Fortuna Books

The Old Red Sandstone or New Walks in an Old Field

MILLER Hugh

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Dent undated , assumed first thus in the Everyman Library edition, khaki cloth with gilt dec spine, some small tears or chips at head and small splits to lower joint, top corner of fep small area insect damage, binding showing between half title and the calligraphic 'fronti...

Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face

KINGSLEY Charles · 1895

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

MacMillan & Routledge VG, blue ribbed cloth with gilt HYPATIA to upper board and gilt titling and dec to spine, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers intact and uncracked. half title browned and with old ink name Jennie Milligan. xvi, 345 + 6 pp adverts. Head and spine of tail...

Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture

JENKINS Henry · 1992

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Routledge An ethnographic study of communities of media fans, their interpretative strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices. Jenkins focuses on fans of popular TV programmes, including Star Trek and The Professionals. also Doctor Who and Blakes 7. VG trade p...

The Two Chancellors, Prince Gortchakof and Prince Bismarck

KLACZKO M Julian · 1876

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Chapman and Hall ex library in victorian binding, boards detached but present but in need of repairs, sections still well held together on perished backstrip, transalted from the French by Mrs Tait, tidy library stamps, viii + 358 + 32pp adverts, text block clean and tidy S ...

Lorenzo De Medici the Magnificent Vol 2

REUMONT Alfred Von · 1876

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Smith Elder & Co disbound , lacks boards, old calf backstrip holds the sections solidly but will need to be bound up, single vol 2 of 2, ex-library with tidy rubber stamps xiv +489pp English translation from the German made by Robert Harrison, text block clean and tidy S First...

A Man and His Mountains

CROUCHER Norman · 1984

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Kaye & Ward unclipped DW light wear and short splits at head of spine joints, book clean, 217pp + plates in colour, British mountaineer's autobiography H First Edition Very Good Kingswood Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Book of Merlyn (the Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King)

WHITE T H · 1977

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

University of Texas Press unclipped DW has surface rubbing and sunned spine, oatmeal cloth xx 137pp illustrated in line, unpublished in 1941 the text was found in the University of Texas archives in 1975 and is first published here, deals with the end of Arthur, Guenever and L...

The Book of Merlyn (the Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King)

WHITE T H · 1977

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Collins & Brown unclipped DW has heavily sunfaded spine showing as well as sunfading to the red on the top of the panels, edge wear and some minor edge splits, red endpapers, very minor damp rippling at head of first few pages, red cloth xx 137pp illustrated in line, unpublish...

The Mutiny of the 'Bounty'

BARROW John · 1961

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Blackie price clipped DW with edge wear and some chipping from head and tail of spine, small taped tear rear cover, name and adress at head of fep, a little handling soiling, 318pp H First Edition Good London Very Good Nigel Lambourne 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

The Mutiny of the 'Bounty'

BARROW John · 1961

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Blackie unclipped DW, a little handling soiling, 318pp, name and address to front paste down H First Edition Very Good London Very Good Nigel Lambourne 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey Illustrated By Dulac

BRONTE Charlotte · 1922

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Dent green cloth lightly rubbed to joints and spine ends, spine gilding dulled, a few minor spots to endpapers, closed top edge dust soiled with a few spots that intrude to extreme top margin of some plates, frontis + 11 plates in colour (total of 12 as called for), ix 548pp H...

A Spy of Napoleon

ORCZY Baroness · 1936

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Hodder red embossed cloth boards, first reprint, clean and tidy but lacks DW H reprint No Jacket London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Death and Mr. Potter

FOLEY Rae · 1955

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Boardman American Bloodhound Mystery No 111, dust jacket unclipped with edge wear and some chipping loss to spine ends and rear panel, some creasing, book spine has a lean, small part of fep torn off at corner, closed edges foxed, dust jacket art by D McLoughlin. rare H First ...

Marked with a Cross

MONRO Gavin · 1968

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Robert Hale price clipped DW some mild handling wear and faint rubbing, ex-library with stamps to some page margins and rules plate to free endpapers, paper residue to rear paste down, tape removed from boards has lifted paper surface, closed edges slightly foxed H First Editi...

Shadow Work Vernacular Values Examined

ILLICH Ivan · 1981

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Marion Boyars glue stain (from binding) at front hinge, private book club stamp to title page otherwise VG in unclipped DW. 152pp In five essays, Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options...

Yankee R.N.

CHERRY A H · 1954

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Jarrolds excellent blue cloth boards gilt arms device to upper board, titled spine, map endpapers two very small brown specks, minimal adhesive residue to extreme lower margin of fep, 544pp + plates. An American recruit to the british Royal Navy during WWII attained rank of ...

In Tune with the Infinite

TRINE Ralph Waldo · 1952

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

George Bell new edition reset with new type, and a new message from the author. xvi, 208pp, dust jacket with light chipping to spine ends and the corners, minor browning and scuffing to the backstrip. H Second Edition Very Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Professor Branestawm Round the Bend

HUNTER Norman · 1977

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Bodley Head pictorial laminated boards, slight rubbing to edges and corners and a little soiled, ex-library (cancelled) with stamps to paste down, fep , copyright page and rear paste down, minor fingermark to one page. Paper pocket to front paste down, actually quite tidy co...

The Marx Brothers

CRICHTON Kyle · 1951

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Heinemann lacks dust jacket, rubbed to joints, light soiling to black boards, name in pen to fep, closed edges dusty, 326pp + plates. H First Edition No Jacket London Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Disappearance of Tom Merry

RICHARDS Frank

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Spring Books assumed first, undated, tan cloth titled to spine in red, colour frontis, some line illustrations, Fanfare Series. 293pp pages starting to brown, DW chipped to spine ends and corners, jacket illustration shows masked man accosting a schoolboy. H First Edition Go...