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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 1952 - Australian Edition
Features: Diamond Cut Diamond - widespread traffic in diamonds stolen from African mines; A Packet of Trouble - A British soldier in Egypt pretends to help drug-traffickers; Across the High Alps on Skis - an ambitious expedition carried out by four young Scots, many photos; Gypsies of the Arctic - Laplanders; South African Canoe-Racing - Whisky and Water - two odd characters in Australia; Rope's End - a former B.S.A. police-trooper's account of the undoing of a cunning native murderer; Curio-Collecting in Papua - examining native handiwork for the Australian Museum, with photos; Cheating Death; The Sleep-Maker - Puzzling thefts at a Nigerian mining-camp; The Awakening - an innocent man is charged with murder; Poltergeist - a weird story from Borneo; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
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Man to Man: The Stag Magazine, Aug.-Sept. 1951
66 pages. Features: 6 Reasons why Women Become Prostitutes; Make Money Tanning Rattlesnake Leather; Torture Tests for Manhood; How Waitresses Tease for Tips; American Men Enslaved by Mexican Sex Drugs; How We Caught the Atom Spies - as told by Edward R. Thompson, Special Agent, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; The Sex Cult of Satanism; Exposing the Racketeers of Death - The Funeral Director Racket; Tuna Men are Tough Fighters; The Man Who Lived Two Lives - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright; Cover Girl - Shirley Roden; Will Rex Layne be another Jack Dempsey; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
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Coyne, James H.(Ed.); Talbot, Thomas
The Talbot Papers - Including Those Left By the Honourable Colonel Thomas Talbot at His Death, His Letters to the Honourable Peter Robinson, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and Some Letters Written By Him to the Hon. William Allan
198 pages. Black and white portrait of subject. Sturdily rebound in maroon buckram. Tight and square with light wear. Please note: Title page and table of contents are bound between end of text and beginning of index. Peripheral moisture marks to half of pages. Book
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The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War - Part 167, October (Oct.) 30, 1917. Victoria Crosses of the War (III.)
Front cover photo of the King and an Australian V.C. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos. Contents: The Daring Deeds of Captian Ball; The Honourable Artillery Company Crosses for the Fighting Fifth; Succouring the Wounded; A cross won in the bush; more posthumous awards; Gallant officers; Canadian Exploits; Machine Gun Acts; An Airman's Rescue; Presentation by the King; Colonial Heroes; Cruel Treatment of a V.C. POW; Death of Captain Chavasse, V.C. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Please note: it is recommended that the following two issues be read in conjuction with this: Part 118 - Victoria Crosses of the War (I); Part 148 - Victoria Crosses of the War (II). Magazine
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The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War - Part 169, November (Nov.) 13, 1917. The Disorganization of Russia, March-July 1917
Cover portrait of M. Kerensky. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photos. Contents: Rise of the Soviet; Bolsheviks and Maximalists; Jewish Influences; Indiscipline in the army; Kerensky abolishes the death penalty; Alexeieff as Generalissimo; German Propaganda; Lenin and his agents; Resignation of Miliukoff; Provisional government's note to the allies; replies of Great Britain and France; No annexations and no indemnity; Resignation of Gutchkoff; A coalition cabinet; the 'soldier's charter'; dismissal of generals; Kerensky's visit to the armies; chaos in Russia; confiscation of land; mutinees in the fleet and armies; The Sukhomlinoff Trial; All-Russian congress of Soviets; Drunkenness revived; Treatment of the Imperial family; The Revolution and the Church; Fraternization with the enemy; women solderis. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Please note: the following issues may be of interest: Part 13 - The History of the Russian Army/The Russian Army at the Outbreak of War; Part 32 - Russia's Problem - The First Invasion of East Prussia; Part 33 - The Russian Conquest of Galicia; Part 44 - The last phases of the Russian Winter Campaign (1914-15); Part 50 - The Russian Offensive in the Carpathians (1915); Part 55 - The Campaign against the Baltic Provinces/ The Austro-German Victory on the Dunajec; Part 56 - The Reconquest of Przemysl and Lemberg; Part 61 - The Fall of Warsaw; Part 65 - The Advance from Warsaw, Last stages of the summer campaign (1915); Part 97 - Russia at War; Part 105 - The Russian Offensive of 1916 - first phase; Part 110 - The Russian Offensive of 1916 - Second phase; Part 122 - The Russian Offensive of 1916 - last phase; Part 124 - The Russian Campaign in 1915-16 in Armenia; Part 159 - The Adbication of the Tsar. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Summer 1980
Features: Back there in the time of the French - a tale of lost treasure, hope, love, international doublecross, and finally death - Emperor Maxmillian; Indian Raid on the Union Pacific - the work crew was grading a longer road than they knew; Freighting in to Deadwood, Black Hills; I Knew Quanah Parker; Curly Bill Brocius - Arizona Outlaw; Nellie Cashman - 'Angel of the Mining Camps'; Ball of Fire - Nebraska homesteaders had an unwritten law that no man dared break - prairie fires; A Mountain Man 'Writes a Book' - Jim Beckworth; Rekindling Camp Fires - The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) - Conclusion; and more. Average wear. Few markings on pages 54-55. Sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Winter 1979
Features: Two Ugly Men - Glanton, the brutal scalp hunter, and Naked Horse, the vengeful Yuma chief, fought to the death for control of the mighty Colorado; Homesteaders' Saturday Night - in the sand hills west of North Platte, Nebraska; Meanest Town on the Coast - Madison, Texas; He Lived with the Barrens - John Hornby; Captain Jack - a stray in the family line - Orren Arms Curtis; Tensleep Raid - the raiding and burning of a sheep camp threw the Big Horn Basin country of Wyoming into a turmoil of accusations, hatred and murder!; Unleaded Horse Flesh - Did we shut the stable door to soon?; Trapped in a Snowbank - Grandfather Dickinson moves his young family to Lyon County, Minnesota in 1872; Rekindling Camp Fires - The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca) - Part II; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label removal from front cover opened a hole 1" x 3" which has been taped over. Otherwise a sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Spring 1979
Features: The Last War Party - Prairie Chicken Old Man led his war party of young Bloods on one last raid against the Crows; Mad Dog! - Rabies; Buckskin Frank Leslie - Wyatt Earp called him the most dangerous man ever to set foot in Arizona Territory; A Young Man's Country - All alone in northern Alberta - William Greening; The Mussel Slough Tragedy - could a big railroad lie and push hundreds of settlers around?... 5 brave men died to prove it couldn't; 'Durned Right There's Ghosts!"; Frontier Guardian, Lew Wetzel - a burning hate, an insatiable lust for Indian blood, drove him on in his endless quest for new victims; Bitter Blizzard - it was root hog or die for man and beast when the granddaddy of fierce storms swept the plains; Comanche Captive - what happened to Alice Todd?; No Fit Place for a Man of the Cloth - an Irish priest is scared half to death on a long stage trip in Wyoming; Riding the High Country (end); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Winter 1978
Features: Cord of Death - Bloody Bill Anderson tied 53 knots in his silken; Llano Estacado - the savage 'staked plains of West Texas and New Mexico; Not Even a Drink - train robbery at Dale Creek, Wyoming; Curly Bill Brocius - The Counterfeit Gunman of Tombstone; The Donner Strategy; Indian Bow and Arrow Making; I Smuggled Guns Across the Border - caught in the maelstrom of Mexican revolution, the plight of the Mormon colonists in Mexico was a harrowing experience; Eagle Mills, Nebraska; Murder on the Snake - New York Bar was an isolated river boat station until E.H. Cummings was brutally axed; Riding the High Country, by Patrick T. Tucker - Part I; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Fall, 1978
Features: The Blizzard, by Walt Coburn; Revival at Seven Rivers - The Jones Family of New Mexico; Canyon of the Skeletons - a young Crow brave helps his people survive; The Fight that Finished Tombstone - the knockout punch by Mel Rigley was the most expensive punch in the entire history of the west!; Lady Moon - Catherine Evelyn Gartman was loud of voice, crude and boisterous of manner; Man, was it rough! - rugged Idaho Territory; The Last Owl-Hoot - lawmen called Earl Durand 'The Wyoming Tarzan'; Lost - a fortune in silver, somewhere in Arizona; They Could Laugh... at Death - the pioneers never lost their sense of humour; Sandhills Tragedy - children lost in the great sandhills of Western Nebraska, the dread fear of every pioneer family; The 'Fightin'est' Ranger - Jim Gillett; Military Ghosts on the Carson - Fort Churchill; Oklahoma Scout, by Theodore Baughman; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Summer 1978
Features: When Bob Dalton Hit the Longview Bank; Montana - the last frontier to be branded; Geronimo's Wives; Gold Beneath Toadstool Rock; The Tragic Punishment of James Black; Mademoiselle Nevada; Dodging Death along the Smoky Hill River; Bulkeley Wells - polite and lethal; The Crest and Crumble of Crook City; The Difference between Oregon and California Miners; Off to Indiana!; The Monarchs; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Spring, 1977
Features: He Met the Devil; Pet Brown, Championship Wrestler; When Annie Oakley was Accused of Theft; Butch and the Fine & Dandy Kid; Bucketfull of Pay Dirt; A kind word for Lucius; Trails Grown Dim; The Deadly Garment; Death Hollow; Six Horses; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Fall, 1964 *FIRST ISSUE*
Features: The Life of Big Foot Wallace; The Haunted Corral; Pedro Loco; Ring-Tailed Roarer; Tales of the Branding Iron; The Honor of Old Thunder; Mad Killers of El Dorado Canyon; Blizzard Bull; When Cooper Wright Met the Mob; Medicine Woman; Last War Trail of Victorio; The Rifle That Opened the West; Lost Mine of the Klickitat; Spur Talk; Spirit Curse of the Lost Frenchman's Gold; Wild Horse Roundup; When Death Rode the Jarbidge Stage; Big Winnie; The Great Baptizing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
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SW (Star Week) Magazine 23 September 1967
Close-up of a Super-Hippie and why he matters to you - The CYC's David DePoe - a look at hippie life in Toronto; Fashionable coats; Robin Hood is Alive in Edmonton - Sherwood Park's Annual Tourney; How to do the Flambe bit, with colour photos; One Girl's Struggle with the Eternal Triangle, Canadian Style - Alexandra Stewart stars in our first attempt at an all-out box office film, with seven photos; The Father Who Beat his Baby, Ricky Lozecki, to Death; How the Japanese Pamper Drunks - "When a Nippon Playboy gets drunk the cop is his friend, and his worst punishment is listening to a tape of how he sounded when he was loaded; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: September/October 1984
Features: Life and Death of the Sea Tuskers - The Sea Cow Fishery on these islands is totally annihilated; Victorian Canada - A Photographic portfolio selected by Edward Cavell; Classic Revival - Greece battles to save the Sacred Rock of the Western World; Earth's Great Dyings - Scientists seek clues to the mystery of mass extinctions. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: November/December 1988
Features: Prairie Roots - 'My ancestors ran from the Ukraine so they could keep their beliefs. I intend to keep the culture alive.'; Embattled Giant - Pollution threatens to destroy British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; The Golden Alphabet - Deciphering the architecture of the avian empire; At Home in Every Country - A Canadian comes calling on the world's richest families; Art of the State - after 108 years of neglect, Canada's national art collection finds a handsome high-tech home; Sandman's Surprise - Once considered a state akin to death, sleep may in fact hold the key to our most creative moments. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Equinox - The Magazine of Canadian Discovery: April 1995
Features: Secrets of the Lost Forest - Vietnam's rainforests teem with undiscovered life... a Canadian-Russian research group takes a dream trip along the biodiversity trail; Death of an Elder - A Labrador Community rallies at a dying Innu woman's bedside, preparing for her spirit's return to the land; Wanted - Will James... a.k.a. Ernest Dufault, for being the rootin' tootin' French Canadian cowboy fraud of the old Wild West; Let Your Fingers Do the Talking - a snappy salute to handmade gestures... humanity's original digital interface; Microbe Mystery - a newly discovered strain of hantavirus, spread by deer mice, is alarming country dwellers and cottagers alike... but have the viral sleuths really got their bug? Light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
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Earth First! - The Radical Environmental Journal: February-March 1998
Features: The Great North Woods; Little Alfie Timber Sale Stopped; Owls Halt Sprawl; Goshawks; Monster Pulp Mill Defeated; Dam Reconstruction Trend; Kyoto Conference Report; Death to Cars; Amazon Animal Massacre; Columbia Pipeline Blown; Activists Killed in Sarawak; Deregulation of Organic Standards; Clinton's New Roadless Area Policy; Yellowstone Wolf Ruling; Hog Farming; Prisoner Support; APEC Conference Chaos; and more. Quality copy. Book
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The War Illustrated - 9 June 1917: No. 147
Illustration Features: America Arrayed in Arms; Why I Have Faith in Russia - article by Hamilton Fyfe; "Vive La France!" in the face of instant death (torpedoes); General Maude's Great Advance in Mesopotamia; In the Tracks of the Turks in the Tigris Valley; How Bullecourt was Won - article be Max Pemberton; Behind the Lines in France; British Guns aid Italy on the Carso Front; Episodes in the Great Battle of Arras; Men of the Green Brassard - some famous correspondents and their work (article); Plowing and Sowing for harvests of life and death; Mosques and Minarets of old-world Bagdad; Canadian Kite Balloons and Captured Teuton Trophy; Willing Women workers; Italians push on towards Trieste; Regimental Record - The Kensingtons (article); Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
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Popular Science Magazine, April (Apr.) 1966
Features: Exclusive - we test-drive U.S. car with Rotary Engine - "Wankel Fever" hits Detroit; Death can result from mixing ordinary drugs and food with a couple of drinks; What it takes to win at Indy, with '65 winner Jim Clark; You can build a tape player for your car; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1997
Articles: Ginseng, Otter Skins, and Sandalwood - The Conundrum of the China Trade; Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Toponymie ancienne et origine des noms Saint-Pierre, Miquelon et Langlade; Death was Their Escort, and glory passed them by - Life in the Marine Convoys of World War II; plus several book reviews. 3 items high-lighted in table of contents and sunning to spine else a clean and lightly worn copy. Book
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The War Illustrated - 5 January, 1918
Features: Article by Lovat Fraser - War Problems of the New Year; Gallant charge of the Fort Garry Horse (photos) - Lieutenant H. Strachan; Chinese men view war's ruin in west; Photos of Australians in France; French Premier with the heroes of Mort Homme; 'Thunderers' (gunes) that defy the foe before Verdun; Glimpses of East Africa from a German Camera; How I was arrested as a spy - an experience undergone three times by Hamilton Fyfe during Russia's spy-fever; Cambrai illustrations; Spotting for the Guns - adventures of John S. Margerison, Observation Officer of the Kite Balloons; From the Yser and Somme to Brenta and Piave; The Kaiser as Patron of the 'Prince of Hell' (illustrations); Airship that searches the sea for submarines; War-time wages and prices - causes and effects of their simultaneous increase (article); Forcing the entrance to Palestine at Gaza (illustrations); Photos of American Engineers who aid the British guards; Photos of English women engaged in agriculture on the home front; Photos of Victoria Cross (V.C.) recipients Pte. M.J. O'Rourke, Sergt. J. Ockenden; Pte. W.H. Butler; Cpl. E.A. Egerton (brief text included); The South Lancashires - 1 page (with photo) information about this regiment. Average wear. Unmarked. Staples disintegrated. A sound copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine: April 1911, No. 156. Vol. 26
Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
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The Wide World Magazine, Volume 19: Includes June 1907 Through October 1907 Plus February 1904
Includes the following stories: A Chase in the Clouds; Some Historic Curses - II; The Totem Pearl; On the Frontier in Central Africa - IV; The Runaway Steamer; The Land of the Vendetta; Queer Fixes - a battle with wolves, and the plot that failed; Through the United States on Bicycles - III; The Sailor Cowboys; Wide World Picture Tours III - Australia and New Zealand; The Secret of the Farm; A "Floating Gold-Mine"; A Brush with Cannibals; The Haunted Stable; Queer Fixes - The River-Driver, and The Downfall of "Red Mike"; Across Unknown Bhutan - I; The Disappearance of Bryant Crandall; In the Andamans and Nicobars; The Gliding Death - In the coils of a boa-constrictor, touch and go, and an hour with a rattler; Watchers of the Lights; What happened at the Bungalow; Wide World Picture Tours IV - British Africa; Darkness and Light; Our Trip Down the Zambezi; Through the United States on Bicycles - IV; At Sea with a Menagerie; The Poachers Vengeance; A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers; An Alligator Hunt By Night; Our Bunch of Bananas and What They Cost Us; The "Knill Festival" at St. Ives; The Passing of a Pathan; The Romance of Mining - The Coyote Mine, Forty Feet From Fortune, The Vanished Vein; The Hunted Hunter; A Cinder in the Sea; Selling the Empire's Secrets; An Eastern Theatre; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - I; Fighting a Burning Gas-Well; An Exciting Weekend; The Lalla Khan Hoax; From India to England Overland - II; Raiding on the Cumberland; How Pearson Saved the "Overland"; Sport and Adventure in Central Africa - I; Nine Days Entombed; From India to England Overland - III; Tinker - The Story of a Dog; As the Sign of the "Cup-and-ball"; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - II; The "Killers of Twofold Bay; Captured by Dyaks; Some of My Experiences; My Man Jose; Witch-Doctors and Their Ways; The Mystery of the Magazine; Across America by Motor-Cycle; An Unexpected Visitor; A Village of Smiths; A New Year Parade; Lost in a Mine; A Paradise of Birds; The Man-Eater of Lalpur-Arani; Fighting Snow in the Rockies; Alone in the Wimmera; Log-Rolling; The "White Avengers" - II; My Last Climb; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - I; "Bully" Hayes's Supercargo; "The Emperor of the Sahara; The First Ascent of Chogo Loongma; Cast Away in the Arctic; A Deal in Eggs. Modest lean to spine. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
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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 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, March 1954
Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboard a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Burning 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. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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Fireflies, Peach Pies & Lullabies
"In this honest and healing picture book, Francie finds a way to share her nice memories of her Great-Granny and encourage others to remember the little things - the fireflies, peach pies, and lullabies - that celebrate the true life of a beloved one." - from dust jacket. Unpaginated. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
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True West Magazine, December 1964 *Can the Gila Monster Kill?*
Features: Pete Kitchen's Road of Deam Men; Jim Baker - Forgotten Plainsman; Can the Gila Monster Kill?; Trailing the Horse Thieves; Hangman's Hill in South Dakota; Sen-nes or Curly Jim - Diplomat of the Spokanes; The Yocum Silver Dollar; Andy Adams, Author; Death in the Yellowstone; Holdup!; A Cabin on Price River; Buckskin Jim Cutler and his Montana Water Fights; Making Do; Wishart of the Oxcart Brigade; Wild Old Days; The Towns the Ghosts Forgot - Sacramento; Chili Bean the mule; Rosebuds and Whiskey and Whistling Springs; Land of Shalam - one of the world's least known religions. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, October 1965 *Book Bonus - Vinegarroon*
Features: Vinegroon - the saga of Judge Roy Bean, "Law West of the Pecos"; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Dawson (Klondike/Yukon)- Paris of the North; Liver-Eating Johnson's Last Trail; Guns of the Old West - the Colt Forty-Five; Al Wetherill of the Mesa Verde; Geronimo/Fimbres; Cavalryman vs. Cowboy - a famous race; The Grizzly Bear - King of the California Wilderness - Grapevine Canyon; Two Minutes to Live; Maryhill Castle - Sam Hill; Bottle Bugs - old western bottle; Wheelock Academy and the fighting brothers; Cedros - the magic island; Blood for Blood - the Snake Indians on Bear River in California; Death Rode the Snows - 56 die in Rogers Pass slide; Wild Old Days - underwater - Parker Canyon Lake. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, August 1968
Features: Arizona in the '50's (conclusion) - a paradise of devils; Bear River Loot - Lafe Roberts and train robbery money; Scoreboard of the Raiders - how fast horses could change ownership in 1870 Texas; Lightning Stealers - manipulating a telegraph line to 'peddle calamity' could give men an easy fortune!; Pleasant Valley and Cowboy Flat - a last glimpse of the Doolin-Dalton outlaws before they turned to banks; A brush with death - the Arnett Hotel, Boulder, Colorado; Last Victim of the Vigilantes - Con Murphy; Mysterious Lady of Yankee Fork - Agnes Elizabeth King Hawthorne and one wedding too many, Bonanza, Idaho; King of the Windmillers - Ray D. Knox, installer of 7 in 10 windmills in the range country near Roswell, New Mexico; Miner's Finishing School - Tuscarora; Wild Old Days. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, June 1968
Features: Arizona in the '50's (first part); It's Death to Bonnie and Clyde - great photos; Sand Dunes of Gold - at Whiskey Run, Oregon; Wyatt Earp's Letters to Bill Hart; Did Edison get 'turned on' in Wyoming; Knights of the Wagon Yard - horse traders; Independence Day Murder - Park City, Utah; The Apemen of Mt. St. Helens; Point of Rocks - the Cimarron cut-off witnessed lots of trouble; Fort Lancaster - lower road to the west; Wild Old Days!; The Hermit of Ruby City. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice 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, August 1969
Features: Fabulous Horse Steel Dust - the true account of Texas' most celebrated stallion; Gunsight on Target! - the Death Valley Jayhawkers; Skid Roads - great logging story by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; The Cherokee Remember Their Badmen; Ruckus at Old Fort Musselshell; Ancient Salt Trails - the ancient Walpi pueble dispatched salt trains annually to Zuni; 1874 - Year of the Grasshopper; True West Scrapbook; Tragedy at Pig Pen, Hidalgo, New Mexico; Wild Old Days; The Prowler with the Big Foot - a Texas story; Hell at 1200 feet! - The Daly-West Mine explosion of 1902; Trailin' Down to Nebraska. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April 1969 *The Story of Zane Grey*
Features: The Loner - Walt Coburn meets a mysterious stranger in Del Mar, California; Navajo Traders for Many Moons - Smith, McAdams, Richardson; Windies - pure and simple - liars; Branded Logs and Timber Rustlers - by Reno 'Dad' Ingles; Zane Grey - he made the west famous; The Oil Game - It takes the measure of a man; A Mountain's Strange Music - the Grand Caverns near Manitou, Colorado; Death Comes to Oregon's Cattle King - Peter French; Wild Old Days; Peter Filscov's Promised Land - farmers plowed for riches; There WAS a Dearborn - Treasure Sequel; Schoolhouse Lynching - Anthony, Kansas. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine: December 1971 *Special Treasure Issue*
Features: The lamentable loss of La Reine Des Mers - a lost load of wine; New Mexico's most ruthless murder - Martin Nelson; Granby Idol - found in the Colorado River; Death on the Desert - Skull Valley; Treasure Trove and the Law - knowing if you'll be able to keep your find; Montana was not for farmers; Tales of the Dirt Tramps - road and highway construction; Shirt-Tail Canyon, California; Interpreter for the Apaches - George Wratten; Cave-Inn-Rock on the Ohio - hunt for relics here; White Collar Versus Black Ball - steamers that were lost; Wild Old Days!; A Rockin' Good Time - Gold finding tools; Discovery of Lone Tree Pass - Major-General Grenville M. Dodge. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine: October 1971
Features: Breakthrough - in 1906 the Imperial Valley suffered one of the worst man-made disasters of all time; A Story That Never Got Written - Timberline, the old Wyoming cowboy; The Little Green Tents - Walt Mason, "Poet Laureate of Ameica"; The Last Powwow and the Nicholson Family; Wolf-Kill Treasure - making life tough for prospectors; Who was George Matics?; General Ranald S. Mackenzie - his insanity and death; Mementos of Notriety - imfamous weapons; Grass-grown streets in Sierra Nevada - Part V - Columbia, Chinese Camp, Coulterville, Bagby and Bear Valley; Remember 'Chip of the Flying U"? - the B.M. Bower Books are in demand again; Wild Old Days; Travelin' Lilght - Tom Lipps; Tall Wolf's Macabre Necklace. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April, 1973
Features: Boone Helm - Man Eater!; Arizona's 'Lost Cabin' Mines; Your Until Death - William (Billie) Grounds; Mustangers and their methods; Blanket Bill - Robert William Jarman; Trail to Thunder Mountain - a packer describes the prelude to a Zane Grey book; He Killed a Cagey Outlaw - Old Snowdrift; Wild Old Days! - with photo of a large gar or garfish on display. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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True West Magazine, April, 1974
Features: The Big Un - a bull named the Laird of Lanark; Sixty-Seven Days around the World - all to prove that Tacoma, Washington lay directly in the path of the quickest route to Europe, Asia, or wherever! - George Francis Train; Fruit Tramps - The James Hatcher Apricot Ranch near Piru Creek; The Death of Mannen Clements; Lost Mine at Sandia; Angel of the Yukon - Miss Emily Morgan and a first-hand account of the famous and dramatic race against time 'carrying the serum to Nome'; Otto Franc - Riddle of the Pitchfork Ranch - Meeteetse, Wyoming; The First Comanche Cowboy - Charley Ross; Untamed Onion Creek, near Driftwood, Texas; A Six-Figure Hermit! - Al Dankel of Colorado; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound 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, April 1979
Features: A Strong Medicine Wind - Wind Goomda, Kiowa Warrior; Bullfrog Blackie; I Shall be a Borrower of Money" - the owner of the Sierra Bonita Ranch, H.C. Hooker; The Holdouts of Dublin Gulch; Feather Fort - it looked like the Comanches would win; Flash Flood - death that gives no notice; William H. Jackson's Cross of Snow - a gigantic Christian symbol on a mountainside in the Rockies; A Strange Summons - Ranger Ran Runnels is assigned to make a fifty-mile stretch of hell (rail line) as safe as a walk in the park; Jimmy, the Skull; Alberta Cowboys - thoughts of a long-ago summer and laughing men who knew horses; Blind Boone and 'The Marshfield Tornado'. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
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True West Magazine, November 1981
Features: Bunkhouse culture; Murder at Mount Sicker - This peaceful Canadian village was no match for a jealous madman who could disappear and reappear at will; Death in El Dorado - most 49ers had six months to succeed or go hungry; A Very Lively Hermit - Charley Parks; Emma Montgomery Jorgenson - the Queen of the Cook Tent; Neil Howie - Better than his times; Some Tragic Wyoming Characters; Twelve Years Shot - the Lawson Family; Caddo George - Slipped a dagger into Satank; "Dort Naus Ist America" - a siren's song that emptied the Old World and populated the new; Early-Day Orders at Fort Sill; Don Florencio of Lincoln County. A quality copy. Book
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True West Magazine, June 1982
Features: Sneak attacks and murder - Texas Ranger John Peavey harks back to bloody days on the border - Mexican bandits would derail trains; Mysterious Death at the Washita - Louis McLane Hamilton; Mrs. Henry Plummer - wife of a Philandering Outlaw Sheriff, Bannack, Montana Territory; Bronc Rider for Buffalo Bill - Harry Webb; A House by the Side of the Road - Alamosa Creek; Johnsons on the Chisholm Trail - ancestors of Lyndon Johnson; Orphaned by Black Hawk's Warriors - The Kuhre Family and Ephraim, Utah; Cable Car Genius - Andrew S. Hallidie - he showed San Francisco a better way to climb a hill!; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated London News: July 14, 1883 *Daphne Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow*
Front page loose but present and presents six sketches of 'The Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow" - The Daphne capsized upon launch with much loss of life. New items: Mr. Gladstone immolates eight ministerial bills; Wimbledon competition more popular than ever; Malagasy envoys leave for home; Good news from Ireland - a lessening of crime and upset; Update on Cholera outbreak at Damietta; The Ship-Launch Disaster at Glasgow; Live-Saving Apparatus on the Serpentine; The New Steam-Ship Tartar; Banquet to Mr. Henry Irving; National Sports; Parisian Sayings and Doings; Death of the Duke of Marlborough; Royal activities; Church news; Benevolence and Self-Help; Ben Nevis Meteorological Station; Funeral of Mr. W. Spottiswoode; General Home News; The City of London College; Two pages of Classified Ads (please note that this page is loose but present). Full page of sketches of "Complimentary Dinner to Mr. Henry Irving at St. James Hall. Half-page illustration of 'Trial of life-saving apparatus on the Serpentine, Hyde Park. Half-page engraving of "The Union Steam-Ship Company's Royal Mail-Steamer Tartar. Very dramatic two-page engraving entitled "The Great Disaster at a Ship Launch on the Clyde - Sinking of the Daphne, with Two Hundred Men. Above-average but not excessive wear. Includes separate supplement which consists of two full-page engravings - the first shows a kneeling man gardening while tenderly holding an infant, the second shows a sad kitchen scene from a picture by W.H.Weatherhead with the caption "For men must work and women must weep, Though storms be sudden and waters deep, And the harbour bar be moaning - C. Kingsley". The Ben Nevis Summit Observatory - Six sketches on one page. Opening of the City of London College - two sketches; Funeral of the late Mr. W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., in Westminster Abbey - 4 sketches. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling overall. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Magazine
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Material History Review - Number 48, Fall 1998 *Ships, Seafaring and Small Craft*
Features: "Probably the most beautiful Rowboat afloat" - The Form and Meaning of the St. Lawrence Skiff; "The Featherweight and the Backwoods" and the evolution of the pack canoe; Reassembly of a Sixteenth-Century Basque Chalupa; Recent Advances in Ship History and Archeaeology, 1450-1650 - Hull Design, Regional Typologies and Wood Studies; The Amsler Integrator and the Burden of Calculation; Snagboats and "Dead-Heads" - Interpreting History Onboard the W.T. Preston; Le Marco Polo, un navire canadien de renommee mondiale au milieu du XIXe siecle; Boat Models, Buoys and Board Games - Reflecting and Reliving Watermen's Work; Culture Materielle et niveaux de richesse chez les pecheurs de Plaisance et de l'ile Royale, 1700-1758; Emotion as Document - Death and Dying in the Second World War Art of Jack Nichols; "You Paint Me a Ship as is Like a Ship" - The Verkin Ship Portraits; Mi-marins, mi-mages - caracteres de l'univers magico-religieux des pecheurs et des gens de mer du littoral tyrrhenien; Les objets du rite - le bapteme de la Ligne; Voyagers in the Vault of Heaven - the Phenomonon of Ships in the Sky in Medieval Ireland and Beyond; Recent Media Treatment of the Titanic Tragedy; Edutainment and the Museum - a cautionary tale; plus 10 book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
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Correspondents of The Times
The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War, Part 254, July 1, 1919 *The Collapse of Austria-Hungary*
Great black and white photos. Topics include: murder of Count Sturgkh; death of Emperor Francis Joseph; Dr. von Koerber, Austrian Premier; The Ausgleich; The Emperor Charles; Political Changes; Count Czernin; Minister of Foreign Affairs; Effects of the Russian Revolution; Peace Currents; The Reichstrat Summoned; Resignation of Count Tisza; Letter of the Emperor to Prince Sixth of Bourbon; Austrian Victories in Italy; The Peace of Brest-Litovsk; Polish Problems; Allied Victories in France; Effects in Austria-Hungary; Austro-Hungarian Peace Note. Average wear. Covers loose as one but present. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
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Rohner, Ronald P.
The People of Gilford - a Contemporary Kwakiutl Village - Bulletin 225
179 pages. "Field research for this study was conducted among the Kwakiutl Indians of the Gilford Island Band, B.C. from September 1962, through August 1963, and again during June and July 1964." - from Preface. Topics include: Gilford Island and the Northwest Coast; History of the Gilford Island Band; Band Economic and Subsistence Activities; The People of Guilford; Community Social Organization; The Family at Gilford; The Formative Years; The Village School and Education; Intoxicants and Village Life; Political Organization and Social Interaction; Death and Religion; Epilogue - Conditions of Field-Work. Printed on glossy stock. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
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National Lampoon, August 1986 *SHOW BIZ ISSUE*
82 pages. Features: Famous last sights; True Facts; Death Wish VII - The Day of Reckoning; Foto Funnies; National Lampoon Interview - Steven Spielberg; A Day or Two (Give or Take a Few Hours) in the Life of a Comedian; The Dream Factory; Death in Venice; The ABC Fall Lineup; Being at the Movies Comics!; The Films of Annie Sprinkle; Commercial Potential; The Bunker - A Play in One, Last Act; Gonif Films Presents Holocaust II; Funny Pages; Loews Schizo - Homes of the Big Double Features; Masterpieces of Miscasting; Stick it in his Ear! Average wear. Bit of writing on table of contents (page 4). Does not quite lie flat. A sound copy. Book
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National Lampoon, April 1987 *CRIME PAYS*
Features: Drinking Tips and Other War Stories; Zen Bastard; The Yellow Journal; True Facts; Late Night with Mr. Vengeance!; Shoeshine for the Apocalypse; Crime!; The Do-Goodies Social Action Team in Cartoon Madness; Everyone's a Criminal; Foto Funnies; P-Men; War is Hell; Trots and Bonnie and Clyde; The FBI Uniform Crime Report; Brooklyn; Berserk!; Life on Death Row; Con Crafts; The Chain of Command; The Effective Manager; Funny pages. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. This copy has been partially three-hole punched along the left margin. Book
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