Dillon, Gordon W.: EditorMareMagnum
1957Features include: Orchidtown, U.S.A.; The Frontispiece - Phalaenopsis Alice Bowen; A New Station for Cattleya maxima in Southern Ecuador; Cyps in the Bayou Country; Orchids of Africa: Large-flowered Angraecums; Variety, the Spice...; Leaf Age in Cattleya; Research on Orchids at Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Growing Vandas in Massachusetts. Above-average wear. Soiling due to water damage throughout. A rough but worthy copy. Book
1920Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1915Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Dead Man's Diary - Dmitri Garkin's body - and his diary - were discovered in the summer of 1913 on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean; Three Thousand Miles On A Raft - an adventurous voyage down the Amazon from Central Ecuador to Northern Brazil; A Railway Race With Robbers - A Sheriff pursues three desperate bank robbers in New York State; The Mutiny of the "Ziba" - part II - Captain John Hart relates how he was eventually able to escape and see justice brought to the murderers; The Land of the North Wind - P.H. Godsell describes his experiences in Keewatin; A Christmas Crime - story from the Australian back-blocks; The Great Cook Problem - the amusing story of how a resourceful woman tackled one part of the "Yellow Peril" in Nevada's "Bean House"; Tight Corners - part I - E.Torday recounts some of his African big game hunting adventures; "Smut" (short story about a queer pet and some of his doings); The Tree Spirit (short story from the area near Singapore); Our Travels in Safari-Land - part II of Edith Cecil-Porch and her journey through the wilds of British East Africa travelling with a wagon pulled by six oxen; Cupid and the "Wireless" - Sidney Lehre recounts a telegraphic affair while he was in the wireless service; Wonderful one-page photo of "An Eastern Venice", the town of Brunei, Borneo, once the headquarters of the dreaded Borneo pirates. Photo of a Kikuyu warrior buying a wife, paying with goats. pp. 8 [ads], 197-292, 9-32 [ads]. Tight, clean and unmarked with light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
1961252p., illus. On missionary work in Ecuador Hardcover Very good condition good
1940317p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition Travels, captivity and adventures in South America
1989Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 256pp. The story of missionary Jim Elliot who suffered matyrdom at the hands of the Auca Indians in Ecuador in 1956 and his other missions around the USA. Illustrated.
1982No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor dint to front and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with dint to front lower edge and label removal effect to front dust flap. 158pp. In this study, based on the BBC TV Natural History Unit production, the author describes in vivid detail the landscape and ecology, the flora and the fauna of the entire Andes mountain chain through South America. Very well illustrated.
199821x15. 72p. Ilstr. Incluye faccsímil de los estatutos. Discurso. Contestación. C. González Echegaray.
197322x14. 210p.
199521x16. 55p.
194618x12. 225p. Col. Biblioteca contemporánea, N. 181. Sobrecubierta.
194224x18. XLI+183p. Prólg. Selec. M. Moreno Sánchez.
197522x16. 137p. Fotogr.
197422x16. 90p. Subrayado. Fotogr. Ilstr.
199121x16. 275p.
195324,5x18. 144p. Parcialmente intonso. Fotogr. Sobrecubierta.
18x12. 349p. Lomo tocado en esquinas.
192622x16. 436p. Subrayado. Forogr. Prólg. T. Vergara.
191527x19. XXXV+100p. Conserva cubiertas. Mapa. Enc. 1/2 piel tela.
198127x19. 120p. Fotogr. Ilstr. Col. Memorias de la misión arqueológica española en el Ecuador, N. 7.
197220x14. 431p. Col. Literary studies, N. 3.
198124x21. 211p. Dir. R. Fernández Retamar. Colab. A. Pareja Diezcanseco, J. E. Adoum, Huasipungo, A. Cueva, P. J. Vera, H. Salazar Tamariz, R. Díaz Icaza, E. Jara Idrovo…
198519x13. 311p. Col. La honda.
198022x15. 301p. Enc. tela ed. sobrecubierta.
198919x12. 169p. Col. Literatura latinoamericana, N. 124.
