Fortuna Books

Turner in the British Museum, drawings and watercolours

WILTON Andrew · 1977

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

British Museum Press excellent copy, DW price clipped under plastic sleeve, 35 colour and 220 b&w illustrations, 168pp H reprint Very Good London Very Good J M W Turner 4to - over 9? - 12" tall

Fashion Dolls

TARNOWSKA Maree · 1986

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hobby House Press apart from a few stamps, shelf mark to DW spine and two labels to rear DW panel in VG condition, top corner of fep has small area of lift where a label removed. 144pp with colour and black and white photos. appendix on nineteenth century underwear. Library ...

Get in the Q annual

MILLIGAN Spike · 1980

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hobbs & Michael Joseph spine sunned to white but title still shows. otherwise VG. 95pp of crazy text and images. H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall

The History of Surfing

YOUNG Nat · 1983

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Palm Beach Press minor bumping to corners, DW short closed split along fold at bottom corner, also short split at top corner of rear DW fold. 200pp colour and black and white photos. H First Edition Very Good Very Good Folio - over 12" - 15" tall

Send for the Artist 54 years as the Air Force Official Artist

CONLY Maurice & Paul Harrison · 1995

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Random House excellent copy, small split tail of DW spine. light residue from label to cover. 194pp colour and black and white illustrations. H First Edition Very Good Auckland Very Good Maurice Conly landscape 4to

The Moon Jumpers

UDRY Janice May · 1979

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Bodley Head corners bruised, small split head of spine joint, name to fep, a few pages small split at the bottom fold where the collation is folded, alternating single page of text with black and white illustration followed by double page colour art by Sendak. First UK printi...

Analog 6

CAMPBELL John W · 1969

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Dobson fore edge of fep has yellow stain that does not seem to have dampened the paper at all , just discoloured it other wise book and DW are VG+ to near fine, price to flap has been blacked out, super copy. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

A Lion in the Night

ALLEN Pamela · 1985

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hodder first edition, New Zealand writer based in Australia, two small illustrations have parts traced around in felt, it is tidy and not too noticeable, otherwise a VG copy. A wonderful story with nice colour art. H First Edition No Jacket Auckland Good Pamela Allen landsca...

A horse and a hound a goat and a gander

PROVENSON Alice & Martin · 1979

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Jonathan Cape boards surface uniformly soiled, rubbed to spine ends and corners, the word horse in the spine title has been scuffed out, gift inscription to fep, signs of careful reading use to contents, no faults though, big picture book with beaut illustrations of the fo...

Playboy Magazine April 1976

HEFNER Hugh · 1976

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Playboy April 1976 VG copy price blacked out, contents include; new Sherlock Holmes tale by Nicholas Meyer, Transcendental Meditation, Ursula Andress pictorial, The Tubes music group, Alice in Wonderland cover theme, Vargas girl S First Edition No Jacket Very Good 4to - over...

Playboy Magazine October 1976

HEFNER Hugh · 1976

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Playboy October 1976 VG- copy minor cover wear, small pen price on cover, faint water mark top left corner shows through first 30 or so pages minimal detraction, lots of sex in society articles, college coeds etc, preview of Hailey's 'Roots' novel,'Deep Throat' court case in M...

Playboy Magazine August 1976

HEFNER Hugh · 1976

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Playboy August 1976 VG+ copy minor cover wear, price blacked out, contents include; Mossad assassination squads-Israels flaunting of international law, interview with Robert Altman, Helmut Newton pictorial of lolita young model in hotel rooms, Vargas girl. S First Edition No ...

Playboy Magazine June 1976

HEFNER Hugh · 1976

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Playboy June 1976 VG copy minor cover wear, contents include; interview with attempted assassin of President Ford- Sara Jane Moore, article on conflict between ecologists and Russian whalers (whaling), Part 6 history of American assassination being Martin Luther King, S First...

Playboy Magazine June 1977

HEFNER Hugh · 1977

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Playboy June 1977 VG rubbed spine,small tears at staple points, crease to rear cover , centrefold present and VG, internally VG. contents include; Telly Savalas / Marilyn Chambers / Freddie Prinze / Barbara Bach / James Bond / Roger Moore / Robert Anton Wilson Illuminatus S ...

Playboy Magazine March 1977

HEFNER Hugh · 1977

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Playboy March 1977 VG small price in marker to cover, rubbed spine, still VG, centrefold detached but present and VG contents include; Henry Miller / Paul Theroux / on location at porn movie / Jimmy Carter Playboy and the media / interview senator Pat Moynihan S First Edition ...

Vasili the Lion of Crete

ELLIOTT Murray · 1992

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Century Hutchinson Efstathiadis (500 gram rate) second edition, 219pp + plates, VG softcover. New Zealander Dudley Churchill Perkins aka Vasili after escaping from German hands spent a year evading them on Crete before making his way to Egypt , only to return as an SOE special...

The Brotherhood, the Secret World of the Freemasons

KNIGHT Stephen · 1984

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Granada fifth printing in same year as first, spine lean, bookplate to fep, DW small splits / chips at head folds lower upper corner chipped. Expose of freemasonry by the noted Ripperologist. Includes consideration of infiltration of masonic lodges by international intelligenc...

The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician

ARNOLD Edwin Lester · 1893

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Chatto & Windus Fascinating fantasy novel about an immortal man's reincarnation in Britain through the Celts to Roman Britain on thru and past 'King Alfred' and the Vikings and his multiple reincarnations. Blue cloth gilt design of feather fan and title to cover gilt dulled, ...

Still as the Grave

ROBY Mary Linn · 1965

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Collins ex lending library, label to fep , stamp and tape residue to paste downs, stamp to title and some throughout, first text page has pen circling page #, DW unclipped, small tear to flap, small tear to top edge rear panel, small tape residue to front flap, light sunnin...

A.J.A. Symons his life and speculations

SYMONS Julian · 1950

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Eyre & Spottiswoode red cloth gilt signture to cover, blue and gilt panel to spine, DW not clipped and VG. only faults are a small patch upper corner DW surface lifted when a label removed, and tail of spine has been damp with offsetting of red to the inside of the DW and a ...