Search Results: Authors starting with K from Fortuna Books

London: Boardman, 1961 (500 gram rate) DW price clipped otherwise tidy with light edge rubbing and short splits to tail ends as well as one at top of front panel, light chipping head of spine, apart from old pen price to fep quite tidy, American Bloodhound Mystery 354, cover by D McLoughlin. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1954 unclipped DW, light handling wear, map endpapers, clean copy, xvi 224pp+ plates. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Heinemann, 1960 (500 gram rate) first thus English translation, unclipped dust jacket, book and wrapper tidy, small pencil inscription to fep, small bookseller stamp at foot of fep, 95pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Auckland: Viking, 1989 dust jacket under plastic sleeve, minor tape residue to paste down and boards where old now removed tape was affixed, marker name to top corner fep, otherwise tidy copy, 119pp full page and colour illustrations by Foreman to accompany Kiri's retellings of Maori myths. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Michael Foreman. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Praha: Orbis, 1950 ( 2kg rate so double standard cost) cloth spine with papered boards bearing the Seal of the City of Prague, some minor age soiling and light bumping to edges of boards, book is tidy, unclipped dust jacket has edge wear with some short edge tears or small chips, 208 full page sepia toned photographic images of Prague architecture by Karel Plicka, includes introduction in Czech, Russian, French, and English, as well as the captions and index . First Edition. Quarter cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Karel Plicka. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1906 sixteenth revised edition, small red limp cloth gilt titled cover, faded marbling to edges, surface rubbing to spine, cover has faint four line inscription of former owner dated 1906, two marker ribbons, former owner inscription to blank fep, 52 maps and 29 plans includes many folding and coloured xxxiv + 461pp. still a very nice tight and clean copy. indispensible for research purposes.. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910 fifteenth revised and augmented edition, small red limp cloth gilt titled cover, faded marbling to edges, surface rubbing to spine, two marker ribbons, former owner inscription to half title, 19 maps and 45 plans includes many folding and coloured lxxxii+ 489pp. short splits at spine head, small waterstain at top edge first 50 odd pages,smalltear to front folding map, shows minor usage /age wear. Indispensible for research purposes.. reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Hodder, 1939 (500 gram rate) handling soiled paper wrappers, top half of fly torn off, otherwise tidy, December 1939 third printing, 87pp sewn into wrappers 'The church ceases to be the church if it shirks the political problems of totalitarianism'. reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: S.C.M. Press, 1964 (500 gram rate) near fine, fep clipped top corner, minor sunning to DW, 126pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Elek, 1954 proof copy in saffron yellow wraps and a dustwrapper. translated by E Brocket and A Ehrenzweig introduction by John Hunt. inscription to half title. 248pp on light weight bible paper. the plates are all in monochrome including ones labelled COLOUR PLATE which were printed in colour in the bound versions. Small tear to the spine fold at ends of the dustwrapper.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Galley/Proof.

Bamberg: Karl May Bucherei, 1949 Karl May's Gesammelte Werke Band 38, olive cloth with full cover illustration in colour, gilt titled spine, very tidy copy, two small edge splits where edge has been bumped, no inscripitons, reissue, 543pp. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

Cincinnati, 1946 tidy used copy, light bumping to corners, faint foxing to endpapers, book issued gratis to the members of the 355th AAA Searchlight Battalion who served during the Second World War, traces the history and development of the Battalion and its service in North Africa and Italy, xii 276pp illustrated with photographs throughout, includes roster of Officers and Enlisted men. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

Christchurch: Carlton, 1954 orange cloth lightly rubbed, prelims 320pp + plates, New Zealand Harness racing. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Cassell, 1926 very small stationers stamp to fep tail, 187pp + 8 plates, light foxing to closed edges, includes; science and sensation / breathing / attack / the open throat / resonance / nasal resonance / felxibility and sustained singing / registers / the tenor voice / position / difficulties of language. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Sydney: View Productions, 1987 (500 gram rate) fep trimmed at top otherwise tidy copy in unclipped DW with some light dust soiling to it, 56pp illustrated throughout with coloured ine drawings by Greenaway, Victorian children fiction. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Kate Greenaway. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

London: MacMillan, 2000 name to first page, tidy used copy, 308pp text book of the semantics and logic of language. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Headline, 1993 near fine in same unclipped DW, minor pencil to fep. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Caroline Church. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: George Bell, 1904 red cloth blind panelled and title to cover, spine sunned, split to upper joint, frayed corners and spine ends, gift inscription dated 1906 to fep, some minor foxing to edges, viii 347pp + 16pp adverts for 1904 "This edition is issued for circulation inIindia and the colonies only" title page dated 1904. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Gollancz, 1969 Uncorrected proof copy , original wrapper with "uncorrected" rubber stamped above PROOF. title on spine and cover. cover a little creased. DW has been creased and is worn with a tear at head of spine, spine and onto the covers has been sun faded. 440pp, the index, list of illustrations and maps have not been included in this proof edition, although the colour frontis, map end papers and all the text illustrations being sketches attributed to Burckhardt and ones by the author are present.. Sewn binding, could be bound in boards if desired. A biography of Burckhardt's early nineteenth century travels in the Egyptian and Arabian deserts as well as Palestine.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Burckhardt Sim. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Galley/Proof.

London: Souvenir Press, 1986 VG in VG dust jacket, clean copy, small tear at top of front panel. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.