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1949Features Include: The Fruit Ranch Riddle - An interesting murder investigation at the Morrisey fruit ranch near Selah, Washington, USA; Interviewing an Eruption - Filming a volcano in the Belgian Congo; The "Lion-Men" of Ussure (Part 2) - The amazing story of Tanganyikans posing as "lion-men"; Exploring the "Great Diagonal" - an ambitious attempt to open the interior of Brazil; Stowaway to Spitzbergen; "Book-Keeper Wanted" - a colourful story from Western Australia; The Blind Malik - A Quaint Tale from Waziristan; The Dingo - An amusing story from the outback; The Bull-Gang - a young Englishman finds his way into a dirty pulp mill job in Canada; Ship's Guard; Ramaswamy's Pal - from 'the queer side of things' . Average to above-average wear. Some staining and prior owner's name upon back cover. Chips from spine. Decent copy. Magazine
1936Stories: Kultis Jim's Totem Pole (A droll story from Alaska, showing how a 'simple' Indian got the better of a bunch of astute business men and incidentally landed them in a most embarassing situation); My Adventures on Lundy; Trial by Ordeal; The Far East's Wild West; Murder Valley; Tough!; Illicit Ivory; The Shadow; Flood on the Alto Paraguay; The Soda-Siphon Bulb; The Timber Thieves; The Hunting of Wild Toby; Nigerian Ju-Ju; Queensland's First Hunt-Club. Average wear. Book
1951Features: Exploring the Green Hell - describes journeys to Brazil's Matto Grosso; Ning Wo Intervenes - reprint of a 1928 story involving a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; The Mystery of 'Lost Creek Mine' - sequel of a 1941 story of a lost gold mine in the wilds of British Columbia; The 'Man-Leopards of Malimbu - a Nigerian story; Among the Hairy Ainu of Japan; The Mosquito Net - another elephant hunting tale by Capt. B.B. Celliers; The Train Robbers - Indian Railway Thieves; The Accursed Island - landing on an uninhabited atoll to repair his schooner, the author made an amazing discovery; The Hirazawa Case - a strange mass murder/poisoning case in Japan; and more. Covers loose but present. Tape along backstrip. 2"x2" chunk missing from back cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
1957Features: The Voice of Afwi - the Toma tribe of Lower Guinea in Africa by Hugo Charteris (continued in a later issue); The Sabotaged Derelict - a tale from a Coast Guard officer on America's eastern seaboard; Little People of the Snows - Penguins (nice photos); Only Two Came Home - Fierce shark attacks documented; The Navy to the Rescue - an event which earned the author, Admiral Lord Mountevans, the only gold medal ever awarded by Lloyds; I was kidnapped by a runaway killer - Walter Boyd James in Penticton , British Columbia - the murder of Constable Geoffrye Ashton aboard the lake steamer S.S. Okanagan; The Curse of Kaimakam - troubles for the El Habr Arabs; Descent from Danger - Part II of "I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone" by Dennis Roberts; Treasure Islands of the Atlantic - where pirates buried their booty; The Manatee; and more. Backstrip open at places else clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
1953Features: The Chief's Daughter - a strange story related by a veteran Nigerian hunter - involves a ritual murder; The Mystery Man - an unusual story from a Merchant Navy Officer; Three Christmas Days - Reprint of a 1905 story related by a veteran Australian gold miner; Big Game Farming on the borders of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Double - A very strange sea story; Australia's Prison Trees; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the wilds of the Canadian Arctic (H. Stallworthy); Desert El Dorado - The Early History of Tennant's Creek in Australia; Our trip to Robbers Roost, a roadless wilderness in Nebraska; The Wailing Waterhole - the uncanny history of a Queensland Pool; and more. Chips from backstrip. Faint name atop front cover else unmarked. Back cover partially loose. Quality copy. Book
1952Features: The Vengeance Trial - An unusual murder in Ecuador; Our New Guinea Cruise - the natives of New Guinea have acquired a certain level of sophistication, with photos; Northland Mountaineering - ascending some difficult peaks in Norway, with nice photos; Carlson's Mermaid - a fantastic story from the Niger delta; The Hidden Gold Murders; Ghulam Haidar - Opium Peddler; Two Bad Men - tracking down two killers in America's wild North-West; A Wierd Quest - seances are held to help prospectors find gold in the U.S.; Behind the Door - a curious story from a Chief Officer in the Merchant Navy; Bush Nightmare - tough luck for a wanderer in the wilds of Queensland; Forewarned - a puzzling affair in Nigeria; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. 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
196768 pages. Features: Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Douglas Super DC-8; Vietnam war news; Colonel Chappie James; H. Rap Brown; Prostitutes return to Mid-Town Manhattan; Murder of Haight-Ashbury drug dealers; Time Essay - Corruption in Asia; Dustup at Dong Ha; Poland's Gomulka is not pleased with Israel; Poet Andrei Voznesensky; Revolt in Anguilla; Cool photo of George Harrison and his wife; photo of Jane Fonda and wrens; One-page Lennox ad features photos of Expo 67 pavillions using their equpment; Vitamin D and the Races of Man; Beware the Brown Recluse Spider; Pianist Friedrich Gulda; Self-healing steel; Saratoga Story - Marie Louise Schroeder Hosford Whitney; Conjugal visits at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, MS; Passing of Matthew R. Goodman, Floyd G. Hoard, Frank Callan Norris, William Philip Spratling, Hans Anton Kroll, Josh Bryan Lee, Willard Monroe Kiplinger and Vittoria Valletta; Cover story on yachting; Austin R. Zender of the Peter Paul candy empire; Interesting early article on the need for more computer programmers; Amazing photo of 30-horsepower wheat harvester in Oregon (1880); 4 pages of color photos of farm mechanization; Fashions from Jonathan Logan Inc.; Judy Garland makes her third comeback; Miss Yoko Ona and her 76-minute film of bare British buttocks called 'No. 4'; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1994315 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white photographic plates. The author, a former Mossad operative, makes many profoundly serious allegations against his former force. A gripping read. Moderate overall wear. Tight and square. Unmarked. Book
193458 pages. Features: Nice color cover illustration of Maestro at work; To the Ladies; Editorial discusses how the world is being reborn - for the better; Nostalgic comic-style one-page ad for Ingram's Shaving Cream; Destroyer - part 1 of a novel of love deeper than the sea; Movie Reviews - "Racketeers, Redskins, Romance"; The Brain Trust - Eminent idol-smasher H.L. Mencken wonders if it will do better today than it has in the past; Lux Toilet Soap photo ad features RKO-Radio stare Irene Dunne; On One Wheel - a revolution, a girl, and a perilous landing; Vox Pop; Twelve Months in the White House - by Anna Roosevelt Dall; Did John Jacob Astor Find Capt. Kidd's Riches? - a true story of pirate gold and the birth of a famous fortune; The Case of the Howling Dog (part 8) - Perry Mason stages a phantom murder; 10,000 families going back to the land; Transient Lady (part 11) - dangerous days and a girl's devotion; An Elephant Never Forgets - hilarious tale of an exile from Georgia and 5 tons of pachyderm wisdom; Rookies That Bloom in the Spring - tales of some colorful baseball players; Snake Dance (short story). Nice color back cover Coke ad features men in suits and soda fountain. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
198060 pages. Features: John Lennon cover photo; Winnipeg's Christmas Cheer Board; Gloomy view from Jim Gray of Canadian Hunter in Alberta's Oil Patch; Newspaper groups have become too large, too wealthy and too successful; Silo construction halts air travel to Chatham, Ontario's municipal airport - farmer Bob Walker does not agree to expropriation; Jeworski's general store near Regina does booming liquor business; UBC Professor Cyril Belshaw acquitted of murdering his wife; Jean Lesage - reluctant reformer; Poland marks time on a tightrope; El Salvador's Col. Adolfo Arnoldo Majano; Ballots and Bullets in Uganda; Ronald Reagan's new cabinet; Murder of Dr. Michael Halberstam by Bernard Welch; Oilmen keep up pressure on Ottawa's energy plan; The UTDC and its ALRT; Canada's prime interest rate hits 17%; The Legacy of John Lennon - photo-illlustrated article; Photo of figures skaters Baier and Eisler; Surgeons at Toronto General Hospital lose their viewing gallery in exchange for a new wing; Parapsychologists and the long road toward respectability; Pop Psychology is the newest gimmick on the AM Dial - with photo of Nadine Berger at work; Anne Murray in 'Save the Children' ad; Bruce Springsteen - photo-illustrated article; Book and movie reviews; and more. Neat 2"x1" clipping from bottom corner of front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1951Features include: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom - the story of nine survivors of the Japanese capture of Rabaul; The Land Sharks - Would-be settlers in Canada fall victim to wonderful stories from plausible strangers of how to 'get rich quick'; Man-Eater - A former member of the Burma Frontier Service describes the eventful career of a tiger; Vale of the Gods - a curious blend of immemorial ritual and popular merrymaking in the Northern Punjab; The Ju-Ju Doctor - The facts of an amazing occurence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - Author gets the scare of his live on an East Indian Island; The Sea-Dayaks of Borneo - Author finds the fromer head-hunters to be charming hosts; Section Man - A glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - A puzzling American murder case. Exterior heavily worn with chips missing from spine and front cover partially detached. Contents good. Pencilled name upon back cover. Magazine
199764 pages. Creepy cover photo of Canadian serial child-killer Clifford Olson and many of his victims; The Legacy of Jean Lesage; Cover Story - Killer Clifford Olson's Plea under section 745 of Criminal Code for early release from prison after only 15 years served; Olson's Prison World; Section 745 - Good Intentions, Mixed Results; Premier's conference - with photo of Lucien Bouchard at the microphone; Prairie farmers face crop loss; photo of Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason; India's Passage - facing weighty challenges on its 50th birthday; Police close in on suspects in the Air India tragedy; Abu Maizar and Lafi Khalil - terror suspects; KAL Flight 801 crash at Guam International Airport; Biting The Apple - Microsoft's Bill Gates bails out former Stave Jobs and Apple Computer; Body of Evidence - controversy over a corpse fuels the Bre-X scandal; British Columbia's Smelter of Success - $1.2 billion deal with Alcan at Kitimat; How First Nations self-rule can bring prosperity; Elvis reigns supreme 20 years after his death; Karen Douglas teaches English to Mexican labourers in Bowmanville; Murder in Cold Lake - Carol Meredith and Barclay MacFie; and more. Moderate wear. A clean and unmarked copy. Magazine
183356p. Unbound Good condition, closed tears in margins repaired
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ref. 52064aafBern, Wittib Wagner, 1765, kl. in-8vo, 77 S., Textseiten mit dekor. Linien-Umrahmung, Kopf- und Schlussvignette, vereinzelt äusserst leicht stockfleckig, im Allgemeinen frisch, 2 Bibl. Stempel (annulé) auf dem Titel, Halp-Pergament des 19. Jh., hs. Bibl.-Etikette auf Vorderdeckel.
1954144 pages. Features: Best-Mannered Children in the World - Eskimo children - nice color-photo-illustrated article; The Army's Tower of Babel - the new language-intelligence school at the Presidio in Monterey, California; They Came to See Him Clobbered - Boxer Art Aragon was the boxer fans loved to hate; The Truth About the "Sonic Boom" - photo-illustrated article how it's 'less dangerous than you might think"; I would Not Murder for the Soviets (part 3 of 4) - Ex-Captain Nikolai E. Khokhlov discloses the exact circumstances surrounding the downfall of his boss, Lavrenti Beria, after Stalin's death; The Wilderness Cure for Delinquents - Twin Pines Ranch in California; Cold Can Save Your Life - fascinating medical article describes how ordinary ice water can be used in a process called hypothermia for better patient outcomes; Daintiest Beaneries in Town - great photo-illustrated article on Schrafft's restaurants; He'll Eat Anything That Swims - Food Scientist Edward Harvey manages Oregon's Seafoods Laboratory at Astoria. Fiction: Haunted Hotel; Salesman's Homecoming; Inexperienced Male; The Lady's Bodyguard; Hollywood Calling! (part 2 of 8); The Avenging Texans (conclusion). Ads: Sensational two-page color 1955 Mercury car ad; Nice one-page color ad for Chevrolet Trucks shows tanker in refinery; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for Rambler cars; Nice two-page color ad for 1955 Ford cars; Dennis the Menace cartoon is featured in a Cream of Wheat ad; Great two-page color-photo ad for 1955 Plymouth cars; Back cover color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features St. Bernard dog. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A worthy reference copy of this great issue. Magazine
196156 pages. Features: Strip-teaser Cupcake Cassidy; Are You a Romantic Match-Maker?; A Canadian Looks at Hiroshima; How to save $300 at the Supermarket; How Horse Trainers Beat the Races - Johnny Starr; Women Hollywood Stars Hate; Tales of Canada's Map-Maker - David Thompson; Murder by Winnipeg's Jilted Gigolo - "Amorous" Albert Victor Westgate; How Sewing Stretches Your Wardrobe; It's Normal to be a bit Neurotic; Connie Stevens - "Hawaiian Eye"; Plight of our Common-Law Wives; August is Sandwich Time; The Forbes Family of Windsor Camps for Fun; Gordon Sinclair hunts for Tiger in India; Fantastic photo of the Ontario Tug-of-War Team of 1893 from Zorra Township which won the world championship at the Chicago World Fair in 1893; and more. Ads: Confederation Life one-page ad showing poverty-stricken man who gambled he wouldn't live to 65; Half-page ad for the CNE; Beautiful young lady in one-page colour-photo ad for Pepsi; Nice one-page photo ad for General Motors in Canada features George Martin fly fishing; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features young couple on beach being struck by wave. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound and complete copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
1824ref. BB056Murder Trial Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution. By George Henry Jones. London 1824. With 3 landscapes 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel. 8vo iv344pp; half-leather marbled boards spine label "Thurtell's Trial" lightly scuffed very solid and clean throughout. First edition. William Weare was a solicitor of Lyon's Inn and a gambler. His killer was John Thurtell 1794–1824 a sports promoter amateur boxer a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the Mayor of Norwich. Thurtell owed Weare a gambling debt of £300 an immense sum at the time equivalent to £24500 in 20151. Thurtell believed Weare had cheated him of the money. Whatever the truth when Weare demanded payment Thurtell murdered him rather than pay up. He invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt a tavern landlord and William Probert a former convict and alcohol merchant – for a weekend of gambling at Probert's cottage at the site of Oaks Close off Gills Hill Lane subsequently popularly known as Murder Lane23 Radlett. On 24 October 1823 they journeyed from London in Thurtell's horse-drawn gig but Weare was killed in a dark lane just short of their destination. The gruesome and callous events created such public sensation that it attracted numerous ballads and theatre shows at the time along with comment by the essayist Babington Macaulay and the crime used variously in the work of Sir Walter Scott William Hazllitt and Robert Louis Stevenson. After the trial one of the accused was hanged and another Joseph Hunt was transported to Botany Bay Australia. Charles Joseph Hullmandel 1789–1850 studied art and printmaking and is considered amongst the most important figures in the development of British lithography. He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft color washes which enabled the reproduction of Romantic landscape paintings of the type made popular by J. M. W. Turner. Hullmandel's essay The Art of Drawing on Stone 1824 was an important handbook of lithography issued the same year as this account of the trial.
1824ref. BB056Murder Trial Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution. By George Henry Jones. London 1824. With 3 landscapes 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel. 8vo iv344pp; half-leather marbled boards spine label "Thurtell's Trial" lightly scuffed very solid and clean throughout. First edition. William Weare was a solicitor of Lyon's Inn and a gambler. His killer was John Thurtell 1794–1824 a sports promoter amateur boxer a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the Mayor of Norwich. Thurtell owed Weare a gambling debt of £300 an immense sum at the time equivalent to £24500 in 20151. Thurtell believed Weare had cheated him of the money. Whatever the truth when Weare demanded payment Thurtell murdered him rather than pay up. He invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt a tavern landlord and William Probert a former convict and alcohol merchant – for a weekend of gambling at Probert's cottage at the site of Oaks Close off Gills Hill Lane subsequently popularly known as Murder Lane23 Radlett. On 24 October 1823 they journeyed from London in Thurtell's horse-drawn gig but Weare was killed in a dark lane just short of their destination. The gruesome and callous events created such public sensation that it attracted numerous ballads and theatre shows at the time along with comment by the essayist Babington Macaulay and the crime used variously in the work of Sir Walter Scott William Hazllitt and Robert Louis Stevenson. After the trial one of the accused was hanged and another Joseph Hunt was transported to Botany Bay Australia. Charles Joseph Hullmandel 1789–1850 studied art and printmaking and is considered amongst the most important figures in the development of British lithography. He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft color washes which enabled the reproduction of Romantic landscape paintings of the type made popular by J. M. W. Turner. Hullmandel's essay The Art of Drawing on Stone 1824 was an important handbook of lithography issued the same year as this account of the trial. books
1832ref. 15792 original printed text broadsides. "An Account of the Gibbeting of Wm Jobling at Jarrow Slake On Monday August 6th 1832 pursuant to his Sentence for the Murder of Nicholas Fairles Esq resident Magistrate of South Shields" Printed by W. Boag of Newcastle size approx. 14 1/4" x 6 3/4" and "The Particulars of the Gibbet being stole away from Jarrow Slake Late on Friday Night or early on Saturday Morning September 1st 1832 by some Persons yet unknown" Printed by Douglas and Kent of Newcastle size approx. 14 3/4" x 4 3/8". Affixed to the upper corners to thin cream card with brown thick board mounts. Good complete condition browned with evidence of previous horizontal folds. Previous auction lot details affixed to rear board. Two rare original accounts of the hanging pitching and gibbeting of William Jobling a striking pitman who had been convicted as accomplice in the murder of Nicholas Fairles on the 11th June 1832. And of the subsequent disappearance of his body reputedly removed by Jobling's friends risking seven years transportation. The practise of gibbeting was abolished shortly afterwards in 1834. Please Note : International postage costs outside the UK are likely to be more expensive than initially quoted by Biblio due to the oversize nature of this item W. Boag Printer & Douglas and Kent Printers
1954Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Front cover loose but present. Backstrip missing. Faint signature atop front cover. Binding intact. Book
196996 pages. Features: One-page ad for Sony high-fidelity tapedecks; Gerald LeDain and the Ledain Commission on drugs; Photo of Leonard Cohen as he works with Marshall McLuhan to name the Anik satellite; Harvesting trout in Manitoba; Royal Trust moves into the TD Center and a spacious 'leafy look' office layout; The politics of polarization in the US; Spiro Agnew's attack against the media bosses; Parades for peace and patriotism; Washington rally organized by Professor Charles Moser for Nixon's unsilent supporters; Arrest of Samuel Melville, George Demmerle and Jane Alpert after dynamite blasts in New York City; Edward Johnson and Willie Smith charged with murder and rape after the savage deaths of Hermine Rohs, Willy Rohs and Marilyn Rohs of St. Louis; The Apollo 12 mission; Nice one-page ad for Toronto's Royal York Hotel; The Start of SALT talks; Solzhenitsyn remains true to his credo; Election in India; Japan seeks return of Okinawa and Ryukyu island chain from U.S.; Victory for Marcos in the Philippines; Rare two-page colour-photo ad for Wardair - Canada's largest jet charter airline; The Suez Canal's Bleak Centennial; The New Feminists - Revolt against 'Sexism'; One-page ad for the ill-fated IOS, Investors Overseas Service, Ltd.; The art of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, America's greatests sculptor; Suddenly Washington, DC has no law to prevent doctors from performing abortions; Whole Earth Catalog; Fordham's administration building messed up; Passing of Donald J. McParland, Iskander Mirza, Ferdinand Eberstadt and Harry Scherman; Time to squirm for military contractors of the U.S. Navy; Price of Hershey Bar raised from 5 to 10 cents; Merger of Northweset Orient with Northeast airlines; Nickel shortage; Interesting 4-paragraph article on the price of gold; Ad for the Peugeot 504; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1950Black and white illustrations throughout. Features: Northland Patrol - RCMP Constable DeLisle's three-thousand-mile mid-winter sled-trip through the Canadian Arctic to investigate a murder; The Hoodoo Liner - A strange yarn from a bad-luck mail steamer; Jungle Racket - A curious story from the wilds of Malaya; The Lurking Terror - Australian launch skipper Peter Brooks catches a giant groper which menaced pearl divers - article with photo; The Maharajah's Elephant - what happened when a royal elephant died in India; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County, Illinois (part 2) - Bad Charlie Birger is finally put out of commission; The "Tom Thumb Circus" Affair - murder mystery against the bizarre background of a collection of performing animals and birds; Titus George's Trouble - a poltergeist story from a Ceylon tea estate; Jungle Pets (with photos - including lady riding a giraffe; They Prowl By Night - an encounter with a lion-man; Mrs. Brown's Good Cause - everything goes wrong at an Indian grand concert fundraiser; The Mountain of Fate - an attempt to scale Mount Kungwe in East Africa. 66 pages plus 22 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
