Search Results: Authors starting with V from Renaissance Books

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Good with no dust jacket. [1926]. First Edition. Hardcover. Some rubbing and marks to boards. Some small 1/4" tears to cloth in middle of front board. Contemporary owner's signature on front endpaper "Mrs Carruthers". Moderate foxing.; 320 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 123mm.A novel. "It is - if you come to think of it - a queer thing that I, James Pollen, a bachelor of independent means, asking little of the gods save their gracious permission to move quietly along my appointed path, should have been pitchforked, so to speak, into a whirlpool of alarming happenings." - the opening sentence. ; 8vo .

London: Robert Hale. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Dampstain to rear panel and spine of dust-jacket. Slight dampstain to rear board. Some adhesive tape stains to dust-jacket flaps and endpapers. Small tears and chips to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket spine faded. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 187, [1 (blank)] pages + 16 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. "The trip which is the theme of this book took the author and his companion over thousands of miles of the Indian sub-continent, east, south, west and north, from the jungles of Mysore to those of Madras, Travencore-Cochin, Gir, Assam and Central India. His object was not to seek thrills, but merely to see the wild creatures and how they live, and to study their behaviour towards each other and towards man. This is a book not only for the naturalist, the zoologist, the shikari, the forester, the traveller,… Read More

London: The Centenary Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. (1940). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature and ink number on front endpaper. Dampstain to dustjacket spine. Tear to dustjacket spine. Creasing to dustjacket. Dustjacket is price-clipped. ; 93 pages. Green cloth boards with paper title label on front board. Page dimensions: 164 x 105mm. Politics, business, religion. Socialism vs Capitalism. "In a Capitalist regime, as against a Socialist, there may be more scope for evil than for good, but I am by no means convinced of it" - page 72. The author was an underwriting member of Lloyds, and a director of several other firms. He also was a pilot with the first squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force, and flew his own aeroplane around Europe. ; 16mo .

London: Published by Routledge for the Navy Records Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 1138219797 . No signatures.; xviii, 417, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt circular emblem on front board. Page dimensions: 224 x 145mm. 8 chapters by various contributors. "The contents of this, the eighth of the Navy Records Society's 'Naval Miscellany' series, chronicles the activities and adventures of the Royal Navy, its officials, its officers and its men - both in British employment and out of it - over a period of some six hundred years." - from the Preface, page xi. .

Lanham: The Scarecrow Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (2012). First Edition. Hardcover. 0810885700 . Some pencil underlining and marginalia.; xvii, [1], 203, [1 (blank)] pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 227 x 150mm. "While the importance of writing has often been recognized, the role of books and especially that of libraries has just as often been slighted. Knowledge, once generated, has to be communicated, preserved, and accessible. Books in their varying formats-from clay tablets to scrolls and manuscripts to pixels-have been instrumental in spreading knowledge, although relatively little attention has been given to the story of books themselves. A Social History of Books and Libraries from Cuneiform to Bytes traces the roles of books and libraries throughout recorded history and explores their social and cultural importance within differing societies and changing times. It presents the history of books from clay tablets to e-books and the history… Read More

London: Richard Bentley. Poor with no dust jacket. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Joints and hinges broken. Front board nearly detached. Cloth split along entire length of front joint and along most of rear joint. Chips and splitting to cloth along edges of boards. Lacking the portrait frontispiece. Text complete. A rough reading copy. Contemporary owner's signature on title page: "Lt. Col. Wynne Auby[?] Royal Hussars". The signature is cropped a little along the upper edge of the leaf. ; xviii, 384 pages + 1 plate + "Directions to the Binder" slip. Lacking the frontispiece. Early binding of green cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 210 x 134mm. "The great events of which Spain has, for the last three years, been the theatre, rivet the attention of Europe to the heroic struggle of legitimacy, calm in its strength, against a furious and a dastardly usurpation." - the opening sentence of the Preface. ; 8vo .

London: Concord Grove Press. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (1983). First Edition. Softcover. 0886950066 . [6], 86, [4], [12 (blank)] pages. White card covers with orange and purple dust-jacket. Page dimensions: 228 x 139mm. Text printed in blue ink. "'Return to Shiva' is a fresh rendering of eighteen selections from the 'Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana'. Composed by the Rishi (Seer) Valmikim it contains the perennial quintessence of the Hindu spiritual tradition. Cosmology, psychology and refined mode of living are presented in terms of higher states of consciousness. The texts translated here focus on Shive, the archetypal Guru or spiritual Initiator and the supreme regenerative force in the cosmos. The book includes an instructive essay, 'Jnana Yoga', by Raghavan Iyer and concludes with Shankaracharya's 'Ten-Versed Hymn' and a glossary of terms." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

Leiden: E. J. Brill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 9004106081 . No signatures. Some bruising to lower corner of front board. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xv, [1], 400 pages. Blue cloth boards with white lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 238 x 154mm. "This is the first study to survey the field of the anthropology of aesthetics, which during the last few decades has emerged on the crossroads between anthropology and non-Western art scholarship." - from dust-jacket blurb. Series: Philosophy of History and Culture. .

Dunedin: Dunedin Public Libraries Association. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2006). First Edition. Softcover. 1877139939 . This copy with a personalised gift inscripition by the author, signed "Merle". 55 pages. Illustrated card wrappers. Page dimensions: 210 x 148mm. Illustrated.; 8vo .

London: Blades, East & Blades. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1891. Hardcover. Blank corner clipped from title leaf. Pencil marginalia on rear endpaper.; Second edition. viii, 150 pages. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 213 x 135mm. Accounting methods, ledgers and cashbooks etc.; 8vo .

London: The Gryphon Club / Bernard Quaritch. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1910. First Edition. Softcover. Short tears to margins of covers. Foxing and rubbing to covers.; An edition of 200 copies. 53, [4], [1 (blank)] pages + tipped-in slip + plates. Grey printed wrappers. Title page printed in red and black. Page dimensions: 249 x 190mm. "This work is the first publication of the GRYPHON CLUB" - from tipped-in slip. Printed on laid paper with windmill watermark.This copy with Invoice loosely included, dated 1944 from Bernard Quaritch Ltd. to Ronald Holloway. Ronald Holloway (1909-2003) started The Griffin Press in Auckland, New Zealand in 1933. .

Leiden: E. J. Brill. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound. Plates clean. Folding map with small 25mm tear. ; Revised edition ("Tweede Geheel Omgewerkte Druk"). Two volumes (complete). vi, 548; vi, [2], 544 pages + 8 chromolithograph (kleurendruk) plates + 24 collotype (lichtdruk) plates + 1 folding map. Rebound in green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spines. Page dimensions: 250 x 162mm. Text in Dutch. .

Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 3110157462 . No signatures.; xviii, 852, [2] pages. Turquoise cloth boards with black panel on spine, white lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 228 x 151mm. Contributors: Johan van der Auwera; Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera; Paolo Ramat & David Ricca; Martin Haspelmath with Oda Buchholz; Kees Hengeveld; Igor' V. Nedjalkov; Bernd Kortmann; Martin Haspelmath and Ekkehard Konig; Walter Bisang. Text in English. "The present volume is one of a series of nine volumes in which the results of the European research project "Typology of Languages in Europe" (EUROTYP) are published." - from the Preface, page v. Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, EUROTYP 20-3. .

London: C. Arthur Pearson. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Browning to dust wrapper spine. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. Series of 1/4" tears along tail of dust wrapper spine. 3/4" tear at head of dust wrapper spine. 1 1/4" x 1/2" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. ; 220 pages + frontis + plates + advertisements. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 197mm x 125mm. "It is a book of practical instruction for the enthusiast in search of near-perfection, and it covers the subject in thorough detail. It will be treasured by those who know and love the accurate art of ice-dancing - a book to read and re-read during training and tests." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Watford: Model Aeronautical Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. A rough working copy. ; 86 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 206 x 131mm. Rebound in library cloth boards, rebound without the orignal wrappers. "An authoritative work devoted to the theory and practice of design and construction of modern model sailplanes, with particular reference to the International A/2 Model". ; ; 8vo .

Dordrecht: D. Reidel. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. 9027717435 . Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. ; viii, 576 pages. Hardcover. Page dimensions: 242 x 157mm. Various Contributors. "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Methods in Ring Theory, Antwerp, August 2-12, 1983". ; NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 129; Ex-Library; 8vo .

Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 3110157519 . No signatures.; xxii, 1026 pages + [2] pages advertisements. Blue-green cloth boards with black panel and white rule on spine, white lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 230 x 151mm. Papers by various contributors. "When I was first approached with the suggestion that I coordinate one of the groups in the EUROTYP project, I was surprised on two counts." - from the Preface, page ix. Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typlology, Eurotyp 20-5. .

Vancouver: SummerWild Productions. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. 0969280785 . No tears to dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; The ordinary trade edition. This copy inscribed by the author: "for [. . .] / Charles van Sandwyk / December 1992". (47) pages. Purple papered boards. Page dimensions: 255 x 203mm. Colour illustrations. Canadian artist. ; 4to; Signed by Author .

Dharamsala: Information Office, Central Tibetan Secretariat. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1979). First Edition. Softcover. 37, [1 (blank)] pages + folding map of Tibet. Printed blue-grey card covers. Page dimensions: 215 x 136mm. Contents: Introduction; I. The Status of the Principle of Self-Determination under International Law: A Philosophical Notion - An International Political Principle - A Right Incorporated into International Law - Conclusion; II. Does the Right to Self-Determination Extend to the Tibetan People?: Does the Right to Self-Determination Extend to the Tibetan People - Common Values and Disidentification; Stability of Expectations and Popular Support; Viability and Compatibility with Other Interests; Human Rights; Conclusion. .

New York: The New York Magazine. Good with no dust jacket. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. 235 pages + 5 pages advertisements. Minor foxing. Surface damage to front endpaper where price erased. Spine faded. ; 12mo .