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Features: Demon in the Dark - Heinkel's 219 Owl; Flying Tiger - Myth, Legend, Reality? - An exclusive interview with General Robert Scott, Author of "God is My Co-Pilot"; New Combat Role for the F-111 - a magnificent fighter-bomber comes into its own. Art: Curtiss P-40E in R.A.F. markings; Grumman F-111B with Phoenix missiles Book
96 pages. Very attractively illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white. Chapters include: The History of Jigsaw Puzzles; Themes and Variations; Schoolmasters Puzzle Their Brains; Puzzle the Devil; Nature Puzzles; Going Places; Tell Old Tales; Pieces of History; The Puzzle is the Message; Puzzle Key Pictures; plus index. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Spray of small purple dots to bottom edge and bit of half-title page. Minor bit of adhevise on glossy back cover. A lovely gift for your special jigsaw puzzle afficionado. Very nice copy. Book
Features include: The Road to Wonderland - Construction of a highway and tunnel through a mountain wilderness in the South Island of New Zealand; Kamal Ram's Come-Back - tale of a stationmaster at Manijan, in northern Assam; Saga of the Snow-Dogs - An account of the Arctic Husky; The Hut-Tax Affair - a tale from Northern Nigeria; All Aboard For Adventure - Part I of a tale of 5 young Americans who set out on a sailboat for tropic seas; The Beneficent Bamboo; Dogsbody - an amusing incident involving a very junior officer aboard a British freighter; The Telephone Mine - Adventures of two South African prospectors in search of King Solomon's Mines; Our Leopard - A Kenyan farmer's story; Down Texas Way - the story of 3 youngsters, a gang of desperate escaped convicts, and a night alarm; Appointment with the Devil - An extraordinary story from Abyssinia; Illustrated in black and white. Covers and spine missing. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
Unpaginated. "His morality encompasses everything from aggressive criticism of corruption and hypocrisy to praise of new nations and of beautiful women." - Timothy Dunn in The Peace Bulletin. Recital handout laid in. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
Stories: Buried Treasure in Britain; The Last Voyage; Truscott Investigates; The Pennsylvania Witch Murder; The Unmasking of Gola Sing!; California Here I Come; Black Devil; What Happened to Jim Wood?; Shaitan Shadd; The Mutton Bird; Mechanically-Minded; Lost in a Swamp; The Kangaroo Hunters. Above-average wear. Book
Stories: My Transcontinental Trip; The Devil Ship; Beginners Luck; The Egyptian Bone; Worth Their Weight in Gold; The Club-Footed Terror; The Bluenose Skipper; Giraffe; Coronation Day; Lions and Their Ways; The Man with the Harp Again; Sammy the Sea Lion; Marooned in the Lost World. Above-average wear. Book
Stories: Burned Boats; The Man in the Fur Coat; Plot and Counter-Plot; The Leopard-Men; My Mexican Mine; African Ball Game; Head for Head; Through the Panama Jungles; Secret Service-Indian Pattern; The Rivals; The Diviner; The White Devil of Badu. Above-average wear. Book
Features: Francophone Forces Fight in Concert in Nouveau Caribou; The Okanagan - The Fight in the Depths of the Sea; Survival is Guaranteed - Yard Ferry Personnel (YFP); Military Photography; Corporal Bob Smith - karate expert; Three ex-servicemen help to put a man on the moon - D. Denton Clark, Jack Thompson and Harold Bolton; Maintenance goes to the devil (Maintenance System Working Group); A Victoria Cross (V.C.) Won Far from the Presence of the Enemy - Private Timothy O'Hea, Saturday 9 June, 1866. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: Cordell Bank - an underwater island; Preserving a common heritage - Treatment of marine artifacts; Tiger of the sea whips; Queen conch at the crossroads; Bermuda mystery waves; Garadiavolo - the devil monster hoax; Save the babies - Strategies of marine animals; there was a Moby Dick; The fuzzy sea butterfly. Sound copy. Book
Features: The Mine that Disappeared - a story related by a mining engineer about the Bocanegra Mine; Casshel's Escape - the story of Ernest Casshel, one of the few criminals to ever escape from the "North-West Mounted" (locale - Calgary, Alberta); On the trail of the Dinosaur - a recent expedition into the Colorado River section of the great American Desert, in the State of Arizona, claims to have found not only fossil tracks of the three-toed dinosaur, but a rock-carving of a dinosaur - a picture which man could not have made unless he had seen the reptile he attempted to portray - photos; Babes in a boat - a neophyte sailor and his wife set sail across the Pacific - Part II (conclusion); The Padded Room - one of the most amazing plots in the annals of the French police; Five Greenhorns in Canada - An amusing and illustrated account of the adventures of five inexperienced Englishmen who set forth to make homes for themselves in the Canadian wilderness; Lost in the heart of Peru - an explorer is abandoned by his guide in the upper reaches of the Amazon - part IV (conclusion); The Demon Lion of Bandari - Lion Hunt; At Grips in the Girders - an extraordinary battle; An Alligator-Hunter's Story in Mexico; Part IV of In Search of the Lost Oases - a desert trip from Sollum on the Mediterranean to El Obeid in the Sudan - many photos; The Phantom Reporter - a story from Canada's Pacific Coast by Charles Harrison Gibbons. Above-average wear. Faint owner's name atop front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Nothing loose. Decent copy of this broadly interesting issue. Book
Features: Baskets by John McQueen; How to buy a floor loom; Inside the Hangchow Silk Factory; Lynn Rothrock's Devil Dolls; and more. Sound copy. Prior owner's name on front cover. Magazine
Features: Ghost riders in the sky - tornadoes; Devil wind of the prairies - early tornados; Bonanza in the Mogollons; A county, a courthouse, a hanging - convicted murderer James Cason in Weatherford, Texas; The case of the brass nuggets; Kit Joy's gang - train robbers; Finding a hideout cave; horseplay was often fatal - Lima, Montana and Colonel William Boule; The Choctaw who lived like a king - Robert M. Jones; A long talk with Chuckawalla Wilson - years on the track of the Lost Padre Mine; The Wandering Winnebago - forced to move for 32 years; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Magazine
Features: 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
Features: The Wreck of the El Dorado - a four-masted lumber schooner enroute to Chile from Astoria, Oregon, goes down 700 miles from isloated Easter Island; Fear Saved My Life - a tiger brings death to the people of the Indian swampland; The Swallowing Swamp - a continuation of the Maufrais Saga in French Guiana; The Devil in the Cabin - a wolverine (carcajou) attacks a man in northern Canada; Caravan of Slaves - attempting to liberate a party of young natives destined for the slave market of Arabia; Jungle Takes the Air - wildlife escape mid-air over East Africa; Night of Horror - alone in the Papuan jungle; Curse of the Pagan Temples - a story from Burma; Isle of Devils - the natives were scourged by Elephantiasis; Gold on Their Backs - Man's desire for Otter fur almost drove them to extinction; Desert Ambush - a religious fanatic and his gang of ruthless henchmen brutally attacked the Colonial Administrator in the mountains of South West Arabia; and more. Small chips from backstrip. Average wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
Features: Hosstail's Small Talk - 'Me - An Old-Timer?'; The Soldier Who Never Quit - General Guy V. Henry; The Baron of Cananea - William E. Green; Through the Black Range - Solitide has returned to the Devil Mountains; Indian Women Warriors; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Wife of a Panhandle Sheriff - Sophia Connell; A Locked Door - memories from northern Colorado country; Mathew 'Bones' Hooks of Amarillo - a story of a black cowboy and white flowers; Where Schoolboys Packed Pistols - Tombstone; Rekindling Camp Fires - the exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca) Part III of the authentic narrative of sixty years in the Old West as Indian fighter, gold miner, cowboy, hunter and army scout; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: He Met the Devil; Pet Brown, Championship Wrestler; When Annie Oakley was Accused of Theft; Butch and the Fine & Dandy Kid; Bucketfull of Pay Dirt; A kind word for Lucius; Trails Grown Dim; The Deadly Garment; Death Hollow; Six Horses; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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: The saga of blue-eyed Herman Wol - Old Wolf Post; Indian Saddle Makers; Artist Paul Dyck collects Rare Indian Saddles; Somebody lost $3 million - The Islander goes down in Alaska's Inside Passage with gold on board; Loops and Swift Horses are Surer than Lead - Roping a Bear in Montana!; Twenty Years among our hostile Indians - J.Lee Humfreville; The Bane of Thieves - Dave Cook of Colorado; Jack Healy - the horse tamer; Meat's Meat - a starving man will eat anything; Powder River Expedition - General Patrick Connor and an ill-fated Sioux campaign in Wyoming; Saint or Devil - Padre Antonio Martinez of New Mexico; The Atoka Track - old Choctaw country; The Wanderers, by Rosie M. Norrish; In Defense of the 'old-time' coyote; The Backtracker - John Clarke of Comanche Texas tracks down his son's murderer; Wild Old Days!. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Christmas at the Rocky Point Crossing on the Missouri in Montana; Devil Sam's Gold; Russell Watercolors Found!; The Nightmare of Old Folsom Prison; Half-Million Dollar Stage Coach Robbery - Jacksonville, Oregon and stage driver Jack Montgomery who would only stop for a blown up road!; Perils of Desert Treasure Hunting... and how to survive them! - snakes, bugs, scorpions, Gila Monsters; Mystery of the Sansbois - a taste of the supernatural; Retribution at Fort McLane - the four versions of Mangus Colorado's death; The Aerial Liner for the Forty-niner! - this airline never got off the ground; Child Bride of a Buccaneer - Jean Lafitte's Captain; Lovely old postcards; Wild Old Days!; Missouri's Possible Fortune in Silver?; What Happened to Edna Wilson?. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
Features: Dad Fairbanks - Desert Man and his Nevada mule teams; Midnight Ride - Black Devil; Those Marrying Earp Men; Bond's Alley - Hillsboro, Texas; "Escorting' sheep from California to Montana; When Klondike Mike Broke Trail with a Dead Man - Tanana Valley, Alaska; The Day General E.S. Godfrey Got Lost; Wild Old Days!; A Dog Called Baldy; Blizzard on Hog Eye Mesa. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
84 pages. Features: Nice mini-golf cover illustration; Heinz vinegar and olive oil colour ad inside front cover; Nice vintage full-page photo ad for Clark's Tomato Ketchup features grocer behind counter speaking with lady customer dressed in contemporary fashion; Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J.Pierpont Morgan - discusses modern women - ad with photo of Miss Morgan as part of Pond's ad; Some Truths about Wheat - W.W. Swanson argues that there has been no "foolish overproduction of wheat"; Backstage at Ottawa; The Dark Road (fiction); Pigeons on Patrol - the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force pigeon service whose winged messengers have pulled many a pilot out of a tight hole; The Hyams Twins Case - Did the Hyams brothers kill Willie Wells in Toronto in 1893?; Barry's Clarissa (fiction); The Silver Scale (fiction); Patrick "Pat" Burns - One of the West's Dominant Business Figures; Bonds of Danger - the story of "Surge" the steelhead; Canadians in Hollywood - great article with five nice photos of stars Fifi Dorsay, Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer (photo of Pauline Garon appears later); The Devil in the Jade - a strange tale of mysterious Burma; The Western Mennonites - a graphic description of life among a group of New Canadians now in the throes of the conflict between orthodoxy and modernism - with photos; Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party cause stir in Britain; Nice full-page photo ad for Kraft cheese and Velveeta; Nice full-page ad for the Chrysler Eight De Luxe; Nice full-page illustrated ad for REO speed wagons and trucks; The Brome Lake Duck Farm of Knowlton, Quebec - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Swift's bacon; Great colour full-page art deco ad for Calay soap; Full-page illustrated ad for Studebaker Trucks features a 2-ton model for $1125; Nice photo ad for Spud cigarettes features a pilot lighting up; Fashionable full-page ad for Penmans new silk hosiery; Excellent full-page colour ad for International Harvester commemorates the centennial of the McCormick reaper; Nice colour full-page ad for Keen's mustard; Woodward's "Gripe Water" ad; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for Dodge Trucks shows row of trucks backed up to loading gates; Nice full-page two-colour ad for the book Murder at Belly Butte; Humour; Nice full-page ad for the Graham Prosperity Six car; Lux soap ad features photos of Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Mary Brian, Lillian Roth, and William Powell; Hot weather supper dishes - recipes; Nuce full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet; Outdoor furniture; Colour ad for Parker pens on back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
216 pages. Colour photography throughout. Text in English. Features: The Mundanthurai sanctuaryis Tamil Nadu's haven for wildlife enthusiasts; The Unknown Lucknow; Bharatpur's Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary; Devil Rays off the coast of the Maldives; Nagpur and Indian aviation achievements; Suits that make the man; Jijoy Chowdhury's evocative images of a winter morning in Kolkata; Kurukshetra is steeped in mythological grandeur; Sakinalu packs a punch for the Telegus; Sri Lanka's capital; Bentota Beach; Sigiriya Rock; Buddhist art; Sri Lankan cuisine; Tea and golf in Nuwara Eliya's green hills; Baila; Sri Lankan writers; Tamilian tales; Geoffrey Bawa's architectural style; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
98 pages. Fiction: See you in the movies; The black devil; Papa played the cello; Bright message; A drive through the country; The outraged heart (part 3 of 4). Articles: Trieste - Battleground for Peace - article with photos; Message to Americans; One Hungry World; I Am a Spastic; Call Them Mister; Brass Hats and Blue Pencils - the Stars & Stripes Army newspaper; Benedict Bogeaus' Movies; A Million Miles of Fishing - a vast tuna industry awaits development in the Pacific Islands; Nice color ad for GE radios; Great color ad for International diesel tractor pulling a scraper; Sweet color one-page ad for the Mercury (Woody) Station Wagon; Great color Coke ad shows magician at work; Union Pacific ad featuresYellowstone National Park; Nice color Chrysler ad; Wonderful photo ad for Columbia sun Glasses; Nice GMC truck ad features G.I. Joe in barber shop; Nice one-page Borden's ad featuring Elsie the Cow; Nice Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover features tobacco farmer; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Features: 1975 Moscow Film Festival; Woody Allen's 'Love and Death' - photos; The Seven Ages of March - part one of an appreciation of the work of Fredric March - article with photos; Ken Russell's 'Lisztomania' - six pages of photos; 'Overlord' - photos; 'The Romantic Engllishwoman' - photos; 'The Man From Hong Kong' - photos; 'Race with the Devil' - photos. Ad for: '3 Days of the Condor'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
50 pages. Features: Photo-illustrated interview of Rock Hudson; Los Angeles International Film Exposition 1976; Dangerous Games - Part One of 'The Golden Age of Terror' - some aspects of the Horror-Fantasy film from 1930 to 1936; 'Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billy Joe' - photos; Reviews - 'Robin and Marian', 'Poachers', 'All the President's Men', 'Benji', 'The Travelling Players', 'Dunderklumpen', 'The Slipper and the Rose', 'Order to Kill', 'Sky Riders', 'Moses', 'The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox', 'Peeper', 'Diamonds', 'Shout at the Devil'; ad for 'Conduct Unbecoming'; Photos on location with George Cosmatos's 'The Cassandra Crossing'; Review of 'From A to B & Back Again, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'; 'Vampyres' - photos; 'The Count of Monte Cristo' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine