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1979172 pages including bibliography. A collection of the poems and prose of a writer who has already won a considerable reputation in Baha'i cirlces. Includes vivid, sympathetic portraits of martyrs, pioneers, and ordinary people: shining through it is a poet's vision - fresh, unique, sometimes satirical, but never superficial. Gift greetings upon half-title page else unmarked. Binding tight. Decent copy. Book
1994175 pages. Brad Magnus, the subject of the book, has signed his first name upon title page. A family love story centred upon son Brad, the second of four boys, who was born with Down Syndrome. "The essence of our story is: Every person is valuable! Our personal faith and therefore our positive outlook, continues to give us courage to try what seems impossible." - from introduction. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
197563 pages including bibliography. Illustrated in black and white. Above average wear. Prior owner's inkstamp atop title page. Binding intact. Book
2000214 pages. "A must read for those with a hungry heart." - from back cover. The story of a man who left the Catholic Church in search of greener pastures. Clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Gift quality. Excellent copy. Book
1994356 pages including index. Offers clear explanations to common questions about Christianity. Provides a source for answers in a society that constantly challenges the thoughtful Christian. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Excellent copy. Book
1973172 pages. "With his father (Max) - and at times his mother - in prison, author grew up struggling to stay in school and later to keep jobs. His outspoken Christian faith and his father's ceaseless opposition to Communism kept Michael under surveillance of the secret police." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Book
1926221 pages. High character and heroic actions are the dominating notes of the careers described in this volume. The nine stories include: Tamate - and his stirring adventures in New Guinea; The siege of For Michilimackinac - the exciting experiences of a fur trader among red Indians; Basil of Caesarea; Daniel Wilson, the Lion-Hearted Bishop of Calcutta; David Livingstone, the Greatest of Explorers; Anecdotes of Livingstone; Bishop McIlvaine of Ohio; Ambrose of Milan - the Archbiship who never feared the face of man; David Brainerd, the Apostle to the red Indians. Three colour plates including frontis. Nicely illustrated spine and front board. Average wear. Front free endpaper missing. Moderate yellowing. Front hinge almost fully open. Above-average but not excessive soiling. Decent copy of a nice volume. Date inknown. Circa 1950? Book
199543 pages. Nicely illustrated juvenile literature. "An adventure that will inspire young and old alike: Livingstone's determination to reach his goal, his humility and love for the African people and his storng faith in God." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
199551 pages. Hudson arrived in China with an impossible task... yet he won the world's greatest nation through prayer. Juvenile literature. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
1982Features: Yuletide on the Santa Fe Trail; Last ride to Leadville; Dixieland in search of sun; the lady and the Pennsy; Yellow dog extra; News photos; New River Trains; and more. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
1982Special Issue on Fame and Fortune - Success Stories and Professional Advice: Lia Cook - where painting and textiles meet; The Sante Fe Weaving Center; Making a Living; The Silks of Ed Lambert; The Work of Cynthia Schira; Kay Sekimachi. Moderate wear. Name on front cover. Magazine
196972 pages. Features: Benjamin Franklin Daniels - Fighting Man!; Big Bend Treasure Hunt - Indian Caves; Grey Robe - Mysterious Benefactor of the Navajo; Radersburg, Montana - a town that split the difference; Seige of the McSween House in Lincoln; Jesse Knight - The Mormon Wizard; An early California tale of adventure; A Choctaw's Revenge - Alfred Victor hunts down the killers of his son; The 1913 Dump of Snow on Denver - Thirteen Million Tons!; Good men and bad in a famous saloon on the Santa Fe Trail, the Don Diego Hotel; and more. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
1952Features: In Search of the Hairy Frog - An expedition into the little-known interior of the British Cameroons, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - An audacious hold-up in Malta G.C. of a navy van containing a considerable payroll, with photos; Luck of the Game - story from a Gold Coast Prospector; Ozark Excursion - interesting people including a cross-bow hunter; The Lost Mine - Tisingal, in the interior of Panama; The Cowrie Shell - white men usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bill - a fellow in Australia; House-to-House; Japanese glass net-balls (floats); Brown's Donkey - an incident from the North African Desert; The Rest House - a striking example of premonition from India; and more. Above-average wear. Brown tape secures covers. Book
1952Features: In Search of the "Hairy Frog" - an expedition into the British Cameroons collecting specimens of wild animals and birds for zoos, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - an audacious hold-up of a large Navy payroll in Malta, G.C.; Luck of the Game - a story from an original prospector in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; Ozark Excursion - hunting with the hillmen, including one who uses a crossbow and another who 'catches fish with his teeth'; The Lost Mine (Part 2) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reported to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spaniards; The Cowrie Shell - White men in Africa usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bull; House-to-House; Japanese Net Balls (Glass Floats); Brown's Donkey - a strange incident from the North African desert; The Rest-House - a tale from the Eastern Himialayas; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
1917Illustration Features: America Arrayed in Arms; Why I Have Faith in Russia - article by Hamilton Fyfe; "Vive La France!" in the face of instant death (torpedoes); General Maude's Great Advance in Mesopotamia; In the Tracks of the Turks in the Tigris Valley; How Bullecourt was Won - article be Max Pemberton; Behind the Lines in France; British Guns aid Italy on the Carso Front; Episodes in the Great Battle of Arras; Men of the Green Brassard - some famous correspondents and their work (article); Plowing and Sowing for harvests of life and death; Mosques and Minarets of old-world Bagdad; Canadian Kite Balloons and Captured Teuton Trophy; Willing Women workers; Italians push on towards Trieste; Regimental Record - The Kensingtons (article); Staples disintegrating. Above-average wear. Book
1921Contents: The Man from the Coffin - the amazing story of Albert Juge of Paris; The Fire-Walkers of Singapore - at a Tamil Temple, with photos; How Willy Saved the Orange Crop - a resourceful schoolboy in California; My Strangest Experience; The Hidden Treasure of Santa Fe; Into the Unknown - III - Chasing Outlaws in New Guinea, with 5 photos; The Pirates of the 'Souirah'; Anthropop - Apology; The Passing of the Queen - Mother of Siam, Many Photos; The Cruise of the Dream-Ship I, by Ralph Stock, with photos; The LIfted Veil - VII; Our Adventures among the Berbers - I, the 'White Arabs' of Algeria, with photos; The Road to Fortune; Three Times!; plus many very unusual contemporary advertisements for such things as nose-straightening devices! Unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Covers present but detached as one. A worthy copy of this rare issue. Book
1937645 pages. Index. Frontis portrait of Thomas Wildey, the Founder of the American Odd Fellowship. Author presents his thoughts about the principles of the Odd Fellowship, and the history and practices of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. Chapters include: Immortality, Friendship, Love, Truth, The Besetting Sin, Rebekah, Service, Loyalty, Faith, Hope, Charity, Universal Justice, A Machine, Home, A Challenge, The Jericho Road. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
1968Features: Line Camp Outlaw; My Mother, Ella Byler Dobie - Live Oak County, Texas; Prowling for Loot on Delaware Creek - Bill Cook's Train Robbery Loot; Lame Charlie Speaks - the solution to the old mystery of the Mainden's Grave?; Hell for Leather Ranger - William T. Henderson and Murrieta; Horny Toad Man of the Horny Toad Division of the Santa Fe Railway; Nick Eggenhoffer's West; Jornada Cattle Drive; Lure of the Gold Camps - Folks just had to get to California; The Search for Zonia - ghost town; Wild Old Days!; Washday in Indian Territory - with scrub board, tub and pails, the chore took all day. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1973Features: Fastest Ox Train on the Santa Fe Trail!; Fringe Benefits of a Prospector; They Called Him Elza - Elza Lay of the Wild Bunch; Navidad en la Villita - little known Christmas customs practiced in the Southwest; Rolling Stone - running away from home; The Hall Murders; Joseph (Joe) McCoy Scouts Texas; Greatest public library - the cemetary; The Trap - it opened up the west; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1978Features: Milt Bryan's Adventures on the Santa Fe Trail; Lonely are the Graves - The Bundy Avant Story - Part I - New Mexico in the days when the thin population was intent on bettering itself; Lost Soldiers' Mine - Somewhere in the Coquille Mountains is a very cold trail to a very real gold vein!; Killers' Trail of Thread - the Green DeWitt Colony in the Mexican province of Texas-Coahuila; The "Coffee" Woman - sequel to "Bloodshed in Kansas" in the April issue; Shingle Mill Country - Van Buren County, Arkansas; Infidelity at Old Fort Laramie; Zane Grey's mysterious guide; The Soldier's Farewell - the guerilla war on the Mexican border in 1915; One Man's Rubble is another man's Gold - men with strong backs headed for San Francisco after it burned in 1906; Lost Mines of Mexico. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1982Features: Dark Deed at San Miguel - Jim Beckwith stumbled onto a scene of carnage; Santa Fe Gambling Lady - Dona Maria Gertrudis Barcelo, aka La Tules; "We'll Never Forgive Old Harney" - song of the maltreated 2nd Infantry at Fort Pierre - General William S. Harney; The Red Front Feed Barn - wagon freighters of Southeastern Colorado - Elkhart, Kansas and the barn on the O.K. Osteen farm; Expendable Harrisburg, Arizona (5 miles SE of present day Salome, Arizona); Stray Leaves - the first foreign imported Thoroughbred horse ever to be shipped to Addington, Indian Territory - St. Swithen; Sins of the Father - John A. and Johann Augustus Sutter - Sutter's Fort; Tragedy on Salmon Falls Creek - Contact, Nevada; The Old Cartwright Ranch - Jackson Manford and one of Arizona's most successful spreads; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1982818 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Topics include: The Early Days; Town Growth - hospital, businesses, recollections; The Halls of Learning - country and town schools; The Faith of Our Fathers - churches; Organizations; Sports and Recreation; Family Histories; Our Unsung Heroes - pictures of veterans; Memories. Decorated blue cloth boards. Endpapers illustrated with a wonderful photo of an obviously hardworking man posing proudly in front of his log house. Moderate wear. Unmarked but for two tiny ticks to index on the last page. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1963Features: 18 wonderfully illustrated pages of the North Coast Limited with substantial text (including photo of Babe Ruth)!; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Locomotives you didn't expect to meet on the Santa Fe Trail - big, new AT&SF engine book includes surprises; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1956Features: The Engine that made Penn Station Possible - the DD1 - long article with illustrations including colour painted centerfold; Your choice - Two-Storey Santa Fe Streamliners or Pennsy's ankle-view train, both built by Budd; Railway news photos; Railroads out of Rio - Brazil's frantic search for modernism has rudely booted the locomotive out of public affection - article with photos; Great photo section; Steam in Indian Summer - 5 - Steam - it fares better in the flatlands; and more. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
193792 pages. Index. "What British-Israelites believe has been so much distorted by the uninformed that it seemed good to present a simple and condensed statement of the fundamentals of our faith." - from Foreward. Bit of writing upon front free endpaper. Few light pencil markings to contents. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A rare first edition copy in orange cloth-covered boards. Book
