Authors starting with B from Fortuna Books

London: William Collins Sons and Company, 1872 (500 gram rate) blind embossed green cloth rubbed at spine ends and corners with fraying to tips and corners, hinges cracked front and rear but still holding, light foxing to margins, gilt title lozenge to spine, original chocolate end papers, all edges gilt, 326pp, tidy copy with some reading wear. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Cape, 1954 (500 gram rate) inscription to fep, DW under a plastic sleeve, a few minor spots of tape residue to endpapers, one small square of tape to DW flap, 222pp, South African military chaplain captured at Tobruk and interned, memoirs of P.O.W.. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Boardman, 1964 spine and spine side of boards lightly sunned otherwise a VG copy lacks DW. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Boardman, 1962 (500 grams) dustwrapper trimmed to horizonmtal edges and pasted down to boards with the fold in flaps pasted down to endpapers, price clipped, fep is full of issuing stamps etc, rear endpaper has light water mark, both end papers have tape rust, otherwise a tidy copy, 190pp American Bloodhound Mystery No 398. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. ... more information

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Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1923 H T B Drew editor Whitcombe & Tombs 1923, Tan cloth with decoration, very minor rubbing to parts of title on spine, a very attractive copy in tidy cloth, a faint old ink name to paste down 276pp with b&w photos extrememly nice copy!! vol iv of Official history of New Zealands effort in the great war series.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Rider, 1954 introduction by Margaret Murray, price clipped DW with minimal edge wear, short tear lower corner fold with mild association crease, 163pp + plates red cloth boards lightly spotted, Gardner's first non-ficiton and revelatory book on Wicca as claimed to be practised by his Traditional contacts in the New Forest area, this is the book that started the whole Wicca movement off.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Rider, 1956 Second Impression of first edition, introduction by Margaret Murray, price clipped DW with minimal chipping at spine ends, two short edge tears at head of lower panel, 163pp + plates light offset toning to fep, Gardner's first non-ficiton and revelatory book on Wicca as claimed to be practised by his Traditional contacts in the New Forest area, this is the book that started the whole Wicca movement off.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&... more information

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London: Arthur Barker, 1953 fourth impression, red cloth rubbed to joints and edges, corners starting to fray, tidy owner details to paste down, map endpapers, mild age browning to paper, Lt. Com. R. B. Goodwin O.B.E. R.N.Z.N.V.R. his escape from Hong Kong, China, India back to NZ, 223pp G+-VG copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Arthur Barker, 1953 red cloth rubbed to joints and edges, name to fep, map endpapers, mild age browning to paper, Lt. Com. R. B. Goodwin O.B.E. R.N.Z.N.V.R. his escape from Hong Kong, China, India back to NZ, 223pp G+-VG copy. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Nashville: Southern Publishing Association, 1933 (200 grams) stapled sheets with pictorial paper wrapper, wrapper rubbed to spine split at ends, small pen name to top corner, half title has 5 line inscription dated 1942 so may be a reprint from this date, copyright states 1933, small water mark top margin of first ten pages, and to a lesser extent to margins of some of the rear pages, 96pp illustrated Seventh Day Adventist. reprint. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾&qu... more information

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London: MacMillan, 1948 (1500 grams) green cloth with gilt medallion of dog's head, light rubbing to boards, some light watermarking near front of book causes page rippling and faint discolouration to some pages, else good copy, x 471pp + 8 colour litho plates by Stuart Tresilian including frontis, good overview of dog breeds and their history, includes chapter on Dogs in Art. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Stuart Tresilian. 8vo. ... more information

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London: Independent Press, 1957 unclipped DW wear to head of spine, one set of leaves (authors intro and contents misbound and loose otherwise Vg, ix 189pp An unfortunate combination of title and cover art insinuates an unintentional insult to the almighty! The illustration is a hand with the middle finger raised in the titular "One Finger" gesture! The valley of the bamboo knives [self-mutilation in Papua] / Lonely rice [witchcraft in Madagascar] / Bablu and the doctors [mental illness in Benga... more information

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New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1963 first edition hardcover, ex school library, stamps to paste down and first and final pages ( which are in place of feps), boards lightly rubbed to spine edges, 26pp mainly full page illustrations. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Gilbert Riswold. Landscape 16mo. Ex-Library. ... more information

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London: Methuen, 1967 DW minor tear bottom edge front panel (10mm), faint rubber stamp to fep, band of offset toning to feps, unclipped DW, 160pp, scientific essays on creativity in the sciences with reference to the authors studies of Teilhard De Chardin, Arthur Koestler, D'Arcy Thompson and Herbert Spencer , the author was a Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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London: Frederick Muller, 1960 ex-lending library copy, unclipped DW some edge wear, light chipping spine ends, remarkably tidy though, boards have some tape residue to the edges, stamps noted to fep, title page and final text page, short tear to bottom of fep, 160pp, part of the Sombrero Western Series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. ... more information

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London: Burns & Oates, 1956 complete edition three vols in one, large cloth bound , DW unclipped, minor rubbing or chipping to edges, fourth printing, new edition revised and enlarged, xviii 698 pp diagrams and illustrations, top edge red, includes; General Rubrics of the Missal, Rite of the celebration of Low Mass, Rite of High Mass and Sung Mass. may incur extra postage. Recommended by the Thelemic EGC for understanding of Aleister Crowley's Gnostic Mass as performed by the Ecclesia Gnostica ... more information

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London: Ward Lock, 1959 (200 gram rate) first thus paperback edition, sewn sheets, Target Books #82, bottom corner of last few pages minor tear, tidy used copy. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ... more information

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Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1905 review copy in pictorial wrappers, sewn sheets, spine and rear wrapper missing, front wrapper chipped to corners otherwise still tidy, 'FOR REVIEW WITH ANGUS & ROBERTSON'S COMPLIMENTS' stamped at head of title page, edited by banjo Paterson, 135pp + 35pp adverts dated November 1905, would benefit from a rebind, or could be kept as an example of the wrappered review copy, pages are quite tidy. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6&fra... more information

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Little Compton: Fort Church Publishers, 1993 (500 grams) perfect bound soft cover, 48pp illustrated throughout in colour photography of the museum collection as well as the surrounding countryside, . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1946 VG copy shows some age toning etc, coloured plate on front cover minor loss to margin from insect damage, name and address inside front cover, 106pp +26plates, sewn bound in card wraps. second revised and enlarged edition. second revised edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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