crocombe leonard (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 192 pages. Used with a bit of age browning to pages and still well bound together. Interior otherwise in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. Picture of this book available.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st reprint May 1938. Dirty yellow boards with darkened and turned spine. Slight foxing to eps and well thumbed edges of the text block but contents clean and firm. Hinge slightly exposed in a couple of places. Quite simply, a collection of jokes thought funny in the period between the wars.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Peddie, Tom; Tresilian, S.; Gale, W.J.; Prater, Ernest; Nicholson, W.C.; Sutcliffe, Norman (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Policing the Great White North - A photo-illustrated account of the manifold perils and hardships that are the daily portion of the gallant handful of men who represent law and order in the Vast Canadian Arctic; Pathetic fate of two missing WWI Sheffield soldiers revealed - William Thompson and George Walter Howard; Bill's Bear-Cub - An American trapper adopts a bear cub and his partner foretells disaster; Three Months on an Island Inferno - J.K. Wilson explains his 'holiday' on White Island, near Tauranga, New Zealand - with photos; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part I - What happened after H.P. Musson, a transplanted London paper-pusher, lost his job as a hired hand in Western Canada and began looking for his own homestead; Trapping Wild Animals in Northern Siam - The ingenious methods by which the jungle folk trap fierce whild beasts, with great photos; Cycling Round the World - Part III of III of Kai Thorenfeldt's amazing 20,000 mile journey which took over two years - with map and nice photos; Forgotten Fortunes - Frances Dickie describes the remarkable circumstances in which two of the most amazing 'finds' in the history of European art have lately come to light in France - with photo of Mrs. M.L. Westmoreland, who discovered a valuable Goya in a Paris second-hand shop; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part II - Seeking the prehistoric Komodo dragon on a remote Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) island; A Terrible Journey - Joseph Metcalf fell into an underground conduit conveying water from a dam to Port Elizabeth - forty-five miles away!; The Greatest of All Thrills - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article on the new sport of parachuting from aircraft; "Heir Number Six" - A Winnipeg real estate agent goes to the North-West territory in search of an obscure half-breed regarding a dispute over land ownership. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.