Search Results: Authors starting with N from Fortuna Books

Auckland: New Zealand Historic Places Trust Methuen, 1983 large volume published by Historic Places Trust covering many historic buildings in New Zealand's South Island. 264pp including b&w and coloured photos. This large folio is leatherette bound with gilt titling to cover and spine. The DW complete and VG excepting a bit of yellowing to the spine, possibly from cigarette smoke, but no odour. Companion volume for the North Island may be available also. 2kg rate extra shipping fee will be requested. First Edition. leatherette. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Auckland: New Zealand Historic Places Trust Cassell, 1979 large volume published by Historic Places Trust covering many historic buildings in New Zealand's North Island. Maori structures as well as European. 271pp including b&w and coloured photos. This large folio is fully leather bound with gilt titling to cover and spine. The DW complete and VG excepting a bit of yellowing to the spine, possibly from cigarette smoke, but no odour. Companion volume for the South Island may be available also. 2kg rate extra shipping fee will be requested. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Kansas City: Fred Harvey, 1922 (200 gram rate) reduced shipping on this item, grey paper wrappers with silver and black trim / titling, 75pp+ 3 maps and the copyright details at rear, illustrated throughout in b&w, sixth edition revised and enlarged, author was geologist for the U S Geological Survey. Sixth. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1949 tidy ex library, unclipped DW with some tears and chips to spine ends and corners, faint tape rust patches to endpapers, small rubber stamps at head of fep and prelims upto verso of frontis, scar to rear paste down from removed issuing pocket, call number to book and DW spine, patches of tape adhesive residue to edges of boards top and bottom, 289pp study of the literary works of Edgar Allan Poe. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library.

Ipswich: Suffolk Records Society, 1976 unclipped DW handling soiled, author's presentation inscription to Laurence Rickard to fep, prelims plus 170pp, some facsimile of manuscript, village by village survey of Sufolk at end of Elizabethan era (Sixteenth century). Presentation Copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1963 clean tidy copy with protetcive sleeve over the dust jacket, 178pp, laid paper, rubricated title, nice copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Dusan Ristic. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979 price clipped DW rubbed to edges, corners rubbed, light dust soiling to closed edges, top edge dusting faded, novel of South Africa. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

New York: Atheneum, 1976 blue cloth with blind decoration of harp tuning key, some faint minor tape stains to cloth edges and parts of paste downs, dustjacket has been trimmed at top or bottom edge and is shorter than the boards, some tape ghost to the top nd bottom edges of the jacket, Newberry Honor medal to the DW cover, DW spine a little sunned, Ex- Library, stamp blacked out top corner of fep and half title, stamp and details to copyright page, some tape residue etc to rear fep and paste down. a good reading copy Relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 contents; Origin of stories (Brian Boyd) Eighteenth century print culture and the truth of fictional narrative (Lisa Zunshine) Narrative theory and function; why evolution matters (Michelle Scalise Sugiyama) Hans Christian Andersens fish out of water (Nancy Easterlin) Homers Human animal,Ritual combat in the Iliad (Jonathan Gottschall) The ecology of Victorian fiction (Joseph Carroll) The epistemology of cognitive literary studies (F Elizabeth Hart) Aesthetic incunabula (Ellen Dissanayake) excellent clean copy. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988 VG in unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing to bottom edge of boards, name and date to fep, slightly faded spine of jacket, autobiography by this Australian writer, 233pp + plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Collins, 1987 unclipped DW has edge wear and ashort edge tear at head of upper joint, gutter of fep has a few small pen lines, very small at head and tail, near VG but not quite. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Bodley Head, 1957 (500 gram rate) price clipped dust jacket with Val Biro art, lower corners bumped, light wear with minor edge splits to dust jacket160pp + plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Val Biro. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Wellington: Government Printer, 1966 unclipped DW handling wear with surface rubbing, minor chipping to spine ends and lightly faded spine, name to fep 'J M Sinclair', tidy copy, 465pp + plates. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Edinburgh: Canongate, 1978 (500 gram rate) unclipped DW faintly sunned to spine and edges, tidy book and wrapper, 72pp, poems related to Mull of Kintyre. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1979 (500 gram rate) uncorrected book proof, near Fine, spine reading crease, 235pp + plates, sewn sheets in paper wrapper. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Galley/Proof.

London: Collins, 1966 (500 gram rate) unclipped DW with light handling wear, 192pp, some illustrations in line by Brian Allderidge, tidy copy of fourth impression, Norse from Scotland escape blood feud by settling in Iceland. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Brian Allderidge. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Auckland: Collins, 1967 slight wear to edges of DW, tidy copy, a few newspaper clippings relating to Mansfield slipped in, 160pp includes biographical and critical appraisal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Boardman, 1960 (500 gram rate) light foxing to closed edges otherwise tidy in price clipped DW with minor edge tears and slight rubbing to corners, tidy copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

New York: The Ring , 1929 ...an intimate narrative with numerous illustrations'. first edition 1929, lacks backstrip, edges rubbed and worn , covers loosening at hinges, pictorial illustrated cover, corners bruised, 309pp on sized art paper stock. special ringside cartoons by TAD as well as ringside photos. foreword by Dempsey. Biography from his birth upto and including his greatest bouts. Internally tidy, good for a custom binding or working copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by TAD. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Panther, 1956 (200 gram rate) taped spine, rubbed edges of wrapper, name to first page, browned paper stock, 144pp + plates, first thus paperback edition, biography of the first boxing heavyweight champion of the world. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.