Whittaker Robert M (10 results)

Hard cover. First edition. Very good in very good dust jack.

Original decorated wrappers. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Some soiling to top-edge of pages. Wear to cover and corners of book.; 20x13.5x1.8cm; 314 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Impression. With Illustrations. Light soiling on page edges. Little shelfwear.; 20.1 x 13.5 x 1.7 cm; xiv, 350-648 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Brand New. 264 pages. 8.46x5.59x0.91 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. nrVG DW. 1st Edition. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age BUT top edge slightly spotted. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. Presents the biography of General George A Custer. This book describes Custer s escapades as a cadet at West Point (where he was called Fanny because of his golden locks), his courtship of Judge Bacon s saucy daughter, and his singular service as a cavalrym.

Condition: New. In English.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Mad Mike" - Part I - The adventures of a well-known South Seas character, including his romantic connection with the beautiful half-caste Laumona; The Forest Dwellers of Arabuko - Photo-illustrated article on the shy and elusive East African Sanya race; My Wife's Double - told by Sidney Fitzgerald, now chief engineer with a firm in Portuguese East Africa; In Quest of the Unknown - Part I - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges meets the strange islanders of the San Blas Archipelago and the mysterious Chucunaque - illustrated with photos; My Chinese Crystal - This story of events surrounding an ancient crystal, believed to be stolen from a Chinese temple, will keenly interest students of the occult; The Very Keen Man - How an energetic Central African Native Commissioner conceived a Great Scheme - and what happened to it; The Great Pay-Train Hold-Up - For several years the police of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were at their wit's end to deal with an epidemic of pay-roll robberies; The Big-Game Trapper - R.D.S. describes some thrilling experiences encountered by well-known trappers; Through Savage Europe - Part III - Richard Carline describes his holiday painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro - with photos; "Down Texas Way" - The wife of a Texas rancher tells the tale of three high-spirited youngsters, a desperate gang of escaped convicts, a night alarm, and a mysterious disappearance; Across the Great Sahara - Part IV - The story of a wonderful exploit - a camel-back journey from south to north through the Sahara - with photos; Donnelly's Luck - An old prospector strikes it rich, only to fall into the hands of rascally claim-jumpers; Twenty-Three Hours of Horror - A young fireman, Clermont Lafayette Staden, falls overboard from the American oil-tank steamer Fred W. Weller in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Sutcliffe, Norman; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; Skelton, J.R.; Crombie, Charles; Vedder, S.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Tennant, Dudley (illustrator).…