Search Results: Titles starting with S from Fortuna Books

London: Cassell, 1974 gift inscription to fep otherwise excellent copy of the revised edition, sunned spine to the DW 146pp + plates. revised. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Compact SF, 1967 (200 gram rate) minor soiling to covers, includes the conclusion of The Ice Schooner by Moorcock. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Compact SF, 1966 (200 gram rate) minor soiling to covers, volume 1 number 6, includes Harry Harrison ' Make Room! Make Room!'. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Secker, 1953 name and date to fep otherwise VG, DW price clipped with light chipping at head, 272pp + plates, a shark hunting venture in Scottish Hebrides, going after them with harpoons and small boats. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1954 Heinemann 1954 reprint (third printing) hardback in good dust jacket with complete split down the joint between the rear panel and the spine and a split along bottom half of the front joint. minor chipping at the head and tail as well, inside the fep has owners name and booksellers stamp. Shute writes of his involvement in the airship R100 among other things, top edge a little dusty.. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1954 Heinemann 1954 (first impression and printing) VG red cloth hardback with minor rubbing to edges and slight spotting to spine, fep has owners inscription covered over with white correction fluid ( twink, tippex) and booksellers stamp. The dust jacket is from a SECOND IMPRESSION issue, and has been trimmed slightly to top edge so is a few mm shorter than the boards, and the fore edge of the front fold in flap has been trimmed a little, losing the publisher's price. Shute writes of his involvement in the airship R100 among other things, closed top edges a little foxed. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1954 Heinemann 1954 (first impression and printing) VG red cloth hardback, owner's name and address in ink to front and rear paste downs, booksellers stamp to bottom corner of fep with some ink offset to unclipped dust jacket flap, with some minor sunning or browning, Shute writes of his involvement in the airship R100 among other things, closed top edges a dust soiled, fore edge foxed. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Cape, 1978 clean unclipped dust jacket excellent copy, near fine, 350pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Helsinki: Oy Satusiivet Sagovingar Ab, 1989 (500 gram rate) childs name to title page otherwise tidy well looked after copy, full page colour illustrations, . reprint. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Paul Galdone. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: Souvenir Press, 1966 lacks dust jacket, some medium foxing to first 12 pages, otherwise tidy copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London & Bombay: George Bell, 1901 plain green cloth gilt titled spine, rubbed to edges and corners. browned endpapers. Bell's Indian and Colonial Library viii, 389 +16pp adverts at rear, page edges browned, interior quite good. "Shakings are the odds and ends of rope and canvas accumulated during the voyage, which used to be the perquisite of the Chief Mate." Essays and articles many from the Spectator, reprinted in book form, on sailing and the sailors life. Superstitions, big game at sea, battle. author famous for his classic "Cruise of the Cachalot". Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1968 original cellophane wrapper pasted down to endpapers, this is chipped and should probably be discarded, pen initials and date to fep, otherwise tidy clean copy, lv 99pp + xvi 224pp. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1954 DW cipped head and tail of spine with 15mm loss. corners small chip, small edge tears, book VG 199pp + plates. Describes the attempt to film the rites of the Toma of French West Africa in 1953. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Illinois: Theosophical Press, 1962 (200 gram rate) 29 pp stapled in paper wrappers, tidy, first reissue, . Second Edition. Printer Wrapper. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Booklet.

Carlisle: P. Jollie, 1803 volume one only, would be VG but spine is as good as missing, the boards are loose on the cords, the collations are all holding together well but will need rebinding, xv 412 + (20) pp index, + folding engraved frontis of the Temple accoutrements and folding map of Canaan and Egypt, closed edges marbled. Sixth. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Frogmore: Paladin, 1976 (500 gram rate) An account of a modern magicians attempt to perform the Abra Melin ceremonial magic working as performed most famously by Aleister Crowley, 99pp, remainder stripe to bottom closed edge . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1936 navy cloth, fep and half title clipped to top corner, price clipped dust jacket tidy but lightly handling soiled with a few short edge splits, includes SCARCE wrap around advertising band, this states as 'first cheap edition' but the book seems to be the original first edition with no mention of it being a cheap edition, 350pp + frontis, minor spotting / foxing mainly to closed edges or page margins, survey of sexuality in the past and present including Judaeo-Christian thought from St Paul and St Augustine onwards, sociological and psychological. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: A & C Black, 1953 price clipped dust jacket is sunned and browned to spine, minor foxing, name to fep, xix 267pp. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Collins, 1960 (500 gram rate) Crime club reprint of the 1933 original, possibly the second hardcover printing. spine a little faded, some foxing to the endpapers and fore edge, dustwrapper tidy under plastic sleeve. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Collins, 1951 (500 gram rate) Crime club reprint of the 1933 original, spine leans and rubbed at edges,text block detached from boards, this was bound by publisher without extra ednpapers and on cheap war- economy paper, sewn collations tightly bound, will just need regluing down to the intact cloth mesh or with reinforced endpapers, dust jacket is unclipped with light rubbing and a few short edge tears along the folds, early reissue. reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.