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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second Edition. Includes 25*plates (plans and illustrations). xx+455pp. Original leather boards have been replaced by green cloth with red guards to spine and corners. Original leather spine has been pasted onto the replacement spine. Endpapers have been replaced. Original text block in good order except for some foxing, mainly to the early pages. Note regarding one of the plates, possibly a publishers note, is loose with the book. Additional postage likely due to weight.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Second edition, large 8vo, xvii, [3], 455, [1]pp., frontis., 24 plates and plans (some coloured), orig. publishers red cloth, gilt, slight wear to head of spine otherwise a very good copy. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Francis Jack, Second Earl of Kilmorey.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Captain Moorsom's detailed account of the history of the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot. Illustrated throughout. The first edition of Captain William Scarth Moorsom's historical account of the Oxfordshire 57th light infantry regiment, between 1755 and 1858. The regiment first saw active service during the American War of Independence, with later involvement in the Napoleonic Wars and Peninsular Campaign.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and twenty-four further plates, including nineteen coloured maps and three chromolithograph plates. Collated, complete.To the front pastedown is the inscription of G. W. Windham Clive, of the 52nd regiment, dated February 1860.To the front free endpaper is the inscription of Maurice G. Jove of the Society for Army of Historical Research and the Military Historical Society. Jove has annotated the work throughout, with numerous neat marginal notations.A detailed account of the history of this regiment during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading and discolouration to back strip. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fraying to cloth. Front and rear joints strained, with boards slightly tender. Inscriptions to front pastedown and front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Significant spotting to page and plate perimeters, with frequent neat ink notations and inscriptions throughout. Good. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Prater, Ernest; Brock, H.M.; Wightman, W.E.; Peddie, T.H.; Inns, Kenneth; Moorsom, F.G.; Sutcliff, Norman; Holloway, Cyril; Lloyd, Stanley; (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Cycling Round the World - Part I - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years travelling over 20,000 miles on his own!; Akimaldo's Great Idea - A story which proves West Africans have a sense of humour "even if in a somewhat perverted form"; The Girl Stowaway of the 'Cecilie' - Part I - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; The "Teak-Wallahs" of Northern Siam - A fascinating photo-illustrated look at the teak industry of northern Siam; Two Men and a Donkey - Part III - The adventures of two young artists walking from the South of France to Spain; Europeans Walk Through Fire! - An amazing photo-illustrated account of two Europeans who traversed white-hot coals barefoot with Hindu devotees, emerging apparently unscathed!; Hide-and-Seek With a Lion - A rare time when a can opener saved a life; All in the Day's Work - J.A. Browne, a policeman at Antler, Manitoba, heads out to gather a tough character - with photo of Browne; The Secret Pass - "Slippery" Wiley continues his misdeeds in the West Australia goldfields; The Yok San Mystery - Ning Wo solves another puzzling mystery in the Malay States; The Avenger of Blood - A curious case of Eskimo blood-vengeance from Alaska; "The Land of Opportunity" - Part II - Arthur W. Upfield provides readers with an idea of what lies in store if they elect to 'try their luck' in Australia, with photos; An African Man-Hunt - E.E. Stuart-Reid chased a rogue native constable of the Northern Rhodesia Police through the forest for three weeks; 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Square inch of loss to upper corner of front cover. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Sutcliffe, Norman; Goss, G.W.; gale, W.G.; Sindall, A.W.; Moorsom, F.G.; tresilian, S.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, R.H.; Carruthers, G.P.; Saunderson, E.J.; Prater, Ernest; Cleaver, Reginald (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: America's Murder Gangs Unmasked - A striking revelation of the forces at work behind the "murder-gangs," or organized criminal syndicates, of New York, Chicago, and other large American cities; My Menagerie - Photo-illustrated article about D. Maule and his odd experiences with his collection of animals, acquired in the wilds of Rhodesia; "Square-Pegs" - Part III of a story which should be studied by everyone considering settling in Canada - in this case a London family purchases a prairie farm; The Crowing Cock - How two Buddhist priests unmasked a cunning thief by a clever piece of 'divination'; on the outskirts of Colombo, Ceylon; Room Forty-Nine - A dangerous experience for an Englishman in Mexico; "Kruger's" Day Out - A bold, bad baboon is unfastened by mischievous troopers in South Africa; Hunting the "Moonshiners" - Interesting stories from the officers tasked with suppressing the flow of illegal liquor in the Prohibition-era United States - with photos; Photo of communal bakery in Brittany; "Tiger" - After 11 years in Malaya William Hodge saw his first live tiger; Two Girls on the Frontier - Part I - Two city-bred sisters take up homesteading in South Dakota - with photos; Nik's Homecoming - Life and death in a remote Albanian village last August is described, with photos, by Lieut-Colonel P.T. Etherton; Mart Dayton's Grizzly - It took him a year but he finally took revenge on the bear that killed his young partner in the remote MacGregor country in British Columbia; The Bridge-Builders - Two men knowing nothing of the business take on a contract to build a bridge across an obscure river in the wilds of Africa; Fire-Walkers of Mauritius - A Photo-illustrated account of an extraordinary ceremony; In Quest of Gold - Part II - Two young Americans in search of buried treasure are forced to turn around by the dreaded Yaqui Indians. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this fascinating vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Prater, Ernest; Wood, Stanley L.; Abbey, S.; Illingworth, L.G.; Moorsom, W.G.; Wigfull, W.E.; Cleaver, Reginald; Holloway, Cyril; Sindall, A.W.; Goss, G.W.; Tresilian, S. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 338-420 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: By Water in the Desert - an African witch doctor puts a curse on three white men; "Highclimbing" in the Tall Timbers - photo-illustrated article on high-climbers (high-riggers) of the Pacific Northwest which provides a vivid account of their work and its perils; Kwis-Kwis The Killer - British Columbia police sergeant Letherdale brings to book a most cunning and dangerous murderer in the vicinity of Queen Charlotte Sound; "Within the Law" - an unscrupulous Winnipeg estate agent tries to bring off an extra-smart deal; An African No Man's Land - the first crossing by white men of a queer region in the heart of the Belgian Congo - with photos; My Grandfather's Watch - after a watch is stolen in India, a servant suggests an unusual - and successful - method of retrieving it; Shark Catching Extraordinary - a local fisherman devises a novel method to take care of a shark which is threatening swimmers at a New Zealand resort; Through Spain in Disguise (part II) - Count and Countess Malmignati travel through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars; The Guru's Message - Journalist Colonel Charles Harrison Gibbons lay at death's door near the Khyber Pass but was relieved by a friend from a thousand miles away who was somehow contacted by an old native priest; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" (part IV) - the adventures of six young men sailing from Shanghai to Copenhagen; "On Construction" - the adventures of trying to build a new railway through the wilds of Africa; Experiences with the Alligators of Cambridge Gulf in Australia, with illustration of a Carl Jacobs alligator trap and photo of a massive 'gator caught at Wyndham; A Night with Lions - the appalling experience of corporal Fairweather of the B.S.A. Police on the banks of the Zambezi; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Wood, Stanley L.; Sutcliffe, Norman; Cleaver, Reginald;Dowd, Leo P.; Holloway, Cyril; Moorsom, F.G.; Prater, E.; Wightman, W.E.;Briault, S. (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The "Goldenburg Coward" - True tale from the headwaters of Spruce River, British Columbia during the gold stampede of summer 1900; Hunting the Long-Haired Chinese Tiger - Lieut.-Commander the Hon. J.M. Kenworthy describes an eventful hunt for this tiger which is larger and more ferocious than the Indian variety; Through Arctic Seas - Part I - The eventful cruise of the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life - with photos; Through Spain in Disguise - Part V - The Count and Countess Malmignati, disguised as Arab beggars, sing and dance for a living; Photo of the smallest teapot in the world, fashioned by Mr. T.A. Vickery, of Main Street, Bantry; Rebecca's Vengeance - An odd story of "Black Man's Magic" in the West Indies from 1903; Looking for Trouble - Alexander MacNab experiences disaster while engaged in a Mexican revolution under General Carranza; ; A Near Thing - A British Intelligence agent arouses suspicion while in German territory; Painting Wild Indians - A. Hyatt Verrill describes his experiences after spending years painting the little-known Indians of Central and South America; Cowboys and Raiders - Jesse C. Carson relates his association with Pancho Villa as a rebel 'general'; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Grace Sprange describes two years of disappointment, disillusionment, and disaster attempting to grow oranges - with photos; The Last of the Little "Shanghai" - brief update and photo on this trusty craft which had previously sailed from Shanghai to Copenhagen; Trapped in a Flooded Tunnel - The terrible experience which befell a diver near the Hartebeestpoort Irrigation Dam, near Pretoria, South Africa; "For the Hounour of the Mounted Police of Canada" - Herbert Patrick Lee relates an experience from when he was a recruit at Regina. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. Covers beginning to separate from textblock. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, December 1927, Point Barrow, The "Goldenburg Coward", Spruce River, British Columbia, goldrush, summer 1900, Long-Haired Chinese Tiger, Lieut.-Commander the Hon. J.M. Kenworthy, tiger hunting - China, Through Arctic Seas, Hudson Bay C.