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1915Pages 194-288 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: A Millionaire's Adventure - Milan millionaire Signor Luigi Beretta becomes the victim of an infamous plot; War-Time Wanderings in the Italian Alps - a merry trio of climbers have some fun; A Fight for Life in Mid-Air - a workman dismantling a great chimney at the Whitehall Road electric power works experiences a terrible industrial accident; The Adventures of Howard Blackburn - Right Hon. Sir Edward Morris, P.C., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, describes nautical adventures of Howard Blackburn; "Grubb of Gran Chaco"- The adventures of pioneer W. Barbrooke Grubb in the Paraguayan Chaco; Six Weeks in Lahoul - a hunting trip for ibex and red bear; Allen's Well - how a man was buried at the bottom of a deep well and was rescued; The Lion's Cub - a striking story from the Coast Mountains of Southern Oregon involving 'Yellow Tail' the mountain lion, Jud Bucklin, and Dick Wimer of the U.S. Forest Service; Aunt Barbara Visits Mustypore - an amusing story from an Indian coffee-planting district; A Woman Alone in China (part II) - Mary Gaunt met with many odd experiences and saw many strange sights, which are here described in most entertaining fashion, with photos; A Tragic Ocean Race - Five clipper ships started on a race from Australia to China, but strange and terrible things happened aboard the "Island Bay"; After Gold in the "Land of Fire" - an unfortunate prospecting expedition in Tierra del Fuego; The Haunted Tomb - a tale from the Southern Punjab; and more. Covers nearly detached as one. Unmarked with average wear. 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
196924 pages. Features: WSP (U.S.) Conference of 1969; The Kennedy Family Passion Play; That Reformer Fellow, President Nixon; That High Cost of Living; "Reparations" Vs. World Socialism; N.D.P. Shell Game - Ed Schreyer assumes leadership of the Manitoba N.D.P.; Historic Words Live Long After Tragedy - "Bill" Pritchard, one of eight men tried in connection with the famous Winnipeg general strike of 1919, speaks again; Those Halls of Montezuma - looking back on Aztec history, and myths which surround it; Marx and the American Civil War; Do Loose Lips Sink Ships? - fascinating article claims German U-boats were had fore-knowledge of targets by gleaning information from European reinsurance companies who underwrote the risk of ocean shipments; Passing of Jeni "Chubbi" Kligman; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1984194p. Illustrations by the author. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. An enjoyable description of the Portuguese Man-of-War and their exotic relatives. NH 1
1949ref. 4091949. OCEAN TOWNSHIP MONMOUTH COUNTY NEW JERSEY. THE TOWNSHIP OF OCEAN COMMEMORATIVE BOOK. Published For The Centennial Celebration August 1949. Hardbound blue cloth stamped in gilt 104 pages illustrated. A scarce publication about Ocean Township Monmouth County New Jersey- its history people and progress. Very Good little wear & few very light stains to front cover; contents clean & tight. $75.00. unknown books
1949ref. 4091949. OCEAN TOWNSHIP MONMOUTH COUNTY NEW JERSEY. THE TOWNSHIP OF OCEAN COMMEMORATIVE BOOK. Published For The Centennial Celebration August 1949. Hardbound blue cloth stamped in gilt 104 pages illustrated. A scarce publication about Ocean Township Monmouth County New Jersey- its history people and progress. Very Good little wear & few very light stains to front cover; contents clean & tight. $75.00. unknown
1981349p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
ref. 1922788031.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19868vo., Second Edition, with plates and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
1958Foreword 1 21x13,5 cm., legatura in piena tela,titoli in oro al dorso, pagg. 319, in principio mappa delle "Sugar Islands" su doppia pagina, carta forte, in lingua inglese, piccola lacerazione al dorso, ma buon esemplare. Allegata scheda editoriale. Etchetta Libreria inglese
1945Photos include: The capture of the capital of Saar; Naval pictures from the Pacific Ocean; New pictures from the battle-line in Germany; Fighting in Mandalay; photos from the Russians; Coblenz (Koblenz) and Remagen; Massive captured German rail-mounted guns; The German citizen and the war; Iwo Jima conquest completed; The R.A.F. attack in Burma, Yugoslavia and Norway; Photos of the great 10-ton bombs of the R.A.F.; British scenes in field and shipyard; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
19828vo [24 x 16 cm]; 239 pp, text illustrations from drwgs, numerous color illustrations from photos on plates, map endpapers showing route. original cloth, dj (not clipped), small remainder mark on lower edge of text block, fine and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author travelled from Oman on the Arabian Sea in a ship similar to those used 1,000 years ago in an attempt to follow Sinbad's voyages from "A Thousand and One Nights". He travelled to India, Sri Lanka and across the Indian Ocean to Sumatra and the Malacca Straits to the China Seas to Canton in a boat that was a replica of an Arab sailing ship that was used a thousand years ago. It is one of the most remarkable sailing stories of the twentieth century. This copy includes a copy of the author's article in National Geographic (July 1982), 'In the Wake of Sinbad', a 40 page article with many colored photos, map, and is complementary to the book. Its included as part of the entire issue of the National Geographic for that month.
2011ref. SBBIH-Q7PCDORG3P6DJuicySpirituality.com 2011. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. JuicySpirituality.com paperback
ref. GOR005167707Paperback. Very Good. paperback
1952322p., illus. Hardcover Good condition, small water mark on front cover
1985A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 100 pages. Covers the physical properties, biological aspects, and man's uses of the Puget Sound.
1951Early printing with 1951 on both the title and copyright page. No later printings stated and "by Rachel L. Carson", and "by H, Wolfe" on the copyright page; matte boards, and two bars on upper front DJ flap. Small tears on edge worn dust jacket. Small tears at top and bottom of spine. 230 pages. 5 5/8"w x8 3/8"h. Clean and unmarked text; tight binding.
1951Previous owner's name inside; otherwise clean and unmarked. Edge wear to cover. Open and closed tears on dust jacket. Stated fourteenth printing. 230 pages.
1963Features: In Defense of Gambling, by Jimmy Breslin; Quack Marriage Counselors - a growing nationwide scandal - long article; "King" of the U.S. Senate - Robert S. Kerr; Basketball's Bullies - reckless coaches, rowdy players and riotous fans disgrace our colleges, says Referee Al Lightner; Making the "Best-Dressed" List - some women have resorted to bribery; New Science that Copies Life - by mimicking the sensory organs of animals, scientists are inventing startling new machines; The Fateful Dive of the Atlantis - a bold experiment which took two divers to the ocean floor ends in mysterious death. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1960Book is in excellent condition with masking tape marks on both endpapers as the only flaw. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page. Binding is solid and square, covers in heavy weave blue cloth have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows a little edge wear, some chipping one 1/4" tear. Great Stories of Canada series.
1971341p., illus. with 111 full-color photographs Hardcover Good condition in worn d.j. fair
1971341p., illus. with 111 full-color photographs Hardcover Good condition
1997226 p. Hardcover Very good condition good
ref. 0938711679.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1969ref. 738376PN. New. 1969. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
