Search Results: Authors starting with D from Fortuna Books

London: Howard Baker , 1967 pale blue papered boards, small size pages age browned, DW complete but rubbed to corners and spine folds, some fading to the red title on the spine. Howard Baker Library Edition. contains Murderer at Large by W A Ballinger, This Man Blake, a short history of Sexton Blake and Let My People Be by Desmond Reid, 96pp, small surface scuff to end paper where price erased. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Neville Spearman, 1958 SIGNED by Ann Ockenden to fep [Ann R Ockenden], VG tidy copy with unclipped DW with faint small patch of red offset from the original advertising band which is present and bears the text 'HER PAST SEVEN LIVES, actual proof of Re-incarnation by an ordinary English girl recorded under Hypnosis', 200pp rare title on recorded past life experience. association copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Neville Spearman, 1958 tidy copy but with some bumping to the boards with small split at tail of upper joint, lacks dust wrapper but a scan may be available at cost if we still have a copy on hand to take it from, actual proof of Re-incarnation by an ordinary English girl recorded under Hypnosis', front fep has stamp of the Bertha Klausner Literary Agency, some minor tape rust to endpapers, 200pp rare title on recorded past life experience. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Perth: Archdiocese of Perth, 1979 unmarked, 278pp. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1937 (500 grams) SCARCE DUSTWRAPPER unclipped but has splits to edges and corners, and some tearing and chipping to the spine, scans available, closed page edges lightly foxed, other wise tidy copy of early historical novel about Mary Queen of Scots, tidy ink name to blank fly before half title. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

San Bernardino: Borgo Press, 1978 first trade edition after limited hardback edn of fifty copies. 192pp perfect bound in card wraps, illustrated VG copy with reading wear to edges and spine. 10pp afterword comments on the work (500 gram rate). First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by R Reginald. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Collins, 1961 ending library copy, DW under plastic sleeve unclipped and tidy, tape rust to book endpapers, fep has stamps and issuing slip residue, endpapers have some pen marks and foxing, book has moderate foxing or soiling throughout, and a few small stamps, making it a suitable reading copy only, the DW would look nice on a better copy, 256pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library.

London: Travel Book Club, 1967 first thus in Travel Book Club edition, translated from the Spanish by Eric Randall, unclipped DW rubbed to spine ends, book clean, 191pp, travel in the region of the Xavantes, Aldea-Madre and Otras tribes of the Matto Grosso and River das Mortes (500 gram rate). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Headline, 1991 unclipped DW edges rubbed slightly otherwise VG. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Headline, 1993 unclipped dustwrapper has light handling creasing at top edge and spine, 216pp, tidy copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Auckland: MacMillan, 1981 (1500 gram rate) 119pp + 86 colour plates and 42 b&w photos as well as 11 diagrams.VG tidy book and DW with owner details to front paste down. A record of restoration/ curatorial work on the Antarctic Expedition huts of Scott and Shackleton. Many photos of the remains of these historic buildings and their contents. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: Witherby Ltd, 1952 very tidy brown paper (or cloth?) boards with gilt spine titling, top edge dusted plum, xxiii 424pp + plates, ' about 1,000 birds and over 200 eggs illustrated in colour', unclipped tan paper DW lightly rubbed to corners and spine ends, backstrip a bit darkened, small area of label lift hard to spot it, pasted on colour plates to front panel and backstrip, species arranged in Westmore order of classification, designed for the beginner or expert bird-watcher. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Secker, 1931 original blind bordered cloth, rubbed to joints, frayed at head of spine, light surface soiling, some foxing to prelims and closed edges, ex library stamps of R A F Hunsdon Station Institute to the paste down and fep as well as pp17. rear fep has a list of rubber stamped dates starting July 29 1942 and ending 12 Jan 1945. obviously in the reading room of a fighter interceptor squadron. the pages are sometimes a little grubby but not stained or torn. "RAF Hunsdon ... Work was started on the 9th of October 1940 and the airfield officially opened on the 4th of May 1941... was used as a satellite landing field for nearby North Weald and became a significant airfield for the fledgling Night fighter force of the Royal Air Force. RAF Hunsdon was home to 85 Squadron and its charismatic Leader Group Captain Peter Townsend,... 85 squadron flew Hawker Hurricanes in the early part of 1941 as a night fighter squadron, after a successful and fruitful campaign during the Battle Of… Read More

London: Badger Books John Spencer & Co A novel of one of the greatest and hardest-fought battles of the war in Europe. Badger Books war series WW143 in near mint condition, no date assume early 1960s. cover has German oficer above British infantry on footbridge. the XXX British Corps in action in the Reichwald A NEAR FINE COPY. (200 gram rate) . First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1969 (500 gram rate) pictorial stiff card wrappers, sewn folded sheets, light rubbing to edges, 127pp VG tidy copy , b&w photographs of the shells with genus and short description, 287 different ones mentioned . reprint. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Hodder, 1938 light wear to cloth extremities, unclipped DW has some large chipa at spine ends, a short tear along from top left corner into the front, still a nice copy on glassine paper by Bip Pares who also did the end paper maps, historical fiction set in the Scottish Highland in 1745-53, 477pp. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Bip Pares. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Wellington: Reed, 1970 Hardback in slip case, signed de luxe edition. number 342 of limited edition of 500 copies,Signed by the artist, Magnificent production as new, sharp and crisp. blue leatherette boards and end papers of Lambton Harbour, John Gibb oil of 1885, Near Fine. Dust jacket, illustration of Harbour and tall ship Pamir, near fine , all this protected in plastic wrapper and blue cloth slip case, top edge in gilt,120 pp. over 130 drawings and 12 tipped in colour plates. very minimal wear to slipcase. Artist impressions of Wellington Harbout , New Zealand. LARGE HEAVY BOOK WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAL CHARGE. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by D R Neilson. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. limited Edition.

London: Frederick Muller, 1960 (500 gram rate) 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 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library.

London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans, 1975 222pp colour and black & white plates, diagrams and maps. Guide to the Mosi-oa-Tunya national park and surrounds, flora , fauna and geography as well as the history of the area including British colonial exploration etc. VG copy, DW spine sunned and minimal edge wear, small nick to lower fold lamination and the head of the spine has the lamination peeling somewhat.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 1980 near fine in same DW. Seven essays on the New Zealand provinces in the early days. Titles; Jim Gardner a tribute / Auckland's political opposition in the crown colony period / Slavaging the Canterbury plan; Henry Sewell and the founding of Canterbury / Samuel Butler; exploration and imagination / 'The beauty and fashion of the province'; women of the landed gentry of Canterbury 1880-1910 / Gold Rushes of the Pacific borderlands;a comparative survey by Philip Ross May / Class, community and conflict; the Blackball miners union 1920-31. 149pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.