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4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE. Law 1024
Roy. 8vo., First UK Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous plates, wanting front free endpaper; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Th first British edition of one of the most impressive secret war diaries to emerge from the Far Eastern theatre. An intensely moving testament by a wonderful soldier, surgeon and captive. First published in Australia in the previous year.
8vo., Eighth Edition, WANTING FRONTISPIECE (original tissue guard present), with engraved title-vignette, 7 plates, very numerous illustrations and 8 maps (a number full-page) in the text, folding coloured map and folding map coloured in outline (maps vey lightly spotted, mainly on blank margins); original green cloth, upper board framed in black and blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, small stamp on title, and neat stamp in a few blank margins of text. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end BUT TRAGICALLY WANTING THE FRONTISPIECE 'ORANG-UTAN ATTACKED BY DYAKS'. The most celebrated work, dedicated appropriately to Darwin, by the co-discoverer of the process of evolution through natural selection. The eighth edition is based on the revised third edition of 1872. His well-known appendix on the crania and the languages of man in the archipelago includes a glossary of one hundred and seventeen words in thirty-three languages of the region. A LOVELY COPY OF A KEY WORK IN THE LITERATURE OF EVOLUTION. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and rear endpaper map; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal armorial stamp on front free endpaper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Covers the unit's service in Sumatra, Java and Timor, with resulting captivity. Includes ROH.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome plates by EME Glenister, and photographs by the author, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. 'A useful guide in a convenient form to the birds of a large region' (Tate p.69). SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Tate, p.202.
Souvenirs de voyages à "Ceylan la parfumée", "Java l'enchanteresse" et "Tahiti la délicieuse" de l'écrivain voyageur Robert CHAUVELOT (gendre d'Alphonse Daudet, 1879-1937). Ouvrage illustré de 66 photographies (en 34 planches hors texte) et de 24 ornements et lettrines; carte planisphérique en frontispice. Bel exemplaire relié aux plats conservés, la couverture étant coloriée au pochoir d'après une aquarelle de Lucien LANTIER. 1ère édition (achevé d'imprimer le 30 novembre 1925). Français
In-8, tela editoriale, pp. 122,VII, titolo oro al dorso e al piatto, con numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo e fuori testo. In buono stato (good copy).
In-8, cartonato, pp. VIII,203, con tavole in bianco e nero nel testo. In buono stato (good copy).
In-8, tela editoriale, sovracoperta, pp. 163. In buono stato (good copy).
Stories: Liquid Gold; What the Palmist Foretold; Through the Shan States; The King's Ju-Ju; Our Japanese Burglar; Gomez the Killer; A Papuan Interlude; Seven Days' Bad Luck; A Side-Show in Borneo; Fire-Walking in Java; The Queensland Mounted; The Pickle Bottle. Above-average wear. Book
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
66 pages. Features: Taped Smut - recordings of unsuspecting newlyweds in hotel rooms and dirty stories read by sultry-voiced actresses are latest gimmic of Filth Peddlers; When the Nazis Tried Human Vivisection, as told by a former Corporal in the SS; Tijuana - city that mass-produces vice (with photos); It's the Day of the Gray Flannel Fag - "Not all Homos are Easy to Spot"; Ripley's Torture Museum; When a Gal Says "Your're the Dad!"; Phallic Worship in Japan; The Dawn I Knifed an Arab - when you live on the Borders of Israel you work, eat, sleep and make love with a gun at your side (with photos); Blood on the Diamonds - a tale from British Guiana; Air Gunner Gone Native - he wanted to stay with his 11 native wives and 47 kids on Kopu, Largest of the Ongtong Java Islands; I Escaped Siberia in a Coffin; and more. Above-average wear. Evidence of moisture exposure. No odour. A decent copy. Book
Features: 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
376 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "From the almost unknown campaign in Java and Sumatra in 1945-7 which saw British troops operating alongside their recent enemies, the Japanese, to Bosnia and Kosovo in the closing years of the twentieth century, fifteen major conflicts are covered. Each is described by a contributor who either served in the campaign, saw it first-hand as a journalist or is an acknowledged expert on it." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound working copy. Book
Pages 1-66. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; My Secret (poem); Alaska; The passing of Spain; Officers of Company K (poem); Jack and Pirie; Sleighing (poem); Cupid - Song (poem); Unlukikus Loses His self-poise; The Cocheco (poem); Channing Folsom; The Country Depot (poem); Some Old Tales and Traditions of the White Mountains; Harriet Beecher Stowe (poem); Java and the colonial system of the Dutch; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Pages 1-84, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Through the Shan States - part 2; The King's Ju-Ju; Phases of Life - Fire-Walking in Java, Gomez the Killer, The Queensland "Mounted"; A "Side-Show" in Borneo; The Queer Side of Things - What the Palmist Foretold; Our Japanese Burglar; The Pickle-Bottle; A Papuan Interlude; Seven Days' Bad Luck; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
Contents: Color ad for 'Ask for Ethyl'; Bankers Trust ad - Buy Victory Bonds; Babcock & Wilcox ad - bombs and beauty aids need steam; Color ad for Ford trucks; Color ad for 1946 Packard cars; Auto strike raises new issue for Industrial Wars in America - the nation's biggest union asks stake in affairs of management by cry of 'Let's see the books'; Mrs. Damato of Shenandoah, Pa. christens the U.S.S. Damato - she lost two sons in the war; Photo of James Hendrix, Army hero; Matt Kimes - cop killer; Why the Fleet could not retreat to the West Coast - Admiral William V. Pratt; Congressional Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack; Where the War Cause Lies - Japan; Nice color ad for General Tire; Color ad for the Aeroprop division of GM; Ezra Pound returns to the US to face charges of treason - with photo; The Federation of Atomic Scientists; Native world from Zion to Java stirred by nationalist little wars; 4 photos of Japan's Hirohito visiting the shrines of Ise to report Japan's defeat to his predecessors; Thorez, red architect of France; the Nuremberg Tribunal - with labelled photo of 20 defendants in their courtroom positions; two photos of Eva Braun; War-Winning Old Guard Begins Exodus from Top Service Jobs - retirements of Staff Chief and Fleet Commander are first of many peacetime moves; Super color centerfold for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Seabees dig in darkly for spell with Eskimos - Navy installations in the far north; Photo of the real Kilroy; C.D. Howe has his fingers in many pies; Canada's Baby Bonus; Heavy heavy over stock boom hangs wage-price policy delay; Inventor Gilbert Brereton and ramie; S. DeWitt Cough, President of Abbott Laboratories, calls for national health care; Robert Benchley 1889-1945; Color ad for teh Douglas DC-6; The reality of Salvador Dali; Unusual color Monsanto ad on back cover features young lovely speaking into a huge contemporary walkie-talkie. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Hunting White Butterflies - searching for evolutionary clues from Columbia to Cape Horn; George Borup (1885-1912) - athlete, explorer, writer - the "Tenderfoot" with Peary; In Search of Lanka - looking for Lanka in Central India, not Sri Lanka; Mount Kaijende Cave Expedition - a major discovery climaxed this venture in Papua New Guinea; The Preservation of Borobudur - a 15-year international project in Central Java. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features include: Orchid Collecting in Java and Bali; Fir Bark - Miracle?; Counting Chromosomes in Cymbidiums - The Elusive Tetraploid; Oncidium carthaginense and Oncidium guttatum; Marketing Flowers and a Greater Market; Orchid Pests and Their Control; Semi-automatic and Automatic Greenhouses (Pt II) and Beginners' Handbook: Building Your Orchid Collection (Pt II). Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: The First Phalaenopsis Hybrid; A Hobbyist's Indoor-Outdoor Culture of Orchids; Epicattleyas - What Future?; Book Review "Grosse Liebe zu Orchideen" by Matthias Riehl and "Die schonsten aber sind Orchideen" by Walter Richter; Orchid Growing in Java; Collectors' Item: Chondrorhyncha lendyana Rchb.f.; Orchid Classics (Pt II): Observations on Angraecum sesquipedale; Cymbidiums in Fir Bark; Orchids of Economic Use (Pt II); Orchids of Venezuela; and A New Bulbophyllum from French Cameroons. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
96 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Features: The Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima - Surveyed by the Expedition to the Brazilian Guayana from August 1924 to June 1925, by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice; Gravity Survey by Submarine via Panama to Java; Flights North of Point Barrow - an extract from the report on the Detroit News-Wilkins Expedition of 1927 ; Notes on Arctic Flying - communicated to the society by Vilhjalmur Stefansson; Recent Sheets of the One-in-a-Million Map of he American Geographical Society; Colonel Fawcett's Expedition in Matto Grosso; Monumenta Cartographica - Review. Foldout map inside back cover entitled "Survey of the Lower Rio Negro and the Rio Branco between Manaos and Vista Alegre". University library bar code on first advertising page, otherwise unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Small piece missing from lower corner of back cover. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Walking and Morning Dresses; Etiquette of Address; New York Fashions - silks and satins, items about dresses, trained casaques; Personal; Embroidery design for cigar-cases, port-folios, etc.; Point Russe Embroidery on Java Canvas for Antimacassars; Wicker-work and Netted Basket; Squares in Netted Guipure; Sofa Pillow with Crocheted Stripes; Point Russe Embroidery for mats, ooilette cushions, etc.; Gobelin Embroidery on Silk for Slipper; Medallions in Point Russe and Application for Cigar-Cases,; Crochet and Tapestry Lambrequin; Sweet Seventeen; Love versus prejudice; Saying and Doings; The complete art of Plain Sewing - Two pages with dozens of illustrations and text; Goose and Gander; Debenham's Vow - continued; Riding Habit; Full page compilation of eight different illustrations of different Belles (women) i.e. The Dumb Belle, Morning Belles, etc.; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book