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rif. Z1-Office-00357Sweet & Maxwell Ltd. Used - Good. Used - Good. Includes only Volumes 1 & 2 Contains some writing on the side of the volumes. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day.Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre.' Ex-library but has been well cared for. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Sweet & Maxwell Ltd unknown
1918Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Ju-Ju" Justice - a startling West African Ju-Ju incident and its sequel, involving the Elder Dempster branch boat "Lagoon"; Tales of the Service - The Smuggler's Cave (part III) - stirring stories of the Service contributed by a customs-house officer on the West Coast of Scotland and also in Ireland; The Wooing of Abia - a charming yet thrilling love story involving natives of Papua, with great photos; Beyond the Law (part III) - The Dalton Gang terrorized the Western States of America for years while committing train robberies and holding up banks; The Empire's Only Eskimo Soldier - John Shiwak, of Labrador, the only Eskimo soldier to lay down his life for the empire (article with photo); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram (part III) - the Himalayan exploits of Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (with photos); A Nightmare Voyage - in 1905, the American barque Challenger left Port Townsend for Japan in the command of Captain Pedersen; Photo of a Papuan chief's daughter wearing a necklace of hundreds of dog teeth; Lion-Hunting as a Business - Frank Allen of Rhodesia is the only known lion-hunter - article with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa (part IV) - a 4,000 mile honeymoon trip east to west across the Dark Continent - with photos; The Baboon and the Baby - a baboon steals a baby from a home; My Experiences in German East Africa - James Henry Butcher relates his thrilling experiences as a private in the South African Infantry, with photos; The Shining Town - a fascinating photo-illustrated sketch of life and scenes in Granada; The "White" Chief of Penrhyn Island - the shipwrecked author was adopted by a chief in the South Sea Islands and went on to become the ruler of an island and its people; Only a Half-Breed - in South-West Colorado in 1869 a white man's squaw prevented a war; Fantastic ad "Swear Off Tobacco" by the Newell harmacal Company of St. Louis inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1914Pages 102-196 pages plus 32 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mutiny of the "Ziba" (part I) - a brutal captain and mates are murdered by their crew; Among Head-Hunters and Cannibals - great photo-illustrated article on some of the experiences of Captain W. Sinker who for years cruised the South Sea Islands in command of the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross"; The Rivals - two men were in love with the same lady; The Bluffing of Din Mahomed - a rascally Indian postal worker is brought to justice; The Runaway Train - story from a branch line of the C. and N.W.R.R. in Nebraska; My Adventures in Sarawak (part III) - adventures of the Rajah's bride amongst 'the lovable little people'; Hona's "Tapu" - what happened to to men who attempted to brave the curse of a Maori chief upon a rich gold-reef; An Unlucky Ride - in New Zealand a man sets of on a perilous 120 mile journey to see his lady, only to arrive late and offend her; Our Travels in Safari-land (part I) - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porch) travels through British East Africa; The Night-Watchman's Story - an 1885 tale from the steamer 'Bengal Tiger' shipping from Paducah, Kentucky, as told by Ernest Prentis; Penelope Visits Finland - holiday jaunts to the 'Land of a Thousand Lakes"; Parker's Lesson - a 1913 story of a young man from Cambridge who went to Nigeria with ideas of how the natives should be handled; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1919Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa - part 2 - tales from the log book of an R.A.F. officer during the campaign in German East Africa - article with interesting photos; Torn by Starving Jackals in Macedonia - Private James McDade of the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers recounts his experience - with photo of McDade; Death-Struggle with An Alligator - what happened to Van Campen Heilner when he was photographing an alligator in a Florida swamp - photo-illustrated article; The Thrills of Parachuting - early and marvelously photo-illustrated article on this topic; Photo of tourist party in Solomon's Quarry, the world's most ancient quarry; My South African Adventures - part 1 of Jack West's incredible recollections, including photo of him aged 17; Ship Built By One Man - Liberian missionary, the Rev. James E. Lewis - photo-illustrated article of him, his wife and "The Coloured Missionary Yacht"; John A. Jordan and his African Leopard-Hunting Adventures; Our Trip to Catch Murderers - the rough and ready methods of achieving justice in Bolivia; An Exciting Night Drive - 35 miles in a South African Cape Cart; Relief Workers' Adventures - part 2 of this superb photo-illustrated article on thrilling experiences among the War Victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia; With a Caravan in Corsica - photo illustrated article which relates the primitive life of the people; A Mountain of Gold - photo-illustrated article about the discovery made by the Fisk Expedition - Captain James L. Fisk and Dr. William Denton Dibb; In the Wilds of Siberia - part 2 - fascinating article with great photos document the explorations of Harry Somerset-Lister; The Adventures of a Newspaper-Man - part 4 - Exploring New York - article with nice photos and fascinating observations of the people; A Butterfly Farm in France - French Entomologist M. Andre's farm near Macon - article with photos; Fascinating photo of flume in British Columbia, by which logs are carried to the sawmills; Photo of amber mine on the coast of Samland in the eastern Prussian peninsula. Somewhat above-average external wear. Openings and loss at each end of backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this marvelous issue. Book
1921Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
196147 pages. Features: Judy Garland - a star is reborn (with picture of baby Liza and her parents); Sisterly love that saved a life - Johanna Nightingale of Steinbach Man. receives kidney from her sister Lana; Earl Cox - gardener to a million homes; Justice Minister Davie Fulton visits the Arctic; Ipso Facto's a Lhasa Apso - Virginia Langton's dog; Ginger Coffey is brought to the TV screen - Montreal novelist Brian Moore's book comes to life for a CBC television show; He flips his lid to go fishing - trailer cover doubles as dinghy; Reaction to claims that little league ball is harmful for youngsters - includes photo of Montreal's entry in the 1952 Little League World Series; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1938A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth boards are a bit worn at edges. Rockwell Kent torchbearer design on endpapers and cover.
2016rif. 1-1626914249Answers in Genesis 2016. Paperback. New. 10.90x8.40x0.40 inches. Answers in Genesis paperback
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1894rif. 10734Longmans Green and Co. London. 1894. FIRST EDITION first impression. 8vo. 7.3 x 5.1 inches. xvi 321pp 2pp publishers adverts at end. Illustrated with frontis and 22 full page mono plates and scores of smaller illustrations throughout the text by Ford. Publishers decorated yellow cloth binding with gilt illustration to the front board and spine which is also lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Black coated endpapers. A bright clean better than very good copy internally. A nice tight copy with a very good binding showing some stains to the cloth but the gilt still vibrant and sharp. A superior copy of the fourth of Lang's colour Fairy books. Longmans, Green and Co. London. 1894 hardcover
1795rif. 741551795. Rare Dublin Edition of a Popular JP Manual Justice of the Peace Manual. The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum Or Clerkship Improved. Containing a Variety of the Most Improved Precedents in Conveyances &c. &c. Particularly Useful to Attornies and their Clerks; And All Persons Belonging to the Law. Likewise Very Necessay for Agents Country Gentlemen Landlords &c. &c. As it Contains a Variety of the Most Useful Precedents . The Whole Selected from the Very Best Authorities. To Which is Added A True Copy of the Will and Testament of Her Grace Sarah late Dutchess of Marlborough. Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan 1795. ii 216 8 pp. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 3-3/4". Recent quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets to calf edges gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to boards and board edges somewhat heavier to rear board. Toning to interior light browning and foxing in a few places gutter of leaf B12 pp. 23-24 reinforced without loss to text early ownership signatures of William Elles to head of title page and following leaf. A nice copy of a rare edition. $550. Sixth stated and final edition. "In those days when anyone who was anybody was a judge and most of those who were not quite anybodies were justices of the peace a vademecum.was an essential tool." Cohen. Alphabetically organized with forms for pleading this popular work covers topics such as bonds bills of sale grants indentures and wills. Also printed in London Belfast and New York from 1742 the final 1795 printing is the sole Dublin edition. OCLC locates 2 copies worldwide Harvard Law School University of Washington Law School. Cohen "Historical Development of the American Lawyer's Library" 61 Law Library Journal 1968 440 445. English Short-Title Catalogue N64695. unknown
1776rif. 746381776. Belfast Printed: New-York Re-Printed H. Gaine 1776. Belfast Printed: New-York Re-Printed H. Gaine 1776. Revolution-Era New York Edition of a Popular JP Manual Justice of the Peace Manual. The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum: Or Compleat Law-Tutor. Being a Useful Collection of a Great Variety of the Most Approved Precedents in the Law And Adapted to Almost Every Transaction in Life Wherein an Attention to Legal Forms is Indispensably Necessary. . To Which is Added A Collection of English Precedents Relating to the Office of a Justice of Peace. Belfast Printed: New-York Re-Printed by H. Gaine In Hanover-Square 1776. xii 236; iv 86 10 pp. Two parts each with title page and individual pagination. The title part for the second part reads in part: A Collection of English Precedents Relating to the Office of a Justice of Peace. Final two leaves are publisher advertisements. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Recent period-style calf raised bands and retained early lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. A few minor scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to extremities joints and front hinge starting at ends corners bumped crack in text block between rear endleaf and free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places faint early owner signature John Forbus to title page. $750. Later edition. "In those days when anyone who was anybody was a judge and most of those who were not quite anybodies were justices of the peace a vademecum.was an essential tool." Cohen. Alphabetically organized with forms for pleading this popular work derived from an English manual first published in 1723 covers topics such as bonds bills of sale grants indentures and wills. The final edition was printed in Dublin in 1795. Gaine's edition is a reprint of an edition published in Belfast in 1771. He also issued the second part as an independent title. One of the early owners of this copy was likely John Forbus 1737-1827 a Poughkeepsie resident who served as deputy sheriff and held a number of other important local positions. Cohen "Historical Development of the American Lawyer's Library" 61 Law Library Journal 1968 440 445. English Short-Title Catalogue W21107. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 8207. unknown
1795rif. 741551795. Rare Dublin Edition of a Popular JP Manual Justice of the Peace Manual. The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum Or Clerkship Improved. Containing a Variety of the Most Improved Precedents in Conveyances &c. &c. Particularly Useful to Attornies and their Clerks; And All Persons Belonging to the Law. Likewise Very Necessay for Agents Country Gentlemen Landlords &c. &c. As it Contains a Variety of the Most Useful Precedents . The Whole Selected from the Very Best Authorities. To Which is Added A True Copy of the Will and Testament of Her Grace Sarah late Dutchess of Marlborough. Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan 1795. ii 216 8 pp. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 3-3/4". Recent quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets to calf edges gilt-edged raised bands and lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to boards and board edges somewhat heavier to rear board. Toning to interior light browning and foxing in a few places gutter of leaf B12 pp. 23-24 reinforced without loss to text early ownership signatures of William Elles to head of title page and following leaf. A nice copy of a rare edition. $550. Sixth stated and final edition. "In those days when anyone who was anybody was a judge and most of those who were not quite anybodies were justices of the peace a vademecum.was an essential tool." Cohen. Alphabetically organized with forms for pleading this popular work covers topics such as bonds bills of sale grants indentures and wills. Also printed in London Belfast and New York from 1742 the final 1795 printing is the sole Dublin edition. OCLC locates 2 copies worldwide Harvard Law School University of Washington Law School. Cohen "Historical Development of the American Lawyer's Library" 61 Law Library Journal 1968 440 445. English Short-Title Catalogue N64695. unknown books
1776rif. 746381776. Belfast Printed: New-York Re-Printed H. Gaine 1776. Belfast Printed: New-York Re-Printed H. Gaine 1776. Revolution-Era New York Edition of a Popular JP Manual Justice of the Peace Manual. The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum: Or Compleat Law-Tutor. Being a Useful Collection of a Great Variety of the Most Approved Precedents in the Law And Adapted to Almost Every Transaction in Life Wherein an Attention to Legal Forms is Indispensably Necessary. . To Which is Added A Collection of English Precedents Relating to the Office of a Justice of Peace. Belfast Printed: New-York Re-Printed by H. Gaine In Hanover-Square 1776. xii 236; iv 86 10 pp. Two parts each with title page and individual pagination. The title part for the second part reads in part: A Collection of English Precedents Relating to the Office of a Justice of Peace. Final two leaves are publisher advertisements. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4". Recent period-style calf raised bands and retained early lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. A few minor scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to extremities joints and front hinge starting at ends corners bumped crack in text block between rear endleaf and free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places faint early owner signature John Forbus to title page. $750. Later edition. "In those days when anyone who was anybody was a judge and most of those who were not quite anybodies were justices of the peace a vademecum.was an essential tool." Cohen. Alphabetically organized with forms for pleading this popular work derived from an English manual first published in 1723 covers topics such as bonds bills of sale grants indentures and wills. The final edition was printed in Dublin in 1795. Gaine's edition is a reprint of an edition published in Belfast in 1771. He also issued the second part as an independent title. One of the early owners of this copy was likely John Forbus 1737-1827 a Poughkeepsie resident who served as deputy sheriff and held a number of other important local positions. Cohen "Historical Development of the American Lawyer's Library" 61 Law Library Journal 1968 440 445. English Short-Title Catalogue W21107. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 8207. unknown books
1926Features: A Thousand Dollars; Hazen of the Up-Country; The Boxer Uprising (Rebellion); A True Story of Heroic Courage; The Story of Peggy Harrison - IX; The Adventures of William Tucker; The Court of International Justice; How to choose Snowshoes; The Y.C. Lab - How to Make a Toy Theatre; An Amateur Transmitter of Low Power. Nice Willys Overland Six ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
rif. 1258421135.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1998rif. 208384New York: The Academy of American Poets 1998. First edition. Broadside printed in two colors and measures 9" wide by 12" high. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Illustrated and designed by Dean Bornstein. Features a poem by Justice that first appeared in The New Yorker Magazine. A near copy with a paperclip impression to the top edge with a card presenting this broadside to someone for their support of The Academy of American Poets as well as a letter doing the same. Signed by Justice. Uncommon despite the size of the edition. The Academy of American Poets unknown
1998rif. 208384New York: The Academy of American Poets 1998. First edition. Broadside printed in two colors and measures 9" wide by 12" high. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. Illustrated and designed by Dean Bornstein. Features a poem by Justice that first appeared in The New Yorker Magazine. A near copy with a paperclip impression to the top edge with a card presenting this broadside to someone for their support of The Academy of American Poets as well as a letter doing the same. Signed by Justice. Uncommon despite the size of the edition. The Academy of American Poets unknown books
1953rif. MASTER054042ILINCOLN NE.: HODDER AND STOUGHTON. G/POOR. PREV OWNER'S NAME. BOARDS EDGEWORN LIGHTLY RUBBED. Pages: 192. . 1953. 2ND. HARDCOVER. DJ - LARGE CHIPS TEARS STAINS AT REAR IN MYLAR WRAP. . HODDER AND STOUGHTON hardcover
rif. ria9781698700243_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Daniel Powell grows up traveling through Latin America often getting into trouble with his brother Jake. That trouble follows him to Houston where he is sent to jail in 1994 and Jake is the only one who says he will stick by him - a hardcover
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