Search Results: Authors starting with H from Renaissance Books

Auckland: HarperCollins. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1997). First Edition. Softcover. 1869502353 . 127, [1 (blank)] pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 195 x 127mm. Black and white illustrations by Jamie Boynton. Whakapapa diagrams. Text mainly in English. Includes a Glossary of Maori words. "These 18 traditional Maori love stories have been handed down from generation to generation within their tribal areas, and feature a cast of splendid characters who frequently risked all for love." - from blurb on rear cover. .

London: Geoffrey Bles. Good in Poor dust jacket. (1928). Hardcover. Front hinge split at gutter. Lacking front free endpaper. The endpapers are illustrated, but both the front and rear endpapers have the same illustration. Dust-jacket has large tears and pieces missing. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. Uncommon in dust-jacket.); First UK edition. April 1928 reprint, in same year as the first printing (January, 1928). 316, [2 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 37 illustrations on 31 plate leaves. Blue cloth boards with indigo lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 221 x 135mm. "This book relates the extraordinary adventures of the Citroen expedition through the heart of Africa. Starting in Morocco the expedition worked its way south to the Belgian Congo, and thence eastward to Lake Victoria and Madagascar. In this thrilling account of that great journey pigmies, cannibals, dusky warriors, dancing-girls and strange beasts ferae naturae lie in wait… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine rubbed with flecking to and fading to cloth. Previous owner's name partly erased from front endpaper. Another previous owner's blind-stamp on front free endpaper and on margin of frontispiece. ; xix, [1], 316 pages. Frontispiece within the pagination. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Colour illustrations on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 224 x 141mm. 49 black and white photographic illustrations, some full page. "A short sail of some eight or ten hours from our home here at Lifu lands us on the sister island of Uvea, where we usually spend a month every year. Our visit to this beautiful lagoon island is generally made during the months of May and June, which in these southern tropics are regarded as winter months." - from the Preface, page vii. Contents: Part I - Introduction - Life, Uvea, Origin of Tribes; Characteristics, Physical and… Read More

Skokie, Illinois: Diamond Publishing. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1959. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Some marginalia. Light creasing to upper corners of leaves. ; Nudist / naturist annual publication. 68 pages, including covers. Wire spiral binding. Numerous b&w photographic illustrations. Page dimensions: 11" x 8 1/2". .

London: Collins / Fontana Books. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1961). Softcover. Spine rubbed and creased. Some rubbing to covers. Previous owner's inscription and rubber stamp.; 1961 paperback reprint of a work originally published in 1959. 127, [1] pages. Page dimensions: 180 x 105mm. Fontana Books, number 511. Autobiography. "After their nightmare journey to the Steppes of Kazakhstan and the gruelling labour endured on a collective farm in a barren, unyielding country, a sudden change in Maria's fate makes the last part of her story read like a fairy-tale" - from blurb on rear cover. .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Some staining and marking to boards. Corners of boards knocked and rubbed. Rubbing to cloth at ends of spine. A couple of 1/8" tears to cloth at head of spine. Some water damage stains to front paste down with slight bubbling at top corner of front board. ; [ii], xi, [iii], 299 pages + frontis. Brown cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Illustrated. "An abridged Translation By Hugh S. R. Elliot and A. G. Thacker." Page dimensions: 238mm x 160mm. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Oslo: Bokklubbens Barn. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1992). Hardcover. 8252513530 . Reprint. Unpaginated. Illustrated boards. Page dimensions: 240 x 164mm. Text in Norwegian. .

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1911]. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Very slight rubbing to ends of spine and corners of boards. ; ix, 296 pages + colour frontis + colour plates. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Pictorial paper illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 190mm x 120mm. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Longmans, Green and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards rubbed with stains. 8mm tear at head of spine. 10mm chip to cloth at corner of front board. Moderate foxing. Previous owner's pencil inscription on front endpaper dated 1911. ; xi, [1], 335, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 15 plate leaves. 28 illustrations. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 226 x 144mm. Selected chapter titles: Aarhus and a Pig Farm; Copenhagen; The Credit-Union Banks; The State Small-Holdings; The Kolle-Kolle Farm; A Peasant's Farm at Helsingor; The Trifolium Dairy; Some Falster Island Farms; A Danish Elementary School. .

London: Penguin Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2004). Softcover. No signatures. Price stickers on rear cover.; 325, [1], [3 (advertisements), [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 197 x 128mm. "On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. There, he is brought face to face with Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed: dictator, femme fatale, tyrant and beauty. She has been waiting for centuries for the true descendant of Kallikrates, her murdered lover, to arrive, and arrive he does in an unexpected form. Blending breathtaking adventure with a brooding sense of mystery and menace, She is a story of romance, exploration discovery and heroism that has lost none of its power to enthrall." .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. First one-volume edition. Xvi, 336 pages + 16 pages advertisements dated January 1889 + frontis + 28 plates + slip tipped in to "List of Illustrations". Bevel-edged boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Ends of spine rubbed. Signature on front endpaper dated 1889. Hinges cracked internally. Top page edges dusty. Binding shaky. ; 12mo .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. First one-volume edition. 341 pages. Bevel-edged boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Signature on inside front cover dated 1888. Hinges cracked internally. Top page edges dusty. Pages clean and bright. ; 12mo .

Wellington: Butterworths. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 192, [1 leaf], 296 pages + preliminary leaves + index. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Owner's rubber stamp on endpapers. Selected contents: Davis v Taupo District Council; Batchelor v Waimakariri District Council; Electricity Corporation of New Zealand Ltd v Minister for the Environment; Kawarau Jet Services Ltd v Pro Jet Adventures Ltd; New Zealand Post Ltd v Moore. ; 8vo .

London: Pictorial Presentations / Souvenir Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0285623672 . 128 pages. Library stamps and markings. Sellotape stains on endpapers and dustjacket flaps. 1/2" tear in page 15/16.; Ex-Library; 4to .

London: Pan Books. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (1973). Softcover. 0330247867 . Some rubbing to edges of spine. Some ink marks on page edges. Bookstore rubber stamp on first page.; 1976 paperback reprint. 192 pages. Page dimensions: 178 x 112mm. 12 short stories: The Silver Mirror - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Testament of Magdalen Blair - Aleister Crowley; A Dream of Armageddon - H. G. Wells; A School Story - M. R. James; The Grimoire - Montague Summers; The Evil Clergyman - H. P. Lovecraft; The Slayers and the Slain - August Derleth; The Shifting Growth - John Gawsworth; Along Came a Spider - Algernon Blackwood; The Head Hunter - Robert Bloch; The Haunting of the New - Ray Bradbury; The Curse - Arthur C. Clarke. .

London: Cassell & Company. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1889. Hardcover. Covers rubbed and faded. ; 192 pages. Small book. Light blue cloth baords with dark blue lettering and illustration, gilt lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 142 x 94mm. Series: Cassell's National Library, No. 177. .

Cambridge: Printed for the Hakluyt Society. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Some rubbing and foxing to margins of boards. Dust stains to pages edges. Some foxing.; Two volumes (complete). Volume One: xiv, 210, [2 (blank)] pages + folding frontispiece + 5 plates (3 folding). Volume Two: x, [4], (211)-516 pages + frontispiece + 3 plates (2 folding). Blind-stamped blue cloth boards with gilt ship illustration on front and rear boards. Page dimensions: 220 x 142mm. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Volumes LXXVI and LXXVII. .

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded and rubbed. Moderate rubbing and fading to boards. Narrow split to gutter between half-title leaf and frontispiece, and at rear hinge. Moderate foxing. Folding map in very good condition. Contemporary owner's signature on front endpaper "R? W M MacLeod". Contemporary newspaper clipping pinned to page 157, the clipping headed "Baqubah Re-Taken - Attack by Sikhs - Little Opposition Encountered - Insurgent Ammunition Expended." Some pencil marginalia and underlining on a few pages, including the addition of "40th Pack B[attery]" on page 168, and on page 169 "45th" is crossed out and "40th" is added. ; Uncommon. xi, [1], 352 pages + photogravure portrait frontispiece + 59 illustrations on 30 plate leaves + 10 small in-text maps + 1 large folding map at rear. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and… Read More

Dunedin: Department of English, University of Otago. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1992). First Edition. Softcover. 0959791469 . Pencil marginalia on a few pages. Some blue ink marks on a few pages. ; 188 pages. Page dimensions: 210 x 147mm. Text for first-year university level study of English literature. Series: Otago Studies in English, No. 2. Contents: Introduction; Tudor Poets; Shakespeare; The Seventeenth Century; Romantic Poets; Victorian Poets; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Authors; Index of First Lines. .

Arizona: Arizona Center For Medieval And Renaissance Studies. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2005). First Edition. Hardcover. 0866983325 . Some bumping to ends of spine.; xii, [2], 305 pages. Illustrated papered boards. Inscribed by the author, "For Nicola: Congratulations! 10 May 2007." "Milton's Cambridge Latin: Performing in the Genres 1625 - 1632 follows Milton as a student, performing aloud in each of the Latin genres - required or voluntary - by which Cambridge defined itself in his time there." - from the rear wrapper blurb. ; 8vo; Signed by Author .