Search Results: Titles starting with G from Renaissance Books

London: Longmans, Green and Co.. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Some damage to front free endpaper. Some foxing. A 2"chip, a 1"chip and a 1" tear to front panel of dust wrapper. 1/2" missing at each end of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" chips and tears in rear panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xi, [1], 180 pages. 2 small maps within the pagination. Green cloth boards with paper spine label. Contents: Preface; Chronological Table; Introduction; Childhood and Youth; Early Missions in New Zealand; First Impressions of New Zealand; The Maoris and the Settlers; The Call of the Pacific; Church Organization in New Zealand; Bishop Selwyn's Work in England for Foreign Missions; The Melanesian Mission; The Maori Wars; Return to England and Last Years;; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

[hamilton]: Printed for Private Circulation [The Waikato Times]. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1945. First Edition. Original Wraps. 17, [2] pages. Printed blue paper wrappers. Dimensions: 9 1/2" by 7 ". 1/4" tears and some browning to margins of wrappers. "'G. B. Lancaster' is the pen-name of Edith Joan Lyttleton, a woman whose childhood and early womanhood, at any rate, belong to New zealand. For a number of years she has been on the United States list of 'best-short-story writers. ' It was with 'Pageant, ' published some three years ago, that she became the foremost novelist of New Zealand [...]" - page 3. [Reference: Bagnall D226].; 8vo .

Chicago: The Free Methodist Publishing House. Good with no dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Some fraying and small loss to cloth at ends of spine and corners of boards. Splits to gutters at hinges. Previous owner's rubber stamp on front endpaper. ; xix, [1], 317, [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 1 folding map. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 193mm x 133mm. Illustrated. Biography. Christian missionary work in Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa. .

Glasgow: Mccorquodale & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. [1911]. Fifth Edition. Original Wraps. Cloth wrappers rubbed and worn with fraying at edges. Moderate rubbing to page edges. Gutters broken at endpapers. Internally good. No loose leafs. ; No date [1911]. 50 pages of text + 101 pages of music. Includes "Recipe for Scotch Haggis"; "The Dangers of Tea-Drinking"; "Smugglers and Smuggling"; "Scotch Whisky" by a Doctor of Medicine; 20 pages of "Local Anecdotes" (jokes) . Sponsored by "Old Smuggler" Scotch Whiskey. "... The book, as before, has no other a, bition than to be a short collection of familiar Scottish Songs, Highland Music, and humorous stories connected with Stirling and other parts of the Northern kingdom, interspersed with a few facts about Scotch Whisky. Here and there will be found such things as Recipes for Haggis, Scones, Porridge, and Oat-Cakes - in very truth, the book is a veritable Hotch-Potch. "… Read More

Japan: Kokusai Shoin. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 4906319041 . Previous owner's signature. Some rubbing to edges of boards. A 1" tear to dust wrapper. Some fading to dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 298, [1] pages. Text is in Japanese. Hardcover. Includes b&w photographic illustrations of buddhist statuary and sacred sites in India. Page dimensions: 210 x 145mm. ; Japanese Edition; 8vo; 298 .

Sydney: Angus And Robertson. Fair with no dust jacket. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Rebound. Library stamps, labels and markings. A rough working or reading copy.; vi, [4], 275, [1], [2 (blank)] pages + 27, [1 (blank)] pages advertisements. Rebound. Page dimensions: 172mm x 116mm. Selected contents: From Liverpool To Cairo; Tel-El-Kebir And The Desert March; The Move To France; Allied March Through Paris; The Battle Of Fromelles; Into The Somme Battle; Death Of Captian Fanning; The Gueudecourt Sector; Blighty Leave; Officers' Course, Cambridge; Gas Warfare; The German Offensive; The Battle Of Amiens; March Up To Peronne; End Of The Battle - And Hospital. .

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1988). Hardcover. No signatures or previous owner's marks.; 384 pages + plates + maps. Full leather binding. Page dimensions: 208 x 141mm. All page edges gilt. Bookmark ribbon. .

Sydney: Seal Books / Rigby Limited. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1972). Softcover. 0473287897 . Adhesive sticker remnant on front cover.; 292 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 230 x 151mm. Text in English, translated from the Turkish by Pelin Thornhill Ariner. Originally published in Turkish in 2001 as "Uzun Beyaz Bulut Geliolu." "An historical novel, 'A Gallipoli Soldier's Secret' follows the war and its aftermath through the stories of two soldiers - New Zealander Alistair John Taylor and Turk Ali Osman - and two women, one a Kiwi and the other a Turk. Their lives converge with unexpected consequences." - from blurb on rear cover. .

London: J. F. Hope. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, General Assembly Library, New Zealand. Parliamentary Library. Gilt library stamp on spine and front board. Rebacked. Joints and margins of boards rubbed with abrasions. Leather deteriorating at upper margins of boards. Some wear to leather at head of spine. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Split to gutter after front free endpaper. Foxing to endpapers. Bookseller's ticket on front endpaper, "F. A. Guillaume, Colonial Bookseller, Chester Square, London". ; Rare. iv, 392 pages. 19th century tree calf. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Page dimensions: 188 x 119mm. Contents: Preliminaries of the Voyage; Emigration - Government Rules and Regulations for Emigrants - Dietary Scale for Emigrant Ships; Voyages to Melbourne; Melbourne; Diggers and the Diggings; Voyage from Melbourne to New Zealand; An Excursion from Wellington to Queen Charlotte's Sound; Journey from Queen Charlotte's… Read More

Galway: Published by the Author. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Abrasion to front flap of dust wrapper in price area.; 124 pages. Biographical profiles of Galway individuals. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 248 x 184mm. ; 4to .

Sydney: N. S. W. Bookstall Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1911. Soft Cover. (iv) , 191, (1) pages + frontis + 3 plates + 22 pages advertisements. Original covers missing. New thin card covers. Pages browning. Some chips to page edges. Some staining to pages. Some dog-eared corners. Reading copy. ; 12mo .

New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. 182 pages + colour frontis + 5 colour plates + in-text illustrations (6) pages advertisements. First state without rubber stamp on copyright page. Blue-green cloth covers with white and brown illustration on front board. Red lettering on front board. Gilt lettering and white decoration on spine. Top edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Gutters intact. Owner's inscription on recto of frontis. Some rubbing to cloth at edges of spine and boards. Corners of boards a little bowed. ; 12mo .

Christchurch: Shoal Bay Press. Good in Near Fine dust jacket. (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. 090870464X . NB: Unfortunately this copy has not been guillotined properly during production, so the top edges of the leaves have not been separated from each other. It needs someone to go through the book with a knife and open the pages. Otherwise the book and dust wrapper are both in near fine condition. No signatures. ; Not to be confused with the same authors smaller and earlier work "Game Animals in New Zealand" (1968). 120 pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: oblong 279 x 213mm. Numerous colour photographic illustrations of Red Deer; Sika Deer; Fallow Deer; Chamois; and Thar in the New Zealand wilderness. "This distillation of countless hours and days spent in the animals' territory - waiting, observing, interacting - makes this book a singular record of these majestic animals" - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .

London: Barrie and Rockliff. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition. 764 pages. Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. No signatures. Dust wrapper price clipped. 3/4" tear and a couple of 3/8" tears in edges of dust wrapper. "As the great war establishment grows and its machinery grinds on, people's lives are stripped, one by one, of every layer of concealment and pretence. " - from dust wrapper blurb. First published in the USA with the title "The River and the Wilderness".; 8vo .

Fordingbridge, Hampshire: I.C.I. Game Research Station. Good+ with no dust jacket. [c1960]. First Edition. Softcover. Ex-library, with some library labels and markings.; [28] pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 219 x 168mm. Illustrated with somewhat humorous illustrations. "The notes in this booklet were reproduced in the sporting and farming Press during 1956 and 1957. They are practical suggestions as to what can be done on the average shoot - whether keepered or not - to produce the sort of game crop we all want." - from the Introduction. Contents: Introduction; Planning for Game; Vermin Control; Rearing Pheasants; Partridge Rearing; The Knife in the Grass; Nest Management; Take Cover; Death by Poisoning; Counting Partridges; Parasites and Pestilence; Winter Feeding; Forestry and Pheasants; Situation Vacant; Tailpiece. .

London. Poor with no dust jacket. Hardcover. No date (c. 1890's) . [iii]-iv, 334 pages. Gilt draught board illustration on front board. Title page missing. Final leaf of index missing. Front and rear free endpapers missing. Spine title: "The Game of Draughts // Gould's Book of Problems Critical Positions and Games". A reading copy, lacking the title page and one leaf of the index. Cloth covers very worn. 1/4" missing to cloth at head and tail of spine. Cloth missing along much of the tail edges of the boards. Internally tears, creasing and stains to some leaves. ; 16mo .

London: Sunday School Union. Good with no dust jacket. [c1919]. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's inscription. Later owner's bookplate. Some loss at ends of spine and at corners of boards. ; No date. Owner's inscription dated 1920. 128 pages. Pictorial red papered boards with chromolithograph illustrations. Internal illustrations in b&w. Page dimensions: 178 x 125mm. ; The Red Nursery Series; 12mo .

London: Bemrose and Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library labels, stamps and markings. Hinges broken. ; Volume Two only of two volumes. xi, [1], (559)-1404 pages + 12, [2 (blank)] pages advertisements + plates. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, black lettering and border on front board. Page dimensions: 214 x 141mm. .

London: The Verona Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1939 (1947)]. Hardcover. Some minor dampstains to upper margin of title leaf, and blank margins of a few leaves at rear. Lacking dust-jacket and slipcase. ; This copy is number 921 of an edition of 1,200 copies. Printed in Italy in 1939, on paper made by Enrico Magnani, Pescia, however publication was delayed until 1947 due to World War Two. [10], 316, [2] pages + tipped in "Publisher's Note". The "Verona Press wish to make it clear that it is not identical in contents with the standard volume of stories published by Messrs. Constable under the same title." - from the Publisher's Note. Patterned green cloth boards gilt lettered red lettering piece on spine. Page dimensions: 257 x 174mm. Illustrated with colour lithographs by Marie Laurencin. A collection of 14 stories: The Tiredness of Rosabel; New Dresses; Something Childish but very Natural; The Little Governess; Prelude; Psychology; Bliss; Miss… Read More

London: Everyman's Library. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1991). Hardcover. 1857150481 . No signatures. Some rubbing and specks of staining to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xxxv, [1], 267, [1] pages. Navy cloth boards with black panel and gilt lettering on spine. Bookmark ribbon. Page dimensions: 206 x 124mm. Series: Everyman's Library, New Series #48. .