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1961128 pages. Features: Civil Defense Needs the Veterans; The Fulbright Memorandum - a shocking document that attacks military leaders for their efforts to enlighten their personnel and the public about Communism; He Makes the Reds Look Ridiculous - West German publisher Heinrich Baer jabs the Commies with cartoons; Sarah Hale and Thanskgiving; U.S. Taxpayers Financing Communism - money poured into Red Poland being used to bolster Red Cuba; A Creed for Conservaties; American speech - Its Color and variety; The Care and Feeding of Intellectuals - a look at a hothouse species spawned by higher education in the semantics of dialectic materialism; The American guilt Complex - are we being pressured into spending millions on 'conscience' money?; British Guiana - New Red Beachhead after the election of Jagan's Communist oriented P.P.P. to power; The case for Saying No; The Kremlin's Cultural Exchange Fraud - a counterspy views Communist subversion; New York's Role in the Civil War; Seattle World's Fair; Higher Auto Insurance Rates; Country Living for the Younger Set - Kiddies Country Club (KCC); Prophet of the Ozarks - W.H. "Coin" Harvey predicted world disaster... in 1910; Stop the Free Delivery of Communist Propaganda inflow of Communist mail involving the Universal Postal Union; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1996xviii, 414 pages. Index. Glossary. Colour and black and white photographic plates. Black and white maps in text. "Five years in the writing, this comprehensive record includes coverage of training, tactics, the pronounced changes in the armed forces and the views and anecdotes of the Non Commissioned Officers and Guardsmen. A dedicated history of the senior infantry regiment in the British Army and what is probably the most famous Regiment in the world." - dust jacket. Gift bookplate upon front free endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this excellent history. Book
191885 pages plus six pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part I - Robert Wilton and his adventures as a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front, with photos. (Wilton's book entitled 'Russia's Agony' was first published in 1918); The Man-Eating Tigers of Rengarih; My Bear Hunt in the British Columbia Rockies - Part II, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; The Water-Wheels of Hama, Syria - with photo; Beyond the Law - part V - The Dalton Gang, the Condon Bank and the First National Bank at Coffeyville, Kansas; Fishing as a Vocation for War Heroes, by Ralph Stock; Photo of a fallen California Redwood - said to have been the largest tree in the world; In Unknown British Guiana - Part I - many nice photos; Tales of the Service - Part V - My Smuggle-Catching Adventures - by G.W. Hindmarch, a retired Customs and Excise officer in the Shetland Islands; Wonders of the Silver Spruce of British Columbia - in high demand for aircraft construction; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part V - by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with excellent photos; Our Seaplane Adventure - Captain Abbott Meade and his plane go down in the Indian Ocean; Photo of large pile of licorice root at Aleppo; The Revenge that went Wrong - James Bestow and his problem with a Yaqui Indian in Mexico; The Railway Conquest of the Australian Desert - construction of the thousand-mile transcontinental railway, from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta - with many excellent photos; The "War Wolf" - Serbia's war hero Colonel Voyin A. Popovich; Whale Flesh as Human Food - informative brief article on the growth of the whale processing industry in Canada, with photo; Doctoring War Horses - the personal experiences of Blue Cross worker Charles W. Forward in France and Italy. Nice ad for the Hudson Navigation Company's New York - Albany - Troy route. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
191886, 16 [ads] pages. Features: My Fall into Germany from an Aeroplane (Airplane) - how I dropped 8,000 feet getting in - and crawled 400 miles getting out, by Lieut. Pat O'Brien, R.F.C.; The "Debil, Debil' of George's Gap - a snake story; Through Ireland with a "Fit-Up", by Nan Gray; Photo and short article on the Indian-built Hagwilget suspension bridge across the Bulkley River, British Columbia; Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part III - Robert Wilton reports on the war in Russia - article includes several good photos; The Greater Duty - A Corporal in the Royal North-West Mounted Police finds himself in a predicament; In Unknown British Guiana - part 3, with wonderful photos; Tales of the Service - VII - The Saccharine Smugglers (off the Irish coast); Trench Journals - documenting the irrepressible gaeity of French and English soldiers engaged in trench warfare; A Slow Revenge - a snake story from Zululand; The Romance of Fossil-Hunting - with great photos including horse-powered bone hauling out of Red Deer Canyon, Alberta; St. Patrick's Purgatory - with great photos; Photo and brief article on Robert W. Patten of Seattle; Leaping from trees in the New Hebrides - with photo. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this most interesting issue. Book
1918Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part II of the first true account of the exploits of the world's most outlaws, The Dalton Gang, written by their only survivor, Emmett Dalton; A Concert Party In the Desert - The "Roosters" Concert Party entertain troops in the Sinai Desert (with photos); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part II of Fanny and William Workman's exploration of the Himalayas (with photos); The Cruise of the Cowboys - several men are Shanghaied at San Francisco but manage to escape on a small boat and get their revenge; The Hundredth Chance - illicit whisky distillers create major problems for Custom-house officer Alan Temple; ; Our Adventures in Sicily - travel adventures of Penelope and her husband; Boss of the Lava Walls - fight for dominance between two wallaroos; Children's Fight With a Panther - Anthony Farrer and Doreen Ashburnham, both of Cowichan Lake, British Columbia, fight off a panther and are awarded the Albert Medal by the King; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part III - Eva Jordan continues her 4,000 mile trek through the great Equatorial Forest of Central Africa; The Mad Druid - a young French girl, Aline Etieve, falls into the hands of a madman thinking himself to be the last Druid, and plotting to offer her as a human sacrifice; The Romance of Platinum-Mining - Ashmore Russan provides a striking account of this much-sought metal - article with photos of related activity on the Rio Opogodo, including a large dredge under construction; My Wanderings Through Texas - a breezy and fascinating pen-picture of a tramp through Texas; How We Outwitted the Bandits - two hostages eventually escape from bandits in Patagonia, South America; Wonders of British Guinana - E.C. Stembridge is enthusiastic over the future of this, the only possession of Great Britain on the mainland of South America; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1924Abundant 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
8°, br. edit. (tracce d’uso ai piatti), pp. 312, 11 tavv. ill. f.t. Lievi fioriture.
8°, br. edit. (tracce d’uso ai piatti), pp. 312, 11 tavv. ill. f.t. Lievi fioriture.
ISBN : 2903696128. Le Pélican. 1989. In-8 Carré. Relié. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 128 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en couleur. Guide pour touristes curieux.
ISBN : 2865372669. Karthala. 1990. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 186 pages. Illustré de photos en noir et blanc hors texte. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampon et annotations de bibliothèque en page de titre. 'Méridiens', Peuples et pays du monde, Collection dir. par Michel Robert.
FRANCE-EMPIRE.. 1970.. In-8 Carré. Broché, Jaquette. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 471 pages. Jaquette illustrée en couleurs. Nombreuses photographies en noir et blanc, hors texte.
Institut coopératif de l'école moderne pédagogie freinée. 1971. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Intérieur frais. 40 pages richement illustrées de photos et dessins en noir et blanc et en couleur
FLAMMARION. 1941. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 329 pages BIBLIOTHEQUE DE PHILOSOPHIE SCIENTIFIQUE dirigée par Paul Gaultier
FRANCE EMPIRE. 1970. In-8 Carré. Broché, Jaquette. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 471 pages- quelques photos en noir et blanc hors texte- renfort à l'adhésif transparent en coiffe en tête
19038° pp. (4), 143 con 3 tavole ripegate fuori testo (carte topografiche), bella legatura coeva mezza pelle. Fregi e titolo oro al dorso Ottimo esemplare. Prima edizione
rif. 60803Paris - Genève, Ab. Cherbuliez 1844, 185x120mm, 407pages, broché. Une déchirure au dos, autrement bon état.
rif. 63438Neuchâtel, La Baconnière 1967, 215x155mm, 194pages, broché.
rif. 76006Paris, Maradan sans date, vers 1800, 195x125mm, 269 + 11pages, reliure demi-maroquin à coins. Plats en papier parchemin. Coiffes abimées. Pièce de titre doré au dos. Filets et fleurons dorés au dos.
rif. 91315Paris, Editions Caribéennes 1980, 210x140mm, 227 + 124pages, broché. Bel exemplaire.
rif. 99602Paris, Librairie Plon, Plon-Nourrit et Cie. 1914, 185x120mm, III - 314pages, broché. Reste d’ancienne étiquette de cotation sur le haut des dos et étiquette de cotation sur le bas du dos, autrement bon état.
rif. 111786Lausanne, Editions d’en bas - Edition Ibis Rouge 2012, 240x170mm, 333pages, broché. Très bel exemplaire.
1969rif. 17613Robert Laffont 1969 516 pages IN4. 1969. Broché couverture rempliée. 516 pages. Papillon est un récit autobiographique d'Henri Charrière publié en 1969 qui raconte son expérience de bagnard en Guyane française dans les années 1930 et 1940. Condamné à tort pour un meurtre il relate ses multiples tentatives d'évasion et les conditions de détention brutales devenant un immense succès littéraire adapté au cinéma
rif. pp3929Hatier Les grands aventuriers à travers le monde Cartonnage d'éditeur 0 Cartonnage toile de l'éditeur, in-8, décor noir, vert et doré sur le 1° plat, 632 pp., tranches dorées, gravures noir et blanc dans le texte et hors texte, sans date ; ors passés sur le dos, bords des 4 premières pages effrangés (sans gravité), quelques rousseurs, petite tache rouge sur un coins des 15 dernières pages, bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1965rif. lu123Kraaijenga D.A. Broché 1965 In-8 broché, XVIII & 420 pp., quelques graphiques et photos dans le texte ; bon état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
1973rif. ko673Institut français de recherches fruitières outre-mer Dos carré collé 1973 in-4 (29.5*21), 60 pages, tableaux, graphiques et illustrations ; état correct. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.
