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1986A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light edge wear. 8 3/4"w x 11"h. Unpaginated.
1992A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark green cloth boards show slightly bumped corners. 120 pages. 10 1/2"w x 10"h, 71 reproductions of artist Mary Frank's work, including 23 plates in full color. Essays by Peter Matthiessen.
1949A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to cover. Large format: 10"w x 12 1/4"h. 88 pages. Many full-page color and b&w illustrations by Jacob Bates Abbot.
2000Book is in excellent condition, as new with deep red covers and gilt print in very large format. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, printed on heavy, glossy paper Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 263 pages with large full color photos throughout with sections on the school of Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, Rattanakosin (1st and 2nd periods) the ddhas of the past, Ten great Jatakas, The Buddha, Personas of high rank, Secondary persons; with a map, notes, bibliography, glossary at the back. Lots of boobs, abductions, the occasional cock n' balls, demons, big hats, elephants.
1950250p. + numerous photographs. Very XLib. 8vo. Rebound. Hardbound. Reading copy only. INDIA BOX 1
1975284p. + Plus full page maps and photographs, most in color. Photograph endpapers. Inked ownership. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. AFRICA/5
1929pp. x, 294 + Plus frontis, numerous full page photographs. Title page printed in red and black. Bookseller's label. Decorative endpapers. Large 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding, spine repaired. Eleventh impression. AFRICA/2
199312 page board book featuring lovable Dumbo and his happy adventures in the circus. Book
1931Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
1984Unpaginated. "Here is a big, beautiful, learn-about-colors book starring one of the most beloved characters in children's literature - Babar!" Assorted defects but remains a decent copy for informal use. Book
1937Stories: The Ice Jam; The Manila Fireflies; Squaw Mike; Crashing into Burma; The Wheat Stealers; What Happened to the Bullion Box; One Christmas Day; The Railroad Boomer; There She Blows!; Rounded-up Wild Elephants; Tracking Down Hot Oil; Witchcraft; A Ride for 1000 Pounds; On Patrol with the B.P.P. Average wear. Book
1992424 pages. Excellent photography, primariliy in colour, throughout. "In the final analysis, this book should serve as an homage to the African elephant and as a celebration of African creativity." - From Preface. Needs rebinding. Hanging together but loosely. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. A wonderful work worth preserving. Book
1957Features: Galleon Gold - Lieut. Harry E. Rieseberg is continually drawn to the silver shoals off the Bahamas to search for underwater treasure; Trapped by the Bor Herd of Elephants; The Mowha Maneater - a tiger story in the Indian jungles; We Chose Danger - an adventure of Frank Illingworth in troubled Morocco; Badboy of the Fisheries - the common seal; H.M.S. Thule Intercepts - an intensely dramatic story of a submarine at war as told by its Commander, Alastair Mars, D.S.O., D.S.C. and Bar; Volcanic Island - "I Know an Island"; Swallowed by the Jungle - the conclusion of "Manhunt in Green Hell", a story from the French Guiana jungle; Iceland Pony Race; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Chip from spine. Sound copy. Book
1953Features: Jungle Man-Hunters - horse-mounted frontiersmen of Ecuador - photos; The Secret Submarine Agent - describes the author's meeting with "Storsand," a Scandinavian inventor who devised a curious one-man diving bell; Terror by Night - Man-Leopard killings in Nigeria (part I); Vagabond in Corsica - a tramp through the interior of Corsica - photos; The Dope-Runners - illegal drug traffic in South Africa; Diving for Crocodiles - at the Tanganyila-Nyasaland border; The "Mulga Wire" Mystery; The "Football Wallahs" - an amusing story from India of how a British soldier made friends; My Friend Sung Li - the companion of an ex-sailor; Beware of Elephants - encounters with elephants on the Queen's Highway; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
1908Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
197172 pages. Features: Great Volvo photo ad shows six Volvos stacked on top of another!; Two-page Mutual Life shows photos of dozens of their top sales agents from across Canada; Colour photo Canadian Club ad shows Mr. and Mrs. Tony Parkinson firing darts at elephants in Kenya; Alden Nowlan's Canada; What Went Wrong for the Class of '71? - feature article by Barbara Frum with statements from six university valedictorians from across Canada; Three men from three generations talk to Adrienne Clarkson on love, sex, adultery and what marriage is all about; The Guess Who - Canada's richest and raunchiest rock band - article with large photo of band on stage; The radicalization of Robert Lemieux - lawyer for the FLQ; The West is Ready to Revolt - John Barr and Owen Anderson state their case for separatism; The Table Talk of Marshall McLuhan - article by Peter C. Newman with nice photo of McLuhan; It's No Longer Possible to be an Indian - Chief John Henry describes the impact of white man's ways; Paris Smiles Again; Nice full-page CBC Radio/TV colour photo ad shows a group of famous Canadian athletes wearing their gear - including Mel Profit of the Toronto Argonauts and boxer Clyde Gray; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
193624 pages. Contents: Can You Outplan the 17-Year Locusts?; Commodity Exchange Act; Dismissal Wage Plans; Extensive soil erosion; Foreign News; Violence in Palestine near Tulkarem; Jews flea Minsk for Warsaw; Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Philippine defense plan; Anglo-Italian Deal Negotiated - Sanctions Ended, and League of Nations' future debated; Current Events; Hindenberg makes third crossing of North Atlantic in record time of 59 hours 50 minutes; National News - with photo of former Governor "Al" Smith; Congress; Editorial; Marketing; Declaration of Independence Says All Men Created Equal; Science News; American Elephants; Illustration of Mme. Irene Joliot-Curie; Tennesse Chiropractor Dr. W.E. Mephvin makes flight discovery by observing pigeons; Social Security Law Intended to Banish Poverty Fear of the Aged and Jobless; Vintage ads; and much more. One-inch by two-inch hole in front page. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1934256 pages. Black and white frontis portrait of author plus dozens of wonderful black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Topics include: Origin and History of Wild Animal Training, Housekeeping for Wild Animals, The Feeding of Snakes and Elephants, Characteristics of Different Animals, Animal Instinct, How to Capture Whild Animals, How to Teach Wild Animals, The Principles of Training, The Animal Trainer, Guarding against Accidents. School stamps and a variety of pencil jottings upon front endpaper else unmarked. Above-average external wear. 3"x3" ink stain upon front board. Binding and hinges intact. A worthy reading copy of this most interesting work. Book
1950342 pages. Signed and generically inscribed by author atop first blank leaf. Some black and white illustrations. The twenty chapters include such titles as: 'Workin' on the Railroad', The Transcontinental, Auction Sale!, Pioneering, We Become a Town, Fire!, The Settlers, Elephants Clear the Land, July 29/1916, Aftermath, The Road Back, Typhoid!, and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Minor lean to spine. A worthy copy of this vintage history. Book
194756 pages. Features: Babies for Export - Province of Alberta trafficking in illegitimate babies(!); Billy Butlin - great photo-illustrated article on this Canadian who went to Britain with $25 and made a fortune out of holiday camps; Brutal Vancouver Murder - Who Killed Woo Dack? - Famous Canadian Crimes #18; What's New in Toys? - Four pages of great photos, including a super-streamlined aluminum bicycle; Bach to Boogie - Quebec's 18th Century Orchestra of Chamber Music - article with photos; Drunken Elephants battle in India! - article with photos; Adele Inge - The World's top ice-acrobat - article with photos of her forward and backward somersaults on skates!; Tail Spin; Holiday Stills - Christmas glamour shots featuring Patricia Roc, Jane Hylton and Diana Dors; Jo-Anne Chong of Toronto; Harry Mathers; Thor Hansen; Spotlight on Oscar Peterson - article with photo; FDR film review with many photos; Birth of a Monkey - Ruby at Philadelphia's Zoo; Alice Bradshaw; Ruth Warwick's Wardrobe. Stories: The Gift of the Magi; Miracle of the Bells (condensed book). Average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1967112 pages. Features: Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Great Robin Hood-themed ad for Patty Petite fashions; Nice one-page black and white photo portrait Hohner harmonica ad features Al Hirt; Lovely Springmaid color-photo centerfold Springmaid ad features Sandy Hilton; Nice Jade East ad; Great Jane Irwill ad entitled Knitticism!; Martin Luther King Defines "Black Power" - photo-illustrated article in which King says Blacks respond to violence because they lack influence on American thought, and he advocates the use of Black economic, political, and ideological power (Fisher, page 10); What's Wrong with American Newspapers? - a newsman's critique of the press; The Ibos go it alone in Nigeria - photo-illustrated article; WWII sex education cartoon by Sgt. George Baker features Sad Sack after watching an Army sex hygiene film; Lovely two-page Faberge lipstick ad; Nice color ad for Rooster square-bottom ties; What We're Learning About Learning; Italian villa of Romano Rui designed by Gian Case; Great photo of 1920s New York newsstand; Elephants to the Rescue in Vietnam; Fantastic very colorful one-page photo ad for Pinch whisky appears to feature Benny Goodman and friends; and more. Please note: Missing pages 87-92. Above-average wear. Some pages loose but present. Covers loose but present. Faint library stamp and handwritten date upon front cover. A rough but worthy reference copy. Book
1923Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Magician's Curse - a vendetta on Sardinia; With a Motion-Picture Camera Under the Sea - using the ingenious technology invented by Mr. J. Ernest Williamson - article with wonderful photos; Three Asses In the Pyrenees - part 3 of a fun pursuit of adventure travel in Europe; The Soul of Burma - Part 2 of 2 - nice photo-illustrated article on a trip to Irawadi; "Sugar" - ; The Tragedy of "Miss Miami" - this flying boad crashed on a trip to Bimini from Miami; On the Spoor of the Elephant - J. Morewood Dowsett describes his escape from elephants, and recounts stories of his companion John Deacon - article with photos; My Boa-Constrictor - Sir Curtis Lampson and a snake which escaped in a crowded hotel; Paper Money - a quick tale from West Africa; Caught in a Death-Trap - Part 2 of 2 of the remarkable tribulations of two motorcyclists crossing the Mojave desert in California; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 3 of 3 of this incredible biography; Millions in Oil - the marvels of Mexia, America's latest field - article with photos; Luck - a story from Alaska. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1920Pages 449-536, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Mystery of Dominic Pietro - how an innocent man was saved from the gallows; The Trials of A Naturalist's Wife - part 4; A Woman's Ordeal - Mrs. C.T. Sturgis was a prisoner of Mexican bandits; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - Part 2 of the great photo-illustrated story of the author's travels among the Wahhabi Arabs; Hunting the Addo Elephants - they were marked for extinction at the hand of famous hunter Major Pretorius - article with many photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 5 - Adventures in Peru, with great photos, including carrying a piano up a mountain!; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season - terrible flooding makes travel very difficult; Photo of 30,000 coconuts being sprouted in Tobago; In Old Madrid - two Americans are left behind in Madrid with an elephant and soon the animal is matched up for battle with a fine Spanish bull!; Photo of London "Dog Market"; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron - Part 2; Photo of the only inhabited "Cloghaun" in Ireland; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 4 - The Adventures and Daring Escape of Airman Capt. T.W. White; A Land of Gods - photo-illustrated article about the people and places of the Kulu Valley of India; The Hunting of Lot Shumway - the pursuit and ultimate capture of this Northern Arizona badman; How Nixon Made Good - a western railroad tale; Photo of Harry Rich of Kansas City - the Human Gun Carriage!; Photo of large tree growing up through millstone at Sheldon's Mill at South Dover, New York. Somewhat above-average wear with openings along backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1919Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa (part I) - adventures from the flying log-book of an R.A.F. officer during ther campaign in German East Africa; My Adventures in Bolivia - Frank Rose was arrested as a dangerous revolutionary but managed to escape; Relief Worker's Adventures (part I) - thrilling adventures among the war victims of Armenia, Syria, and Persia, with photos; Hunting Big Game by Motor-Car - Captain F.A.M. Webster describes how he does it, with photos; The Adventures of a Newspaper-man (part III) - Frederic Martyn's adventures - with photos; Pukalofa's Tragic Revenge - Captain Samuel Randall recounts the brutal behavior of a whaling captain towards his crew in 1868, and what followed; In the Wilds of Siberia (Part I) - great photo-illustrated article by Harry Somerset-Lister describes his adventures; The Theft of the Zuni God - in New Mexico three U.S. Cavalry troopers stole the idols of the Indians, thus incurring their wrath; "The Surf Deer" - Reminiscences of the Dover Destroyer Patrol by Captain E.R.G.R. Evans, the Commander of the destroyer Viking; Shooting Elephants in the Middle of a Battle - what happened during the German East African Campaign; Hunting an Elephant During War - another thrilling incident of an elephant hunt during stern fighting in German East Africa, related by a Rhodesian soldier; Our Life at Holzminden - Lieut. J. Whale describes his life in this German POW camp in Brunswick, and provides his own illustrations; The Making of a Mandarin - photo-illustrated explanation of the curious and picturesque examinations which are held every three years in China and Indo-China for the coveted diploma of Chu-Jen, which entitles the holder to call himself a full-fledged Mandarin; Smugglers' Strategy Unveiled - photo-illustrated article explaining the many ingenious methods used by German and Swiss smugglers to get food and other things into enemy territory; The Tragedy of the Sling-Chain - Miner Bill Burton is killed in Australia; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
192784 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: An Elephant-Hunt in Canada - a six-week hunt results when seven valuable elephants escaped from a circus and took to the British Columbia woods - article with photos; A Fugitive in Thirstland - A former German officer who became a adventurer is South Africa is continually chased by the police; Trekking in Unknown Abyssinia - great photo-illustrated article; The Friendly Mosquito - how a mosquito saved the life of T.A. Shields; Our Salvage Job - a plucky attempt to salvage the crippled vessel Stiklestadt; The Decree of the Wild - a grim tale of the Canadian Far North, 1,200 miles north of Edmonton; "The White Man's Great War-Game" (part III) - amongst the savages of the Sura, Angas, and other primitive tribes of Northern Nigeria, Geoffrey Barkas produced a film founded upon the history of British Administration - article with great photos; Gulbaz Khan's Revenge - the story of a long-delayed vengeance for a trifling action that had far-reaching consequences; Where Everybody Plays "Cat's Cradle" - photo-illustrated article on the people of the Pelews (Pelew Islands); Fur-Getting in Australia - Australian men make a good living hunting rabbits and foxes for their furs; The Partnership That Went Wrong - four U.S. Army soldiers pool their savings to run a sawmill; What Happened to Wilson - struggle for life with an enraged tiger in the heart of a big city; Through France with "Sylvabelle" (part II) - Mr. Leslie Richardson's yachting voyage from Brittany to the Riviera; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book