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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Gino D'Achille; (illustratore). First American Edition. (xv) 590 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a crease on the spine; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Cover art by Gino D'Achille. This anthology contains: Foreword by Bernard Cornwall; The First Conflict by Richard Howard; Spiking the Guns by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne; How the Redoubt Was Taken by Prosper Merimee; The Duel by Joseph Conrad; Gallant's Gamble by Charles Partington; Every Man a King by Clayton Emery; Zodomirsky's Duel by Alexandre Dumas; High and Mighty by Tim Lebbon; Perdita's War by Daphne Wright; The Crossroads at Churubusco by John T. Aquino; Damned Banker by Paul Finch; The Calvary Charge by Peter T. Garratt; Vengeance by Pamela Brooks; The Sharpshooter by Garry Douglas; The Fallen Plume by Tom Holt; The Man Who Saw by Talbot Mundy; Flashman Besieged by George MacDonald Fraser; The Private History of a Campaign that Failed by Mark Twain; The Little Regiment by Stephen Crane; Mercy at Gettysburg by John Jakes; From a Soldier's Wife by Bella Spencer; One of the Missing by Ambrose Bierce; The Storming of the Fort by Walter Wood; Loved I Not Honour More by Amy Myers; For Valour by L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax; and Sphinx by Clotilde Graves; followed by an appendix: Stories of the Victoria Cross. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 104 pages. Paul Bowles "Letter from Tangier" / V S Pritchett "Portrait of a Clerk" / George Barker "Stanzas on a Visit to Longleat House" / Hugo Charteris "The White Dancer" / Sheila Wingfield "Lines for the Margin of an Old Gospel (poem)" / C H B Kitchin "A Cottage in Cornwall" / Katerina Wilczynski "Authors of Today: Paul Claudel" / Dorothea Krook "The Later Works of Henry James".

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Illustrated by Chapman, Dale: Photography (illustratore). First Edition. 96 pages. Index of advertisers. Features: Cover photo of the vessel 'Orient City' fully loaded with lumber; Two-color ad for Broderick yellow-strand wire rope inside front cover; Nicely logging-theme illustrated Timken bearing full-page ad; American Tiger Brand Wire Rope ad features great photo (circa 1885) of steam (bull) donkey and many loggers; R.G. LeTourneau ad features photo of their bulldozer and a Willamette-Hyster arch at work; Full-page two-color photo ad for Caterpillar features A.E. Baker of Fruit Growers Supply, Susanville, CA; Durable Douglas Fir Cross Arms used on telephone poles by the British Columbia Telephone Company - article with photo; Hand Methods Must Give Way to Mechanization in Eastern Canada - article; Photos of sawmill scenes in Sweden and Finland; Novel Effects in Wood at Paris Exposition - article with photos; Unique Power Plant of Vancouver Island Lumber Operation - Nootka Wood Products, Ltd. mill at Port Tasis (Tahsis) is driven by wood gas - article with photos - including photo of John P. Blenkinsop and Harry Smith and another photo of plant manager Lute D. Rogers with George M. Cornwall of this publication; Fantastic two-page two-color illustrated ad for the Ross Lumber Carrier, Model 90; S.A. Woods Machine Company ad features their new 412 planer and matcher; Magnificent full-page ad for Disston precision ground cross-cut saws includes photos of fallers at work with this two-man saw; Distinct saving shown to be possible with two-man bucking crews - article; Plywood's outdoor uses are increasing - photo-illustrated article; Meeting of the Wooden Box Association at San Francisco; Mark Markkula and his logging Bunks and Chunks - article with photos of products and Mr. Markkula; Nicely illustrated one-page ad for Hercules Engines of Canton, Ohio; Logging in Tillamook - article with photos; Super one-page photo ad for Feenaughty Machinery Co.'s FWD trucks - with photo showing a massive load being hauled; Nice truck-logging themed photo ad for Waukesha engines; Awesome photos of Allis-Chalmers tractors at work for the Big Lakes Box Company in Klamath Basin; Fantastic full-page ad with photos of the Washington Diesel Yarder made by Washington Iron Works; Crazy photo of trucks driving 132' logs across the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills' narrow old logging bridge above Skykomish, WA; Photo of a Dow low stump power saw at work; Small illustrated ad for P. Sharkey & Son Horse Collars; Photo of an FWD truck at work for Mr. W.S. Jeans of Culp Creek, OR; Superheaters - their use on Donkeys and Locomotives - article; Oriental strife affects Pacific Lumber Trade - article; France decides between steel and wood rail cars; Foreign Lumber Fleet - list of lumber vessels visiting Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia - and their capacities; Three Bamfiled, B.C. photos accompany brief article about Pacific Cable and Wireless, Ltd. and their cable which extends from Bamfield to New Zealand; Photo of G.L. Graiff with redwood charcoal experimental wood gas-powered truck - Hammond Redwood Co. of Samoa, CA; Reunion of pioneer members of the Southwestern Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association - with photos of T.H. MacLafferty, C.A. Doty, Charles Gilchrist, W.C. Miles, Jerry Startup, S.S. Somerville; Obituary of August K. Berter; Nice illustrated ad for the Warren Axe and Tool Co. of Warren, PA.; and more. Unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Chips missing from backstrip. Binding intact. A rare surviving issue of this highly informative vintage lumber periodical.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Timberman, An International Lumber Journal, November, 1937, Volume XXXIX, Number 1 McBride Bay vessel 'Orient City' fully loaded with lumber; Two-color ad for Broderick yellow-strand wire rope inside front cover; Nicely logging-theme illustrated Timke.