ash captain george (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1936. Reprinted. 180 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white plates. Signed dedication from the author opposite monochrome portrait frontispiece. Dedication dated 1934, Karachi, India (pre 1947 partition). In English. Dimensions: 18.75cm x 12.5cm x 3cm. Ash cuts a rather eccentric figure in this 'straight forward account of adventure and incident'. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front endpapers and pen marks to textblock side. Boards with heavily abraded edges and marking to surfaces, including an ink spot to front. Spine is detached along front joint.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. 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). 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. The second edition of Captain George Ash: His Adventures and Life Story as Cowboy, Ranger and Soldier, signed by Captain George Ash. (illustrator). Second Edition. Octavo, [8]-180pp. Illustrated blue hardcover. Solid text block. Light foxing throughout. Frontispiece portrait and nine photographic plates. (Howes A348) (Six-Guns, 42) Signed opposite the title page: "Yours sincerely, George Ash (Captain) / 1937." This work was a reissue of the scarce 1923 printing from Drane's of London. It follows the life of Captain Ash, cattle rustling and "outlawry" along the Mexican border country of the United States. Signed.