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191632 pages. Features: Cover photo of the King and Queen in horse-drawn carriage on the way to St. Paul's for the Memorial Service of Lord Kitchener; Two-page illustration of Lord Kitchener's Memorial Service in St. Paul's; Five photos of Lord Kitchener's early life from a family album; One page black and white illustration of Colonel Henry Elliott Chevallier Kitchener, Second Earl Kitchener of Khartoum; Four sketches of a great Sea-Fight, including image of the sinking destroyer "Shark"; One-page illustration of the "Shark" firing her last torpedo as she sank in the battle of Jutland; Photos of five men who died with Lord Kitchener - Sir H.F. Donaldson, Brig.-General Wilfred Ellershaw, Mr. L.S. Robertson, Mr. H.J. OL'Beirne, and Captain of H.M.S. "Hampshire", H.J. Savill; Two-page illustration of German light cruiser sinking in the North Sea with British destroyers in background; Two pages with six photos of damage to British light war-ships after the North Sea victory; Two illustrations of the opening encounters of the naval battle, 31 May, 3:30pm; One-page memorial photo portrait of Field-Marshal Early Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome, K.G., etc.; Two pages with nine photos illustrating Lord Kitchener and the armies raised by the magic of his name; Two pages with seven photos illustrating Lord Kitchener as Secretary of State for War, the last phase of his great career; Photo of Lord Kitchener visiting wounded Indian soldiers; Photo of Lord Kitchener visiting the wounded V.C., Subadar Mir Dast; Page with seven photos of Lord Kitchener with French, Russian and Italian allies; Center page includes nine photos of Lord Kitchener at the Dardanelles, visiting Gallipoli to consider the question of evacuation; Brief article on automobiles and 24-hour distance records; Several pages of charming vintage ads. Please note: Extra-heavy wear to this copy, particularly the last leaf which is missing the ads on its lower third. Center page loose but present. Outer page holding by one staple. A worthy copy of this special WWI isssue dominated by content on Lord Kitchener. Book
1971Book shows light wear only, age toning to paper. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 222 pages, full of teeth and anatomical drawings, chapters include: Anatomy; Food and feeding habits; Man-eaters; Freshwater sharks; Pilots and remoras; Shark myths and legends; Fisheries and the utilization of sharks.
1957132 pages. Fiction: Shark Water; The Jacksboro Mob; Marriage is Not for Me!; The Lost City; The Girl He Remembered (part 1 of 2); The Artless Heiress (part 3 of 8). Articles: The Deep South Says "Never!" to Desegregation (part 1 of 5); I Call on Wyatt Earp - the real life of TV's fastest-drawing, straightest-shooting Western marshal, as played by Hugh O'Brian; How They Meet Payrolls in Russia - are Red industry executives as good as their American counterparts?; Mr. President! - the Presidential press conference; The Face of America - The Languid Sands of Ocean City (photo); Is Sherman Lollar Better Than Yogi Berra?; Boom in Part-Time Jobs - with photo of Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld of Manpower Inc.; The Gentlemen in the Garden - The Men's Garden Club of Los Angeles - wonderful color photos; Ads: Western Union ad features photo of Fred Cole, President, Cole of California; Whitman's Chocolates; Republic Steel; Chrysler Windsor Two-Door Hardtop - color-photo; Boeing 707; Hammond organs; Admiral fridges - nice two-pages in color; Interesting two-page Pure Oil ad; Hertz Rent a car; Frigidaire pink fridge; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Two-page Pontiac photo ad; Nice color vintage Thermos ad; Ford color ad featuring the Fairlane 500 Town Victoria; Wheaties - with square dancing motif; Nice two-page color photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau instructs how to prepare Iced Coffee; Sunbeam percolator; L&M cigarettes with nautical theme; Nice color-photo ad for Johnson outboard motors; Nice two-page color American Airlines ad shows wealthy clientelle; Caterpillar ad displays work on the interstate highway system; Two-page GM ad for Fisher Body; Harrison air conditioning color-photo ad; National Cash Register ad for till that calculates change; Avis Rent-a car; Yale Hoist color-photo ad shows Hanford Atomic Plant nuclear waste being handled by one of their hoists, complete with men in hazmat suits; Union Pacific All Coach Domeliner ad; Wow- uncommon half-page color ad for Dairy Queen; Dogde Power Giant truck ad; Nice one-page color Viceroy cigarette ad features Sam Snead and Cary Middlecoff. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1962Features: Will College by Wasted on Your Child? - by Walter M. Lifton; An American Hero - the exclusive story of how Edgaar Buell, an American farmer, has devoted his life to a one-man crusade for freedom and democracy in war-torn, Communist-infiltrated Laos; People on the Way Up - Helen Mann, Ralph Bonham (inventor of the Tote Gote), poet W.D. Snodgrass; Queen of the Anglers - Dorothea Dean has already reeled in five world records - shark, marlin, tuna, etc.; An Everyday Tragedy - each year 38,000 Americans die on our highways - a survivor, Norman Sobel, tells of the terrible aftermath of one such disaster; Help Wanted in Washington - the Kennedy administration discovers that too few top minds want to work for their country; Sad and Lonely Clown - Red Skelton, a comedian for 33 years, has banked millions, but offstage he is tormented - Hollywood's loneliest man; Why Good Dogs go Wrong - befuddled pooches are now seeing their own psychiatrist!. Nice Coke ad on back cover shows three Coke floats. Average wear. Magazine
1914100 pages plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: Real-Life Romances - six narratives of travel in Italy; Captain Thompson's 'Catch' - Captain Thompson of Knight's Key, Florida catches a huge bizarre 'whale/shark' - article with photos; Drifting Through Mesopotamia - Russian M. Dutkevitch and his photo-illustrated account of floating down the mighty Tigris to Bagdad; A Naturalist in the Arctic - Mr. Koren, a Norwegian naturalist, becomes a castaway in Siberia after his vessel is wrecked in the ice; The "Phantom Brigands" of Pegomas - how the puzzle of these these French criminals (described in the March, 1912 issue) was finally solved; Our Trip to the Kolahoi Glacier - a journey by two officers of the Indian Army to the source of the Jhelum River - with great photos; My Adventures in Sarawak (part II) - Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak describes her time as the Rajah's bride; Two Years in Guatemala - Alfred R. Lamb describes his eventful time organizing the police force of Guatemala; The Bishop's Visit - what happened when a Bishop visited the bungalow of an Indian planter; The Fur-Buyer's Peril - Frank J. Scheider nearly froze to death in the wilds of Ontario; Moose-Hunting in New Brunswick; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1927Pages 338-420 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: By Water in the Desert - an African witch doctor puts a curse on three white men; "Highclimbing" in the Tall Timbers - photo-illustrated article on high-climbers (high-riggers) of the Pacific Northwest which provides a vivid account of their work and its perils; Kwis-Kwis The Killer - British Columbia police sergeant Letherdale brings to book a most cunning and dangerous murderer in the vicinity of Queen Charlotte Sound; "Within the Law" - an unscrupulous Winnipeg estate agent tries to bring off an extra-smart deal; An African No Man's Land - the first crossing by white men of a queer region in the heart of the Belgian Congo - with photos; My Grandfather's Watch - after a watch is stolen in India, a servant suggests an unusual - and successful - method of retrieving it; Shark Catching Extraordinary - a local fisherman devises a novel method to take care of a shark which is threatening swimmers at a New Zealand resort; Through Spain in Disguise (part II) - Count and Countess Malmignati travel through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars; The Guru's Message - Journalist Colonel Charles Harrison Gibbons lay at death's door near the Khyber Pass but was relieved by a friend from a thousand miles away who was somehow contacted by an old native priest; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" (part IV) - the adventures of six young men sailing from Shanghai to Copenhagen; "On Construction" - the adventures of trying to build a new railway through the wilds of Africa; Experiences with the Alligators of Cambridge Gulf in Australia, with illustration of a Carl Jacobs alligator trap and photo of a massive 'gator caught at Wyndham; A Night with Lions - the appalling experience of corporal Fairweather of the B.S.A. Police on the banks of the Zambezi; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1916Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood - a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage 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
1957Features: The Voice of Afwi - the Toma tribe of Lower Guinea in Africa by Hugo Charteris (continued in a later issue); The Sabotaged Derelict - a tale from a Coast Guard officer on America's eastern seaboard; Little People of the Snows - Penguins (nice photos); Only Two Came Home - Fierce shark attacks documented; The Navy to the Rescue - an event which earned the author, Admiral Lord Mountevans, the only gold medal ever awarded by Lloyds; I was kidnapped by a runaway killer - Walter Boyd James in Penticton , British Columbia - the murder of Constable Geoffrye Ashton aboard the lake steamer S.S. Okanagan; The Curse of Kaimakam - troubles for the El Habr Arabs; Descent from Danger - Part II of "I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone" by Dennis Roberts; Treasure Islands of the Atlantic - where pirates buried their booty; The Manatee; and more. Backstrip open at places else clean and unmarked with average wear. Book
1946Stories: The Convict Who Captured a Prison; Adventures in Manchuria; The Big Redwood; Ocean Tramps; The Personal Touch; Ripple Rock; The Man from Cork; The Reluctant Tiger; Blood Money; Breach of Contract; Nigger Goes Shark Fishing; Passage to Bahia; Gold Coast English; The Sea-Cook's Day Out; What Happened at Hossainpur; The Wide World and the P.O.W. Above-average wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
1937Stories: The Nazco Patrol; North for Timber; The Keeper's Tale; The Editor's Post Bag; The Hunting Down of Sultana; Three Dogs; The Grey Shark; Blackmailing a Railway; The Grey Shark; The Blue Grass Amulet; New Zealand Hermits; Missing; The Blue Glass Amulet; Indian Jugglers; Major the Outlaw. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
1947Stories: The Christmas Tree Derby; The Last of the Conquistadores; Solving Five Thousand Mysteries; Climbing under a Mountain; Searching for Smith; The Land of Mud Castles; South Sea Sugar; We Covered the Water-Front; Shark Hunting; The Spell; Mystery Moths; The Pursuit of the Breelong Blacks. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
1953Features: Gurkha Soldier - the author served with the Gurkha's throughout the late war; Canada's Cat-Swings - Cat trains are used to transport supplies over huge distances in Canada's north; Shark Bait - Elephant Graveyards; The Interventor Gets Busy - reprint of the 1934 story of the author who was sent to Peru to secure possession of some mines which had been illegally seized; V.G.I. - the author, C.A. Chard, had an undersea career of 30 years; The Bungalow - story from a little Indian rest house; Salmon-Fishing in Bering Sea - Interesting glimpses of the salmon-packing industry in Alaska, with photos; British Courage - fire aboard the British Courage which was carrying nine thousand tons of oil; The Smoke-Signal - a story from and Australian mounted constable; and more. Small openings along back strip. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
1924Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Mad Mike" - Part I - The adventures of a well-known South Seas character, including his romantic connection with the beautiful half-caste Laumona; The Forest Dwellers of Arabuko - Photo-illustrated article on the shy and elusive East African Sanya race; My Wife's Double - told by Sidney Fitzgerald, now chief engineer with a firm in Portuguese East Africa; In Quest of the Unknown - Part I - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges meets the strange islanders of the San Blas Archipelago and the mysterious Chucunaque - illustrated with photos; My Chinese Crystal - This story of events surrounding an ancient crystal, believed to be stolen from a Chinese temple, will keenly interest students of the occult; The Very Keen Man - How an energetic Central African Native Commissioner conceived a Great Scheme - and what happened to it; The Great Pay-Train Hold-Up - For several years the police of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were at their wit's end to deal with an epidemic of pay-roll robberies; The Big-Game Trapper - R.D.S. describes some thrilling experiences encountered by well-known trappers; Through Savage Europe - Part III - Richard Carline describes his holiday painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro - with photos; "Down Texas Way" - The wife of a Texas rancher tells the tale of three high-spirited youngsters, a desperate gang of escaped convicts, a night alarm, and a mysterious disappearance; Across the Great Sahara - Part IV - The story of a wonderful exploit - a camel-back journey from south to north through the Sahara - with photos; Donnelly's Luck - An old prospector strikes it rich, only to fall into the hands of rascally claim-jumpers; Twenty-Three Hours of Horror - A young fireman, Clermont Lafayette Staden, falls overboard from the American oil-tank steamer Fred W. Weller in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1906Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
1948Best.-Nr. 62663Wien, Maximilian Kraemer, o. J. (1948). 8°. 48 S., Illustr.-OHeft.
1967Contents: Protests in the U.S. - photo of MLK; Apollo 204 - report on the capsulre fire disaster; Photo of RJK in Mississippi; Photo of Tom Clark in 1942 beside "Enemy Alien" poster; Time Essay - the Churches' influence on secular society; Feature article on Brazil and its President - with many color photos; Vietnam war update; Nice full-page color ad for Tempo cigarettes; Singapore - with photo of Kee Kuan Yew; Nice Jeepster ad; Mario Andretti; Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell in action photo; Shotputter Randy Matson; Loan shark Harold "Kayo" Konigsberg; Credit Cards; Boeing 737 maiden flight photo; Ford executives rewarded for success of Mustang; Emmett & Stone - merchandisers; Pipeline push in western Europe; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1928Best.-Nr. 62657Ohne Ort, ohne Verlag bzw. Drucker, o. J. (Nachdruck der Ausgabe Heidenau, Freya, 1928ff.). Kl.-8°. Illustr.-OHefte.
Best.-Nr. 553Camille Rousset . Paris 1947
195466 pages. Features: News Photos; Feature interview with engineer Ken Browne of the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) on RDC, piggyback, diesels, yards and - of course - his own streamliner of tomorrow; In Search of Steam - 1 - Steam Safari - searching the Canadian woods for a vanishing species - great article with photos; Photo Section includes a super centerfold photo of a Broken Hill Express Shark Nose pulling out of Adelaide; When Steam Ruled the West End - West End, Cumberland Division; Baldwin's Barnstorming Behemoth - the strange story of the 60000 4-10-2 - super article with great photos; Narrow Gauge in the Hawkeye State; Great vintage ads; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
Best.-Nr. 122522Paris Presses Universitaires de France 1994. Original publisher's green cloth hardback title on spine and frontcover small 4to: Vol. 1. 1020pp. ij Vol. 2: xxxiij 742pp. ij Very fine copies - complete set. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France 1994 hardcover
Best.-Nr. 13009PARIS, Amiot Dumont - Coll. "Bibilothèque de la Mer" - 1952 - In-8 - Broché - Sous jacquette illustrée, avec léger manque en coiffe - Carte, illustrations NB HT - 270 pages - Très propre
PARIS, Amiot Dumont - Coll. "Bibilothèque de la Mer" - 1952 - In-8 - Broché - Sous jacquette illustrée, avec léger manque en coiffe - Carte, illustrations NB HT - 270 pages - Très propre
In-8, 270p. Illustré de quelques planches hors texte. En parfaite condition.
Best.-Nr. 138373aafNorth-Holland, 1992, lg. in-8vo, XVIII + 960 p., previous owner inscription on first fly, orig. publisher’s illustrated red cloth. Spines sunned, else a fine set.
