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Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Limited Edition. Camden, SC: The Premier Press, 1997. Number 314 of a limited edition of 3000 copies. Rich crimson red leather printed in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

XII/316 S./pp., Abbildungen auf Tafeln/illustrations on plates, Originalleineneinband (publisher's cloth binding), Einband etwas fleckig/binding somewhat stained, Sprache: englisch.

Zustand: New.

London, John Lane 1909. 316 S., Halblederband. Ex Library copy. Spine rubbed and with little tears. With marks and stamps. A little stained.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(-). Illus. xii, 316pp. plus publisher's ads. 8vo, green cloth, spine worn and repaired, cloth lightly soiled. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1909. Narrative of a hunting trip to Alaska by a English women and her guide.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Wood, Stanley, L.; Elcock, Howard; Abbey, S.; Woodville, R. Caton; De Walton, John; Prater, Ernest; Reynolds, Warwick; Woodville, R. Caton; York, W.G.; Somerfield, T. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hunting of Gonzales - An adventure of Senor Ramon Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Adrift on an Ice-Floe - Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green provides a photo-illustrated account of the amazing fashion in which a primitive Eskimo extricated himself from a predicament which would assuredly spelt death for a white man; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part II - Winifred S. Blackman's photo-illustrated account of the three winters she spent with the local people of Upper Egypt; Fraser's Price - The tale of an angered railroad engineer; The Three Angleteers - Part V (conclusion) of the trouble and adventures of three English wanderers in Constantinople and Athens; "Remember the Mortons" - A stirring story of an episode in the Matabele rebellion of 1895; Salvage Extraordinary - An Indian planter's account of an odd affair on the Brahmaputra River in Assam, including photo of five elephants pushing a stranded steamer; The Head-Hunters of Sepik - Part III - Beatrice Grimshaw explored the Sepik River of New Guinea and dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Where Everyone is Wealthy - The Osage Indians of Oklahoma come up with the strangest ways to divest themselves of their wealth earned from local oil - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part III - Count Nils Cronstedt spares a condemned bull-terrier which rewards him by saving him multiple times while he served in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; "Old White Face" - Allen Borders of Montana relates a terrifying cougar experience; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part III - The story of a British officer's remarkable journey - disguised as an Oriental - across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; "Captain Jed" - a tale of the whalers of New Bedford, MA, involving the "Cap'n Jed" and the "Wanderer" - very few men have ever fought a 'right' whale single-handed and lived to tell the tale; Python and Lion in Nyassaland - after visiting a witch-doctor for poisoning the author is attacked first by a great python, then a lion!; Photo of a Manchurian man 7 feet and 3 inches tall; Photo of a veritable forest of masts at Lowestoft, the Suffolk fishing port, during the height of herring season; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.