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Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Holloway, Cyril; Tresilian, S.; Peddie, T.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Goss, G.W.; Prater, Ernest; Williams, Fleming; Bendall, C.; Sindall, A.W. (illustratore). First Edition. Pages 87-168 plus 32 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Queer Side of Things - The Haunted Rest-House - an occult story from West Africa; In the Hands of the Bedouin - part I of Anton Hauptmann's story; Hitting the Iron Trial - part I of the author's train-hopping adventure from Vancouver, British Columbia to New York before he carried on to England; Update on the "Harpist of Alexandria", made famous in the July 1928 issue of this publication; The "Fool Afoot" in Italy - part II; "Lo! The Poor Indian" - An amusing account of the ways and wiles of the Red men of British Columbia - with photos; The Taxi-Cab Murder Mystery - one of the most remarkable crimes in the annals of the West Australian Police; The Elephant-Slayer - an amusing story from Kenya colony in 1905-6; A Weighty Problem - young Captain Gillon and the vessel Saragossa; Piano Tuner Kenneth J. McCombie's Adventure; In a Hole - the author fell into a hole at a New Mexico gravel pit; "Wide World" Sequels; The "Fleet of the Lost" - great article about the old windjammers residing at Alameda, on the shores of San Francisco Bay - article with nice photos; Man and his Needs; House and Garden; Stamps of the World. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Two volumes bound in one. First edition. 8vo. vi, (ii), 487, (1); (iv), 148 pp. Recent tan half morocco over the original green cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered dark red label to one panel, lettered direct to another and dated at the foot. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "To the Rev. J. C. Knight Anstey, a small acknowledgement of his work in connexion [sic] with the preparation of the survey & catalogue of Telugu Christian Literature 1917", with underneath the ink stamp of the Christian Literature Society for India (Madras Branch) along with the signature of its secretary Joseph Passmore dated "Madras Feb. 15 1918", Anstey's ink stamp appears on the title page and his annotations appear at intervals. Printed on colonial paper with the leaves quite brittle, early leaf with marginal loss and now laid down on tissue, two leaves of the index to the second work with small holes with slight loss of text.