Search Results: Authors starting with O from Renaissance Books

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Some adhesive tape stains to endpapers and dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket has strips of adhesive tape on reverse side across the spine, where a plastic covering was taped down. Dust-jacket now protected in archival cover.; "Mariners Library" reprint edition. 1951 reprint of a title first published in 1927, and first published in the Mariners Library in 1949. 272 pages + plates. Buff cloth boards with blue lettering on spine and blue compass directions illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 120mm. Dust-jacket subtitle: "The Voyage of 'Saoirse'". Contents: Introduction by Claud Worth; Preface to the Third Edition; Ways and Means; Crossing the Atlantic; To the Eastward; A South African Interlude; The Indian Ocean; Australia and New Zealand; Tonga; Cape Horn; The Falkland Islands; South American Waters; The Return. Series: The Mariners Library, #8. .

Wellington: N. Z. Radio Publishing Company. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. [1931]. First Edition. Softcover. Overhanging margins of yapped wrappers are rubbed and worn with small tears. Some loss at ends of spine. Some rusting to staples.; No date [1931]. [2], 77, [1] pages. Yapped wrappers. Red and black lettering and pohutakawa sprig illustration on front cover. Page dimensions: 182 x 126mm. An anthology of New Zealand poetry. 44 poets. [Reference: Bagnall L621 - "Poems by C. R. Allen, Dulce Carman, R. B. Castle and others."] .

Wellington: Tross Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2014). First Edition. Softcover. 1872970370 . 221, [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 209 x 146mm. "The Maori Intertribal Wars 1801-1840 were New Zealand's biggest tragedy of the 19th century. An estimated 43,600 natives were killed or wounded by enemy tribes. However, this cataclysmic near extinction of our early settlers is tossed aside as irrelevant when something like the special rights of a mountain are abused [. . .] Setting up the race-based Waitangi Tribunal may well have been the worst thing to happen to New Zealand in the 20th century. This failed experiment in biculturalism has, by its very existence, nearly halted the cultural development of 14% of New Zealanders and is increasingly trying the patience of the other 86%. [. . .] This book asks why we believe things that we know could not possibly be true, and why does our society seem to be operating with rules that don't offer solutions to our modern… Read More

Wellington: Tross Publishing. Near Fine with no dust jacket. (2017). First Edition. Softcover. 1872970532 . 271, [1 (blank)] pages + colour illustrations on 4 plate leaves. Page dimensions: 211 x 148mm. Contents: Prologue; He Iwi Tahi Tatou - We Are One People; 'Our' Culture; Indoctrination - The Closing of the New Zealand Mind; No Maori People in Nu Tirani; An Opposing Argument; New Zealand Pre Te Tiriti O Waitangi; Does the Treaty Force Separatism On Us?; A Fresh Analysis of Te Tiriti; The Fraud Triangle; Te Pakeha Te Maori Illusion; Outcomes and the Way Forward. "Never before has New Zealand's future been so dependent on events of the past, with governments, under the dubious influence of the Waitangi Tribunal, looking backwards rather than forwards, driving us apart rather than looking to the future as one nation [. . .] 'Bi-culturalism' is code for separatism and is driving a sword through the nation's hard won unity while 'co-governance' between… Read More

Gurgaon, India: Vintage Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1991 facsimile reprint of a title first published in 1905. 317, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + plates. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 138mm. "The present volume is an attempt to show the romance and reality of the Himalayas, remote from railways and the usual tourist lines, and little known to Europeans, in general, though famous in the annals of Hinduism, and a region of great sanctity and popiular resort for people of the country. The writing of these pages has been the recreation of leisue in a busy life under Indian skies." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

Dunedin: Department of German / University of Otago. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0959765014 . No signatures. Dust-jacket a little shorter than the book, as issued. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 167, [1] pages. Grey cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 201 x 144mm. Containing 9 contributions by various authors, 5 in German, 4 in English. Series: Otago German Studies, Vol. 4. .

Dunedin: Department of German, University of Otago. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Softcover. 0959765077 . No dust-jacket.; 249 pages. Page dimensions: 210 x 147mm. Various contributors. Foreword + 12 chapters. Predominantly in German, some contributions in English. .

Dunedin: Department of German, University of Otago. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1980. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. ; 311 pages + frontispiece. Page dimensions: 204 x 146mm. Various contributors. Some contributions in English language, some in German language. Series: Otago German Studies, Vol. 1. .

London: Collins. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002216574 . No signatures. Some staining to page edges. Chips to dust wrapper at head and tail of spine. A 1 1/2" tear in front panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Repairs to reverse side of dust wrapper with strips of brown paper pasted down. Adhesive tape stains to dust wrapper flaps. A 1" twink or white-out stain on reverse side of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing. (414) pages. Blue papered boards. Page dimensions: 210mm x 133mm. "No novelist since C. S. Forester has recreated the old navy of the days of sail with such authenticity and such vivid imaginative insight as Patrick O'Brian. [ . . . ] In the present book Jack and his friend have come ashore to enjoy the blessings of the land and the fruits of their labours. A season's hunting and the beginnings of a happy love affair with the entrancing Sophia are… Read More

London: Collins. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002216574 . No signatures. Ex-Library. Library stamps and markings. Dust wrapper laminated. Dust wrapper flaps pasted down to endpapers. ; (414) pages. Blue papered boards. Page dimensions: 210mm x 130mm. "No novelist since C. S. Forester has recreated the old navy of the days of sail with such authenticity and such vivid imaginative insight as Patrick O'Brian. [ . . . ] In the present book Jack and his friend have come ashore to enjoy the blessings of the land and the fruits of their labours. A season's hunting and the beginnings of a happy love affair with the entrancing Sophia are suddenly cut short by a financial thunderclap that turns him from a man of substance into a haunted debtor." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; ; 8vo .

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription. Moderate foxing to page edges. Dustjacket spine very faded. Some rubbing and wear to corners of dustjacket. Dustjacket is price-clipped. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 256 pages. Maroon boards with silverlettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 128mm. .

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Moderate foxing to top page edges and endpapers. Some spots of foxing to fore and lower page edges. Some spots of foxing to margins of leaves throughout. Quite heavy foxing to dust wrapper. No tears in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper rubbed at edges. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 206 pages. Short stories. "Sheer, sheer, the white cliff rising, straight up from the sea, so far that the riding waves were nothing but ripples on a huge calm." - opening sentence of the first story, "Samphire". ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. One plate missing. 3 plates detached. Hinges broken. Some dampstains to margins of endpapers. One plate chipped at margins. ; x, 334 pages + frontis+ 26 (out of 27) plates + 62 pages advertisements. Red boards with gilt lettering and black illustration. Page dimensions: 217mm x 135mm. Selected illustrations: A Kehal Netman In The Jungle; A Mahtam In A Tree; A Mounted Drummer; The Pir Leads The Beaters; Sitting In A Pit For Pig; A House In Sialgarth; The Shrine Of The Sheikh Raju; Women And Babies Going On Pilgrimage. ; 8vo .

Auckland: Penguin Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. (2006). Softcover. 014300624X . No signatures. A nice copy of this title.; 221, [1 (blank)] pages + plates. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 198mm x 127mm. "On 13 November 1990 the still evening air at the tiny Otago seaside settlement of Aramoana was shattered as a lone gunman went berserk, killing thirteen people. It was New Zealand's worst mass killing. The gunman evaded capture for 22 hours until police killed him in a violent shoot-out." - from blurb on rear cover. .

Wellington: City Gallery. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 0908783655 . No signatures. A couple of clippings on John Drawbridge loosely included. ; 96 pages. With essays by various contribtors. New Zealand artist, oil paintings and mezzotint prints. Illustrated in colour. Page dimensions: 251 x 210mm. French flaps. .

Auckland: Godwit. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. 0908877684 . Lacking the dust-jacket. Some rubbing and marks to boards. Institutional sticker and rubber stamp on endpapers. ; 214 pages. Page dimensions: 250 x 209mm. Colour and black-and-white illustrations. Black-and-white photographic illustrations of artists by Robert Cross. Chapters on 18 different New Zealand artists: Michael Smither; Gerda Leenards; Dick Frizzell; Stanley Palmer; Bill Hammond; Joanna Margaret Paul; Nigel Brown; Hariata Ropata Tangahoe; Richard Killeen; Michael Shepherd; Jacqueline Fahey; Michael Stevenson; Richard McWhannell; Barbara Strathdee; Trevor Moffitt; Pauline Thompson; Shane Cotton; Toss Woollaston. .

Oamaru, New Zealand: Published by the Author. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Unbound. [viii], 64 pages. Unbound. A couple of the contents pages are printed in the wrong place (i.e. out of order). Illustrated. Printed from hand-written sheets. "The gaming rules I currently use are 'Elan 3' by Phillip A. Jones. [. . .] I have chosen these Aussie-rules as they appear to be the refined distillation of the international Wargames Research Group rules, but much improved allowing scope for complexity whilst remaining simple." - from the Preface. ; 8vo .

London: Hammond, Hammond & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. (1954). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Condition is worse than may appear from the picture. 2" chip to rear free endpaper. Page edges foxed and rubbed. Rubber stamps to page edges and endpapers. Staining to some leaves. Short tears to blank margins of some leaves. Text complete. A reading copy. ; 224 pages. Maroon papered boards. Page dimensions: 182 x 120mm. "Tough, charming, wise-cracking Michael O'Kelly, journalist and ex-Secret Service agent, should have known better than to venture alone into the dark alleys of the Casbah." ; Ex-Library; 12mo .

Dunedin: Longacre Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (2003). First Edition. Softcover. 1877135895 . 222 pages + colour plates. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 210mm x 140mm. "After decades of hard yakker, harder addictions, then six years of living in an American ashram, Kiwi adventurer W. J. O'Connell loses his right to stay on in the US. He's hitting middle age, has no home, no job, no wife, no bach at the beach, no life insurance. What should he do? Logical really. He'll take a hike." - from blurb on rear cover. "He tries what has become a fairly traditional method for dissatisfied, spiritually questioning Westerners - a physical journey to the East. He climbs a sacred mountain in Tibet; this after ten years of living and working in an ashram in New York. The story is part travelogue, part spiritual quest, part autobiography." .

Dunedin: Printed by Allied Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. [c1975]. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. \; 46 pages. Blue wrappers. Page dimensions: 219 x 147mm. New Zealand poetry, set in Macraes Flat, Otago. "It appeared he sneaked along the road / Took advantage of the fog / And swiped the carcass, ears and all / And fed it to his dog!" - from the poem "Evidence?", page 22. ; 8vo .