Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Renaissance Books

Chicago: P. F. Volland & Co.. Poor with no dust jacket. (1916). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine missing. Hinges broken. Front endpaper with staining and some gummed paper repairs along the gutter. Rear free endpaper missing. Short 1" tears to margins of some leaves. Short tears and chips to margins of front free endpaper and a couple of other leaves. Owner's inscription dated 1920 on front endpaper.; [80] pages. Illustrated yellow papered boards. Page dimensions: 230 x 151mm. Children's book. Colour illustrations throughout. "Then out of the Toy Box come tumbling in turn, / A great number of toys - all their names you must learn." .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1890. Hardcover. Some foxing. Some neat pencil marginalia. Previous owner's signature "T. Hutchinson / 2 Septr. 1893". Same owner's rubber name stamp. Some rubbing and wear to cloth at corners of boards and ends of spine. ; Volume Two, Part One only of a three volume (+ Appendix) set. Stated "Tenth edition." This part by Professor [G. D.] Thane. [iv], 146 pages. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 255 x 163mm. Illustrated with 168 figures (wood engravings). This part covers Osteology. Contents of this volume: The Skeleton and Bones Generally; The Vertebral Column; The Thorax; The Bones of the Head; The Skull as a Whole; General Morphology of the Bones of the Head; Bones of the Upper Limb; The Pelvis and Lower Limb; Morphology of the Bones of the Limbs. .

London: Methuen & Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1925). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signatures. Gutter split. 1/8" hole along front spine joint. Spine darkened. ; vi, (186) pages + advertisements. Yellow cloth boards with black illustration. Page dimensions: 168mm x 103mm. Selected Contents: Parodies: 1. The Hero At Home 2. The Hero Abroad 3. The Peculiar Lady; My Brother Gregory: 1 The Perfect Guest 2 The Fan-Belt; Studies Of Strange Lives 1 Tulius 2 The Knight Sir Agravaine; Theatrical Notes; A Few Good Books. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Dunedin: St Martin Island Community. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (2008). First Edition. Softcover. 0473142090 . No signatures. 15mm abrasion to corner of front cover.; xii, 218 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 240 x 170mm. Illustrated. A history of this island in the Otago Harbour. .

London: John Murray. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound by amateur binder. Later endpapers. Chip to blank corner of pp. (iii-iv). Chips to blank margins of final leaf of index.; [iv], 542 pages. Page dimensions: 216 x 134mm. Pages 52-65 on Richard Cruise's "Journal of a Ten Months' Residence in New Zealand". Pages 76-111 on the North American Indians (based on John D. Hunter's "Memoirs of a Captivity [. . .]" and James Buchanan's "Sketches of the History [. . .]"). .

Christchurch: The Pegasus Press. Fair in Good dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 166 pages. With an introduction by Alan Mulgan. Some dampstains to margins throughout. Dampstains to endpapers. Page edges dust stained. Some staining to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper rubbed at edges. No tears in dust wrapper. A reading or working copy only. ; 8vo .

Queenstown: Daily Representative. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Moderate rubbing and creasing to overhanging margins of the wrappers.; (24) pages + plates. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm.Souvenir booklet with historical notes on the area. "Of the ring of towns which marks the old border of British Kaffraria - in their early days the outposts of civilisation in this portion of South Africa - none possesses a more interesting history, or a brighter future, than Queenstown" - page 3. ; 8vo .

London: Dean & Son. Fair with no dust jacket. [c1900]. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. No date (c.1900) . 112 pages. Paper covered boards. Paper split at edges of spine. Boards rubbed and worn. Price erased from front board. Internally good. ; 12mo .

London: Cassell and Company. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. (1932). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Dust stains to top page edges. Dust-jacket faded with dust stains. Chips to ends of dust-jacket spine and corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xi, [1], 273, [3 (blank)] pages. Green cloth boards with red lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 137mm. Contents: By Way of Explanation; Dogged by Superstition; Trading on Credulity; Secrets of the Marriage Market; Life Means Less Than Death; Murder as an Art; Caste as a Curse; Religion as a Business; The Underworld and its Inhabitants; And the Rest?; Index. .

Auckland: The Shed. Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1975). First Edition. Softcover. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Adhesive tape on spine and covers. Previous owner's rubber name stamp. ; 40 pages. Orange card covers with printed green dust-jacket. Page dimensions: 206 x 147mm. Poetry. .

Wellington: State Services Commission. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (1990). First Edition. Softcover. 0477055389 . No signatures. Some wear to corners of covers.; xv, [1], 442 pages. Page dimensions: 241 x 151mm. New Zealand political history, Public Service Act of 1913, Public Service Commissioner, New Zealand's "expericence of apolitical public service personnel management and the pursuit of public service efficiency". .

London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's blind-stamp on the title page ("Hardwicke Knight / Broad Bay / Dunedin"). Boards and page edges dust-stained.; 258 pages + frontispiece + 14 illustrations on 7 plate leaves + maps on endpapers. Yellow cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. Travel, Arabia. Selected chapter titles: The Road to Aden; Forbidden Places; The Desert of Stone; Starlight; The Fury of the Heavens - Our Caravan is Washed Down from the Djol; The Caravan hastens from Sif; Desertion; Sheba and Solomon; The First Menelik - and the Last; Henan Affairs and the Return to Shibam; An Unknown Desert Eden; The Safety of the Sea. [Seller Ref: KnightCol]; 8vo .

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Some library markings. Lacking the dust-jacket.; First printing. 190, [2 (blank)] pages. Brown cloth boards with red-brown lettering on spine and illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 213 x 142mm. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Children's novel, about a zoological expedition to the mountains of Southwest China and eastern Tibet. "A particular desideratum is to obtain specimens of the Tibetan snow leopard, which, to the best of our knowledge, has never been killed or captured by a white man." - page 12. .

London: Collins. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1971). Hardcover. 0001604066 . Blank front free endpaper torn out. Some rubbing to ends of spine.; Reprint edition. 160 pages. Illustrated boards. Page dimensions: 180 x 118mm. Series: The Nancy Drew Series / The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #6. .

London: Collins. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1971). Hardcover. 0001604066 . No signatures. Some rubbing to ends of spine.; Reprint edition. 160 pages. Illustrated boards. Page dimensions: 180 x 119mm. Series: The Nancy Drew Series / The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #6. .

London: Collins. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1971). Hardcover. 0001604066 . Previous owner's name and address. Upper 30mm strip clipped from front free endpaper.; Reprint edition. 160 pages. Illustrated boards. Page dimensions: 180 x 118mm. Series: The Nancy Drew Series / The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #6. .

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Fair with no dust jacket. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Library stamps and markings. Including call number at tail of spine. 1/2" tear at head of spine. ; First Edition in English. 206 pages. Cloth Boards. Contents Include: The German Empire and the Question of Alsace-Lorraine; the Alsace-Lorrainers and the Question of Alsace-Lorraine; The Historical Aspect of the Question of Alsace-Lorraine.; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Wellington: Bridget Williams Books. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. (1992). First Edition. Softcover. 0908912307 . No signatures. ; 215 pages. Volume Three of Lauris Edmond's Autobiography. .

Sydney: University of New South Wales / UNSW Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. 0868406333 . Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Covers laminated in clear plastic.; xxii, 281 pages. Page dimensions: 229 x 152mm. Essays by various contributors. "Why have the stories of the first settler societies in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand exercised such a hold over our collective consciousness? And why is this history once again part of contemporary political and cultural debate?" - from blurb on rear wrapper. ; 8vo .

Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. 0340265078 . No signatures. Some foxing to book and dust-jacket. No tears to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 232 pages. Black boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 122mm. Science fiction. "John Hobson, research scientist at a crisis in his career, wakes one morning in a motel in Thames, New Zealand to find the town is deserted." - from dust-jacket blurb. This novel was later made into a film directed by Geoff Murphy, starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Peter Smith. .