Search Results: Authors starting with N from Renaissance Books

London: Everyman's Library / David Campbell Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1992). Hardcover. 185715133X . No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xxix, [1], 335, [3] pages. Navy cloth boards with black panel and gilt lettering on spine. Bookmark ribbon. Page dimensions: 206 x 125mm. With an Introduction by Martin Amis. A Vladimir Nabokov chronology on pages xxvi-xxix. Series: Everyman's Library, New Series #133. .

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1969). Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Lacking the dust-jacket.; 187, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 132mm. A novel, originally published in Russian as "Kamera Obskura". Translated into English by the author. The English edition was first published in the US in 1938. "Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wide for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." - the opening paragraph. .

London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Contemporary bookseller's ticket on front pastedown endpaper "S.P.C.K. Bookshop Chacon Street, Port of Spain". Spine faded. Slight bruising to head of spine. No dust wrapper. ; First printing. 240 pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. The author's second novel. "That afternoon Mr Surujpat Harbans nearly killed the two white women and the black bitch." - the opening sentence.; 8vo .

Wellington: The New Zealand Ski Association. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Softcover. 25mm tear at tail of spine.; Volume Two, Number 10. Annual publication. Page dimensions: 235 x 184mm. Illustrated. Includes advertisements. .

Wellington: The New Zealand Ski Association. Fair with no dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Softcover. Large chip to corner of front cover. 35mm tear at head of spine with document repair tape repair. 35mm missing at tail of spine.; Volume Two, Number 9. Annual publication. Page dimensions: 235 x 184mm. Illustrated. Includes advertisements. .

Wellington: The New Zealand Ski Association. Fair with no dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Softcover. Chips and tears to spine. Ink scribble on front cover. ; Volume Three, Number 11. Annual publication. Page dimensions: 234 x 184mm. Illustrated. Includes advertisements. .

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Some staining to lower page edges. Moderate rubbing and a couple of <1/4" tears at ends of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xxxii, 630 pages + frontis + plates. With publisher's wrap-around band over dust wrapper.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1966). Softcover. Previous owner's rubber stamp on front cover.; 1966 reprint of a title first published in 1963. 120 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 209 x 148mm. Illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations. .

Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co.. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1957. Hardcover. No signatures. Flecking to cloth boards. ; Fourth revised edition. 143, [1] pages + 25 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Grey cloth boards, red panels and gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 208 x 146mm. Text in Norwegian. .

London: Macmillan and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1897. First Thus. Hardcover. A few marks to boards. Gutters split at endpapers. Moderate foxing. Owner's signature dated 1898 "N Edgar Bagley".; Two volumes (complete). Macmillan's Colonial Library edition. Volume One dated 1897, Volume Two undated. Volume One: [viii], 351, [1] pages + 8 pages advertisements. Volume Two: vii, [1], 471, [1] pages. No maps or illustrations in this edition. Both volumes: Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 190 x 124mm.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Faber and Faber. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1941). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex libris bookplate of M. C. Palmer. Some fading to spine and margins of boards. Lacking the dust-jacket.; 271, [1 (blank)] pages + colour frontispiece + 1 colour plate + 59 black-and-white illustrations on 24 plate leaves. Light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and white panels on spine, white lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 238 x 148mm. Autobiography of an artist. .

Aotearoa (New Zealand): published by the author. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1998). First Edition. Softcover. No signatures.; [4], v, [1], 94 pages. Page dimensions: 210 x 148mm. Author's business card stapled to title leaf, "Big Bad Ben - da biggest baddest bestest businessman in da land / Boxing Promotions / Adult Entertainment / Books". .

Wellington: Steele Roberts. Good with No dust jacket as issued. (2010). First Edition. Hardcover. 187744894X . Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Some wear to spine and corners of boards. ; 112 pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: oblong 279 x 210mm. Black and white photographic illustrations. "Milner Joseph Divis, born in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic), photographed life in New Zealand mining towns Blackball, Waiuta and Waihi, where he worked between 1909 and 1935. Although something of an outsider, Divis loved this country. When he died in 1967 he was one of the last inhabitants of the ghost town of Waiuta, site of one of the richest gold-bearing quartz reefs in New Zealand. Thanks to Divis's graphic and sensitive work, we have an extraordinary record of the isolated and often dangerous life in our frontier communities - above the ground and deep beneath it - seen through the eyes of a miner." - from blurb on rear cover. .

Invercargill: Craig Printing. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1992). First Edition. Softcover. 0349118485 . No signatures. Some rubbing to edges of covers. Some foxing to margins of covers and endpapers.; 176 pages + 32 colour illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 218 x 148mm. New Zealand regional history, Stewart Island. Reminiscences of growing up on Stewart Island. Appendix I - An Island Bookshelf (pp. 107-118) is a survey of historical books on Stewart Island. .

Wellington / Palmerston North: Published by the authors with the aid of New Zealand Founders Society. Good with no dust jacket. (1987). First Edition. Softcover. 0473004801 . Dampstains to covers. 10mm tear at head of spine. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on title page. ; This copy is number 133 of an edition of 200 copies. 202 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 295 x 208mm. Black and white illustrations. .

Amherst, New York: Humanity Books / Prometheus Books. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (2005). Softcover. 1591023203 . Underlining on several pages, mainly in Chapter One. Some creasing to spine. ; 260 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 210 x 134mm. Contents: Preface; A Biographical Portrait; The Rhetoric of Cynicism; Diogenes' Metamorphosis; The Philosophy of Cynicism; The Presence of Diogenes; Appendix - Diogenes Laertius: The Life of Diogenes of Sinope; Bibliography (15 pages); Index of Names. "Diogenes the Cynic: The strangest philosopher in the history of ideaas, the man who turned himself ina dog and who chose to live in a tub, the intolerable clown who shocked his contemporaries with every imaginable act of unrestrained shamelessness and who became known as a 'Socrates gone mad.' Who was this peculiar character from distant Sinope who lived among the Athenians and Corinthians with perfect impunity twenty-three centuries ago?" - from blurb on rear cover. . Read More

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0824097769 . No signatures. A few minor spots of staining to page edges. ; xxiii, [1], 722, [6 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 217 x 136mm. "In the preparation of this annotated bibliography on Presocratic philoph, my aim has been to provide information on a wide spectrum of literature which deals with the major Presocratics and in which diverse aspects of their contributions are discussed from various points of view. [. . .] I provide in this bibliogrpahy descriptive information on over 2600 work, but I am certain that many more works could have been annotated, if I had not worked with certain time constraints." - from the author's Foreword. Contents: Foreword; Journals and Periodicals; Bibliographical Works; Source Collections; General Studies; Anaxagoras; Anaximander; Anaximenes; Democritus; Empedocles; Heraclitus;… Read More

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. 0313316724 . No signatures. A nice copy of this title.; xii, 176, [2], [2 (blank)] pages. White boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 229 x 152mm. Philosophy, Classical. Contents: Preface; Sources and Testimonies; A Biographical Sketch; The Interpretation of Homer; Saying Nothing about the No Thing; The Socratic Connection; Antisthenes, the Absolute Dog; Simon the Shoemaker; Appendix - Diogenes Laertius: 'The Life of Antisthenes'; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects. "I have assumed in my own reconstruction of Antisthenes that he passed through various stages of intellectual development, beginning with a Sophistical and rhetorical stage, from which he moved on to come under the influence of Socrates, until eventually he turned himself into a Cynic - the Absolute Dog, as he was reportedly called in ancient times." - Preface,… Read More

Oamaru: Printed by the Oamaru Mail. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Soft Cover. No signatures. Some creasing to wrappers. Some rubbing to ends of spine. 3/8" tear at head of paper spine. ; 100 pages. Paper wrappers. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 213mm x 128mm. With a foreword by The Primate And Archbishop Of New Zealand The Most Reverend N. A. Lesser. ; 8vo .

London: J. & C. Mozley. Good with no dust jacket. 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library with library stamps and markings. Owner's signature. Some staining to front board. Two 1/2" tears to cloth at head of spine. Some loss to cloth at head of spine. 1/2" split to cloth at tail of spine. Some knocking and bumping to corners of boards. 1/4" loss of cloth at bottom corner of front board. ; lxxvii, 340 pages. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Title continues: "A Series of Extracts, Translated from the Sermons of the Middle Ages, Chronologically Arranged: With Notes and an Introduction."; Ex-Library; 8vo .