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1988réf. 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
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.
1877réf. 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
1926In-8 p., tela editoriale, pp. 388, con alcuni disegni nel testo e 105 ill. in b.n. in tavole fuori testo. Ben conservato.
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
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
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
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
1930Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Tragic Pearl - First found off the coast of North-West Australia, a special pearl quickly changes from person-to-person, leaving death in its wake - a famous Australian crime story; The Tiger-Killer - Major Jim Corbett specializes in single-handedly shooting troublesome tigers in the hills of Kumaun, India; Blundering Through the Balkans - Part I - John Gibbons takes his amusing act on the road again; The "White Indians" of North Carolina - A photo-illustrated article about the Croatan Indians, said to be the lineal descendants of Raleigh's ill-fated "Lost Colonists," with whom, in 1587, the friendly Red men abandoned the settlement of Roanoke and went out into the wilds to start life afresh; Left in Charge - A 19-year-old, just six weeks from home, finds himself in charge of a lonely South African sheep farm, only to have alarming things begin to happen, including a skirmish with sheep stealers; The Money-Finder - An amusing story involving a peppery West African Commissioner, a wily native chief who tried to avoid paying his taxes, and a young officer who was a bit of a conjurer; The Boy Who Sought Adventures - Part III - B. Wicksteed continues his amazing young adventures; The Opium-Smugglers - In the ancient walled city of Manila the author met a friend who told him this strange story; My Mystery Job - A queer story told by a builder's foreman concerning a remarkable job he had been called upon to undertake; Whose Hippo? - A nasty legal battle ensues after a Hippo is shot; The Land of Mystery - Part III of III - Col. E. Alexander Powell and his cousin Colonel Gallowhur continue their travels through unexplored Nepal - with many lovely photos; The Djimat - The figurehead of an old sailing ship goes missing during alterations and the superstitious natives of Java are sure trouble is sure to follow; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
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
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
1958Features: According to the Law - Lieut.-Col. G.H. Keighley-Bell recalls his adventures with Kurds around 1919; Cut Out and Get Out - Tom H. Inkster recalls logging on Vancouver Island - photos; A Pint for the Man Who Breaks his Oar - fishermen at Aldeburgh, "The Wild Amphibious Race"; A Witch Doctor and the Bride - a Zulu Tale; The Sea Arab - a white man becomes a man of the sea in the tropical islands; Death to the Whites - Lolo St. Paul of the Shuswap Indians in British Columbia taught the law of the White man to the Indians, but to the pioneer-settlers he represented the law of the Redskin - excellent and little-known B.C. history with photos; Outcast of the Silent City - An Indian Adventure; I Lived in the Stone Age - studying aborigines of Australia; The Lost World of Jimmy Angel - a tale of gold, diamonds and Angel Falls, a mile-high waterfall in Venezuela; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding beginning to open at bottom but everything still holding together. Book
1952Features: Diamond Cut Diamond - widespread traffic in diamonds stolen from African mines; A Packet of Trouble - A British soldier in Egypt pretends to help drug-traffickers; Across the High Alps on Skis - an ambitious expedition carried out by four young Scots, many photos; Gypsies of the Arctic - Laplanders; South African Canoe-Racing - Whisky and Water - two odd characters in Australia; Rope's End - a former B.S.A. police-trooper's account of the undoing of a cunning native murderer; Curio-Collecting in Papua - examining native handiwork for the Australian Museum, with photos; Cheating Death; The Sleep-Maker - Puzzling thefts at a Nigerian mining-camp; The Awakening - an innocent man is charged with murder; Poltergeist - a weird story from Borneo; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
1957Features: I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone - the amazing story of Maurice Wilson (continued in a later issue); Death in a Bamboo Staff - Investigating snakes; An extraordinary affair at Upper Blackwood, Australia - mysteriously appearing stones and other objects; A Leopard came by Night - a fright in Uganda; Dogged by a Ghost Ship - aboard the whaler George Henry in Hudson Strait, between Labrador and Baffin Land in 1861; Ice Giving Way - An Anarctic Story; The Dead Walk Here - an incident in Algiers; He Built a Light for All Nations - no two lighthouses are the same; The Pawang's Triumph - an attempt to rid Malayan padi fields of the dreaded Beranang disease; Wild Boar at Bay - an unusual pig hunt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover partially loose. Book
1955Features: 'Twixt Sea and Sand - Part I - Those who man the lightships that keep the world's shipping off the dreaded Goodwins; Build or Die - an Igloo story; Diamonds are Dangerous - Diamond Smugglers and the 'big men' behind them; Danger - Loco Adrift - a giant locomotive slips its lashings in a stormbound ship; Destination Unknown - the second instalment of the adventures of Peter Pinney; The Rain Stoppers - on the West Coast of Africa; Search for Living Gold - Andean Chinchilla; Ghost of the White Chief - John Roberts; The Very Mysterious Eel; A Thousand Miles to Railhead - Motor Transport in North Australia - Road Trains; Horses on Showshoes - an idea which originated 75 years ago at Lardo, British Columbia; Jungle Hideout - the adventures of a white woman who spent nearly 4 years in the jungle running from the Japanese, eating dog, and teaching Guerillas to sing; Paddy's Lapse - A Merchant Navy Officer's Scary Experience; Covers holding but weakly; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Decent copy. Book
1952Features: Dead Man's Double - working aboard a foreign 'tramp' to get home to Australia ends up in big problems because of the author's double; A Baptism of Fire - A young forest ranger of the British Columbia Forest Service fights a fire which puts over a hundred people in a logging camp at risk; The Trek - a minor pioneer adventure in East Africa; A Case of Contraband - happy days in Central America; The Golden Ingot - A West African Confidence Man; Down Mexico Way - Two Jacks ashore get in trouble as they explore the Mexican countryside; The Fire-Walker - the celebrated Hindu shrine at Kataragama, Ceylon; Pioneer Pilot - Peter Strong; One Thing After Another - good luck finally falls on a hard luck fellow in depression-era Australia; The Burma Road - Nice photos; Strange South Sea Burial-Customs; Olsen's Secret - a grim story from the American Coal Fields; The Octopus - a young man's nightmare underwater battle with a gigantic octopus; and more. Above-average wear. Coupon neatly clipped from atop page 121, articles unaffected. Binding intact. Book
1954Features: Seeking Sunken Gold - may be regarded as a sequel to 'The Wreck of the General Grant'; A Cowboy Astray - a trip from Arizona to the Montanas up the Colorado River goes very wrong; Fox-Hunting Extraordinary - using cars to hunt Reynard in Australia; Bedroom Number 5 - a 'queer' story from 'Commerford House'; Fortune in the Air - an amusing tale from Palestine; The Cat Trick - a wireless operator from a Merchant Vessel recalls what happened after a consignment of whisky came onboard; Stowaway to the Arctic - the author was anxious to visit Baffinland and meet the Eskimos - great photos; The Golden Image - a remarkable story from India; Fire-Dancing in Greece - photos; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Nice copy. Book
1953Features: The Death-Bore - A nightmare experience on a railway in the Andes of South America; Wilderness Wandereres - the barren ground caribou of Canada, many photos; Terror by Night - visiting the lonely northwest coast of Australia in search of the alleged footprints of a prehistoric dinosaur; The Spell-Binder - a Natal farmer describes a curious incident related to an African courtship; The Rest Cure - recuperating from tropical fever, the author takes an open-air job hoping it will aid his health...; A Papuan "Pig Festival", with great photos; Time is Money - a story from Bombay by P. Stones; The Steamer will not call; Stolen Gold - ramifications of Far East Gold Smuggling as revealed in Western Australia; The Onlooker - making the only pleasure cruise of his life, a ship's officer is unable to enjoy himself; Slumach Lost Creek Mine Ltd.; and more. Average wear. Chips and openings along backstrip. Binding intact. Book
1944Pages 291-348 plus several pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Killer Sleeman" - a Mountie's challenge handling a cop-killer; The Man Who Lost Face - a young ship's officer gets in the bad books of Chinese smugglers; The Inventor of the "Rugger" - William Webb Ellis; Amateur Bandit; A Paraguayan Dance - wild and wooly doings; "Humpie" - the unfortunate choice of a gold-seeking partner; Crocodiles in Northern Australia - article with great photos; The Clue of the Single Finger-Print - Part III of the robbery ofthe First National Bank at Lamar, Colorado and the bloody aftermath; "Bhang" - the smoking of this forbidden narcotic in Africa; My Elephant Drive - a tale from the Belgian Congo - with photos; Madui's Curse - a Rhodesian tale; Beachcombers' Luck - an amusing story from the British Columbia coast; Fish-Spearing in the South Seas; and more. Above-average external wear. Covers nearly loose. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1952Features: Outlaw Stronghold - the hectic history of a rugged wilderness area in Oklahoma and Arkansas often used as a sanctuary by fugitives; Climbing the Sutherland Falls in New Zealand; Frensham's Bungalow - a strange story related by a former officer of the Indian Army; A Bid for Fortune - a young newcomer to Darwin, Australia joins a veteran skipper in a trip to a secret pearl-oyster bed; A Pygmy Net-Hunt - a graphic description of a most ingenious method of capturing wild animals, with photos; The Lost Mine (Part I) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reputed to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spanish; The New Cook; Diggers - Australian gold-hunters, with photos; Velnagel's Gold - while salvaging old machinery from an abandoned Australian gold mine the narrator (Robert Stevens) stumbled into an extrordinary experience; The Arrow Mystery - a curious affair from the early days of the Nigerian Tin-Field; and more. Covers taped in place. Above-average wear. Book
1929Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
1955Features: The Mystery of Dead Man's Valley - a series of uncanny tragedies connected with a sinister region in the far north of Canada, by Philip H. Godsell; Saharan Adventure - a fascinating journey across the Sahara (to be continued); The "Moorish Prince" Affair - a strange story from aboard a British steamer; Aboriginal Rain-Making in Australia; The thing that eats men - a tale of the 'tree crocodile' from Papua; Hunting Polar Bears, by J.C. Carp, with photos; The Big Bang - a wartime story from Lagos, Nigeria; The Jail Breaker - the case of John Carroll; and more. Few chips from backstrip. Average wear. Binding intact. Sound copy. Book
1954Features: Captain Jan's Christmas-Tree - as told by the former captain of a well-known British liner; Lone Wolf - Roy Gardner, a remarkable American criminal; Our Snake-Hunt - An amusing excursion into the West African bush in quest of a big boa-constrictor; The Ha'porth of Tar - An amusing story of how an excise officer outwits a gang of Burmese opium-smugglers; Killer Cats of British Columbia - Cougars or Mountain Lions have become a serious menace on Vancouver Island - photos; Australia's Mounted Police - they have tamed the formerly hostile aborigines; The Jungle Man - a remarkable character who lived among South American head-hunters; Exploring the "Skeleton Coast" - Searching Southwest Africa for underground springs; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story involving a prospector in Western Australia; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1953Features: The Chief's Daughter - a strange story related by a veteran Nigerian hunter - involves a ritual murder; The Mystery Man - an unusual story from a Merchant Navy Officer; Three Christmas Days - Reprint of a 1905 story related by a veteran Australian gold miner; Big Game Farming on the borders of Kenya and Tanganyika; Dead Man's Double - A very strange sea story; Australia's Prison Trees; Matcheli Makes 'Medicine'; Crack of Doom - a former Mountie's graphic account of a touch-and-go experience in the wilds of the Canadian Arctic (H. Stallworthy); Desert El Dorado - The Early History of Tennant's Creek in Australia; Our trip to Robbers Roost, a roadless wilderness in Nebraska; The Wailing Waterhole - the uncanny history of a Queensland Pool; and more. Chips from backstrip. Faint name atop front cover else unmarked. Back cover partially loose. Quality copy. Book
1954Features: Captain Jan's Christmas-Tree - as told by the former captain of a well-known British liner; Lone Wolf - Roy Gardner, a remarkable American criminal; Our Snake-Hunt - An amusing excursion into the West African bush in quest of a big boa-constrictor; The Ha'porth of Tar - An amusing story of how an excise officer outwits a gang of Burmese opium-smugglers; Killer Cats of British Columbia - Cougars or Mountain Lions have become a serious menace on Vancouver Island - photos; Australia's Mounted Police - they have tamed the formerly hostile aborigines; The Jungle Man - a remarkable character who lived among South American head-hunters; Exploring the "Skeleton Coast" - Searching Southwest Africa for underground springs; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story involving a prospector in Western Australia; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
