Verlag: Washington, 1945
Anbieter: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, USA
Zustand: Very Good. 384 pp., softcover, very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Anbieter: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Vereinigtes Königreich
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In den WarenkorbPaperback. Zustand: Brand New. 298 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.62 inches. In Stock.
Verlag: Emecé, 1965
Anbieter: Librería Pérez Galdós, Madrid, M, Spanien
Zustand: leido. Cart 400.
Verlag: Grocott and Sherry, 1959
Anbieter: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, Südafrika
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The wraps are shelf rubbed with light creasing and browning along the edges of the pages, not affecting text. Ex-libris plate from a previous owner on the inside of the front wrap. The pages are lightly browned due to age. No ink inscriptions or annotations. r*11/03/2026 JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Verlag: Nest, 1955
Anbieter: DER COMICWURM - Ralf Heinig, Hohnhorst, DE, Deutschland
Hardcover. Zustand: Befriedigend. ALTERSBEDINGTE GEBRAUCHSSPUREN!!!! Kellermuff ohne Schutzumschlag---. nein.
Verlag: Curtis, USA, 1958
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Utz, Thornton (cover); Buckham, Lynn; Sewell, Amos; Riley,Ken (illustrator). First Edition. 92 pages. Short Stories: The Marriage Question; Mob Victim; Bagpipe Brigade; Joe's Secret PLan. Articles: I Wanted to be Somebody (part 1 of 3) - great photo-illustrated article on Althea Gibson, the world's greateset woman tennis player; The Face of America - lovely two-page color photo of family meal in restaurant; I Was a Compulsive Gambler; Can Egypt's Nasser Take it All? - how far will the fiery leader go? - article with photos; Boss of the MIssilemen; She Made it the Second Time - great photo-illustrated article on Mitzi Gaynor; He Runs a Bird College - Dr. Paul Fluck. Serials: A Day in Monte Carlo (part 4 of 6); I Married Murder (part 7 of 8). Ads: Philco Slender Sevenmteen TV (inside front cover); Two-pages for Smith-Corona typewriters; New "7" Car Wax ad features Bill Dec of Huntington, N.Y. and photos of Ford Woody Wagon; Gleem toothpaste; Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Ravioli - with Italian sailboat photo backdrop; Simmons couches; Special K; Motorola TVs (house-moving scene); Squirt soft drink; Mutuals of Wausau ad features Robert L. Cohen of Navajo Freight Lines in Denver; Mayo Spruce Underwear ad features father and son photo of Del Crandall, catcher of the Milwaukee Braves; Allied Van Lines ad features kittens; Eaton truck axle ad features driver Jess Howard and Joe Swartz, VP of East Coast Fisheries of Miami; Seiberling Tires; Zenith 'Space Command' remote control TV tuning. Back cover missing. Above-average wear. Two pieces of masking tape along coverfold. A worthy vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, August (Aug.) 23, 1958 - Maj. Gen. David Wade is the Air Force's First Missile-Division Commander Marriage Question; Mob Victim; Bagpipe Brigade; Joe's Secret PLan. Articles: I Wanted to be Somebody (part 1 of 3) - great photo.
Verlag: Curtis, USA, 1956
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Hughes; D'Andrea, Bernard; Stevens, Peter; Ludlow, Mike (illustrator). First Edition. 116 pages. Features: Kids say the darndest things (part 1 of 3); Ivan goes to sea - what is behind the unparalleled build-up of the Red Navy?; Lawyer for the Defense - James D.C. Murray; Jim Tatum of the Tarheels; The Face of America - Pirates on the Porch (trick or treat); Artificial Arteries Can Save your Life; The Don't Need Progress. Serials: Murder on my Street (par 1 of 7); Trouble at Midas Creek (part 5 of 7). Short Stories: New Man in Her Life; The Sin of Sister Louise; Three Days' Leave; The Crying Cop. Ads: Yale & Towne color-photo ad shows loader with Niagara Falls in background; Otarion Listener ad features Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Lee de Forest, Sumner C. Hayward and Car F. Woods; Motorola TV; Sensational 1958 Chevrolet Truck ad features two-page illustrations of yellow trucks; Lucky Strike cigarettes; Winston cigarettes; Great two-page B-58 Buick ad; Nice color two-page ad for the 1958 Dodge trucks; Philco Slender Seventeen TVs; Wow - two-page color Edsel ad!; Color-photo ad for the Boeing 707 features photos of William Flynn of the Boston Globe, authors Walton and Richard Tregaskis, Albert D. Hughes of the Christian Science Monitor and Lucia Lewis of the Chicago Daily News; U.S. Savings Bond ad features Harriet Quimby, first woman in the world to fly the English Channel; Betty Crocker Marble Cake Mix (back cover). Somewhat average wear. Bits of tape remnant upon front cover. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, November (Nov.) 2, 1957 - Jim Tatum of the Tarheels Kids say the darndest things (part 1 of 3); Ivan goes to sea - what is behind the unparalleled build-up of the Red Navy?; Lawyer for the Defense - James D.C. Murray; Jim Tatu.
Verlag: Crowell-Collier, USA, 1946
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. de Dienes, Andre; Forsberg, Howard; Sawyers, Martha; Knop-Pix, HansBeckhoff, Harry; Gillen, Denver; Bischoff, H.E.; Berman, Sam; Pike, John (illustrator). First Edition. 82 pages. Fiction: Leader of the Band; The Other Woman; The Senator was Indiscreet; The Reformer; Sleep, My Love; Callaghan's Miracle. Articles: The Roosevelt I Knew (part 1); No War with Russia; Just Swing the Club Head - Golf Pro Ernest Jones; Why Teachers Quit School; Bermuda - Tourist Paradise; Dowager Queen - Mrs. Twombly; Everyone catches a fish at this lake near Azusa, CA; Color photo aboard a luxuriously appointed C-47 (DC-3) designed by Raymond Loewy; One Year After V-J Day. Ads include: Eveready Batteries; Philco record players; Santa Fe Railroad; *Fantastic* Wurlitzer Juke Box ad "Nickel's worth of fun - fishermen have lunch"; "Crack-Up" movie; Good Year tire centerfold; Frigidaire fridges; Waltham watches; Old Mr. Boston Liquor; Kodak film; Squirt Soda; "The Killers" movie starring Ava Gardner; Aeronca airplanes; Nice Jeep ad inside back cover; Lucky Strike ad on back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.
Verlag: Crowell-Collier, USA, 1946
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Knopf-Pix, Hans; Barnum, Hyde; Bruehl, Anton; Daniel,Lewis; Berman, Sam; Leason, Percy; Bischoff, H.E.; Blossom, Earl; Dormont,Philip; McKay, Dorothy (illustrator). First Edition. 74 pages. Fiction: Straw Hat Circuit; Candlelight and Salt Pork; A Little Fire; Sleep, My Love (part 2 of 5); The Wonderful Race at Rimrock; Come Back, Come Back. Articles: Who is a Negro - the problem of lightskin colored folks who pass as whites; St. George and the Marxian Dragon - a report on the first year of Britain's experiment in socialism; All-America Water Queens - The A.A.U. picks a team of the nation's 14 best girl swimmers; What George Bernard Shaw thinks at Ninety; The Truth About Henry Kaiser - this, part 2 of 3, deals chiefly with his invasion of the automobile industry; The Scholar and the Sprout - Life with Uncle Roger at Mrs. McTiver's Cape Cod boardinghouse. Nice ads include: Seiberling tires; Life Savers candies; Nice color ad for GMC Trucks; Sensational color centerfold ad for the new Chevrolet; Talon ad features color photo of woman in corset; Nice two-color two-page Buick ad; Nice one-page color ad for Mercury cars; One-page color ad for Pontiac's new 1946 DeLuxe Station Wagon; Corby's Whiskey - with golf photos; Great color photo ad for Canadian Club inside back cover features logging scenes in northern British Columbia; Lucky Strike ad on back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, August 3, 1946 - Who is a Negro? / Henry Kaiser Racism Jeanne Wilson Marilyn Sahner Helen Graham Clare Lamore Lorraine Fischer Marion Pontacq Ann Curtis Sue Curtis Joyce McCrae Helen Morgan Zoe Ann Olsen Berniece Looney Betty Lachok Ka.
Verlag: Liberty Magazine (Canada) Limited, Toronto, 1944
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Malak (cover photo); Schmidt, Al; Brown, Arthur William;Anderson, Frederick; Atwell, Tom; (illustrator). First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Morale - and the Mails; Are We Running Out of Oil? - by a V.P. of Standard Oil; Air Service for Every Canadian Community? - interesting article with photos from Watson Lake and Whitehorse; The Bazooka is Born - workroom to warfront in thirty days - photo illustrated article provides the behind-the-scenes account of the workers who got the Bazooka to the front - and on time; Russia's Children - caring for 15 million orphans; Science attacks loneliness. Fiction: Wind in the Valley; Without Motive; Professor Pyro - part 5; Condensed Book - Der Fuehrer (part 1). Ads: Amazing Kinsmen Fund ad inside front cover raises funds for milk for British children - with photo; Nice vintage one-page ad for Trans-Canada Air Lines (T.C.A.); Calvert Distillers ad promotes partnership between Canada, the US and Britain; Ipana tooth paste; Canada Dry ginger ale; Skintite Swim Suits (with photo); Kreml Hair Tonic; John Labbatt Limited - comic-style ad #43 supports price ceilings to curb inflation; Band-Aid; Heinz Baby Foods; Alka-Seltzer; Cutex nail colours; McBrine Baggage; Brier Pipes; Don Juan Lipstick; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover depicts scene in soda shop with wartime flier describing an adventure to young boy and ladies. Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage wartime issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Liberty Magazine, June 3, 1944 - Russia's 15 Million Orphans Major General Levin H. Campbell; G.E. General Electric James L. Powers Morale - and the Mails; Are We Running Out of Oil? - by a V.P. of Standard Oil; Air Service for Every Canadian Community?
Verlag: Crowell-Collier, USA, 1946
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Karger-Pix, George; Brown, Elmore; Peskin-Pix, David;Berman, Sam; Klett, Walter; Roman, Dun; Bischoff, Henry E.; Huston-Pix;Bobertz, Carl; Stern, Phil; Eng, Fred; Knopf-Pix, Hans; Anderson, Lyman (illustrator). First Edition. 86 pages. Fiction: The Captain's Cap; I Want You To See My Sister; Mother Loved Father; Sleep, My Love; The Leopard; A Day on the Ocean. Articles: Cinderella Sport - Harness Racing Reaches New Heights; Being a Communist in the USA has its headaches; Low Man on a Lightning Rod; Ethel Merman's Broadway Success - article with color photos; The Truth about Henry Kaiser - conclusion; Boston's Incredible Mayor Curley - article with photos; Movie Catastrophe Maker - Mr. "Breezy" Eason; Bermuda novelty hats made of real flowers and fruits; Brief article with photos of Consolidated Vultee's six-engined B-36. Nice ads include: Color ad for GE radios featuring Marjorie Reynolds; Good Year tires; Great color ad for International Trucks; Vitalis scalp oil; Borden's - with Elsie the Cow; New York Central Railway; Piper Aircraft; Nice 2-page color ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; GM Electro-Motive Division; Great Coke ad shows local men at soda fountain with cob of corn; Ford Trucks; Schlitz Beer; TWA; "Rendezvous with Annie" movie ad; Packard cars; Carling's Ale; Back cover ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features lovely color photo of young woman. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, August 10, 1946 - Henry Kaiser (Conclusion) / "Breezy" Eason Stages Debacles for Movies / Ethel Merman / Boston Mayor James Michael Curley Earl Browder William Z. Foster.
Verlag: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, USA, 1948
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Fredman, Harry; Mink, Dave; Knopf, Hans; Ross, Alex; Cooper, Mario; Klimley, Stanley (illustrator). First Edition. 86 pages. Articles: How the Reds Snatched Henry Wallace; The World's Biggest Store - Macy's in New York - article with nice photos; Nancy and Me - the famous Nancy comic strip; A Princess Sells Her Sarong - Malia Sunario Wiranata Kusuma of Java (Indonesia); The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 17 - conclusion); Has Polio Met Its Match in Darvisul?; The Human Female. Photo of Johnny Sain with Phil Masi, Tommy Holmes and Mike McCormick of the Boston Braves. Fiction: Marriage 1948 (part 1 of 5); The Wedding Present; She's a Big Girl Now; The Glass Cornet; Second Man on the Ticket (conclusion); Duffy Takes a Hand. Ads include: Dodge cars; Pan American Airlines; Ethyl; Florsheim Shoes; Vitalis - featuring Ben Hogan; De Beers (with small marking at bottom); Philco phonographs; 1949 Ford cars; Coke ad shows a table of four on a train being served by black man; Otto Graham's Football book and Pennsylvania footballs; B.V.D. clothing; Mallory Hats; Revere cameras and projectors; Texaco (polo theme); Bell Telephone (long distance operator); Great Northern Railway; Dan River; Dixon's Enduro pencil sharpener; Winthrop shoes; Plymouth cars; Botany 500 fashions; Hamm's beer; South Wind car warmers; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Covers pulling from staples. Sunning to right edge of front cover. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy.
Verlag: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, USA, 1948
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Sweet, Ozzie (cover); Dwyer, Jim; Cowhey, Ken; Sharland; Smith, Frederick; Dersh, Stanley; Hamlin, Paul; Cooper, Mario; Willis, Fritz (illustrator). First Edition. 78 pages. Articles: Bread within waters - using atomic science to banish world hunger; Carelessness - the child killer (part 2 of 2); How to get Whistled at - Ann Delafield makes women more soothing to the eye; Rifle-Arm Sammy - Sammy Baugh of the Redskins; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins - the Yalta agreement and the president's last days; Guy Lombardo's Tempo VI which holds the world's single-engine speedboat mark of 118.2 mph - photo with write-up. Fiction: Pardon my Symptoms; The Girl Who Was Nobody's Daughter; He Had No Reservations; The Shanahan Strad; The One-Eyed Poacher and the Long Night; Second Man on the Ticket (part 3 of 4). Ads include: Studebaker; Westclox; Zenith radios; Pontiac cars; Monarch packaged foods; RCA Victor radio-phonographs; Pabst beer features colour photo of Mr. and Mrs. Lauritz Melchior; Good Year (centerfold); Plymouth cars; Hickok belts; Lord Calvert full-page color-photo ad features movie producer Jesse L. Lasky; Nice full-page color Blatz beer ad features Don Ameche; U.S. Army (featuring Uncle Sam; Rainfair; Spring Mills; Back cover Camel ad features precision flyer Betty Skelton. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.
Verlag: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, Springfield, Ohio, 1949
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Milroy, Karl; Fleischmann, Glen; Irvin, Fred; Dwyer, James;Jones, Casey; Snyder, Wesley; Cunette, Lou; Brussel-Smith, Bernard (illustrator). First Edition. 74 pages. Features: I Stole a Million (part 1 of 2 - Insurance Fraudster David Schiffer; Hell on Ice - Ice boating; It's Smart to be Stupid; The Greatest Drug Since Penicillin - Chloromycetin; A Murder a Minute; Peak of a Skyline - The Empire State Building; Nightmare in Santo Tomas - Robert Robb was kept prisoner by the Japanese in Manila; Penny and Me - number 6 in a series devoted to America's top comic strips; Tulsa, Oklahoma - Great Aerial color photo; Red Hysteria Pleases Moscow - back page editorial. Short Stories: The Girl Who Wasn't For Sale; Tiger, Tiger; A Time to Mourn; The Three-Cornered Heart; Mrs. O'Brien Cures The Seven-Year Itch; Ringside Maiden (part 6 of 8); Ads for: Philco televisions, Heinz Soups - super two-page ad, 1949 Ford cars, Chesterfield cigarettes back cover color photo ad featuring Joan Fontaine and Van W. Daniel of Ruffin, N.C. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, February 5, 1949 I Stole a Million (part 1 of 2 - Insurance Fraudster David Schiffer; Hell on Ice - Ice boating; It's Smart to be Stupid; The Greatest Drug Since Penicillin - Chloromycetin; A Murder a Minute; Pea.
Verlag: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, USA, 1948
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Baz, Ben Hur; Berger, David; Karsh; Sawyers, Martha;Bischoff, H.E.; Chaliapin, Boris; Cooper, Mario; Guise, Vincent; (illustrator). First Edition. 74 pages. Articles: Miracles Made to Order - modern chemical research; State Department Quarterback - Charles Eustis "Chip" Bohlen - with nice Karsh photo portrait; Very Tired Lady - Holland's beloved Queen Wilhelmina terminates her 50-year reign; Is Your Child in a Classroom Crisis? - be sure he's fit to read before he enters grade 1; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 15) - The Presidential campaign of 1944, and prelims to the Yalta Conference; Good News for Little Women - Ready-made dresses are now styled for their figures - with nice color photos. Fiction: Passport to Missouri; Collector's Item; Broadway Doll; The Win to Go Home; Second Man on the Ticket (part 2 of 4); The Unchained. Ads include: Pennsylvania Railroad; Pat Buckalew of Montclair, NJ is featured in an Ipana toothpaste ad; Motorola radio; RKO movies; Nice full-page color-photo Jeep ad showing four work situations; International trucks; Chevroet cars; Wembley 'square' ties; Schlitz beer; Vitalis (with Lloyd Mangrum); Miller beer; Hudson cars; Spam; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features Susan Hayward. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, September 4, 1948 Tennis Players Louis Brough Margaret Osborne DuPont Miracles Made to Order - modern chemical research; State Department Quarterback - Charles Eustis "Chip" Bohlen - with nice Karsh photo portrait; Very Tired Lady - Ho.
Verlag: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, USA, 1948
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Cutler, Wilson (cover); Snyder, Bryson; Sloan, Robert S.; Hurst, Oliver; Cowhey, Ken; Friedman, Harry; Pike, John; Kotula, Jo; Wolsky, Milton; Ehrenberg, Myron; (illustrator). First Edition. 78 pages. Articles: Kansas Staggers to the Polls - bootleggers will be out of luck if the state votes wet this fall; Why Ike Said No - a close friend explains Ike's refusal of the nomination; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 14) - Three Titans Spin the Globe - revealing the conversations of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Teheran; Carelessness - The Child Killer; Air Transport - the answer to air power - in global warfare, cargo planes are as vital as fighting planes; Suited for the Campus - autumn style notes for college men from Maine to California. Fiction: Second Man on the Ticket; Someone to Watch Over Katie; Boy's Best Friend; It Wouldn't Be Fair; Rain in August; An Affair of State (conclusion). Ads include: Fortune shoes for men; DeSoto car; Bell Telephone; Seiberling tires; 1949 cars; Plymouth; RCA Victor radio-phonographs; Pendleton shirts; Hickok belts; Admiral portable radios; U.S. Rubber (centerfold); Dodge Trucks; Oldsmobile cars; Jantzen sweaters; Evelyn Neblett in Pepsodent ad; Rand shoes; Loretta Young in Auto-Lite ad; Springs Mills; Indian motorcycles; Dan River; TTD; Kodak; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring diving star "Jim" Fairbrother. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.
Verlag: The International New Company, New York, 1924
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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.
Verlag: The International New Company, New York, 1924
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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.
Verlag: The International New Company, New York, 1924
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated by Hiley, F.E.; Edwards, Lionel; De Walton, John; Wightman,W.E.; Woodville, R. Caton; Abbey, S.; Prater, Ernest; Constable, Douglas (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Lost in the Pacific - John Edwin Hogg attempted to take a small boat to Panama from some islands 90 miles off the coast, but encountered treacherous seas; On Niagara's Brink - Orrin E. Dunlap, the unofficial historian of Niagara Falls, describes the area's most thrilling adventure, that of a barge and two men, Lofberg and Harris, who drifted to the verge of Horseshoe Falls - article with photos; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part I - Oxford Anthropology student Winifred S. Blackman relates her experiences in three winters of living with the people of Upper Egypt - article with photos; Captain Doudera's Bet - The amazing photo-illustrated story of Captain Frank Doudera, of Brooklyn, New York, and his quest to obtain a timber wolf pelt within six weeks; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part II - Beatrice Grimshaw travelled up the Sepik River of New Guinea, where she dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Chippin' Paint - An amusing sea story; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part II - 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 as one of themselves; The Treasure of Tristan Da Cunha - Photo-illustrated article about a hoard of gold and jewels said to have been hidden here by pirates in 1810; Photo of a literal river full of logs in British Columbia; The Three Angleteers - Part IV - Three bored Englishmen travel to Europe for trouble and adventure; In the British Guiana Jungle - A vividly-written photo-illustrated account of an eventful boat-journey into the interior of British Guiana with a motion picture camera, culminating with a visit to the mighty Kaietuerk Falls, the greatest cataract in the world, five times higher than Niagara; The Secret of the Wilds - photos of wild animals which resemble those of prehistoric times; "Grip" and I - Part II - A bull-terrier spared from death by its new owner Count Nils Cronstedt returns the favour by saving him multiple times during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendent in Northern Nigeria; One Night - the story of a hunt in the darkness and a panther who stood his ground; 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.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, February 1924, Lost in the Pacific, John Edwin Hogg, Panama, Niagara Falls, Orrin E. Dunlap, barge, Lofberg , Harris, Horseshoe Falls, An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt, Winifred S. Blackman, Upper Egypt, Captain Frank Doudera, timber w.