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  • A Day With John Milton
    John Milton / May Byron / Sidney Meteyard
    Step into the world of John Milton with 'A Day with John Milton' by May Byron. This engaging biographical sketch offers a glimpse into the life and times of the celebrated English poet, best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost.'Explore the historical context that shaped Milton’s work and gain insight into the man behind the verse. Byron’s accessible prose brings the 17th-ce...
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    15,55 €

  • Legend & Lore of Chaves County
    John LeMay
    Long before it was carved out of Lincoln County in 1889, the lands comprising current-day Chaves County were traversed by legendary figures. Be they conquistadors like Antonio de Espejo or cattlemen like John Chisum, all left their mark on the Pecos Valley. In this book, read of Roswell founder Van C. Smith’s cosmically-induced gun duel in Santa Fe; seek out the treasure of Dia...
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    16,07 €

  • TERROR IN THE MINES!
    John LeMay / Noe Torres
    Stories of ghosts guarding buried treasure and mines plagued by foreboding specters have been a staple of campfire tales for generations. In that spirit, the authors dug deep into the recesses of Old West-era newspapers to unearth horrifying accounts of terror in the mines. In Arizona, thrill to stories of a wraith in Tombstone’s Bronco Mine, then brave the spirits that guard t...
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    16,06 €

  • Pueblo Magic
    John LeMay
    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there existed a curious legend that Montezuma, the Aztec emperor of Mexico, had been born somewhere in the American Southwest. The stories went that he was a legendary shaman who performed miracles and slayed monsters before boarding the back of a great eagle and flying southward, where he founded the Aztec kingdom in Mexico. Before de...
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    16,07 €

  • The Founding of English America
    John May
    In 1577, John Dee, a scientist who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, proposed to her the creation of colonies in the New World. Neither Elizabeth nor Walter Raleigh imagined the task would be so difficult or take more than 30 years. The effort started with an exploration of the coast of today’s North Carolina and the settlement of a colony on Roanoke Island in 1585....
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    42,68 €

  • New Mexico’s Lost Worlds & Enchanted Lands
    John LeMay
    In the late 19th century, academics scoffed at the notion that the people of Acoma Pueblo once inhabited the unscalable Katzimo Mesa. In 1897, Frederick Webb Hodge proved them wrong by finding signs of habitation atop the plateau. Today called 'Enchanted Mesa,' it presents one of the better examples of a lost world to be found in New Mexico. But there are so many more. Northwes...
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    16,07 €

  • Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams
    John LeMay
    For years, the tale of a group of miners who found a hidden canyon of gold only to be massacred by the Apache was legend across the Old West. Initially spread in saloons by the lone survivor known only as Adams, Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie later immortalized it for a new generation in his writings. However, Dobie’s tale was a pastiche constructed of the myriad of conflictin...
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    16,07 €

  • Lost Films of the Lost World & the Movies That Time Forgot
    John LeMay
    Get ready to explore a bevy of prehistoric paths not taken across the silver screen in... LOST FILMS OF THE LOST WORLD! Explore THE LOST WORLD’s lost footage and deleted cannibal subplot; delve into lost LOST WORLD sequels like ATLANTIS and a spoof to star Charlie Chaplin; uncover a forgotten adaptation of MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in 1929; explore the wilds of 1951’s JUNGLE MANHUNT to...
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    15,76 €

  • Cowboys & Saurians in the Modern Era
    John LeMay
    Even though the 'Golden Age of Newspapers' came to an end in the early 20th Century, tales of dinosaurian monsters remained in print. Plus, with photographic evidence of mystery creatures like Nessie and Bigfoot emerging, not to mention the new science of cryptozoology, perhaps the idea of remnant dinosaurs wasn’t so strange after all. This new tome in the Cowboys & Saurians se...
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    15,43 €

  • UFOs of the Turbulent 1930s
    John LeMay / Noe Torres
    During the Turbulent Era of the 1930s, America found itself teetering on the verge of entering its second World War. It also found itself on the cusp of the Golden Age of Flying Saucers which would begin in the late 1940s. Prepare to join authors Noe Torres and John LeMay one more time to investigate the final unexplored frontier for UFO sightings: the 1930s! As you read this b...
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    14,92 €

  • Mummies of the Americas
    John LeMay
    You’ve probably read enough books on Old West ghost stories to turn blue in the face by now. But what about a tome of bonafide mummy stories from North America’s pioneer period? That’s right, Egypt isn’t the only place on Earth famous for mummies. Beneath North America’s desert sands are not only mummified remains, but entire cities of the dead in some places. For instance, eve...
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    10,09 €

  • Lethal Keystrokes
    John D. May
    America’s vulnerability is its hidden fanatics, those individuals who harbor fury, grief and a driving desire for revenge. While blending in with their neighbours, co-workers and customers, they plot the demise of their country. They have a network. They have resources. And they have the courage to make it happen. Lethal Keystrokes is the gripping story of a small group of reve...
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    15,30 €

  • Cowboys & Monsters
    John LeMay
    No, this is not another book comprised of Old West ghost stories and campfire tales. This is a tome about tangible, flesh and blood monsters that allegedly terrorized the Western Frontier according to real newspaper articles of the era. And by monsters we mean real-life vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and other supernatural beings manifested in the flesh. In this book you’ll jour...
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    15,45 €

  • UFOs in the Roaring Twenties
    John LeMay / Noe Torres
    By the 1920s, humankind’s presence in the skies was no longer as meek as it had been in prior decades. Charles Lindbergh became famous when he conducted the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927 in his plane the Spirit of St. Louis. 'Strange things' in the sky were no longer quite so strange. Except for when they were. The days of simply sighting strange airships from...
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    15,77 €

  • The Noted Desperado Pancho Dumez
    John LeMay
    26 years ago, outlaw Billy the Kid’s tombstone was stolen from Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Now it has mysteriously been returned. When teenage brothers Pancho and Dorado Dumez steal it themselves, they get more than they bargained for. Encased inside the tombstone is a map that leads to the Southwest’s greatest treasure: The Lost Adams Diggings-a canyon comprised of solid gold. Bu...
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    11,52 €

  • Classic Monsters Unmade
    John LeMay
    Picking up where the first volume left off, the second volume of CLASSIC MONSTERS UNMADE chronicles the unseen horrors from the houses of Hammer, Toho, and Universal from the 1950s up until the turn of the century. Marvel at the mysterious BATMAN FIGHTS DRACULA, lost to the sands of time in the Philippines! Discover a bevy of unfinished Hammer horrors like TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN...
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    15,38 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #5
    John LeMay
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #5 celebrates the 55th anniversary of GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER (1966)! Explored within this issue are the film’s origins as a King Kong spin-off entitled OPERATION ROBINSON CRUSOE: KING KONG VS. EBIRAH, plus its mysterious ties to Toho’s James Bond spoof 100 SHOT/100 KILLED (1965). As such, this issue includes extensive produ...
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    10,32 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #5
    John LeMay
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #5 celebrates the 55th anniversary of GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER (1966)! Explored within this issue are the film’s origins as a King Kong spin-off entitled OPERATION ROBINSON CRUSOE: KING KONG VS. EBIRAH, plus its mysterious ties to Toho’s James Bond spoof 100 SHOT/100 KILLED (1965). As such, this issue includes extensive produ...
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    11,87 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #5
    John LeMay
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #5 celebrates the 55th anniversary of GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER (1966)! Explored within this issue are the film’s origins as a King Kong spin-off entitled OPERATION ROBINSON CRUSOE: KING KONG VS. EBIRAH, plus its mysterious ties to Toho’s James Bond spoof 100 SHOT/100 KILLED (1965). As such, this issue includes extensive produ...
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    7,24 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #4
    John LeMay
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #4 celebrates 60 years of the monsters of 1961: GORGO, KONGA, and REPTILICUS. Explored within this issue is GORGO’s origins as a Japanese co-production called KURU ISLAND, plus its mysterious ties to a Godzilla manga from 1957 and an unmade adaptation of WAR WITH THE NEWTS in 1967 between the King Brothers and Toho. Likewise, REP...
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    11,86 €

  • Three Proverb Stories
    John Andrew / Louisa May Alcott
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    19,99 €

  • The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies
    John LeMay
    Since the very first dai kaiju eiga, GODZILLA (1954), made its way across the Pacific to U.S. shores, the Japanese originals have rarely made it to America in their original forms. The most famous example of all will always be GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS! (1956) which removed nearly forty minutes of the original footage and replaced it with twenty minutes worth of new scenes...
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    17,27 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #3
    John LeMay
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #3, which celebrates Japanese ’Panic Movies’ as made famous by SUBMERSION OF JAPAN (1973) on the 90th birthday of its creator, Sakyo Komatsu. All of Komatsu’s Showa Era film adaptations (including 1974’s ESPY) are covered including TV projects like THE MONKEY ARMY and the SUBMERSION OF JAPAN TV drama (both 1974-1975). Other ’Pani...
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    18,86 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #3
    John LeMay
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #3, which celebrates Japanese ’Panic Movies’ as made famous by SUBMERSION OF JAPAN (1973) on the 90th birthday of its creator, Sakyo Komatsu. All of Komatsu’s Showa Era film adaptations (including 1974’s ESPY) are covered including TV projects like THE MONKEY ARMY and the SUBMERSION OF JAPAN TV drama (both 1974-1975). Other ’Pani...
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    8,75 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #3
    John LeMay
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #3, which celebrates Japanese ’Panic Movies’ as made famous by SUBMERSION OF JAPAN (1973) on the 90th birthday of its creator, Sakyo Komatsu. All of Komatsu’s Showa Era film adaptations (including 1974’s ESPY) are covered including TV projects like THE MONKEY ARMY and the SUBMERSION OF JAPAN TV drama (both 1974-1975). Other ’Pani...
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    15,50 €

  • The Man Who Invented Billy the Kid
    John LeMay
    Itinerant journalist Ash Upson was a true 'rolling stone' of the western frontier, first kicking around New York with Edgar Allen Poe and then tutoring the children of Mormon leader Brigham Young in Utah before making his way to New Mexico. There he befriended two of the Wild West’s greatest legends: outlaw Billy the Kid and the man who slayed him, Sheriff Pat Garrett. Told mos...
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    15,43 €

  • Space Monsters of the Old West
    John LeMay / Noe Torres
    Long before airplanes were invented, the pioneers of the Old West told tales of strange 'visitors from the sky.' They saw gooey alien blobs fall to Earth, witnessed strange monsters fly through the air, and even dug up a mummy from Mars! Unearthed from real newspaper articles from the time, this is the story of what may have been real monsters from outer space in the Old West.....
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    13,69 €

  • Monsters of the Old South
    John LeMay
    More than one hundred years ago, back when the Southern States of North America were still made up of wild swampland, settlers told tales of monsters. They talked of lizardmen, spoke of mermaids, whispered of werewolves, and told of hairy giants that we would today call Bigfoot. Unearthed from actual newspaper articles of the time, this is the story of real monsters in the Old ...
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    9,68 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #2
    John LeMay
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #2, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) and the looming 50th anniversary of Creatures the World Forgot (1971) with an eye towards the obscure and the unmade. For instance, did you know that When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth began with the title of Curse of the Dinosaurs with the hope that R...
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    11,85 €

  • THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #2
    John LeMay
    THE LOST FILMS FANZINE PRESENTS MOVIE MILESTONES #2, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) and the looming 50th anniversary of Creatures the World Forgot (1971) with an eye towards the obscure and the unmade. For instance, did you know that When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth began with the title of Curse of the Dinosaurs with the hope that R...
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    12,51 €


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