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S. l. (France), Ouest-France, 1986; grand in-8, 208 pp., broché. Collection « de Mémoire d'homme : l'histoire » dirigée par Lucien Bély. De 1749 à 1858, c'est 70 000 condamnés qui ont subit leurs peines au bagne de Brest. Quelques illustrations en noir et blanc. Bon état.
434p. Photo illustrations by George Karger. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original worn dust jacket with some loss. Second revised edition. From the working magic library of Bill Lieberman (Master of Magic) MAG 1
434p. Photo illustrations by George Karger. 4to. Original scuffed full cloth binding. Sixth printing. Inked ownership of Milton Maidenberg. Essential handbook for any gambler and craps player. Great s tudy of WWII and Korean War Con-Games. From the working magic library of Bill Lieberman (Master of Magic) MAG 1
Fuller title: The vigilantes of Montana, or, Popular justice in the Rocky Mountains : being a correct and impartial narrative of the chase, trial, capture, and execution of Henry Plummer's road agent band, together with accounts of the lives and crimes of many of the robbers and desperados, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the "Far west" . Facsimile of the rare Virginia City 1866 first edition. 12mo. Original leather grained cloth binding. Fine condition. A wonderful record of the wild times in the west. These facsimiles are the most affordable way to study, own, and enjoy such rare Americana. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! NW29
12p. Printed insert "with the Compliments of Professor W. Macneile Dixon (University of Glasgow). 12mo. Original full photo printed wraps. Plain rear wrap slightly soiled. Nice copy. First edition. William Crooks (1852-1921) was an important Labour politician. Born poor in Poplar (a district near London), he began lecturing and teaching, and his open-air meetings got the name of `Crooks's College'. In 1901 he became mayor of Poplar - the first Labour mayor in London. In 1903 he was returned by a huge majority as labour M.P. for Woolwich, becoming the fourth independent Labour member in the House of Commons, holding the seat till his retirement owing to ill-health in 1921. He was active on recruiting platforms during the World War One, and was made a privy councillor in 1916. Crooks excelled as a speaker, mingling humour and pathos with immense effect. He had an unfailing fund of anecdotes, and was unequalled in his power of moving large audiences to support the causes in which he believed. This pamphlet was especially influential in rallying the common folk to the Allies cause. WWI 12
pp. xx, 346 + Illustrations. Penciled ownership of H. W. Martin, 1950 on first fly leaf. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, faded at extremities. Original priced dust jacket, major loss on spine. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. Adams. Six Guns #1120. One of the best books on California outlaws. W5
Mm 210x270 Brossura editoriale di 386 pagine con tavole in bianco e nero fuori testo. Testo in francese - french text. Ampia bibliografia. Foglio sciolto di Errata corrige. In buono stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked faux-leather padded boards and no bumping to corners. 192pp. A very well illustrated history of the criminal fraternity at sea. Tucked in is a wallet holding two images of typical pirate ships - a brigantine and a sloop, and two official ships - a naval sloop and a man-of-war.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 96pp. The art of making walking sticks explained and the instruction and tools required described. Illustrated.
The book tells the story of the kidnapping and eventual murder of Lord and Lady Muncaster, Italian nobleman Count Alberto de Boyl and their party, in April 1870, by Greek banditti, on their way back to Athens after visiting the battlefield of Marathon. The episode severely tested the relations of the young Greek state with Britain, under Gladstone at the time, and a country that had done much to help it gain its independence from the Turkish Ottoman Empire. xv. 189p.+45 plates. map Book
426pp VG/Fair First edition. Editorial full green cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine in original dustwrapper, dw worn with small loss on upper margin and spine, boards slightly darkened and faint traces of tape on endpaper otherwise in VG+ conditions internally, tight and clean. First comprehensive annotated bibliography on early American Western outlaws and gunmen covering both books and pamphlets, compiled by Ramon F. Adams.
Features: Cunard's bid for ocean supremacy; Editorials - Michelson - by submarine to the north pole - wages and prosperity - fighting the crooks - human engineering - television broadcasts; Riding with the signal in the cab - right-of-way signals are repeated within the engine cab; Quick-freezing solves food problems; Efficient medical department for brokers and employees at the stock exchange; Airplains land blind - guided by radio; A a splintered planet? - tiny elongated Eros may be a fragment of an older, larger asteroid; National Aircraft Show; The biblical deluge a fact - Archeological finds are stratified as though by a flood; Amateur astronomy in Pittsburgh - an observatory is built by and for amateurs; Television now on schedule - first broadcasts of television on a regular program; Science in search of oil - The last of three articles on salt, sulfur, and petroleum; A familiar truck becomes a locomotive - gasoline powered yard locomotive has commendable features; Professionnal methods in amateur archeology; American olives by the ton - large industry in California is over 150 years old; Preserved for 10,000 yeares to come - unique methods of preserving records of Tokyo earthquake; Mechanizing a giant foundry - Allis Chalmers. One inch opening at top of spine-fold. Half-inch tear to fore-edge of front cover. Quarter inch tear to fore-edge of back cover. Covers remain 50% attached to contents. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
227 pages including black and white plates. Takes readers back to a time of danger and violence as well as action and adventure. Sequel to the popular Pirates and Outlaws of Canada. Continues the colourful survey of violence in Canada from the time of the earliest pioneers to the years preceeding World War II. Book unmarked and showing minimal wear. Glossy attractive dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
256 pages. Author's first book in which he recalls the stories of his father. "Recalls the coastal British Columbia of not so many years ago when it was a civilization without 'average' individuals: besides fishermen, farmers and loggers, it was peopled with runaway bandits." - from back cover. 'Review Copy' rubber stamp upon title page else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
Stories: Canada's Puzzle-People; Captured by Indian Brigands; My Record Canoe Trip; The Fan-Tan Girl; Paru's Wireless; The Clue of the Single Fingerprint; Number Two; Bowen's End; Horse's Neck; Escaped from Devil's Island; When Greek Meets Greek; The Manhunt; The Lost Treasure of the Gilt Dragon. Above-average wear. Spine ends taped. Ink stamp to front cover. Book
Stories: The Naked Man - a story from Africa; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - our experiment in orange growing; Nine Lives - an interesting cat story; Doctor Ash Takes Charge - an amusing story of how a lazy family came to do some real hard work - perhaps for the first time in their lives; A Flight to Save a Ship (The Lipari) - the author rents a plane to locate a beached vessel and claim it for his salvage company; Chinese Pirates of Today - photos; The Big Voyage of the Little Shanghai - from Shanghai to Copenhagen in a 42 foot yacht; A Trooper's battle with a Lion; The Old Rifle - a New Mexico Tale involving the Halleck and Howard Mill at La Madera; The Mail Bag Mystery - a delightful Irish story; A bear with a Brain - a very clever thieving Grizzly; The Diamond Smuggers - the author describes his gem-running exploits; Land of Volcanoes - a visit to the Tengger, the principal volcanic centre of Java; The Last of the Corsican Bandits - the meteoric career of Romanetti; Prior owner's name pencilled atop front cover else unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Back cover nearly detached. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: The House in the Woods - the author made a 1908 car journey along a large portion of the Trans-Siberian Railway; Through the Wilds of Persia - by Major P.M. Sykes; A Game of Chess - a remarkable story from South Dakota about how a young chess enthusiast was compelled to play a game, with his own life for the stakes; Among the Gaddis - Nomad shepherds of the Central Himalayans; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Part II of a story by Mrs. Fred Maturin; A Holiday in Japan - by Mrs. Ellen Beadnell (lovely photos); Across Unknown Labrador, The Land Where Hubbard Died - H. Hesketh Prichard relates how he attempted to do what no white man had ever done before, to cross this desolate wilderness from the Atlantic to the George River - great photos (part I); The Bandits of the Argentine - the 'Nort Americanos'; The Mysterious Senoussiland - part II of a Saharan adventure; The King of the Sticks - how Connie Chambers of Boston, a solitary white prospector, constituted himself as monarch of a tribe of Alaskan Indians, cleverly turning the tables on a policeman who was sent to arrest him; Lost in an underground lake - the appalling adventure which befell three prominent citizens of Joplin, Missouri at the Hero zinc mine in the spring of 1908; "Baching"; A Mexican Elopement; and more. Fascinating two-page illustrated stock offering by the American Automobile Manufacturing Company of Louisville, Kentucky. Nice Vose Piano advertisement on back cover. Great vintage Budweiser advertisement inside back cover. Lower two inches of front cover open at spine. Average wear. Magazine
Features: 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
Features: 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
Features: Sneak attacks and murder - Texas Ranger John Peavey harks back to bloody days on the border - Mexican bandits would derail trains; Mysterious Death at the Washita - Louis McLane Hamilton; Mrs. Henry Plummer - wife of a Philandering Outlaw Sheriff, Bannack, Montana Territory; Bronc Rider for Buffalo Bill - Harry Webb; A House by the Side of the Road - Alamosa Creek; Johnsons on the Chisholm Trail - ancestors of Lyndon Johnson; Orphaned by Black Hawk's Warriors - The Kuhre Family and Ephraim, Utah; Cable Car Genius - Andrew S. Hallidie - he showed San Francisco a better way to climb a hill!; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Crooks Get all the Breaks - Virgil W. Peterson; Can our children learn faster? - at the Whitby School in Connecticut, the Montessori method is used to teach the three Rs; People on the Way Up - Gigi Reynolds Carrier, Dick Gregory, Joy Tymezyszyn Jr., Jane Marilley; Abraham Kaplan on 'Are Psychiatrists and Clergymen enemies or allies?'; Connie Francis - what made her a star, and how does she survive the competition?; Casey Stengel; How Sotheby's venerable London auction house sets prices and tastes for highbrows; The Vanishing Hillbilly - the proud Ozark mounaineer is being modernized out of existence as TVs become more common than indoor plumbing. Great 2-page color Chevrolet Jobmaster Trucks ad. Nice Coke ad on back cover. Somewhat above-average external wear. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Why Britain's biggest stars flopped on TV; Leslie Frost's masquerade as teh common man - the nation's second most important politician - article with many photos; Bruce Hutchison visits Zsa Zsa Gabor - article with photos; The Night of Terror We'll Never Forget - Victor Desgroseilliers, manager of the Dominion store in Cornwall, Ontario, and his family are terrorized by bandits - article with photos; Can we avoid a shooting battle for Berlin?; Self-Hypnosis could help you beat your tensions; Peter Gzowski writes about what it's like to have a famous ancestor (Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski); Breakout at Amiens Prison - amazing article with great photos; Great Tanners Association of Canada colour ad promotes giving leather shoes to dad for Father's Day; How do you get to be a magazine editor?; Nice colour photo ad for Bulova watches on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Cover photo of the upper Fraser sternwheeler "Quesnel" arriving at South Fort George in 1910; 1950 in Review and Forecast for 1951; Somebody Loves Them (Tourists) - But Why?; Photos of placer miners working on ice with diver near Lillooet in 1926; Historic Pavilion Mountain; Yukon Dog Tales - article with photos, including three photos of recoving a 3-ton truck which had sunk into 400' of water in Atlin Lake; $20,000 Reward - a true story about one of the northwest's most notorious bandits - Bill Miner and his accomplices; Saga of the Upper Fraser Sternwheelers - feature article with many great photos; Back cover photo Finning ad for Caterpillar diesel engines which power sawmills; Dozens of nostalgic local ads, many with photos. Name and faint date stamp upon front cover. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
86 pages. Features: Seth Doulton's "Skoal Bandits" - 1957 Chevy Panel; The Day High Performance Died - new emissions laws and testing procedures; Rear Suspension Options for the Classic Pickup; Desert Fox - Frank and Janet Heavner's 1979 Chevy G-20; Bronze Beauty - Mark Stern's 1977 Ford Courier; Dennis Carpenter Reproductions; Princess' Rolling Palace - a Vans Unlimited creation; Dumont Dunes Jamboree - Death Valley Comes Alive; Hi-Tech Engraving; 1984 GMC Jimmy 6.2 Diesel 4X4; Chevy's new Astro mini-van unveiled in Chicago; Ray "Doc" Holdway's 1956 Ford Pickup; Charles Weber's 1956 Ford Panel; Deep Freeze - Gary & Helen Rajcok's 1979 Ford F-150 4X4. Covers almost loose from staples. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Douglas Harkness - the lonely ordeal of a rebel Tory; All federal Tories like Duff Roblin; Clayton Boston (Slim) Delbridge and the B.C. Lions of the C.F.L.; Songs to Break Up Canada By - and an Anthem That Can't Offend Anyone - Editorial; The Outstanding Canadians of 1963, with photos - Sister Marie Laurent-de-Rome, Woodrow Lloyd, Glen How, Jack Leitch, Leo Plouffe, Claude Jutra, Leon Major, Ed Mirvish, C.B. MacPherson, Sylvia Fricker, Ian Tyson, Sharp, Mitchell, Peter C. Newman, Pat(rick) Watson; The Growing Acceptance of "Harmless" Narcotics; How I Worked My Way through College Peddling Pot; Douglas Duncan - The Man Who Discovered Canadian Painting; Mad Assault on Everest by Canadian Engineer Earl Denman (a Maclean's Flashback); How John Chester and Family are beating $20,000 in debts; The Older You Get, The Harder the Crooks go after Your Money; Old Books - The Fastest-Growing Cult on the Cultural Front; Old (Antiquarian) Books - The Fastest Growing Cult on the Cultural Front - article with nice photos; Fantastic two-colour one-page photo ad for Ian and Sylvia feature in the next issue of Chatelaine; The Incredible Pace of Modern Master John O'Hara; Ottawa Should Build Schools for Bilingualism in every Province; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features youthful gang singing with player piano; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book