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Illustrated Wrappers. Zustand: Fair. B/W And Color Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. Single Issue In Original Wrappers. Some Chipping To Covers, Long Split Along Front Spine Edge; Water Staining To About Half Of Each Ad Page At Rear And A Tiny Area Of Water Staining To Inside Edge Of The Rear Cover.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. B/W And Color Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. Single Issue In Original Wrappers. Near Fine.

Zustand: Fine. 1400; 984; 1028; 1248; 1269; 1225; 1984, 413 col plates, line drawings, distribution maps. . HB. 7 parts in 9 vols, 4to (272x195mm), orig. cloth. Fine in d/w (some spines slightly faded). Vol. 1 Rarities to Ducks, Part A: Ratites to Petrels; Part B: Australian Pelican to Ducks; Vol. 2: Raptors to Lapwings; Vol. 3: Snipe to Pigeons; Vol. 4: Parrots to Dollarbird: Vol. 5: Tyrant-Flycatchers to Chats; Vol. 6: Pardalotes to Shrike-Thrushes; Vol. 7 Boatbill to Starlings, Part A: Boatbill to Larks; Part B: Dunnock to Starlings. [9780195532449].

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Peddie, Tom; Tresilian, S.; Gale, W.J.; Prater, Ernest; Nicholson, W.C.; Sutcliffe, Norman (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Policing the Great White North - A photo-illustrated account of the manifold perils and hardships that are the daily portion of the gallant handful of men who represent law and order in the Vast Canadian Arctic; Pathetic fate of two missing WWI Sheffield soldiers revealed - William Thompson and George Walter Howard; Bill's Bear-Cub - An American trapper adopts a bear cub and his partner foretells disaster; Three Months on an Island Inferno - J.K. Wilson explains his 'holiday' on White Island, near Tauranga, New Zealand - with photos; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part I - What happened after H.P. Musson, a transplanted London paper-pusher, lost his job as a hired hand in Western Canada and began looking for his own homestead; Trapping Wild Animals in Northern Siam - The ingenious methods by which the jungle folk trap fierce whild beasts, with great photos; Cycling Round the World - Part III of III of Kai Thorenfeldt's amazing 20,000 mile journey which took over two years - with map and nice photos; Forgotten Fortunes - Frances Dickie describes the remarkable circumstances in which two of the most amazing 'finds' in the history of European art have lately come to light in France - with photo of Mrs. M.L. Westmoreland, who discovered a valuable Goya in a Paris second-hand shop; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part II - Seeking the prehistoric Komodo dragon on a remote Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) island; A Terrible Journey - Joseph Metcalf fell into an underground conduit conveying water from a dam to Port Elizabeth - forty-five miles away!; The Greatest of All Thrills - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article on the new sport of parachuting from aircraft; "Heir Number Six" - A Winnipeg real estate agent goes to the North-West territory in search of an obscure half-breed regarding a dispute over land ownership. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Hossack, J.W.; Webb, Arch; Brock, R.H.; Vedder, S.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, E.; Holloway, W.H.; Brock, H.M.; Soper, G. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hypnotist Detective - Dr. Leopold Thoma of Vienna is a new kind of detective; Knocking at the Cannibals Door - a very dramatic story of the "white man's burden" near the Kunimaipa River in British New Guinea; My Misadventures in Finistere - an amusing account of a holiday sojourn on a little island off the northern coast of Brittany; Through the East by Air - Part III - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; The Tiger Calls - an account of what befell two Indian teaplanters; Our Little Outing - An exciting story from a P. Burns and Co. beef camp southeast of Olds, Alberta; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part III - the remarkable story of a man who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever occur in America; The Ship That Disappeared - The perilous adventure of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine steamer "Canadian Importer"; The "Human Leopards" - A Terrible secret society in Sierra Leone, West Africa; The Blue Spot Theory - a funny story about checking for birthmarks on Burmese babies; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part I - Oscar Olsson's aim was to shoot big game with a film camera; My Fishing Trip - a British Officer's touch and go experience in Sopor, a village in Kashmir; and more. 86 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.

Etats-Unis, Edited by Vincent Starrett 1956. In-8 broché, de 248 pages au format 21,5 x 14 cm. Couverture avec titre imprimé et illustration en noir. Plats et intérieur frais. Dos carré muet. Retirage d'un des ouvrages les plus célèbres de l'érudition Holmesienne, dont l'édition originale de 1940 est ardemment recherché. Ce recueil contient des textes de Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Morley, R.K. Leavitt, Elmer Davis, Jane Nightwork, Earle F. Walbridge, H.W. Bell, James Keddie, Harvey Officer, P.M Stone, Vincent Starrett, Richard D. Altick, Frederic Dorr Steele, Henry James Forman, Edgar W. Smith et F.V Morley. Nombreuses illustrations et documents en noir, hors texte. Indispensable ouvrage et un must pour tous les Sherlockiens. Exemplaire ayant appartenu à Robert B. Frier en tirage limité à 350 exemplaires numérotés ( n° 232 ) avec ex-libris d'appartenance. Signé par Robert B. Frier au verso de la couverture. Edition originale broché en état proche du neuf et en tirage limité. Rare et totalement épuisé.