Fortuna Books

Murder of the innocents, child-killers and their victims

WILSON Paul R · 1985

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Rigby card covered light crease to front. xi, 214 + plates. Includes Australian content as well as Moors Murders, Peter Kurten, Nilsen, Albert Fish S First Edition No Jacket Adelaide Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

You should've been here on Thursday

WEBBER E C · 1961

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Reed soiled jacket with spine sunned and faded, name to fep, 143pp illustrated throughout. Humour based around fly fishing by New Zealand author and cartoonist. H First Edition Good Wellington Very Good Nevile Lodge 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

To Save a Forest Whirinaki

MORTON John OGDEN John HUGHES Tony · 1984

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

David Bateman spiral bound with some damage to the plastic spiral, easily repaired, slight sunning to the left inch margin of the wrappers. 111pp including maps and stunning full colour full page photos. A plea to save native forest from logging, espouses its scientific and...

Ashburton New Zealand its pioneers and its history 1853-1939

BROWN John · 1940

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Reed red cloth black titled, 766pp+2pp adverts, book is VG excepting a small amount of watermarking to the bottom corner in the margin only of pp260-640 very minimal, also pp335 has an obituary pasted to the lower margin not affecting any text, the odd bit of soiling in the b...

The Darker Traffic

BRETT Martin · 1954

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Max Reinhardt DW spine lacks top section above the title so the authors name is missing, chipped to tail, top edge some edge chips, corners chipped and split along folds, the cover panel is intact and tidy, unclipped, Book VG lightly bumped corners to boards. Authors secon...

The Emerald Whaler

LAUBENSTEIN William J · 1875

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Readers Book Club book club edition, Good edgeworn DW. 239pp + plates. book very tidy. whaling fenian society suppression penal australia emerald whaler catalpa freemantle captain george smith anthony, In 1875, a group of Irish Fenians sailed a whaler to Fremantle in an attem...

The Emerald Whaler

LAUBENSTEIN William J · 1875

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Readers Book Club book club edition, VG but edgeworn DW. 239pp + plates. book and wrapper very tidy. whaling fenian society suppression penal australia emerald whaler catalpa freemantle captain george smith anthony, In 1875, a group of Irish Fenians sailed a whaler to Fremantl...

Dead Men Running

NILAND D'Arcy · 1969

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hodder VG in VG unclipped DW with short splits at head of spine and tiny chips, corners lightly rubbed, book is unmarked H First Edition Very Good Sydney Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

A Study in Consciousness

BESANT Annie · 1915

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Theosophical Publishing House blue cloth a little surface rubbed, decorative dark blue design and gilt titled. Corners a little bumped, Gestetnered mantra pasted to paste down, top quarter of fep trimmed, printed without half title, a little scattered foxing to title page. ix ...

The Four Graces

STEVENSON D E · 1958

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Collins first reprint after 1946 war printing. name to fep as well as a little tape oxide stain. closed edges lightly foxed. DW complete, some wear to edges, short splits spine ends and corners, rear white panel soiled, short edge tears. one page faint stain noted. nice wra...

Sarah's Cottage

STEVENSON D E · 1968

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Collins unclipped dust jacket with edge wear and small tear at base of upper spine fold, book clean H First Edition Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

The universe makers, science fiction Today

WOLLHEIM Donald A · 1971

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Victor Gollancz excellent copy , DW unclipped, small patch of scuffing to lower part of the spine fold. Essays on science fiction themes and writers. Includes an index. some scattered foxing to the closed edges. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Prisoner of Fire

COOPER Edmund · 1976

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Walker first US printing of this British author. DW unclipped, with minimal egdewear and rubbing at spine ends. 191pp H First Edition Very Good New York Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

All Fools' Day

COOPER Edmund · 1966

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Hodder bookseller stamp at foot of fep otherwise VG tidy copy. DW price clipped and with hardly any wear at all to the deep purple. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Ipomoea

RACKHAM John · 1972

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Dobson DW price clipped, very small amount of soiling to the laminated cover, an excellent copy. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Riches, information which will enable every person to realize in fullness the greatest desire and fondest hopes of humankind.

RUTHERFORD J F · 1936

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Watchtower Bible & Tract Society red cloth slightly sunned to spine, gilt titled and with raised blind decoration to upper board. 379pp + 5pp adverts + 2pp colour plate in adverts. Also colour plate frontis. H reprint No Jacket Brooklyn Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Memory Training a practical course

WOOD Ernest · 1924

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Theosophical Publishing House buff wrappers glued over sewn sections. [4] 86pp some splitting to spine ends, Theosophical Lodge stamp to half title and minimal remains of a paper label. Techniques of memory training from noted Theosophist. reduced shipping available email fo...

Hints for harmony of body and soul

ROBERTS Ursula

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Ursula Roberts stapled into printed card cover with a printed DW over this. [2] 36pp DW flaps were taped down to the inside covers, the tape has dried out and gone but leaft tape stains along edge of DW and the inside cover, whited out writing top left of title page, very m...

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

LONDON Jack · 1915

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Mills and Boon blue green cloth upper board blind border, spine gilt, lower board minor soiling, lower joint split, lower hinge cracked and loose, 396pp + 4pp adverts for Mills & Boon's Spring Novels 1915, lacks rear fep. minor foxing to prelims etc, closed edges foxed. corner...

Twenty-five thousand sunsets an autobiography (Uncorrected proof copy)

WILCOX Herbert · 1967

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Bodley Head uncorrected proof copy in origianl yellow wraps with title etc and Bodley Head stag and tree motif, titled spine, xiii, 222pp + plates. half title has two marks on it where a lady (?) has placed the foredge between her lips to blot her lipstick! maybe a film sta...