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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 376 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.85 inches. In Stock.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Robinson, T.H.; Gillett, F.; Horne, A.E.; Cleaver, Ralph; Brightwell, L.R.; Prater, Ernest; Tennant, Dudley; Webb, Arch.; Black, A. & M.; Soper, G.; Coller, Hy. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. First edition. A very scarce first edition of this illustrated account of the author's travels to the Massaruni Diamond Fields. First edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve plates. Collated complete. A description of the author's trip, mostly by river, from Georgetown in British Guiana to the diamond fields and back. With graphic descriptions of the flora and fauna of South America. Written by Walter G. White, an English clergyman and author. Dated from the British Library. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading and a small puncture mark to the spine resulting in a closed tear to the cloth. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with frontispiece loosening slightly. Pages are very bright with the odd spot or handling mark. Pencil inscriptions to the front endpaper and the odd page. Age toning to the endpapers with a small tear to the front endpaper. School library bookplate to the front pastedown. Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…

First edition hardback; ix + [3] + 132 pages. The book is bound in green gilt cloth, there is some light wear, the hinges are strong and all is well bound in. There are some inscriptions on the endpapers. The title leaf has some browning and an embos sed stamp. There is some light edge foxing in the text, the final leaf is browning; the text is otherwise clean and crisp. A very rare Tongan missionary title.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. "England, thanks to the Huguenots, Mr. Cobden, the Slave Trade, the Jews, and an inherent capacity for taking large views of grave national questions, has been the last country in all the world to question, or even to examine, the doctrine that uninterrupted ingress for men, women, and merchandise of other nations, is essential to and advantageous to her national life. There are, however, no longer wanting signs that the reign of this dogma is not to continue without challenge." - Introduction. "In 1881 and 1882 a violent if somewhat intermittent persecution had been directed against the Jews in Russia. Realizing, as best they could, such poor possessions as they owned, and departing with all possible haste, the expatriated wretches made every attempt to reach a more hospitable land: those who could muster the passage-money were bound for America; the rest, the more destitute and the elderly ones (the great majority of the exodus), were hoping to settle in the great English towns." - p 168-169. [8],191 pages. Former library copy with usual markings, sturdily rebound in green buckram. No dust jacket.; Social Science Series; Sm 8vo.…