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201828 pages. Features: Crooks vs. Nature; Party Crashers; Cole's Quake Mech Sramble!; Lego Technic Smash-Up!; Join Forces to Build - Star Wars centerfold; Dream Castle!; Kryptonite Prison!; Cool Creations Wall of Fame; Park Play Day; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1918Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part II of the first true account of the exploits of the world's most outlaws, The Dalton Gang, written by their only survivor, Emmett Dalton; A Concert Party In the Desert - The "Roosters" Concert Party entertain troops in the Sinai Desert (with photos); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part II of Fanny and William Workman's exploration of the Himalayas (with photos); The Cruise of the Cowboys - several men are Shanghaied at San Francisco but manage to escape on a small boat and get their revenge; The Hundredth Chance - illicit whisky distillers create major problems for Custom-house officer Alan Temple; ; Our Adventures in Sicily - travel adventures of Penelope and her husband; Boss of the Lava Walls - fight for dominance between two wallaroos; Children's Fight With a Panther - Anthony Farrer and Doreen Ashburnham, both of Cowichan Lake, British Columbia, fight off a panther and are awarded the Albert Medal by the King; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part III - Eva Jordan continues her 4,000 mile trek through the great Equatorial Forest of Central Africa; The Mad Druid - a young French girl, Aline Etieve, falls into the hands of a madman thinking himself to be the last Druid, and plotting to offer her as a human sacrifice; The Romance of Platinum-Mining - Ashmore Russan provides a striking account of this much-sought metal - article with photos of related activity on the Rio Opogodo, including a large dredge under construction; My Wanderings Through Texas - a breezy and fascinating pen-picture of a tramp through Texas; How We Outwitted the Bandits - two hostages eventually escape from bandits in Patagonia, South America; Wonders of British Guinana - E.C. Stembridge is enthusiastic over the future of this, the only possession of Great Britain on the mainland of South America; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1922Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Roy Gardner - Californian Bandit Extraordinary; Exploring the Salton Sea - an exploration by two motorcyclists - article with photos; Across Remote Yunnan - Part I - account of a journey through the little-known region where China and Tibet meet - article with photos; Besieged by Man-Eating Lions - a woman's terrible ordeal in East Africa; Shipwrecked in Bering Sea - Thrilling story of the passengers and crew of a schooner wrecked in the icy Bering Sea; Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part I - the United States tries to preserve peace in the Negro Republic of Dominica in 1906-7; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part III - French troops are overwhelmed by Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; American Crooks in Europe - sketches of the meteoric careers of Walter Sheridan, Max Shinburn and Adam Worth; The Decoy Telegram - an engineer's narrow escape from death; A Model Town Made From Corks - model town built by M. Jean Bertrand, musical director at Maskelyne's Theatre of Mysteries, London; The Limits of the Law - an illiterate Justice of the Peace is called on to administer justice in Mink Lake, in the Lesser Slave Lake district; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1915Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. 96 pages plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: Nice ad by Spiegel, May, Stern Co. inside front cover; The Johannesburg Motor Bandits - One of the most remarkable episodes in the annals of crime in South Africa - the wholesale murder of Police Officers - Robert Ward Jackson, John Maxim, Carl Neze - many great photos; Crapsey, the Sky-Worker - he loses his fear of working at heights; Some Adventurous Small-craft Voyages as told by Captain J.A. Nilsson who made a specialty of taking tiny vessels across the oceans - with photos; What Happened on the Omul - Walter Muston, his wife and a little girl experience a disaster while mountain climbing in the Carpathians - with many photos; "Pussy" - Mariner John William Nylander relates what happened when he saved two kittens from their watery graves and brought them aboard; Our Travels in Safari-Land/British East Africa - IV - by Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Cecil-Porth) - many great photos; Out of a Death Trap - British Missionary Rev. A. Forder rescues a party of Americans from the fierce Bedouin Arabs of Moab - with many excellent photos; The Majesty of the Law - Prohibition laws result in ludicrous events in Kansas; The Wanderings of an Entertainer - Mr. Robert Ganthony; Nice Columbia Grafonola ad; Nice color ad for Vose player pianos on back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1928Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Baptism of Fire - A young British Columbia Forest Service Ranger helps to save 100 people trapped in a logging camp from forest fire; Through Arctic Seas - Part II - Wonderful photos accompany this continuation of the cruise of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life; "Kruger's Millions" - ;A diagram is found which may lead to an enormous quantity of gold hidden by President Kruger after the Boer War; How We Fought the Famine - In East Africa Captain Anthony Parsons needed meat to trade to the Angonis for flour for his "boys"; Through Spain in Disguise - Part VI - Count and Countess Malmignati sing and dance their way across Spain disguised as Arab beggars; Photo of river gardens in Siam; The Adventures of a "Sand-Hog" - Photos of brutal subterranean conditions accompany this story of the men who dig tunnels and tubes beneath the Hudson River, between New York and Jersey City; The Thief Who Lost His "Luck" - A Chinese burglar lucks out; "Crawling Cavern" - Close call for Mark Howard in the spring of 1907 while on outpost duty on the coast of Mindanao; Across Central Africa from East to West - Part I - Major Frederick G. Jackson describes his 6,000 mile trans-African trek - with nice photos; The "Phantom Bandits" - In 1923 Joe Tanko and Floyd Hall escaped from San Quentin Prison and terrorized the countryside before they were finally subdued - includes facsimile of their wanted poster; The Mystery Man of Arnhem's Land - a man goes wrong so flees to the wilds, intent on earning enough to make restitution, but ends up in a lonely grave on the Australian coast; The Hakim - A doctor in Kenya includes fortune-telling in his treatment of disease. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Bits of peripheral nibbling, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1991No 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.
1979No 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.
1954426pp 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.
1883rif. 7630Librairie des bibliophiles 1883 299 pages in8. 1883. reliure editeur demi basane à coins. 299 pages. Un jeune botaniste allemand (ou français selon les sources) est envoyé en mission en Grèce et se fait enlever avec deux Anglaises par le chef de bandits Hadji-Stavros dit le "Roi des montagnes". Le roman publié en 1856 mêle aventure palpitante satire sociale et humour pour dénoncer la collusion entre brigands et autorités politiques dans la Grèce post-indépendance
1955rif. 8111Editions Garnier 1955 406-408 pages in8. 1955. broché. 2 volume(s). 406-408 pages. L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane est un roman picaresque français d'Alain-René Lesage publié entre 1715 et 1735. Il raconte à la première personne les aventures chaotiques et les pérégrinations de Gil Blas un jeune homme issu d'un milieu modeste qui quitte la maison familiale à 17 ans pour étudier. Son itinéraire marqué par des rencontres avec des brigands le service de divers maîtres et une ascension sociale non linéaire dans l'Espagne des années 1610-1640 illustre la complexité de la condition humaine et offre une satire des mœurs de l'époque
1867rif. 8243Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie 1867 301 pages in8. 1867. reliure editeur demi basane. 301 pages. Publié en 1867 ce roman d'aventures et de satire sociale d'Edmond About suit un jeune botaniste français en mission en Grèce vers 1850. Il se retrouve mêlé aux agissements d'Hadji-Stavros un dangereux chef de bande qui se fait appeler le 'Roi des montagnes' dans une histoire pleine de rebondissements d'humour et d'ironie
1930rif. 10614ÉDITIONS PIERRE ROGER 1930 259 pages in8. 1930. broché. 259 pages. Récit autobiographique du Dr Harvey J. Howard professeur d'ophtalmologie au Peking Union Medical College qui relate sa captivité de dix semaines en 1925-1926 avec son fils de onze ans après avoir été enlevé par des bandits chinois (les "Bandits de la Rivière du Dragon Noir") en Mandchourie. Le livre décrit ses expériences et impressions durant cette période
1982rif. 10669Puf 1982 261 pages in8. 1982. broché. 261 pages. Cet ouvrage de Michel Guérin propose une lecture politique des grands romans de Stendhal. L'auteur examine comment la dimension politique chez Stendhal se manifeste de manière inattendue non pas dans des idées politiques explicites mais dans des domaines comme le bonheur l'amour la rue les bureaux et la mort à travers l'étude de l'artiste au travail
1993rif. 11776Sergio bonelli editore 1993 114 pages collection tex #146. in8. 1993. broché. 114 pages. Une communauté de Quakers souhaite émigrer de l'Utah vers la Californie sans rejoindre d'autres convois mais une bande de malfaiteurs dirigée par l'homme d'affaires Goldfield s'est arrogé le droit d'organiser toutes les caravanes partant de Cedar City dans le but de les dépouiller
1994rif. 11778Sergio bonelli editore 1994 114 pages collection tex #401. in8. 1994. broché. 114 pages.
1868rif. 12158Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie 1868 301 pages in12. 1868. reliure éditeur demi chagrin dos à nerfs. 301 pages. Le Roi des montagnes est un roman satirique d'Edmond About publié en 1868. Il raconte l'enlèvement d'un jeune botaniste allemand par le chef de brigands Hadji-Stavros en Grèce et dénonce avec humour la collusion entre bandits et autorités politiques ridiculisant le mythe romantique du héros bandit grec
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1969rif. 474621969 Editions Plon - 1969 - In-8 cartonnage éditeur avec sa jaquette illustrée - 315 pages
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