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19808vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs throughout and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1909Features: The People of the Caves; My Journey in Bhutan - I; An Arctic Man-Hunt; The Sydney "Flying-Machine"; An Odd Voyage; The Rescue Dogs of St. Bernard; How we Bluffed the Bushrangers; Life in a Japanese Prison; Short Stories - An Adventure in the "Towers of Silence", Hassan's Bride, Prospecting for Yaqui Gold; The Sportsmen of the Near East; Ning Wo the Wonderful; The Golden Beetle; The Riddle of the Zambesi; A Hero's Life Story; "The Hermit of Rotheneuf"; Marooned on a Sandbank; The "Tank Scrap"; Short Stories - A Luncheon Party in Rhodesia, The Ordeal of Mrs. Benns; The Deputation That Failed; An Island of Mystery; The Ghost of No. 1 Jetty; My Journey in Bhutan - II; The One-Eyed Parrot; The "Pearl of the Mediterranean"; A North Atlantic Tragedy; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina; A Lost Hamlet; How I Climbed Mount Popocatepetl; The Masked Bandit of Tucson; Under the Star and the Crescent - I; Pegging out the Empire; Short Stories - The Jail-break at Kungyangon, The Missing Bracelet, The Story of a Glass Eye; Earnst's Luck;; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - I; The Gipsy Polka; Abalone-Fishing; The Old Mexican Mine; A Mystery of the Bush; An Artist's Adventure; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - I; The Rival Rain-Makers; Pegging Out the Empire - II; The Clue of the Marked Bamboo; Earthquakes from a Japanese Point of View; The Robbery at Goldsmiths; The Experiences of a Deputy-Postmaster; Some Adventures with Sea-Lions; Under the Star and Crescent - II; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - II; Lost in an Underground Maze; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - II; On the Hill Crest Patrol; Stories of "Stripes" - the Tiger and the Tow-Boat, The Phantom Tiger; The Exploits of the Duke of the Abruzzi - II; The Dynamite Smuggler; A House Built in a Day; Bulstrode and the Bear; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - I; The Castaways of Guadalupe Island; An Englishman's Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina - III; Sport in India; Phaulkon's Treasure; The Balinese and Their Ways; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - I; My Most Exciting Ballooning Experiences; Through the Rocky Mountains on a Raft - III; The Gum-Hunter; A Himalayan Arcadia; The Jealously of Pepe; A Texan "Snake-Farm"; One New Year's Day; Twelve Hundred Miles in a Paper Boat; Fishing on the Molopo; Locating a Leak; Two Men in a Cave; A Wanderer in Asia Minor - I; Wilson's "Scoop"; With Pen and Camera in Nigeria - II; A Race for a Gold-Mine; In the Far North-West - I; Trooper Lovelace, T.T.P. - II; How I Lassoed a Moose. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
196163 pages. Features: How courts price your injuries; The mystery flight of Rudolph Hess (first of 3 parts); Penguin thinks he's people; Carmelites - rare glimpse of a silent world; 10-page life insurance advertising supplement; Policewoman Sally Krowchynski of the Edmonton Flying Police Club; Fantastic full-page colour Jantzen ad featuring a very handsome Jean Beliveau; Educated Dice - the rolling reader contains seven dice with different words on each face - it makes learning to read into a game; Water Beetle - Ray Pastuck converted his Volkswagen into a boat!; Canada's biggest unconfined explosion at Suffield, Alberta - 3 great colour photos - smoke ring; Collector of Militaria - Eduard Kohler of Neuberg, Germany; He Killed in his sleep - Willis Boshears killed Jean Constable; "We flew into Hurricane Carla" - the crew of plane 5 spent five days tracking the worst tropical storm in 60 years, and their reports enabled half a million persons to flee; NHL President Clarence Campbell's 15 years in office; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
ref. 0208009299.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1967Contents: Classic photo ad for the Volkswagen Beetle shows the car crossed-out; Sweet color-photo ad for the front-wheel drive Oldsmobile Toronado; Update on the Vietnam War; Photos from Con Thein; Hurricane Beulah ravages the Texas coast; Time Essay - Divided We Stand - The Unpopularity of U.S. Wars; Photo of the Shah and his family with article; Six-pages of colour photos of Iran; Jews occupy Arab territories; A visit to Canton, China; Photo of Ibo prisoners at gunpoint in Nigeria; Nice two-color illustrated ad for the Pontiac GTO; Nice color Jeepster ad; The Fight to ban the sonic boom near Santa Barbara; Mike Douglas of the Mike Douglas Show - with photo; Using Uranium in projectiles - depleted uranium bullets - uranium flechettes - with photo; Athlete Kevin Hardy; How Smokers get Hooked; Volume of puts and calls increasing; Bernard (Bernie) Cornfeld and Investors Overseas Services - with photo; Photo of Will and Ariel Durant at home; Nice color-photo ad for Haig & Haig Pinch Scotch featuring musician David; Uncommon full-page photo ad for Canadian Pacific Jets; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
1976ref. Q-0395247748Houghton Mifflin 1976-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Houghton Mifflin hardcover
ref. 0395247748.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1976ref. 438211Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1976. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. 210pp. Drawings by Donald Carrick. Page edges foxed cloth edges dampstained good only in a good only dampstained dust jacket. The author's account of his own aging while following the seasons on Martha's Vinyard along with his dog Graham. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1971ref. 140224New York: Dial Press 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Dial Press hardcover
1971335p. Small 4to. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Original priced dust jacket, small tear rear edge. Hardbound. Very good. First Printing. LIT BOX 4
1971ref. 357453New York: The Dial Press 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 335pp. Blue cloth spine orange cloth boards. Very good with a slightly cocked spine and bowed boards faint soiling in a very good plus age-toned dust jacket with a darkened spine edge wear. The Dial Press hardcover books
1971ref. 109358New York: The Dial Press 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the front panel. The Dial Press hardcover books
1977ref. LFA-126720053Un ouvrage de 26 pages, format 210 x 270 mm, illustré, relié cartonnage couleurs, publié en 1977, Le Centurion Jeunesse, bon état
1982ref. 226451982 Paris, éditions Dominique Leroy, 1982, 18 x 11 cm,,189 pp, poche,
ref. 0932052142.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1972Almost one inch thick. Above-average wear. Binding sound. Some markings and soiling. Still a sound working copy of this excellent reference. Book
2009ref. 76928Köln : Komet, [2009]. 143 S. mit zahlreichen Abbildungen; 28 cm; gebunden, illustrierter Orig.-Pappband,
1962ref. mon0003095611Bonanza Books c.1962 1962T. hardcover. Very Good. . Bonanza Books [c.1962] hardcover
1965ref. 1243261512Dukes County Historical Society 1965. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Dukes County Historical Society hardcover
1953ref. MV1140Signed and inscribed by Henry Beetle Hough an icon on the Vineyard. There are some small chips on the unclipped dust jacket and some light foxing but no other issues. This is a special copy. Price includes shipping within the U.S. Houghton Mifflin Co. hardcover
1953ref. 19729Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1953. Boards. Very Good /Very Good . The 1953 1st edition in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG in a crisp price-clipped VG dustjacket with very light chipping at and along the spine crown. Octavo a sample of black-and-white photos complementing the text. A nice piece of Americana and an overlooked chapter in whaling history. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
ref. 1258098008.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1953ref. 19729Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1953. Boards. Very Good /Very Good . The 1953 1st edition in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG in a crisp price-clipped VG dustjacket with very light chipping at and along the spine crown. Octavo a sample of black-and-white photos complementing the text. A nice piece of Americana and an overlooked chapter in whaling history. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
2018ref. G154986808XI3N00Independently published 2018. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Independently published paperback
1983160 pages. Features: Walter McInnis - Part II - The Emergence of Eldredge-McInnis; The Weather Side of Gaff Rig; A New Coaster - the schooner HERITAGE; The theft of RANDOM SCOOT; Building the first Lightning; The Folding Kayak; Folding Boats at Sea; LILY - a cabinetmaker's Whitehall comes to life; ISKRA sails down east; Seven Bends - 7 ways to tie lines together, even in slick synthetics; Building the Beetle Cats, Part III - fitting and bending frames; Damaged Planks - their repair and replacement. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine