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réf. 100-22498Ruwan Rajapakse. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ruwan Rajapakse paperback
réf. 59905Sans lieu, La Pléïade 1933, 195x140mm, broché. Edition originale. Tirage limité. Un des 200 exemplaires sur Alfa teinté, numéroté, n°195/200. Cellophane intact. Bel exemplaire.
198348 pages. Features: Cover photo of the steam collier Cliff Quay; Great photo of the Royal Mail Lines`Amazon inside front cover; Nice photo of four Oberon Class submarines of the Royal Australian Navy entering Sydney Harbour; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; European Ferry Commentary; Salvaging the European Gateway; King George V Class Battleships - part 2; Cook`s of Wivenhoe; Still in Steam - Brian Stannard describes the last steam colliers on the UK coast - the three colliers owned by CEGB, now probably in their last year of service; Naval Review; Brocklebank Line Fleet History - part 1 of a short history of T & J Brocklebank Ltd; Ship Sales; By the Latest Packet; Nice photo of the HMS Bold Pathfinder in 1953 inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
réf. 0972865764.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 0972865756.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1955Features: Wise old man - tales from the Amazon remote jungle vastness; A Sailor on Horseback - the adventures of a young British Seaman who tries his luck ashore in the U.S. with a logging outfit in Arkansas... but must hitch-hike 1,200 miles to get there; A Grim Story of Dope-Running on the Egyptian Border; Lunch-time Tiger at a Pathan Village; The Castaways of the Dundonald - one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - great photos; Three firemen, tired of the food and work on their tramp steamer, jump ship in South America; Ghost Town Memories of the Western States of America; Across the Kalahari Desert in motorcar by the dried-up bed of the Kuruman River - nice photos; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
réf. 16-2915Amazon Posters: 1982. 17 x 11 inches. Some fold marks. Provenance: Peter Howard Serendipity Books Berkeley. Amazon Posters: 1982. unknown
1890réf. 125230Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie 1890 In-8 24 x 18 cm. Reliure de l’époque demi-basane verte, dos lisse orné de roulettes dorées, IV-443 pp., nombreux dessins de G. Profit d’après les croquis et photographies de l’auteur, 4 cartes hors texte dont 2 repliées. Dos lérement insolé.
2013New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. In special box. Oblong 4to. (24 x 31 cm). In Turkish. 339 p., plts. Osmanli'dan Cumhuriyet'e cemiyetler. [In special box]. OTTOMANIA Republican Turkey Law Society Guild.
1992réf. 2110502151005980Saito Shobo 1992. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 4 Saito Shobo paperback
1979réf. 194241979. Covina Gina and Laurel Galana eds. The Lesbian Reader: An Amazon Quarterly Anthology 1975 a collection of lesbian feminist fiction essays and poetry selected from Amazon Quarterly the national lesbian literary magazine founded by Covina and Galana in Oakland in 1972. Published during the expansion of independent feminist presses and lesbian cultural organizing in the United States the anthology gathers writing from the magazine's three-year publication history addressing women's relationships sexuality emotional independence and the development of lesbian feminist thought. Contributors examine the expectations surrounding romantic partnerships the personal consequences of heterosexual social conventions and the possibilities of relationships between women outside traditional gender roles. The anthology preserves work originally circulated through an independent lesbian publishing enterprise at a time when mainstream literary outlets provided limited opportunities for openly lesbian writers. Covina Gina and Laurel Galana eds. The Lesbian Reader: An Amazon Quarterly Anthology. Oakland: The Amazon Press 1975. First edition. Softcover with illustrated wrappers featuring two women standing beside one another and a butterfly. Cover drawing and graphics by Sharon Behrends. The anthology contains short stories essays and poetry originally published in Amazon Quarterly including "Woman Becoming" "The Lesbian Love Ethic" and "I Dream in Female: The Metaphors of Evolution." In "The Lesbian Love Ethic" Donna Richards challenges the sexual expectations imposed upon lesbian relationships writing: "For the single Lesbian who has lived through a number of such affairs and has come to realize their dynamics this general expectation of sex.constitutes a suffocating straight jacket to her maneuverability" p. 41. Richards's discussion examines the tension between sexual obligation and personal autonomy questioning whether lesbian relationships might reproduce restrictive conventions associated with heterosexual partnerships. Other selections address love separation self-definition and women's intellectual and emotional lives. Founded in 1972 Amazon Quarterly published lesbian feminist literature and artwork during a period of rapid growth in women's independent publishing. Covina and Galana established the magazine to provide an outlet for women writers and artists whose work received limited attention from established publishers. Its contributors included Judy Grahn Audre Lorde Rita Mae Brown and other writers associated with lesbian feminism and the women's liberation movement. By collecting material from the magazine's 1972-1975 run The Lesbian Reader preserved the literary and political discussions that characterized its publication including debates over sexual relationships women's independence and feminist cultural expression. The anthology also records the role of small presses in distributing lesbian literature beyond local feminist circles during the 1970s. In very good condition. unknown
réf. BN67620Volvo PV 444/544 1800 S/ E/ ES Amazon 121/122 S/123 GT. 1945 - 73 Hardcover hardcover
1975réf. 196161975. LGBTQ Amazon Poetry: An Anthology of Lesbian Poetry edited by Elly Bulkin and Joan Larkin. New York: Tower Press 1975. First edition Second printing. Tan soft cover wrappers with red titling. Octavo. 110 pages total. The prefatory note describes the anthology as ".a book of poems that show the scope and intensity of lesbian experience.The poems convey both private joy and pain and humor and a larger context of racial economic and social inequality". Significant lesbian authors are featured within the anthology including Audre Lorde's "To My Daughter a Junkie on a Train" and Rita Mae Brown's "Sappho's Reply". The poetry surfaces the multifaceted nature of lesbian life eloquently exploring themes of "growing up sisterhood sexuality family motherhood work dying Myth Racism Old age war ritual". A consequential anthology of lesbian poetry this book is in very good condition. Front cover mildly foxed otherwise this book is in very good condition. unknown
1893In quarto grande (29,4x20,2 cm); (8), IV, 614, (2) pp. e una grande c. di tav. fuori testo più volte ripiegata. Bellissima legatura coeva in mezza pelle rossa con titolo e ricchi fregi in oro al dorso. Dorso a cinque nervi. Tagli dorati. Un piccolo strappetto senza perdita di carta alla mappa più volte ripiegata. Piccole strofinature ininfluenti e qualche leggerissima fioritura in poche pagine dovuta alla qualità della carta ma nel complesso bellissima copia in bella legatura coeva. Prima edizione di questo celebre racconto di viaggio del celebre esploratore e geografo francese Henri Anatole Coudreau originario di Sonnac. L'autore fu tra i primi ad esplorare la Guyana francese e a risalire il Rio delle Amazzoni. Questo celebre racconto venne terminato dalla moglie dello stesso Codreau che lo seguì nelle sue esplorazioni, morto nei dintorni del lago Tapagem . durante il tentativo di raggiungere le sorgenti del Rio delle Amazzoni. L'opera è illustrata da 98 bellissime incisioni, 18 delle quali a piena pagina. Prima edizione in buone condizioni di conservazione ed in bella e ricca legatura coeva. First edition, a good copy.
1748réf. 94721748 reliure plein veau (binding full calfskin) brun petit in-octavo, dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands) décoré or (gilt) - entre-nerfs - compartiments or à fleuron fleurette (floweret) pièce de titre (piece of title) avec filet or sur fond rouge brun, plats épidermés (lights scratches) ) mors (joints) fendu sur 1 centimètre, plats marqués par l'humidité (cover with humidity mark), toutes tranches rouges (red edges), cahiers légèrement déboîtés (leafs lightly dislodged), illustrations : 8 planches hors-texte (full page engraving) en noir, 215 pages avec Approbation & Privilège, 1748 Amsterdam Zacharie Chatelain Editeur,
réf. 50240Crès.1914.In-8 en demi-maroquin à coins de Kieffer.1/900 sur Rives.Frontispice gravé par Vibert.Tête dorée.Bel exemplaire.Ex-libris.Couvs.et dos conservés.
In 4ø (cm. 30 x 21); pagg. (10), 574; con 12 tavole fotograf., quasi tutte doppie f.t. e 14 alberi genealogici n.t; stemma della citt… a due colori al f.spizio; m.pelle coeva con punte e fregi e titoli oro al dorso. VG. ** Autografato da Nino Bazzetta al frontespizio e con altro invio. Edizione originale e unica. Cfr. Ferraris "Bibliografia Ossolana", 214.
1915Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Dead Man's Diary - Dmitri Garkin's body - and his diary - were discovered in the summer of 1913 on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean; Three Thousand Miles On A Raft - an adventurous voyage down the Amazon from Central Ecuador to Northern Brazil; A Railway Race With Robbers - A Sheriff pursues three desperate bank robbers in New York State; The Mutiny of the "Ziba" - part II - Captain John Hart relates how he was eventually able to escape and see justice brought to the murderers; The Land of the North Wind - P.H. Godsell describes his experiences in Keewatin; A Christmas Crime - story from the Australian back-blocks; The Great Cook Problem - the amusing story of how a resourceful woman tackled one part of the "Yellow Peril" in Nevada's "Bean House"; Tight Corners - part I - E.Torday recounts some of his African big game hunting adventures; "Smut" (short story about a queer pet and some of his doings); The Tree Spirit (short story from the area near Singapore); Our Travels in Safari-Land - part II of Edith Cecil-Porch and her journey through the wilds of British East Africa travelling with a wagon pulled by six oxen; Cupid and the "Wireless" - Sidney Lehre recounts a telegraphic affair while he was in the wireless service; Wonderful one-page photo of "An Eastern Venice", the town of Brunei, Borneo, once the headquarters of the dreaded Borneo pirates. Photo of a Kikuyu warrior buying a wife, paying with goats. pp. 8 [ads], 197-292, 9-32 [ads]. Tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
1925Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Babes In A Boat - Part I - A couple knowing nothing of navigation decides to set sail from Victoria, British Columbia and cross the Pacific; The Big Redwood - Story of a dog's uncanny instinct; A Holiday in the Sunderbunds - Pursuing a Royal Bengal Tiger - with great photos; A Matter of Habit - An amusing tale of two mean men at that 'sun-baked cinder-heap Aden'; In Search of the Lost Oases - Part III of an amazing expedition from Sollum to El Obeid, over two thousand miles, across the Sahara, visiting much previously unexplored territory, with nice photos; The "Lone Star Kid" - Young Harry Wells purchases a pony, sombrero and revolver before proceeding to carry out a 'hold-up'; Ram Kumar's "Cure" - a common fraud/confidence trick practiced in India; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part III of the extraordinary adventures of G.M. Dyott, who was abandoned by his guide in the upper Amazon - includes photos of shrunken heads; The Great Snake - A native Basuto legend comes true in the Orange Free State; Full-page photo of the 'Santa Cruz Monster' that washed up on shore; Photo of the Emir of Kano's Bodyguard; "Black Foxes" - An amusing story from near Mink Landing, Alberta which proves not every black fox pelt is worth the money; Two Men and a Leopard - Story of a terrific hand-to-hand battle with an infuriated leopard; A Weird Quest - Daily seances are held to aid in finding lost California gold mines; Up and Down in Kurdistan - Nicely phtoto-illustrated article about David F. Anderson and his flying excursion in Mesopotamia which began as an ibex hunt and ended with a bear. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1922Pages 169-252 plus 40 pages of ads. Features: A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part 1 - Prof. Propercio de Mello Saraiva travelled 25,000 miles documenting the Amazon - article with photos; That Christmas Dinner - a funny story; A Fairy Land of the Far East - photo-illustrated article on the Court of the Emperor of Annam in Indo-China; A Close Call - what happened when a whaler attempted to replenish its water supply at an unfriendly island; Photo of pelt of the world's record bear, with its shooter, Mr. Lionel J. Tucker, a forestry engineer of Vancouver; My Island of Dreams - Part III (conclusion) - The Adventures of an Amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings; Cycling Over the Alps - G. Butler Morris recounts his interesting experiences, illustrated with his own photos; A South African Man-Hunt - an escaped half-breed was the terror of the district; Hank Vaughn - a young Englishman's experience with a 'bad man'; The Vengeance of Megana Kol - an Indian aboriginal armed only with a bow and arrow kills a panther which had killed over fifty people, including his own two children; A Man's Luck - Part IV of Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the Far North; Tiger's Teeth - tale from a Devonshire village; The Secret Dance - Mrs. S.A. Clarke-Kennedy witnesses a secret Australian aboriginal "corroboree" ceremonial dance; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1925Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Antonio the Counsellor - Antonio Conselheiro cast himself into the wilderness, only to become leader of a tribe of Indians which he then led in battle against the cream of the Brazilian army; Our Seaplane Fishing Trip - Summary of a novel seaplane trip recently carried out by a party of Pacific Coast anglers with the assistance of Ellard A. Bacon, manager of the Pacific Marine Airways, a passenger seaplane line operating between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island - article with excellent photos; Crops of Gold - An amusing story from the vicinity of Ten Mile House, British Columbia; The Mystery of the Pool; - Sequel to a story published here about three years ago about a South African prospector's account of a monstrous snake which is supposed to live in a pool in the Orange River; Three Incidents - J.R. Henderson led an uneventful life, aside from a three-month span; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part II - C.W. Domville-Fife and a couple of Indians ventured far into the interior of Amazonia, meeting with many strange and exciting adventures - with photos; "Number Twenty-Three" - A bobcat adventure of Harry E. Webb, a federal hunter employed by the U.S. Government Bureau of Biological Survey to trap and destroy predatory animals that infest the state of Nevada - with photos; The Ivory Raiders - Part IV - Continued adventures from Turkanaland, Africa, where unscrupulous Swahili elephant poachers and bloodthirsty Turkana warriors make things interesting for the white officers responsible for maintaining order - with photos; The Knock-Out - Judkins and Bunney, the bullies of the battalion, were manipulated into boxing each other; A South African Bushranger - A policeman named Mahon turns highwayman in Filabusi, Rhodesia; A Sailor Out Back - The amusing first day experiences of a sailor who tries farming in Willanga Township, Australia; When the Fire Came - A bush fire swept the Matawai district of New Zealand last year - with two photos; From the Great Craters to the Congo Game-Lands - Part II - Elephant hunting in the teeming game country of the Congo - with great photos; Diamond Cut Diamond - R. Granville Barrow and friends need to outwit rapacious South American officials to successfully salvage the passenger steamer Whitney in the Orinoco River; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Covers detached as one but present, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1914Pages 303-396 plus 28 pages of ads, many wonderfully illustrated. Numerous black and white illustrations and photos in text. Features: Saved by Two Inches - How a big-horn sheep brought a veteran hunter to the verge of destruction in Montana; Gun-Running with Mexican Outlaw Emiliano Zapata - article with great photos; A Terrible Trip - Gold Searching in German New Guinea; Twenty Years in Newfoundland (Part II) - article with nice photos; Fishermen's Luck - a story from New Zealand involving T. Colthart, H. Hewlett and D.G. FitzGibbon; Across the Andes and Down the Amazon - the story of an adventurous journey (part II); The Well of Skulls - a story from Hyderabad; The Lake of Life - the Idiong secret society in Africa; The King Who Met His Match - a story from Sierra Leone; Trapped in a Tank (cover illustration); Captured by the Monkey-Men - an explorer's tale from the Orinoco River; The Smugglers of Gibraltar; Pete the Pup - an adventurous dog in New Mexico. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Minor chipping to back strip. Three inch opening between front cover and base of spine. Overall a pleasing copy of this wonderful vintage issue. 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
1925Pages 90-176 plus 18 pages of ads. Features: Where Cannibals Roam - Part I - Merlin Moore Taylor's adventures into the unknown interior of Papua (article with great photos); "Twisted" Harmon - an RCMP officer spends five years and travels thousands of miles to catch an escaped murderer hiding in the protection of the German Secret Service; Life in a Logging Camp - sensational photo-illustrated article on the Abernethy Lougheed Logging Company's operation in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; "Trawler Tidd" - a cat that went to sea; An Artist on a Tropic Isle - the adventures of Ellis Silas as he painted in the Trobriands group of islands north of New Guinea; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part 3 of 3 - the author's adventures as he penetrated deep into Amazonia, with photos (including shrunken head); Feedback on a recent article on the K.K.K.; Chasing the Pulajans - religious fanatics who gave the US authorities in the Philippines untold trouble; To the "End of the World" and Beyond - Captain Gault Macgowan, F.R.G.S. and his wife set out on an eventful journey in the Western Himalayas; Photo of large hawser (3" dia. rope) made of human hair at Kyoto's Higashi-Honganji Temple; The Fatal Slip; One Up on "Homie"; The Taming of the Sheriff - a ranch story from Death Valley, California; Down the Shaft - a West Australian miner's story of a terrible experience at the bottom of a six-hundred foot shaft; Five Hundred Miles in Open Boats - an arduous and eventful arctic journey recounted by retired Mountie, Sergeant-Major C.N.C.Hayter; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1778réf. PHO-2294Maestricht, Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1778. In-8° : [4] -xvi-379 pp. ; 2 h.-t., relié basane marbré époque, dos lisse orné avec pièce de titre, tranche jaspée rouge, frottements, coiffe sup. arasée. Illustré d’une gravure et d’une carte, les deux dépliantes gravées par Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Tardieu ("résident à Malines").
