Fortuna Books

The month of the brittle star

SOPER Eileen L · 1971

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

McIndoe VG in papered boards. DW very small chipping at spine ends and corners, mainly complete and intact.small area of surface lifting top right corner on blank white part of DW from label removal. 93pp with line drawings 'a study in the loyalty... of a girl on the brink of...

The Flying Sailor

JUBELIN Andre Rear Admiral · 1955

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hurst and Blackett blue cloth boards and titling fresh and crisp. March 1955 fourth printing of English translation of Marin de Metier-Pilot de Fortune translated by James Cleugh. 276pp + 34 photos. Top edge dusted blue Unclipped DW rubbed to edges with some light chipping to...

Bunkle Baffles Them

PARDOE M · 1949

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Routledge first edition, green cloth with black panneled title to spine. just the slightest hint of sunning to the spine ends. very minor dust discolouration to top edge. map end papers a little surface rubbing where a price has been erased from a blank portion of the endpape...

Strange Relations

FARMER Philip Jose · 1964

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

Gollancz House binding brick papered boards gilt title to spine. No DW . ex lending library, minor tape residue to paste down and endpaper, tape residue only to rear endpapers.Stamps to end paper as well as remains of an issue plate . small remainder stripe top edge. Title p...

The Weapon Shops of Isher

VAN VOGT A E · 1952

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Weidenfeld Weidenfelds Science Fiction Shelf edition being the first UK after the US first. Black boards with spinning molecule design on upper board. A little soiling to boards. Inscription on end paper as well as offset foxing and booksellers small stamp. Water stain alo...

The Bloody Sun

BRADLEY Marion Zimmer · 1993

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

Severn House British edition in papered boards. spine has a lean to it otherwise VG. DW is unclipped with price in sterling and US$ as well. A VG copy with reading wear only, scarce Darkover novel. 372 pages. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Killing Floor

CHILD Lee · 1997

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Bantam Child's debut work. VG in similar DW, The edges of the DW are starting to curl, otherwise no faults and not price-clipped. Price in sterling on flap. The front hinge has loosened ever so slightly. The spine head and tail may be slightly bumped. VG with reading wear on...

The Ascension Factor

HERBERT Frank & Bill Ransom · 1988

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Gollancz completes the Pandora Trilogy (The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect) and was the last work completed by Herbert before his death. VG+ in similar unclipped DW, just very minor reading wear. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Waldenses, or the Fall of Rora, a lyrical sketch with other poems.

De VERE Aubrey · 1842

$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)

John Henry Parker xii, 311 (+1). original embossed cloth faded to edges and with some wear to joints. Two small areas rubbed through at the top of the joints. Titled spine in gilt with OXFORD 1842 at tail. Original yellow end papers. . A few spots of discolouration to cover ...

Life's Handicap being stories of mine own People

KIPLING Rudyard · 1900

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

MacMillan First edition thus. Original printed wrappers of the Colonial Library version, brick red ink on buff paper, for circulation in India and the British Colonies. Cover has [Tipapa] written in black ink on it. spine is creased along the folds of the signatures with split...

Altdeutschland spezial katalog und handbuch 5 Auflage

GROBE Hans · 1975

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Grobe closed page edges light foxing , no dustwrapper , 717pp from eighteenth century postage marks and stamps although mainly nineteenth century. catalogue and price guide to German states postal ephemera, please email any questions (in English please). quite heavy will incur...

Desert Traveller, The life of Jean Louis Burckhardt

SIM Katharine · 1969

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Gollancz Uncorrected proof copy , original wrapper with "uncorrected" rubber stamped above PROOF. title on spine and cover. cover a little creased. DW has been creased and is worn with a tear at head of spine, spine and onto the covers has been sun faded. 440pp, the index, lis...

Open Heart University

MILLIGAN Spike · 1979

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hobbs Michael Joseph first edition. DW a little soiled to laminated surface, some curling of surface laminate at bottom of spine, one short tear at bottom of spine , unclipped. 71pp , poetry accompanied by full page b&w illustrations. H First Edition Very Good London Very Go...

A World on the Wane

LEVI-STRAUSS Claude · 1961

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Hutchinson dec. cloth with rubbing to bottom edges. inscription paste down and minor tidy tape remains, also two small pieces tape on rear paste down. 404pp+ plates. top edge a little soiled/ dusty. Damaged DW under plastic. rubbed along spine folds and with some loss to head ...

Sir Thomas Browne, a man of achievement in Literature

BENNETT Joan · 1962

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Cambridge University Press 249pp in original plain blue wrappers starting to pull away from the text at heel of spine. Wrapped in orange paper with the title to the spine. Biographical with comment on Religio Medici / Pseudodoxia / Hydrotaphia Urne Buriall. Advanced Reading C...

The Throme of the Erril of Sherill

MCKILLIP Patricia A · 1973

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Atheneum Dunsanyesque fairy tale. "The throme of the Erril of Sherill did not exist. Yet Caerles, Chief Cnite of Magnus Thrall, King of Everywhere, set out on a quest for it because Magnus Thrall would not let his daughter, the weeping Damsen, marry without it." Fairly good co...

Pattons Gap, an account of the battle of Normandy

ROHMER Richard · 1981

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Arms and Armour VG copy in same DW with very minor edge wear. 240pp. Author is a major-General. An account of the bungle at the Falaise gap. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Jesus Scroll, a time bomb for Christianity?

JOYCE Donovan · 1972

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.46 | ¥27,936)

Ferret Books SCARCE. hardbound in near fine price clipped DW. hard to find Australian publication. A radio broadcaster and scriptwriter for 30 years the author now produces his first published work. Black boards, map end papers. Really VG condition nearing fine. " Was Jesus...

The Cellar

LAYMON Richard · 1980

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New English Library Laymon's first work in the first UK paperback edition. VG with light reading crease at spine and near spine on upper cover, also a faint crease line 30mm in from right edge of upper cover. a little rubbing to spine edges. minor small surface scratch that ...

Harley Street Hypnotist

MITCHELL Alan · 1959

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Harrap blue boards, head of spine bruised. DW worn to edges short tears and crumpling to head of spine. waterstain mainly visible only to reverse of the wrapper and the white rear panel. 248 pages. A fictionalised account of a modern doctor who takes up hypnotism and hypnosis ...