Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Dampstained. Spine cracked. (Religious Poetry).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Blackie, London, 1918
Anbieter: Raddon House Books, Exeter, DEVON, Vereinigtes Königreich
EUR 23,85
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Arch. Webb (illustrator). nd but first edition. 5 x 7¼" pp. 256 with colour frontispiece and 4 black and white illustrations. Very good in bllue boards blocked in black, yellow and white to front board and spine. Minor rubbing to boards. Firm and tight, clean text with no stains, foxing, or labels. Stamped "With the Publishers Compliments" on title page. No dust wrapper.
Verlag: Blackie & Son nd, London
Anbieter: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Kanada
Cloth. Zustand: Good +. 384 p. 19 cm. 7 b&w illustrations including 1 sketch map. Brown cloth hardcover with illustrated front panel and spine. Corners worn, small tears in spine ends. Some wer to edges and rubbing to boards. Pages browning.
Verlag: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909
Anbieter: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, Vereinigtes Königreich
EUR 5,96
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. No jacket. Webb, Arch (illustrator). Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Hardback, 8vo, 158pp, illust, 16pp catalogue. Lacks endpaper, spotting throughout. Original decorated brown cloth, slightly bumped and marked. A fair copy. /0.4uk.
Verlag: London; Nelson
Anbieter: Peakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA, Sheringham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
EUR 17,89
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good+. Illustrated by Peter Fraser; Harold Earnshaw; J M Rock; Lawson Wood; GStuddy;arch Webb; (illustrator). Twelfth Edition. H/b; illus boards; g+ 4to; 287pp; book cover has very dusty appearance and rubbed at edges; rear cover has some damage; pencil writing at front & rear eps; book contains 16 lovely colour plates all in great condition; internally nice; ; Nelson's Childrens Annuals; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 287 pages.
Verlag: T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1911,, 1911
Anbieter: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, Vereinigtes Königreich
EUR 11,93
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, 8vo, 320pp, colour frontispiece and 12 b/w plates by Arch Webb, edges browned and scattered foxing throughout, inner hinges cracked, no inscriptions, blue cloth pictorial, rubbed, corners bumped, Good condition.
Verlag: Cassell, London
Anbieter: Wadard Books PBFA, Farningham, KENT, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
EUR 14,31
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Arch Webb (illustrator). 276pp. Undated circa 1921. Colour frontis plus three black and white plates. Inscriptions to front paste down. Book size2oox130mm.
Verlag: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922
Anbieter: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
EUR 20,99
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In den WarenkorbHardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Webb, Arch & Brock, R.H. & Brock, C.E. & Edwards, Lionel & et al., (illustrator). 1922. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Yellow cloth spine. Pictorial front board, showing pirate scene. First story is 'Musholme' by Lawrence R. Bourne. Colour frontis and 5 other plates. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, corners worn. Name plate to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to textblock, some foxing to page margins. A couple of small margin tears, including one of the plates. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Verlag: Blackie & Son Ltd.
Anbieter: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
EUR 20,99
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In den WarenkorbHardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Webb, Arch (illustrator). Good condition with no wrapper. A story of the Great European War down to the Battle of the Aisne. Beige pictorial cloth. 6 b/w plates. 292 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly grubby. Name in ink to front pastedown. Small booksellers embossed stamp to front free-endpaper. Endpapers are browned. Foxing to textblock and some fingering to page margins. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, England, 1930
Anbieter: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, Australien
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Arch Webb (illustrator). 1st Edition. Circa 1930 . Originally published 1915. Spine has faded and has a slight lean. prize plate to front free endpaper. Colour frontis is present. Foxing to prelims. Good copy of a rare title.
Verlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1923
Anbieter: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
EUR 26,24
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbHardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Studdy, G.E. & Fraser, Peter & Earnshaw, Harold C. & Wood, Lawson & Webb, Arch & et al., (illustrator). Circa 1923. Very good condition with no wrapper. Large format, colour and b/w illustrations throughout. 16 colour plates. Spine and edges rubbed. Rear board browned. Front endpaper missing. All plates present. A few scattered foxspots. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Verlag: T. Nelson & Sons, 1907
Anbieter: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
EUR 26,24
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbHardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Webb, Arch (illustrator). 1907. Very good condition with no wrapper. Green pictorial cloth with gilt title box to spine. Part of the Lone Star Series. B/w plates. Pungent odour to book. Inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. All plates present. Foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Verlag: The Religious Tract Society
Anbieter: Hall of Books, Oswestry, SHROP, Vereinigtes Königreich
EUR 29,76
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In den WarenkorbHardback. Zustand: Good. Arch. Webb (illustrator). Undated hardback edition, c.1900, with no jacket as issued. In overall good-to-very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards slightly rubbed. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning and spotting to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
Verlag: Cassell & Company, Ltd., UK, 1905
Anbieter: Peakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA, Sheringham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
EUR 35,78
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good+. Illustrated by John, W E; Webb, Arch; Ellis, Silas; Laidler, T; Pucket, ES; Pollock, J M; Heddon, R; Parker, Eric R Et Al (illustrator). Large 4to; water mark towards bottom of cover; tear to edges of cloth at top of spine; apart of light tanning to pages, contents are very good; 2 colour plates by W E Johns - 1 large pull out one is the frontis, and the final one; there are 12 colour plates in all, the others by a variery of Illustrators; ; Large 4to; heavy book (over 2 kg unwrapped) ; we have increased the price to allow for the excess postage within the uk; excess postage required outside uk ; Chums; 4to 11" - 13" tall.
Verlag: Blackie and Son [1915], London, 1915
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
EUR 41,74
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In den WarenkorbCloth. Zustand: Very Good. Arch. Webb (illustrator). An early edition of this historical fiction novel by Captain Frederick Sadleir Brereton, illustrated throughout. An early edition of this work, dated from Jisc 1915.Captain Frederick Sadleir Brereton was a British Army officer and author of children's books on heroic deeds conducted in the name of the British Empire.This story follows that of a battle during the First Worlds War from Neuve Chapelle to Loos.Illustrated with all six plates by Arch. Webb. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and some bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Inscribed by a previous owner to the front free endpaper. The cloth to the spine is slightly rubbed. The half title page is loose but present; Otherwise, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with all six plates by Arch. Webb. Very Good. book.
Verlag: Blackie,, London,, 1920
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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EUR 42,93
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 336. Original publishers illustrated light brown cloth, lettered gilt on spine and black on front cover. No date, circa 1920. From the collection of illustrated juvenile fiction (1890- 1930) of Brian Mills (ÕThe DreamerÕ) (1939- 2011). He left no signs of of his ownership but they are distinguished by their excellent bright condition in a genre that often shows up rather wornÉhe was known to constantly upgrade his collection. World War 1 stories. Clean, very good indeed. Excellent condition.
Verlag: Blackie and Son Limited [1916], London, 1916
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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EUR 62,01
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In den WarenkorbCloth. Zustand: Very Good. Arch. Webb (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this illustrated war novel about the Western Front by Captain Brereton. The first edition.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and eight monochrome plates. Collated complete, with the plates mis-bound as usual: plate to pp.75 facing pp.80, pp.146 facing pp.152, pp.147 facing pp.160, pp.202 facing pp.208, and pp.256 facing pp. 256.In the publisher's original pictorial cloth.A war novel written by Frederick Sadleir Brereton, under his pen name Captain Brereton. The novel is set in the midst of the Western Front, a dramatic and moving novel, one of the first to be published about the First World War.Undated, dated by copies held by the British Library. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally smart with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities, marks to the rear board and a slight lean. Offsetting to the endpapers with an owner's ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, plate to pp. 234 disbound but present, otherwise generally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with only the odd minimal spot. Very Good. book.
Verlag: 8 October On letterhead of 1 Hanover Terrace Ladbroke Square W. London, 1922
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität Signiert
EUR 59,63
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In den WarenkorbSee his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with small and slightly rusted staple holes to one corner. Folded once. Addressed to 'My dear [Gern?] King / A. G. B. I' (i.e. the Artists' General Benevolent Institution) and signed 'Aston Webb / Presd. A G B I -'. He is writing at the request of 'the Council', 'to express to you on their behalf & my own our sincere regret at your resignation from our Council'. Since he has 'attended so regularly and helped so sympathetically in the work that we shall all miss you very much and look forward to the day when you feel able to the [sic] come back to us and with this in View the Council have decided not to fill up the vacancy with the hope that we shall soon see you amongst us again when you may be sure of a warm welcome'.
Verlag: Blackie and Son Limited
Anbieter: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Kanada
Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Webb, Arch. (illustrator). Reprint, scarce in jacket, light wear to dustjacket, front panel and spine still bright but chipped along edges and on piece torn top of front panel 3/4" by 3/4 ", 292pp, Book.
Verlag: Boy's Own Paper, London, 1934
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Briscoe, E.E.; Webb, Arch; Lumley Savile; Strange, Robert;Teek (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Australia's [Cricket] Captain - William Maldon Woodfull - article with photo; Walter R. Hammond - One of the Greatest Batsmen England Ever Had - article with photo; How the 'Test' Team is Chosen; Head Downward in the Jaws of Death - a breath-taking story of peril and escape; False Pretences! - A Tale of the Olden Highway; Sports in Japanese Schools - interesting article with four photos; The Commemorative Stamps of the United States - Part IV; The Voice of Barton; Our Indian Tour - an interesting story of the Test Matches which were played between the M.C.C. team and All India last winter - article including photo of Major Naidu, captain of the Indian test team; Three Half Hitches - a sea story; Kings in the Making - excellent photo-illustrated article on the manufacture of cricket bats; My First Fight; The Return of the Flying Beetle (Continued); How To Become a First-Class Cricketeer - Part I; The Art of Fielding; The Airship Stowaway. pp. 641-704, xvi. Includes several pages of interesting ads and an interesting four-page insert bound in at back sponsored by the Lord's Day Observance Society which includes photos of nine famous "Sports Stalwarts who reverence God's Day". Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Spots of soiling to back cover and last few pages, otherwise a sound copy of this nice vintage issue which is heavy on cricket-related content for boys.; Illustrator; 4to.
Verlag: George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1920
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Robinson, T.H.; Gillett, F.; Horne, A.E.; Cleaver, Ralph; Brightwell, L.R.; Prater, Ernest; Tennant, Dudley; Webb, Arch.; Black, A. & M.; Soper, G.; Coller, Hy. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.
Verlag: The International News Company, New York, 1914
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Somerfield, Thomas; Hodgson, E.S.; Coller, Henry; Holmes, Fred; Wigfull, W.E.; Reynolds, Warwick; Evison, G. Henry; Simmons, Graham; Webb, Arch. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 502-598, plus 28 pages of vintage ads. Features: The Hunting Down of Tiburcio Vasquez, the Dick Turpin of California; "Red Fagen" - a veteran shipmaster's story of the undoing of a villainous 'crimp'; A Cycling Tour Through Central Africa (part II) - photo-illustrated adventures on the way from Rhodesia to Egypt; The Spectre of Mekeo - a supernatural tale from British New Guinea; Spiders; The Javelin Throwers - an exciting adventure with Venezuelan savages; Following the Fur Trails - photo-illustrated article of a Canadian government naval survey crew's winter on the ice-bound shores of Hudson Bay; Lost in an Underground Labyrinth - photo-illustrated account of a man who was thrown into the sewers of Milan and lost for many days; The Eagle's Nest - the mountaintop town of Peillon in the South of France - article with many photos; The Mystery of Fraser Island - a strange sequence of events on an island where the Queensland 'dumped' troublesome blacks; Our Lunatic; A Matter of Business - a West African trader is charged with removing stock from stations set to be closed - despite native objections; The "Crooked House" - at Kingswinford, near Birmingham; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached as one but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.
Verlag: The International News Company, New York, 1915
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Somerfield, T.; Jackson, A.E.; Pitcher, N.S.; Holloway, W.H.; Buchanan, F.; Whitaker, W.G.; McCormick, H.; Lunt, W.; Wigfull, W.E.; Webb, Arch.; Wright, Frank (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 194-288 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: A Millionaire's Adventure - Milan millionaire Signor Luigi Beretta becomes the victim of an infamous plot; War-Time Wanderings in the Italian Alps - a merry trio of climbers have some fun; A Fight for Life in Mid-Air - a workman dismantling a great chimney at the Whitehall Road electric power works experiences a terrible industrial accident; The Adventures of Howard Blackburn - Right Hon. Sir Edward Morris, P.C., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, describes nautical adventures of Howard Blackburn; "Grubb of Gran Chaco"- The adventures of pioneer W. Barbrooke Grubb in the Paraguayan Chaco; Six Weeks in Lahoul - a hunting trip for ibex and red bear; Allen's Well - how a man was buried at the bottom of a deep well and was rescued; The Lion's Cub - a striking story from the Coast Mountains of Southern Oregon involving 'Yellow Tail' the mountain lion, Jud Bucklin, and Dick Wimer of the U.S. Forest Service; Aunt Barbara Visits Mustypore - an amusing story from an Indian coffee-planting district; A Woman Alone in China (part II) - Mary Gaunt met with many odd experiences and saw many strange sights, which are here described in most entertaining fashion, with photos; A Tragic Ocean Race - Five clipper ships started on a race from Australia to China, but strange and terrible things happened aboard the "Island Bay"; After Gold in the "Land of Fire" - an unfortunate prospecting expedition in Tierra del Fuego; The Haunted Tomb - a tale from the Southern Punjab; and more. Covers nearly detached as one. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.
Verlag: The International News Company, New York, 1920
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Soper, G., Nicolson, W.C.; Holloway, W.H.; Hodgson, E.S.; Webb, Arch; Carruthers, G.P.; Prater, E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Valda, J.H. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue.
Verlag: The International News Company, New York, 1916
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Somerfield, Thomas; Gillett, F.; Pape, Frank C.; Reynolds,Warwick; Evison, G. Henry; Webb, Arch.; Holloway, W.H.; Gillett, Frank;Prater, Ernest; Pitcher, Sotheby (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 290-380 pages plus 36 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover illustration); The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving prisoner Yao Dwirra; Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San Francisco; "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the Pennsylvania oil-fields; "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake in southern Mississippi; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces of nature; The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894; Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger constitutes to a community; Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona; The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the Boers were for once turned against them; Concerning Camels - some amusing stories; A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the brig "Moa," of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870; The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British North Borneo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World - The Magazine For Men, February (Feb.) 1916, No. 214, Vol. 36 - Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line / The Fetish Man's Downfall vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver".
Verlag: The International New Company, New York, 1923
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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.
Verlag: The International New Company, New York, 1923
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Prater, E.; Hiley, F.; Wood, Stanley L.; Whitaker, W.G.; Webb, Arch; Robinson, T.H.; Abbey, S.; York, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Waye, A.S. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in ports of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman, Matthew Armstrong, Nanaimo, British Columbia The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exporting in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in parts of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman Matthew Armstrong's terrible ordeal in the woods near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.
Verlag: The International New Company, New York, 1924
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Davis, G.H.; Abbey, S.; Soper, G.; Wood, Stanley L.; Edwards, Lionel; De Walton, John; Webb, Arch. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos; "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; The "High-Jackers" - an audacious gang of murderous bank robbers terrorize the Canadian prairies, beginning in Moosomin, SK and ending in Pipestone, MB; The Islands of the Mammoths - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia is the world's best hunting ground for the tusks and bones of the prehistoric mammoth - article with photos; The Three Angleteers - Part III - The troubles and adventures of three bored young men who leave England to travel in Europe; With Canoe and Camera - Capt. M.H. Albert explored Northern Ontario and Quebec to photograph wild animals - article with photos; The Mystery of Diablo Canon - The adventures of Senor Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Two photos of two-room house built in the trunk of an immense California redwood; The Terror of Rampur - two hunters undertake to kill a murderous tiger in India; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part I - Photo-illustrated article by Beatrice Grimshaw describing her trip up the Sepik river in New Guinea, where she met the local native peoples - who were none-too friendly; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part IV - A small English expedition sets out to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study their local peoples; Some Sensational Prison Escapes - Carl Otto and Jack Foster bust loose from Folsom Prison; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue.
Verlag: The International New Company, New York, 1922
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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.
Verlag: George Newnes, Ltd., London, 1918
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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Peddie, Tom; Evison, G.H.; Prater, Ernest; Webb, Arch; Reynolds, Warwick; Wright, Frank; Wigfull, W.E.; Soper, George (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 265-352 plus 24 pages of great vintage ads. Features: My Adventures in the World War - a startling and thrilling contribution upon the great conflict by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; The Vengeance of the "Stroapers' - exploring for gold in Guiana leads to adventure and death; In the Land of the Lapps - great photo-illustrated narrative of Frank Butler's travels throughout Lapland; The Secret Press of Belgium - how 'La Libre Belgique' had the courage to tell the Belgian people the truth and counteract the evil influence of their brutalizers; Trooping Cattle in Paraguay - taking 1,000 cattle from the ranch of Zanja Moroti to the ranch of San Antonio; The Strangest Republic in the World - interesting photo-illustrated account of a recent visit to the Mount Athos Peninsula; Historic Crime and Mysteries - The Iron Judge of Malt; My Firework Display in China; In the Jaws of the Alligator - woman is pulled from the arms of her husband in Papua; Doctoring War Dogs - touching photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Countess Yourkevitch's hospital for wounded dog soldiers at Neuilly/Paris; The State Documents - How a great german spy system was laid bare in Rome; A Man-Hunt in the Arctic - A Royal North-West Mounted Police patrol from Fort Norman up the Bear River was the longest in the history of that famous organization; The Tragedy at Ras Elka - Sudanese stevedores revolt and pay dearly; Moderate wear. Openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy of this exquisite issue.