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London: Collins Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 8" x 10.25". 128pp. pictorial board cover, blue cloth spine with black titles. numerous black and white and colour illustrations. A south sea adventure by James Marx. How we captured Tun-Gwinne by Cpt W.H. Graves. Pearl Poachers by D.F.Seton-Carruthers. other contributors are Edgar Stevenson. Basil Tozer. H.Hervey. W.J. Mowbray. Edward Field. James L. Watson. W. Sherwill. J.H. Grimshaw. Emma Brewer. Alex Macdonald. Joseph Myers. Tom Bevan. C.Whitehead. Not dated, but appears c1919..

London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1903. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Firmly bound, gilt decorated navy blue cloth boards. Wear on the cover mostly on the corners and on the edges of the spine, gilt closed page edges, prize label inside.

London: George Newnes, October 1956. [Travel / Adventure Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.vi; 327-388; vii-xxiv. With frequent black and white in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1/6. Internally clean, with moderate wear to covers, including some creasing and a few closed tears. Rubbing and chipping to spine. Good. Reeman relates a true story concerning a submarine in the Adriatic, alongside numerous other exotic travel and adventure stories.

London England: George Newnes. Very Good/No Jacket. 1922. First Edition. Decorative Boards. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. The Wide World Magazine. Vol. XLIX. April to September 1922. Very good copy of this very rare book. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Blue cloth with black and gilt decoration and gilt lettering. Thrilling Adventures. Astounding Photographs. The man who reads his Wide World regularly unconsciously aquires a knowledge of this earth of ours that many a confirmed globe-trotter lacks. There are several articles in this issue which give one most vivid glimpses of life and conditions in strange countries and among queer people. 'A Treasure Hunt in the Land of Thirst'. 'The White Man's Grave' and 'A Film-Hunter on the Amazon' are all outstanding contributions of the type that has made the Magazine famous. On the adventure side you will find plenty of excitement in 'The Human Fly'… Read More

London England: George Newnes. Very Good/No Jacket. 1923. First Edition. Decorative Boards. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. The Wide World Magazine. Vol. LI. April to September 1923. Very good copy of this very rare book. Very slight foxing to end inside covers. Blue cloth with black and gilt decoration and gilt lettering. Thrilling Adventure. Astounding Photographs. Our 25th Birthday. We have tried to give you a specially good number this month in honour of the occasion. Don't miss 'The Coughlin Case', a really remarkable narrative or the exciting continuation of 'A Soldier of Fortune'. Our older readers will be interested in 'Lookinng Backwards' whuich reviews the history of The Wide World, while 'The Tobacco Smugglers of the Belgium Border' will cause people who thought that smuggling on the big scale was dead to open their eyes in astonishment. Illustrated. 504 pp. (We carry a wide selection of… Read More

London England: George Newnes. Very Good/No Jacket. 1924. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. The Wide Wrld Magazine. Vol. LII. October 1923 to March 1924. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Corners slightly bumped. Blue cloth with black and gilt decoration and gilt lettering. Very good copy of this very rare book. Thrilling Adventures. Astounding Photographs. 'You certainly get hold of some very remarkable stories', said a man to me the other day. 'I wonder if the well from which you dip your contributions will ever run dry'. I told him I didn't so; our source of supply is the inexhaustible, ever-bubbling spring of human experience and human endeavour. That it shows bo signs of exhaustion is proved by this number. Read 'The Woman of the Island', 'The Wishing Pipe' 'East Beyond the East' and 'The Four Madmen' and judge for yourself! Illustrated. 504 pp.… Read More

London: George Newnes Ltd, 1898-1900. Leather. Very Good. 9.5" by 7.5". Not Stated . Four volumes from Victorian monthly magazine of adventure and travel stories in uniform leather bindings. A collection of volumes I to IV of Victorian monthly magazine The Wide World Magazine, running from 1898 to 1965. The present collection containing consecutive numbers from April 1898 to March 1900. With 'true tales' of adventure and travel stories from around the world. This collection includes instalments from the celebrated story of 'The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont' among others; described as "the most amazing story a man ever lived to tell", it tells the story of a man who spent thirty years in the outback of Australia (later exposed as a hoax). Largely illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates and other illustrations in text by numerous artists including Terence Cuneo, Gordon Browne, and William Barnes Wollen among others. Contributors include Fred Singer, M. L.… Read More