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Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Folio. The Legion's Way. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Folio. The Legion's Way. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Folio. The Legion's Way. Book.

hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. An acceptable condition annual. Some splitting and fraying to the spine ends and a notable crack to the hinge at the title page and at the rear inner board hence acceptable. The rest of the textblock is toned with dust on the edges but is overall good. A reading and reference copy only. Still okay for an antique.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 832 pages + plates. 11 colour plates (2 fold-out) : 30 cm. Summary:Chums was established as a boys' weekly paper in 1892 by Cassell & Company, in direct competition with The Boy's Own Paper which had been launched thirteen years earlier. It attracted readers with tales of daring and adventure such as Max Pemberton's 'The Iron Pirate' and Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Treasure Island'; these stories, interspersed with competitions, editorials and rich illustrations, earned Chums considerable popularity. The publication was also notable for its sponsorship of the National Naval Cadets, for which it served as an enrolment tool from 1909, and of the British Boy Scouts. In 1927 Cassell & Company sold Chums to The Amalgamated Press, already known in the field for their publication of Schoolgirl's Weekly and The Modern Boy. In July 1932 it was reduced to monthly circulation, and two years later reduced again to an annual. Publication finally ceased in September 1941 with the onset of wartime paper shortages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Chums 1922 Annual. Several contributors, including S. Walkey, S.S. Gordon, B. Clements-Henry, Charles Gilson, George Smith, Danny Steel, Charles Seton Fletcher, N.F. Watson, & many others. Numerous classic 1920s-vintage b&w illustrations throughout. Complete with folding colour frontispiece & 11 additional colour plates (including folding supplement), as issued. Printed in England. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with black illustrations & gilt lettering to front board & spine. NOTE: A GOOD READING COPY ONLY. Handling wear, marginal toning & foxing, both front & rear hinges cracked (but holding, though rear hinge heavily cracked with final page & rear endpaper almost detached), insect nibbling to ffep, otherwise a clean solid hardcover copy. Internally VG. 832pp. Large thick very heavy book, extra shipping may be required. Uncommon. SB-69. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Pearse, Alfred; Brock, R.H.; Crombie, Chas.; Whitaker, W.G.; Small, A.G.; Peddie, Tom; Elcock, Howard; Soper, G.; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Waddell, J. (illustratore).…