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1929Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundlanders went into the interior one winter to shoot caribou, and what happened to them; Pekin [Peking / Beijing] to London - Mostly By Car - Part II - A most adventurous 15,000 miles, with nautical detours around civil war in China, and floods in Siam and Burma - with nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I - The amusing narrative of a decidedly unathletic 46-year-old Londoner who decided to tramp from the French coast to Lourdes; The Black Trackers of Australia - follow-up to "The Great Boulder Murder Case" which appeared in the prior issue; Photo of sheep being used as pack animals on the way from Tibet to the Rampur Fair; A Chinese Night's Entertainment - A lively interlude in the peaceful routine of life at a mission-station in a remote Chinese town; Buddy Assheton's Return - A tragic story from Western Canada, as told by a member of the Mounted Police; My Room-Mate - The amusing story of what happened one night at a hotel in a Queensland township; The Unmasking of Gola Singh - A member of the Indian police goes bad, creating the need for a delicate investigation; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part I - C.V. Warren travels to a tea estate in Ceylon and describes his experiences and the general routine of the tea-planter's life, with photos. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1907Includes the following stories: A Chase in the Clouds; Some Historic Curses - II; The Totem Pearl; On the Frontier in Central Africa - IV; The Runaway Steamer; The Land of the Vendetta; Queer Fixes - a battle with wolves, and the plot that failed; Through the United States on Bicycles - III; The Sailor Cowboys; Wide World Picture Tours III - Australia and New Zealand; The Secret of the Farm; A "Floating Gold-Mine"; A Brush with Cannibals; The Haunted Stable; Queer Fixes - The River-Driver, and The Downfall of "Red Mike"; Across Unknown Bhutan - I; The Disappearance of Bryant Crandall; In the Andamans and Nicobars; The Gliding Death - In the coils of a boa-constrictor, touch and go, and an hour with a rattler; Watchers of the Lights; What happened at the Bungalow; Wide World Picture Tours IV - British Africa; Darkness and Light; Our Trip Down the Zambezi; Through the United States on Bicycles - IV; At Sea with a Menagerie; The Poachers Vengeance; A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers; An Alligator Hunt By Night; Our Bunch of Bananas and What They Cost Us; The "Knill Festival" at St. Ives; The Passing of a Pathan; The Romance of Mining - The Coyote Mine, Forty Feet From Fortune, The Vanished Vein; The Hunted Hunter; A Cinder in the Sea; Selling the Empire's Secrets; An Eastern Theatre; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - I; Fighting a Burning Gas-Well; An Exciting Weekend; The Lalla Khan Hoax; From India to England Overland - II; Raiding on the Cumberland; How Pearson Saved the "Overland"; Sport and Adventure in Central Africa - I; Nine Days Entombed; From India to England Overland - III; Tinker - The Story of a Dog; As the Sign of the "Cup-and-ball"; Six Thousand Miles on Horseback - II; The "Killers of Twofold Bay; Captured by Dyaks; Some of My Experiences; My Man Jose; Witch-Doctors and Their Ways; The Mystery of the Magazine; Across America by Motor-Cycle; An Unexpected Visitor; A Village of Smiths; A New Year Parade; Lost in a Mine; A Paradise of Birds; The Man-Eater of Lalpur-Arani; Fighting Snow in the Rockies; Alone in the Wimmera; Log-Rolling; The "White Avengers" - II; My Last Climb; A Lonely Trans-African Tramp - I; "Bully" Hayes's Supercargo; "The Emperor of the Sahara; The First Ascent of Chogo Loongma; Cast Away in the Arctic; A Deal in Eggs. Modest lean to spine. Average wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
1918Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part I of the First True Account of the Exploits of the World's Most Noted Outlaws, by Emmett Dalton, the only survivor of the "Dalton Gang" - article with photos and great cover illustration; Wonders of the Teleferica - an interesting account of the remarkable aerial lines/cableways used by the Italians to transport men, guns, and provisions in the high Alps - article with many photos; The Youngest Soldier in the French Army - photo of 11-year-old Charles Meux of the French Army; Tales of the Service - Part I - A Night in a Vat; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part II - Eva J. Jordan, F.R.G.S. travelled with her husband for four-thousand miles through the great Equatorial Forest of Central Africa, becoming the first woman to penetrate this area - article with photos; A Night of Terror - an associate of Izaak Walton sinks into quicksand while fishing; Buried in a Snowdrift - a mining engineer is caught in an avalanche in the Andes; "Hooshta!" - the Tragedy of an Australian camel race - a stirring story from the West Australian goldfields; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part I - Fanny and William Workman describe their Himalayan mountaineering exploits - article with map and great photos; Thrice Through the Jaws of Death - Sergeant J. Harte of the Inland Water Transport relates hair-breadth escapes at sea and on land; How We Built the Bridge - War story related by a corporal of the canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps; Crossing the Canal - A despatch orderly attempts to cross the Suez Canal at night; Some Adventures of a Newspaper Woman - Marie Harrison provides a graphic and thrilling account of her startling adventures in search of 'copy'; The Railway Conquest of the Bay - a photo-illustrated account of the building of the Hudson Bay Railway; A Happy Family - humorous account of the antics of a number of strange pets belonging to a party of colonials in Singapore; A Modern Grace Darling - Miss Ella Trout rescues a sailor from a torpedoed ship off the coast of Devon - article with nice photos of Miss Trout; Photo of a group of Solomon Islands head-hunters reading The Wide World Magazine; Interesting four-page illustrated stock offering by Guaranteed Tractors, Inc., Edmund G. Soward, President; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 4-88, 9-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1951xxiv, 64 pages. Features: The Hunting of Harry Tracy - the 1902 account of one of the most remarkable manhunts to ever take place in America; Pete the Pelican; Between Ourselves; Sahara Safari - photo-illustrated account; Remote Control - a strange story from the Northwest frontier of India; Awachomo Natural Bridge, Utah, USA (cover illustration); Land of Blood-Feuds - photo illustrated article about the mountain people of Crete; The Death-Divers - a former Swedish deep-sea diver recounts how in 1937 he and Chief Diver Matsson were detailed to assist in the raising of a wreck off Italian Somaliland; The Throw-Back - strange story from a South American gold mine; The Night Alarm - ; Wealth on the "Skeleton Coast"; Bush Interlude; The Vanished Waggons - a remarkable story from the Northern Territory of Australia where three laden vans mysteriously disappeared from a train running south from Darwin; many nostalgic ads; and more. Bit of pencil writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
1922Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Great Green Eel - three-day battle with a Conger eel in Trinidad; De Rougemont Right After All! - Shortly after his passing, the incredible stories by Louis de Rougement of adventures with the wild blacks (aborigines) of Australia are proven true! - article with great photos; The Lure of the Jewel - The Forcing of the Duke of Brunswick's safe; Crossed Trails - A remarkable tale of linked lives; The Midnight Visitor - A grim tale of the famous North-West Mounted Police of Canada; Trapped in a Well - two men in Nebraska set out to deepen a well; The Moffat County Mystery - an odd tale from Colorado; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part II - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interest of film-making - article with interesting photos; A Christmas Hunt in East Africa - sometimes 'exiles' can have a good Christmas; A Double Escape a thrilling royal tiger hunt in India; A Man's Luck - Part V - the true story of a man who set out to build an Alaskan home for the girl of his dream but kept being jailed; The Accursed Lake - The strange story of David Burton and Charles Snisted in New Zealand; The Living Death - an explorer's grim story from the South American jungle; Anthropop - Apology; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 268-351, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1926In-8 p., tela editoriale, pp. 388, con alcuni disegni nel testo e 105 ill. in b.n. in tavole fuori testo. Ben conservato.
1877rif. 80794London: Elliot Stock 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Elliot Stock 1877. Octavo iv 187 pages. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in black on the spine and front cover and decorated in blind at the rear; cloth a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; inner hinges neatly reinforced; endpapers and title page a little offset and foxed; Xmas 1886 'Ciphering Prize' presentation inscription on the front pastedown and an early ownership signature on the title page; trifling signs of age and use; a very good copy. An 'evangelical novel . which gives a most favourable impression of Adelaide as a pleasant place in which to live. One need not linger over the religious and psychological crudities in the novel - cards liquor dancing the theatre all are condemned in the customary dogmatic but dramatically unconvincing manner' Paul Depasquale: 'A Critical History of South Australian Literature 1836-1930'. Elliot Stock hardcover
1969310p. Plus index and color frontis. Illustrated with numerous photographs. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. A great gift for wine lovers. Starting with a history of wine making and then going from country to country examining the history, varieties and techniques. Beautiful illustrations and photographs. Includes fifty international recipes for cooking with wine compiled by Madeleine Othenin-Girard. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WHISKEY 1.
1988rif. 145396Morwell: Alella Books 1988. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Morwell Alella Books 1988 second edition/ 1987. Quarto viii vi 416 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed and creased; an excellent copy. A presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author 'Best Wishes Tom Dixon 30/10/90'. The recipient was Dick Kimber Richard Glyn Kimber AM 1939-2024 author anthropologist and historian. Loosely inserted is a short autograph letter signed by Dixon to Kimber with the same date as the inscription relating primarily to the Night Parrot. It closes 'Hope you find the "Wizard" helpful in more ways than one'. Thomas Sidney Dixon 1916-1993 was a Catholic priest and a missionary to the Arrernte people of Central Australia. This is Dixon's detailed account of his role in the case of Rupert Max Stuart an Arrernte man sentenced to death for the 1958 murder of a young white girl. Called to visit Stuart in prison because of his knowledge of Arrernte Dixon quickly realised that Stuart's limited English meant he could not have made the detailed confession presented to the court by police and spearheaded the high-profile campaign to overturn Stuart's conviction. While it was upheld by a Royal Commission public pressure led Premier Thomas Playford to commute the sentence to life imprisonment and the case exposed systemic injustices faced by Aboriginal people in the Australian justice system. 2 items. Alella Books paperback
1849rif. 115821London: John Murray 1849. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London John Murray 1849. Duodecimo xii 110 6 advertisements 16 'The South Australian Handbook Advertiser' pages but lacking the small folding map. Later binder's cloth retaining the original printed wrappers; all edges uncut; a short sealed tear to one preliminary leaf with a few tiny closed marginal tears elsewhere; light marginal tidemark to the front wrapper and title leaf; trifling signs of age and use; an excellent copy. Provenance: Reverend Dr Leslie Bernhard Grope 1920-2018 Lutheran Church of Australia President Emeritus 'who served in the role now known as LCA bishop from 1972 until his retirement in 1987' LCA obituary; his signature in pencil appears on the front free endpaper. Ferguson 5248 not noting that the wrappers have the details and full catalogue of Murray's 'Colonial and Home Library' printed on the inside front and both rear surfaces. John Murray paperback
1970rif. 0241095th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment 1970. 207pp profusely illustrated with photos in colour and in b/w with map of South Vietnam showing 5 RAR operation area with legend followed by 16pp of folding operation maps at the rear with a location map of Phouc Tuy Province and surrounds to the east of Saigon inset in blue on each. Decorated textured cloth boards gilt with 5 RAR crest on the front board. With dust-jacket which has a taped repair to a closed tear from the front panel to the spine foot. The jacket is lightly edge-worn with creases in the laminate at and by the spine. The book includes the Roll of Honour; Decorations and Awards: Citations; 5 RAR -- The Tigers: The Raising; Vietnam historically independent; Operations: 16 major oprations; Support: Armour Artillery Engineers and Air; The Enemy: The Vietcong and his supporters: A Pictorial Records: Peronalities how the war was really won pp122-200; The Nominal Roll. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to. 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment Hardcover
1970rif. 0180005th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment 1970. 207pp profusely illustrated with photos in colour and in b/w with map of South Vietnam showing 5 RAR operation area with legend followed by 16pp of folding operation maps at the rear with a location map of Phouc Tuy Province and surrounds to the east of Saigon inset in blue on each. Insription on the half title page: 'To Father John from Karl Richardson RMO 5 RAR 1971-3'. Decorated textured cloth boards gilt with 5 RAR crest on the front board. The upper corners and spine foot are bumped. With dust-jacket which is worn with creases in the laminate and wear at the edges with loss at the corners and at the spine head and foot. The book includes the Roll of Honour; Decorations and Awards: Citations; 5 RAR -- The Tigers: The Raising; Vietnam historically independent; Operations: 16 major oprations; Support: Armour Artillery Engineers and Air; The Enemy: The Vietcong and his supporters: A Pictorial Records: Peronalities how the war was really won pp122-200; The Nominal Roll. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to. 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment Hardcover
1939rif. 024450Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1939. vi 266pp bw ills. Or green cloth with circled kangaroo in gilt to front. Very light foxing to page edges endpapers toned. SIGNED and inscribed by author on title page- "To Beryl. May all your friends be true ones. Ion L Idriess. April 1941." . Signed & Inscribed By the Author. National Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
rif. 78173Sydney Artt in Australia 1932. 4to. c.74pp. Colour and b/w illustrations a very good copy. First edition. Issue devoted to the work of Thea Proctor. Sydney Artt in Australia 1932. unknown
1929rif. 96747Thebarton: The School 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Thebarton The School 1929. Octavo iv advertisements 64 4 advertisements pages with 14 illustrations and numerous advertisements plus cover advertisements. Colour pictorial wrappers lightly marked and creased with a few tiny edge tears to the rear panel; an excellent copy internally fine. This very detailed souvenir programme includes a six-page history of the school. The School paperback
rif. 3380863Mexiko, Pioneer Publishers, s.d. 64 S. Originalbroschur.
1963DJ with light rubbing to extremities and a bit darkened. ; Four months exploration resulted in this report from the noted author. Maps in endpaper. Much info about the fauna of Australia.; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 432 pages
1967London, Chatto & Windus, 1967, in-8, cartone editoriale con sovraccoperta, pp. 382. Con illustrazioni in b.n., cartine, bibliografia e un glossario.
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rif. 015266Sydney: Sydneysider Company No date c 1932. 52pp 23 poems on the page rectos with illustrations by French Paris Salon exhibition artists facing on the page versos. The title and facing pages have been lightly attached in one place causing the loss of a small section of the the word 'Sonnets' in the details of author's other books beneath the author's name on the title page. One or two minor closed page edge tears. Illustrated textured wrappers ligthtly worn at the spine foot. Note: 'Under the title 'A thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever' these poems some over noms-de-plume all appeared in The Sydneysider together with the companion reproductions of the paintings which inspired them'. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Decorations by Roy Hodgkinson. 4to. Sydneysider Company Paperback
1949rif. 143064Adelaide: The Company 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Company 1949. Quarto 36 pages with numerous illustrations and a colour frontispiece by Ian McBain. Cream cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in brown on the front cover; cloth slightly foxed; boards slightly bowed as often; an excellent copy. A 'With the Compliments' slip from the company is loosely inserted. A small pressed metal plaque celebrating the company's 100th anniversary is mounted on the half-title; we have not seen this before in the numerous copies we have handled. The Company hardcover
1986rif. 147599Adelaide: The Authors 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide The Authors 1986. Tall octavo xii 241 pages with numerous illustrations plus endpaper maps. Pictorial papered boards very lightly bumped at the extremities; light pencil underlining to a few pages; an excellent copy. The Authors hardcover
