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1924Abundant 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
1923Pages 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
1950Black and white illustrations throughout. Features: Northland Patrol - RCMP Constable DeLisle's three-thousand-mile mid-winter sled-trip through the Canadian Arctic to investigate a murder; The Hoodoo Liner - A strange yarn from a bad-luck mail steamer; Jungle Racket - A curious story from the wilds of Malaya; The Lurking Terror - Australian launch skipper Peter Brooks catches a giant groper which menaced pearl divers - article with photo; The Maharajah's Elephant - what happened when a royal elephant died in India; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County, Illinois (part 2) - Bad Charlie Birger is finally put out of commission; The "Tom Thumb Circus" Affair - murder mystery against the bizarre background of a collection of performing animals and birds; Titus George's Trouble - a poltergeist story from a Ceylon tea estate; Jungle Pets (with photos - including lady riding a giraffe; They Prowl By Night - an encounter with a lion-man; Mrs. Brown's Good Cause - everything goes wrong at an Indian grand concert fundraiser; The Mountain of Fate - an attempt to scale Mount Kungwe in East Africa. 66 pages plus 22 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1964415 p. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1990No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with slight rubbingto rear and light creasing to upper edge. 144pp. A look at 70 seminal horror films from seven decades of moviemaking. Very well illustrated.
1972No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor indentation and with slight sunning to spine. 213pp. Brilliant, mad millionaire John Wright has stolen two canisters of deadly nerve gas and programmed them to destroy the Republican Convention.
196818x11. 448p. Selecc. Laurette Naomi Pizer. Contiene obras de H. Hesse, G. de Maupassant, T. Capote, L. Tolstoi, K. Mansfield, T. Mann, I. Bunin…. Lomo algo deslucido.
199121x14. 299p. Trad. J. Rovira. Contiene obras de: D. R. Koontz, J. Coyne, R. R. McCammon…
196817,5x11. 1215p. Prólg. S. Bordoy Luque. Incluye: La cuarta plaga, El día de la concordia, El hombre que no era nadie, La gente terrible, El ángel del terror. Enc. Piel ed. Guarda de contracubierta deteriorada. Lomo algo rozado en cabeza.
22x15. 1151p. Firma anterior poseedor. Incluye obras de H. Walpole, A. Machen, F. Richardson, O. Cook, E. Bowen, W. del la Mare, O. Onions, E. F. Benson…. Enc. Tela ed. Lomo algo deslucido.
196921x15. 281p. Col. Caracol. Trad. A. Tomás Todoli. Colab.: W. Woolf, N. Vasilievich Gogol, W Austin... Enc. Cart. Ed. Sobrecubierta.
197417x12. 188p. Col. Biblioteca Oro-Terror, N. 34. Trad. R. Margalef Llambrich.
197517x11. 155p. Col. Biblioteca Oro Terror, N. 40. Trad. R. Margalef. Rec. M. Giménez Sales.
198422x15. 349p. Ilstr. R. Gray. Colab.: H. G. Wells, A. C. Doyle, E. A. Poe... Enc. Cart. Ed.
198119x13. 107p. Col. Rutas. Trad. R. G. Salcedo.
