Search Results: Titles starting with F from Renaissance Books

Wellington. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Previous owner's signature "D Boyes".; [vi],86 pages. 1 illustration. 1 nautical chart. Card wrappers. Page dimensions: 238 x 149mm. The San Benito was stranded and lost on Tuhua Rocks near Mayor Island, Bar of Plenty, New Zealand in September 1981. This is the published report of the Court inquiry. The ship was built in Spain in 1972. "She was a large and specialised fishing vessel some 33.53 metres in length overall and being 230.72 gross tonnage [. . .] In a total of eight tanks she had the capacity to carry 157 tonnes of fish." - page 9. ; 8vo .

London: Faber and Faber. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Ends of spine rubbed, with 7mm tear at head of front joint. Price markings on front endpaper in pencil: 25/-, 15/-, and pen: $2, $2. Some foxing. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; This copy once owned by New Zealand poet James K. Baxter (1926-1972), with his signature "James K. Baxter" in blue ink on the front endpaper. [8 (first leaf blank)], 336 pages. Blue cloth board with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 204 x 129mm. .

Cyprus: Moufflon Publications. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. (2004). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Slight bumping to ends of spine. Slight rubbing and creasing to ends of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 394 pages. Red papered boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 220mm x 150mm. "Diana Wood Conroy is an artist, archaeologist and ethnographer, in whose writing each discipline influences the other." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. (1918). First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing to boards. 1/2" chip to cloth along top edge of rear board. Spine faded. Owners' signatures.; First UK edition. ix, [3], 380 pages. Blue cloth boards. Contents: Substance or Shadow?; Who Shall Decide when Doctors Disagree?; Sleep, The Mystery; Where Science Pauses; Neurasthenia versus the Sixth Sense; "Sleep that Knits Up the Ravel'd Sleeve of Care"; Dreams that have come True; Your Dream Will Find You Out; Poppies and Mandragora; Dream Analysis and Interpretation; Symbolism in Dreams; The Ancient Art of Geomancy; A Budget of Dreams and their Interpretation. ; 8vo .

London: Turnstile Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. ; 268 pages + plates. 1 full page map. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 199 x 120mm. [Seller Ref: TaylorCol]; 8vo .

Christchurch: Pegasus Press. Good with no dust jacket. (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Spine faded and marked. Marking to boards. Spotting to page edges. Spotting to preliminary and final leaves. ; 219 pages. Red papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 194mm x 128mm. ; 8vo .

London: Lion and Unicorn Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. Owner's ink stamp to front free endpaper. Some foxing to preliminary leaves, endpapers and page edges. A nice copy. ; Fawn cloth boards with a black leather spine with gilt lettering. Black panel on front board illustrated in gilt. No. 75 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Top page edges gilt. "The plates have been reproduced by photo-lithography and the book has been bound and printed by the Lion and Unicorn Press at the Royal College of Art. Designed by Denis Priestley." ; 8vo .

London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge. Fair with no dust jacket. 1859. Hardcover. Rebacked in amateur fashion. The original leather spine has been laid down onto the new leather, but this original spine is in very poor condition with very bad dry rot and large chips missing. Internally good. 19th century heraldic bookplate of Francis Digby Spencer Neave. Inscription to Francis Digby S. Neave, "on his leaving Eton", from J. W. Martyn, dated 1860. ; "Fifth Edition with a Glossary". xii, 820 pages + frontispiece. Full leather binding. Calf boards. Amateur rebacking, with later leather spine overlapping the leather of the front boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Page dimensions: 165 x 98mm. A nineteenth century edition of Spencer's long poem, the first part of which was originally published in 1590.; 16mo .

Sydney: The Bulletin Newspaper Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quite heavy foxing to page edges. Previous owner has written a poem in pencil on rear endpaper. Front free endpaper missing. ; viii, (211) pages + advertisements. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 174mm x 113mm. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Wellington: L. T. Watkins. Fair with no dust jacket. First Edition. Soft Cover. Staining and creasing to wrappers. Staples rusted. 1/4" tears to spine at staples. 1" tear to contents page. Spotting to preliminary leaves. ; 48 pages. Card wrappers. Page dimensions: 182mm x 118mm. Signed and inscribed by the author at the top margin of the title page. "The First Edition is limited, and each copy should prove a valuable Souvenir in years to come in regard to The Wishing Well as the authorised Secret Rite How To Wish is confined in this book." - from the title page. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Signed by Author .

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. 0701115343 . No signatures. A couple of contemporary newspaper review clippings of this title loosely included. Some foxing to top page edges. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. [8], 402 pages. Light blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 127mm. "This is a novel about the almost mechanical effects of vanity, lying and fear in a situation where imperfect beings are related to each other by obscure and deep bonds." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

New York: Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. (2012). First Edition. Hardcover. 0199832706 . Price sticker on rear panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xxv, [1], 629, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue papered boards with black spine, silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 235 x 155mm. "'Fairness and Freedom' compares the history of two open societies - New Zealand and the United States - with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these elements take different forms, because constellations of value are far apart. The dream of living free is America's Polaris; fairness and natural justice are New Zealand's Southern Cross. Fischer asks why these similar countries went different ways. Both were founded by English-speaking colonists, but at different times and with… Read More

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Edges of boards worn. Some pencil marks to rear board.; 64 pages + colour frontis + 1 colour plate. In-text B&W illustrations. Illustrated card wrappers with cloth spine. No date [c. 1920s]. Page dimensions: 184mm x 117mm. Contents include: The Fairy Folk; Cinderella; Dummling And The Three Feathers; The Travels Of Tom Thumb; The Golden Goose; Briar Rose; The Mouse, The Bird, And The Sausage. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Cassell and Company. Fair with no dust jacket. (1926). First Edition. Hardcover. Boards and spine rubbed and worn. Corner of boards knocked or burised. 2/3" tear and fraying to cloth at tail of front joint. A couple of dents in rear board at rear joint, one of which forms a puncture hole to the cloth about 3/8" long. ; [viii], [470] pages. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Henry G. Bohn. Fair with no dust jacket. 1849. Hardcover. Frontispiece lacking. Hinges broken. Some rubbing to boards. ; vi, 562 pages + advertisements. Lacking the frontispiece. Blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 186 x 116mm. Text in English, translated from the French. "Bohn's Extra Volume". .

London: Collins Clear-Type Press. Good with no dust jacket. [c1906]. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription dated 1908. Moderate foxing, quite heavy on reverse of plates. One plate with 2" tear to blank inner margin. ; No date [c1906]. [vi], 7-206 pages + [2] pages advertisements + 4 colour plates (including frontispiece.) Red cloth baords with gilt panel on spine, illustration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 182 x 120mm. Illustrated by "H. A." Twenty-three short stories, including: The Snow Queen; The Tinder-Box; The Old Street Lamp; The Little Match-Girl; The Bell; The Flax; The False Collar. .

Wellington: Lyon & Blair. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. Some stains to boards. Staples rusted, splits to gutter of front endpaper around staples. Bookplates of The Epsom Trust and W. H. De Luen on front endpaper. ; [iv], 165, [2 (advertisements], [1] pages. Red cloth boards with black lettering and illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 176 x 118mm. Myths and fairy tales, mostly Maori but with some tales from other places including several from Hawaii.. Text in English. Selected contents: The Fairy Canoe; The Flower of Lanaii (Hawaii); The Giant Warrior; The Slaying of the Dragon; The Hill Fairies; The Maiden Swimmer; The Rainbow Maiden (Hawaii); The Woman in the Moon; The Goddess of Volcanoes (Hawaii); Maui the Hero; The Faithful Wife (New Guinea) The Water-Kelpies; The Ogre's Captive; The Enchanted Water; The Dancing Fish; The Flowers of Paradies; The Magic Spear-Point; The Spirit of the Cave (Mangaia). Series: Lyon &… Read More

London: George Allen and Unwin. Good in Fair dust jacket. (1933). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Some spotting to page edges and preliminary leaves. Some marking and fading to boards. Heavy spotting to dust wrapper. 2 3/4" x 1/2" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" chip at tail of dust wrapper spine. 3/8" x 1/4" chip at head of rear panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 288 pages. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 192mm x 128mm. "The charm of these fairy tales lies in the fact that they people our everyday world with fairies, pigmies, dragons and magicians, and altogether they discover in modern life more wonders than we should expect." - from the dust wrapper blurb.; 8vo .

London: George G. Harrap & Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. [1916]. First Edition. Hardcover. A 45 x 20mm red stain to front margin of front board, slightly affecting front free endpaper. Boards rubbed. Some browning to spine. Four previous owner's names neatly spaced on front endpaper, 2 with dates - 1919 and 2005. Some splitting to gutters at endpapers. Captioned tissue guards present to the 15 colour plates in the main part of the text. Tissue guard torn at plate facing page 62. A few tissue guards with creasing. Plate facing page 102 has a 25 mm tear at lower corner. Plate facing page 260 has blank corner missing (chip is 40mm along longest dimension). Overall a good original unsophisticated copy showing signs of previous ownership but without any major flaws.; No date [1916]. 320 pages + 16 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece) + 24 black-and-white plates. Grey cloth boards with black illustrations on spine and boards. Oval paper illustration on front board. Top… Read More

London / Calcutta: James Nisbet and Co. / Calcutta Tract and Book Society. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature on title page "Rev. G. C. [?] 1881". Rubber stamp on title page "GUGUN CHUNDER DOSS / ENTALLY / 8TH MAR 1881". A few scattered small insect wormholes. Some tape repairs over wormholes on last few leaves.; Uncommon. xi, [1], 248 pages. Rebound (20th century) in half brown cloth and red patterned papered boards. Page dimensions: 190 x 119mm. "Hana Catherine Mullens (1826–1861) was a European missionary, educator, translator and writer. She was a leader of zenana missions, setting up schools for girls and writing what is arguably the first novel in Bengali. She spent most of her life in Calcutta, then the capital of British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal), and was fluent in the Bengali language." - Wikipedia entry on Hana Catherine Mullens, accessed May 2021. .