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1976Features: 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
196648 pages. Features: Nice colour Oldsmobile ad inside front cover; Join CUSO and spend a weekend with a real live duck-hunting maharajah; The West grows by Moose Jaw just sits and watches the trains go by; The Ship that Died of Shame - the HMCS Inch Arran; Bill Edwards of Oakville and his "Truth Paste" toothpaste; The Battle for the Warrendale Children; Harold Town Creates the Connoisseur's Christmas Tree - article with many colour photos; New Hustle in the Holy Land - it is polishing itself up to boost tourism; Nicholos Monsarrat - an interview before he left after living for fourteen years in Canada; Nightcap - it's TV with a leer and a plunging neckline, a busty, bawdy baby that nobody loves... just the viewers - article with photos; A Second Look at the "Facts" about Cancer and Smoking by the author of "You May Smoke"; George Feyer and his Comic Art (with a postage stamp theme); Eric Levinson claims Harry Houdini speaks to him from the grave - article with photos; Nice colour photo ad for Botany 500; What's New in Medicine; Nice ad for the 1967 Chrysler Newport; Bolens Diablo Rouge snowmobile ad; GM ad for their new energy absorving steering column; Code ad with Christmas theme on back cover. Average wear. 2"x2" piece missing from fore-edge of back cover. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
193184 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
2004216 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
194698 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
197550 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
197650 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
197850 pages. Features: Ad for 'Close Encounters' inside front cover; Beyond Reality - a look at film-makers' fascination with exploring themes that have no logical explanation; 'The Goodbye Girl' - photos; Article - Meeting Fellini; Article on recent Swedish cinema unshown in Britain; '1900' - photos; Reviews - 'Abba - the Movie', 'Candleshoe', 'The Crazies', 'The Deep', 'The Devil Probably', 'The Goodbye Girl', 'Hamlet', 'Jubilee', 'The Last Wave', 'Looking for Mr Goodbar', '1900', 'Spider-Man', 'Stroszek', 'Tomorrow Never Comes', 'Tracks', 'The 12 Tasks of Asterix'; Review of the book 'Dear Me' by Peter Ustinov; 'Skateboard' - photos; 'The Stud' - photos; 'Pressure' - photos; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1967Features: The Outstanding Canadians of 1966 - Chester Ronning, Harold Firby, Maurice Strong, Pierre Dupuy, Mr. Justice John Howard Sissons, Daniel Johnson, Walter Susskind; School is for Nancy, by June Callwood; Why our schools don't educate; Freson's Canada - colour photos; We are the Echo of Washington - by David Lewis; A Stranger in My Own Land - by Solange Chaput Rolland; Here's Looking at Us - Expo '67 approaches; Morden, Manitoba warms up for Canada's Centennial; How to sell a little country BIG!, by Alexander Ross; If you can't beat the horses, why is Mike Kolton so Rich?; Communication satellite could soon make possible live telecasts from the Vietnam war; Two-colour ad for a bizarre Bolens 'Diablo Rouge' snowmobile. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1966Features: Gorgeous red photo ad for the 1967 Buick Wildcat Custom Sport Coupe inside front cover; Eilat hopes to be a tourist Garden of Eden; Montreal - how a big town became a great city - many great colour photos with article; Photos and brief write-ups for: Ulysse Comtois; John David Molson; Michel Robichaud; Louis Tavan; Hubert Aquin; Monique Leyrac; The Idler's Guide to Montreal; Can Israel cope with war adn peace? - Blair Fraser in Tel Aviv; Powell Smily reveals the living hell he experienced through Blackmail - it cost him $25,000 before he wrote this story; England Swings? - maybe the tiny, mini-skirted minority, but Alan Edmonds found the country depressing and he's glad to be back home; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Enjoying Montreal without speaking French; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the Chevrolet Camaro; Ad for the Bolens snowmobile called the Diablo Rouge; Crown Zellerbach ad features a majestic black and white photo of their log-laden train passing over the Nanaimo River on it's way to the Ladysmith booming grounds; The NFB - rudderless in a sea of talent - according to Don Bell; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
194250 pages. Interesting WWII commentary by publisher Joseph Lister Rutledge; Secret Power in the Far Pacific - Japan and Germany planned a 'perfect crime'... Here's why it failed, and why Japan cannot win (written in light of the Pearl Harbour attack); Never From Valiant Men - story by I.A.R. Wylie; Mickey Rooney - The Life and Loves of Box-Office Man No. 1 - article with photos; Photo feature of Alexis Smith; I Saw it Happen in Manilla - Annalee Whitmore describes Japanese bombing in the Philippines; Digest version of "Storm", a novel by George Stewart; The Goodwill Tour of Don Florencio De La Pampa; 40-question boxing quiz by Jack Dempsey; The Battle of Detroit - Frederick L. Collins gives a first-hand report of high-scale allied arms manufacturing; Mississippi Belle - story by Clements Ripley; Kellogg's All-Bran cereal ad; Stalin - Devil or Genius?, by Emil Ludwig with black and white photos; To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; Girl Meets Girl, by Bubbles Schinasi; Pictures You Ought to See, by Howard Barnes; Nice colour ad for Mercury Mills, Limited, Hamilton, on back cover. Cover photo of young girl nurse bandaging arm of her playmate's arm. Average wear. Address label with hand-written correction on front cover. Inked postal date stamp atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality copy. Magazine
192892 pages. Lovely A.J. Casson painting of a bustling winter street on front cover Features: Great vintage photo ad for the New International "Special Delivery" Truck; Cream of Wheat ad claims it keeps pupils more alert; When Men Kill for Whisky - Millionaire Carling Breweries Executive Sam Low of Walkerville, Ontario was kidnapped by Gangsters for a $35k ransom - great photo-illustrated article about rum-running between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit; Brummagen Love, by Thelma Rudge; What I Learned from Europe, by Ontario Premier G. Howard Ferguson; Ottawa-Vancouver in 32 Hours - The Stirring Story of Canada's First Transcontinental Air Mail Flight - with photos; The Mystery of Number Nine, by Leslie McFarlane - Part 1; Louis Letourneau, Leo Dandurand and Joe Cattarinich - a colorful description of the adventures and achievements of The Three Musketeers of Modern Sport; Canada's Pictorial War Records - Adequate Housing Required, by W.W. Murray; Lights in the Windows, by Lillian Beynon Thomas; Full-colour colour reproduction of painting "Canada's Answer" by Norman Wilkinson, R.I.; The Work Cure - Vetcraft has brought health, happiness and economic being to hundreds of veterans; By Especial Corespondent, by Geoffrey Hewelcke; The Devil Guards His Own, by Victor Lauriston; Amazing photo of Malahat Drive on Vancouver Island - not much more than a couple of ruts through the forest; Nice ad for the De Soto Six, by Chrysler; "New York Now Huge Negro City - Black Invasion of Harlem"; Art Deco-style ad for the New Frigidaire refrigerator; Science Teaching Weather Control - Man has made enormous progress in combat with nature; Fantastic colour full-page ad for Packard cars; Great colour full-page ad for Wahl-Eversharp Pens, Pencils, Desk Sets; Wonderful full-page ad for Erector Set toys; Color ad for Chipso Laundry Soap; *Magnificent* Colour Centerfold ad for Parker Duofold Pens, Pencils and Duettes; Great full-page colour ad for Westclox Clocks; Ad for Mueller Faucets of Sarnia, Ontario; "Let the Laundry Do It" - a two-colour ad encouraging readers to let laundries clean their clothes; Nice Hupmobile Ad for their Century Six and Eight; Colour photo ad for Kodak cameras; Lovely colour full-page ad for Moirs Chocolates; Article about collector Walter McRaye; Buses Hurt British Railways - with photo of their first auto Pullman which allows passengers to sleep on the bus; The Road to Perth - short history article by Donald McNicol; Ad for the T-N Toilet which promises to 'banish embarrassment' because it is quiet; Colour ad for Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon; Two-Colour full-page Christmas-themed ad for Eveready flashlights and batteries; Home-Made Christmas Gifts; Short write-up and photo of Elizabeth Styring Nutt; Rug Magic, by Mary Agnes Pease; Stewart Warner radio ad; Business Article - "Adventuring in Speculation is Highly Specialized Business"; Colour ad fo Sun-Maid Puffed seeded Muscat Raisins inside back cover. Average wear to textblock. Crossword completed on page 83 otherwise unmarked. Chips and openings along cover fold. Covers loose as one but present. Back cover in rough shape. Particularly wonderful content to go with the excellent front cover artwork. Book
197964 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Trappers We Were; Puijeup unipkausinga (A story about seals); Memories of L'anse au Diable; Labrador crafts - Birth Braiding; Joseph Michelin (1845-1940); Freeman Saunders; My Mother; Short Stuff; Labrador dogs; Nanualuk (The White Bear); The Bread; Labrador Gallery - great portrait of David Martin of Cartwright in his WWI garb. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1980108 pages. Twelve pages of fantastic colour photos of the boys. Includes sheet music for songs from Van Halen's first two albums: Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love; Atomic Punk; Feel Your Love Tonight; Ice Cream Man; I'm The One; Jamie's Cryin'; Little Dreamer; On Fire; Runnin' With the Devil; You Really Got Me; Beautiful Girls; Bottoms Up!; Dance The Night Away; D.O.A.; Light Up the Sky; Outta Love Again; Somebody Get Me a Doctor; Spanish Fly; Women in Love; Your're No Good. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy of this sensational Van Halen memento from the days when they took the rock world by storm. Book
1974100 pages. Features: Fantastic Chrysler/Plymouth color-photo 4-panel ad inside front cover features the Scamp, Valiant Brougham and Gold Duster; State of the President (Richard Nixon); Electronic Vision - research aims for artificial sight; Film "The Exorcist" leads to frenzy of interest in exorcisms; Pending coalminer strike in Britain; America's oil companies seen as villains in the energy squeeze; Dr. Thomas E. Deiker argues for gun control; Nice color-photo ad for the Ford Maverick; Watergate scandal - John Dean, H.R. Haldeman; Photo of President Nixon and family with Billy Graham; Illinois Democratic candidate Jimmy H. Martin; Murder of John Bambic in San Francisco; John Margulies steals art from his parents, Irwin and Paula; What Makes Syria Tick?; Communist Dissidents Ludvik Vaculik, Paul Goma, Wolf Biermann and Wladyslaw Bienkowski; Terror in Phnom Penh - Frenc Exodus; Eric Gairy of Grenada; Nice color ad for the Zenith Chromacolor II TV; Horrible photos of Sao Paulo highrise fire - with falling bodies; The Cooling of Fidel Castro; John F. Kennedy Jr. with Muhammad Ali; Color-photo GM centerfold ad features the memorable front grills of the 1974 Buick LeSabre, Pontiac grand Am, Oldsmobile Delta 88, Chevelle Laguna Type S-3 and Cadillac Coupe deVille Cabriolet; Bart Bradish has cerebral palsy; Chess article on Boris Spassky; Boxer Joe Frazier - The End of the Road; American Folk Art; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Increasing demand for kosher meals on Western Airlines; The Devil - a durable personifcation of evil; Cover photo of priest holding crucifix in exorcism-mode; Robert Goulet is featured in a Lauder's Scotch ad; Milton Friedman writes about volunteer armed force; Sam Goldwyn, 1881-1974; Colorful photo ad for Inteerwoven socks features a smiling Al Hirt; The development of flywheel power - most likely to come with the Advanced Concept Train; Color photo at for Twist lemon menthol cigarettes on back cover; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
198176 pages. Features: Nice Sears two-page ad features one-page color photo of a Norman Rockwell-like family meal; "The Farm" of Summertown, TN; Ronald Reagan's Tax Triumph - article with color photo of Reagan and his lieutenants celebrating; Tip O'Neill and his fleeced flock; Behind the William (Bill) Casey Flap; Passing of Master Builder Robert Moses; Nice color photo ad for the Fiat X1/9; Gay Power in Macho Houston; Death of Sailor Paul Trerice aboard the U.S.S. Ranger; A Fresh Look at the Mideast - New Role for the Palestinians in the Peace Process?; Fall of a Disloyalists - Alexander Haig's problems with ambassador Robert Neumann; Another Exile for Abolhassan Bani Sadr of Iran; Death of a Strongman - Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera of Panama; Tough Economic Times in Poland; Lurching Toward Cancun - The Third World; Nice color-photo centerfold ad for Pioneer Hi-Fi products; Charles and Diana - Royal Wedding - article with color photos; The Curse of the Hmong; Surgery on the Unborn - Rosa Skinner - Hydronephrosis; Cadillac Cimarron ad; Showdown at Diablo Canyon - embattled nuclear plant; Beer Brewer H. Heileman Brewing Co.; America's first private-sector rocket launch from the Matagorda Space Port; Adoptee James Grant George and his need for a bone marrow transplant; Photos of Mike Schmidt and Valenzuela; Kathy Whitworth - The Million-Dollar Lady; Middle Class Junkies - heroin has become a dangerous new kick; Nice Chrysler Cordoba (Corinthian Edition) ad; Gene Splicing On the Farm; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
194068 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo Oldsmobile ad inside front cover features yellow and blue models from 1940; Nice colour-photo ad for Singer sewing machines; News digest includes the Graf von Spee Affair, a new moral arithmetic, Nazi view of suicide, and United States of Europe?; Loafers' Loops (short story, part 1); The Perfect Crime (short story); Between the Devil and the Zuider Zee - photo-illustrated article - dispatch from the Dutch bordertown of Kerkrade; Lovers' Meeting (short story); In the Mother of Parliaments - photo-illustrated article on the pageantry of the people's rule in Britain for a thousand years; The Yearling (conclusion of story about a deer); Ice Age - nice article on figure skating which includes photo of Ralph McCreath and Norah McCarthy, king and queen of Canadian skaters; Great half-page blue and white Alka-Seltzer ad includes photos of Toronto Maple Leaf players Sweeney Schriner, "Turk" Broda, and Red Horner; Movie news and photos; Photos of Priscilla Lane in Lux soap ad; Photo of Miss Madeleine Hill in Woodbury soap ad; Corn Flakes ad includes photo of W.B. Cross, Tea Taster and Blender for Mellocup Tea; The House That Fancy Builds - interesting colour-photo-illustrated interior/home design article; Fashion illustrations; (Female) Figures Don't Lie; Excellent one-page photo-illustrated Pond's ad includes photos of Mrs. Robert L. Simpson of Unionville, and Air Hostess Miss June Rothe; Article on vitamins; Quotes from around the world; Gorgeous colour Coke ad inside back cover features server girl holding lunch tray; Back cover colour-illustrated ad for Graded Canadian Beef; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating wartime issue. Book
200396 pages. Features: Playing with stripes; Swatch collection #34; Stripe up the band; Rainbow rugs; The Buchanan tartan for a blanket; Confetti napkins; wear stripes and have a devil of a good time; Schubert's serenade - a striped, brushed shawl; Three-color shawl; Warp-faced band with weft fringe on a rigid-heddle loom; Medieval Egypto-Islamic textiles - a study of two examples; Beyond Fibonacci - sequels to series; Teaching textile arts to high schoolers; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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
1924Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos; "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; The "High-Jackers" - an audacious gang of murderous bank robbers terrorize the Canadian prairies, beginning in Moosomin, SK and ending in Pipestone, MB; The Islands of the Mammoths - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia is the world's best hunting ground for the tusks and bones of the prehistoric mammoth - article with photos; The Three Angleteers - Part III - The troubles and adventures of three bored young men who leave England to travel in Europe; With Canoe and Camera - Capt. M.H. Albert explored Northern Ontario and Quebec to photograph wild animals - article with photos; The Mystery of Diablo Canon - The adventures of Senor Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Two photos of two-room house built in the trunk of an immense California redwood; The Terror of Rampur - two hunters undertake to kill a murderous tiger in India; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part I - Photo-illustrated article by Beatrice Grimshaw describing her trip up the Sepik river in New Guinea, where she met the local native peoples - who were none-too friendly; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part IV - A small English expedition sets out to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study their local peoples; Some Sensational Prison Escapes - Carl Otto and Jack Foster bust loose from Folsom Prison; and more. 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
