BIOGRAPHY from Fortuna Books

London: Secker & Warburg, 1954 Dust jacket has large piece from bottom of spine, spine is faded and with a X marked to it, some short tears and smalll chips from various edges, front panel still good though. Former owner name to fep, 192pp + plates, scarce autobiography by severely handicapped man who could only communicate by… Read more about this item

London: Four Square, 1961 Four Square 280 first thus paperback edition, translated by Burgo Partridge, spine roll, minor edge foxing, 160pp, zionist stern gang murderer confesses. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Oxford University Press, 1966 proof copy in paper wrapper with label to cover, label is chipped to edges, cover has biro annotation giving published title date etc, book starts with A22 (chapter one) being pp1 of the text, 281pp printed on recto only, 195 x 210mm, rear two leaves and wrapper detached, small water spot top corner of first few… Read more about this item

London: S W Partridge & Co undated, states published just before her death, also prize plate from Gosford Street Baptist Church , Coventry, dated 1910 at fep, Title page is a little chipped to top edge, printed on wood pulp paper stock, with engravings throughout to illustrate, 166pp + 32pp adverts. reprint. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo -… Read more about this item

London: Guild Publishing, 1986 short tear spine fold at tail to DW, minor bumping to board edges, 192pp, glossy art paper throughout, B&W photos throughout. Catherine Cookson's Tyneside life in pictures and words.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. landscape 4to.

London: Collins, 1962 stunning deep blue cloth, book is near fine, no faults. DW price clipped and spine faded a little. examples of moral courage, mostly from the twentieth century, collected and commented upon. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980 some minor edge wear or short edge splits to DW otherwise tidy copy with R stamped to bottom closed page edges (on the outside) 338pp Isherwoods memoir of his 'guru' Swami Prabhavananda of Bengal.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Muller, 1959 lacks DW, sunned spine and with water mark along upper joint. endpapers browned, text block is clean and tight. first English translation / edition. The top edge margin of the plates shows faint water mark but the pages dont seem to show any discolouration. 264pp + plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo -… Read more about this item

London: Peter Davies, 1972 tidy ex library, without the library markings would be near to VG, jacket under plastic sleeve, minor tape stains to rear endpaper and board, auto biography by the wife of Grey Owl (Archie Belaney). First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library.

London: Dent slate blue cloth, gilt titled spine, lacks free end paper, name date and number to half title, xi 306pp undated assumed first approx 1910, biography of the famed British soldier active during the Indian Mutiny and Siege of Delhi. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Casselll, 1977 Turn-of-the-century society with its romantic, genteel scandals, the Celtic reivival, Yeats and the Abbey Theatre and, the stormy world of Irish patriots and the new born Irish republic all meet in the life story of the irrepressible, legendary Maud Gonne., Biography W.B. Yeats Maud Gonne Ireland Abbey THeatre Eamon de Valera Fenians Arthur Griffith Sean McBride John… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall, 1893 assumed first edition thus of the one volume collection of the original twelve books, red buckram with gilt crown to upper board, spine sunned, some bumping to edges of boards but still tidy, old ink inscription to half title 'Frederick W Gale | Aug 1900', (other books from this owner indicate he resided in… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld, 1982 excellent copy near fine excepting the faint ghost where a label has had sun action transferring its colour to a blank part of the DW,there is just faint fading of the wrapper proper, unclipped, a really VG+ VG+ copy. Includes exhaustive bibliographical index as well as transcripts of some of Wodehouses broadcasts for the Germans when… Read more about this item

London: New English Library, 1981 DW unclipped, 288pp + plates . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

New York: Alcoholics Anonymous, 1980 two tone cloth, photographic endpapers, brown coloured dust jacket is sunned to the spine, edge wear. 373pp on sized paper. Biography of one of the co-founders of the A A movement. photographs. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Mills and Boon, 1956 first Mills & Boon , very tidy book and wrapper, autobiography of an opera lover who followed her favourites across America and Europe, comments on her time in Nazi dominated Europe, friendships with famous opera singers, also her later life as a romance writer under the name Mary Burchell, 246pp + plates. reprint. Hard… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1980 price clipped DW, 192pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Kingswood: Kaye & Ward, 1984 unclipped DW light wear and short splits at head of spine joints, book clean, 217pp + plates in colour, British mountaineer's autobiography. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1956 sequel to Castles in the Air . Autobiography and memoir of famous Scottish creative personalities of the first half of the Twentieth Century. Cammell knew Aleister Crowley well and there is a short reference to him here. Cammell knew many of the foremost Scots poets, writers, artists etc of the day and recounts them. Red… Read more about this item

London: Constable, 1940 poorly rebound ex-library copy, original blue cloth boards with blind stamped Corelli signature. Worn through at corners with library cloth pasted over at spine with typed title and white pen shelf mark. , stamps and labels etc to endpapers, , gutter opened at frontis, frontis has small colour painting of Corelli in a gondola, in the blank… Read more about this item