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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Oslo, The Author, [1988]. Quarto, [viii], 335 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus 10 full-page plates and 3 tipped in addenda leaves. Synthetic cloth; a fine copy with the dustwrapper lightly creased, sunned and rubbed. With the bookplate of Grattan Wheaton [OAM], his ownership signature and date of purchase.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Oslo, The Author, [1988]. Quarto, [viii], 335 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs plus 10 full-page plates and 3 loosely inserted addenda leaves. Synthetic cloth; foot of the spine very slightly bumped; a near-fine copy with the dustwrapper a little rubbed and creased. With the ink inscription: 'From: Cape Horner' - Aust. | March 1990', with the further pencilled gift inscription: 'John Frayn | from Jason Hopton'. Former WW2 RAAF pilot Jason Hopton was 'a founder of the Cape Horners Club, later Cape Horners - Australia, in Adelaide in 1959' (Trove).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Holloway, Cyril; Sutcliffe, Norman; Tennant, Dudley; Wigfull, W.E.; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Sindall, A.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Holloway, Cyril; Sindall, A.W. (illustrator).…