Fortuna Books

Vulpes, an English Fox

CORY Harper · 1940

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Nelson reprint same year as first, the life of a family of foxes, nice woodcut engravings to the margins as well as some full page. part of the Animals All series, red cloth with black fox design to cover, small gift inscription to paste down, DW is price clipped, rubbed at s...

The Finding of the Third Eye a Guide to Attainment

ALDER Vera Stanley · 1963

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Rider August 1963 reprint would be VG but some marginal pen notations and underlining. DW price clipped and with some short edge tears. 187pp (500 gram rate) H reprint Good London Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Botanical survey of an experimental catchment, Taita, New Zealand

DRUCE A P · 1957

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

New Zealand department of scientific and industrial research / government printer survey of the central catchment at Taita Experimental Station in New Zealand's Hutt Valley. blue card wrappers rubbed to spine edges, 81pp + 5 folding maps in pocket at rear and a folding plate ...

Ghost Story

STRAUB Peter · 1979

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Cape near fine blue papered boards with pale gray endpapers, DW also near fine and unclipped, jacket design by Tom Adams, 507pp top edge dusted blue but faded, first UK printing and same edition as that supressed after legal action by the Ordo Templi Orientis, subsequent edit...

Voyage to the other land, a drama of utmost Timeliness

STEFFEN Albert translated Arvia MacKaye · 1939

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Verlag fur schone wissenschaften first English edition stated on DW flap, only date present to copyright information is 1939. blue cloth gilt titled spine and cover, fep has a stamp from a private Anthroposophical library. rear paste down has a card in an affixed pocket . DW...

Voyage to the other land, a drama of utmost Timeliness

STEFFEN Albert translated Arvia MacKaye · 1939

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

Verlag fur schone wissenschaften first English edition stated on DW flap, only date present to copyright information is 1939. blue cloth gilt titled spine and cover, some foxing spots to the cloth, fep has pen name and address as well as stamp from a private Anthroposophical...

Wanton Summer [ Hot Summer ]

HARRISON Timothy · 1960

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Beacon Beacon 154, pulp novel seems to be a UK publisher with this the Australian issue? undated but would guess early 1960s, five 'outsiders' "thrown together in a frank study of those who live as they wish and dont give a cuss what the world thinks" US title was "Hot Summe...

The Search for Bridey Murphy

BERNSTEIN Morey · 1956

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Hutchinson bookseller label foot of paste down, DW price clipped, label lift scar top right of DW edges rubbed with small splits, short tear top of upper DW panel, corners rubbed. Famous case of possible past life regression under hypnotism as evidence for reincarnation H Firs...

Forest Reflections, Village Life in the New Forest

PASMORE Hugh & HEINST Marie · 1995

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Forest Views VG in price clipped VG DW. map endpapers, (viii) 228pp illustrated in line and b&w and colour photographs. presentation copy signed by illustrator to the title page. memories from nearly a century by residents of the New Forest. H Signed by Illustrator First Edit...

The Runaway Robot

Del REY Lester · 1967

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Victor Gollancz First UK edition, red papered boards with small areas darkened at the edges where tape holding the DW was attached to the boards. shows as samll areas at the top and bottom edges of both boards, End papers are clean apart from library stamps. Very tidy ex-li...

Headliners; Eagles

SWENSON John · 1981

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Tempo Books (500 gram rate) rubbed and worn wrappers, remainder punched top corner, top corner of first page clipped, internally tidy, 177pp with photos, biography of the 1970s American band The Eagles, quite a scarce book S First Edition No Jacket New York Good 12mo - over 6?...

The Double

WALLACE Edgar

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Hodder undated, 37 previous titles listed, mustard cloth with black title and vignette of man in robe and slippers vaulting a balustrade, spine is slightly faded to the cloth, has the red circle with Edgar Wallace signature design, cloth lightly handling soiled, scattered foxi...

Jack O' Judgment (Judgement)

WALLACE Edgar · 1920

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Ward Lock assumed first, undated , 22 previous titles listed, green cloth with black titling and pannelling to upper board, black titling to spine, blind "For Sale Abroad" stamp to lower board, spine sunned to brownish, lightly soiled cloth, fore edge of first dozen pages ru...

The Last Raider

REEMAN Douglas · 1963

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Jarrolds small name and date to fep, minor marking to boards, light wear to spine ends, slight lean to spine, early title H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Tiger! Tiger!

SINGH Arjan · 1984

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Cape faintly sunned DW spine, map endpapers, 218pp + plates, the foremost Indian naturalist surveys the history of the tiger in India including the problem of Man-Eaters H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The White Doe of Rylstone or the Fate of the Nortons; and The Force of Prayer

WORDSWORTH William

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

J Shuttlewort (500 gram rate) with three engravings (unattributed) of Bolton Abbey, Barden Tower and The Strid, 95pp all edges gilt, blind embossed boards, gilt title to upper board, covers soiled and rubbed, sections loosening in the boards, small waterstain to paste down and...

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

CAMPBELL Thomas · 1840

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Moxon xii 343 pp, steel engraved portrait frontis, numerous woodcut vignettes within the pagination, 15pp adverts bound in at rear dated 1840, original endpapers, binders label at front paste down(ALEXD HILL | 50 Princes St | EDINB) front hinge starting, pencil to fep (Ex Li...

Plays in Prose and Verse Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend

YEATS W B · 1922

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)

MacMillan One of 1500 copies, ( Wade 136) 8vo, unicorn design on endpapers, original blind-stamped decorated green cloth, design by Charles Ricketts, ix, 447 pp + 1 p adverts, unicorn design on endpapers, spine sun faded and with small area torn at head of lower joint, faint b...

Beyond the Vicarage

STREATFEILD Noel · 1971

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Collins unclipped DW small waterspot to cover and foot of spine otherwise tidy with short split at head of lower fore edge fold, book very tidy 214pp, memoir by the author of her writing and war time activities in WVS H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? -...

Richie Benaud's Way of Cricket

BENAUD Richie · 1961

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hodder unclipped DW lightly surface soiled, lightly sunned spine, tiny splits at ends of joints, name to paste down, 247pp + plates, internally excellent copy, 1960s Australian cricketer H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall