keith bushell (4 Ergebnisse)

pp.318. 8vo. Orignal cloth boards. Ex library book. A very good copy. First edition. Black and white photos.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Travel, Description, New Guinea) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). The second edition of Keith Bushell's account of life among the natives of Papua New Guinea, illustrated throughout with photographic plates. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first.Native Police Officer and Magistrate in New Guinea Keith Bushell's account of his 'personal adventures amongst Papuan cannibal tribes', narrated in the third person. Bushell paints an unfavourable portrait of the natives on whose land he lives, and describes the 'bewildered natives who must quickly surrender their savagery to the whirring influence of the white man'.Illustrated with sixteen photographic plates. Collated, complete.With two pages of advertisements to the rear.Undated; dated 1936 via WorldCat. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Loss to head of front free endpaper. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout. Pages a touch age toned, with light spotting throughout. Very Good. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Leigh, Conrad; Inns, Kenneth; Sutcliffe, Norman; Gillett, F.; Forestier, A.; Peddie, Tom; De Walton, John; Carruthers, G.P.; Board, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Cowes, Dudley S.; Carruthers, G.P.; Dewar, W. (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Paymaster's Dillemma - A story of American Army life in Manila; The "Place of the Evil Spirit" - The history of Strathcona National Park on Vancouver Island, with photos; The Blind Seer - A curious story of native "magic" in Egypt showing how a blind "wizard" undertook to discover a thief; Fighting the Dingo - The greatest menace to the prosperity of Australian sheep-farmers - with intersting photos; The Saving of Montague Smith - A West African, condemned to death, evades the death-penalty and turns his 'execution' into a roaring farce; On Patrol in Cannibal Papua - interesting leaves from the log of a Patrol Officer in primitive Papua - with fascinating photos; "Poppy" - A strange story from the wild Bushveld country of South Africa; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part III - Jack McLaren spent years settling on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula; At the End of a Rope - A tale from the oilfields of Venezuela; Two Men on a Raft - Two railroad workers try to navigate a swift stream in the Canadian Rockies on a raft; What Happened to Murphy - A young officer of the Burma Military Police sets out to find a Chinese gambling den in the jungle; Schearer's Man-Hunt - A vivid story about the dogged devotion to duty of a young "Wild Cat" (i.e. Pennsylvania State Policeman); In the Shadow of the Gallows - A timber-cruiser for the Conrad Martin Timber and Exporting Company, of San Francisco, wakes up to find his bed-fellow lying dead, stabbed in the heart with his knife; Some African Snake Stories - Patrick Bowen has been an explorer and hunter in Africa for thirty years. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this fascinating vintage issue.