Search Results: Authors starting with F from Renaissance Books

Paris: Libraire Gallimard. Fair with no dust jacket. (1931). Softcover. 35mm tears at head and tail of spine. Internally good. ; Reprint edition. 293 pages. Printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 176 x 114mm. A novel. Text in French. [Seller ref: Knightcol] ; 16mo .

Wellington. Good with no dust jacket. 1948-1975. First Edition. Softcover. 1" tear to paper spine on third volume. 1/2" tears at tail of spine on sixth volume. ; A set of all six volumes published in this series. Title differs a little from volume to volume. Published 1948, 1952, 1956, 1961 (this volume taped into brown paper covers, and inscribed by the author), 1967, 1975. Principally a record of the auction prices reached at Bethunes Auctions in Wellington, the main auction house for rare books in New Zealand during this period. Predominantly New Zealand historical titles, but also some Australian, Pacific, and Antarctic. Separate smaller sections at rear of some volumes for Newspapers; Maps, Lithographs, Prints, Etc.; Manuscripts. The 1948 volume was limited to 250 copies, the 1961 volume to 500 copies, and the others to 600 copies.; 8vo .

Christchurch: Pegasus. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Foxing and rubbing and some staining to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 220 pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 136mm. New Zealand poet. Contents: Foreword (by Denis Glover); Three Poems; Dominion; The Voyage; To a Friend in the Wilderness; Strange Rendezvous; Country Pleasures; Gall; Additional Poems; The Rakehelly Man; Poetry Harbinger; Uncollected; The Disadvantages of Being Dead; Horse Pansies; He Shall Not Rise. .

Wellington: Victoria University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1995). First Edition. Softcover. 0864732937 . No signatures. A couple of price stickers on rear cover. ; 151, [9 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. With a substantial Introduction by Mac Jackson (P. Macdonald Jackson) on pages 9-32. "This volume represents the full range and vitality of Fairburn's verse. Accompanying the well-known anthologyo pieces such as 'The Cave' and 'A Farewell' are ballads like 'Walking on My Feet' and 'The Rakehelly Man', as well as a generous selection of his early love lyrics." - from blurb on rear cover. .

Christchurch: Pegasus. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Rubbing and some creasing to dust-jacket. A 25mm tear to front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 220 pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 137mm. New Zealand poet. Contents: Foreword (by Denis Glover); Three Poems; Dominion; The Voyage; To a Friend in the Wilderness; Strange Rendezvous; Country Pleasures; Gall; Additional Poems; The Rakehelly Man; Poetry Harbinger; Uncollected; The Disadvantages of Being Dead; Horse Pansies; He Shall Not Rise. .

Christchurch: The Nag's Head Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owners' names and addresses on front endpaper. Some splitting to gutters at endpapers. Boards rubbed and faded. ; An edition of 125 copies. 12, [3], [1 (blank)] pages, pagination including free endpapers. Red patterned papered boards with printed paper title label on front board. Page dimensions: 161 x 96mm. Hand-set in 12-point Caslon. Illustrated with lino-cuts by Robert Brett. .

Christchurch: The Caxton Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust-jacket has some large tears and a 50 mm chip missing to corner of front panel. On front endpaper is a gift inscription from "Chris", which quotes 5 lines from Fairburn's poem "To A Friend In The Wilderness". Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 103, [1] pages. Quarter cloth and papered boards. New Zealand poet. Includes the poems: Jack the Ripper; Full Fathom Five; To a Millionaire; Milton; Disquisition on Death; A Naked Girl Swimming; Lines for a Rebel; Wild Love; The Revenge. [Reference: Bagnall F37] .

Wellington: Progressive Publishing Society. Good with no dust jacket. [1944]. First Edition. Softcover. Text block detached from covers. Spine rubbed and worn. Moderate rubbing and foxing to covers, some abrasions to margins. Staples rusted. Foxing. ; (61), [1], [2 (blank)] pages. Yellow paper wrappers with illustration on front wrapper. Page dimensions: 183 x 121mm. "Nearly everything that happens to us - wars, depressions, changes in the pattern of everyday life - originates far away, from causes over which we have little or no control." - page 5. A social-political-moral essay by a New Zealand poet. Trade Unions, Fascism, vegetable stage, censorship, abortion, divorce laws, mediocrity, democracy etc. [References: Bagnall F39; Johnson "A. R. D. Fairburn 1904-1957 - A Bibliography of his Published Work" 323] .

Auckland: Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. 0195580761 . No signatures. A 14mm tear at corner of rear panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xxv, [1], 272, [3], [3 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 237 x 149mm. New Zealand poet. "Lauris Edmond has attempted, in her selection of 237 letters out of the nine hundred in the Turnbull library, to do justice to the complex and engaging personality of their writer. The bulk of the letters are concerned with literary matters, but many of the remainder - to politicians, public servants, editors and businessmen - take up the cudgels in support of causes or in protest at injustice." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

Auckland: Blackwood & Janet Paul. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. A small 10mm tear at thead of dust-jacket spine, some other smaller tears to corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 188, [4 (blank)] pages. Dark brown boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 137mm. Selected prose of New Zealand poet A. R. D. Fairburn. "Every society needs a Fairburn to startle, mock, outrage, inform, and delight it. Fairburn's selected comments on New Zealand life and politics and learning and letters and art, now republished ten years after his death, stir up the porridge pot and keep it bubbling." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

Wellington: New Zealand University Press. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1952. First Edition. Softcover. Dampstain to spine. Some foxing. Some light creasing to upper corners of front cover and some leaves.; 68 pages. White card covers with grey printed wrapper attached at spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 138mm. New Zealand poetThis copy with a yellow wraparound band from the Mermaid Press. The band has printed on it: "Thanks to the generosity of the New Zealand University Press, copies of this important book are now available to the public from the MERMAID PRESS, Wellington. These poems were Rex Fairburn's major work and deserve to be published as widely as possible / 10/6". Loosely included are 2 copies of a an advertisement for 45 rpm recording of Fairburn reading six of his poems, the first of a planned series of "A Little Mermaid" recordings. [Reference: Bagnall F38] .

Wellington: Progressive Publishing Society. Fair with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Dampstains and foxing throughout. ; 15, [1] pages. Illustrated printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 212 x 140mm. Political pamphlet by New Zealand poet, on the issue of patriotism. "Mr. Milner directs his main attack against the University teachers of New Zealand. Here are some of the phrases he scatter by the way: '. . . woolly humanitarianism of the academic. . . bilious invocation of a hypothetical and yet inevitable law of imperial vicissitude. . . tribe of Cassandras and Jeremiahs. . . professorial obliquity and teachers' envenomed bias. . . subversive activities. . . virulent political Irishism. . . University Leftists. . . economic nostrums, foreign cults and panaceas for all social ills.'" - pages 5-6. "A New Zealander, if he is a normal human being, will derive a normal amount of satisfaction from being a member of the English-speaking race of peoples.… Read More

Christchurch: Pegasus. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some foxing. Small knock to head of spine. Some foxing and rubbing to dust-jacket. Small 7mm tear at corner of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. Loosely included is an old receipt for this copy from "The Gateway Bookshop Limited," Dominion Life Arcade, Wellington. ; 220 pages. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm. New Zealand poet. Contents: Foreword (by Denis Glover); Three Poems; Dominion; The Voyage; To a Friend in the Wilderness; Strange Rendezvous; Country Pleasures; Gall; Additional Poems; The Rakehelly Man; Poetry Harbinger; Uncollected; The Disadvantages of Being Dead; Horse Pansies; He Shall Not Rise. .

Wellington: Progressive Publishing Society. Good+ with no dust jacket. [1944]. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owners' names and addresses on front endpaper. Some splitting to gutters at endpapers. Boards rubbed and faded. ; (61), [1], [2 (blank)] pages. Red boards with cloth spine. Gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 181 x 113mm. "Nearly everything that happens to us - wars, depressions, changes in the pattern of everyday life - originates far away, from causes over which we have little or no control." - page 5. A social-political-moral essay by a New Zealand poet. Trade Unions, Fascism, vegetable stage, censorship, abortion, divorce laws, mediocrity, democracy etc. [References: Bagnall F39; Johnson "A. R. D. Fairburn 1904-1957 - A Bibliography of his Published Work" 323] .

Dunedin: New Zealand Bible, Tract, And Book Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1902. First Edition. Soft Cover. No signatures. Some creasing and rubbing to edges of card wrappers. ; 32 pages + advertisements printed on rear wrapper. Card wrappers. Page dimensions: 216mm x 138mm. Contents: Bishop Neville's Statements; Rev. James Watkin's Extracts From His Journal Of Letters; Watkin's Successors And Native Teachers: The Grip Of The Mission; Mr. Wohler's Narrative; The Pre-Selwyn Age Of Missions; The Selwyn Age; Tamihana Rauparaha; Bishop Selwyn's Account Of His Visit; Epitome Of Baptismal Register. ; 8vo .

London: Longmans. Poor with no dust jacket. (1959). Softcover. Ex-library. Scott Base Library. Proof copy. Front wrapper detached. Card wrappers rubbed and worn, protected in plastic covering. ; xii, 298 pages. Red card wrappers. Page dimensions: 215mm x 135mm. Proof copy. Title continues, "Adapted from New Land: Four Years In The Artic Regions by The Norwegian Explorer Otto Sverdrup." ; 8vo .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Spotting to page edges. Slight spine lean. 1 1/2" x 3/4" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. 1 1/2" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. 3/4" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. Rubbing and tears along front fold of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 255 pages. Papered boards. Page dimensions: 183mm x 117mm. "Londoners are beginning to feel cheated by their fogs. While Metropolitan policemen have, by common consent, remained wonderful, Metropolitan fogs have not." - the opening sentences. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 255 pages + frontis. Red cloth covers. Owner's signature. 1/2" chips at head and tail of dust wrapper spine and corners of dust wrapper. 1" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. Heavy rubbing to dust wrapper. Moderate browning to dust wrapper. Adhesive tape stains to reverse of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in mylar cover. "[...] a lively, informal autobiography by Gerald Fairlie the 'original' of Bulldog Drummond, the friend and collaborator of Sapper" - from blurb on dust wrapper. ; 8vo .

Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (1996). Softcover. 0582243025 . Covers laminated in clear plastic.; Fourth edition. xv, [1], 464 pages. Blue card covers. Page dimensions: 232 x 155mm. "This new edition will be welcomed by students of genetics, agriculture and evolution as an essential introductory study of the subject" - from blurb on rear cover. .

London: T. Nelson and Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1868. Hardcover. Some fading and rubbing to spine and boards. ; 169 pages. 30 in-text engravings. Red cloth boards with gilt decoration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 183 x 121mm. All page edges gilt.The prefatory material includes a memoir of Falconer by Robert Carruthers. Provenance: Hardwicke Knight, with his squirrel bookplate. Circa late 19th century New Zealand bookseller's ticket on front endpaper: "HORSBURGH / BOOKSELLER / DUNEDIN". [Seller Ref: KnightCol]; 8vo .