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82 pages. Articles: Terror/Crime in Our Cities - No. 1 - Detroit; University of North Carolina Football Coach Carl Grey Snavely - article with nice color photos; The Schary Script - M-G-M's Dore Schary is one of the busiest men in Hollywood; Clowns after Hours - The Minneapolis Aquatennial festival and its Aqua Jesters; My 4-Year War with the Reds; (part 3 of 5); So You Had a Virus?; Down with the Little Things; I Hate a Dumpy Woman; A Good Clean-Cut American Boy; Owl, He Crow For Midnight; Champion of Sonora; Valley of the Tyrant (part 2 fo 4); A Game of Skill. Includes these nice vintage ads: General Electric tvs; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring colour image of Mrs. Herbert Bayard Swope, Jr.; B.V.D. shirts; Admiral tvs; Lord Calvert Whiskey ad features full-page color photo portrait of author James Michener; Dodge Trucks; Pabst beer ad features photo of Sid Luckman; Plymouth cars; Puerto Rican Rum; General Motors; Bicycle playing cards; Nice full-page color Schenley Whiskey ad features Ed Sullivan; Camel cigarette ad on back cover includes Vic Scott, Albany to New York out-board racing champ. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
66 pages. Fourth printing of the 1948 first edition. "An attack on the ADL and the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights" - SINGERMAN 741. Original order form for numerous related publications laid-in (a mini-bibliography in itself). Average wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy of this uncommon Kamp publication. Book
28 pages. Features: Cover photo of Brigadier Wingate making final plans for his Chindit Expedition through the Burmese jungles to spread confusion and terror behind Japanese lines; Photos of Brigadier Wingate and his Chindits who sabotaged Japanese plans in Burma; From Mareth to Cape Bon - 267,000 prisoners were taken by the Allied Armies in Tunisia - four large, impressive photos of thousands of POWs; Tunisia Freed - Final Scenes of the Victorious Campaign; Photo of Air Commodore Sir Nigel Norman; The Great World War - Sea, Land and Air - article by Cyril Falls; R.A.M.C. Hygiene Fight Disease - photos of drinking water inspection; Havoc at Tunisian Key Points - three photos of major bomb damage; Numerous photos of personalities of the day; Air, Sea, and Land Pictures from the World's Battlefronts - includes two photos of a soviet seaman being loaded into a torpedo tube ready to be launched!; Photo of captured General H. Cramer and Major Von Meyer; Photo of Beaufighters at work... and a blazing enemy cargo vessel; Dramatic centerfold illustration of the destruction of the Mohne Dam by Lancasters ("The Dambusters") Inflicting Irreparable Damage to Ruhr War Industries; Six air photos of the tremendous destruction wrought be the destruction of the Eder Reservoir and the Mohne Dam; Full-page illustration of Westphalia - disorganized by the Mohne and Eder Floods; Six photos of captured enemy guns that can be turned against the enemy; Article by E.S. Grew on the Chemistry of Coal with four interesting photos; Two-pages of illustrations of "Progressive Training" for WAAF Personnel; Britain's Optical Glass Industry - Ten interesting photos with text; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
ref. BN66597Bombenspuren: Briefbomben und politischer Terror Tozzer Kurt and Zelsacher Guenther unknown
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos; "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; The "High-Jackers" - an audacious gang of murderous bank robbers terrorize the Canadian prairies, beginning in Moosomin, SK and ending in Pipestone, MB; The Islands of the Mammoths - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia is the world's best hunting ground for the tusks and bones of the prehistoric mammoth - article with photos; The Three Angleteers - Part III - The troubles and adventures of three bored young men who leave England to travel in Europe; With Canoe and Camera - Capt. M.H. Albert explored Northern Ontario and Quebec to photograph wild animals - article with photos; The Mystery of Diablo Canon - The adventures of Senor Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Two photos of two-room house built in the trunk of an immense California redwood; The Terror of Rampur - two hunters undertake to kill a murderous tiger in India; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part I - Photo-illustrated article by Beatrice Grimshaw describing her trip up the Sepik river in New Guinea, where she met the local native peoples - who were none-too friendly; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part IV - A small English expedition sets out to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study their local peoples; Some Sensational Prison Escapes - Carl Otto and Jack Foster bust loose from Folsom Prison; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: A Soldier of Fortune - a story smuggled in bits from a French prison (part 1); A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part I - Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish - article with photos; The Election at Rodeo - an account of the happenings at a town in Argentina on the occasion of the Presidential election of 1914; The Search for the Grosvenor Treasure - an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor on the lonely coast of Pondoland, South Africa, and operations of seekers of her sunken treasure of precious metals and stones - with photos; The Terror of the Terai - the story of one of the most remarkable elephant hunts on record - a twelve days' chase after a man-killing 'rogue'; Photo of a Venetian funeral; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - the humourous travels of a huband and wife with their donkey (part 4); Across the Pacific in a Chinese Junk - Captain George Ward and his voyage from Amoy, China to Victoria, British Columbia - article with photos, one of which includes Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford aboard the vessel; Forgotten - the terrible experience of a young surveyor off the coast of Trinidad; The Witching of the M'Bumbo - a tale of native witchcraft and trial by ordeal in Nigeria; Our Unlucky Day - an account of a series of disasters which struck a steamer, the S.S. Z_____ in the Gulf of Mexico; The Village of the Greeks - visit to a tiny hamlet in the Sicilian Mountains - with photos; The Gower Affair - a story of black magic at Porto Lokkoh on the West Coast of Africa. Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
xxii, 638, 6 (ads) pages. Fold-out map. Occasional black and white illustrations. "It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of country previously unexplored, with their river systems, natural productions, and capabilities; and to bring before my countrymen, and all others interested in the cause of humanity, the misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases - a subject on which I and my companions are the first who have had any opportunities of forming a judgement." - from Preface. "There must be something in the appearance of white men frightfully repulsive to the unsophisticated natives of Africa; for, on entering villages previously unvisited by Europeans, if we met a child... he would take to his heels in an agony of terror, such as we might feel if we met a live Egyptian mummy at the door of the British Museum." - from page 199. Fold-out map measures 24" wide by 17" high and is entitled "The River Shire, The Lakes Nyassa & Shirwa, The Lower Courses of the Rivers Zambesi & Rovuma" - based on the Astronomical observations and sketches of Dr. Livingstone, Constructed by John Arrowsmith, 1865. The routes of Dr. Livingstone and the Officers of the expedition are indicated in red. Map bears one inch opening along left side. Book has been recased in red buckram with new beige endpapers. Binding sound. Average wear. Unmarked. Lettering upon spine rubbed but legible. A quality copy. Book
583 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Contents divided into the following sections: Tales and Tale-Bearers; The Classical and Biblical Past; The Present Terror of the World; The Great Turk; The Sophy and the Shi'a; A Great Plotter and Projector in Matters of State; The Greatest Traveller in his time; The Throne of Piracy; The Prophet and his Book; Festivities alla Turchesca and alla Moresca; Moslems on the London Stage. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Usual library markings. Spine taped. Worthy reading copy. Book
ref. ORD-19267Éditions Opta/André Sauret. 1976. In-4 (214 x 275 mm), reliure plein cuir brun de l'éditeur, illustrée à froid, sur le 1er plat et le dos, de motifs ésotériques de Philippe Druillet, gardes peignée, tête dorée, étui, 248, (2) pages, frontispice en couleurs et nombreuses illustrations dans et hors texte dont 8 en couleurs. Tirage limité à 2000 exemplaires numérotés, celui-ci n°985. Dos très légèrement égratigné sinon excellent état.
Volume I, No. I of this publication. Contents include two long complete novels of war flying entitled "One Man's War", a tale of a Handley-Page night-bomber, and "Gas-Bag Aces", a tale of Seaplane and Blimp adventures of the Coast Defence Forces in the Great War; Terror in the Sky - A Pilotless R.A.F. Fighter crashes in the centre of New York; Murder in the Air - The Red Prop School trained the Foreign Legion of the Air; Cundall of the Camels - The remarkable life of a Camel pilot of the R.F.C. on the Western Front; Real Life Adventures - Crashing Aeroplanes for Movie Thrills and Thrills and Spills in Parachuting; and more. Interesting cover illustration depicts kilt-wearing machine-gunner. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
1843ref. 1450501843. Watercolour. 6 x 8.15/16in. 17.2 x 22.7cm. Titled on the original detached label: Captain John Edward Davis R.N. 1815-1877; Cape Lockyer discovered by H.M. Ships Erebus and Terror January 7th 1843 Lot Essay Davis was Second Master on Commander Crozier's Terror and a number of his drawings probably the first ever of the Antarctic continent were used by Ross to illustrate his official account of the voyage published in two volumes in London in 1847. James Clark Ross had reached the northern magnetic Pole in 1831 and was charged by the Government following the recommendation of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society to lead an expedition to investigate terrestrial magnetism in the southern latitudes. The expedition was the first British exploration of the southern latitudes since Cook's skirting of the Antarctic circle in 1773-4 and the sealer Weddell's furthest south of 7415'S in 1823. Bellinghausen had probably been the first to sight the Antarctic continent in January 1820 and Dumont D'Urville then discovered Adelie Land and Claire Coast. Their work towards the discovery of an Antarctic landmass was consolidated by James Clark Ross who penetrated the pack ice in January 1841 sailing into the clear water of the unknown Ross Sea and sighting snow-covered land on 11 January thereby becoming the first to discover a sea route to the continent. McCormick on the Erebus saw and named an active volcano Mt. Erebus and Ross was the first to see and chart the South Polar Barrier which he named Victoria Barrier and which was later named the Ross Ice Barrier. He made two further navigations of the Ross Sea and Wedell Sea before returning to England in 1843. 'Jan. 7. 1843.As we advanced to the southward two high rugged bluff capes at a great distance appeared bearing W.S.W. true; the nearest of them I named at the request of Captain Crozier after his friend Captain Nicholas Lockyer R.N.C.B. Capt. Sir J.C. Ross A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the southern and Antarctic Regions during the years 1839-43 London 1847 II p.346. For Davis's own account see his A Letter from the Antarctic London 1901 illustrated with own sketches. For further works by Davis on the voyage see Christie's 10 April 1997 lot 95 and 17 September 1998 lot 178. 1843 unknown
