Fortuna Books

Ends and Odds, plays and sketches

BECKETT Samuel · 1977

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Faber Nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot, ex-library, tape residue onto boards, stamps to free end paper, half title and copyright pages, shelf number in white to DW spine. DW has minor adhesive residue to edges from a removed pla...

Peter Ibbetson, with an introduction by his cousin...

Du MAURIER George · 1904

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Harper & Brothers with an Introduction by His Cousin, Lady ***** ("Madge Plunket"). 8vo. vii + 418 + 6 pp. of publisher's ads. "Edited and Illustrated by George du Maurier". Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine indistinct, spine soiled; two gilt-stamped hearts...

The Phantom Freighter ( The Hardy Boys )

DIXON Franklin W. · 1951

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Harold Hill edgewear to decorative cloth, light foxing to closed edges, no dust jacket, first UK edition, 222pp H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

The Secret Science at Work (signed Presentation Copy)

LONG Max Freedom · 1953

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Huna Research blue pebbled cloth with gilt to cover and spine, plain glassine dust jacket present, there is a PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION to fep from Freedom Long to a Helen McInnes dated 1958, 343pp + 1pp adverts VG clean text By observing the kahuna magicians of Hawaii the au...

The Secret Science behind Miracles (signed Presentation Copy)

LONG Max Freedom · 1954

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Huna Research blue pebbled cloth with gilt to cover and spine, plain glassine dust jacket present, there is a PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION to fep from Freedom Long to a Helen McInnes dated 1958, 408pp + 1pp adverts VG clean text By observing the kahuna magicians of Hawaii the a...

Daughters of Heaven (Parker & Hulme murder) New Zealand Playscripts

FORSTER Michelanne · 1992

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Victoria University Press 87pp, playscript, produced at Christchurch's Court Theatre in 1991, based on the true story of a supposed lesbian motivated murder in Christchurch in 1954 which was the basis of Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures (500 grams) S First Edition No Ja...

Come Winter

HUNTER Evan (Ed McBain) · 1973

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Constable price clipped jacket, 229pp VG minor handling H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

David and Destiny

HAY Ian · 1936

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hodder third printing, red blind embossed boards, name and addrees in contemporary ink to fep, closed edges foxed showing into margins, otherwise VG, DW unclipped but with piece missing from tail os spine losing the Yellow Jacket logo, otherwise DW quite good and tidy, 320pp ...

King of the witches, the world of Alex Sanders

JOHNS June · 1971

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Pan VG used paperback, original price clabel to cover, very tidy, first paperback edition, 158 pp + 16pp plates pages browned (500 gram rate) S First Edition No Jacket London Very Good Jack Smith 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Hearts Courageous

OXENHAM John · 1919

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Methuen small book khaki boards with white buckram spine, endpapers show a trooper on horseback silhouetted above a trench, gift inscription to title page, February 1919 reprint (after November 1918 first) completing 42,000 copies, war poetry (500 gram rate) H reprint No Jack...

The Knights of Bushido a Short History of Japanese War Crimes

RUSSELL Lord of LIverpool · 1958

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Cassell black cloth minor rubbing to tips, very faint foxing to prelims and closed edges. DW unclipped, top 1 cm at head of spine missing, loses the THE in the title. 5 cm split down from the top of the lower DW joint, somer edge wear or small chips , top part of lower panel ...

The Human Cycle, the Ideal of Human Unity, War and Self-Determination

AUROBINDO Sri · 1977

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust facsimile reprint , fifth combined edition, three works in one vol, papered boards, unclipped DW light wear, top corner fep removed, 689pp H reprint Very Good Pondicherry Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Leaving Yuba City, Poems

DIVAKARUNI Chitra Banerjee · 1997

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Anchor Books perfect bound with card wraps with folding flaps, print run line reads 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 , 114pp VG copy, acclaimed American author of Indian ancestry (Subcontinent India) S First Edition No Jacket New York Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Panjamon

DOMALAIN Jean-Yves trslLen ORTZEN · 1972

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Hart-Davis first translated edition, unclipped DW, light spine lean, minimal edge wear to DW, 179pp + plates, map endpapers, Young zoologist hitch hikes from Europe, through Himalayas and Thailand to Borneo to obsevre rare animals, where he is forced to marry a Dayak chiefs d...

Resurrection a Novel

TOLSTOY Leo N Trsl Louise Maude · 1899

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Grosset & Dunlap assumed first Grosset edition, copyright page states copyright 1899 by Dodd Mead and as "Awakening" by John Brisben Walker. Light green cloth titled and decorated in red and black, rubbed and worn to joints and corners, cloth uniformly soiled, (xii) 519 +10pp...

Star Maidens Annual 1978

1977

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Stafford Pemberton near fine copy, one tiny little nick from upper joint and two from fore edge of upper board showing as white spots to the blue, unclipped price corner to first page, TV series annual, British science fiction series, 62pp H First Edition No Jacket Very Good 4...

The Malta Conspiracy

MULLALLY Frederic · 1972

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hart-Davis price clipped DW, minor bumping head of spine, light reading wear. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Sermons on Several Subjects New Edition Volume 3

CLARKE Samuel (doctorate divinity) · 1820

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Richard Priestley "published from the author's ms. by John Clarke DD late Dean of Sarum, with a preface (in vol 1). . . to which are added the sermons preached before the House of Commons &c a new edition in seven volumes" printed for Richard Priestley by Nathaniel Bliss Wate...

The Cruise of the Dream Ship

STOCK Ralph · 1931

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Heinemann DW has minor edge and corner chipping, is intact and near complete but has some long tears taped on the reverse, one is across the front panel, another along the upper joint, Crown Library reprint edition, large 8vo, ink name to fep,272pp illustrated with photographs...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, with a Critical Memoir

CAMPBELL Thomas Edited By William Michael Rossetti

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Moxon undated Victorian era publication, blue cloth bevelled edges to boards, gilt and black titling and decoration, spine ends and corners with light wear, short edge splits to spine ends, original endpapers, front hinge cracked,, top corner fep trimmed, light water stain (tr...