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In this delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no erudite philosopher, but a man very m...
Walter Murray Gibson was baptized 9 March 1822 in Kearsley, England and along with his parents emigrated from Northumberland, England to Montreal, Can...
Revised with dozens of illustrations complementing this easy-to-understand classic, this guide to magic spans all age groups with tricks that have baf...
Singapore Escape, Cannibalism at Sea
In 1942 a ship carrying 500 escapees from Japanese-occupied Singapore set sail for Ceylon. Halfway to safety she was torpedoed and sank. Only one life...
And a Glance at the East Indian Archipelago
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The wild, WILD West! Spurs Jackson and his Space Vigilantes bravely defended the frontier against Martians, Venusian spies, Meteor Men, moon bats, and...
The World Landscape in Sixteenth-century Flemish Painting
The Flemish world landscapes, which depict extensive panoramas seen in bird's-eye perspective and contain a wealth of map-like detail, were produced i...
The Rustic Landscape from Bruegel to Ruisdael
The variations of pleasure and their expression in Dutch rustic landscapes of the seventeenth century are recurring themes in Walter S. Gibson's engag...
A Bibliography of His Works and of Baconiana to the Year 1750. Supplement
More than 75 knots and their uses. Hobbyists, decorators and tricksters will treasure this collection of useful, decorative and magic knots. From simp...
Professional Techniques Fully Revealed by a Master Magician
Prepared from Houdini's Private Notebooks and Memoranda with the Assistance of Beatrice Houdini, Widow of Houdini, and Bernard M.L. Ernst, President of the Parent Assembly of the Society of American Magicians
Their Lives and Most Famous Tricks
Prepared from Houdini's Private Notebooks and Memoranda with the Assistance of Beatrice Houdini, Widow of Houdini, and Bernard M. L. Ernst, President of the Parent Assembly of the Society of American Magicians
Describes, explains, and illustrates many of the great magician's stage illusions, rope ties, releases, impromptu tricks, card tricks, special effects...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
And a Glance at the East Indian Archepelago
The Crime Master and the Fifth Napoleon
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! The Knight of Darkness wages war on criminal masterminds in two thrilling pulp novel...
Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands
"Walter Gibson, dean of Bruegel scholars, has done it again. His new book, like the proverbs it studies, instructs gently yet plainly in compact size....
Proven Betting Formulas For Winning Money at the Track
A powerful classic that shows experienced and novice handicappers how to analyze their real winning chances when playing favorites, middles odds and l...
The Golden Quest and the Masked Headsman
The Dark Avenger and Harry Vincent share center stage in two thrilling tales of lost treasure by Walter Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, The ...
Face of Doom and the Crime Ray
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! The Knight of Darkness battles criminal geniuses in two Batmanesque novels by Walte...
Chain of Death and Death's Premium
"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The Shadow knows! The Knight of Darkness battles outlaw corporations in two thrilling pulp ...
Garden of Death and the Vampire Murders VAMPIRE TRIPLE FEATURE
The Knight of Darkness investigates deadly vampire attacks in two heart-stopping chillers by Walter Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant" and a classic ra...
The Living Joss and Judge Lawless
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! The Knight of Darkness battles strange supercrime in two pulp thrillers by Walter Gi...
A Bibliography of His Works and Baconiana to the Year 1750
Two Classic Adventures of the Shadow
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"--Volume 1 cover....
A Sixteenth-Century Leiden Artist and His Workshop
Cornelis Engebrechtsz (c. 1460/62-1527) was the first major Leiden painter to whom works can be attributed with certainty. They include a Lamentation ...