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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. New Edition. Folio. 3 volume set No date but pos on Family Register page of 1855. Dk leather covers with gilt titling and decoration on spine with wear and scuffing to cover edges, corners etc. Front hinge of Vol I cracked and long splits to spine front cover edge and more cover wear than other 2 vols. Some foxing. Very heavy books. Book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. de Walton, John; Hiley, F.E.; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Cameron, John; Wood, Stanley L.; Brightwell, L.R.; Soper, G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton (illustrator).…

Full Straight-grained Morocco. Zustand: Good. 396 pp. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco. Blind decorative border and gold stamp to boards, gold decoration and lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Front hinge cracking and fragile. Bumping to corners and minor rubbing to extremities, a few marks to boards. Ownership inscriptions in ink from 1827 to front blanks and some foxing to leaves. Engraved frontis and title-page illustration. Small format book - binding 13.2cm tall. Considered as one of the most important works of theological fiction in English literature. Literary editor Robert McCrum writes on 'Pilgrim's Progress': "there's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership, or its influence on writers as diverse as William Hogarth, C. S. Lewis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, George Bernard Shaw, William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Enid Blyton." 12mo.…

Full Calf. Zustand: Near Fine. xii, 375, [1] pp. Contemporary full calf. All edges gilt, spine gilt and gilt board edges and dentelle turn-ins. Front endpaper has a list of women's names written in different hands in black ink. Light scratching to binding and light rubbing to extremities. Considered as one of the most important works of theological fiction in English literature. Literary editor Robert McCrum writes on 'Pilgrim's Progress': "there's no book in English, apart from the Bible, to equal Bunyan's masterpiece for the range of its readership, or its influence on writers as diverse as William Hogarth, C. S. Lewis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, George Bernard Shaw, William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Enid Blyton." Binding 15.8cm tall. Small 8vo.…