Search Results: Titles starting with A from Fortuna Books

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950 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 small patch discoloured to the cloth and tiny bit to the gutter at the front endpaper. DW a little rubbed to extremities. 283pp. Biography by his brother of A . J. A. Symons and his various roles as a collector, dandy, calligrapher, biographer and bon vivant.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Left Book Club, 1938 red papered boards with black titling, clean copy but hows some sge toning to closed edges, the physical, social and political threats of mass airborne bombing, and how it may be guarded against, with examples from the Spanish Civil war, intended to forewarn the British of the threat from the Luftwaffe, 296pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Eden Fisher & Co Limited, 1901 (500 gram rate) leatherette cloth, stamp to fep and prelims dated 1915, xx 1400pp, Specially adapted for the use of financiers, merchants, shipowners etc.. Fifth Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Blackie, 1938 price clipped DW has some minor handling wear or rubbing, some heavy foxing to closed top edge and fore edge but otherwise tidy clean copy, 186pp. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Faber, 1970 tidy copy in black cloth, lacks DW, 349pp, light dust soiling or faint foxing. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1991 near fine in same dust jacket, 159pp includes section of 56 colour reproductions of his paintings , and many monotone reproductions of his sketches within the text . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Alan Pearson. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Christchurch: Hazard Press, 1991 (1500 gram rate so incurs a 50% extra shipping cost outside New Zealand) small nick to tail of DW spine, light bumping to bottom edge of boards, VG+ VG, name to fep seems to be Alan's own signature, tallies well with some of the examples in the book, 159pp includes section of 56 colour reproductions of his paintings , and many monotone reproductions of his sketches within the text, SIGNED BY THE SUBJECT AND ILLUSTATOR OF THE BOOK . Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Alan Pearson. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Melbourne: Victorian Arts Centre, 1997 includes 2 pages price list for works available to be purchased fromn the exhibition, biennial award for paper medium art, with artist biographies and images of works, 119pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1965 unclipped DW rubbed and slightly faded, fep clipped to top corner, first edition cloth, 159pp an account of the First World War Gallipoli campaign by a member of the 1st Canterbury Battalion who was there through most of it. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Gummerus, 2003 (500 gram rate) small pen price top corner of fep , 2 label ghosts to upper board otherwise tidy with lightly dust soiled boards, reprint of 1938 first reader for Finnish children with colour illustrations by Alho, 128pp Finnish language . reprint. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Asmo Alho. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Hodder, 1938 disasters at sea and shipwrecks. Covers the East Indiaman 'Antelope', HMS 'Alceste', 'Proserpine','St George', 'Defence' and 'Litchfield'. By Vice -Admiral Gordon Campbell. blue cloth with blue DW rubbed and with chipped spine ends and corners with some loss, Faint crease mark to front panel. some foxing and soiling to DW. BOOK has some foxing, and pencil name to free end paper. 318pp + plates and folding maps. Book is tight and VG excepting foxing. DW is G+ . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Collins, 1926 assumed first edition, undated but a presentation plate to fep is dated 1926, blue cloth with black and white and blue picture of two schoolgirls on a motorbike and sidecar to the cover, a girl riding a motorbike to the spine, well rubbed to joints, small split tail of upper joint, titling to spine a bit obscured by the rubbing, the face of one of the girls one the cover has lost some definition also, hinges loosening, rear hinge partially cracked, light foxxing to prelims, frontis partially detached, 9 other titles on the 'books by Miss Oxenham' list, closed edges dusty, 314pp + plates +6pp adverts at rear, collated two b&w plates + colour frontis, paper stock is rather thick, almost card like, scarce. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Elsie Wood. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Constable, 1974 (500 gram rate) price clipped dust jacket , light dust soiling to closed top edge otherwise near fine copy of first edition, 232pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Wellington: Reed, 1969 clean used copy, DW slightly handling soiled, a female journalist (the first) makes it to Antarctica, 201pp + plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Melbourne: Gold Star Publications, 1972 unclipped DW one small edge tear, gift inscription to fep, 143pp includes many full page colour photographs. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1899 minor rubbing to cloth, small split at head of spine, old ink inscription to fep 'Frederick W Gale Kaikoura 1900', light foxing to endpapers, tissue guarded frontis, ix 307pp + plates +32pp publishers adverts, illustrated in line throughout and on plates, places Dickens referred to in his writings. New and Enlarged. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Religious Tract Society red cloth with green, black and gilt decoration and titling, lightly rubbed to edges and joints, spine illustration rubbed, school prize plate to fep dated 1917, title and frontis plate on one collation of two leaves, two other plates, 255pp + 16pp adverts, light foxing mainly to closed edges. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Racine: Golden Press, 1978 VG, minor wear to spine ends and joint, and corners of boards, unmarked within. large quarto colour throughout , first reprint (BCDEFGHIJ) edition. . reprint. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Joe Kaufman. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: Harrap, 1941 (500 gram rate) third printing of first edition of 1941, orange - red cloth lightly rubbed, white titling to spine flecked from the publishers name at the tail, gift inscription dated 1943 to fep, war era paper stock, 243pp, tidy but a little tired, early MacInnes. reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Sydney: The St Alban Press (200 gram rate) blue paper wrappers over stapled sheets, rubbed spine with splits to ends, gilt titled, 56pp, one leaf minor loss to lower margin. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. Booklet.