Search Results: BIOGRAPHY from Fortuna Books

London: Peter Davies, 1957 price clipped DW has chipping loss, inscription to fep, 263pp+ plates, fighter pilot and chaplain in WWII and Korea, also responsible for Operation Kiddy Car rescuing Korean orphans from the Communists. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Peter Davies, 1957 unclipped DW has chipping loss at head and tail of spine and corners, faded backstrip, 263pp+ plates, fighter pilot and chaplain in WWII and Korea, also responsible for Operation Kiddy Car rescuing Korean orphans from the Communists. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

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

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.

Reed (200 gram rate) would be very good but lacks prelims before contents page, limited to 1000 copies, but this has lost the limitation page, (9-) 84pp, based on the collection of letters in the Reed Collection, Dunedin, New Zealand, Eleanor donated many books and letters from her father to the collection in Dunedin. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Weidenfeld, 1976 boards rubbed to edges, book label to paste down, map end papers, a bit of tape residue from dw protector to end papers at bottom and top edges. DW is in a plastic cover and VG excepting a bit of sunning to spine. 262pp + plates, at blank tail of final page (index) are written some notes in ink. An influential Dutch family from the time of the Dutch Confederation in the fifteenth century, whose influenced continued in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also. Includes genealogical tables etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1992 VG in VG protected DW, not price clipped. Fourth volume biography covering years 1950-1991. 132pp includes Shaw's will and bequests.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Faber, 1961 unclipped DW rubbed to corners and spine ends, some mild foxing to closed edges and prelims, 222pp autobiographical, author was a foreign correspondent and later editor of Punch, cartoon wrapper by William Hewison. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by William Hewison. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Collins, 1971 unclipped DW small waterspot to cover and foot of spine otherwise tidy with short split at head of lower fore edge fold, book very tidy 214pp, memoir by the author of her writing and war time activities in WVS. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1993 near fine in same dust jacket, marker ribbon, vii 442pp + colour plates, history of Tibet as well as biographies of the first through to the fourteenth Dalai Lamas . reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Quality Book Club, 1962 first thus book club edition, black papered boards with red and gilt title panel to spine, 200pp interesting biography of Stoker, with much emphasis on the sucess that Dracula brought him, both as a novel and a stage act, tidy copy, small spot of waterstain to bottom corner of lower DW panel, fore edge of a few pages has an extra bit not trimmed correctly by the binder. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1956 second impression, spine slight lean, foxing to prelims and closed edges, 254pp, Stroud was a lifer who befriended and trained birds, becoming an expert on them and writing a book on bird diseases, uncommon. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1956 second impression, ex library, stamps and call numbrs etc, DW call number to spine, short tear lower front corner, well read copy, 254pp, Stroud was a lifer who befriended and trained birds, becoming an expert on them and writing a book on bird diseases, uncommon. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library.

London: Collins, 1966 near fine, price clipped dust jacket with a few short edge tears top edge of rear panel, age darkened paper stock, top edge spotted, 287pp + plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Collins, 1966 near fine, unclipped DW, each free end paper has a small patch of sticky residue offset from a plastic sleeve, otherwise book and wrapper near fine, 287pp + plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Collins, 1966 first edition, name to fep otherwise book VG, DW rubbed to joints and spine ends and corners with some splitting along the joint folds and light chipping at head and tail, price clipped, 287pp + plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Sydney: St. Patrick's Presbytery, 1935 front panel (only) of dust jacket tipped on to fep, ex convent library with stamps etc to fep and half-title, 170pp + plates, story of a New Zealand born missionary to Tunuru, Northern Solomon Islands, he returned to Wellington to die of illness contracted in the Solomons, the letters cover 1929 to 1932, US issue printed by Visitor Printing Company. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973 (500 gram rate) worn wrappers, name stamp to first page and inside rear wrapper, paper browned, 202pp + plates, a traditional (ie Romany) English gypsy recounts his life. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Hutchinson, 1958 light foxing to endpapers and closed edges, gift inscription to half title, light wear to cloth, unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, small chipping at head of spine, short tears to tail of spine, corners rubbed, light soiling or foxing to dust jacket, 343pp + frontis portrait, autobiography of his time in juvenile borstal prison. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984 tidy copy of the first edition but has a stamp to foot of half title as it was a review copy, dust jacket is unclipped, 160pp, memoir of his childhood years. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.