Search Results: Titles starting with C from Fortuna Books

London: Collins, 1980 unclipped DW under plastic sleeve, vertical edge of rear fold in flap has tape along it, ex-library with stamps etc to end papers, tape onto board edges, a stripe of green marker to top edge, no marking within the book proper, 196pp. New edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library.

London: Oxford University Press, 1914 red cloth gilt titled spine, upper joint split 60mm down from top, corner tips rubbed, some bruising to edges, front end paper has ink name and date, endpapers browned, lxvi, 462 (2) +14 folding maps or diagrams and some in text. text block is tight and clean, a few page corners may be slightly curled.introduction and notes at start in English, Caesar's text in original Latin with about a half page of footnotes to each text page. includes chapters on Ethnology of Gaul, and excavations of some of Caesar's camps and earthworks.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Collins, 1974 unclipped DW sunned to spine, small chips to head of spine, book clean, reprint, very minor insect surface damage to boards, 320pp. reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Sheffield: Arthur Balfour & Co Ltd quarter cloth with decorative papered boards with a raised relief design of a cutting wheel, light rubbing to edges, parts catalogue, nicely produced on glazed paper stock with monotone illustrations of the parts etc, 162pp. First Thus. Decorative Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833 boards present but detached, backstrip missing, second engraved title has some watermarking, otherwise tidy with some signs of age, xii 365pp will need rebinding. First Edition. Disbound. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

New York: Hyperion, 1996 minor handling soiling to dust jacket, unclipped, no inscriptions ( except bookseller pencil to fep) blue spine over tan boards. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Herbert Jenkins (500 gram rate) 190 +2pp adverts, one leaf ( 4pp) was never bound in, but sits snug in place, light wear to spine ends and corners, pencil inscription dated 1954 to fep, book undated but probably from war years, war standard issue. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Pan, 1960 first thus British paperback edition, G 386, rubbed tail of spine, minor splits at head of joints, minor age or handling but still tidy copy, 221pp. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Ward Lock assumed first. red papered boards with black titling and decoration, DW has 1/~ price as part of the design. Book VG [Louis] in ink to fep, 318pp extremely clean pages. DW small chips top edge, short closed edge tears top edge, a very small part of the rear panel at top edge is stained lightly red , very minor. an extremely nice copy. A typical Hocking Cornish adventure romance. Early twentieth century . . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co, 1911 (1500 grams) tan paper covered boards with pasted on photo, 1/2 burlap spine, upper board lightly soiled, with some flaking to the gilt titling and a scuff at the top corner, a larger scuff with loss of top surface of some paper from the lower ( rear) board, 72 pp + 37 tipped in photographic plates, two by Arnold Genth, Contributions by Charles Warren Stoddard, Ina Coolbrith, Joaquin Miller, George Sterling, David Starr Jordan, Frank Norris, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Gertrude Atherton, Edwin Markham, John Muir, printed on tan card stock with the plates tipped on at one edge, tissue guard present at frontis Album of 37 monotone photographs, each tipped-in to a seprate page. Text of book, containing extracts from various California and Western writers and poets, is printed on brown stock. Book is bound in original hardcover binding - canvas-backed spine, brown paper-backed boards, front cover lettered in gold with photograph mounted within gold ruled… Read More

New York: Dell, 1964 (200 gram rate) some minor water marking shows as discolouration to the dyed paper edges and light waviness, otherwise tidy used copy, 253pp + adverts. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

London: Collins, 1961 ex private lending library copy, unclipped dust jacket has lower 30mm of spine missing, and some closed tears and edge wear, rubbing etc. minor stamps to pastedown, half title, title page, and foot of last page of text, 191pp (500 gram rate) . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library.

London: Allen & Unwin, 1961 black boards, unclipped ORIGINAL (not scanned) DW has short split along fold of bottom front corner minimal rubbing to spine ends, a very attractive complete DW with slight dust soiling, 274pp + plates and adverts at rear , excellent near fine copy, mainly hunting content but also some content about Indian wildlife, mainly concerned with man-eating panthers and tigers in the Indian jungle. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Allen & Unwin, 1961 black boards, 274pp + plates and adverts at rear clean tidy copy with small name to free end paper, mainly hunting content but also some content about Indian wildlife, mainly concerned with man-eating panthers and tigers in the Indian jungle. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1957 (500 gram rate) ex lending library wiith stamps and slip to fep, unclipped dust jacket under plastic sleeve which is taped down to paste downs and with some tape on jacket flaps, a few page numbers circled in pen, and a few pages soiled, 192pp. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library.

London: Todd Publishing, 1952 (500 gram rate) unclipped DW light rubbing to spine ends, mild splits at head and bottom of upper joint , rear panel dust soiled to the white field, owner inscription to fep, paper stock browned, 191pp SCARCE Cheyney title NOT issued in the US . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Century, 1986 Legends of Camber of Culdi Volume One, first hard back issue, unclipped dust jacket with light surface wear, pages slightly browned, 314pp, . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959 quarter linen spine, papered boards, DW some handling soiling, unclipped, some edge wear, book has some mild dust soiling and associated foxing to closed edges,a bit tired . First Edition. Quarter cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Paul Bacon. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Blackie (500 gram rate) undated, assumed first, circa 1930s, red cloth with light fade to spine, 255pp + frontis., Sea Guides . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Roger Oak. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Werner Laurie, 1913 colonial edition in titled wraps, sewn binding, would be VG excepting ; front wrapper and endpaper detached, paper peeling away from the spine with some loss, gift inscription to fep dated 1914, xiii 301pp + plates and port frontis with tissue guard, single worm hole to rear wrapper and a few pages at the back, good copy suitable for custom rebind, author fought the Maori against Te Kooti and Hau Hau, as well as in South Africa. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.