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Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Lost in the Pacific - John Edwin Hogg attempted to take a small boat to Panama from some islands 90 miles off the coast, but encountered treacherous seas; On Niagara's Brink - Orrin E. Dunlap, the unofficial historian of Niagara Falls, describes the area's most thrilling adventure, that of a barge and two men, Lofberg and Harris, who drifted to the verge of Horseshoe Falls - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part I - Oxford Anthropology student Winifred S. Blackman relates her experiences in three winters of living with the people of Upper Egypt - article with photos; Captain Doudera's Bet - The amazing photo-illustrated story of Captain Frank Doudera, of Brooklyn, New York, and his quest to obtain a timber wolf pelt within six weeks; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part II - Beatrice Grimshaw travelled up the Sepik River of New Guinea, where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Chippin' Paint - An amusing sea story; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part II - A British officer's remarkable 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; The Treasure of Tristan Da Cunha - Photo-illustrated article about a hoard of gold and jewels said to have been hidden here by pirates in 1810; Photo of a literal river full of logs in British Columbia; The Three Angleteers - Part IV - Three bored Englishmen travel to Europe for trouble and adventure; In the British Guiana Jungle - A vividly-written photo-illustrated account of an eventful boat-journey into the interior of British Guiana with a motion picture camera, culminating with a visit to the mighty Kaietuerk Falls, the greatest cataract in the world, five times higher than Niagara; The Secret of the Wilds - photos of wild animals which resemble those of prehistoric times; "Grip" and I - Part II - A bull-terrier spared from death by its new owner Count Nils Cronstedt returns the favour by saving him multiple times during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendent in Northern Nigeria; One Night - the story of a hunt in the darkness and a panther who stood his ground; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: A Soldier of Fortune - a story smuggled in bits from a French prison (part 1); A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part I - Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish - article with photos; The Election at Rodeo - an account of the happenings at a town in Argentina on the occasion of the Presidential election of 1914; The Search for the Grosvenor Treasure - an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor on the lonely coast of Pondoland, South Africa, and operations of seekers of her sunken treasure of precious metals and stones - with photos; The Terror of the Terai - the story of one of the most remarkable elephant hunts on record - a twelve days' chase after a man-killing 'rogue'; Photo of a Venetian funeral; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - the humourous travels of a huband and wife with their donkey (part 4); Across the Pacific in a Chinese Junk - Captain George Ward and his voyage from Amoy, China to Victoria, British Columbia - article with photos, one of which includes Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford aboard the vessel; Forgotten - the terrible experience of a young surveyor off the coast of Trinidad; The Witching of the M'Bumbo - a tale of native witchcraft and trial by ordeal in Nigeria; Our Unlucky Day - an account of a series of disasters which struck a steamer, the S.S. Z_____ in the Gulf of Mexico; The Village of the Greeks - visit to a tiny hamlet in the Sicilian Mountains - with photos; The Gower Affair - a story of black magic at Porto Lokkoh on the West Coast of Africa. Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1947Best.-Nr. 015999Paris - Drouot Etude Bellier 1947 plaquette in-8 Agrafé, couverture illustrée
Best.-Nr. 13976056Santiago de Compostela: Cidade de Santiago, 1995 in-4, 160 pages, 22+89 illustrations en couleurs, carte. Broché, petits écrasements aux coins et aux coiffes, petites marques d'usage et léger pli angulaire, sinon bon état. Textes catalan et espagnol. Rare.
1895Best.-Nr. 28325Paris Félix Alcan s.d. [1895] gr. in-4 demi-veau bleu, dos à nerfs, tranches jaspées, couvertures conservées [Rel. de l'époque], dos passé, titre et plat supérieur frottés
1700Best.-Nr. 17369Amsterdam, de Wit, 1675 (recte um 1700). Ca. 49,5 cm x 57 cm. [4 Warenabbildungen]
1959Best.-Nr. List3835Ibadan Nigeria: General Publications Section Ministry of Education 1959. 60 pp magazine measuring 7 ½ x 9 inches in paper wraps. Wraps quite worn with some tears especially at spine some staining with loss to lower right corner; very good minus. Contents generally excellent with one manuscript marking and a few areas of damage to gutters. Overall very good. The November 1959 edition of Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature. The magazine was founded in 1957 by Jewish German-born Ulli Beier who came to Nigeria in the late 1940s to teach anglophone literature. Beier intended the magazine to expose aspiring African writers to the literary work both of their fellow Africans and of African Americans; he was particularly inspired by the works of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Aimé Césaire.1 Starting in the 1960s the magazine would be funded by the Congress for Cultural Freedom which unbeknownst to its editors and contributors was in turn funded by the CIA. This edition contains works by significant African and diaspora writers including Amadou Hampâté Bâ of Mali Léon Damas of French Guiana Es'kia Mphahlele of South Africa and Gabriel Okara of Nigeria. The book reviews section includes an important early review by Ghanaian poet and writer Georgmbeeyi Adali-Mortty of Things Fall Apart 1958 Chinua Achebe's debut novel. Beier's article "Two Yoruba Painters" includes twelve pages of illustrations and the magazine is illustrated throughout. 1 Peter Benson "'Border Operators': Black Orpheus and the Genesis of Modern African Art and Literature" Research in African Literatures 14 no. 4 Special Issue on African Literary History Winter 1983: 431-473. . General Publications Section, Ministry of Education unknown
