Search Results: Authors starting with E from Renaissance Books

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. [c1912]. Softcover. Moderate rubbing and staining to covers. Lower corner of front cover creased and folded.; A title in the "Rosemary Booklets" series. 45, [1] pages. Green suede leather covers, with gilt lettering and blind decoration on front cover. Tall and narrow format, page dimensions: 148 x 83mm. Full suede leather binding. Colour illustrated endpapers. An anthology of pithy quotations and short verses from various authors. .

Wellington: Sarah Bennett Books. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (2005). First Edition. Softcover. 0958263604 . 217 pages. Page dimensions: 210 x 147mm. Illustrated with b&w photographic illustrations. Biographical memoirs of a New Zealander who left New Zealand in 1936 to marry a New Zealand Baptist missionary in India. Compiled by Catharine Eade's daughter, from memoirs, letters and speeches. .

London: Charles Griffin and Company. Good with no dust jacket. (1875). First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy rubbing to spine and corners of boards. 2" split at head of spine. 1/2" split to leather at tail of spine. 3/8" loss of leather at bottom corner of rear board. Gutter split between pages 18-19.; vii, [i], 567, [i], + frontis. Half-leather boards with gilt lettering on spine. Five raised bands on spine. Marbled page edges. Page Dimensions: 204mm x 130mm. ; 8vo .

Rush Hour Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Softcover. 0473010364 . Rubbing along paper spine. Some wear to wrappers. ; [6], 94 pages. Card wrappers. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed "M E" by the author. Page dimensions: 210mm x 143mm. ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Auckland: Collins. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1978). First Edition. Softcover. 0002169320 . No signatures. Slight marking to wrappers. Small pen mark to front wrapper.; 144 pages. Printed card wrappers. Colour illustrations. Page dimensions: 254mm x 189mm. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary owner's initials on front endpaper. Dampstains to spine and endpapers. Hinges broken. Dust stains to top page edges. Some foxing.; x, 397, [1] pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Black decoration on spine and boards. Page dimensions: 206 x 140mm. Lengthy treatise of art criticism, a dialogue between Pictor and Sketcher. "Sketcher is a rambler, and may be allowed a rambling style." - page 190. "Sir Joshua Reynolds remarks, that in historical painting often exact texture should be omitted, and that there should be drapery, only not any particular material. This principle will equally hold good frequently in landscape: as in a landscape above common pretensions no particular season will be acknowledged, so will there be, for the heightening of the general effect, a sacrifice of detail and of actual resemblance to nature in tone and… Read More

London: Motor Racing Publications. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1954). First Edition. Hardcover. Fading and foxing to spine cloth. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; 375, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth boards with yellow lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 139mm. Illustrated. .

London: Seeley and Co.. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1902. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library markings and labels. Rear board bruised creased with wrinkles to cloth. Library blind-stamps to corners of plates.; Second edition. 1902 imprint on title page, Preface to the Second Edition dated 1900. [1-2 (title leaf)] (ix-xvi) 1- 327 [1 (blank)] + [1-8] pages advertisements + frontispiece + plates. Red-brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 199 x 135mm. This is a revised edition of "The Development of Navies during the last Half-Century". 38 illustrations in total. The illustrations include full page plates and small in-text illustrations, wood-engravings and relief half-tone photographic illustrations of ships. Some of the plate leaves are counted within the pagination sequence, while others are additional to the pagination. .

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. Fair with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards rubbed, faded and stained. Title cropped from head of the loose plan of Bath. Lacking the folding map at the rear. Early owner's signature on front endpaper "Charles Hall". Dust stains to endpapers. Foxing to the frontispiece map. Provenance: Hardwicke Knight (but without any of his owner's marks). ; vi, [2], 350 pages + folding frontispiece map + 1 loose plan of Bath. Lacking the folding map at rear. Rebound in late 19th? century half-leather and marbled papered boards. Page edges speckled red. Page dimensions: 180 x 118mm. "Living at a place you unconsciously grow curious about things which in any region but your own you would be indifferent to. To gratify this curiosity in such a manner as not merely to set it at rest, but to make it an adit for larger knowledge, should be the aim of the local historian." - from the Preface. The author was the… Read More

Petone: Highgate / Price Milburn. Fair in Fair dust jacket. (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. 0705514021 . Ex-library, Invercargill Public Library. Dust wrapper in chipped plastic jacket with adhesive edges, and taped to endpapers. A rough reading or working copy. Complete. ; 175 pages. Large format hardcover book. Page dimensions: 288 x 212mm. ; 4to .

Petone: Highgate / Price Milburn. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. 0705514021 . Previous owner's signature. No tears or chips to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in mylar cover.; 175 pages. Large format hardcover book. Page dimensions: 288 x 212mm. ; 4to .

[s.l.]: [s.n.]. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. [c1925?]. Softcover. Group of 4 large folding black and white maps. No date [c1925?]. No publisher or place of printing. No individual titles on maps. All maps with the same scale bar, which is about 4 Inches to 55 Miles, or about 1:871,200. The 4 maps are: 1) southern part of Borneo. 960 x 738mm. 2) most of eastern Borneo. 960 x 735mm. 3) western part of Java. 890 x 735mm. 4) eastern part of Java, with Bali and Lombok. 964 x 610. .

New Zealand: Vintage / Penguin Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (2017). First Edition. Hardcover. 0143770314 . No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 240 pages. Light green boards with white lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 197 x 128mm. Illustrated. "A lively anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, celebrating the birds of Aotearoa. New Zealand birds have inspired mythology, song, whimsical stories, detailed observation, humour and poetry. There are tales of shooting and taxidermy as well as of admiration and love. From the kakapo, kokako and kaka to the sparrow, starling and seagull, both native and imported birds have been immortalised in print. This is a varied and stimulating selection from the flocks of New Zealand writers who have given our birds a voice." .

Wellington: Unwin Paperbacks / Allen & Unwin. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1986). First Edition. Softcover. 0868616664 . Crease to corner of front cover.; This copy inscribed (to a particular person) and signed by the author. 100 pages. Page dimensions: 209 x 137mm. New Zealand economy, social issues. "New Zealand urgently needs a wages policy geared towards full employment, and strong government measues to deal with the poverty problem." - from blurb on rear cover. ; Signed by Author .

Christchurch: Printed by D. N. Adams. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1968). First Edition. Softcover. Some creasing to wrappers.; (48) pages. Grey card wrappers. Page dimensions: 184 x 137mm. This copy inscribed by the author on the title page, the inscription is dated July 1968. New Zealand author. A collection of poetry and two short stories. The stories are "When the Waters Came" and "You're On the Coast Now".; 12mo; Signed by Author .

London: Robert Hale. Good in Good+ dust jacket. (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. 070910460X . No signatures. Some fading to ends of spine. 3/4" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. Some rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine and to ends of folds of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 190 pages. Green papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 197mm x 124mm. "A friendship exists between the Evans family, residents of a small New Zealand town, and their Maori neighbours, the Te Kiris. When Charlie Te Kiri is accused of rape, the friendship is tested to the limit, adn each is called upon to make a sacrifice for their neighbour's sake." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .

London: Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. 0434221961 . No signatures. Some foxing to dust-jacket and endpapers.; [xxii], 178 pages. Orange boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 136mm. The sequel to "Ebdon's Odyssey". Recollections of Greece. .

London: Collins / The Crime Club. Good+ in Good dust jacket. (1949). Hardcover. No signatures. Some foxing. Chips and tears to margins of dust-jacket. Lower 30mm of dust-jacket spine missing. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 192 pages. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 121m. Crime fiction novel. "To a green and lovely island in the blue and golden Caribbean comes an unwelcome visitory, treading his dark and invisible way between two vast sugar plantations." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

London: Hammond, Hammond & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. (1950). Hardcover. A 1" tear at tail of front joint. Fading to spine. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; 1950 reprint. Omnibus volume. Five novels in one volume. 332 pages + [4] pages advertisements. Red boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 122mm. Crime fiction. .

Wellington: A. H. and A. W. Reed. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Dust-jacket with foxing, small tears and chips to margins. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. Newspaper clipping on Johnnie Jones from the Otago Daily Times, 1948 loosely included. ; This copy signed by both authors on front endpaper. Inscribed to E. C. Huie, Esq. Signature of A. H. Reed dated 4 Nov 1949. [2], (7)-111 pages + frontispiece + 19 illustrations on 5 plate leaves. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 212 x 135mm. New Zealand regional history, Otago, 19th Century. "The full story of how he came to settle in Waikouaiti, to acquire large areas of land thereabouts, and to engage in agriculture, is told in this book. One of his earliest steps was to establish a mission station to look after the spiritual welfare of the whalers and the Maoris" - page 8. John Jones, popularly known as Johnny Jones, was the grandfather of Alfred Eccles.… Read More