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Card Cover. Zustand: VG. 1st. Well illustrated account of these narrow gauge railways of the Philippines with maps and rosters. 116pp. VG clean copy in card covers. Scarce.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork (Psalm 19:1). There is a beauty in all which God has made, a majesty so breathtaking, so wondrous, so magnificent; words dare not express, for such words would most assuredly fail in their defect and imprecision.As you will quickly discover, or perhaps not, the essays are a motley lot, often akin to strangers met for an instant or of distant cousins far removed. It is the nature of my wandering mind to question and to ponder but more than mere mental exercise, I blame the Holy Spirit for my rambling muse. There are threads throughout which weave a tale, a tapestry bearing witness to the Divine and the profane. Each thread unique, every note a song unto itself and, yet, by themselves, a symphony incomplete.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you were to look up the word faith in almost any dictionary you would discover that, like so many other words that are considered to belong to the English language, it can be and is used in many ways and understood to describe many things. At the beginning of this introduction are the words from the Letter to the Hebrews, 'Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen' (Hebrews 11:1). This is perhaps one of the most quoted verses found in the New Testament. Current usage and understanding of the word hope will almost certainly mislead the reader of this text and this may carry some of the blame for other definitions of faith, most specifically, those which we dismissed earlier. Hope, in the context of our time, conveys a sense of wishful thinking, as in, 'Oh, I hope I pass this test!' or 'I hope I win the lottery!' In the context of the time and the language in which the Letter to the Hebrews was written, hope had a vastly different meaning. Here we find ourselves at the core of the meaning of faith as far as these pages will be concerned. Without completely dismissing or casually denying the validity of any other definition of faith, the central tenet upon which we will build an expression and understanding of faith begins and ends with God. Lest there be any doubt or expectation to the contrary, first and foremost faith with-in these pages will be singularly and precisely focused, that is to say as clearly and in as straightforward a manner as possible, we will be speaking solely of faith in God.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you were to look up the word faith in almost any dictionary you would discover that, like so many other words that are considered to belong to the English language, it can be and is used in many ways and understood to describe many things. At the beginning of this introduction are the words from the Letter to the Hebrews, 'Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen' (Hebrews 11:1). This is perhaps one of the most quoted verses found in the New Testament. Current usage and understanding of the word hope will almost certainly mislead the reader of this text and this may carry some of the blame for other definitions of faith, most specifically, those which we dismissed earlier. Hope, in the context of our time, conveys a sense of wishful thinking, as in, 'Oh, I hope I pass this test!' or 'I hope I win the lottery!' In the context of the time and the language in which the Letter to the Hebrews was written, hope had a vastly different meaning. Here we find ourselves at the core of the meaning of faith as far as these pages will be concerned. Without completely dismissing or casually denying the validity of any other definition of faith, the central tenet upon which we will build an expression and understanding of faith begins and ends with God. Lest there be any doubt or expectation to the contrary, first and foremost faith with-in these pages will be singularly and precisely focused, that is to say as clearly and in as straightforward a manner as possible, we will be speaking solely of faith in God.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Detroit, 1871; faded red textured cloth covered boards; extensive edge and corner wear with board exposed; spine edges frayed; covers scuffed; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; notations through page iii and rear end paper; front end papers missing; last numbered page is 546 with last page/pages?? missing; Interior is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 232 pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 21 cm. ; green and orange cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; OCLC: 9504907 ; LC: SB411 ; Dewey: 583.305 ; Contents: The President makes and appeal / Walter E Clark -- The regional rose-conference idea / Robert Pyle -- What is a rose pilgimage? -- Pernet-Ducher / J Dupeyrat -- Breeding roses at home / George C Thomas -- Propagating roses at home / C C Bramble -- What understock do you use? / Mrs. Gross R Scruggs -- Rose-disease work at the New Jersey Station / Richard P White -- Black spot again / L M Massey, Cynthia Westcott -- A plea for patience / P L A Lines -- When is a new rose a good rose? -- Favorite roses, a symposium -- All roses are beautiful / George T Elliot -- Vermont replies / George P Cheney -- A well-considered list / R Marion Hatton -- A nurseryman's selection / S Roger Mitchell -- Roses which give most pleasure / Mrs J A Frank Neal -- My favorite roses / Mrs Frank Harris Hissock -- The favored few / A J Webster -- Among the newer roses / Clarence A Davis -- Among my favorites / Melvin E Wyant -- Time-tested favorites / Robert Housum -- Some yellow roses I like / Clyde O'Rourk -- Hoosier beauties / Arthur L Hubbard -- The call of the wild / Albert Chandler -- Kansas roses / Otto Greef -- A rose-garden in Arkansas / Dymple B Johnson -- Teas in the South / R N Day -- Favorite roses in Central Florida / Louis P Bosanquet -- Roses I have grown and loved / Henderson L Lanham -- The roses of Spartanburg / Mrs L J Blake -- My favorite roses / Mrs James A Bane -- What are my favorite roses? -- Favorites from the Pernetiana paradise / Aden Hyde -- Ideals and favorites / P L A Lines -- Roses of the future / E G Hill -- Rating rose values / Capt L S Van Duzer -- Shipping cut roses / S S Pannock -- Rugosa roses and their hybrids / Chester D Wedrick -- An experience with little own-root roses / Horace W Treusdell -- California roses, a symposium -- Physical geography of California / Emmet Rixford -- The California climate / George C Thomas -- California as a rose paradise / Forrest L Hieatt -- Old roses of California / Arthur P Howard -- Roses in California / Lowell Swisher -- Some new roses in Southern California / John A Armstrong -- California garden practice / Clarence G White -- Combating heat in the San Joaquin Valley / R O MacDonald -- Roses of Monterey / Francis E Lester -- Roses in Central California / Mrs Charles C Derby -- Rose-planting in Santa Clara County / Mrs Fremont Older -- Roses by the Golden Gate / Victor Reiter -- Experiences from Petaluma / Mrs Maud E Serutton -- Roses in Northern California / Howard Bishop Jr -- Roses in the Redwood empire / Mrs J H Gault -- Commercial rose-growing in California / Dr Emmet Rixford -- The rose-pilgrim's progress / Dwight L Armstrong -- Roses in the Puget Sound country / Dr Hiram DePuy -- The American Rose Society tours Europe / J H Nicolas -- Roses in other lands - Rose notes -- World's new roses -- Roses registered ; tiny mark on front cover, else VG. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. x, [2],386 pages. Illustrations. Maps Index of persons, organizations, and geographical. Number stamped inside covers and on bottom edge. Paper clip marks. Some cover wear. No DJ. From the Foreword by Major General Croft, Chief of Infantry: "This volume was prepared by the Military History and Publications Section of The Infantry School. Major Edwin F. Harding planned the book and supervised in detail the preparation of the manuscript. Major Richard G. Tindall devised the sequence, performed most of the research, outlined the chapters and wrote most of them. Captain John A. Andrews and Lieutenant Charles T. Lanham assisted in the research and map preparation and contributed parts of certain Chapters. Lieutenant Lanham edited the book in full. Colonel George C. Marshall directed the project." Major General Charles Trueman Lanham (September 14, 1902 - July 20, 1978) was an author and soldier, winning 14 decorations in his career. After retiring from the military, he was active in business. He is the model for one of Ernest Hemingway's heroes, and in life was a close friend of the author. He included among his many military adventures the command of the U.S. 22d Infantry Regiment in Normandy in July 1944, and was the first American officer to lead a break through the Siegfried Line on September 14, 1944 near Buchet. These developments were described by Hemingway in his article War in the Siegfried Line. He led a breakout in the Battle of the Bulge after surviving the ordeal in the Battle of Huertgen Forest. Lanham earned the Distinguished Service Cross in the Huertgen Forest. Among the topics covered are: Surprise, Mobility, Terrain, Command and Communication, Battle Reconnaissance, Maneuver, Infiltration, Infantry-Artillery Team, Night Attacks, Decisions, Orders, Counterorders, Attack,and Fire of Machine Guns. This book treats of the tactics of small units as illustrated by examples drawn from the World War. It checks the ideas acquired from peacetime instruction against the experience of battle. There is much evidence to show that officers who have received the best peacetime training available find themselves surprised and confused by the difference between conditions as pictured in map problems and those they encounter in campaign. This is largely because our peacetime training in tactics tends to become increasingly theoretical. In our schools we generally assume that organizations are well-trained and at full strength, that subordinates are competent, that supply arrangements function, that communications work, that orders are carried out. In war many or all of these conditions may be absent. The veteran knows that this is normal and his mental processes are not paralyzed by it. He knows that he must carry on in spite of seemingly insurmountable difficulties and regardless of the fact that the tools with which he has to work may be imperfect and worn. Moreover, he knows how to go about it. This volume is designed to give the peace-trained officer something of the viewpoint of the veteran. By the use of numerous historical examples, the reader is acquainted with the realities of war and the extremely difficult and highly disconcerting conditions under which tactical problems must be solved in the face of an enemy. In so far as there was material available, these examples pertain to American troops and have been drawn from the personal experience monographs on file at The Infantry School. The combat experience of other armies, however, has been utilized to supplement that of our own This work does not purport to be a complete treatise on minor tactics of infantry. The aim of its authors has been to develop fully and emphasize a few important lessons which can be substantiated by concrete cases rather than to produce just another book of abstract theory. [From the Introduction by Colonel George C. Marshall].

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Crombie, Charles; York W.G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Robinson, T.H.; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Williams, C. Fleming; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator). 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.

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.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Davis, G.H.; Abbey, S.; Soper, G.; Wood, Stanley L.; Edwards, Lionel; De Walton, John; Webb, Arch. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos; "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; The "High-Jackers" - an audacious gang of murderous bank robbers terrorize the Canadian prairies, beginning in Moosomin, SK and ending in Pipestone, MB; The Islands of the Mammoths - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia is the world's best hunting ground for the tusks and bones of the prehistoric mammoth - article with photos; The Three Angleteers - Part III - The troubles and adventures of three bored young men who leave England to travel in Europe; With Canoe and Camera - Capt. M.H. Albert explored Northern Ontario and Quebec to photograph wild animals - article with photos; The Mystery of Diablo Canon - The adventures of Senor Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Two photos of two-room house built in the trunk of an immense California redwood; The Terror of Rampur - two hunters undertake to kill a murderous tiger in India; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part I - Photo-illustrated article by Beatrice Grimshaw describing her trip up the Sepik river in New Guinea, where she met the local native peoples - who were none-too friendly; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part IV - A small English expedition sets out to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study their local peoples; Some Sensational Prison Escapes - Carl Otto and Jack Foster bust loose from Folsom Prison; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.