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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 288 pp, portrait frontis, illustrated, all 16 plates present, bound in green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, sl crease bottom of 1 page.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Our Wild Boar - Coolies were afraid to work on a tea plantation in Assam, India due to a huge wild boar; Two Mysteries - Two strange incidents that happened in a North Country hospital during WWI; Bred in the Bone - What happened to an Australian aborigine couple who offended their tribal elders; Photo of an excellent example of French topiary; Round the World in a "Baby" Car - Part II (of II) of Gladys de Havilland's world-tour in a midget car, with photo of her in Hollywood talking to Mr. Lupino Lane plus five other wonderful photos; The Forbidden Valley - The fascinating photo-illustrated account of how RCMP officers Horsfield, Berger, and Greenfield accompanied a surveyor sent to the Kitwancool Valley in Northern British Columbia where the local natives had previously evicted the few settlers, wanting nothing to do with the white man - with photos and illustrations; the "Fool Afoot" in Italy - Part V - John Gibbons continues his amusing walking trip; Photo and explanation of "Sati" memorials in India, where wives were burnt in the same funeral pyre as their deceased husbands; The Haunting of the "Flamingo" - Bad luck strikes a vessel named Flamingo after her third engineer takes a shot at an albatross; Filming in the Wilds - Part II - Major C. Lestock Reid and his film crew experience major adventures as they attempt to film an adventure story in Siam - with photos; The Brand of the "Circle H" - A charming little story from the far west by Edith Ammons Kohl; Payment in Kind - A curious tale from Western India; The Mystery of the Post - Sergeant A.R. Cooper of the French Foreign Legion is sent to a lonely Moroccon outpost where N.C.O.s have been murdered - with photos; My Island Home - Henry G. Lamond describes his idyllic life on Homestead Bay on South Molle Island - article with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 32 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating issue. Tresilian, S.; Robinson, T.H.; Wenban, R.; Bestall, A.E.; Holloway, Cyril; Cleaver, Reginald; Peddie, T.H.; Goss, G.W.; Inns, Kenneth; Prater, Ernest; Abbey, S.; (illustrator).…

12mo. ix, [3], 277, [1] pp., plus 26 pp. publisher's catalogue w/ author index. Orange publisher's cloth, tan lettering & ruling front cover & spine (slight lean, minor foxing to fore-edges of textblock), w/ d.j. (minor creasing & edgewear head of spine, 1 small closed tear), still a VG/VG copy. First Australian edition of this fascinating memoir of the memoir published simultaneously by Jarrolds in the UK as "The Man Who Liked Hell" who joined the French Foreign Legion at the age of 15 1/2 in 1914 under the name Cornelis Jean de Bruin, fought at the Battle of Gallipoli, and was one of two of 1000 men in the battalion left standing at the end of the battle, winning the Croix de Guerre. Cooper (b. 1899) later was imprisoned as a deserter in Sidi Bel Abbes, served in the brutal Penal Battalion, and was twice court-martialed while fighting in Morocco and throughout the Riff War. He later served as a British secret agent in World War II, and various other campaigns. Scarce in original dustjacket. …