Search Results: Titles starting with R from Renaissance Books

[Wellington]. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. [c1981]. First Edition. Hardcover. Report prepared during study for a Bachelor of Architecture at Victoria University (Wellington). 50, [6] leaves (printed on one side only). Leaves printed by Xerox / facsimile. Blue cloth boards with paper laid down on front board. Page dimensions: 282 x 208mm. Illustrated. "This report studies the church architecture of two early New Zealand architects, Robert Arthur Lawson and Francis William Petre. It presents an outline of their respective backgrounds, influences, construction methods, and examples of their work. It finished by considering the recognised major achievement of each architect: First Church for Lawson and The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament for Petre. In conclusion, after considering their work, an attempt is made to assess the impact of these architects on New Zealand architecture." - Abstract. .

London: Frederick Warne & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. [c1943?]. Hardcover. Some wear to tips of corners of boards. Small bookseller's ticket on front endpaper.; Undated reprint, 1940s. Small sized edition. 87, [2] pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: oblong 135 x 110mm. Illustrations in colour and black-and-white. .

London: Collins / The Crime Club. Good with no dust jacket. (1937). Hardcover. No signatures. Moderate foxing. Dust stains to page edges. Bruising and slight dampstains to corners of front board.; 1937 reprint. 251, [1] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Page dimensions: 178 x 110mm. Crime fiction. .

Edinburgh: Privately printed for Robin A. Hill by Alphagraphics. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2001). First Edition. Softcover. 72 pages. Spiral binding. Page dimensions: 210 x 147mm. Illustrated. Chapters include: Bad Homburg; Grand Tour; Student Days; Leipzig; Baden-Baden. .

Wellington: Educational Services. Good with no dust jacket. [c1940]. First Edition. Hardcover. 21 Assignments in a stationery binding with brass screws. Rear board detached, with the sockets for the brass screws missing. Each assignment about 10 pages long. Assignments on trigonometry, algebra, arithmetic, navigation, physics etc. Includes answers at rear. Also at rear is 12 pages of "Brief Notes on Air Force History, Law, Organization and Administration". Page dimensions: 245 x 155mm. Previous owner's signature "A. L. Mace". Bound in at front is "Air Pamphlet No. 9. Royal New Zealand Air Force. Airmen-Pilots, Air-Observers, and Air-Gunners. Preliminary Syllabus in Mathematics and Physics" (Wellington: Government Printer, 1940, 7 pages).; 8vo .

Wellington, New Zealand: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on front endpaper. Dust-jacket has a three 15mm tears to margins. Small adhesive tape stain at tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xv, [1] , 378, [1], [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 67 illustrations + 6 folding colour maps + 12 in-text maps. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 134mm. Contents: Foreword; The Beginning; First Desert Campaign; Greece; Crete; Escape; Towards the Frontier; Sidi Rezegh; Beyond Tobruk; To Teheran and Syria; Minqar Qaim; Alamein; Advance to Tripoli; The End in Africa; Mule Pack Company; To Maadi; To Italy; To Cassino; To Rome; To the Adriatic; Into 1945; Postscript; Appendix: First New Zealand Escape from Germany; Roll of Honour; Honours and Awards; Index. [Reference: Bagnall H659] .

Wellington, New Zealand: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs. Fair with no dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. This copy is in fair condition only, with dampstains to both boards, to margins of endpapers, and to frontispiece. Extensive staining to rear board. Some dampstains to margins of first few leaves and frontispiece, otherwise good internally. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; xv, [1] , 378, [1] pages + frontispiece + 67 illustrations + 6 folding colour maps + 12 in-text maps. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 135mm. Contents: Foreword; The Beginning; First Desert Campaign; Greece; Crete; Escape; Towards the Frontier; Sidi Rezegh; Beyond Tobruk; To Teheran and Syria; Minqar Qaim; Alamein; Advance to Tripoli; The End in Africa; Mule Pack Company; To Maadi; To Italy; To Cassino; To Rome; To the Adriatic; Into 1945; Postscript; Appendix: First New Zealand Escape from Germany; Roll of… Read More

London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1934). Hardcover. Previous owner's signatures; 1936 reprint. 384 pages + advertisements. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 171 x 108mm. ; Everyman's Library. No. 116.; 16mo .

Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. Rubbing and marks to boards. Foxing. Lacking the dust-jacket.; 198, [2 (blank)] pages + plates. Blue boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 138mm. Illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations. Illustrations include: Drying rabbit skins; Ferreting; The rabbiter and his animal friends; An old-time rabbit camp; A North Island rabbit; A South Island rabbit; Rabbits feeding; Heavy rabbit infestation; Planning a night-shoot; Light aircraft used in rabbit eradication; Dead rabbits on the poison line; The author with a rabbit captured for study purposes; The back country of Glenburn Station; Looking through the Wainuioru Valley; After an East Coast night-shoot; Russian Jack. .

London: Edward Arnold. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Fading to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; vii, [1], 144 pages. Pink boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 140mm. "'The Rabelaisian Marriage' is not intended to be a comprehensive study of Rabelaisian thought. However, under the influecne of his revolt against the vow of celibacy and his monastic calling, Rabelais often chooses to tell us his mind in relation to the problems, privileges and hazards of wedlock. This is a central problem for Rabelais, and the marriage of his heroes and the hesitations of Panurge form the framework of this book." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Introduction; The rhetorical dilemma: the background to Rabelais's thought; Marriage propaganda in 'Pantagruel' and in 'Gargantua'; Old Testament attitudes and contemporary propaganda; The problems of Panurge, the… Read More

Wellington: Human Rights Commission. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Heavy fading to margins of covers. Final leaf detached and loose.; 82 pages. Page dimensions: 295 x 208mm. Most sections bi-lingual in English and Maori. Contents includes: The Myth of Multi-Culturalism; Cultural Diversity; National Identity; Self Determination and Social Change; [quotations from] Submissions [to Human Rights Commission]; Equal Opportunity and Institutionalised Discrimination; Recommendations: Areas of Change. .

London: George Allen and Unwin. Good in Good dust jacket. (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. Extensive neat underlining by a later owner. Small tears and chips to margins of dust wrapper. Some foxing, rubbing and fading to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; This copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To Dr. A. R. Falconer with kindest regards from G. F. McCleary". 126 pages. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 183 x 119mm. "Wilful sterility is, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement." - from dust wrapper blurb. Selected chapter titles: What has brought down the birth rate?; The Rationalisation of Life; The Peopling of America; The Fit and the Unfit; National Quests for More Babies.; 12mo .

London: George Allen & Unwin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. 0043290450 . No signatures. A 1/2" tear at one corner of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xii, 191 pages. Black boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 137mm. Selected chapter titles: The Political Background to the Growth of the National Front and the development of the Party from 1967 to 1982; Urban Processes and the Politics of Racial Exclusioniosm; The Structural and Attitudinal Characteristics of National Front Sympathy; Urban Racialist Politics in England. ; 8vo .

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Good+ in Poor dust jacket. 1950. Second Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Gutter split at half-title page exposing spine webbing. Some rubbing and bumping to ends of spine. 3/8" tear to cloth at head of spine. 5/8" crease to lower corner of front board. Spotting to dust wrapper. Adhesive tape repairs to dust wrapper. 1 1/2" x 3/4" chip missing at head of front panel of dust wrapper. 2" to bottom of front panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; cxxix, [i], 767 pages. brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page Dimensions: 248mm x 160mm. "This book comprises about twenty-six thousand of the best and most interesting proverbs taken from nearly two hundred languages, arranged continentally under language headings, indexed by chief word, subject matter and cross reference." - from the dust wrapper blurb.; 8vo .

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 0522850170 . No signatures. No tears to dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xv, [1], 392 pages. Maroon boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 236 x 154mm. Illustrated. .

New York: The Free Press / Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. (1997). Hardcover. 068482793X . A sticker on the front flap of the dust-jacket obscures a few letters of the blurb. Previous owner's circular blind-stamp on front endpaper. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; This copy signed by the author on the title page, and also inscribed and signed on the author on the half-title page. Seventh printing. x, 468, [2 (blank)] pages + 18 illustrations on 4 plate leaves. Grey boards with dark grey spine. Page dimensions: 235 x 155mm. Autobiography. "Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions." ; Signed by Author .

New York: Mcgraw-Hill Book Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Vii, 200 pages. Edges of spine and boards rubbed. Signature crossed out on front endpaper. Bookseller's stamp on front endpaper. Some pencil underlining erased. Some spotting to page edges. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Who Originates News Programs? ; Types of Radio News; Selection of News; How to Write Straight Radio News; Feature Stories; Women's News; Sportswriting for Radio; Commentary; Interviews on the Air; Special Events; Television News; Appendix; Index. ; 8vo .

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Copyright page has "Printed 1926 in Great Britain by R. Clay and Sons". 160 pages + colour frontispiece + 12 illustrations (some full page). Multi-coloured papered boards. Purple lettering on front board. Spine is green with black lettering. Dimensions: 8 1/2" by 6 3/8" by 1 5/8". No signatures. Some spots of foxing to a few leaves at rear. Some spotting to top page edges. Dust wrapper has a 3" ragged tear in front panel and a 2" ragged tear in the rear panel. 1" and smaller chips at edges and corners of dustwrapper. 1" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper in archival mylar cover. ; 8vo .

Invercargill: Craig Printing Coy. Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Softcover. Edges of paper wrappers worn and creased with small tears up to 3/8". 3" tear at tail of spine. 3/8" x 3/8" chip missing at bottom corner of front wrapper. Minor spotting throughout. ; 79 pages. Brown papered boards with gilt lettering. Page Dimensions: 215mm x 130mm. Illustrated. "My name is Rae Budding, a brand plucked from the burning. There was tragedy upon tragedy in our home. Invention of ideas had not alleviated the toil, the struggle, the crushing effect of the wheel of poverty." - the opening sentences.; 8vo .

Sydney: Horwitz Publications. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1965). First Edition. Softcover. Fading to soue. Some rubbing to edges of covers. Moderate foxing. ; First printing. [4], (7)-130 pages. Page dimensions: 176 x 115mm. This title is No. 21 in the publisher's single author series for Ray Slattery. Cover art by Fred Fowler. "They confused their captain, confounded the enemy and conquered the girls with their crazy tactics!" - from front cover. [Reference: Flanagan, "Australian Vintage Paperback Guide", pp. 92 - "Ray Slattery wrote a number of books for Horwitz under his own name, as well as under various pseudonyms [. . .] The books published under his own name are mainly humour or war stories."] .