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1955Features: Trailing the King Elephant - an amazing story from India with photos; The Hermit of the Barrens - Tragedy befalls Jack Hornby and two Englishmen in the Canadian Arctic - photos; Hunting Down the Black Jack Gang - a desperado gang in the American Southwest; War on the Dingo in Australia; The Man from Berlin - travelling through Somaliland the author picks up a German who is hitch-hiking from Berlin to South Africa; Word of Parrot - a story from the Bisichi tin-field in Nigeria; Ju-Ju in Modern Africa; Antarctica's 'Bachelor's Hall' - masculine housekeeping at the base camp of desolate Heard Island; and more. Chips from top of backstrip else average wear. Decent copy. Book
1954Features: Fate and Billy Barker - vivid glimpses of life on the once-famous goldfield of British Columbia - photos; Six Year in Sail - a deep-water seaman describes his experiences aboard some of the last surviving sailing ships; The World's Oddest Witch-Doctor - a story from the Transvaal; The Reindeer Man - Grady Carothers, of Goldthwaite, Central Texas; The "Phantom" Jeep - an amusing tale of the last war; Dead Men's Tracks - reprint of a 1928 article - an exciting prospecting story from Western Australia; Terror by Night - "Man-Leopard" killings in Nigeria (conclusion); Down the Zambesi on a Raft - an adventurous holiday - photos; The "Island Lights" - strange superstitions linger in remote Ireland; The Spirit Festival - Cheung Chau, Hong Kong; Antarctic Tragedy - narrative by a radio-operator with the Australian research expedition on Heard Island; and more. Average wear. Lower portion of front cover open. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
1923Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Magician's Curse - a vendetta on Sardinia; With a Motion-Picture Camera Under the Sea - using the ingenious technology invented by Mr. J. Ernest Williamson - article with wonderful photos; Three Asses In the Pyrenees - part 3 of a fun pursuit of adventure travel in Europe; The Soul of Burma - Part 2 of 2 - nice photo-illustrated article on a trip to Irawadi; "Sugar" - ; The Tragedy of "Miss Miami" - this flying boad crashed on a trip to Bimini from Miami; On the Spoor of the Elephant - J. Morewood Dowsett describes his escape from elephants, and recounts stories of his companion John Deacon - article with photos; My Boa-Constrictor - Sir Curtis Lampson and a snake which escaped in a crowded hotel; Paper Money - a quick tale from West Africa; Caught in a Death-Trap - Part 2 of 2 of the remarkable tribulations of two motorcyclists crossing the Mojave desert in California; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 3 of 3 of this incredible biography; Millions in Oil - the marvels of Mexia, America's latest field - article with photos; Luck - a story from Alaska. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
191796 pages plus several pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: "Todger" Jones, V.C. - The Man Who Captured a Hundred Germans Single-Handed - his story as told by himself - with photos; A Flying Man in South America - part II - the strange adventures of Mr. John G. Barron - great photos; The Man Who Didn't Exist - the Belgian story of the most carefully planned murder case on record involving M. Guillaume Bernays; On the Borders of Tibet - Part I - the story of two years' wanderings by Reginald Farrer, with wonderful photos; The German Spy in France, by Bernard St. Lawrence who was engaged in collecting authentic information concerning German spies and their methods; Airmen in the Desert - adventures of the Royal Flying Corps in Sinai, by F.W. Martindale; The Hon. Roderick Buckley Mystery - the disappearance of a wealthy young man formerly well-known in London society; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - part 3 - E.W. Hawkes writes about his eventul cruise - with great photos; Mulai Hassan's Donkey - a favorite Algerian tale as related by Donald Maclean; ; Thirteen Days Adrift - an Atlantic Tragedy after the steamship "Columbian" took fire in the Atlantic; Curiosities of Soudan, by H. J. Shepstone, with many excellent photos. Nice color ad for Vose player pianos on back cover. Massive eleven-page illustrated ad for the National Rubber Co. of New York which seeks to sell shares to readers; Photos of a sundew reaching out to seize a fly. Above-average wear. Crease to front cover. Chips from backstrip. Few light pencil marks to contents. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this interesting vintage issue. Book
1906Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
1903Features: The "Hold-Up" at Fenelon; Avalances; A Tramp in Spain - VI; Hunting the Giant Tortoise; A Desert Tragedy; The Land of the Shrimp-God; How "Buffalo Bill" Won his Name; The Looting of the "Bang Yee"; On the March in the Bahr-El-Ghazal - III; Francisca Machalek, the female burglar; The Wilson Life Insurance Fraud; "Monkey"; The Happenings of a Night; A West African Mutiny; Paris to New York Overland - IV; A Chapter of Mishaps; My Experiences at Kano - I; Besieged in a Tree; The Man-Stealers; In the Grip of the Quagmire; The Monks' Republic; The Strange Case of the "Ferret"; The Calculut Affair; Some Japanese Signboards; A Tramp in Spain - VII; Hoist By His Own Petard; The Island of Captive Kings; The March of "Coxey's Army"; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - I; In the Land of the "Never-Never"; The Range War; A Thousand Miles in a Refrigerator; Sport and Adventure in Gallaland - II; How the Treasure was Saved; A Tardy Vindication; Rambles in Macedonia; Attacked by Wolves in the Desert; A Tramp in Spain - VIII; My Experiences at Kano - II; Defective in the Barrel; The Last of the Bushrangers; Prisons of Many Lands; The Solving of a Mystery; "Meistertrunk" at Rothenburg; The Shrine by the Nujha Bridge; Among the Buriats; Adrift on a Raft; A Night of Horrors; The Narcissus Festival at Montreux; A Mountain of Salt; After the "Mad Mullah"; A Unique Summer Residence; The Wandering Jew; With the British to Sokoto; John Glover of Texas; A Baby Parade; How the Gipsy Queen found her lover; A Cargo of Cats; A Tramp in Spain; When the Water Came Down; A Mystery of the Bush; The Story of My Chinese God; A Battle with a Rhino; After the "Mad Mullah" - II; The Pursuit of Captain Victor - II; The Cave-Dwellers of Mexoco; Calamity Jane; With the British to Sokoto - II; Arrested as Spies; When Niagara Ran Dry; The Flying Dutchman; Among the South Sea Cannibals - I; Across Sumatra in a Motor-Car; A Tramp in Spain - X; Our Attempt to Reach Mecca; A Puma Hunt in Surrey; Entombed in a Capsized Ship; With the British to Sokoto - II; The Apotheosis of Simpson; Our Quiet Little Shooting Trip; My Adventure with a Lunatic; A Tramp in Spain - XI; Sacred Town of Mandhata; Mystery of Silver Bow Valley; Among the South Sea Cannibals - II; A Night in a God-House; The Tragedy of the "Maria" and My Part in it; The Red Pig of Poora; Two-Thousand Miles in a Trawler; The Most Inaccessible Place in China; What Happened at Morelia; The Blumencorso at Hamburg. Heavily worn. Backstrip almost detached. Binding open after second blank leaf. A worthy reading copy. Book
191788 Pages plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Burning of the Prisoners in the Punishment Hut - Germany's Dastardly Crime, as told by Pedro Dominguez, a Spanish seaman and eye-witness of the tragedy ; The Six Skulls - Part III of a sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings" (Chinese Secret Society /Tong story); The Mast-Shooters of Belgium - how quaint and novel archery contests were conducted in Belgium and Northern France - with great photos; The Unlucky Motor-Boat - the "Jean"; Queer Fixes; The Seaplane Patrol - our narrow escape in the North Sea; Historic Crimes and Mysteries; The Port Elizabeth "Spook" - a very unusual ghost story; Strange Stories of the War - how we rescued the Commander/How a Dog Outwitted the Germans/Into the Hand of a Woman (a story of the invasion of Lithuania); The Death-Room - solving the mystery of how three men died in the same room in the same house; Pumping a Great Sea Dry - Holland's gallant attempt to reclaim the Zuider Zee (with photos); An Underground City of Salt - near Cracow, in Galicia - article with photos; Railway Building in the Wilderness - Part III - Construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific, the second great transcontinental line to pierce the Canadian Rockies - article with photos; The World's Smallest Railway, The Grand Island Railway (text with photos); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
196239 pages. Features: I spent a year waiting to be hanged - twice sentenced to the gallows for the murder of a newsboy, this British Columbia cook survived five execution dates - Charles M. Heathman was accused of the murder of Donald Ottley; Two Young French-Canadians delight Montreal audiences by making a Song and Dance about Separatism - Bernard Sicotte and Gilles Richer; How U.S. First Lady Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy conquered the world; Aurel Joliat still thrills over that playoff moment with Howie Morenz; Producer in search of more characters - Norma Springford; A Scaasi suit can cost $7,000 - this Canadian designer soars to fashion's peak in New York - Scaasi was born Arnold Isaacs in Montreal; The Mystery of the Giant Lemon - a dwarf tree in a Vancouver suburb yields fruit that weigh as much as 2.5 pounds each; Simple tests that can avert tragedy - PKU, phenylketonuria; Nipper by Doug Wright. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
196071 pages. Features: Bob (Robert) Goulet - he finds there is room at the top for hard work; Sweat Equity helps pay for their house - Joe Hodgen and Jeannette MacDonald prepare their new home in Chippawa, Ontario; Fidel Castro - Liberator or Slave-Maker? - a Canadian journalist visits Havana; Tragedy strikes the young duchess - The Duchess of Kent Story, Part 3 of 3; Ventriloquist Carolyn Blythe of the Blue Sky Revue in Verdun, Quebec; Porpoise with a purpose - Even blindfolded, Kathy can find her goal; Tachibana Ballet Institute in Tokyo - bathing helps their ballet; Sober piety and sturdy self-reliance mark the old-world ways of Canada's Mennonites; The Man the Sharks would't eat - Captain Haliburton (Bertie) Himmelman explains what happened to the Giant King 38 years ago; Workshop for Equality - Core, the Congress of Racial Equality, uses non-violence/sit-in strikes; School at Concrete, Washington, has a road beneath it; Charles Mohr, Jr., a University of Wisconsin senior, dies as a result of his first and last boxing knockout; Sid Caesar says "I conquered Shyness"; A new generation of bookworms is invading our libraries - children; The Nipper by Doug Wright; Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1968676 pages including index. The great events of three decades shown in political, economic, military, technological, social, and intellectual context. Originally published as Part II of Tragedy and Hope. "Deals successively with World War II, the transformed age that followed, the period of nuclear rivalry and the Cold War, and the era of shifting international power balances in the 1960s." - from back cover. For this edition Quigley included a new introduction providing a perspective for the period. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
réf. 1334948127.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1766réf. PHO-2487Paris, Imprimerie de Sébastien Jorry, 1766, In-8 (24x16cm), 1 f., 67-147 pp., 1 gravure H.T. de Eisen gravée par De Gendt. Cartonnage bradel XIX, pièce de titre (un manque de papier au dos), frottements, papier légèrement bruni. Exemplaire à grande marge sur papier fort, non coupé.
Hardcover. 1 volume in-12, 1332 pages sur papier Bible, cartonnage sous jaquette. Bel exemplaire. [MI-18] Nouvelle traduction francaise avec remarques et notes par Pierre Messiaen.
1952Mm 245x300 Secondo volume. Brossura editoriale, sovraccoperta con immagine in nero applicata, 157 pagine, illustrazioni nel testo. Leggeri segni d'uso al cofanetto in cartone. All'interno ritagli di articoli che riguardano le rappresentazioni teatrali. Testo in lingua francese. Ottimo stato. Spedizione entro 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
1788réf. GITg375A paris chez Nyon l'Aîné et Fils 1788. 2 volumes in-8 2 feuillets non chiffrés I-LX 1 feuillet non chiffré 4-397pp et 3 feuillets non chiffrés 4-407pp. Pleine basane havane mouchetée, dos à nerfs orné de cadres de filets dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison grenat, reliure de l'époque. Orné de bandeaux et culs de lampes. 3 coins usés, 2 mors fendus sur 3cm (tome II), galeries de vers sur le 1er plat du Tome I et le 2e plat du Tome II, épidermures, quelques pâles rousseurs par endroits.
1948réf. 8687Bordas 1948 411 pages in8. 1948. broché. 411 pages.
1954P., Grasset, 1954. Deux volumes in-8 cartonnage éditeur illustré, 508 et 522 pages. Exemplaire numéroté sur vergé de Voiron. Très bon état. Edition collective illustrée d'après les maquettes dessinées en particulier par G. Bérard.
1989réf. 144810Minneapolis: Fortress Press 1989. XII, 157 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Pappband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel sowie mit illustriertem Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1971Brossura tascabile datata, segnata da comuni pieghe e abrasioni da compressione o attrito alle estremità, copertina illustrata da composizione grafica con toni alterati, appesantiti dalla luce maggiormente in cornice, ombre di polvere e umido da scaffale, piccole pieghe e qualche becca alle punte di testa per i fogli avvolti da ossidazione bruna intensa ai margini, scura ai tagli. N. pag. 361 USATO
réf. 500390617BELIN GALLIMARD collection CLASSICOLYCEE. Sans date. Thérèse Raquin roman naturaliste d'Émile Zola dépeint la vie d'une femme étouffée par un mariage morose à Paris qui s'éveille à la passion avec Laurent. Dominés par leurs désirs les deux amants assassinent le mari mais sont ensuite rongés par la culpabilité et la paranoïa offrant une analyse minutieuse des sensations et des comportements humains sous l'emprise du déterminisme
réf. 108164 tomes en 4 volumes in 12 brochés, couverture à rabats, éditions d’art Albert SKIRA. Genève Les trésors de la littérature française. 1) La thébaïde ou les frères ennemis, Alexandre le grand,, non coupé, 15 août 1944 2) Les plaideurs, Britannicus, Bérénice 15août 1944, non coupé. 3) Bajazet, Mithridate, Iphigénie 15 août 1944. 4) Phèdre, Esther, Athalie 15 août 1944. Très bon état. Un étui cartonné
1988réf. 1258501988 A Paris, Chez Jean de Bonnot, tenant négoce de libraire à l'enseigne du canon - MCMLXXXVIII (1988) - Complet en 3 volumes in-8, reliure plein cuir de l'éditeur, dos lisse, riches décors en doré et à froid sur les plats et au dos, tranche de tête dorée, signet, frontispice - LXV-401 + 472 + 372-CXI pages sur papier filigrané à la forme - Illustrations hors texte et ornements (bandeaux & culs-de-lampe) - Tirage spécial - Exemplaire de tête
1940réf. 4363Presses Universitaires de France 1940 327 pages in12. 1940. broché. 327 pages.
in-4 oblong de 95 pages illustrees en noir, sous chemise plastique.- NumEro comportant des diapositives et un CD. Bel exemplaire, bien complet des dias et du CD "Anthologie sonore" avec Sarah Bernhardt, Julia Bartet, Marie Bell, Mary Marquet, Jean Vilar, etc. [P-59] Ce numéro présente les visions scéniques que les metteurs en scène contemporains donnent de la tragédie classique.
réf. 17682Neuchâtel et Paris, Ides et Calendes, 1945-1948. 8 vol. in-8, 138 pp. + 144 pp. + 199 pp. + 123 pp. + 110 pp. + 210 pp. + 125 pp. + 150 pp., demi-chagrin brun de l'époque, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, couverture conservée (quelques petites épidermures, un cahier débroché au deuxième volume).
