puget Sound pioneers a century ago... Their grim code demanded a white man's head for every Indian slain; He killed a heap of men - George Marlow; the day the brewery died - Gold Nugget Beer and the Black Hills Brewing Company of Central City, South Dakota; the boy Geronimo missed - clubbed and left for dead, he lived another hundred years!; 'she's taken bad, doc - early medicine in Big Spring, Texas; the twenty mules of Death Valley; Anvils and Coal Smoke - the old time blacksmith; One step at a time - early dreams in Wyoming; Trapped on Vick's Peak; Steamboats 'round the bend - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Ira Terrill - lawbreaker, madman or political scapegoat?; Savage days in Springtown, Texas; Black Hills Album. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine - Fall, 1966
Features: Reprint of "Recollections of Old Milestown" by S. Gordon; Sky of Brass, Earth of Iron - reprinted from the book 'Western Vision' by David Lavender; World's Greatest Slaughter! - the appalling slaughter of the American buffalo; Buffalo Comeback - the Canadian Government preserves a portion of Canada's once mighty buffalo population; Circuses and Contests; Before the days of Libel - when a newspaperman could say anything he durned please; Renegade Battalion - they deserted Fort Brown to join the Mexican Army only to be killed when the Americans stormed Monterrey in 1846; Travesty Town - the story of old Millerton; When Panic Took Over! - smallpox epidemic at New Tacoma, Washington Territory, 1881; Apache Gold - Buck Adams; Conquering the Rockies with a camera - William H. Jackson; Pioneer Mother - escaping the Indians; Old Cornucopia, Oregon and its gold mine; 'Bet-a-million' Gates - Magician - he turned barbed wire into a lead pipe cinch!; Death at Christmas - Frank Rochas; Lost Camp - from 'Homestead Years' by Lloyd I. Sudlow; Pawnee Bill - "Little Giant of Oklahoma'; Some men need it lonely - Archer B. Gilfillan, sheepherder; His eccentric highness - Joshua Norton, 'Emperor of the United States'; friend to no man - Ben Cravens used partners to commit crime... but didn't need their help to spend the proceeds; the courthouse went by train - moving a Nebraska courthouse by rail; Hellgate to Tonopah - early Nevada memories; Luckiest Cuss in the Klondike - Clarence J. Berry. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine - Summer 1966
Features: 'History and Reminiscences of J.W. Cooper, California Sheep Baron - reprinted in its entirety; Hell and Hight Water - early loggers; Colter's Boone - John Colter; Rattlesnakes I have known; The Murder of Simeon Turley; W. T. 'Slick' Clements - dead shot; Black Rock Swindle - Humboldt County, Nevada; The Harvey Houses - food and accommodation for travellers; Bitter Sunset - Gokliya, famed Apache war chief; They didn't stay for dinner - early Coloradan 'Zan' Hicklin got rid of bores; Old West Scrapbook; Bears are bigger in the dark; Sandon, British Columbia - Misfortune's Playground; White Man's revenge - what happened when a young Indian refused to submit; The Denton-Twiggs Feud - Jesse Roper; We ran the Jim - the James River, South Dakota in the 1880s; Bert Casey and the Hughes Ranch, Oklahoma; Longest stage route in the world; The meanest Cayuse; Cry of the Death Bird; Early Day Cow Hosses. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine, August 1956 - Australian Edition
Features: The Terrible Swede - a writer returns from a year in the South Seas; Search in Saigon - a mystery by Lawrence Morgan; Queen of the Windjammers - The Lawhill; Terror Strikes Karunga; Trapped in the Ice - Eskimo Transportation; Sentence of Death - the adventures of French Foreign Legionnaire John Seymore Townsend; Birdin' on the Furneaux; 10' a week for paradise Skokholm - I Know an Island, Part II; Beloved Elephant; War Breaks out on Friday - the Moro Naba of French Sudan; World's Tallest Totem Pole - Victoria, British Columbia; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, September 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: The Kidnapped Crook - The unvarnished facts of the culminating adventure of Clement Passal, alias the 'Marquis de Champaubert"; Unknown waters - a voyage of the Royal Research Ship Discovery II to the unmapped areas of Australian Antarctica; The White Cockerel - A remarkable story of ju-ju from Africa; Monk's Field - a curious story from North Wales; South Sea Fire-Walkers; A Woman Scorned - a story from Tabora; This bone means death - Australian aborigines 'point the bone' to allegedly kill, even at great distances; The Two Sisters - Two Italian Girls play a big part in helping the pro-British Partisans to seize Northern Italy from the Fascists - Else and Nina Gariglio, with photos; and more. Covers loosely attached. Somewhat above-average wear. 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, December 1958 - Australian Edition
Features: Trapped in the Ice -continuing the saga of his 2,150 miles across the antarctic, Sir Vivian Fuchs relates a fateful moment - with photos; The Lost Wealth of Tortuga Bay, Cuba; The Tokolosi's Victim - a mis-shapen fiend and witchcraft in Africa; Give Me Canvas - the s.s. Helderus - using sails to propel broken down vessels; Monkeys in business - harvesting coconuts!; Entangled with Death - a hunter is caught up the the antlers of a moose!; Devil-Devil in the Boiler - an Australian fishing excursion goes wrong as a man is trapped in a boiler; Phantom of the Pampas - Andrew Lang; I saw the secrets of the Mafia - the writer smuggled herself into a guarded arena and became the first outsider to witness the initiation of a new member into the ranks of the dreaded organization - photos; Adventures of the Cod Fishers of Aldeburgh; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, October 1958 - Australian Edition: Vancouver Island Logging
Features: According to the Law - Lieut.-Col. G.H. Keighley-Bell recalls his adventures with Kurds around 1919; Cut Out and Get Out - Tom H. Inkster recalls logging on Vancouver Island - photos; A Pint for the Man Who Breaks his Oar - fishermen at Aldeburgh, "The Wild Amphibious Race"; A Witch Doctor and the Bride - a Zulu Tale; The Sea Arab - a white man becomes a man of the sea in the tropical islands; Death to the Whites - Lolo St. Paul of the Shuswap Indians in British Columbia taught the law of the White man to the Indians, but to the pioneer-settlers he represented the law of the Redskin - excellent and little-known B.C. history with photos; Outcast of the Silent City - An Indian Adventure; I Lived in the Stone Age - studying aborigines of Australia; The Lost World of Jimmy Angel - a tale of gold, diamonds and Angel Falls, a mile-high waterfall in Venezuela; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding beginning to open at bottom but everything still holding together. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, November 1957- Australian Edition
Features: I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone - the amazing story of Maurice Wilson (continued in a later issue); Death in a Bamboo Staff - Investigating snakes; An extraordinary affair at Upper Blackwood, Australia - mysteriously appearing stones and other objects; A Leopard came by Night - a fright in Uganda; Dogged by a Ghost Ship - aboard the whaler George Henry in Hudson Strait, between Labrador and Baffin Land in 1861; Ice Giving Way - An Anarctic Story; The Dead Walk Here - an incident in Algiers; He Built a Light for All Nations - no two lighthouses are the same; The Pawang's Triumph - an attempt to rid Malayan padi fields of the dreaded Beranang disease; Wild Boar at Bay - an unusual pig hunt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover partially loose. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1957- Australian Edition
Features: West to Adventure - the life of Arthur 'Jack' Letheby in Western North America (Part I); Fear at First Sight - man-eater danger in Africa; Introduction to Murder - Captain Philip Chambers' account of multiple-murder in Casablanca; Besieged by Sea Snakes - the horrifying encounter of an Ecuadoran fisherman; The Devil Follows the Net - The early story of the North Sea fishing grounds - sudden wealth, and sudden death; Karmuk's Prophecy - an Eskimo's experiences with polar bears in the Far North; Mangaia Trader - Part XI of "I Know and Island" - Rarotonga, main island of the Cook Islands; Bridal-Cake Sentinel - the unusually-shaped Guardian of the English Channel; Big City Leopard Hunt - Oklahoma City, 1950; Snatched from the Orient - adventure of the submarine Thule in the Singapore Strait, by Alastair Mars; Mystery of the Vanished Herds - Przewalski's Mongolian wild horses; Jungle Honeymoon; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. 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 1957, Australian Edition
Features: The Wreck of the El Dorado - a four-masted lumber schooner enroute to Chile from Astoria, Oregon, goes down 700 miles from isloated Easter Island; Fear Saved My Life - a tiger brings death to the people of the Indian swampland; The Swallowing Swamp - a continuation of the Maufrais Saga in French Guiana; The Devil in the Cabin - a wolverine (carcajou) attacks a man in northern Canada; Caravan of Slaves - attempting to liberate a party of young natives destined for the slave market of Arabia; Jungle Takes the Air - wildlife escape mid-air over East Africa; Night of Horror - alone in the Papuan jungle; Curse of the Pagan Temples - a story from Burma; Isle of Devils - the natives were scourged by Elephantiasis; Gold on Their Backs - Man's desire for Otter fur almost drove them to extinction; Desert Ambush - a religious fanatic and his gang of ruthless henchmen brutally attacked the Colonial Administrator in the mountains of South West Arabia; and more. Small chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, April 1954, Australian Edition
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboaord a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Buring Ship - An attempted rescue during a fire at sea; The Ju-Ju Snake - a West African tale; Sea Lion Islands - the author visits Sea Lion Rookeries on islands off British Columbia at breeding time - photos; Under Two Flags - a Brit on leave on the French Riviera is mistaken for a French deserter and ordered to perform 18 months military service in France!; Unlucky Mica - a prospector's story about the discovery and abandonment of a rich deposit of Mica in Nigeria; The Hottest Place on Earth - Death Valley, California - photos include one of a 20 mule team; The Regimental Ghost - strange happenings with a famous unit of the Indian Army; Canadian Loggers - describes Hastings Street, Vancouver in the 1950s - a fascinating historical backdrop to the problems which currently plague the area; The World's Richest Treasure Store - Fort Knox Depository, Kentucky; A bed of bayonets; The Gibraltar Apes; A Hippo with Toothache - a hippo turns nasty; and more. Small chip from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Faint signature atop front cover. Quality copy. Book
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