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Being a Lecture Delivered at the Administration Building, Carnegie Institution of Washington, March 26, 1935. Washington: Carnegie Institution, July 1, 1935. 17 pages. 7 illustrations. 10x7'', printed wrapper. Supplementary Publications No. 14. Reprinted from Scientific Monthly. Lightly ex-library, else fine. …

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good+. Vol. XXXVI, no. 2. Pulp magazine. Cover art is uncredited for "Jonahs of the Jets" (novelet) by Arch Whitehouse. Includes "Tangled Wings" (novelet) by Robert Sidney Bowen; "Frozen Skyways" (novelet) by Norman A. Daniels; "Wings Along the Jamachum" by Arthur J. Burks; "Fire Water Over the Dam" by Daniel Prescott; "Percentage Pilot" by Johanas L. Bourma; "D for Doomsday" by Walt Shelson. Features: "Tarmac Talk" by 'The Skipper'; "Meet the Baseball Parachute" by Bill Burleigh; "Pilot's Quiz"; "Thrills in the Air" by Jack Kofoed; "Propless Planes" by C. B. Colby. Illustrated by Morey and others. Standard wear and tears at edges with minor losses; dealer's mark on rear. Book.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good-. Vol. XXXVI, no. 2. Pulp magazine. Cover art is uncredited for "Jonahs of the Jets" (novelet) by Arch Whitehouse. Includes "Tangled Wings" (novelet) by Robert Sidney Bowen; "Frozen Skyways" (novelet) by Norman A. Daniels; "Wings Along the Jamachum" by Arthur J. Burks; "Fire Water Over the Dam" by Daniel Prescott; "Percentage Pilot" by Johanas L. Bourma; "D for Doomsday" by Walt Shelson. Features: "Tarmac Talk" by 'The Skipper'; "Meet the Baseball Parachute" by Bill Burleigh; "Pilot's Quiz"; "Thrills in the Air" by Jack Kofoed; "Propless Planes" by C. B. Colby. Illustrated by Morey and others. Small loss and tears at spine heel; tanning; first page dust-soiled (or smoke) at foredge corners; creasing; minor stain to cover at lower foredge corner. Book.…

Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. The spine is crushed at the bottom with a small chip and there is a one inch piece missing from the surface at the top. The front cover has light chipping to the bottom right corner. The back cover has browning and a little staining around the edges. The pages are browned with some chipping to the bottom corners and small tears to the fore edges of several pages but are otherwise unmarked. Contains 'Jonahs of the Jets' by Whitehouse, 'Tangled Wings' by Bowen, 'Frozen Skyways' by Daniels, 'Wings Along the Jamachum' by Burks, 'D for Doomsday' by Sheldon, 'Percentage Pilot' by Bouma and 'Fire Water over the Dam' by Prescott. The L'Amour story has one half page illustration and there are a few small illustrations through the other stories. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: In Search of the Lost Oases - Part I of a wonderful trip across the desert from Sollum, on the Mediterranean, to El Obeid, in the Sudan, mostly through unexplored territory, with photos; Smugglers Three - Poaching swan eggs; Azizun the Dancing-Girl - Sir George MacMunn owned an uncanny little "frog-girl" in India; The Odyssey of the "Olga" - A trip from Nome, Alaska to Seattle ended up taking over three months!; Photo of sixty-foot-tall statue of the god Gomateswara being annointed with oil on the great hill of Sravanbelgola; Left Behind - A young white woman is left behind at a lonely wayside station in the heart of Rhodesia; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part I - G.M. Dyott was abandoned by his guide in the trackless upper reaches of the Amazon and endured an ordeal to return home - with photos; The Thirteenth Sample - A nerve-trying adventure in the depths of an abandoned mine in Northern Mexico; A Bird-Hunter in the Wilds - G.L. Bates describes a seven-month journey in the remote Cameroon country of Central Africa - with great photos; The Voice in the Darkness - A tragic story of an encounter between a bootlegger and the law during prohibition in Brigson, Alberta; "Sinbad the Sailor" - An American university professor becomes a swindler in Winnipeg; Tiger Tales - Tales from Assam and Sumatra by W.J. Brands; What Was It? - Patrick Brown encountered a mysterious monster in South Africa which appeared to be a survivor of some prehistoric species; The Crocodile Charmers of Java - Javanese witch-doctors 'make love to them, induce them to follow them like pet dogs, and lead them to their deaths'; The Two Strangers - Dr. C.E.Ellis thought he knew a 'bunco man' but then he met two harmless prospectors. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, October 1925, Rosita Forbes, Kufra, Rohlfs, Senussi, Siwa, Sayed Idris Sennusi, Qayi-m-qana, In Search of the Lost Oases, Sahara desert, Sollum, El Obeid, Sudan, Smugglers Three, Swan eggs, Swan Egg Poaching, Azizun the Dancing-Girl. Illustrated by Woodville, R. Caton; Gillett, F.; Leigh, Conrad; York,W.G.; Sutcliffe, Norman; Somerfield, T.; Eyles, D.C.; Brock, H.M.; Holmes,Fred; Briault, S.; Prater, E.; Goss, G.W.; Peddie, Tom; Lloyd, Stanley (illustratore).…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1910 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 18 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…