Charles layng (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shows minor wear.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. shows minor wear, tear, soiling.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition. Presumed first edition (no statement and no mention of additional printings). Hardcover in crossword designed paper covered boards. 121 pp. with formerly sealed section at rear displaying puzzle solutions. Collection of 50 unusual crosword puzzles, fewer than half of which are filled out in this copy. Very good (as above) and with a small light stain on the front cover. In the uncommon dust wrapper, duplicating the cover design, very good with some toning and minor chipping to the spine ends. …

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked, patterned cloth boards, now lightly scuffed and dust-dulled. Corners bumped. Cover edges, endbands and joints somewhat rubbed, with minor tears to the latter. Front hinge starting. Prelims and some margins lightly foxed, with the interior otherwise tight, bright and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; 1 volume, variously paginated : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. Notes; Three years of issues for two monthly church magazines, interleaved by month. Each volume (year) of Home words is paginated continuously; The Spilsby magazine unpaginated. Editor of Home words: Charles Bullock. Editor of The Spilsby magazine: W.W. Layng. Subjects; Church of England. Periodicals. Christian life. Christian fiction. Local history. 19th century. 20th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

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

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Kidnapped by the "Gavilleros"- the British administrator of a large sugar estate on the West Indian island of Santo Domingo is kidnapped; An Island Paradise - photo-illustrated article on the 'progress, civilized, and thoroughly lovable people' of Fiji; Looking Backwards - 25th Birthday of this publication; An Adventure With a Mad Buffalo; Jimmy's Reformation - Jimmy Boncelek used to be the terror of Stigler, Oklahoma; Seeking the Copper Mountain - photo-illustrated account of an eventful journey through the little-known province of Veraguas, part of the Republic of Panama; A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part II - Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains, a picturesque country where the tribal blood-feud still flourishes - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part V - a tramp with a donkey cart, avoiding all modern luxuries; The Tobacco Smugglers of the Belgian Border - photo-illustrated report; A Soldier of Fortune - Part II - remarkable personal narrative smuggled from a man presently incarcerated in a French prison; Splitting the Herd - A cowboy adventure from the Texas plains; Photos of Chinese cave temple at Gunong Rapat in the federated Malay States; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Verpilleux; Prater, Ernest; De Walton, John; Woodville, R. Caton; Cleaver, Reginald; Elcock, Howard; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator). …