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Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Presumed First Edition. 1923. Presumed first edition. 127pp. plus a 16-page publisher's catalogue dated October 1923. In this book the author tells of his experience of a sudden ans cruel frustration. Born with a passion for physical exercise, a deep love of the open air, and a mind whose curiosity could never be sated by observation and adventure, Gerald Slade found himself suddenly sentenced to solitary confinement in the prison of his own body. How he met this doom, how he decided to fight it, and how he succeeded in breaking free from the worst conditions of his fate, is the story of this unusual and haunting volume. The book is bound in the original grey-blue cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and a little bubbling to the cloth near the fore edge of the front board. The spine ends are lightly bumped and the spine is very slightly cocked. The contents are tight and clean with noticeable foxing to the first few pages, including the title-page, and some scattered light foxing elsewhere within the book. The fore and bottom edges of the text block are also foxed and on some pages this has seeped a little way into the fore and/or bottom margin. There is a brief inscription to Lord [Douglas] Haig from Lady Palmer, dated 1915, on the front free endpaper and a bookseller's label on the top corner of the front fixed endpaper.…

Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition. Modern rebind. Original card covers bound in. New eps. 250mm x 180mm (10" x 7"). v, 141pp, vii, 94pp + plates. 4 b/w plates. 2 volumes bound as 1. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Bill Carlisle, Train Robber - An account of the amazing exploits of a man described as "the last of the train-robbers", who would notify officials when he was about to rob a train!; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part I - A thrilling account of adventures on a remote Dutch East Indies island in pursuit of prehistoric flesh-eating lizards (the Komodo dragon) - with photos; The City of Golden Geese - A lively photo-illustrated account of the foie gras industry in the old city of Strasburg in Alsace; Mungoro Meets His Match - A Rhodesian tale; The End of the Chase - A hunt for a monstrous elephant near Lake Nyasa; Photo of a Kentish stilt-walker in field of hops; The Man in No. 35 - How a British officer discovered, in a Russian prison, Julius Weinberg, a Jewish banker who had actually handed Lenin and his accomplices ten million marks from the German Government in order to finance the Bolshevik revolution that destroyed Russia as a fighting force - the little man knew too much, and paid with his life for his refusal to surrender the incriminating receipts; Cycling Round the World - Part II - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years riding over 20,00 miles! - with photos; The bachelor Homesteaders of British Columbia - A breezy photo-illustrated account of the adventures and hardships of this cheery, happy-go-lucky class of men; The Girl Stowaway of the Cecilie - Part II - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; A Ride in the Night - An officer of the King's African Rifles falls ill on the Abyssinian frontier of Kenya Colony; The Chief's Gift - A tale from a New Zealand sheep farmer; Teddy Murphy's Close Call - A child disappears into a well in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, November 1928, Komodo, Butirski, Caucasus British Military Agency, Cheka, Tcheka, Butirski Prison, Julius Weinberg, Trotsky, Djerjinski, Bolshevik Financier, Bill Carlisle - Train Robber, Bill Carlisle, train robbers, In Quest of the. Illustrated by Sutcliffe, Norman; Lance; Sindall, A.W.; Holloway, Cyril;Prater, Ernest; Spence, Percy; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Inns,Kenneth; Seper, George (illustratore).…