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Price: $299.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g4356
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 ... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123h0764
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... View more info
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
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... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1921
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123h0552
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... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g4358
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... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g3915
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 ... View more info
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
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... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g4355
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... View more info
Price: $950.00
Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1921
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 543g1834
Condition: Good
Pages 353-440, plus 16 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Amazing K.K.K. (Ku Klux Klan) photo-illustrated article entitled "The Strangest Secret Society on Earth; The Wreck of the "Washington"; My Narrowest Escapes; The "Debil-Debil" of Saltbush Creek; Strange Stories of Crime; The White Man's Job; The Vanished Airmen; Some East African Experiences; Life in the New Hebrides; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - part 7; Through Central America on Horseback - part 2; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - part 3; Odds and Ends; ... View more info
Price: $350.00
Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g3919
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;... View more info
Price: $249.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 543g1836
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... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g4360
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... View more info
Price: $249.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1921
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g1462
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 ... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1918
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123h0556
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... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g4359
Condition: Good
Pages 273-360, plus 24 pages of great ads. Features: The Black Hand - a curious story of the abortive Egyptian revolution; The Land of Model Husbands - In the Marshall Islands women are the queen of all they survey - fascinating article with many wonderful photos; "Blue Mary's" Last Run; Photo of petrified forest in Arizona; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 2; The Smallest Republic in the World - interesting photo-illustrated article on San Marino; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 4 - Exploration and Adventure in Unknown New Guinea; The Ship That Sought Adventure - The skipper of ... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes, Ltd.: 1918
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g4357
Condition: Good
Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sled... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g3914
Condition: Fair
Pages 474-560 + 32 pages of ads. Features: The Six Skulls, Part II (sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings";The Reformation of Bill Allerday - an amusing Australian story; The Human 'Tank' - Mike Inik constructed a suit of armour out of solid steel and schemed revenge for twenty years; The Boat-Dwellers - wonderful photo-illustrated article on the thousands of British families who live on boats; "R.N.-W.M.P - The Riders of the Plains - authoritative stories of some of their exploits; Strange Stories of the War, including "Maroc", mascot of the Argyll and Sutherland Highl... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: London, George Newnes Limited: 1919
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123g0987
Condition: Good
Pages 354-440 plus 24 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Bullet-proof Scotchman - an adventure of John Mundell in the Pampas of Uruguay; ; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - part I - wonderful photos in China; An Exciting Trading Trip - efforts to trade with a warlike tribe in East Africa; Some Strange WWI Escapes from Germany - part II; Interesting photo and short article of Dog Rib Indians in Canada receiving their annual grant of one pound, as well as presents, from the Canadian government; Among the Wild Tribes of Darien - exploring the native tribes of Panama - with gre... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: New York, The International New Company: 1921
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123h0553
Condition: Fair
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... View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 123h0548
Condition: Good
88 Pages plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Burning of the Prisoners in the Punishment Hut - Germany's Dastardly Crime, as told by Pedro Dominguez, a Spanish seaman and eye-witness of the tragedy ; The Six Skulls - Part III of a sequel to "In the Grip of the Hip Sings" (Chinese Secret Society /Tong story); The Mast-Shooters of Belgium - how quaint and novel archery contests were conducted in Belgium and Northern France - with great photos; The Unlucky Motor-Boat - the "Jean"; Queer Fixes; The Seaplane Patrol - our narrow escape in the North Sea; Historic Crimes and Mysteries;... View more info
