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2001340 pages. Colour and black and white reproductions of photos. Rolls of Honour. "8th May 2001 marked the 60th anniversary of the formation of 407 "Demon" Squadron RCAF at Thorney Island, Hampshire, England. In WWII the Demons were credited with four U-boat kills and seven U-boats damaged, plus many thousands of tons of enemy shipping sunk and damaged, but at the cost of the lives of 240 members." paraphrased from Foreword. Part One deals with the wartime years, 1941-1945 and is divided into anti-shipping operations and anti-submarine operations. Part Two deals with the post-war years, 1952-2000 and includes these chapters: The Squadron Reformed, The Lancaster Years, The Neptune Years, The Argus Years, The Aurora Years, plus ten informative appendices. Signed and inscribed in 2005 by C.O. P. Ormsby upon title page. Usual library markings. Binding intact.. Above-average external wear. A worthy copy of this informative and important history which includes 64 more pages than the 1996 edition. Book
193324 pages. Features: Tinkering with our Game Laws; A New Deal for America's Wild Water-Fowl; New Hampshire Field Trials; Vitamin A Deficiency in Dogs; Dog breeding information; Veterinary Q & A; Dog ads; Classy one-page photo ad for Radium Springs (near Albany in South Georgia) shows hunters and dog at work; Half-page illustrated ad for Lewis' Lye on front cover (keeps dogs free from disease); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Back cover loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
197864 pages. Features: Jack Chambers (1931-1978); Where have Venus, Moses and the Devil Gone?; Persona - the sculpture of Colette Whiten; Myth and Metamorphosis - Mary Frank; The Artist's Artist - Giorgio Morandi; Drawing in Painting - Paul Fournier and Tony Calzetta; Joy Hoyland in Mid-Career; A Kenneth Lochhead Retrospective; The Artist as Curator of the Imagination; Documenta 6 - Painting; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1991ix, 208 pages. Footnotes. Index. "A compelling yet tragic tale which, sadly, reflects little credit upon any of the participants." - dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
1917Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Secret Death - A weird story from Georgia in Russia, a wild land where might is right and feuds never end; Capturing Wild Animals Alive - how John Alfred Jordan captured a collection of African animals to be shipped to Zoos in Europe; A Tragedy in the Clouds - Frenchmen Sergeant Legendre and Adjutant Casale of the French Aviation Service bring down their eighth German plane piloted by a German named Haspel; Six Weeks Among the Buddhas - Part I - Juliet Bredon and her husband toured temples in China; The Man Who Found Himself - munitions worker William Francis claims to have entirely lost his memory for two years after an injury; Across Germany to Freedom - Part I - French soldiers Georges Prieur and Tristan du Tartre escape from Hammelburg camp in Bavaria; When the Dam Burst - a 'Santa Rosa' (South American monsoon) causes a night of terror at the harbour works of the 'Obras del Nuevo Puerto de la Capital' in Argentina; Almost a Tragedy - forgetful nearly results in multiple deaths; Between the Devil and the Deep - a French fishing-smack sinks a German submarine - article with photos; When the Fuses Spluttered - Roy Norton, F.R.G.S. escapes death in a mine by seconds; Buried Alive - injury while filming 'The Jarvis Case'; A Fight With An Ostrich - the awful plight of engineer Geo. Daws who tried to cross an ostrich 'camp' during their breeding season; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Sign at the Gallows, The Law & The Lackey; The Pirates of the 'Flowery Land' - mutiny and murder on the high seas between London and Singapore; The Hidden City - Tulum is located in the thick jungle of the Yucatan; Bethlehem's Distressing Christmas Scenes - festive occasion marred by petty quarrels of rival sects;The Last of the Bandits - The Poe-Hart Gang terrorizes Oklahoma by robbing banks and fighting sheriff's posses; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2], 92-176, 9-24 [ads]. Covers partially loose. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1923Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1924Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1926Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Paying the Price - How Nature in Canada's far north has extracted a toll on trappers - with photos; Behind the Himalayas - Part I - Photo-illustrated account of exploration of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River; The Rubber-Smugglers of Malaya - An amusing story; The Outlaw Elephant - Rogue elephant "George" ravaged the Travancore district of India from 1920 to 1925, killing many and doing immense damage - article with photos; My Desert Dash to Damascus - A decidedly exciting journey across the Syrian Desert amidst hostile devil worshippers and Bedouin - with interesting photos; "Blue-Water Andy" - Did he spot the wreck of an ancient Spanish treasure-galleon on some nameless island? ; Across Africa With a Camera - M.A. Wetherell's photo-illustrated account of his trans-African journey; The Disappearing Lion - An amusing tale from Australia; The Kahuna's Power - A strange little story of native "magic" in Hawaii; A Pearler in the Philippines - F.D. Burdett describes his exciting experiences on pearling trips among the Philippine Islands; The Haunted Camp - The disappearance of a white man in Africa, and the startling events that followed; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part IV - Jack McLaren spent eight years on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula. 84 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1915No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty untrimmed page edges and bumping to upper corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with small stains to rear and small piece missing from top of sunned spine. 270pp. The Devil's temptation of Saint Anthony. One of 625 copies of a Limited Edition. A translation into English by Rene Francis from the 1849-1856 manuscripts edited by Louis Bertrand, New edition illustrated with twelve drawings by Katherine Low.
1825Cm. 20, mezza pelle verde con tassello e fregi in oro a dorso, pag. XL, 318 più antiporta inciso in rame. Interessante opera di demonologia, sulle testimonianze dei rapporti tra demoni e umani. Lieve foxing ma ottimo esemplare in solida legatura. Non in Graesse, Brunet ne' Rosenthal.
1971Collana: La Gaja Scienza, febbraio 1971. Traduzione di Annalisa Mancioli. Titolo originale: Topsy and Evil. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
1544[Raro-Vizi-Demonio-Matrimonio] (cm.16) buona piena pergamena originale semirigida con tracce di lacci (uno conservato) titolo al dorso calligrafato.-- cc. 180 nn. l' ultima è bianca. Al frontis marca tipografica con il motto "Festina Lente" all' inizio piccolo capolettera figurato a fondo nero, piccoli fregi ed legante carattere rotondo minuscolo. Opera rara, curiosa e varie volte ristampata come riferisce Graesse. Elenca in 134 capitoli vari vizi e facoltà umane e ne commenta i contenuti: Demonio, angeli, matrimonio, idolatria, spiriti, omicidio, lussuria, morte ecc. Manca a tutta la bibliografia consultata compreso Adams, Bm. Stc. German, Choix, Brunet e vari cataloghi di religione come Rosenthal n° 202 e Olschki Cat. 157 "Theology". Solo Graesse elenca 4 edizioni, la più antica del 1533 ma non siamo riusciti a determinare quale fosse la prima edizione. Alcune carte con fori di tarlo ben restaurati, frontis con antica firma cassata, ipercettibili tracce di alone ma esemplare bello nitido e genuino. Secondo il Census Iccu Sbn. questa edizione di Colonia non è posseduta da nessuna biblioteca italiana. Cfr. Graesse III 206 per altre edizioni.[f52] Libro
1775In-4°: pp. LXXXIV. Legatura in cartonato.
2008Hardcover Like New. Pls. allow within 20 - 25 business days delivery time as this is a new relase book from publishers.
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1997Best.-Nr. 15836Penguin 1997 240 pages 12 7x2 032x19 558cm. 1997. Broché. 240 pages.
1947Best.-Nr. 19407Flammarion 1947 279 pages in8. 1947. reliure demi chagrin dos à nerfs. 279 pages.
Best.-Nr. AJ4205Editions Autrement Broché, état correct. Plis sur couverture, tâche sur page de titre et suivante ,légèrement élimée en tranche, interieur propre
1967Best.-Nr. 21084Editions Eric Losfeld 1967. Enorme in-4 cartonnage éditeur non paginé au format 32,5 x 5 x 25 cm. Cartonnage éditeur bordeaux. Plats et dos muet en très bel état général. Intérieur frais, malgré de très rares rousseurs éparses. Complet de la superbe jaquette avec photos qui présente de petits frottis aux coins et aux bords. Dessins par Nicolas Devil, Philippe Druillet ( très présent ), Barbara Girard, Merri, Nicolas Kapnist, etc, sur scénario de Jean Rollin. Liste et photos des collaborateurs en pages de garde. 4ème plat de la jaquette avec photo de " Xam ". Rarissime édition originale en superbe état général de cette célèbre bande dessinée " Psychédélique ". Manque, comme toujours, la loupe.
Best.-Nr. 31349Actuel n° 28 de février 1973. In-8 agrafé de 96 pages au format 27 x 21 cm. Belles couvertures illustrées par Robert Crumb et Richard Corben. Plats et intérieur frais . Rare numéro spécial, entiérement consacré au Comix, avec BD de Richard Corben, Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Nicolas Devil, Clay Wilson, etc. Interview inédite de Jean-Paul Sartre. Nouvelles et textes inédits sur Captain Beefheart, l'Underground, etc. Nombreuses participations et articles avec illustrations et photographies. Bel état général. Rare édition originale.
Best.-Nr. 7220Genève, Verve, 1946, 1 br., couverture illustrée. in-8 de 119 pp., titre illustré.
Best.-Nr. 12407Paris, Desroches, 1971, 1 br., couverture illustrée. in-8 de de 61 pp., envoi autographe, signé de l'auteur ;
Best.-Nr. 15829Paris, Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, 1895, 1 br. in-8 de (4)-330 pp. ;
