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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 220 pages. 10.75x8.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Good book in rmarbled board covers with green strip to spine; edge wear to boards; repaired splits to spine; small remnants only of spine paper title label. Internally very good; owner's name to paste down; very well illustrated; binding sound; some foxing to end papers but hardly any elsewhere; fore and lower edges semi-trimmed. Contents are: Publisher's adverts [16pp, flyleaf, title page, blank, preface and contents [[pp i-xii], text and general index [pp i-1233]. A very acceptable copy. Branston [Wood Engravings] (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Whitaker, W.G.; Bates, Leo; Soper, G.; Gillett, F.; Robinson, T.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; Lane, Harry; Crombie, Chas; Tennant, Dudley (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 1-88, plus 16 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Vendettas; The Luck of the Game; The Secret of the Well; The Tragedies of Niagara; Running the Gauntlet - part 1; The Witch-Doctor's Vengeance; The Cruise of the Dream-Ship - part 5; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - part 3; Marooned in the Arctic; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - part 5; The Captain's Ordeal; The Swinging Log; The Lone Sea-Rover; Mind vs. Matter. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Verpilleux, E; Robinson, T.H.; Bates, Leo; Holloway, C.; Somerfield, T.; Wood, Stanley L.; Gillett, F.; Holmes, Fred; Hodgson, E.S.; Dewar, W. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 90-176 plus 18 pages of ads. Features: Where Cannibals Roam - Part I - Merlin Moore Taylor's adventures into the unknown interior of Papua (article with great photos); "Twisted" Harmon - an RCMP officer spends five years and travels thousands of miles to catch an escaped murderer hiding in the protection of the German Secret Service; Life in a Logging Camp - sensational photo-illustrated article on the Abernethy Lougheed Logging Company's operation in Maple Ridge, British Columbia; "Trawler Tidd" - a cat that went to sea; An Artist on a Tropic Isle - the adventures of Ellis Silas as he painted in the Trobriands group of islands north of New Guinea; Wild Tribes of the Amazon - Part 3 of 3 - the author's adventures as he penetrated deep into Amazonia, with photos (including shrunken head); Feedback on a recent article on the K.K.K.; Chasing the Pulajans - religious fanatics who gave the US authorities in the Philippines untold trouble; To the "End of the World" and Beyond - Captain Gault Macgowan, F.R.G.S. and his wife set out on an eventful journey in the Western Himalayas; Photo of large hawser (3" dia. rope) made of human hair at Kyoto's Higashi-Honganji Temple; The Fatal Slip; One Up on "Homie"; The Taming of the Sheriff - a ranch story from Death Valley, California; Down the Shaft - a West Australian miner's story of a terrible experience at the bottom of a six-hundred foot shaft; Five Hundred Miles in Open Boats - an arduous and eventful arctic journey recounted by retired Mountie, Sergeant-Major C.N.C.Hayter; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. de Walton, John; Carruthers, G.; Prater, E.; Wood, S.; Leigh, C.; Lane, H.; Evans, T.; Abbey, S.; Robinson, T.; Soper, G. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 266-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Poll Chunk's Son - a story from the hills of Kentucky; The Ivory Raiders - part 1 of a tale fromm the Turkanaland district of Central Africa on the western shores of Lake Rudolf where Major H. Rayne deals with Swahili elephant poachers and Turkana warriors; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - a mysterious Fijian monster; In the Wilds with a Camera - Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson take photos in the interior of British East Africa; The Land Sharks - criminal buying and selling of land in Canada; In Quest of the Unknown - part 3 of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges' adventures amoung the Chucunaque Indians; James Watson - Human Tiger - a remarkable American crime; An Eviction in Patagonia - a rich man attempts to drive away the cattle of a squatter; My Jungle Jaunts - part 1 of an Englishwoman's experiences in Burma, with nice photos; The Blue Powder - bewitching a District Commissioner in Nigeria; The Sea-Villages of Humboldt's Bay - photo-illustrated article on this Dutch New Guinea area; The Mad Jackal - how a homesick Pathan soldier in Mesopotamia got himself sent back to India; Imprisoned in a hollow tree - Harry Comstock spent horrible days and nights inside a tree in Bexar County, Texas; The Tiger I didn't Get - Movie star Tom Mix recounts an adventure that befell him while tiger-shooting in Bengal; Nice one-page General Electric ad with illustration of new street lighting in Nagoya, Japan; One-page photo-illustrated ad for Hobart Bradstreet of Chicago. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); Leigh, Conrad; De Walton, John; Rogers, Stanley; Skelton, J.R.; Prater, E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, H.M.; Lane, H.; Robinson, H.H.; Eyles, D.C. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 177-264 plus 16 pages of wonderfully nostalgic ads. Features: Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part 1 of the amusing account of the travels of a husband and wife with their donkey; The Diamond Smuggler; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part 6 of 6; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part 4 of 4 of an important cinematograph expedition to the interior of Africa to film wild animals - article with many great photos; Two Robinson Crusoes - surviving three months on a desert island; Sorcery and Spiritualism in Papua - restoring the dead to life, table-rapping and curses that kill - photo-illustrated article; The Little Brass God - a planter's odd experience in India; Poaching on a King's Preserves; Through the East by Air - Part 6 of 6 of a wonderfully photo-illustrated article about a ten-month expedition to view middle-eastern cities by air; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part 1- the amazing life story of a man who was once banished to Guiana; Afloat with a Madman - a fireman goes mad aboard the "Algerian Prince" in the Bay of Biscay; Capturing 'Coperhead' - the story of a murderous Kentucky feudist in the mountains near the Kentucky - West Virginia border; photo of man standing in front of the largest saw blade in the world, a 108" diameter product made by Henry Disston and Sons, of Philadelphia. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Cleaver, Reginald; Campbell, John; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, E.; Broadhead, W. Smithson; Hiley, Francis C.; Paxton, R.B.M.; Soper, G.; Robinson, T.H.; Skelton, J.R. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. de Walton, John; Hiley, F.E.; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Cameron, John; Wood, Stanley L.; Brightwell, L.R.; Soper, G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Red Witch of Modjaji - A weird story related by a member of the old South African Constabulary on the edge of the Great Bushveld; In Search of Sea-Monsters - Part I - In 1921 F.A. Mitchell-Hedges set out on a two-year trip to the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea to discover the world's largest big-game fish - photo-illustrated article; The Convict Who Captured a Prison - Murderer Tom Slaughter was able to escape from the Arkansas State Penitentiary's "death cell" and escape from the prison, leaving all other prisoners and guards lock up! - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part III (conclusion) - Winifred S. Blackman spent three winters with local people in Upper Egypt - article with photos; Photo of man in India who has committed to roll his body for two thousand miles from Rameswara to Benares! Trade-Wind Cay - Three men find themselves stranded on an uninhabited islet, once the lair of pirates, in the Spanish Main; Our Andean Adventures - Harriett Chalmers Adams travelled into the region across the Peruvian Andes and the mysterious "inside" country beyond, which she was the first white woman to penetrate - article with photos; The Great Dog Derby of La Pas - Photo-illustrated account of the annual race for men and dog-teams over two hundred miles of snow-covered wilderness at La Pas, Manitoba; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part IV - The story of a British officer's journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; The Bell of Solavetski - Ralph Durand spent twenty pounds to travel to faraway Archangel and the ice-covered Arctic wastes of Nova Zembla - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part IV - A bull-terrier spared from death rewards his new owner, Count Nils Cronstedt, by saving him multiple times during his time as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; Across the Atlantic in "Shamrock" - Sir Thomas Lipton's racing yacht travels an adventurous 3,000 miles home to Britain for a refit (with photos; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part IV - Beatrice Grimshaw explored up the Sepik River of New Guinea where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; The Grey Devils - A grim story of hungry wolves in the Canadian North-West; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Crombie, Charles; York W.G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Robinson, T.H.; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Williams, C. Fleming; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Profusely 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. Sutcliffe, Norman; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; Skelton, J.R.; Crombie, Charles; Vedder, S.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Tennant, Dudley (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in ports of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman, Matthew Armstrong, Nanaimo, British Columbia The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exporting in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in parts of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman Matthew Armstrong's terrible ordeal in the woods near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, E.; Hiley, F.; Wood, Stanley L.; Whitaker, W.G.; Webb, Arch; Robinson, T.H.; Abbey, S.; York, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Waye, A.S. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 24 pages of nice ads. Features: Hunting Wild Cattle - an Englishman's stirring adventures while catching bulls in Patagonia; My Mine-Sweeping Experiences - Joe W. White describes his WWI mine-sweeping and submarine-hunting adventures in home waters - a valuable record of the dangerous work and daring methods employed by our fishermen in destroying enemy mines and driving away submarines - with great photos; The Golden Nugget (short story); The One-Handed Hunter and the Rhinocerous; In the Wilds of Siberia - Part III - fascinating narrative with many photos of convicts/prisoners; My Adventures with the Wanderobo (a warlike African tribe); The Strange Order of the Dervishes - article with great photos; Filming the Sea Elephant; The Adventures of a Newspaperman - part 5 - some wartime experiences with German spies and other curious characters; My Week-End at Freetown - a picturesque account of the capital of Sierra Leone, with photos; Relief Worker's Adventures - part III - thrilling photo-illustrated experiences among the war victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia (The American Committee for the Relief of War Victims in the East); Kangaroo Hunting and Bark-Stripping; My South African Adventures - part 2; Canary Birds at School - French methods of breeding and training canaries; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear with loss to bottom of back strip and openings between front cover and spine at each end. Bit of writing on back cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine, October 1919, Vol. XLIII, No. 258 - My Mine-Sweeping Experiences Mallet Tree Hunting Wild Cattle - an Englishman's stirring adventures while catching bulls in Patagonia; My Mine-Sweeping Experiences - Joe W. White describes his W. Illustrated by Wood, Stanley L.; Silas, Ellis; Bates, Leo; Webb, Arch.;Evison, G.H.; Reynolds, Warwick; Simmons, Graham; Peddie, Tom; Carruthers,George P.; Robinson, T.H.; Boyer, Jacques (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Human Fly - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Jack Williams, a man who scales lofty buildings with no equipment other than his fingers and toes - article with great photos ; The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part II - Tragedy befalls French troops overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks during the siege of Urfa; The Disappearance of Ivan Varlamoff - an epic fight in Uleaborg, Finland; Locked in a Freezing Chamber - a meat inspector's ordeal in South Africa; "UMRI" - the tragic story of a panther, once a police officer's pet, which becomes a terror of the district in India; The "White Man's Grave" - Filming The "Gold Coast" of Africa - article with great photos; The Friend of the Birds - photo-illustrated article on Jack Miner, Ontario's friend of the Canada Goose; My Jiu-Jitsu Combats - Captain S.L. McLaglen is a Jiu-Jitsu expert; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part III - an exciting trip to the "Mysterious Richtersveld" of Southern Africa - article with photos; Adrift in the Atlantic - Grenfell of Labrador sets down a remarkable experience related by a former engineer of his; A Man's Luck (conclusion) - the author met the girl of his dreams and tried to build a dream home for them in Alaska, but he keeps being jailed; A Film-Hunter in the Amazon - Part V - Probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies - article with excellent photos; The "King of the Brushwood" - the brigand chief of Corsica; Roping a Bear - foolish youngster ropes a cinnamon bear; A Barbed Wire Frontier - people not allowed to pass between Hungary and Czechoslovakia; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3] 88, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. de Walton, John; Robinson, T.H.; Whitaker, W.G.; Reynolds, Warwick; Prater, Ernest; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Small, A.G. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: In a Submarine in War-Time - Perils and harships; Billy the Kid - Photo-illustrated article on his demise at the hand of Sheriff P.F. Garrett; The Valley of Wonders - The first description and photos ever published of Red Rock Canyon in Southern California; Photo of ostrich-powered cart in Pasadena, California - the ostrich is named 'Black Diamond' and is worth $2k!; The Golden Image; In Quest of Cannibals - part 2 - Exploration and adventure in New Guinea - with interesting photos; Brief photo-illustrated article of an Indian juggler who lifts heavy weights with his eyelids; Snipe-Hunting; A Sapper's Night Out; On Foot Through South America - part 1 - Author tramped the entire terrible length of the Andes, a feat probably never accomplished before - with nice photos; On the Trail of the Big Black Elk - Hunting adventure in the Umpqua Mountains of Oregon; My South African Adventures - part 4 - In Search of Kruger's Millions; Cutting Ships in Halves - Photo-illustrated article on how a difficult transport problem was solved; Desert Flying - part 2 - The difficulties of flying over Sinai, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Persia; The Saving of Freddie Wilson - The incredible story of how Negro woman Agnes Henderson witnessed the Mexican murder of an American couple, saved their son, and took him to Tampico to return him to his relatives; African Snakes. Unmarked with average wear. Covers detached as one but present. A worthy copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Wright, Frank; Webb, Arch.; Wood, Stanley L.; Horne, A.E.; reynolds, Warwick; Robinson, T.H.; Thomas, E.H.; Soper, G. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part I of the First True Account of the Exploits of the World's Most Noted Outlaws, by Emmett Dalton, the only survivor of the "Dalton Gang" - article with photos and great cover illustration; Wonders of the Teleferica - an interesting account of the remarkable aerial lines/cableways used by the Italians to transport men, guns, and provisions in the high Alps - article with many photos; The Youngest Soldier in the French Army - photo of 11-year-old Charles Meux of the French Army; Tales of the Service - Part I - A Night in a Vat; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part II - Eva J. Jordan, F.R.G.S. travelled with her husband for four-thousand miles through the great Equatorial Forest of Central Africa, becoming the first woman to penetrate this area - article with photos; A Night of Terror - an associate of Izaak Walton sinks into quicksand while fishing; Buried in a Snowdrift - a mining engineer is caught in an avalanche in the Andes; "Hooshta!" - the Tragedy of an Australian camel race - a stirring story from the West Australian goldfields; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part I - Fanny and William Workman describe their Himalayan mountaineering exploits - article with map and great photos; Thrice Through the Jaws of Death - Sergeant J. Harte of the Inland Water Transport relates hair-breadth escapes at sea and on land; How We Built the Bridge - War story related by a corporal of the canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps; Crossing the Canal - A despatch orderly attempts to cross the Suez Canal at night; Some Adventures of a Newspaper Woman - Marie Harrison provides a graphic and thrilling account of her startling adventures in search of 'copy'; The Railway Conquest of the Bay - a photo-illustrated account of the building of the Hudson Bay Railway; A Happy Family - humorous account of the antics of a number of strange pets belonging to a party of colonials in Singapore; A Modern Grace Darling - Miss Ella Trout rescues a sailor from a torpedoed ship off the coast of Devon - article with nice photos of Miss Trout; Photo of a group of Solomon Islands head-hunters reading The Wide World Magazine; Interesting four-page illustrated stock offering by Guaranteed Tractors, Inc., Edmund G. Soward, President; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 4-88, 9-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Peddie, Tom; Holloway, W.H.; Wright, Frank; Soper, George; Prater, Ernest; Robinson, T.H.; Webb, Arch.; Shepherd, J.A. (illustrator). …

The collection is in good condition, with each letter entirely legible. Two items particularly aged, and one with a couple of closed tears unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Each item bears evidence of the fact that the collection was previously held together with a pin. An interesting sidelight into the musical culture of Victorian London. COPAC only locates one copy (at Cambridge) of Robinson's piece, published by W. Sprague of Westminster in [1874], copied by F. C. Wood, 'words by permission of Messrs. Hopwood & Crew'. All items 12mo. ITEM ONE (one page, with slight loss at head): 'Willm Haslam' of 41 Middleton Road, Dalston, to 'Master Robinson', 21 March 1871. He will not require 'the services of yourself & Friend - on Thursday at Hounslow'. ITEM TWO (one page): Theodore Distin ('Theo Distin') to Robinson, 28 March 1872. 'I shall be happy to sing for you for whatever you can afford to give - & be pleased to help you in any way'. He will also 'look over' Robinson's 'Hymn': 'I have not yet had time'. Distin, member of a family of musical entertainers, is notable as the man who brought the first of Adolphe Sax's Sax Horns to Britain. ITEM THREE (one page): 'Chas. F. Combe' of 17 Westbourne Terrace North, Bayswater, to Robinson. Offers to engage Robinson in employment and gives details in four parts. ITEM FOUR (one page): Combe to Robinson. 'I find I shall be obliged to make an attendance at S. Olaves at the end of the present quarter There appears to be a feeling which we cannot quite overcome - [.] I write therefore to tell you that I shall be obliged to terminate your engagement at the expiration of your next month [.] I am sorry I have been unable to offer you a better position [.]'. ITEM FIVE (one page): Letter of Robinson ('W. W. Robinson Jnr.'), 64 Murray Street, New North Road, Hoxton, to [firm of music publishers], asking whether you may 'use the words of one of your songs entitled "Gently down the Stream" for new music, seeing no Writers name to [sic] the words. [.] I am anxious to get it Published'. Undated reply from individual with indecipherable signature, one page, on reverse, stating 'If you have any desire to be implicated in a suit at law by all means make use of the words of the song published by Messrs Hopwood & Crew they have nothing to do with us'. ITEM SIX (two pages): Letter to Robinson from 'F. C. WOOD, | Lithographical Music Copyist, | 32, VINCENT SQUARE, | WESTMINSTER, S.W.', 27 October 1873, on Wood's letterhead, giving an estimate 'for 2 pages of music & title'. 'My former estimate was for 12 stave pages & I see by putting the song on 1 page 15 staves will be required [.] Work done by this system is always cleaned off the stones as soon as finished, so that the entire number of copies is likely to be required are always ordered at once. This makes it so much cheaper than engraving. Proofs also cannot be given, but accuracy is insured by my having a correct copy & thoroughly examining the work before printing a single copy. If your copy is correct you need have no fear.' Discusses details of legal deposit and asks to be informed on some matters relating to the song. 'What will you do? [.] You may depend on the work being thoroughly well done.' ITEM SEVEN (two pages): Wood to Robinson, 30 October 1873. 'I always enquire whether copies sent me are correct because proofs not being given it is not at all likely I can take responsibility of mistakes in copies sent me. When I have a good copy to work from parties need not fear for my work, because I take good care to do it right. But as you seem rather fearful of the result I have taken the trouble to copy the whole out and send it herewith for your approval. [NOT PRESENT] Please see if it is correct & the music arranged as you desire to the two verses and if you return it at once I shall at once proceed. You will thus see that I have done all that can be expected to insure correctness & if I can turn out 70 pages of Band music with only the omis.…

Zustand: Good. 4to. 12 folders, as issued in quarter morocco chemise and slipcase, a little worn. Ex libris of David Anderson. Facsimile letters with commentaries by notables of 1935. 1) George Sterling (Robinson Jeffers). 2) Bret Harte (George R. Stewart, Jr). 3) Frank Norris (Franklin Walker). 4) Richard Henry Dana (James D. Hart). 5) John Muir (Charles Keeler). 6) Henry George (Howard Jay Graham). 7) Joaquin Miller (Juanita Miller). 8) Josiah Royce (B. H. Lehman). 9) Mark Twain (C. S. Wood). 10) Clarence King (Francis P. Farquhar). 11) Edward Rowland Still (Aurelia H. Reinhardt). 12) Jack London (Charmian London). …