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Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. No date, c. 1927. Cover: green cloth on boards with gilt tiles and gilt Eagle: light dusting of soiling and few only light marks. Spine: head & foot with thin bumping, and chips. Tiny bumping to three fore corner tips. Edges: light dusting of soiling and few only foxing. Eps: b/w sequence of Eagle in flight reaching a rock; dj shadowing to ffep & refp. Foot edge of half-title page and Frontis with nic splits. Frontis: colour photograph of "Ferocity" eagle. Foot of title page with a few scratches and chips. Faint and few only old foxing to a few pages margins. B/w illustrattions clean & intact. Just a few pages with small chips or splits to fore or bottom edge. Binding is VG. 296p.
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The Wide World Magazine, True Stories of Adventure, December [Dec.] 1925, Vol LVI, No. 332: Up and Down in Kurdistan / The Big Redwood
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1925
Book First Edition
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Potts, Leonard; Robinson, T.H.; Edward, Lionel; Gillett, F.; Woodville, R. Caton; Eyles, D.C.; Gillett, Frank; Somerfield, T.; Goss, G.W.; Brock, H.M.; Prater, E.; Vedder, S.H.; Hiley, F.E. (illustrator). First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Babes In A Boat - Part I - A couple knowing nothing of navigation decides to set sail from Victoria, British Columbia and cross the Pacific; The Big Redwood - Story of a dog's uncanny instinct; A Holiday in the Sunderbunds - Pursuing a Royal Bengal Tiger - with great photos; A Matter of Habit - An amusing tale of two mean men at that 'sun-baked cinder-heap Aden'; In Search of the Lost Oases - Part III of an amazing expedition from Sollum to El Obeid, over two thousand miles, across the Sahara, visiting much previously unexplored territory, with nice photos; The "Lone Star Kid" - Young Harry Wells purchases a pony, sombrero and revolver before proceeding to carry out a 'hold-up'; Ram Kumar's "Cure" - a common fraud/confidence trick practiced in India; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part III of the extraordinary adventures of G.M. Dyott, who was abandoned by his guide in the upper Amazon - includes photos of shrunken heads; The Great Snake - A native Basuto legend comes true in the Orange Free State; Full-page photo of the 'Santa Cruz Monster' that washed up on shore; Photo of the Emir of Kano's Bodyguard; "Black Foxes" - An amusing story from near Mink Landing, Alberta which proves not every black fox pelt is worth the money; Two Men and a Leopard - Story of a terrific hand-to-hand battle with an infuriated leopard; A Weird Quest - Daily seances are held to aid in finding lost California gold mines; Up and Down in Kurdistan - Nicely phtoto-illustrated article about David F. Anderson and his flying excursion in Mesopotamia which began as an ibex hunt and ended with a bear. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.
