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1936Stories: Marijuana Story - Author describes how he first encountered this evil weed, and the perilous experiences in which it later involved him (12 pages with illustrations); Pork and Beans; Shanghaied!; The Back of Beyond; The White Death; Almost My Tiger; Flamingo Island; Crocodile Craft; The Border Patrol; Frozen Horror; Georgie the Ant-Bear; The Coolies' Revenge; Stage Coach Triumphant; The Puri-Puri Man; Dead Man's Opal. Somewhat above-average but not excessive wear. Book
1957Features: I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone - the amazing story of Maurice Wilson (continued in a later issue); Death in a Bamboo Staff - Investigating snakes; An extraordinary affair at Upper Blackwood, Australia - mysteriously appearing stones and other objects; A Leopard came by Night - a fright in Uganda; Dogged by a Ghost Ship - aboard the whaler George Henry in Hudson Strait, between Labrador and Baffin Land in 1861; Ice Giving Way - An Anarctic Story; The Dead Walk Here - an incident in Algiers; He Built a Light for All Nations - no two lighthouses are the same; The Pawang's Triumph - an attempt to rid Malayan padi fields of the dreaded Beranang disease; Wild Boar at Bay - an unusual pig hunt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover partially loose. Book
1941Stories: Adventure Ahoy; A Deal in Diamonds; Pattern for Blitzkrieg; Fairy Godfather; The House of Death; Fish and Chips; How I Won My Horse; The Lone Star Kid; The Promotion of Constable Sidi; The Battle of Santiago; The Crocodile-Charmers of Java; The Stolen Telluride. Above-average wear. Book
1957Features: West to Adventure - the life of Arthur 'Jack' Letheby in Western North America (Part I); Fear at First Sight - man-eater danger in Africa; Introduction to Murder - Captain Philip Chambers' account of multiple-murder in Casablanca; Besieged by Sea Snakes - the horrifying encounter of an Ecuadoran fisherman; The Devil Follows the Net - The early story of the North Sea fishing grounds - sudden wealth, and sudden death; Karmuk's Prophecy - an Eskimo's experiences with polar bears in the Far North; Mangaia Trader - Part XI of "I Know and Island" - Rarotonga, main island of the Cook Islands; Bridal-Cake Sentinel - the unusually-shaped Guardian of the English Channel; Big City Leopard Hunt - Oklahoma City, 1950; Snatched from the Orient - adventure of the submarine Thule in the Singapore Strait, by Alastair Mars; Mystery of the Vanished Herds - Przewalski's Mongolian wild horses; Jungle Honeymoon; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. Book
1934Stories: Death Rides with the Mounties; My Record Canoe Trip; The Girl World Tramp; The Desert Will Get Me; The Were-Tiger; When Rats Go West; My Wife; Kidnapped; The Clue of the Single Finger Print; Confessions of a Smuggler; The Ways of a Rogue; Special Circumstances; Man-Lion; Jackaroo. Above-average wear. Book
1954Features: 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
1923Pages 89-176, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The House of Death - how an Oklahoma rancher saved his own life; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - part 6 - the continued story of this European adventure trip; Bali - Isle of Wonder - wonderfully photo-illustrated article; Mrs. Robinson Crusoe - part 1of the adventure of Mrs. Idelle S. Meng and her husband on one of the loneliest islands in the Pacific; The Six Feathers - the unfortunate experience of a New Guinea trader who tried to smuggle the forbidden bird-of-paradise plumes out of the country; The Wood-Carvers of the Tyrol - great photo-illustrated article on a trip to the Groden VValley; The Romance of the Fur Trade - photo-illustrated article on fur trapping and fur farming in North-west Canada, including photo of a large polar bear being hauled into a boat; A Woman in Unknown Albania - part 3; The Trail of the Lonesome Postman - letters being delivered to some of the world's most remote locations; Caught by a Crocodile a British officer attempts to fill his water bottle at a river; The Idol That Jumped - the author purchased a 'devil-devil' figure from a Solomon Island chief, then startling things happened; The Merepur Mystery - a mystery is solved in India; The Man Who Fell Six Miles - Major R.W. Schroeder and his airplane - article with photos; The Written Word - Jim Carter saved himself in India with some clever writing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
191791 pages plus many pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: A detailed narrative of General Korniloff's 300 mile Escape from the Austrians back to the Russian lines; Some Exciting Experiences with Rhinos, by J.A. Jordan - with photos; Hindengerg's Death Trap - a terrible tragedy befalls the Russian armies amid the Masurian Lakes; The Pygmy People of Mount Marviveles in the Phillipines - the Negritos, or "little Negroes" - with photos; The Vengeance of Eugene Ristori - The Five-Year Story of a Corsican Murder Vendetta which ends in Panama; The House of the Chained Bear - a night of terror in the wilds of Transcaucasia; On the Borders of Tibit - Part 2, by Reginald Farrer, with nice photos; The Three Scarlet Feathers - the terrible experience of a white man who got into the black books of Voodoo people in Hayti (Haiti); A Flying Man in South Africa - Part 3 of John G. Barron's adventures - illustrated; My Experiences as a "Wild Girl" - Carl L. Thompson of Seattle and his strange job; Round Labrador and Hudson Bay - Part 4 - E.W. Hawkes' adventures, with great Eskimo photos; The Snake-Charmer's Vengeance - Alexander Feely recounts a circus tale; Our Catch - an extract from the diary of a Lieutenant of Alpine Chasseurs which describes how six Alpine Chasseurs bluffed three hundred Huns, with eight officers, into surrendering without a fight. Photo of Shrovetide Football at Ashbourne in Derbyshire. Harris-Goar Jewelry ad on back cover. Nice ad for Baseball Magazine Co. Great full-page ad for Canada Steamship Lines. Above-average external wear. Binding intact. Bit of writing atop front cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1957Features: The Wreck of the El Dorado - a four-masted lumber schooner enroute to Chile from Astoria, Oregon, goes down 700 miles from isloated Easter Island; Fear Saved My Life - a tiger brings death to the people of the Indian swampland; The Swallowing Swamp - a continuation of the Maufrais Saga in French Guiana; The Devil in the Cabin - a wolverine (carcajou) attacks a man in northern Canada; Caravan of Slaves - attempting to liberate a party of young natives destined for the slave market of Arabia; Jungle Takes the Air - wildlife escape mid-air over East Africa; Night of Horror - alone in the Papuan jungle; Curse of the Pagan Temples - a story from Burma; Isle of Devils - the natives were scourged by Elephantiasis; Gold on Their Backs - Man's desire for Otter fur almost drove them to extinction; Desert Ambush - a religious fanatic and his gang of ruthless henchmen brutally attacked the Colonial Administrator in the mountains of South West Arabia; and more. Small chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1957Features: Abdullahi's Quest - treachery and death in the East Africa Protectorate; Battle of the Dragons - I Know and Island, Part VIII - monstrous flesh-eating dragons of Komodo; Savage Vengeance - Japanese Pearl Fishers and Australian Aborigines; Terror Takes Over - an instalment of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' in the French Guiana jungle; Timber Wolves of Beaver Lake - Alford Harrison waged a ceaseless war on the killer wolves of British Columbia; Fugitives Adrift - a stolen whaleboat in the Cook Islands; Kesobo's Warning - An Indian senses a message from his father 150 miles distant; Maneater of Sirni - a giant crocodile in the Ghandak River; Hunting the Drug Smugglers - Drug Traffickers in Singapore and the chandu scourge; The Dead Carried Gold - a tale from the Isle of Anglesey in 1859; Yafouba Magic - a tale from the Ivory Coast; and more. Chips from backstrip. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1955Features: The Vanished Trophy - a story for horse-lovers, the missing King George V International Jumping Championship Trophy; Saharan Adventure (continued) - fascinating account of a trip across the Sahara - Tuareg Tribesmen; Death in the Jungle - exploring the Rio Bobonaza for gold; Catching Wild Pigs Alive in Australia; Cyclone - a young seaman's description of his first experience of a circular storm; The Pay-Back - hunting a cattle-killing lion in Rhodesia; Kenai - deaf lead sled dog; The Big Fish - what happened to two young men night-fishing at the northern end of the Inner Sound of the island of Skye off the west coast of Scotland; Wealth in Bird's Nests - in search of the ingredient for the Chinese delicacy birds'-nest soup; and more. Chips from spine else unmarked with average wear. Back cover partially loose. Decent copy. Book
1937Stories: Adventures in Bunk; The Daybreak Raid; Live Wires; A Man-Hunt in Jamaica; The Lizard-Master; The Last of the Seris; Prospecting in Peru; Down the Mine; A Call in the Night; A Grips with the Head Hunters; Death in the Air; That Christmas Dinner; Pay-Day at Anna Regina. Average wear. Covers present but separated from textblock. Book
1918Pages 265-352 plus 24 pages of great vintage ads. Features: My Adventures in the World War - a startling and thrilling contribution upon the great conflict by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; The Vengeance of the "Stroapers' - exploring for gold in Guiana leads to adventure and death; In the Land of the Lapps - great photo-illustrated narrative of Frank Butler's travels throughout Lapland; The Secret Press of Belgium - how 'La Libre Belgique' had the courage to tell the Belgian people the truth and counteract the evil influence of their brutalizers; Trooping Cattle in Paraguay - taking 1,000 cattle from the ranch of Zanja Moroti to the ranch of San Antonio; The Strangest Republic in the World - interesting photo-illustrated account of a recent visit to the Mount Athos Peninsula; Historic Crime and Mysteries - The Iron Judge of Malt; My Firework Display in China; In the Jaws of the Alligator - woman is pulled from the arms of her husband in Papua; Doctoring War Dogs - touching photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Countess Yourkevitch's hospital for wounded dog soldiers at Neuilly/Paris; The State Documents - How a great german spy system was laid bare in Rome; A Man-Hunt in the Arctic - A Royal North-West Mounted Police patrol from Fort Norman up the Bear River was the longest in the history of that famous organization; The Tragedy at Ras Elka - Sudanese stevedores revolt and pay dearly; Moderate wear. Openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy of this exquisite issue. Book
1958Features: Trapped in the Ice -continuing the saga of his 2,150 miles across the antarctic, Sir Vivian Fuchs relates a fateful moment - with photos; The Lost Wealth of Tortuga Bay, Cuba; The Tokolosi's Victim - a mis-shapen fiend and witchcraft in Africa; Give Me Canvas - the s.s. Helderus - using sails to propel broken down vessels; Monkeys in business - harvesting coconuts!; Entangled with Death - a hunter is caught up the the antlers of a moose!; Devil-Devil in the Boiler - an Australian fishing excursion goes wrong as a man is trapped in a boiler; Phantom of the Pampas - Andrew Lang; I saw the secrets of the Mafia - the writer smuggled herself into a guarded arena and became the first outsider to witness the initiation of a new member into the ranks of the dreaded organization - photos; Adventures of the Cod Fishers of Aldeburgh; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1941Stories: The Clue of the Broken Needle; The Seer of Kantara; A Day to Remember; Hunting Wild Horses; Stope Number Five East; River Death; A Cant.Mag. on Trek; The Witherell Kidnapping Case; The Derelict; Adventure Ahoy; The Haunted Bungalow; The McGuire Mystery. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
1956Features: The Terrible Swede - a writer returns from a year in the South Seas; Search in Saigon - a mystery by Lawrence Morgan; Queen of the Windjammers - The Lawhill; Terror Strikes Karunga; Trapped in the Ice - Eskimo Transportation; Sentence of Death - the adventures of French Foreign Legionnaire John Seymore Townsend; Birdin' on the Furneaux; 10' a week for paradise Skokholm - I Know an Island, Part II; Beloved Elephant; War Breaks out on Friday - the Moro Naba of French Sudan; World's Tallest Totem Pole - Victoria, British Columbia; and more. Chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
1911Pages 314-416 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Mystery of Grenville Park - The Countess Mannati D'Induno Olphert; Hunting the Wild Bull in New Zealand - D. W.O. Fagan; The Black Band - D.H. Low; A Houseboat on the Euphrates - John Horne; A Fight with a Golden Eagle - Frederic Lees; The "Zincali" Knife - H.J. O'Brien; An Ocean Death Trap; James G. McCurdy; Two Years Among Strange Tribes - Part I - W. Hilton-Simpson; The Adventures of "Babi" - W. Dingwall Fordyce; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part 5 - Mrs. Fred Maturin; The Sacrifice - D.D. Kennedy; A Church Built in a Day - H.J. Shepstone; A Nightmare Voyage - Chandos St. John Brenon; Across Unkown Labrador - Part 4 - H. Hesketh Prichard. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
191893 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1954Features: The "Hard-Case" Skipper; a young Merchant Navy radio-operator tries his luck aboaord a North Sea Trawler; A God Comes Home - a missing bronze statue of Zeus; The Buring 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. Faint signature atop front cover. Quality copy. Book
1925Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The Luck of the 'Moro' - a vessel which possessed an uncanny knack of getting in and out of trouble; Photo of Harry Houdini in a strait jacket hanging from the twenty-story Oakland Tribune building; Old Man Crag - a New Zealand tale of a stolen map to a gold mine; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - the author penetrates deep into Amazonia - with photos, including photo of a floating island (part 1); Eskimo Wireless - a strange story from the Far North of Canada; The Ivory Raiders - paints a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the ivory-raiders and their fierce satellites in Turkanaland, a wild district of Central Africa bordering on the western shores of Lake Rudolf - includes photos; A Woman Travels Across Arizona's Painted Desert - article with great photos; Zaman's Paradise - a story from India; The Resurrection of Klaas - the story of a Kaffir's miraculous escape from what seemed a certain and horrible death; New Zealand Sea Fishing - with photos of huge fish; From the Great Craters of the Congo Game-Lands - with gorilla photos (part 1); The Puzzle of Martenelle - it took 24 years to prove a death was not a suicide; A Missionary on the 'Mosquito Coast' - Rev. L. Taylor recalls tales from nine years spent as a Moravian missionary in Nicaragua - with photos; An Amazing Escape - Creswick escapes in South Africa; Full-page ad for a most unique General Electric electric truck for hauling utility poles. Above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1908Features: 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
1907Features: 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
1925Pages 353-440 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: What Happened to Mary Clark near Indianapolis - her car was hit by a train and she ended up on the front of the train which thundered on through the night!; The Haunted Bungalow - extraordinary story from South Africa; A Thousand Miles From Anywhere - Reverend Martyn Rogers and his family spent three years on the island of Tristan da Cunha - where mail came only once per year!; The Living Death - an eccentric chemist marries an Aztec girl in the hope of discovering the secrets of ancient Aztec dyes; Sands of Destruction - the fierce Atlantic is destroying the coast of Donegal in the north-west of Ireland - article with graphic photos; How I Lost My Job - the author worked as a teamster in British Columbia, until he lost a wagonload of explosives near Burns Lake; Two Years in Borneo - part 3 - the exciting outbreak at the Lubuk Estate; Trial by Ordeal in Africa; A Woman in Unknown Morocco - Fay Sutton's photo-illustrated narrative; Where Cannibals Roam - part 4 of 4 of this photo-illustrated article on a trip to the interior of Papua; The Stolen Telluride - A West Australian gold-miner's story; A Double Event - members of the South African Constabulary gets involved with horse racing; The Montreal Hold-Up - Canada's most daring armoured car robbery in broad daylight; The Downfall of "The Colonel" - a very clever American crook; Anderson's Pole-Cat - an exhausted British Columbia prospector stumbles upon a fortune in a trackless wilderness. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1928Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1924Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Red Witch of Modjaji - A weird story related by a member of the old South African Constabulary on the edge of the Great Bushveld; In Search of Sea-Monsters - Part I - In 1921 F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out on a two-year trip to the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea to discover the world's largest big-game fish - photo-illustrated article; The Convict Who Captured a Prison - Murderer Tom Slaughter was able to escape from the Arkansas State Penitentiary's "death cell" and escape from the prison, leaving all other prisoners and guards lock up! - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part III (conclusion) - Winifred S. Blackman spent three winters with local people in Upper Egypt - article with photos; Photo of man in India who has committed to roll his body for two thousand miles from Rameswara to Benares! Trade-Wind Cay - Three men find themselves stranded on an uninhabited islet, once the lair of pirates, in the Spanish Main; Our Andean Adventures - Harriett Chalmers Adams travelled into the region across the Peruvian Andes and the mysterious "inside" country beyond, which she was the first white woman to penetrate - article with photos; The Great Dog Derby of La Pas - Photo-illustrated account of the annual race for men and dog-teams over two hundred miles of snow-covered wilderness at La Pas, Manitoba; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part IV - The story of a British officer's journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; The Bell of Solavetski - Ralph Durand spent twenty pounds to travel to faraway Archangel and the ice-covered Arctic wastes of Nova Zembla - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part IV - A bull-terrier spared from death rewards his new owner, Count Nils Cronstedt, by saving him multiple times during his time as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; Across the Atlantic in "Shamrock" - Sir Thomas Lipton's racing yacht travels an adventurous 3,000 miles home to Britain for a refit (with photos; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part IV - Beatrice Grimshaw explored up the Sepik River of New Guinea where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; The Grey Devils - A grim story of hungry wolves in the Canadian North-West; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
