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1950Features include: The Tropic Seas for Trochus - author's experience with the hunters of these sea-molluscs; The Cleaning-Up of Williamson County - Part I of the rise and fall of Charlie Birger in Southern Illinois; Born Lucky; South Sea Solomon - The disastrous tale of a man with big ideas in the South Seas; The Runaway Steamer - The illegal voyage of a New Zealand river-steamer, the Ruawai, from Helensville to Auckland; Amazon Wonderland - author's experiences with Amazonian wildlife; Corporal Garaba's Return - A remarkable story from West Africa; Bushed - Lost in the Australian outback; Magic or Moonshine - A veteran inspector's puzzling stories of 'black magic' in Africa; Giuliano - Bandit Extraordinary; Close-Up - Peacock's Feathers; The Beehive. Illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Unmarked. Binding sound. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
195626 pages. Features: Some facts about Atlantic Salmon; The Moose That Was a Grizzly - article with photo of Lloyd Stonehouse; Hunting & Summer Cabins; Chuck Ewart and his 1954 record Steelhead; 1955 Fishing Contest Results; Going, Going....; Nice ad inside back cover announces trophy winners in the Thomas Adams Ontario Deer Hunting Competition, with the names of winners including A.V. Burniston of Chatham, Marvin D. Shaw of IN, Walter Schmidthurst of OH, and eight others. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
195634 pages. Features: Salt Water Tackle Busters; Swollen Prairie Deer Herds; Yuculta Battlers; All-'Round Rifles; This Bear Didn't Care; My First and Last Northern Pike; More Take Home Fish; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195634 pages. Features: Canadian Champions; The Fabulous Fon du Lac; How to Get Hooked by Antique Guns; Transplanting Dore; More Take Home Fish (2nd instalment); Cooking Canadian Fish; Sleeping Robes for the Sportsman; Back cover Brading's Ale features Karsh photo of gent smoking pipe; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195630 pages. Features: Human Bloodhounds of Outback Australia; First Canadian Open All-Around Skeet Championships; White Fury - Beluga whales in Hudson's Bay (part 1 of 2); Spoon Slow for Walleyes; Smoke Jumpers; Feeding the Ducks; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195630 pages. Features: Wild Rice; White Fury - Hudson's Bay Beluga Whales (part 2); Springhole Speckles; Pheasants in Nova Scotia; Chasing Manitoulin White Tails; Lakers (Lake Trout); Back cover Brading's Ale ad features Karsh photo of gent in golf locker room; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195634 pages. Features: Flyrod Roughnecks; Canada's Trap Champs; Waterfowl Flyways; The Business for Bucks; 1956-57 Hunting, Trapping Laws; 1956-57 Migratory Bird Regulations; Dancing Dynamite (The Smallmouth Bass); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195630 pages. Features: You Can Never Tell; Way Down in Old Nova Scotia; Muskets for Moose; Cooking Canadian Game; Sophisticated Salmon of the Capilano River; Arctic Musk-Oxen; Canada's Olympic Shooting Hopes; Outlaws by Night; Game Management; Back cover Brading's Ale ad features Karsh photo of gent after fishing; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195738 pages. Features: Olympic Shooting Champ Gerry Ouellette, of Windsor, Ontario; Square Tail Tactics (part 1); Caribou Crisis; Nova Scotia Deer in Danger?; 1957 Fishing Regulations; Collector of Powder Flasks, Donald Blythe; The Biggest Walleyes; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
195738 pages. Features: Fishing Fashions; Fabulous Nighthawk Lake; Should Snaring Rabbits be Prohibited?; Stripers; Square Tail Tactics (part 2); Cougar; Faithful Friend; Great back cover ad for handguns, rifles and machine guns offered by Hy Hunter... ahh, the good old days; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
195730 pages. Features: Hunting Alone; The Blue Grouse is Tops; Square Tail Tactics (part 7); Protecting Migratory Birds; "It's Proof Enough"; Fishermen are Fun!; The Most Beautiful Will Ever Written; They Got Four Moose; Do Deer Migrate?; Magic Tinsel; Jackers Lose Hunting Licenses; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
198268 pages. Reference list. Generously illustrated in colour and black and white. "It is imperative to learn all we can about this animal and its adaptations to life in central Canada if the species is to persist here, and if we are to understand how the cougar will react to people and livestock under a variety of conditions." - from Preface. Unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this engaging work. Book
1957142 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Introduction mentions how increased hunting has led to increased posting of lands which will likely result in more private shooting preserves. Prior owner's name and date atop first blank leaf. Short tape repairs to spine ends. Binding intact. Contents moderately tanned with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
198696 pages. Features: Landmark exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada; Freewheeling discussion with Harold Town; Architecture at Expo '86; The cottage industry that is wildlife art; Milton Avery's Landscape Legacy; The dark Visions of Donigan Cumming; Cover photo of Jessica Bradley and Diana Nemiroff; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1994v, 109 pages. Glossary. Index. Black and white illustrations. "In this manual, the techniques used to create the 32 different species in the Open Ocean exhibit have been presented in 10 groups, ranging from the simplest to the most complex. These techniques can be adapted for many uses such as reproducing archaeological artifacts as well as biological specimens." - Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Book
2014136 pages. Features: Tammy Garcia - Mastering the Clay; How Fred Harvey Shaped America's View of the West; Maria Martinez and Her Family; Wildlife Stories - Luke Frazier; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1922Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hypnotist Detective - Dr. Leopold Thoma of Vienna is a new kind of detective; Knocking at the Cannibals Door - a very dramatic story of the "white man's burden" near the Kunimaipa River in British New Guinea; My Misadventures in Finistere - an amusing account of a holiday sojourn on a little island off the northern coast of Brittany; Through the East by Air - Part III - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; The Tiger Calls - an account of what befell two Indian teaplanters; Our Little Outing - An exciting story from a P. Burns and Co. beef camp southeast of Olds, Alberta; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part III - the remarkable story of a man who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever occur in America; The Ship That Disappeared - The perilous adventure of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine steamer "Canadian Importer"; The "Human Leopards" - A Terrible secret society in Sierra Leone, West Africa; The Blue Spot Theory - a funny story about checking for birthmarks on Burmese babies; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part I - Oscar Olsson's aim was to shoot big game with a film camera; My Fishing Trip - a British Officer's touch and go experience in Sopor, a village in Kashmir; and more. 86 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1926Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Cowboy in Trouble - A tale from Indian Territory which is now part of Oklahoma; The Seminoles of Florida - An interesting photo-illustrated account of these hermits of the Florida wilds; The Longest Voyage on Record - An authoritative account of the "Maria Madre", presently moored at Paysandu, Uruguay - with photos; The Way of the Wild - Photo-illustrated article by cinematographer F. Ratcliffe Holmes about his adventures filming wildlife; Filed - Until Found - The daring escape of John Kelly from the Worcester, MA jail; My First Rhino - After V.G. Bell bagged his first, he was nearly bagged by a nearby rhino; The Wild Tribes of Malaya - Edward E. Long visits unknown stone-age tribes - article with wonderful photos; "Stope Number Five East" - Grim story from the Golden Gleam Mine in Nevada; Among the "White Arabs" - Photo illustrated article on the Shawiya Berbers of Algeria; The Ju-Ju Man's Vengeance - The death of a German by hypnotism in West Africa; Painting Pictures Beneath the Sea - Well-known landscapte artist Tilden Dakin paints submarine 'seascapes' from a diving-bell of his own design; "Ginger" To the Rescue! - A story of the old 'blackbirding' days in the South Seas, when the recruiters were not always over-scrupulous as to how they obtained native labour for the plantations; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part II - Jack McLaren spent eight years with savages on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula in Australia - with photos. 88 pages plus 20 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1927Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The "Goldenburg Coward" - True tale from the headwaters of Spruce River, British Columbia during the gold stampede of summer 1900; Hunting the Long-Haired Chinese Tiger - Lieut.-Commander the Hon. J.M. Kenworthy describes an eventful hunt for this tiger which is larger and more ferocious than the Indian variety; Through Arctic Seas - Part I - The eventful cruise of the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life - with photos; Through Spain in Disguise - Part V - The Count and Countess Malmignati, disguised as Arab beggars, sing and dance for a living; Photo of the smallest teapot in the world, fashioned by Mr. T.A. Vickery, of Main Street, Bantry; Rebecca's Vengeance - An odd story of "Black Man's Magic" in the West Indies from 1903; Looking for Trouble - Alexander MacNab experiences disaster while engaged in a Mexican revolution under General Carranza; ; A Near Thing - A British Intelligence agent arouses suspicion while in German territory; Painting Wild Indians - A. Hyatt Verrill describes his experiences after spending years painting the little-known Indians of Central and South America; Cowboys and Raiders - Jesse C. Carson relates his association with Pancho Villa as a rebel 'general'; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Grace Sprange describes two years of disappointment, disillusionment, and disaster attempting to grow oranges - with photos; The Last of the Little "Shanghai" - brief update and photo on this trusty craft which had previously sailed from Shanghai to Copenhagen; Trapped in a Flooded Tunnel - The terrible experience which befell a diver near the Hartebeestpoort Irrigation Dam, near Pretoria, South Africa; "For the Hounour of the Mounted Police of Canada" - Herbert Patrick Lee relates an experience from when he was a recruit at Regina. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Covers beginning to separate from textblock. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
1918Features: Two-page illustration describes the British share in "the magnificent Italian Victory" - artillery counter-preparation near Asiago; Article by G.K. Chesterton on Mr. Robert Dell who was expelled from France; Photos of Sir Gilbert F. Garnsey, K.B.E., General Guillaumat, Governor of France, and General Diaz of Italy; One-page illustration of British Aeroplane over the recaptured Montello - an air view of the Piave; Potsdam's Disappointment (article); The War Game of the Japanese (article); "The Beef Trip"; Two half-page photos show the raised Piave River; Article about air bombing and bombers; One-page illustration of the Montello, "Entirely retaken with elan from the Austrians by the Italians"; From Virgin Soil to Complete Shipyard in 165 Days - Three pages with fourteen photos marvelously document the rapid construction of the world's largest shipyard on Hog Island, in the Delaware River, just outside Philadelphia; Centrefold illustration of "The Beef Trip", the British Navy's way of securing the nation's food supply; The Conservation of Wild Life in War-Time (article); Detailed diagrams and text describe the Madsen Gun; Full-page illustration compares Britain's liberal rations compared to those of Germany; Roll of Honour - photos of 18 officers including Lieut.-Col. Bertrand D. Gibson; Photos of U.S. Army nurses under gas-mask instruction at Cape Kearney, California; Illustrated ad for the "Kooksjoie" Range warns of imminent coal restrictions; Nice car ads; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Beecham's Pills features reflection of lady in mirror; Back cover ad for Edwards' Harlene hair treatments; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
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