Search Results: Authors starting with W from Fortuna Books

London: Williams & Norgate, 1911 (500 gram rate) small book, both hinges are cracked and loosening, pencil inscr to fep, free end papers browned, new revised edition, 255 + 8pp adverts. a volume in the Home University Library of Knowledge. Author Fellow of Royal Society, contents include, SPR / thought reading / thought transference / mesmerism, hypnotism, suggestion / telepathy / visual hallucinations (of the dead) / dreams and crystal visions / supernormal perception / divining with dowsing rod / hauntings / physical phenomenon of spiritualism / automatic writing / survival after death. . New edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

Sydney: Horwitz, 1963 (200 gram rate) Horwitz No 16 paperback first edition, some rubbing wear to spine edges, 130pp, many more similar titles in stock, ask for details. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1902 sunned spine with head of spine pulled and showing tape residue, booklabel to paste down, one leaf partially detached, xxvi 435pp + folding maps, some pencil notation, extensive overview of the economics and geo-politics of South Africa at the turn of the Twentieth Century. second revised edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: A & C Black, 1921 geography, history, culture and folklore of the area as well as architecture and archaeology, illustrated with watercolours, quarter green leather over cloth boards, top 70mm along head of lower joint is split, some flaking and perishing to leather at spine ends, rebound? front hinge open after fep, rear hinge open before last text page, x 275pp + plates with titled tissue guards, folding map at rear, . First Edition. Quarter-leather. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A Heaton Cooper. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Methuen, 1905 cloth lightly rubbed to edges, joints and spine ends, two names to fep, clean copy with minor spotted foxing to closed edges, xviii 420pp + 31pp adverts. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915 ex private library stamp and number to fep only, free endpapers offset browned, spine edges rubbed, the fifth edition, xxvi, 724pp +plates and folding maps etc. heavy book may incur higher shipping. . reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: MacMillan, 1973 soft card cover, tidy unmarked, xi 240pp Fundamentals of Botany series, covers Fungi, Algae, Euglenoids, Bryophytes, Ferns and Fern Allies, Second Edition. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1902 undated but 1902 (Bagnalls D649), green linen cloth over boards over stapled sheets, black printed title etc to cover includes original publishers price of 1/6, joints partially split and frayed, corners rubbed through at tips, hinges cracked, some light finger marking throughout and one or two very small instances of a small line of pen etc, probably occured accidentally during class use rather than someone writng in the book. 188 +4 pp adverts, frontis and illustrations in monotone or engraved cuts. The natural history of New Zealand for school students, includs sections on the Moa, variopus bird and plant species, the Maori myth, legends and history pre -European. Quite a few illustrations throughout.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by anon. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Stanley Paul light foxing to prelims and closed edges, 224pp + plates, DW unclipped, minor chipping head and tail of spine. reminiscences of a Middlesex and England representative cricketer in the 1940s seasons.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1951 free end paper has three line name and address in biro, green cloth with lmild wear/ discolouration, gilt titled spine and decorative upper board including dorge and swastika, l [50] + 249pp, tidy clean copy, second impression of the second edition of seminal work, scarce. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Newnes, 1968 Fourth Edition, 492 pp heavy willincur extra shipping, DW minor wear to edges etc. Vert clean internally covers many asects of maritime engineering with plenty of diagrams. engine and boiler room arrangement / pipes and valves / pumping / corrosion / compressors, condensers, evaporaters, distillers, de-aerators and purifiers / steering-gear / propellers / refrigeration / heating / ventilation / auxillary deisel engines / deck machinery / cranes / safety equipment / stabilizers / automated and centralized control. Name and date to front paste down.. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Hodder, 1915 slightly soiled cloth, small bookseller stamp to fep, light ageing , rare account of the French forces in the first years of the war, one of The Daily Telegraph War Books, 187pp + 6pp adverts. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Morgan & Scott red cloth dec with gilt and black titling, joints split corners rubbed and frayed, light stain lower board, hinges reinforced with brown paper, inscription to verso of frontis dated 1924, frontis and tissue gaurd foxed, small name to title, vi 250pp illustrated with line, author's memoirs of his clerical and secular life from 1841 to 1861. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Hodder assumed first, undated, tan cloth with black and blue title and illustration of man being 'frightened' by a sailor, light rubbing wear to the boards, offset toning to feps, pencil name to front fep, minor handling soiling or light foxing to closed edges, 305pp + plates. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by anon. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Hodder, 1952 (500 gram rate) gift inscription to paste down in ink, slight offset toning to fep, boards VG, black and white line drawings only, light foxing to closed edges. lacks dust jacket . First Edition. Decorative Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Leslie Stead. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Brockhampton Press, 1964 lacks dust jacket, light soiling to boards in places, heel of spine bumped, closed edges minor soiling, col frontis, 4 line pen inscription to fep, internally clean. scarce title. (500 gram rate) . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Leslie Stead. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Hodder, 1965 excellent copy, minor dust soiling and some tape rust offsetting to free end papers, dust jacket not price-clipped and with 10s 6d net price, tidy jacket, number 73 in the series with this number on jacket spine (500 gram rate) . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1958 VG, small pen name top corner of paste down, light foxing spotting to closed edges, dust jacket price clipped, rubbed to edges, minor surface soiling, and tiny chipping or rubbing to spine ends. short edge tear bottom rear panel.. First Edition. Decorative Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Leslie Stead. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Surrey: Girls Own Paper, 1943 8 issues each with a part of a Worrals serial by WE Johns, the magazine may be missing a coupon clipped at time of publication but the pages bearing the Worrals tales are complete. stapled sheets rubbed heavily along the spines, Issues for May, Jun, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov 1943 and Nov 1945 and Jun 1946. sold as a lot. First Edition. Printer Wrapper. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Mays. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1958 (500 gram rate) Brock Books #50, issued with pictorial laminated boards and none of the Stead illustrations ( even though title states he illustrates it), spine lamination is cracking, spine ends rubbed with short splits at ends of the joints, closed fore edge has rubber name stamp, dyed closed top edge faded, 192pp. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Leslie Stead. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.