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199135 pages. The Fourth in a series of manual used by the Federation of Mountain Clubs for courses on Mountaineering skills. Designed to be used along with instruction and hands-on experience. Discusses equipment, climbing, anchor systems, Belaying, Rapelling, Climbing Classification, Basic Climbing Knots and Coiling a Rope. Small stain and bit of writing to front cover. Book
1977Features: Was Vought's F8U-3 Crusader III Crucified by an Unworkable Fighter/Bomber Concept?; Climbing the Alps to Germany - the Lockheed P-38 over Africa, Sicily and Italy; Frances WW I Breguet Bomber Brigade. Art: Vought F8U-3 Crusader III; Crusader IIIs in flight; Lockheed P-38J-5 with F-5B Magazine
1978Features: Meeting Report - Poisonous Plants; The Rattlesnake Fern in Japan; Climbing Ferns; Antique Fern Prints; Home Grown Jungle; and more Book
1999321 pages including bibliography. The first anthology devoted exclusively to climbing on the world's two highest and best-known mountains. Spans the years 1933 through 1996. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
1952Features: Outlaw Struggle - The hectic history of an extensive area of rugged wilderness in Oklahoma and Arkansas which has been a recognized sanctuary for desperadoes and fugitives; Climbing the Southern Falls - An absorbing description of a wonderful feat of mountaineering - the single-handed ascent of a 1,904 ft cataract which New Zealanders claim to be the loftiest in the world; Frensham's Bungalow - A strange story related by a former officer of the Indian Army; A Bid For Fortune - A youthful newcomer to Darwin, Australia risks his slender capital by joining a veteran skipper in a trip to a secret pearl-oyster bed; A Pygmy Net-Hunt - A graphic description of a most ingenious method of capturing wild animals; The Lost Mine - Originally published in 1929, author set forth to study native Indians in Panama but became involved with Tisingal, reputed to be one of the richest gold mines ever worked by the Spaniards; Velnagel's Gold - Engaged in salvaging old machinery from a long-abandoned Australian goldfield, the author stumbled into a most extraordinary experience; The Arrow Mystery - A curious affair from the early days of the Nigerian tin-field; Front cover missing. Above-average wear externally. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
1961Features: Hooliganism in Belgium; The New Significance of Laos; Lady Lytton's Court Diary; 7th International Boat Show; The New Millbank Skyscraper (2 page pictorial); Peruvian Mountain Climbing; Congo disputes; Baluba refugees; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1983232 pages. Index. Illustrated in colour and black and white. "Two of the most important aspects of decorative and functional gardening are combined in this authoritative, extremely wide-ranging and splendidly illustrated reference book." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Book
1948Stories: Through the Swiss Alps in a wheel chair; Operation Fort Ross; village life in India; the passenger; last voyage; brand of the tomahawk; island skipper; the climbing tiger; eight thousand dollars; an African Houdini; new chums luck. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
1947Stories: The Christmas Tree Derby; The Last of the Conquistadores; Solving Five Thousand Mysteries; Climbing under a Mountain; Searching for Smith; The Land of Mud Castles; South Sea Sugar; We Covered the Water-Front; Shark Hunting; The Spell; Mystery Moths; The Pursuit of the Breelong Blacks. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
1996140 pages. Features: Gene Chase's Davis D-1-W; GlaStar;Sky Arrow; Minimoa; Climbing Everest; OX-1-1/4?; The Seasprite. Light wear. Book
1952Features: Outlaw Stronghold - the hectic history of a rugged wilderness area in Oklahoma and Arkansas often used as a sanctuary by fugitives; Climbing the Sutherland Falls in New Zealand; Frensham's Bungalow - a strange story related by a former officer of the Indian Army; A Bid for Fortune - a young newcomer to Darwin, Australia joins a veteran skipper in a trip to a secret pearl-oyster bed; A Pygmy Net-Hunt - a graphic description of a most ingenious method of capturing wild animals, with photos; The Lost Mine (Part I) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reputed to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spanish; The New Cook; Diggers - Australian gold-hunters, with photos; Velnagel's Gold - while salvaging old machinery from an abandoned Australian gold mine the narrator (Robert Stevens) stumbled into an extrordinary experience; The Arrow Mystery - a curious affair from the early days of the Nigerian Tin-Field; and more. Covers taped in place. Above-average wear. Book
1918Features: Aerial Possibilities of 1918 (story); Aerial activity from Flanders to the Adriatic; Physical fitness Guarded in Trench & Dug-out; Where Snowy Winter is called a temporary truce; With General Marshall's men in Mesopotamia; From the Field of Conflict to the Camp of Care; Brought to the fore by Revolution in Russia; New Light on the True Inwardness of Bolshevism (story by Hamilton Fyfe); Behind the lines in lands of Beauty and Romance; Protective Colouring and Pyrotechnics in War; Some thrilling episodes in the story of the Light Cruisers (story); Below-Deck Heroes Daily Brave unseen danger - photos of the 'black squad' feeding the boilers with coal; Aspects of Sir Edmund Allenby's Palestine Army; American Soldiers enter sternly into action; Emergencies in Frontier Fighting in the East; Mountain Climbing in the Mahsud Campaign; Active Women Wield the Woodman's Axe and saw; Keepting the ways clear with constant work; The 7th Canadian Infantry (story). Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1909Features: Vivillo, The Brigand; Walrus Hunt in the Arctic; Sporting Stories - iv - Corker's Alligator - v - A Brush With a Bear - vi - Man v. Python; Guardians of the Wilderness; The Legend of the Wailing Woman; Mountaineering by Telescope; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - III; Some Experiences in Malaya; "Jack Ashore"; A Daring Voyage Down the Grand Canyon; A Romance of Two Islands - II; Courtship and Marriage in Savage Africa; The Capture of Antonio Barracola; Barmaid's Steeplechase; The Greatest Horse-Race on Record; The Promotion of Petroff; The Humours of a Rectorial Election; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - I; Climbing in the "Land of Fire"; The Spider's Web; Dolphin-Hunting; A Tragedy of the Nile; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - I; Recollections of a Texas Ranger; Short Stories - My Adventure at Arad, The Horror in the Pit; The Cruise of the "Crocodile"; Propitiating the Weather; The Affair at Greenville; The Terror in the Sanctuary; Across America by Airship; Fighting a Typhoon; A State Trial in Montenegro; Crossing the River; A Belgian Smoking Competition; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - II; Hunting the Hippopotamus; The Tale the Doctor Told; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - II; Short Stories - A Bluff that Worked, and The Yellow Fiend; My Experinces in Algeria - I; My Alaskan Christmas; Short Stories - Whave v. Sharks, A Battle in Mid-Air, Up in a Balloon; Some "Freak" Memorials; Down the Chute; Where Women Wear Trousers; Retribution; Mountain Tragedies of the Lake District; Cupid and the Dentist; My Experiences in Algeria - III; Ways that are Dark - My Adventures in 'Frisco, A Sharp Lesson, Seeing it Out; In the Land of the Reindeer; "Tapu"; The Finches' Festival; The Fight at the A-T Ranch; How I Got My Jaguar Skin; Out of the Skies; A Night Adventure in Yokohama; Ten Lions in a Day!; My Friend Dalton; Two Girls in Japan; The Last Creek; The Romance of Wild Animal Catching; How We Captured the Rebel Chief; Round the World with a Billiard-Cue; When "Tenderfeet" Go Hunting Bears; The Life of a Steeplejack; The Longest Chase on Record; The Land of Superstition; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Several pages partially loose, otherwise a sound copy. Book
1963Features: Congress must reform - Roscoe Drummond; Howard Hughes - he battles for an empire - Spruce Goose photos and more; The Rage to Ski - millions have developed a mad love affair with a sport that provides the thrill of speed on snow; Social Climbing on the Slopes; A condensation of the most startling book ever to be published in the Soviet Union - the truth about Stalin's prison camps; Stan Freberg - His Private War - the comic genius who harpoons the pompous, lampoons the ridiculous; The Wonderful, Wide, Backslapping World of Rotary; How the Modern Minuteman Missile Guards the Peace - great photos, air and ground. Average wear. Chips from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1972130 pages. Features: Vogue's Point of View - Escape; How to look where you're going and beat the luggage wait; The One-bag traveller and - the perfect knit pants suit; the longer shirt-jacket; the chino shirtdress, the weightless creaseless, everywhere, every-weather smock coat; Fashion for the beach climates of the world - cool and breezy crinkle cottons, new wave of batik, the strapless maillot, news in black; The New Norells - worn by Lyn Revson; The Many Moods of Marisa - the best new evening looks in town - worn by Marisa Berenson; Focus on summer - super new shirt looks, bareness with separate cover, black and white, jacketed for town, warm-weather sweater-dressing; How to add travel power without adding pounds - a quick beauty checklist; Your Health and Climate, by Ellen Switzer; How to solve your unsolvable hair problems - or, Why Wigs ; How to take your good looks wherever you go; How Sophia Loren Really Travels; Social Climbing the Travel Way, by George Bradshaw; Travel Anxiety - a psychologist tells how not to suffer it; Vladimir Nabokov talks about his travels; How people really travel now - Drena Van Alen, Lady Sarah Courage, Madame Helene Rochas, Lady Diana Cooper, Contessa Susanna Agnelli, Principessa Irene Galitzine, Catherine Spaak, Mrs. Kenneth Tynan, Jose Luis de Vilallonga; La Duchesse d'Uzes, Mrs. David Michael Winton, Diana Guthrie, Mrs. Isobel de Crempien, Maggie Keswick, Diane Sawyer; People are Talking About - Virgil Thomson; In China Now - Sally Reston tells what to see, buy, watch for; New Life-Force in the Midwest, by Seymour Krim; Giorgio de Chirico - inverview by John Gruen; At Home the New Roman Way - a power of American Art; Horoscope of Charles Chaplin; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
1921Features: Was it Coincidence? - a Zulu witch doctor and his magic; The Man Who Hesitated - a dramatic story from West Africa; Comacchio on the Adriatic - the Venice of the Eels - article with photos; The Brophy Will Case - an unusual American detective case; The Wily Coyote - interesting stories of these hated coyotes and their ways in the Western States; McNeill's Lapse - a good man falls victim to temptation; Climbing the White Elephant near the Tom Reed Mine at Oatman, Arizona - article with nice photos; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone (part II) - tales from two young naval officers who set off to see the world with five dollars between them; Lion Hunting in Somaliland - article with many photos; The Cruise of the Dream Ship - part IV of Ralph Stock's sailing through the enchanted South Sea Islands - article with nice photos; Trapped by a Flash-flood in a canyon; Down the River - two youngsters seek fortune and adventure running a little launch on a New Zealand river; Robert Tipp's terrible ordeal at the top of a lofty flagstaff; My Visit to Mexico - why the author didn't want to go and now likes Mexico less than ever; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - the author's experiences with the Shawia Berbers of Algeria - article with great photos; That Donkey! - the pathetic story of a journalist and the donkey he bought; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
200476 pages. Lovely colour photography throughout. Text primarily in English. Features: Gisele photo in Jaspal ad; Excellent spas are plentiful around Thailand; Rock climbing in the stunning Krabi setting; World's top tennis stars stop off in Bangkok; Inflight service information; How to stay in good shape while in the sky; Royal Orchid Plus; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
196540 pages. Features: Colour photo ad for the 1965 Pontiac Parisienne Custom Sport Coupe; Harry Peteran - Shoemaker at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children; Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy's Fight to Live Her Own Life; Photo of Daliah Lavi; Moonshine & Cookies (fiction); Climbing Through British Columbia - article with great colour photos; How to fill your freezer and live off the fat of the land; The Case of the Disappearing TV - locating televisions in 'hidden' places in homes; Free Shopping Spree - Ruth Buckerfield loads her shopping cart for 6 minutes at an IGA grocery store in North York; Young London Goes Ladylike - great colour and black and white fashion photos of designs by Emmanuelle Khahn, David Bond, Bates, John, Kiki Byrne and Roger Nelson; The Rites of Spring - watching pickerel spawn at Gamebridge, Ontario - article with photos; What Ails Dr. Ben Casey? - a visit with TV's Vince Edwards; Rural Route comic strip by Walter Ball; Montmorency comic. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1895271 pages. Tissue-protected black and white photographic frontis portrait of 'The Old Low House'. "When I rejoined the Alpine Club last winter, after some years of absence from that most pleasant society, it was suggested that I should collect and publish some of my papers on Alpine subjects which appeared thirty years ago and more in various periodicals. That is the excuse for the present little book." - from Preface. Chapters include: How we slept at the Chalet des Chevres, How we mounted the Oldenhorn, How we did Mont Blanc, Ice-caves of Annecy, A winter excursion in Switzerland, A night with a salmon, The Chateau in the Ardennes, The Engadine, Archaeological frauds in Palestine, Collecting Ancestors, Pontresina. Above-average wear to maroon boards. Gilt lettering upon backstrip clearly legible. Prior owner's signature upon front free endpaper. Discolouring to portions of last few pages due to moisture - all text remains legible. Large faded area on back board due to moisture. Hairline crack along front hinge. Back hinge starting at top. Book
1954Features: Mountain Climbing - nice photos; Nova Scotia Feast - the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture's Annual mammoth chicken barbecue, the chicken a la grille; Drumbeats on the Prairie - Fort Battle, built by the Northwest Mounted Police in 1876; Ontario Roadside Parks Invite You; Trip Tips for Camera Fans; Summer Theatre - the Stratford Festival; Esso's Touring Service. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1935121 pages. Average wear. Modest external soiling. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1989Features: Explorers Club members help select the "Seven Underwater Wonders of the World"; High Points of Climbing in the Alps; Nepal's Karnali Zone - Land without Rice; Mountains in Crisis - Man Vs. Nature; The cutting edge of low technology - pack animals; Galapagos Gourmets and Gourmands; A Benediction for Voyager 2. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
194032 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Photo taken aboard the Abel P. Upshur as she leaves port; RAF to the aid of gallant Greece; Super full-page aerial photo of RAF bombing attack in progress on the Albanian port of Valona, being used by Italy; Illustrated text of statement in the House of Commons on the progress of the war by Winston Churchill; Wonderful full-page photo of a massive British factory containing many bombers under construction; photo of desert listening post in action; Map showing the progress of British operations in the western desert; Centerfold illustration by Montague B. Black shows the Albanian port of Valona under bombardment by the British navy; Photos of terrible London bomb damage to the House of Commons and Middle Temple Library; Photos on Hitler's 'invasion coast' (France); Illustration of fallen German pilots in rubber boat climbing aboard a Nazi raft prepositioned for them off the coast of France; Great before and after photos of repaired bomb damage to the London and North Eastern Railway; Illustrated text of the last speech of the late Lord Lothian, British Ambassador the the U.S., who passed away on 12 December; Dramatic photo of a British battle squadron firing on the French Fleet to keep it from enemy hands - the Bretagne is shown ablaze; Gallabat taken from Italians; Commentary on the war this week; British Army studies invasion tactics - photos of British troops in boats practising to cross unbridged rivers; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
1997118 pages. Features: What makes a great garden railway?; Climbing loops and switchbacks; The 5th Annual National Gauge 1 Steamup; The Connecticut Central; Shape p your Spruce; The fundamentals of handlaid track. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1934This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 11-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Kidnapping of John S. Labatt; many international stories; Saanich will hold 65th annual fair in September; Cameron Lake photo; Photo of Father Bernard R. Hubbard mountain climbing in Alaska; Editorial page; Large ad for Standard Furniture Co.; Razing of main classroom structure of Corrig College in Victoria; Vacation page; photo of Dr. William Beebe and his steel diving ball; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper