Margaret l macpherson (5 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (australia, history, new zealand, description and travel) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 6mm tears and chips to cloth at head and tail of spine. Spine lettering mostly rubbed away. Rubbing to boards. Some foxing. No signatures. Bookseller's ticket on front endpaper, A. H. Spencer, Melbourne.; 288 pages + frontispiece + 23 illustrations on 11 plate leaves + 16 pages advertisements. Green cloth boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. Contents: Part 1 - New Zealand: G. B. S. Starts It [George Bernard Shaw]; Ratana, the Miracle Man; Christchurch on Parade; Otago, Past and Present; Nelson, the Athens of New Zealand; The Bad Old Days; The King Country; A Famous Maori Chieftainess; Uncanny Country; When Royalty Comes; Go North, Young Man!; Where Labour Rules; Part II - Australia: Sydney Folks; Sun and Sea; New South Wales; Gold Fever; In Search of the Phantom Reef; "Lassetomania"; The Bohemigentzia; Melbourne Days; Kisch Me, Sergeant!; To the North; Where You Can Touch the Sun With Your Hat; Westward Ho!; We Make Comparisons; Part III - Our Playground: France's Southern Garden; Tonga, and the Song You Never Heard; Fiji and the Fire-Walkers; Samoa at Peace. [Reference: Bagnall M610 - "Part 1, New Zealand: p.15-141. General descriptive comments from tour in 1936-7 with interesting comments on Te Puea, Ratana and Colonel Bell (Kaitaia).].…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by A.S. Paterson. Octavo. 248pp. Light foxing on topedge, spine ends and corners worn and nicked, still very good lacking the dust jacket. "The Smithers family join their father on an investigative tour of New Zealand." - *OCLC*. Scarce especially in trade.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Ning Wo Pays His Debt - The Chinese servant of a Chief of Police in a Malay state settles a score with an enemy who killed his brother; My Sea-Trip - Peter Carden's amusing experience as a 'horseman' aboard a cargo-steamer; Photo of a Mariamma goddess in India, used to ward off epidemics; Photo and brief write-up of a marine fruit market in Bangkok, the "Venice of the East"; Passages With Pachyderms - exciting encounters with these great beasts, as told by Captain C. Lestock Reid; Dead Man's Treasure - A consulting engineer for the Cyclops M. and M. Company of Montida USA makes strange discoveries on a prospecting trip; Through Spain in Disguise - Part III - A continuation of the adventures and misadventures of Count and Countess Malmignati who travelled through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars, singing and dancing for a living; Zaki and Zomo - The Dog and Pony who both lost their lives while serving Captain J.F.J. Fitzpatrick in battle against the Germans; On Foot Through South America - G.C. Thompson and his two young sons travlled all over South America in search of work for four years; The Tale of the Toheroa - The curious shellfish found only in New Zealand - with photos; On the Trail of the "Thirstland Trekkers" - Part I - Colonel Deneys Reitz describes his exploration of mysterious terra incognita in what was formerly known as German South-West Africa - with many interesting photos; Timothy Murphy's "Donkey" - Great story about a logging donkey-engine at Calfton's logging outfit on Myrtle Island on the British Columbia Coast; The Mine Under the Creek - A brush with death when a mine floods in the Gulf country of Australia; The Chrissie C. Thomey's" Last Voyage - A gallant old Arctic schooner is lost through a most unlikely mischance - with photo; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" - Part V - The amazing voyage of several young men from Shanghai to Copenhagen - article with nice photos. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Holloway, Cyril; Illingworth, L.G.; Goss, G.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Cleaver, Reginald; Prater, Ernest; Potts, Leonard; Vedder, S.H.; Soper, G.; York, W.G. (illustrator).…