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Image for The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIII - No. 257, September (Sept.) 1919 - The Thrills of Parachuting (Cover Illustration)

The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIII - No. 257, September (Sept.) 1919 - The Thrills of Parachuting (Cover Illustration)

By: "Woodpecker"; McDade, J.; Heilner, V.C.; Macdonald, T.A.; West, J.; Von Blon, J.L.; Jordan, John A.; Rose, Frank; Walkey, C.E.G.; Heald, T.D.; Leslie, H.; Strong, Robert D.; Et al

Price: $395.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123g4356

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa - part 2 - tales from the log book of an R.A.F. officer during the campaign in German East Africa - article with interesting photos; Torn by Starving Jackals in Macedonia - Private James McDade of the 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers recounts his experience - with photo of McDade; Death-Struggle with An Alligator - what happened to Van Campen Heilner when he was photographing an alligator in a Florida swamp - photo-illustrated article; The Thrills of Parachuting - early and marvelously photo-illustrated article ...
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Image for The Wide World - The Magazine For Everybody, August 1919, No. 256, Vol. XLIII - The Theft of the Zuni God / Flying in Central Africa / Our LIfe at Holzminden

The Wide World - The Magazine For Everybody, August 1919, No. 256, Vol. XLIII - The Theft of the Zuni God / Flying in Central Africa / Our LIfe at Holzminden

By: 'Woodpecker'; Rose, Frank; Heald, T.; Webster, F.; Martyn, F.; randall, S.; Somerset-Lister, H.; Thomason, H.; Evans, E.; Et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123h0764

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Flying in Central Africa (part I) - adventures from the flying log-book of an R.A.F. officer during ther campaign in German East Africa; My Adventures in Bolivia - Frank Rose was arrested as a dangerous revolutionary but managed to escape; Relief Worker's Adventures (part I) - thrilling adventures among the war victims of Armenia, Syria, and Persia, with photos; Hunting Big Game by Motor-Car - Captain F.A.M. Webster describes how he does it, with photos; The Adventures of a Newspaper-man (part III) - Frederic Martyn's adventure...
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Wide World, The Magazine For Everybody, August (Aug.) 1917, No. 232, Vol. XXXIX - How I Escaped From the Turks Disguised As a Woman

By: Arber, M.; Martin, E.; Jordan, J.; Mason, W.; Farrer, R.; Dunn, H.; Jamieson, C.; North, S.; Et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1917

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123h0547

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 290-382 plus 16 pages of ads. Features: My Escape From the Turks Disguised as a Woman - the incredible story of Private Miron D. Arber and his Sinai ordeal; The Log of the "Moewe" - the adventures of a modern pirate, told by her Commander Count Dohna-Schlodien - article with photos; A Brush with the Kisi - in quest of ivory, J.A. Jordan encounters a hostile African witch doctor; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - William Shaw and a Joke on Justice; On the Borders of Tibet - part IV of the story of two years' wanderings - largely among wild lands and wilder people, whose chief desi...
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, January [Jan.] 1918, Vol. 40, No. 237: The Woman Soldiers of Russia

By: Ashmead-Bartlett, E.; Bromley, Wm. H.; Darling, J.F.; Bentzen, S.; Novikoff, Ivan; Field, Hilda; Butler, Frank Hedges; Brandreth, C.J.B.; White, Carl F.; Moss, T.R.; Siroux, Gabriel; Bredon, Juliet; Lees, Frederic; Bran, J.B.; Mason, Walt

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1918

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346h5230

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: My Adventures in the World War - Part I - No war correspondent has dared more and met with such stirring adventures and experienced such exciting incidents in his quest for 'copy' as Mr. E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Riding Out a Gale on a Sawlog; The Snake in the Shaft - predicament of a prospector being hauled up from a mine; Caught by the Tide - a mistake made while duck hunting; The Amazons of Russia - Excellent photo-illustrated article on Russia's legion of woman warriors, the "Battalion of Death", which served...
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, November (Nov.), 1921, No. 283, Vol. XLVIII: Businessman Becomes Amateur Robinson Crusoe

By: Bootes, H.; Rutzebeck, H.; Golden, R.; Frings, J.; Dunlop, A.; Cunningham, E.; Dyer, C.; Forbin, V.; McKechnie, N.; Repp, E.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1921

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123h0552

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

88 Pages plus 16 pages of ads. Features: A Girl of the Island - a beautiful girl is shipwrecked on a lonely tropic island; A Man's Luck - Part III - Hjalmar Rutzebeck story of life and love in the Far North; The Mystery of Charlie Ross - tragic story of the kidnapping of four-year-old Charlie Ross from his home near Philadelphia; My Island of Dreams - Part I of the adventures of amateur Robinson Crusoe, J.W. Frings - with his photos; Taming the Head-Hunters - author and a party of ten police enter the little-known hill country of British North Borneo to punish a tribe of head-hunting Dyaks; T...
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIV - No. 261, January (Jan.) 1920 - Two Balloonatics

By: Brand, J.B.; Bourne, George;Franck, H.A.; Yerburgh, The Rev. W.H.B.; White, Capt. T.W.; Thomason, Hugh; Pocock, R.; Chinnery, E.W.P.; Mander, Lionel; McMahon, (MeMahon?) T.J.; Et al

Price: $295.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1920

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123g4358

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

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 glimp...
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The Wide World - The Magazine for Everybody, July, 1919, Vol. XLIII, No. 255: Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny

By: Butler, H.G.; Hornbeck, R.R.; Garnett, L.; Rockman, E.; Clark-Kennedy, S.; McMillan, A.; Masters, D.; Shane, M.; Garland, E.; Jordan, J.; Beattie, S.; Courtier-Forster, R.; St. Lawrence, B.; Humpherus, S.; Lees, G.

Price: $299.95

Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123g3915

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 180-262 plus 16 pages of ads. This is a particularly excellent issue jammed full of fascinating accounts. Features: Terrible Experiences in the Arctic - a whaling schooner is crushed by ice and its crew exists on moss and snow for nearly a week; Amat Sik - Hero of the Singapore Mutiny - he avenged the killing of his employer, an English officer; The Trade Guilds of Constantinople - article with truly amazing photos; The Yaqui Luck-Piece; My Brumby Hunt; When Everything Happened to Me - hauling timber in the 1870s; Salving (Salvaging) Fifty Million Pounds' Worth of Shipping - fantastic ...
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The Wide World - The Magazine For Everybody, August (Aug.) 1924, No. 316, Vol. LIII - The Fire-Walkers of Fiji / Hunting Bighorn Sheep in Mexico

By: C.V.T.; Johnson, G.; McLaren, J.; Hogg, J.; Wilkins, B.; Walmsley, L.; Charles, B.; Et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1924

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123h0766

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Pages 266-352 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Crowsnest Holdup - a spectacular hold-up on the Canadian Pacific Railway and the tragic manhunt that followed; The Fire-Walkers of Fiji - a mystery that has never been solved - great photo-illustrated article; Roaming the Wild South Seas (part I) - Jack McLaren relates some of his strange and exciting experiences there; Hunting Bighorn Sheep in Mexico - a most exciting shooting trip in the wild Cocopah Mountains of Mexico - fantastic photo-illustrated article; Alone Across the Atlantic - Mr. Alain J. Gerbault sailed alone f...
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIII - No. 254, June 1919 - Yellowstone Winter Tragedy / Wild African Dogs

By: Chanappa, Anadaraya; Martyn, F.; MacAlister, A.; "Split-Pin"; Gaunt, M.; Von Someren, A.; Jones, C.G.; Treadway, J.E.; Jamieson, C.J.; Leslie, H.; Connery, T.M.; Beattie, S.A.; Rose, F.; Nugent, J.E.; Rose, F.; Et al

Price: $395.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123g4355

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Pages 91-176 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: My Tiger-Hunting Adventures in India; Adventures of Newspaper-Man, Frederic Martyn (part 2); Canada's New Wonderland - new railway in the neighbourhood of the Yellowhead Pass runs from Edmonton to Prince Rupert - article with great photos; The Raid - author brings down a Gotha; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - part 4 - major article of times spent in China with many fascinating photos, including a 3-year-old couple engaged to be married!; Choking An Alligator; In a Cauldron of Fire; Lost in a Limestone Cave; Treed by a Leopard - a miss...
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The Wide World Magazine, The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIV, No. 260, December (Dec.) 1919 - The End of Billy the Kid

By: Cleaver, R.; Brininstool, E.; Bon Blon, J.; Cunningham, E.; Chinnery, E.; Gray, J.; Dawson, C.; Franck, H.; Griffin, J.; West, J.; St. Lawrence, B.; Blake, W.; Henderson, A.; Jordan, J.

Price: $495.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes Limited: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346g5220

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Pages 90-176 plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: In a Submarine in War-Time - Perils and harships; Billy the Kid - Photo-illustrated article on his demise at the hand of Sheriff P.F. Garrett; The Valley of Wonders - The first description and photos ever published of Red Rock Canyon in Southern California; Photo of ostrich-powered cart in Pasadena, California - the ostrich is named 'Black Diamond' and is worth $2k!; The Golden Image; In Quest of Cannibals - part 2 - Exploration and adventure in New Guinea - with inter...
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The Wide World, The Magazine for Everybody, January [Jan.] 1919, Vol. 42, No. 249: Behind the Scenes in Russia

By: Corson, A.L.; Wilton, Robert; Sarti, Fabricio; Morse, John; Kent, Capt. Herbert C.; Martin, Stuart; Lambert; Terence H.; Welland, Archibald; Strong, George W.; Skelton, James; Rose, Frank; Verrill, A. Hyatt; Jordan, John Alfred; Brandreth, J.B.; Et al

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346h5210

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Leap of Vengeance - thrilling experiences on the trail of a lion in the Sangre de Christo range of the Rocky Mountains; Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part V - British War Correspondent Robert Wilton reports from the Eastern Front and throws light upon the stirring events of the Russian Revolution which ended so tragically for the Russian Empire - with photos; Harnessing a Volcano - the hot springs of Larderello, Italy; A Cunning Hiding-Place - an Englishman's adventures while upholding the law in Uruguay; An Adv...
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Image for The Wide World Magazine, The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIV, No. 259, November (Nov.) 1919 - Auguste Englehardt is The Apostle of the Coco-nut (Coconut)

The Wide World Magazine, The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIV, No. 259, November (Nov.) 1919 - Auguste Englehardt is The Apostle of the Coco-nut (Coconut)

By: Dunn, H.; Burne, P.; Spens, A.; Chinnery, E.; Blake, W.; Wingate, R.; Heald, T.; Thomason, H.; Aymer, G.; West, J.; Kingsley, L.; Martyn, F.; Stringer, H.; St. Lawrence, B.; Webster, F.; Jones, W.; McMahon, T.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123g3919

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: The End of the Master Bandit - The Death of Emiliano Zapata; The Women Snake-Charmers of Mount Popa, Burma (Myanmar); The Revenge of the Kuki Khels - a grim story from the North-West frontier of India; Photo of storehouse of human skulls and bones beneath church at Hythe, Kent; In Quest of Cannibals - part 1 - Exploration and Adventure in Unknown New Guinea - with great photos; Desert Flying - part 1 - over Sinai, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia; Morrison's Moose - adventure at a logging camp near the borders of Maine and New Brunswick;...
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The Wide World - The Magazine for Everybody, March 1920, No. 263, Vol. 44

By: Foster, Harrison L.; Philby, H.St. J.B.; Shaw, Captain Frank H.; Walmsley, Lieut. Leo; Webster, Capt. F.A.M.; Noble, Lieut. W.; Moss, Capt. T.R.; MacAttammany, A.B.; Heighton, Joseph; White, Captain T.W.; Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak

Price: $249.95

Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1920

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 543g1836

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 362-448, plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Girl With the Red Hair; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 1; A 'Q" and a "U"; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season; "Bully's" Last Battle; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron; Queer Fixes - Falling Ten Thousand Feet; What Happened to Marshall Mabey; Gassed on a Chimney; My Two Years of Captivity Among the Turks - part 3; Among the Dyaks; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - part 3; On Foot Through South America, part 4; Silas Seeks London; In Lit...
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The Wide World, The Magazine for Everybody, May 1919, Vol. 43, No. 253: A Woman's Travels in China

By: Gaunt, Mary; Rose, Frank; Halden, D.E.; Chambers, Joseph; Martyn, Frederic; Stock, Ralph; Bailey, Hiram P.; Furness, Beatrice N.; beattie, S.A.; Jordan, John A.; Simmons, W.E.; Morse, John; Raffalorich, Vera F.;

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346h5213

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: My Greatest Air-Thrill - A British airman 'blinds' a German sub with his revolver; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - Part III - Mary Gaunt continues her amazing travels in China, with many photos; The Bulging Wall - a scary story from outside Havana; The Cry of the Lioness - a nurse in the South African bush is confronted by armed Kaffirs and calls upon lions for help; Hiding in a Fly-Wheel Pit - a negro burglar in a Cincinnati power-station attempts to evade capture; Adventures of a Newspaper-Man - Part I - Trips...
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories For Everybody, March [Mar.] 1925, Vol. LIV, No. 323: Exploring in Brazil / The Ivory Raiders

By: Henry, Warren; Bullock, S.C.; Pound, Reginald; Mavius, R.L.; Rayne, H.; Milne, R.M.R.; Brightwell, L.R.; Barker, Reginald C.; Mitchell-Hedges, F.A.; Dickie, Francis; Turner, J.N.; Johnston, Lal; Heron-Maxwell, Beatrice; Molesworth, D.; Musson, H.P.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1925

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346h5232

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Satan - story of a pet monkey in the Ivory Coast; Exploring in Brazil - photo-illustrated account of a sixteen-hundred mile trip up rapid-strewn rivers in a tiny launch through territory almost unknown to Europeans; The "King of the Clearwater" - a man claimed an area in Clearwater country, about sixty miles west of the North Thompson River, as his own and would go to any length to keep out intruders; The Ivory Raiders - Part II - a vivid picture of the dangers and difficulties of suppressing the Swahili ivo...
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, February [Feb.] 1923, Vol. 50, No. 298: The Soul of Burma

By: Hogg, John Edwin; Walmsley, Leo; Gibson, Ashley; Whealen, James; Lees, G. Frederic; Elliot, H.W.; bailey, Elliot; Collins, Dale; Madsen, Chas.; "Nicola"; Von Elon, John L.

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1923

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346h5231

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Caught in a Death-Trap - two motorcyclists plunge into an inescapable chasm in the terrible Mojave Desert of Californa; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part II - a joyous journey in search of adventure; The Tale of "Old Bill" - a huge elephant, the pride of all Ceylon, goes rogue; My Escape From Dartmoor - an inmate almost escaped from this impregnable prison in 1908; Round Cape Horn With a Deckload - James Whealen tells a disastrous tale; The Odyssey of Humbert Rulliere - Part II - the amazing story of a man ...
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The Wide World, The Magazine for Everybody, April [Apr.] 1919, Vol. 42, No. 252: The South Sea Islands

By: Jordan, John A.; McMahon, Thomas J.; Smith, C. De Heriz; Cowie, J.S.; Kennedy, Mrs.; Stuart, Martin; Bennett, Captain, J.G.; Gill, R.W.; Parmer, Devore; Lees, George Frederic; Bramwell, Corporal A.; Gaunt, Mary; Beattie, S.A.; Thomason, Hugh; Spittel,R.L

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346h5212

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Big-Game Hunting for the Cinema - John A. Jordan leads a film expedition into the wilds of British East Africa; The "Gordon" of the Pacific - Thos. J. McMahon visit's Germany's former South Sea possessions - German New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Samoa - and reports on the work of Captain Hunter among the savages of the Solomons - lots of nice photos; Our Chase After A Rogue Elephant - photo-illustrated story from Ceylon; Our Chase After a "Rogue Elephant"; In the Jaws of a Lion - J.S. Cowie wa...
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Everybody, Vol. XLIV - No. 264, April (Apr.) 1920 - Across Arabia in Disguise / Dominic Pietro

By: Koppel, H.; Frost, M.O.; Philby, H. St. J.B.; Cuthbertson, R.M.; Franck, H.A.; Walmsley, L.; Thomason, H.; Noble, W.; White, T.W.; Et al

Price: $295.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1920

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123g4360

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Pages 449-536, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Mystery of Dominic Pietro - how an innocent man was saved from the gallows; The Trials of A Naturalist's Wife - part 4; A Woman's Ordeal - Mrs. C.T. Sturgis was a prisoner of Mexican bandits; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - Part 2 of the great photo-illustrated story of the author's travels among the Wahhabi Arabs; Hunting the Addo Elephants - they were marked for extinction at the hand of famous hunter Major Pretorius - article with many photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 5 - Adventures in Peru, with great photos, includi...
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The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine For Everybody, April 1921 - Comacchio, the Venice of the Eels

By: Langdon, Richard; "Baturi"; Vivian, Herbert; Hall, A.S.; Tullis, Roland Lester; Rose, C.; Harrell, C.J.; O'Hara, G.; Morse, Major A.H.E.; Stock, Ralph; Iliff, Flora; Vero, F.; Heighton, Joseph; McMaines, Frank M.; Hilton-Simpson, M.W..

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1921

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123g1462

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Features: Was it Coincidence? - a Zulu witch doctor and his magic; The Man Who Hesitated - a dramatic story from West Africa; Comacchio on the Adriatic - the Venice of the Eels - article with photos; The Brophy Will Case - an unusual American detective case; The Wily Coyote - interesting stories of these hated coyotes and their ways in the Western States; McNeill's Lapse - a good man falls victim to temptation; Climbing the White Elephant near the Tom Reed Mine at Oatman, Arizona - article with nice photos; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone (part II) - tales from two young naval officers who ...
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The Wide World - The Magazine for Everybody, April (Apr.) 1918, No. 240, Vol. XL: I Fired the First Shot For Britain in the War (WWI)

By: Martyn, F.; O'Shaughnessy, W.; Jordan, E.; Craig, W.; Martin, E.; Patterson, W.; Ashmeead-Bartlett, E.; Beattie, S.; et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1918

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 123h0556

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 442-528 plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Strange Case of Sergeant Pron - a story of the French Foreign Legion; Turned into a Pillar of Salt - a salt-miner becomes lost in his mine; Mysterious Fish with Strange Arabic Inscriptions - photo and brief write-up of fish caught at Zanzibar ; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part I - Eva J. Jordan's amazing journey through mysterious Africa, this part dealing with Uganda (with photos); How I Fired the First Shot for Britain in the Great War - Trooper William Craig, of the 4th Dragoon Guards was also the first British soldier to bring down a...
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Keyword:The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine For Everybody