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1961Features: I say prisons are a failure, by Hal Hollister; England, Ever England - the English village survives the storms of social revolution; Hot-Tempered Baltimore Oriole - Jim Gentile ; Glamour Treatment for the Mentally Ill - helping women in mental hospital; He's Got Artistic Drive; The Untold Stories of the Civil War - An Infidel's Sword - Johnnie Ring's high sense of duty converted the captain; Adventures of the Mind - The Revolution in Western Thought, by Huston Smith; The Face of America - Nose Job on Lincoln at Mount Rushmore. First page of advertising missing. Pages 65/66 missing. Page 67 loose but present. Above-average wear. Book
195352 pages. Features: Montie Montana - Artist with a Rope; Riding by Reasoning, Part IV; Barn of Tomorrow; Training a Reining Horse; The Comanches - Lords of the South Plains; Picked Up in the Rodeo Arena; Down the Straightaway; Yesterday's Horse Roundup; Cow Cuttin'; Vet's Corner; Bunkhouse Bookshelf; and more. Nice color-photo ad for Plasti-Aire washable Panama hats inside front cover. Great full-page ad inside back cover for the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo. Back cover ad for C.H. Hyer & Sons boots. Lee jeans ad on page 35 features L.E. Matheres, Jr. of Mathers Bros., Mason City, Il. Levi's jeans ad atop page 36. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
195372 pages. Features: Riding by Reasoning, Part III; Tops in Tailoring - well-dressed Cy Taillon, Casey Tibbs, and others, with photos; That Old Cotton Rope; Western Wear For Women; Popular Fallacies about Palominos; Just Like Dad's - a guide to pint-size western wear; Down the Straightaway; Picked up in the Rodeo Arena; Horses with Appaloosa spots; Vet's Corner; Tips on Care of Suede & Leather wear; Training the Roping Horse; Young Boys Operate Riding Stables; How to Take Better Horse Pictures; Wild Horse Man - Frank Robbins of Glenrock, Wyoming; Will Rodgers' Saddles - on dispaly in his memorial in Oklahoma; and more. Fantastic color "Friskie Babe" western shirt ad, by Tem-Tex, inside front cover. Nice Wrangler jeans ad on page 3. Fantastic full-page color ad for Fred Meuller, Inc. boots inside back cover. Ryon Panama hat ad on back cover. Lee jeans ad featuring Casey Tibbs on page 72. Levi's ad on page 43. Leddy Bros. boot ad. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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
1952Features: Land of Nightmare - grim events in the conflict between French Troops and the Viet Minh rebels in the jungles of Indo-China; Churinga - investigating a mysterious aboriginal 'grave'; Roles Reversed - a female climber aids her male guide to safety from a 9,000 foot peak; To the Forbidden City - Mecca, with photos; The "Devil-Leopard"; Jumbies - a tale from Trinidad; Japanese Inns - a westerner has his eyes opened; The Radio Record - one of the most fantastic cases involving the Boston police; Shore Gang - nerve-trying experiences for the author; A couple of Fools - demonstrates how easy it is to become bushed in Western Australia; What Happened at Makene - a very curious story from West Africa; and more. Above-average wear. Book
1952Features: Operation Sikh - An incident connected with the strange hide-and-seek war now being waged in the steamy jungles of Malaya; A Sailor on Horseback - Jack ashore takes to riding at his peril; Two Miracles - An Army officer's experience in the Western Desert during World War II; Phantom Fortune - the fascinating history of sundry vanished gold-mines in the wilds of British Columbia; Tasmania's Wild West; A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" - a cowboy's weird experience in the Badlands of Wyoming; The Figurehead - a story involving the windjammer L'Avenir; Gold Coast Ju-Ju; Box of Tricks - an isolated Army camp in Palestine is cursed with cunning Arab thieves; Personal-Column Crusoes - advice for prospective adventurers; Leturc's Island - Jacques Leturc took over an uninhabited South Sea Island and turned it into a profitable enterprise, only to encounter disaster; Desert Hitch-Hike - 1,200 miles across Northern Africa to catch a steamer; and more. Three inch opening at bottom of cover fold; Somewhat above-average wear. Small opening at top of backstrip. Sound copy. Book
1952Features: The Chief's Daughter - dark deeds in Africa; The Mystery Man - an unusual man who served in the Merchant Navy on the Western Ocean; Three Christmas Days - reprint of a 1905 story dealing with a series of coincidences in Australia; Big Game Farming on the border of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Trouble - a man gets in trouble because of his (dead) double; Australia's 'Prison Trees'; My Crocodile; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the Canadian Arctic; Desert El Dorado - Tennant's Creek, Australia and its early history; Our Trip to Robber's Roost - a roadless wilderness in Nebraska which provided haven for many outlaws in earlier years; The Wailing Waterhole - a tale from Australia's Outback; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Covers attached. Book
1954Features: Diamond Fever - an adventurous trip into little-known country on the Upper Mazeruni in British Guinana; The Coffin-Ship - reprint of a 1929 story from Malaya dealing with a murderous Chinese secret society, a steamer and more; Saharan Adventure - a memorable journey through little known areas; Buster Burton - the amazing career of a most remerkable character known to the police of 5 continents; The Perfidious Plumber - a tale from Southern Rhodesia; The Captain's Night Out - this captain was the first to get off his ship; Kabul Bazaar - life in Afghanistan - photos; Diamonds for the Picking! - on the inhospitable western coast of South Africa lies Tom Tiddler's Ground; Meat for the Pot - curare, the deadly dart-poison of the South American Indians; The Seymour "Fish Day" - Seymor, Texas locks up for a day and goes fishing!; and more. Average wear. Tears and chipping to fore-edge of front cover. Water stains to upper corner of opening pages. Overall, a decent copy. Book
1955Features: Terror of the Zambezi Swamps - Crocodiles Story; Dance of the Pygmies; Target Lightship - "Twixt Sea and Sand," Continued - the story of a lightshipman who helped to man the North Goodwin vessel; The Secret of the Reef - a treasure hunt on the coast of Western Australia; Riding in Rough Waters - a canoeist in Britain's Backwaters; Short Cut - a Sierra Leone Railroad Tale; Sutty of the Railroad - a tale from the Kootenays in British Columbia; Sons of the Snake - the bushmen of Southwest Africa; Tin-Tacks - the author and his wife are captured by Japanese Pirates; The Rogue Male of Kazimvimba - an elephant adventure; Australia's Lonely People - Lighthousemen; Bypaths to Adventure - the third instalment of the gripping story of world traveller; and more. Average wear. Price adjusted in ink upon front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1954Features: North Sea Gale - coast sailors face perils just as great as those that menace the deap-sea men; The Mystery of the Dutch ship "Gilt Dragon" - a quest for long-lost wealth; Tasmanian Experiment - searching for valuable minerals; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story from Western Australia; Gun-Tied - an odd little story from Ceylon; High Adventure in Yugoslavia - adventure in the Julian Alps by Tom Weir; Big Game Means Easy Money - It's tough to keep poachers in check with high prices offered for ivory and horn; With a Bicycle in Babylonia - great photos; Samandar Khan - an amusing account of a personal servant in India; Australia's "Pedal Radio" - operating a radio with bicycle pedals in Australia; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1954Features: Captain Jan's Christmas-Tree - as told by the former captain of a well-known British liner; Lone Wolf - Roy Gardner, a remarkable American criminal; Our Snake-Hunt - An amusing excursion into the West African bush in quest of a big boa-constrictor; The Ha'porth of Tar - An amusing story of how an excise officer outwits a gang of Burmese opium-smugglers; Killer Cats of British Columbia - Cougars or Mountain Lions have become a serious menace on Vancouver Island - photos; Australia's Mounted Police - they have tamed the formerly hostile aborigines; The Jungle Man - a remarkable character who lived among South American head-hunters; Exploring the "Skeleton Coast" - Searching Southwest Africa for underground springs; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story involving a prospector in Western Australia; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
1954Features: Captain Jan's Christmas-Tree - as told by the former captain of a well-known British liner; Lone Wolf - Roy Gardner, a remarkable American criminal; Our Snake-Hunt - An amusing excursion into the West African bush in quest of a big boa-constrictor; The Ha'porth of Tar - An amusing story of how an excise officer outwits a gang of Burmese opium-smugglers; Killer Cats of British Columbia - Cougars or Mountain Lions have become a serious menace on Vancouver Island - photos; Australia's Mounted Police - they have tamed the formerly hostile aborigines; The Jungle Man - a remarkable character who lived among South American head-hunters; Exploring the "Skeleton Coast" - Searching Southwest Africa for underground springs; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story involving a prospector in Western Australia; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1954Features: Fate and Billy Barker - vivid glimpses of life on the once-famous goldfield of British Columbia - photos; Six Year in Sail - a deep-water seaman describes his experiences aboard some of the last surviving sailing ships; The World's Oddest Witch-Doctor - a story from the Transvaal; The Reindeer Man - Grady Carothers, of Goldthwaite, Central Texas; The "Phantom" Jeep - an amusing tale of the last war; Dead Men's Tracks - reprint of a 1928 article - an exciting prospecting story from Western Australia; Terror by Night - "Man-Leopard" killings in Nigeria (conclusion); Down the Zambesi on a Raft - an adventurous holiday - photos; The "Island Lights" - strange superstitions linger in remote Ireland; The Spirit Festival - Cheung Chau, Hong Kong; Antarctic Tragedy - narrative by a radio-operator with the Australian research expedition on Heard Island; and more. Average wear. Lower portion of front cover open. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
1955Features: Wise old man - tales from the Amazon remote jungle vastness; A Sailor on Horseback - the adventures of a young British Seaman who tries his luck ashore in the U.S. with a logging outfit in Arkansas... but must hitch-hike 1,200 miles to get there; A Grim Story of Dope-Running on the Egyptian Border; Lunch-time Tiger at a Pathan Village; The Castaways of the Dundonald - one of the most remarkable shipwreck stories on record - great photos; Three firemen, tired of the food and work on their tramp steamer, jump ship in South America; Ghost Town Memories of the Western States of America; Across the Kalahari Desert in motorcar by the dried-up bed of the Kuruman River - nice photos; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1953Features: The Death-Bore - A nightmare experience on a railway in the Andes of South America; Wilderness Wandereres - the barren ground caribou of Canada, many photos; Terror by Night - visiting the lonely northwest coast of Australia in search of the alleged footprints of a prehistoric dinosaur; The Spell-Binder - a Natal farmer describes a curious incident related to an African courtship; The Rest Cure - recuperating from tropical fever, the author takes an open-air job hoping it will aid his health...; A Papuan "Pig Festival", with great photos; Time is Money - a story from Bombay by P. Stones; The Steamer will not call; Stolen Gold - ramifications of Far East Gold Smuggling as revealed in Western Australia; The Onlooker - making the only pleasure cruise of his life, a ship's officer is unable to enjoy himself; Slumach Lost Creek Mine Ltd.; and more. Average wear. Chips and openings along backstrip. Binding intact. Book
1954Features: North Sea Gale - coast sailors face perils just as great as those that menace the deap-sea men; The Mystery of the Dutch ship "Gilt Dragon" - a quest for long-lost wealth; Tasmanian Experiment - searching for valuable minerals; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story from Western Australia; Gun-Tied - an odd little story from Ceylon; High Adventure in Yugoslavia - adventure in the Julian Alps by Tom Weir; Big Game Means Easy Money - It's tough to keep poachers in check with high prices offered for ivory and horn; With a Bicycle in Babylonia - great photos; Samandar Khan - an amusing account of a personal servant in India; Australia's "Pedal Radio" - operating a radio with bicycle pedals in Australia; and more. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. Average wear. Quality copy. Book
1955Features: Unknown New Zealand - misadventure leads to one of the most remarkable and difficult rescues in New Zealand annals; Saharan Adventure - A memorable camel journey right across the Sahara; Six Wild Sheep - experiences while capturing Alaskan wild sheep for a California zoo - several photos; The Pirates of the 'Ethel' - An authoritative account of one of the most remarkable cases of piracy on the high seas in Australian annals; Slippery - a cat goes to sea; Oakhill's 'Souvenir' - Crocodile hunting on the Gregory River; The Tame Bandit - a Chinese achieves vengeance during the troubles in Malaya; Phases of Life from all over the world - Cockeye, ex-inspector, British South Africa Police; Guardians of the Mountains - the Warden's of Canada's western National Parks; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
1952Features: Land of Nightmare - savage war between French troops and Viet Minh rebels in the "Green Hell" jungles of Indo-China; Churinga - investigating a mysterious aboriginal 'grave' creates problems for an Australian bushman; Roles Reversed - a female climber saves the life of her male guide in New Zealand, by Elsie Morton, with photos; To the Forbidden City - Mecca, with many photos; The "Devil-Leopart"; Jumbies - an interesting experience in Trinidad; Japanese Inns - a foreigner gets a few surprises; The Radio Record - one of the most fantastic cases in the history of the Boston police; Shore Gang; A couple of Fools - a story showing how easy it is to become 'bushed' in Western Australia; What happened at Makene - a curious story from West Africa; 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
1954Features: Diamond Fever - an adventurous trip into little-known country on the Upper Mazeruni in British Guinana; The Coffin-Ship - reprint of a 1929 story from Malaya dealing with a murderous Chinese secret society, a steamer and more; Saharan Adventure - a memorable journey through little known areas; Buster Burton - the amazing career of a most remerkable character known to the police of 5 continents; The Perfidious Plumber - a tale from Southern Rhodesia; The Captain's Night Out - this captain was the first to get off his ship; Kabul Bazaar - life in Afghanistan - photos; Diamonds for the Picking! - on the inhospitable western coast of South Africa lies Tom Tiddler's Ground; Meat for the Pot - curare, the deadly dart-poison of the South American Indians; The Seymour "Fish Day" - Seymor, Texas locks up for a day and goes fishing!; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1954Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Backstrip almost entirely missing. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Decent copy. Book
1952Features: To the Edge of Beyond - Searching for a missing airplane several hundred miles upriver in the Brazilian province of Amazonas, with photos; Hattie's Escape - an air trip from Egypt to India; Trail of the Alpine Sheep - sheep farmers of southern France drive their flocks from the arid plains to the high mountain pastures on the Italian frontier, with photos; House of Terror - a most terrifying experience for G.E.G. Plant; Black Frost - the hard life of the Newfoundland fisherman; When the Flood Came - an English farmer has an adventure; The Hunting-Down of Eissa Battat - an Arab bandit who gave the Palestine Police a lot of trouble; Safwa Seeks Vengeance - a touch-and-go affair in Tanganyika; These men are tough - Aboriginal stockmen of Australia's northern territory; Sailor's Hobbies; Operation Water-Gun - dynamiting fallen trees to clean out western African river; and more. Above-average wear. Chips from and openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Book
1954Features: The Deserted Farm - an amazing story from a holiday cycling tour in Northern France; That Night in Singapore - reprint of a 1932 story of an exciting nocturnal adventure connected with opium-smuggling; Saharan Adventure - A memorable trip through little-known regions; Doing a Perish - the grim search for water by a mounted constable and his prisoner in Western Australia; A Day with Ostriches - a trip to the Ostrich Breeding district in the Cape Province of South Africa; Magic Books - passport issues and Jugoslav frontier officials; Arctic sparks - the world's northernmost radio station at King's Bay, Spitzbergen; "Wee Eck" - a quaint tale of British Army life in India during the late war; Escape by Sea - Marooned in Somaliland, the author charters a native dhow; Bad Neighbours - A Finnish immigrant, Helles Forsman, in British Columbia brings over his family... and they meet up with bears at their logging camp; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Clean and unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1970Nice Wurlitzer organ ad inside front cover. Contents: Photos of the majestic interior of the Oriental Theatre, Portland, Oregon. My Great Adventure 'Up Over' - Australian organist Tony Fenelon's 31-day tour of the U.S.A in the fall of 1969. The Story of Rosa Rio - wonderful 4-page article with photos. What is Unification? - 4-page technical article. Don Thompson Concertizing in Western U.S. The Young Radical Comes of Age - bring understanding of the Theatre Organ up to date, given its return to the international music scene. Pipe'n Pizza makes Southwest Scene - the "Pasta with Pipes" Phenomenon. Hollywood Cavalcade. New chapter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa has smash hit first concert. Tenth Home Organ Festibal at Hoberg's woodland resort in Northern California. *Marvelous* three-panel glossy colour centerfold ad for the Rodgers 33-E Theatre Organ. Reader contributions. Obituaries for Douglas Erdman and Mrs. Felix (Jean) Wiener. The Pipe Piper - a listing of any theatre pipe-organs known to be playing. Chapter news. Letters. Lyn Larsen's Fall Concert Tour. Record reviews. The Music of Jerry Mendelson Captivates Rahway Audience. CATOE members restore Pickwick Wurlitzer. Roland J. Treul moves Barton to his home - story with photos. Nuggest from the Golden Days. A Tribute to Dan Papp. California Miss Debuts on Covina "Wurlimorton" - Carol Jones. Classified ads. Chapter news. Conn Theatre Organ ad on back cover. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Bonus: prior owner's A.T.O.S. membership card stapled to table of contents. Book
196966 pages. Cowboy Issue. Features: Story of the Cowboy; Massacre at Bear River; Legend of the Lariat; The Day the West Went Fence Crazy; Cattleman's War Against the Gray Killer; The "Ten Gallon" Umbrella of the West; The Hired Killer; The American Bronco; Guns That Tamed the Western Frontier; The "Million Dollar" Jackass. Magazine
