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1997405 pages including index. In a wry, absorbing and often sureal narrative, she relates the horrors that led to her disillusionment with the "worker's paradise." Creates an extraordinary portrait of the world's most populous nation. Book is clean, unmarked and shows negligible wear. Dust jacket shows light soiling and wear. Very nice copy. Book
1912190 pages. Illustrated. Issued under the direction of the Council of Women for Home Missions. "It is generally acknowledged that Mormonism is similar to Mohammedansim in its endorsement of the practice of polygamy, and its ideas of heaven. Many other points of similarity between these systems have been noted by students, and the Book of Mormon has marked resemblance to the Koran. As all ancient religions have a modern equivalent, Mormonism can justly be claimed to be the modern form of Mohammedanism, and not incorrectly termed "the Islam of America." - From the Editorial Committees. Prior owner's name and initials atop front endpaper. Front hinge open. Moderate quantity of markings to contents. Above average wear to beige boards. Book
1873626 pages including index and tissue-protected black and white plates. "Home Life as men lived in the Bible times, Home Life as the Bible teaches men to live in all times - such is the double sense which I would like to give to the title of this book... I only claim to give a fair report of what I saw and felt in the Bible lands while tracing the paths that were trodden by holy men of old. I only hope that what I have written of home life on earth may help others to attain a better home in heaven." - From Preface. Front hinge open. Above-average but not excessive wear. Attractive green textured boards decorated with gilt which is only moderately worn. Remains a pleasing copy. Book
1989400 pages including index and bibliography. Includes black and white photographic plates. "A thorough and well-written history of the imperial institution." - The Economist. A Comprehensive social history of this immensely important royal institution. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
194358 pages. Verses concerning the trials and tribulations, lives and ways of the loggers living and working in the Great Northwest of America. Contents include: Wheelin' in the Logs; Paul Bunyan's Archives; The Rhyme of the Big Swede Logger; Seattle Red; The Worthy Bed Bug; The Boilermaker's Heaven; From Bulls to Cats; plus may more. Back cover in rough shape. Blank first leaf partially affixed to front cover. Covers separated from textblock. Contents show average signs of use but are in decent condition. Book
198068 pages. Features: Treasure hunters' paradise - an Ohio spot; Indian Treasure found; Treasures in the Gulf Coast beaches; How a detector helped after heart surgery; Amateur archaeologists unite; Yukon John's Cascade gold strike; Involvement determines lapidary costs; Rubies discovered in Australia; Don't assume that it's been run - many places in the country are virtually untouched; Detector's life is a four-letter word - how to keep it in working order; Steel traps no important collectible - an unusual relic often overlooked; Two outstanding collecting locations in the El Paso Mountains; Research and the successful treasure hunt - the key to success is to use these basics. Above-average wear. Book
197962 pages. Features: Around the corner and out of the way - some forgotten places with hidden treasures; Handcrafted Jewelry not that tough to do; locating collection sites; The mysteries of Hollister Peak; Hunting gemstones in New York - quartz, chrysoberyls, tourmaline, and diamonds; A bottle collector's heaven - Washington State; Trash and the treasure hunter; valuable dime found with low-priced detector; Don't give up - a story to encourage you; Mine hopping in Idaho; West Tennessee relic hunting - all civil war camps have not been worked out; Whiskey Run - a Pennsylvania ghost town; Time out to put on a hunt; Coin hunting in the world's greatest gold camp. Average wear. Book
199560 pages. Features include: The Shoot at the Venlo Bridges; Full Circle - VFA-81 "The Sunliners," - full Mediterranean Cruise; T-Birds Roost at 14 Wing; Hell Hole in Paradise - Bill Lockwood; A Bomber Pilot's Diary - F/L Lyle James; The Making of a Fighter Pilot; Wings on the Internet?; Famine Flight - Ethiopia; Friendship in a Beastly War - Rudolph Hengst, POW; Billy Bishop was an Army Officer in WWI; Light wear. Address label on back cover. Nice copy. Book
1940Stories: Sturgeon Fishing in Canada; Dynamite Joe; Round the World on Four Shillings; A Cowboy in Trouble; Zaman's Paradise; How We Saved the Indian Empire; The Sign; The flag-pole; Blind Peter; The Lamb-Eater Bore; The Viaduct; Muldoon's Gold Mine. Above-average but not excessive wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
1935Stories: The Whistle; Hitch-Hiking to the Arctic; Khushal Khan's Rifle; Part-Time Pirates; Machine-Gun Tom; The Affair at Nilakere; Public Enemy Number One; Found Ivory; The Mountain Watch; Water-Divining in Malabar; We Visit the Island Paradise;; The Secret of the Deat Heart. Covers present but detached. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
1934Stories: A Bishop in the Wilds; Brigand-Hunting in Palestine; The Girl World Tramp; The Man Who Saw Red; The Lost Mine of Dr. Thorne; Goat Currency; Running the Border; Wild Pigs!; The Salt Lick; African Magic; An Island Paradise; Slippery Wiley's Clients. Above-average wear. Book
1988Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Wreck of the Empress of Ireland; Bonaire, Thailand's Exotic Waters; West Coast - a Garde of Eden; Kelp Beds of Lobster Bay; Are we destroying the reefs?; British Columbia - diving in a fisherman's paradise; Superb diving at Les Escoumins; Barkley Sound; Egypt; Fortress Louisbourg Shipwrecks; Tobago; Inflatables; Bahamas; Killarney, Ontario; St. Lawrence Seaway; Filming 'The Last Frontier'; Bruce Peninsula; Canada's Arctic; A Prehistoric Fishing Technique in British Columbia; Palau; Pacific Electric Ray; Monterey; Queen of Wrecks in Kingston, Ontario; The Caymans; Canada's Little Urchin; The sandstone cargo of the Zephyr; Treasure of the 'Governor'; Maui's Trio; Kona - star of the big island. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
198364 pages. Features: Furniture-Making in Harbour Grace - Part I - Alexander and Edward Parsons, Francis Cody; Reading Armorials on Silver; Asian Art in the National Gallery; The Weldon Collection; Small-Scale Graphics - Stamps; Maurice Cullen Revisited - Evanescent themes and Impressionistic Principles; The Copper that came from Heaven - Exhibition celebrates the dance dramas of the Kwakwaka'wakw; The Art of Francis Silver - Folk Artist Commented on life in Nova Scotia from the 1860s on; Martyrdom of the Jesuit Fathers - the most remembered image of early Canada. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
1987Features: Alaskan Marine Life and the Eskiimo - through art; Tails of whales and fins, too; Vancouver Island's undersea kaleidoscope - a diver's paradise; Remote Sensing - adding to your knowledge of oceans; the strangest case of the freshwater marine fishes; Forest in the dunes; Brine Shrimp - Curious crustaceans; rings on coral fingers. Sound copy. Book
1990Signed and inscribed by author to the son of Francisco B. Caingcoy who saw action on Bataan with the 14th Eng. 2nd Btn and was captured on 9 April 1942 by the Japanese, started the Death and escaped. 240 pages. Black and white illustrations. Winner of the Book of the Year award by the American Bookdealers Exchange. "A true narrative by Sergeant Waldron, who risked his life in keeping a day by day diary, for three and a half years as a Prisoner of War under the Japanese... A true saga of the first five months of World War Two in the Philippines, and life as a Prisoner of War." - from dust jacket. Average wear bo book. Above-average wear to dust jacket. Book
1989Features: Calendar Clocks; ROM opens new galleries; Advice for budding archaeologists; Bullocks Wilshire - 60 glorious years; Paradise lost - China collecting in the 1960s; Halifax's new art gallery. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
1956Features: Two against the ocean, including a polio victim; White Man Fire-Walker - Methodist Missionary The Rev. Eric. L. Robinson; Pilot's 300 Crashes into Balloon Cables - continuing 'The Sky's No Limit," the first authentic story of the test pilots; The Mongoose - killer of Cobras; I Joined the Rush for Uranium - The Colorado Plateau; Rendezvous with Maneaters - Adventurer's Paradise Continued; Captured by Chinese Pirates - the steamer Ningpo; Below Zero Road - The Alaska Highway; The Trail of Crab Oonaka; Search for the Whooping Crane - trailing two wild birds for over 2,000 miles; We found unknown mountains - Nepalese adventures; The Beads of Assa - Somali adventure; Up-Helly-A - Norse Festival; and more. Backstrip missing; Covers partially loose. Still a worthy copy. Book
1953Features: The Ivory Poachers of Tanganyika; "They're Mustering up North" - a cattle round-up in Northern Australia; My Panther Hunt - a greenhorn's first big-game hunt in India; Japanese Sacred Horse - at Miyajima, the famous 'Shrine Island'; House of Terror - Queer happenings in Malaya; The Secret Submarine - Curacao, chief island of the Dutch West Indies; The Handyman - a dramatic story of the pioneer days of flying in Canada's Far North; The Walkabout Bird - The Australian Emu; When the Cyclone Struck - an epic exploit performed by a Torres Straits islander, a diver on board a pearling-lugger; All in the Game - a gold-seeking tale from Nigeria; An Arctic London - an abandoned quarry-camp on Spitzbergen; Island Paradise - the island of Car Nicobar; Where East is West - missing his ship in the Panama Canal, the author tramps to another port only to undergo a nightmare; Binding intact. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
195996 pages. Features: Dean Martin has the Last Laugh (without Jerry Lewis); The Beast of Belsen and the Dragon Tattoo; The Shrinking Violet - a story for lads with taller sweeties; Sucker in Paradise; Those Brooklyn Indians - 5,000 Mohawks in New York's most famous borough - Iron Workers, Big Chiefs of High Steel Construction; "My Favourite Girl" Photo Contest; The Man Who Married Annie Oakley - Frank Butler; The Great Football Swindle; Chinatown's Bloody Emperor - Fung Jing Toy evaded 200 attempts on his life; The Real-Life Drama of Willie the Actor - Willie Sutton; Yankee Lynch Mob - an angry crowd goes berserk at Port Jervis, New York; A Sight for Tired Eyes - Gale Fagan; Killer Trail of the Glanton Gang. Many nostalgic ads. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Magazine
1973Features: Sky's the Limit?; Maysville was a Whiskey Runner's Heaven!; Taking a Short Cut to a Long Shot; Old Cowboy Montan'; Lost Mines in the El Paso Range; George McJunkin's Pile of Bones; Missouri River Girl; The Bear Chaser; No Need to Talk Religion; On the Trail of Gabe Hans; British Columbia's Doukhobors; Murder or an act of war?; The Little Bit of Trickery; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1984Features: The Relevant Ape - Twelve years among orangutans, the world's most furtive great primate; Repectable Rebel - At 86, the Group of Seven's A.J. Casson remains the dean of modern Canadian art; In the Beginning - Canadians turn the world's most powerful telescope toward the dawn of the universe; Chutzpah & Old Grace - Canada's Honest Ed Mirvish revives a British theatrical landmark; Paradise Betrayed - Exiled Haitians struggle for status in Montreal's brave white world. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1912Features: Uncle Ben and the Panther - a story involving Joseph and Daniel Smith of the parish of Blissville, Sunbury Country, New Brunswick; A White Woman in the Congo - Marguerite Roby; The Spanish Heiress - Mr. E. Player defends a pretty girl from some scoundrels aboard the Vigo, of which he is the Ship's Engineer; Among the Bedouins of Eastern Palestine - the life and habits of the strange nomadic Bedouins; Hung Up in a Cave - The Rev. R. Marle relates his perilous experience while cave-exploring in the Mendip Hills; Sacred Elephant - a hunter kills an elephant which is considered sacred... and finds himself in trouble; The 'Swinging Festival' of Siam - a strange harvest ceremony; The Ordeal of Mrs. Page - kidnapped by Apache raiders on the Arizona border; Celebrating the Dashara - a remarkable Indian festival; My Sambur - a funny story from India; Across Persia and Europe on Pony-back - a remarkable ride of over 2,000 miles; A Shaker Romance - the author (then aged 9) helps a romantic young couple from this sect which did not believe in marriage and died out; The Sportsman in Rhodesia - the paradise of big game hunting; Diamond cut Diamond - a case of a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; and more. Nice Vose Player Piano ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1906Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
1907Features: 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
1989638 pages. Index. "Undoubtedly the classic work on the flora and fauna and peoples of the area which is now called Indonesia." - from back cover. Above-average wear. Front hinge taped. Front flyleaf removed. Usual library markings. Five-panel black and white fold-out map. A worthy reading copy. Book