Fortuna Books

The Pennor Mine Mystery

NICHOLS Wallace · 1959

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.46 | ¥27,936)

Dobson (500 gram rate) DW unclipped, rubbed to joints, splits at end of spine joints, rubbed corners, light chipping spine ends, light foxing to DW, foxing to book closed edges, pen inscription to fep, 191pp illustrated in line by Audrey Fawley H First Edition Good London Very...

The Book of the Law Liber al Vel Legis Sub Figura CCXX

CROWLEY Aleister · 2003

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Ordo Templi Orientis No publisher or date printed with booklet but this was a fund raising printing venture by the Kantharos Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis of New Zealand, printed around 2003 ev. red card wrappers with the title as given in white and a hawks wing and sun di...

The Mission

HABE Hans Translated By Michael Bullock · 1966

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Harrap price clipped dust jacket light edge wear, board edges lightly bumped, 316pp, novel with anti-semitism and the holocaust themes, and the Evian-les Baines conference H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

A Guest and His Going

NEWBY P. H. · 1959

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Jonathan Cape & Book Society unclipped dust jacket rubbed to corners and fore edges, small scuff at heel, book clean, 256pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Atlan

GASKELL Jane · 1965

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Hodder ex-library, dust jacket unclipped and very tidy but minor loss to very extreme edges of fold in flaps ( no text loss), book lacks fep, has some stamps and handling soiling, 286pp, first title in the Atlan Atlantis themed series H First Edition Very Good London Good Denv...

Journey Without Return

MAUFRAIS Raymond · 1953

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

William Kimber unclipped DW rubbed to edges with some short splits and edge tears, cloth rubbed to edges, book clean, author disappered in the jungles of Guiana, here his diaries as found at his camp site are translated into English, 206pp + plates H First Edition Good London ...

Lady Filmy Fern, Or, The Voyage of the Window Box

HENNELL Thomas · 1980

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Hamilton light handling soiling to glazed pictorial boards, bumped head of spine, small area lifting from top edge of upper board, clean copy, approx 40pp unpaginated, full page colour illustrations facing each page of text, a spider chases it's prey around the world H First E...

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Advanced Reading Copy)

HIJUELOS Oscar · 1989

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

Farrar Straus Giroux pictorial soft cover, trade paperback, Advanced Reading Copy from Uncorrected Proofs, rubber name stamp to first page, 405pp, shows light handling wear, advance release of what would later win the Pulitzer Prize S First Edition No Jacket New York Very Good...

Rewi Alley of China

CHAPPLE Geoff · 1980

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Hodder 230pp + plates, clean copy with light handling wear, dust jacket lightly sunned to spine, a biography of the indefatigable relief worker in China H First Edition Very Good Auckland Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Innocent Blood

JAMES P D · 1980

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Scribners light handling and rubbing to dust jacket whic is not price clipped, may be some light sunning, top closed edges dusty otherwise clean first US edition, 311pp, quarter cloth boards H First Edition Very Good New York Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Clocks of Columbus, the Literary Career of James Thurber

HOLMES Charles S. · 1973

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Secker clipped dust jacket some minor wear and rubbing with some lifting loss from backstrip, name to fep, xiv 360pp + plates, biography and survey of Thurber, this large book may incur extra postage charge outside New Zealand H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - ...

Pombo, a man of Che's guerrilla, with Che Guevara in Bolivia 1966-68

VILLEGAS Harry · 1987

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Pathfinder first edition in soft cover format, light crease to cover, 365pp + plates + adverts at rear. Pombo is the authors nom de guerre, he fought with Guevara and was a member of his general staff. S First Edition No Jacket New York Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Forest People

TURNBULL Colin M · 1963

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Reprint Society DW few short tears spine ends. 239pp + plates H First Thus Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Letters and Sketches from the New Hebrides

PATON Maggie Whitecross · 1894

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Hodder olive cloth with gilt vignette to cover. cloth rubbed through at corners , tail and head of spine worn. edges of frontis and the tissue guard are foxed. some minor foxing and soiling throughout the text. xii, 382, ii + frontis .plates in the text.Edges untrimmed, the...

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

DUKAS P & Makoto Oishi Translated By Ann Brannen · 1976

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Warne unclipped DW minor chipping to spine ends, a few short edge tears, stated first English translation and edition with revised text, approx 30pp all full colour full page illustrations with text printed over, the famous musical story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice and the tr...

Too Hot to Handle (Jayne Mansfield)

STEWART Patrick · 1961

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Horwitz the first Australian issue of the rare movie tie-in paperback ( UK edition by Four Square), has handling soiling to the wrapper, light vertical crease down the middle of both wrappers, book exchange stamps at head of first page and head of chapter one, 130pp with B&W...

Too Hot to Handle (Jayne Mansfield)

STEWART Patrick · 1961

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Horwitz the first Australian issue of the rare movie tie-in paperback ( UK edition by Four Square), very tidy just a little handling soiling to the wrapper, 130pp with B&W photos to the inside covers as well as cover art and 8pp of plates, the book of the movie about strip-tea...

The Ripper File

JONES Elwyn & LLOYD John · 1975

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Arthur Barker ex library with usual markings, DW has shelf mark to spine, short closed tear top corner, , 204pp, some pencil in text, based on BBC television series featuring Detectives Charles Barlow and John Watt who use modern policing techniques and contemporary evidence t...

The Soft Centre

CHASE James Hadley · 1964

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Robert Hale price clipped tidy dust jacket, the fep has small amount of paper left from a removed issue slip, and there are a few minor small faint ink spots along the spine edge where date stamps on the issuing slip were just over the edge, apart from this no indication of a...

I Would Rather Stay Poor

CHASE James Hadley · 1962

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Robert Hale unclipped tidy dust jacket, the fep has small amount of paper left from a removed issue slip, and there are a few minor small faint ink spots along the spine edge where date stamps on the issuing slip were just over the edge, apart from this no indication of any li...