R. o. carleton (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 8 pages ; 92 mm ; OCLC 41202775 ; small booklet with pictorial printed covers in green paper ; Miniature book advertising "Piso's Cure for Consumption" and "Piso's Remedy for Catarrh". Testimonials for advertised remedies dated 1885 interspersed throughout text ; foxing ; exceedingly rare advertising item ; testimonials from W. M. Pryor, Iowa City, IA -- Lillie N. Smith, Peru, Mass -- J. H. Carleton, Union Center, Ill. -- R. N. Baker, Fort Stockton, Texas -- Mrs. T. S. Heck, Long Pine, Neb. -- L. L. Whipple, druggist, Kintner, Mich. -- Mrs. Cora Barber, Princeton, NJ -- Wm. O. Outten, Maysville, Ky -- Sold by Chas. E. Swift, Ashtebula, O[hio]; small tear and crease to back cover, else VG; Rare. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 905 p. 25 cm. ; LC: S411; Dewey: 630.3; NAL: 30.1 ; OCLC: 558619 ; blue cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; contains bibliography arranged by subject or discipline ; exhaustive ; thick, heavy volume ; VG. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 422-504 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Ten Months Overdue - a stirring account of the luckless voyage of the Liverpool ship Denbigh Castle, which finally reached her point nearly a year overdue; Hunting the Tapir; Imam Baksh's Escape - a murder story from India; Sanna's Eagle - the strange fate that befell a South African lammarfanger, or lamb-eating eagle, which attacked a little Boer girl and caused her death; The Death Circle - two men wander in a Canadian prairie blizzard - one finds shelter, the other dies; In Quest of Gold - gold-seekers from San Francisco on their way to the land of the Yaqui Indians are forced to turn back; Levenson's Ordeal - Albert S. Levenson, a prominent California merchant, goes missing for five days while on a mountain holiday; Life in a Land of Death (part II) - adventures among the head-hunters and other picturesque inhabitants of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea - article with great photos; The Way of the East - a curious story from Vancouver's Chinatown; The Mitimoni Man-Eaters - two white men get involved with African native witchcraft, resulting in their responsibility for fatalities caused by two man-eating lions; "Square Pegs" (part II) - This absorbing tale will teach prospective immigrants more about Canadian prairie life than stacks of guide-books and official pamphlets; Wind - a tale told at the Roscoe Hotel in Campbell River, B.C. which explained why a man dreaded wind; The Yellow Box - a missing box sets a whole West Africa colony seething; The Smallest Park in the World. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Back cover loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. York, W.G.; Goss, G.W.; Prater, Ernest; Peddie, Tom; Tennant, Dudley; Cleaver, Reginald; Inns, Kenneth; Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian; Gale, W.G.; Soper, G.; Sindall, A.W. (illustrator).…