Search Results: Titles starting with V from Fortuna Books

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 First edition, ex-library, has stamp to title and foot of final page, call number to imprint, stamps to free endpapers and name to fep, tape along hinge between half-title and title, and between imprint and contents page, book boards are slightly handled but clean, silver titling to spine, top edge dusting has faded, dust jacket has no library marks, not price clipped, rear fold in flap is trimmed to the vertical edge losing the '22' of 'Catch 22', some very minor staining to the reverse, hard top see on the front og the jacket, jacket lamination as published is intact, 492pp. With care could be restored with new endpapers and paper hinge to replace the cellotape, scarce modern first edition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library.

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1954 second printing of English version, cloth slightly rubbed to edges, nap endpapers, details of Nazi missile/ rocket research, A4, V2 etc, Oppenheimer, Dornberger, 264pp + plates, col. frontis. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Germany: Volkswagen AG, 1987 (500 gram rate) stapled folded sheets in card wrapper, owner's handbook, 140pp, German language edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Landscape 12mo.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969 tidy but lacks DW, 274pp + plates, frontis. . reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Constable, 1926 navy cloth with light blue panelling and titling, rubbed to joints and corners, backstrip sunned to tan colour, top of fep removed, light foxing, 320pp, top edge dust soiled, very scarce title by the father of Maurice Girodias founder of the Obelisk Press, he first published Henry Miller's 'Tropics' novels, Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel 'The Well of Loneliness,' Anais Nin's 'The Winter of Artifice,' Lawrence Durrell's 'The Black Book' and parts of Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake', there will be a slight extra charge for insurance on this item. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Edinburgh: John Bartholomew (200 grams rate) short split at head of one fold and at bottom center of lower edge, not interfering with the map, tidy copy, colour, folds out to 85x60 cm (33x23 inches) undated but by appointment to the late King George V, published by Edinburgh Geographical Institute. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Ward Lock, 1923 VG- light rubbing to edges, lightly dust soiled cloth, spine darkened, closed edges lightly dust soiled, lacks fep, half title browned, short tear at head of hinge of half title, 312 + 8pp adverts 'For Sale Abroad' blind impressed to tail of lower board. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985 dusty wrapper otherwise unmarked and tidy copy, xii 397pp illustrated in text, study of a figure of the Russian " decadent " movement. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Open House, 1980 large format, small name to fep, cloth with gilt to spine and cover, unclipped DW some light soiling to spine and some edge tears as well as a long one on rear panel that has been taped on the verso, complete but with these faults, 127pp illustrated in colour, before leaving for France Vali was the lead dancer of the Melbourne Modern Ballet Company, in France she was the subject of photographer Ed van der Elsken's book 'Love on the Left bank', she now lives in Italy, book has some faint foxing to closed top edge. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Vali Myers. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Hodder, 1938 green cloth with gilt titled old ink name to fep, colour plates with titled glassine guards, corners of boards bumped, closed edges foxed, 322pp+plates + map, hunting plants in the Himalayas. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Cassell, 1966 first edition first impression of the UK issue, lacks DW closed edges a little spotted, some minor discolouration to endpapers and prelims, 442pp, novel of Hollywood in the 60s. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Hodder, 1938 green cloth , red titled spine , top edges age browned. very minor foxing to prelims. colour plates with titled glassine guards (one of these is missing from plate to page 274) 322pp+plates + map, hunting plants in the Himalayas. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Cassell, 1966 first edition first impression of UK issue, unclipped DW light rubbing and minor chipping to spine ends, and corners, closed edges a little soiled, some minor discolouration to endpapers and prelims, 442pp, novel of Hollywood in the 60s. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909 blue buckram with gilt title and US seal to upper board, top edge gilt, light rubbing to corner tips, 4 digit pen number to fep otherwise tidy unmarked copy with some minor isgns of age, 344pp + rice paper maps, port frontis with tissue guard, port frontis has light crease to bottom, 1909 first edition in I-M issue, author predicted Japanese imperialist aims in the East and the Pacific and how they were in a position to detsroy the US naval force in the Pacific , and of the unpreparedness, militarily and politically of the US state. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1955 apart from heavily sunned spine VG, some sunning to top edges of boards, map endpapers, 210pp + plates. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Hodder, 1937 unclipped dust jacket short splits at joint ends, light wear, book clean bookseller label at foot of title, the author witnessed events in Europe from the rise of Prussia to the Russian Revolution, 319pp first issue in the H&S Black Jacket series. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Melbourne: MacMillan, 1984 unclipped DW , book and wrapper very slight handling , author signed presentation inscription to half title 'To David, may your vanities be good ones'. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Thea Proctor. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1979 excellent condition, unclipped jacket with light wear to edges and joints, spine ends rubbed, faintly sunned spine, 209pp with b&w illustrations + colour plates, 13 chapters on various aspects of the Vanity Fair magazine satirical chromolithographic plate caricatures, from the artist to how to collect them. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Century Hutchinson Efstathiadis, 1992 (500 gram rate) second edition, 219pp + plates, VG softcover. New Zealander Dudley Churchill Perkins aka Vasili after escaping from German hands spent a year evading them on Crete before making his way to Egypt , only to return as an SOE special agent and leader of a guerilla resistance unit. reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1966 (500 gram rate) sewn sheets in soft cover, rubbed joints, name to title otherise tidy copy, viii 200pp. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.