- — Fifty Amazing Hairbreadth Escapes

Odhams Press 1937 1st edition. Cloth, G+. 766pp, b/w frontis, 16 b/w plates, pages margins tanned, cloth a little rubbed along the eddges & spine lettering dulled. A soild copy. A collection of 51 tales of defying death & similar, from people such as Sir Malcolm Campbell, Edward Whymper, Lowell Thomas, Frank Buck, and many more, covering mountaineering, maritime adventures, big game hunting etc etc.