Search Results: Authors starting with G from Renaissance Books

London: Oxford University Press. Good+ in Good dust jacket. (1959). Hardcover. No signatures. Some fading to dust wrapper. Slight rubbing to ends of spine. Spotting to top page edges. Series of 1/8" tears along head of dust wrapper spine. 1/4" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xxi, [3], 317 pages. Green cloth boards. Page dimensions: 218mm x 139mm. 1959 reprint of the Fourth Edition of 1942. ; 8vo .

London: Witherby & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing and fleck marks to cloth boards. Moderate fading to spine and uneven fading to rear board. Front hinge rather weak, but without any splitting to gutters. No signatures. Moderate insect damage causing some loss to front endpaper. Narrow split to gutter between frontispiece and title page.; xvi, 527 pages + frontis + plates + folding map. Title page states "With over one hundred and sixty full page and other illustrations and maps". Red cloth boards. Gilt illustration and gilt border on front board. Top page edges gilt. Page dimensions: 219 x 154mm. "This narrative is based upon two journeys through Southern Mexico during the months of June to September of the years 1902 and 1904. Eight months - most of them spent roaming about, off the few tourist-tracks, through some rather wild and little-known districts, from the regions of snow down to the swelteriing, tropical… Read More

London: A. Gadsby. Poor with no dust jacket. 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, Riwaka Library. Library stamps and markings. Binding shaky. Hinges broken. Lacking the folding map and the front free endpaper. Large tears to one text leaf. ; Title page has the following printed note: "This Volume is complete in itself, but a Second Volume has been published, containing the Author's Travels in the East in 1855-56, 1859-60 [. . .]". 594 pages + indexes. Half-leather and marbled boards. Page dimensions: 185 x 108mm. Selected contents: Greece, Smyrna, Egypt, Beyrout, Sicily. ; Ex-Library; 8vo .

Brighton: Tasman Publications. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. 0954262107 . No signatures. ; 160 pages. Illustrated. Papered boards. Page dimensions: 210 x 145mm. Sport, New Zealand Cricket history. "Errol Holmes, captain of MCC to New Zealand in 1935/6 was invited to be its first President." ; 8vo .

London: Headline. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. 0747274231 . No signatures. Some small stains to page edges. Tail of spine rubbed. Some rubbing to edges of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. [viii], 504 pages. Black boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 232 x 149mm. Number line 10-1. .

New York: DC Comics. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (1991). First Edition. Softcover. 1563890119 . No signatures. Light foxing to page edges. ; Stated first printing. This volume collects Sandman comics #1 to #8. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 259 x 169mm. Illustrated by Sam Keith; Mike Dringenberg; & Malcolm Jones III. .

London: Joseph Parker. Good with no dust jacket. 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-libris bookplate to front free endpaper, "Gulielmi Stevens." Some rubbing to ends of spine and corners of boards. Up to 1/4" loss of leather at corners of boards. 1/2" knock along tail edge of front board. ; [iv], (589) - 1120 pages + index. Full leather boards. Five raised bands on spine. Marbled page edges. Page dimensions: 215mm x 131mm. ; 8vo .

Auckland: The Halcyon Press. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (2004). First Edition. Softcover. 1877256420 . Some creasing to spine. Price sticker partly removed from rear cover. ; 224 pages + colour plates. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 220 x 144mm. Hunting, deer. "Alex Gale lives in Taupo, just minutes from some of the best hunting available in New Zealand today. A dedicated hunter, he has enjoyed success with trophy animals, including one of the best Rusa to be shot in New Zealand in the part forty years, but, as the title suggests, the big ones don't come easy." - from blurb on rear cover. .

London: Longmans. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xviii, 152 pages + plates. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. Number 2 in the Industrial Archaeology Series.; 8vo .

[Wellington]: GP Books. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. 0477000215 . Some creasing to covers. Small stain to first page.; (vi), 122 pages. Page dimensions: 210 x 147mm. Black and white photographic illustrations of historic buildings. Compiled for the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. .

Venice: Giambatista Pasquali. Good with no dust jacket. 1767-1771. First Edition. Disbound. Lacking front board. Rear pastepaper board present, with remnant of early marbled paper covering. Some dampstains to margins of leaves. Some waviness and wrinkles to leaves. Some leaves detached from sewing. Complete. ; Two titles bound together as one. Both titles collated and complete. First title ("Trattato"): xii, 81, [1] pages. 47 leaves. Includes 8 full page plates within the pagination. Folio. Page dimensions: 340 x 250mm. Bound with ""Osservazioni di Antonio Visentini architetto Veneto che servono di continuazione al tratto di Teofil Gallaccini sopra gli errori degli architetti" by Antonio Visentini. Venice: Giambatista Pasquali, 1771. vii, [1], 141 pages + 1 plate "La Perfezione" following the title leaf. 76 leaves (last leaf blank) + frontispiece. Includes 61 full page plates within the pagination. Folio. Page dimensions: 340 x 250mm. Text is in Italian.… Read More

London: Caldar and Boyes. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1972). Softcover. 0714509256 . No signatures. Some rubbing to covers. ; 96 pages. Softcover ("Paper") edition. Green illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 203 x 133mm. A play centering on the writer James Joyce. "We realise how the author of Dubliners, Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake created these works out of real people whom he trapped in the glare of his brilliance. We also realise why he evaded political commitment and why, to the outer world, he seemed ruthless self-centred. But above all we see a man of spirit and courage able to inspire tremendous love and devotion among those who accepted him as he was." - from blurb on rear cover. Series title: Playscript 64. .

Paddington: Savill Galleries. Good with no dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Some rubbing to edges of wrappers.; Exhibition catalogue. 60 paintings, all illustrated in colour. With prices marked in pen beside each lot. Card wrappers. Page dimensions: 270 x 218mm. Artists include Elaine Haxton; Roland Wakelin; Arthur Baker Clack; Arthur Murch; John de Burgh Perceval; Clifton Pugh.; 4to .

Christchurch: DSIR Land Resources. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1992). First Edition. Softcover. 047702646X . No signatures. Minor creasing to corner of front wrapper.; 58 pages. Softcover. Page dimensions: 297 x 208mm. "A checklist and classification of New Zealand lichens is presented based on recently published phyletic schemes in the Ascomycotina, and on revisions of individual families and genera." - from the Abstract, page 5. ; 4to .

Edinburgh: John Grant. Good with no dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. 2 volumes (complete) . Vol. 1: xx, (2) , 356 pages + frontis + 3 plates. Vol. 2: (8) , 320 pages + frontis + 3 plates. Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth wrinkled on front board of Volume Two. Bump to rear board of Volume Two. No signatures. Introduction by S. R. Crockett. ; 12mo .

London: Sisley's. Good with no dust jacket. [1908]. First Thus. Hardcover. No signatures. Some rubbing and fading to spine and boards. Corners of some leaves creased. ; No date [1908]. xvii, [1], 364 pages. Red cloth boards. Gilt decoration on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Page dimensions: 172 x 100mm. Top page edges gilt. "The Life of Byron - although is has been but seldom reprinted - is too good a piece of work to be forgotten, for Galt knew Byron well, and was qualified in many ways to act as his biographer." - from the preliminary "Brief Notice of the Life of John Galt" by Claude Mortemart. ; 16mo .

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. Poor with no dust jacket. 1850. Hardcover. Ex-library, Riwaka Library (a small 19th century provincial New Zealand library, Riwaka is situated 5km from Motueka, in the upper part of New Zealand's South Island.) Rebound in late 19th Century half-calf library binding. Binding very loose. Hinges broken. All leaves and gatherings very loose and nearly detached. Almost a disbound copy. Chipped paper library label on spine. Papered boards heavily rubbed with large losses to paper.; "New Edition". 409 pages. Half-leather binding. Page dimensions: 164 x 103mm. Complete in one volume. ; Ex-Library; 8vo .

London: Methuen & Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Hardcover. Spine label deteriorated. Slight spine lean. Some marking to boards. Spotting to page edges. Heavy foxing to half title page. Foxing to preliminary and final leaves. ; 120 pages + 27 colour plates. Red cloth boards with paper spine label. Page dimensions: 166mm x 99mm. Title continues, "Containing The Completest Instructions For Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling and Tumbling." ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1875. Hardcover. Fraying to cloth at tail of spine. Hinges broken. Bradford Grammar School prize label dated 1877 on front endpaper. A 12mm tear to lower margin of title leaf.; Second edition. [2 (advertisements), xiii, [3], 542 pages + [2], 32 (advertisements) + lithograph frontispiece (colour) + 1 lithograph plate (colour). 429 in-text woodcut figures. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 181 x 122mm. Spine title: "Popular / Natural / Philosophy / Ganot". Text in English. "The present work has its origin in an attempt to comply with a suggestion which has frequently been made to me, that I should prepare an abridged edition of my translation of Ganot's 'Elements de Physique', which could be used for purposes of more elementary instruction than that work" - from the Preface. .

Auckland: Steve Arthur Gardiner. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History, The University of Auckland, 2002". "Of shared ancestry, Maori and Pakeha, James Carroll for near on twenty years was identified as the most prominent spokesman on 'Native matters' in a Liberal Government that held political office for an unprecedented two uninterrupted decades. [. . .] Both as a disseminator and recipient of critical aspects of a broad Pakeha set of cultural ideologies, Caroll recognised that in this particular forum it was these and not those held by the small minority of Maori representatives present that was the effective language of communicable knowledge and power." - page iii. vi, 145 pages. 1 full page illustration. Printed on one side of leaf only. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page… Read More