north escott (3 Ergebnisse)

War economy standard. Owner's name on front free end paper & fore-edge; spine worn along joint & at head and foot. All illustrations present, but illustration between pp16 & 17 stuck in with yellowed sellotape (illustration unaffected). Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket.

Zustand: Very good. - Quarto, a 4-page pictorial brochure measuring 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide advertising a series of lectures on the American cowboy and the romance of the old West by Escott North. The cover illustration, in blue & white, depicts Escott North seated on a saddle attired in cowboy gear with hat and suspenders holding up fur covered leather chaps. A silhouette of a cowboy on a horse illustrates the top of the page. The rear cover is illustrated with 4 vignettes framing the text: "Follow the Trail with Escott North through the Sweeping Glory of the Far West". A brief biography printed on the two inner pages frame a central portrait of North, followed by descriptions of 2 lectures respectively titled "On the Trail of the Cowboy" and "Trailing Through the Golden West". The brochure is folded twice horizontally with some soiling along the folds on the rear cover. Very good. The Englishman Escott North ("one of England's most popular lecturers") lived much of his life in the U.S. and Western Canada and "gives us the real, unvarnished picture of our own romantic rider of the plains." "Instead of the lad who rides into town, shoots up the bar and rescues the maidens in distress, Mr. North describes a hard-working fellow who puts in about fourteen or sixteen hours a day in normal times, and twenty to twenty-four in the big round-ups which occur twice a year". [Quotations are from the biographical text].

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.