Search Results: Authors starting with A from Renaissance Books

Wellington: A. H. and A. W. Reed. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1943). Hardcover. No signatures. 1" mark to front board. Some rubbing to ends of spine. ; 125 pages. Card wrappers with paper illustration. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 182mm x 110mm. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Henry J. Drane. Good+ with no dust jacket. [1895]. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers rubbed and dust stained. ; No date [1895]. vi, (7)-(132) + colour frontispiece + one plate ("A Bird's eye-view of Conrad Wm. Schmidt's (F.A. Glaeser's) Factory in 1895") + [5 (advertisements)] + [3 (blank)] pages. Limp orange cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front boad. Page dimensions: 183mm x 123mm. Contents: Introductory Remarks; Priming; Priming - Second Coat; Filling Up; Rubbing; First Coat of Paint; Stopping - Lead; Facing; Ground Colour; Varnishing - First Coat; Flatting; Varnishing - Second Coat; Varnishing - Third Coat; Carriage, Wheels, Shafts, Etc.; Japan and How to Use It; Leather-Coverd Carriages - How to Treat Them; Colours; Lining; Choice of Colours; Mixing Colours; Touching Up and Revarnishing; Matching Colours; Leather Heads or Tops - How to Touch Up and Revarnish; Painting Iron Work; Varnished Work; Basket Carriages or Wicker Work;… Read More

London: Published By the Author. Fair with no dust jacket. [1905]. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Quite heavy foxing.; Published with the pseudonym "A New Zealander". viii, 154 pages. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 181 x 121mm. [Reference: Bagnall F264].; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Published By the Author. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1905]. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some rubbing to boards. Some foxing to endpapers.; Published with the pseudonym "A New Zealander". viii, 154 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 181 x 121mm. [Reference: Bagnall F264].; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Gall And Inglis. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Rear free endpaper missing. Hinges broken. Frontis and some sections of plates coloured in with crayon. Rubbing to corners of boards with 1/4" loss of cloth. Rubbing to ends of spine. Series of 1/8" tears along tail of spine. ; 288 pages + frontis + plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and colour illustration. No date [c. 1892]. Page dimensions: 184mm x 120mm. "The Castle Series." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: George Routledge & Sons. Very Good in Good dust jacket. [1919]. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust-jacket with chips and tears to margins, and some adhesive tape repairs. Wrinkles to front panel of dust-jacket due to careless placement of a piece of adhesive tape. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Uncommon. No date [c1919]. 95, [1 (blank)] pages. Grey papered boards with black lettering on spine and front board, red and black lines on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 160 x 101mm. Pachabo is thought to be a pseudonym of A. E. Whitelaw. .

London: Smith, Elder and Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1863). Hardcover. Ex-library, General Assembly Library of New Zealand. Gilt library stamp on front board. Library labels and markings. Rubbing to joints and edges of boards. 18mm splits to leather at head of joints. Moderate foxing. Gutters split at hinges. ; First UK edition, published in the same year as the first two New Zealand editions. viii, 216 pages. 19th century full calf binding with gilt decoration to spine, gilt double borders to boards, blind-stamped dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Page dimensions: 188 x 118mm. Selected contents: First view of New Zealand; A Maori Chief's notions of trading in the Old Times; The Market Price of a Pakeha; Maori Mermaids; Maori Law; How I Purchased my Estate; The Muru; The Tapu; The Law of Muru; The Tapu Tohunga; The Maori Oracle; The Storming of Mokoia; Hongi Ika; Ancient Forts Trading in the Old times; Rule Britannia. [References: Bagnall 3345; Andersen "The Lure of New… Read More

Wanganui: A. D. Willis. Poor with No dust jacket as issued. [c1903]. Softcover. Disbound. Lacking spine. Front and rear covers detached. Covers rubbed and stained. Staples rusted. Rust stains and small chips around staples. Unrelated marginalia on rear endpaper.; 40 pages. Printed card covers. Page dimensions: 160 x 100mm. [References: see Bagnall K457; Williams 993a] .

Dunedin: Public Library Association. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. [c1960]. Softcover. Dimensions of folded card: 159 x 102mm. Front of card has a colour illustration of a page from a 15h century French Book of hours illuminated manuscript in the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection in the Dunedin Public Library. Signed by A. H. Reed on rear of cover. .

London: James Nisbet & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing to boards. Moderate foxing. Tidemarks to upper margins of some leaves. Small paper label at tail of spine (Private owner's label, this is not an ex-library copy).; Christian philosophical thoughts and musings. Includes quotes from other Christian writers, including Leighton, St. Augustine, Archbishop Trench; Rev. J. Ryle, Rev. H. Elliot. x, [2], 418 pages + Errata Slip + [2], 16 pages advertisements. Brown cloth boards with gilt and black decoration. Page dimensions: 171 x 112mm. Contents: The Call; The Conflict; The Work; The Songs; The Book; The Joys; The Companions; The Recreation; The Occupation; The Sayings; The Cross; The Crown. (One section for each month of the year).; 8vo .

London: James Nisbet & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1870. First Edition. 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 19th Century half-leather library binding. Chipped paper library label on spine. Moderate rubbing and fading to boards. ; Uncommon. Christian philosophical thoughts and musings. Includes quotes from other Christian writers, including Leighton, St. Augustine, Archbishop Trench; Rev. J. Ryle, Rev. H. Elliot. x, [2], 418 pages + errata slip. Lacking the half-title page. Half-leather binding. Page dimensions: 165 x 111mm. Contents: The Call; The Conflict; The Work; The Songs; The Book; The Joys; The Companions; The Recreation; The Occupation; The Sayings; The Cross; The Crown. (One section for each month of the year).; Ex-Library; 8vo .

London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket. 1831. Hardcover. Amateur binding is sturdy but quirky and definitely not to a professional standard. Later endpapers. Some foxing. Pencil doodle on verso of title page of Volume Two. ; First UK edition. Two volumes (complete). Volume One: ix, [1], 413 pages + [3] pages advertisements. Volume Two: vii, [1], 377 pages + [3] pages advertisements. Rebound by amateur binder in half-leather. Original cloth titles laid down on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 122mm. Some small in-text illustrations. ; 8vo .

London: Sidgwick & Jackson. Fair in Fair dust jacket. (1966). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library "Otago Hospital Board Patients' Library". Library stamps and markings. Slight undulations to pages throughout from damp damage. Heavy shelfwear to tail edges of boards. Dust wrapper in adhesive plastic jacket. 2" chip to dust wrapper and plastic jacket in front panel and front flap. Rear flap of dust wrapper pasted to rear endpaper.; Omnibus edition of three of the Foundation series novels. 189, 172, 187 pages. Maroon papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

New Delhi: Allied Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. 8170233100 . Previous owner's inscription on title page.; xxii, 193, [1 (blank)] pages. Papered boards with blue and black lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 234 x 151mm. "Research conducted by the author shows, for the first time, that word reduplication is one of the major South Asian Areal Universals which goes a long way towards defining the Indian linguistic area. Dr. Abbi is the first Indian linguist to map the pan-Indian dimensions of the phenomenon of reduplication. Data was drawn from all the four language-families spoken in the subcontinent, i.e. Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman." - from blurb on rear cover. .

[England]: [Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line]. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1938]. Softcover. Some marginalia. Title letters coloured in with coloured pencils on both booklets. ; 20 pages. Card covers, colour illustration on front cover. Page dimensions: 216 x 140mm. World map on page 20. Loosely included is a[6] page "Passenger List S. S. "Largs Bay" Voy. No. 30. Sailed from Southhampton 11th January, 1939." .

[Purewa]: Printed at St. John's College Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1850. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Upper corners of first few leaves slightly creased and dog-eared. Some light foxing. ; Part Two of Lessons on the Church Catechism. Title imprint has a date of 1850, but this was not actually published until 1852. 26 pages. Stitched into original plain light brown paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 179 x 116mm. Text in Maori. [Bibliographical references: BIM 316 - "5003 copies were produced between 17 May and 2 July 1852"; Williams 199]. ; 12mo .

Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (1981). Softcover. Rubbing to spine and edges of covers. Previous owner's name. ; 1981 reprint of an edition first published in 1979. 199, [1 (blank)] pages. Illustarted grey card covers. Page dimensions: 214 x 138mm. Text in English. An edition in English of the Bodhisattbacharayavata (Sanskrit) or Byang.chub.sems.dpai'. spyod.pal.la.jug.pa (Tibetan). "In the autumn of 1974, in response to the request of several Western Buddhists studying in Dharamsala, India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama encouraged and gave his blessing to an undertaking at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives of a project to translate Shantideva's 'Bodhisattvacharyavatara'. In order to do this, he suggested that the 'Ocean of Good Explanation,' a commentary to the 'Bodhisattvacharyavatata' by the 12th century Tibetan Lama T'ogme Zang-po, be used as the basis for the translation.… Read More

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1916). Hardcover. Spine faded. 7mm tear at head of spine. Some foxing. Previous owner's signature. ; First UK edition? (previously published in the USA in 1915). [8], 309, [3 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Blind-stamped title and panel on front board. Blind-stamped gate emblem on rear board. Crime fiction, a novel. "On Thursday, the ninth of December, at nine P.M., I was looking forward to a pleasant evening." - the opening sentence. Copyright page has "COPYRIGHT / - / Just Published in England 1916". .

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (2010). Softcover. 0375400702 . No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; [4], 259, [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 234 x 155mm. "Demented Particulars offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's first published novel, Murphy." .

New York: Warren Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Softcover. A couple of 8 x 3mm abrasions to margin of front cover. Small ink price mark on front cover. Some 10mm creases visible along inner margin of front cover. Some fading to front cover. Housed in a "Mylites 2" mylar sleeve with acid free backing board. ; 52 pages including covers. Page dimensions: 275 x 206mm. Colour illustrations on both sides of front and rear cover. All other leaves in black and white. Numerous illustrations. "George Lucas has given us 5 or 6 years of his life . . . to produce a picture that will be talkd about during our lifetime and beyond." - Forrest J. Ackerman, "Our Hero", page 50. .