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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Half leather boards with some rubbing and edge wear. Over 300 illustrations present. Internally the pages remain in very good condition; free from any foxing or inscriptions. A good clean copy.

, xvi 576 pages, black and white frontispiece, with over three hundred illustrations throughout First Edition , the book has a few marks to upper board, is pulled at head and tail of spine, foot of spine has a 2.5cm tear to the centre, frontispiece foxed, upper hinge torn but boards held, gutter is broken in a few places, text block is clean and clear, good condition , red cloth with coloured illustration and gilt lettering to upper board and spine, blindstamped design to lower board, [atterned endpapers, full gilt edge to textblock , octavo, 21.5cm x 17.5cm Hardback ISBN.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. 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. 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).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. 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. 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).…