Search Results: Authors starting with S from Renaissance Books

[New Zealand]: [s.n.]. Good+ with no dust jacket. [c1946]. First Edition. Softcover. Foxing and some creasing to wrappers. Previous owner's signature. ; 62, [2] pages. Wrappers with blue illustraion on front wrapper. Page dimensions: oblong 212 x 139mm. Illustrated by J. F. A fictional story about Corporal Herbert Simkins, of the 2NZEF. Page for autographs at rear, without any autographs. Sumpter also wrote "Excuse my feet! (Being the full adverntures of Herbert Simkins, of 2nd N.Z.E.F." using the pseudonym "The Sarge". Military fiction, World War Two. [Bibliographical reference: Not in Bagnall] .

Pacific Ocean: RMS Tahiti. Fair with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Tears and chips to margins of wrappers and first leaf.; Memorabilia from one year before the loss of the vessel. [36] pages. Page dimensions: 286 x 214mm. Also included is a "Souvenir Programme" for a "Combined Conert, Dance, Prize-Giving and Farewell Evening" on the Second Saloon Deck, July 31st, 1929. The programme has the signatures and addresses of 17 passengers, including passengers from England, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Bermuda. Also included is a ephemera for the Tahiti Cup Meeting of the RMS Tahiti Jockey Club, 25 July 1929. The RMS Tahiti was a New Zealand passenger steam ship. It sailed between San Francisco and Sydney, stopping at New Zealand and Tahiti. In August 1930 the ship sank 400 miles from Rarotonga, after a propeller shaft broke and created a hole in the stern of the ship. All passengers were saved. [Internet Reference: wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?32137].… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2021. Softcover. 1684512298 . Owner's signature. Spotting to page edges. Browning to dust wrapper spine. A couple of 1/8" tears at head of dust wrapper spine. 1/8" tear at tail of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; Paperback reprint. 240 pages. Page dimensions: 215 x 137mm. "The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threatened than it is today by the stifling forces of political correctness.Dr. Gad Saad, the host of the enormously popular YouTube show THE SAAD TRUTH, exposes the bad ideas—what he calls “idea pathogens”—that are killing common sense and rational debate. Incubated in our universities and spread through the tyranny of political correctness, these ideas are endangering our most basic freedoms—including freedom of thought and speech." .

London: Rebman Limited. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1911. Second Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library, "Otago University, Staff Library, Medical School." Spotting to endpapers. Some rubbing to ends of spine and corners of boards. 1/4" tear to cloth at tail of spine. ; xv, [1], 186 pages. Green cloth boards. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 185mm x 113mm. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Paul Elek. Good+ in Good dust jacket. (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. 0236310607 . No signatures. Some spotting to top page edges. Dust wrapper is price-clipped. Several tears and chips up to 1/2" in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; First edition in English. 237 pages street maps of Paris on endpapers. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, reference department. Library stamps, labels and markings. 5mm missing to cloth at head of spine. 22mm tear to cloth at head of rear joint. Narrow splits to gutters at hinges.; First edition in English. xv, [1], 568 pages + 8 pages advertisements. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, rule, and publisher's emblem on spine. Gilt border on front board. Top page edges gilt. Page dimensions: 191 x 128mm. Text in English, translated from the 1875 German first edition "Geschichte der Botanik vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1860." "I would desire that whoever reads what I have written on Charles Darwin in the present work should consider that it contains a large infusion of youthful enthusiasm stilll remaining from the year 1859, when the 'Origin of Species' delivered us from the unlucky dogma of constancy. Darwin's later writings have not inspired me with the like feeling.… Read More

London: Watkins Publishing. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (2008). Softcover. 1905857918 . No signatures.; x, 229, [1 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 215 x 134mm. "What does Buddhism have to say about sickness, poverty, and warfare-or social and political action? Would the wisest, most renowned Buddhist teachers go on the record and reveal their thoughts and perspectives on a wide array of contemporary issues? Robert Sachs decided to find out: he created a questionnaire, brought it to some of the most esteemed Buddhist masters, and interviewed them. Their comments and conclusions are inspirational…and often surprising. Here are the observations of deeply spiritual thinkers on the global problems that confront us today, from the conflict in the Middle East to global warming. These are people who are steeped in meditation, widely traveled, and have seen human misery and warfare with their own eyes. They offer empowering words of wisdom and show us how we can become part… Read More

London: The Cargate Press. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. [1931]. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's names on front endpaper and title page. Splitting along gutter at front hinge. Joints rubbed. Foxing. Some dampstains along margins of plate leaves. Pencil underlining and marginalia.; [i-iv] 9-255 [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 29 illustrations on 23 plate leaves. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 192 x 133mm. Account of missionary work in Hyderabad, India. .

London: The Hogarth Press. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Light crease to cloth at lower corner of front board. Ex libris bookplate on front endpaper, and another earlier owner's name dated 1944. Scattered spots of foxing to preliminary leaves. Dust-jacket with chips and tears to margins, some smudge marks and stains. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 56, [7], [1 (blank)] pages. Pink cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 136mm. Poetry. "It is of a more philosophical nature, its theme being the poet's intimate reflections induced by the solitude of night, reflections upon love, God and the universe, beauty and truth, life and death." - from front panel of dust-jacket. .

London: John Russell Smith. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1859. Hardcover. Some fading to spine. Front endpaper split along gutter at front hinge.; [4], l, [2], 161, [2], [1 (blank)] pages + [4] pages advertisments + engraved portrait frontispiece. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 174 x 105mm. Includes biographical memoir and appendix on pages i-l, "The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex, in Five Acts", "The Last Parte of the Mirrour for Magistrates", "The Complaint of Henry Duke of Buckingham". Series: The Library of Old Authors. .

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1914). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine rubbed and faded. 6mm chips and tears to cloth at head and tail of spine. Some fading and rubbing to boards. Some dampstains along outer 15mm margin of boards. Moderate foxing. Previous owner's name on front endpaper "Molly Luxmore / Nov 24th 1918". ; ix, [1], 184 pages + 16 tipped-in colour illustrations (including frontispiece). Blue cloth boards with silver illustration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 224 x 173mm. Fairy tales. Contents: The Dream-Pedlar; The Disastrous Bucket; The Sad Story of the Heart of Colinette; The Poet, the Painter, and the Witch-Girl; The Prince who was Harrassed by Dreams; The Old Woman and the Magic Cauldron; The Beautiful Princess; The Luck-Shop; Ydrun and the Prince; The Enchanted Mirror; The Painter and the Winds; Strange Adventures of Mrs. Wigan; The Poet, Twilight, and Miss Alicia; Columbine in Cricklebury; The… Read More

[New Zealand]: Tasman Image. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1998). First Edition. Softcover. 0473054868 . This copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 359 pages. A "partly autobiographical novel set in New Zealand and Fiji in the latter half of 1959 [. . .] While striving to recruit local women to this cause, he meets and falls in love with the beautiful Helen and also meets James Anthony ("Albert Jeffrey"), the Fiji-Indian trade union leader who talks of becoming "the Castro of Fiji" [. . .] The dramatic political action in the book is leavened by a youthful idealism, a determination to make the world a better place, which was then common, but which has since declined as politicians under the influence of New Right ideology have multiplied local problems while ignoring larger and wider world problems." ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Paraparaumu Beach: Sage Publishing. Near Fine with no dust jacket. (1999). First Edition. Softcover. 0473063581 . No signatures. Price sticker on inside of rear wrapper.; 224 pages. Page dimensions: 210 x 148mm. Paranoid delusions? Or a man on the run in New Zealand and Australia, being followed by NSA assassins, together with a NZ SIS cover-up. . . you be the judge. . . ; 8vo .

London: Printed for R. Juigne. Fair with no dust jacket. 1818. Hardcover. Condition is fair only. Binding poor. Cloth boards heavily rubbed and stained. Hinges broken. Some chips to letterpress on some plates. One plate detached from the stub (Number XV, England), this plate also with some chips and tears to the letterpress. One plate with very heavy foxing (Number XXIX, Germany). Map of Americas is very good with light uniform foxing, but with upper border to the letterpress cropped. Double page world map with creasing. ; "Second Edition" stated on title page. [2 (recto: Title, verso: blank)], (1)-2 (Introduction), [2 (recto: Subscribers, verso: blank)] + 39 double page plates, all with contemporary hand-colouring. 18 of the plates have maps. 5 of these have 2 maps, 1 on each page. 1 is a double page world map. The Introduction only calls for 38 plates. The 38 numbered plates called for are present, but in addition there is a second map of Europe which precedes the… Read More

Oxford: John Henry Parker. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. Hardcover. 15mm missing to cloth at head of spine, 20mm missing to cloth at tail of spine. Spine and boards rubbed and faded. Front hinge broken. Some pencil marginalia. Some foxing. Corner clipped from front endpaper. Previous owner's inscription dated 1906 on front endpaper. A good rough working or reading copy. ; xl, 363, [1 (blank)] pages + 8 pages advertisements. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.Page dimensions: 217 x 137mm. Preface by E. B. Pusey on pages iii-xxxv. Text and footnotes in English. The complete Confessions of Saint Augustine in an English translation (13 books, complete in one volume). Augustine's "Confessions" were originally written in Latin, circa 397-400 CE. .

London: John Camden Hotten. Good with no dust jacket. [1869]. Hardcover. 10mm tear to head of front joint. 10mm chip to face of spine cloth. 10mm chips to cloth along corners of boards. Hinges broken. Top 25mm blank margin trimmed from title leaf. ; No date on title page. Preface dated 1865, publisher's advertisements for 1869 at rear. [x], 121, [1]; 96; [2], 198; 96; 96 pages + 24 pages advertisements "Special List for 1869". Maroon cloth boards with gilt on spine and front board. Page dimensins: 183 x 120mm. George Augustus Sala has an anecdote about Artemus Ward (a pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne) and Utah in his 3 page Introduction - "It was on the occasion of a convivial meeting of New York journalists at a place in Houston Street, called 'The House of Lords,' on which occasion. I remember, a mighty bowl of punch was brewed, on the hospitable assumption that it was the beverage most grateful to the British palate. I was well night breathless to hear the… Read More

London: George Routledge and Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. [1874]. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, with library name "Pine Bush Library" and number in ink on front endpaper. No other library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Hinges broken. Wear and small losses to cloth at ends of joints and at corners of boards. ; iv, 367, [1] pages + (19)-30 pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 167 x 111mm. Children's novel. ; 16mo .

London: J. Walker, White And Cochrane; C. Law; J. Johnson And Co. Fair with no dust jacket. 1812. Hardcover. Spine leather deteriorated. Front board of Volume Two detached. Owner's inscriptions. Rubbing and wear to edges of boards and to spines. 2" split to leather at head of front spine joint on Volume One. 2 1/2" split to leather at tail of rear spine joint on Volume One. Up to 3/4" loss of leather at corners of boards on volume one. Internally good. ; Volume One: xvi, 256 pages + folding view of Mecca + 3 charts (2 folding). Volume Two: iv, 523 pages. Full leather boards with gilt decorations. Black spine labels. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Title continues, "Translated From The Original Arabic. With Explanatory Notes, Taken From The Most Approved Commentators. To Which Is Prefixed, A Preliminary Discourse, By George Sale." Page dimensions: 212mm x 130mm. The preliminary discourse by George Sale takes up most of Volume One. ; 8vo .

London: T. C. & E. C. Jack. Very Good- with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. No free endpapers, apparently as issued. 3/8" split to cloth in front joint. Moderate rubbing and fading to spine and boards. ; No date (c. 1910? ). Blue cloth covers with titles in white and black on front board. 21 names listed in index, including: Darwin; Galton; Haeckel; Mendel; Reid; Spencer; Weismann. ; Shilling Scientific Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 118 .

London: Pickering & Inglis. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. [c1940]. Hardcover. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket with losses at end of spine and at corners. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; No date [c1940]. "Twelfth Edition - revised and enlarged". 222, [2] pages. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 182 x 119mm. A one page "Addendum" follows page 222. The Addendum begins: "In Chapter 13, we referred to the Conference of Jews and Arabs which was called by the British Government and held in London from February 7, 1939 [. . .]" "Few subjects can interest us more than that of the Remarkable Jew, with all the amazing vicissitudes that from his history from the call of Abraham to the time when the Messiah Himself shall appear to deliver him from international oppression." - from dust-jacket blurb. Rear panel of dust-jacket lists 8 publications by the author, "Remarkable Books which show how… Read More