Search Results: Authors starting with G from Fortuna Books

Paris: Charles Hingray, 1857 redige sur les travaux de feu G. Biagioli Auteur des Commentaires historiques et litteraires sur Dante, Petrarque etc etc D'Apres le nouvelle edition du dictionnaire de l'Academie Francais et de celle du Dictionnaire de la Langue Italienne publie a Bologne de 1819a 1826 PLUS complet Qu'aucun autre dictionnaire abrege Par A Ronna, DIXIEME EDITION, blind embossed decorative cloth boards, spine titling faded away, rubbed corners, publisher's advert pasted to front paste down, fep removed, lvi pp (verbs etc) + 540pp dictionary, closed edges lightly dust soiled, very clean throughout, a vintage dual language dictionary. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: George Newnes (500 gram rate) small format green cloth faded to lighter colour, titled and with a 'boarding school bunny' on cover. DW has tears along folds and chipping to corners as well as some surface crease lines, generally still attractive. cover has a line of bunnies in red and white school blazers marching before a bunny Professor in mortar board and cape. approx 40pp unpaginated. each page of text and black and white image followed by full page colour illustration. Internally VG but odd bit of page soiling.. assumed first. Original Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by G E Breary. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Cassell, 1913 red cloth with black titling and decorated vignette to upper board. spine cloth split 80% along from the bottom at front joint. front hinge opening and weak, covers soiled, inscription on end paper in pencil and pen cheap paper is browning 'By the same author' box reads "Whats Wrong with the world " only. (viii) 335pp early ( cheap) edition in poor condition.. Cloth. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Sheed and Ward, 1926 (500 gram rate) price clipped DW has som browning to spine, edges are rubbed with small tears or chips, pink papered boards, cream cloth spine with red lettering, 50pp, minor foxing to closed edges, poetry. First Edition. Quarter cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Cecil Palmer, 1927 cloth rubbed to joints, foxing mainly to closed edges and prelims, ink date and rubber name stamp to fep, scattered foxing throughout, some slipped in newspaper cuttings refer to Chesterton (obituary etc) 364pp. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Nelson, 1912 backstrip darkened, light rubbing spine ends, old ink inscription to pictorial fep, hinge loose at contents page showing binding, 383pp + col frontis first edition, blind dec cloth. First Edition. Decorative Boards. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Sheed and Ward, 1950 (500 gram rate) price clipped dust jacket has splits to ends of jopints, light soiling, book fore edges rubbed, internally clean, 279pp, diverse essays but the Catholic intellectual. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Cassell, 1923 red cloth, gilt border and St Peters London design in gilt medallion, Cassell archer in gilt to spinr, light rubbing to edges and minimal surface soiling, rubber stamp to paste down B.PURVIS-RUSSELL-MONTGOMERY , occasional top coirner dog eared, pages generally clean, first popular edition september 1923, 304pp VG-. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Cassell, 1960 price clipped dust jacket tidy with tears top spine but little loss, book cover upper board has a gilt embossed coat of arms, minor foxing to closed edges, 718pp, selection of 49 Father Brown stories, tidy copy with pictorial dust jacket. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Cassell, 1960 unclipped DW tidy with minor soiling to rear white panel, and some short edge tears or splits at joint ends, cloth a little rubbed to edges, paper scar from erased inscription to fep, minor foxing to closed edges, 718pp, selection of 49 Father Brown stories, tidy copy with pictorial dust jacket. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Sheed and Ward, 1946 (500 gram rate) name to fep, boards sunned, tidy copy of the new issue, 248pp, essays on various topics. reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Cassell, 1976 price clipped DW otherwise both VG+, 207pp + plates, various road ways and track ways in the Cotswolds, from prehistoric routes to modern ones, routes described with historical information on the places etc. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: L Upcott Gill & Son, 1890 'containing particulars of the most suitable sailing boats and yachts for amateurs, and instructions for their proper handling &c', illustrated with designs and plans of small yachts and sailing boats, and numerous diagrams, nd, 18pp adverts at rear dated 1890, maroon cloth with black white and gilt dec cover and spine, spine lightly sunned, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, front hinge cracked, pencil inscription [Ian White Sumner 1935], minimal foxing to prelims and closed edges, vii 198pp + folding diagrams and plans, frontis photo of The Swan a four ton yacht for single handling, tissue guard intact. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Unwin, 1920 (500 gram rate) sunned papered boards, spine label flaked at edges, pencil to fep, 56pp, a few minor spots of foxing, script relates to a mixed Catholic / Protestant marriage. Second Edition. Quarter cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Routledge, 1952 second impression of first edition, navy cloth with light rubbing to edges, titling dulled, binding loosened and spine has curled as is a rather thick book, 'All and Everything, Ten Books in Three Series, of which this is the First Series" Books 1-3, ix 1238pp thin paper stock, metaphorical allegorical writings intended to alter the readers consciousness and perspectives, no real faults but a little 'tired'. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1971 (500 gram rate) price clipped DW otherwise excellent under plastic sleeve which is affixed along the top and bottom edge (to the reverse), 58pp illustrated throughout in line by Ambrus . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Victor G Ambrus. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Dublin: National Museum of Ireland , 1959 (200 gram rate) folded sheets sewn in paper wrapper, small amount of water damage and loss to top corner of frontis page facing title, no loss to the image, light handling wear to wrappers, 60pp. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Travel Book Club, 1967 (500 gram rate) Travel Book Club edition after Robert Hale. This has no illustrations. 188pp A colonial policeman in Ceylon retires to a bungalow in the jungle and here recounts his memories. of locals, human and otherwise. There is an emphasis on elephants. minimal edgewear to DW otherwise VG copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Blackie red cloth with decoration of Siberian in cold weather clothing to cover and spine, fep trimmed top corner, faint hints of foxing mainly to closed edges, DW unclipped priced at 3/6 net, reprint in the New Popular Edition, scarce DW near complete, surface rubbed and dust soiled, small edge tears, chip from tail of spine, 352pp + colour frontis and b&w plates by Walter Paget?. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Walter Paget. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Partridge undated assumed first edition, chocolate brown cloth with decorative titling and figures of a nurse and soldier in colour, rubbed and worn to edges and joints, some surface rubbing to the illustration colours, starting to fray to head of spine, All Edges Gilt, hinges weak and opened, will need either regluing to stiffen it up or resewing, endpapers age browned or foxed, six illustrations in black and white, 292pp, facing first text page is adverts for 'Books for the boys', if resewn would probably be graded at VG, some minor fingermarking to pages otherwise internally tidy, scarce Henty title. First Edition. Decorative Boards. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.