Search Results: Authors starting with V from The Last Word

Hamilton, New Zealand: Magicana, 1991. First printing. Cards. Near Fine. Limited edition, 45 of 250 slim 28pp ". Enclosed letter signed by Author.

Bombay, India: Longmans, Green & Co, 1925. Hardcover. Poor. x, 214 pages. Blue clotth covered boards Insect damage to covers.

London: John Churchill & Sons, 1870. Fifth Edition. Leather. Fair. Dr. C. Remigius Fresenius 8vo. 377pp, The 3/4 leather Front and rear covers are detached and two thirds of the spine is missing. Red marbled endpapers. Aware inscription tipped in "University of Otago Session 1874 Laboratory Class 1st prize (aequus) awarded to Mr Peter Seton Hay . 3/4 leather binding Otago Witness , Issue 2767, 27 March 1907, Page 12 DEATH OF MR P. S. HAY. Mr Peter S. Hay, Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, died at Wellington on the 18th. Deceased contracted pleurisy last November, and had been in the hospital for some time ... He was a most able and conscientious officer, and but for his extreme modesty would probably have occupied a much, higher position in the engineering world. He was born in Glasgow, and arrived at Port Chalmers in the ship Storm Cloud in 1860, when only eight years of age. He went through the public schools, and then attended the Otago University, where he gained hie B.A.… Read More

Paris: Babcock & Wilcox , 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Antwerp Dries Van Noten Paris, October 2004 - with many coloured photos and plates - blind stamped cover, 71 pp

London: Sampson Low Marston & co., 1899. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. UK edition. 12mo (108 x 163mm). 247 pages. B/w engraving with tissue guard to title-page, Green cloth,Amazing Art Nouveau picture to teh cover designed by the author - spine titled in gilt. Top edges of pages gilded. Delightful and literary angling stories, mostly based in North America, with a chapter on Norwegian fishing, and one on "Fishing in Books." One illustration loose plus frontispiece a bit loose too. "Light green cloth, with a design in dark green and gilt, of fish swimming among the stems of water hyacinth. The design by Henry Van Dyke, the author. is a beautiful example of art nouveau style." - quote from review of best Art Nouveau book covers.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Blue cloth covered boards, 160 pages, Non Fiction, Signed by W Gray Young, Wellington NZ based architect, whose library it was from.,

Wellington, New Zealand: The Tararua tramping Club, 1949. First printing. Staplebound. very Good. Various issues included: Vol 21 -No. 10 to 12 1949, Vol 22 1 to3, 5 to 12; 1950; vol 23 1 to 6 , 10 to 12 1950 to 1951, vol 24 1 to 3, 5 to 8, 12, 1952, vol 25 2 to 4, 6 and 7 . The last one announces the Queen's Coronation, about 24 in total.

London: Otto Limited, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. Index xiii, 274 pages, 1 Page loose, pages 247 to 264 missing, page 47 has a bit missing to margin.Tipped in colour print opposite here has some creases along the base. Lots of illustration black and white and chromolithographs. Bound in publisher's red-brick cloth

Edinburgh: The Scots Pictorial Publishing company, 1901. First edition thus. Hardcover. As New. Magazines bound into one volume. from 1897 to 1901 - in no particular order. Says 1901 on spine but there are also earlier issues in side.

Auckland: Mirror Publishing Company, 1949. First printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 90 pages, Spine has some splits but mostly intact. Slight chips and stains to covers bit very minimal. The LadiesÂ’ Mirror was published monthly from 1922-1926 by the Mirror Publishing Company. It then became The Mirror : the home journal of New Zealand, which continued to be published until 1963.

Southampton, UK: Old Cadet's Association, 1955. Cards. Fine. Staples 24 pp booklet teal coloured cards

Chicago: Good Counsel Publishing Co, 1956. Hardcover. As New. Hardcover xxxii 912pp, 298pp + 302pp + 96 pages Index to Catholic Doctrine ... White leatherex covers Gilt letter and trefoil with church Gilt edges Catholic Life Edition and titles to spine in gold. A heavy book - extra postage probable to countries outside New Zealand. In original gold coloured box. Like new- nothing filled in: owner or marriages etc all blank.

Wellington, New Zealand: The Tararua tramping Club, 1929. First printing. Staplebound. very Good. 12 magazines 4 pages to each.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 32mo On thin Indian paper viii, 821 pages of Psalms table of kindred, xii, 30 pages, Gift inscription 1940. Some pages creased and corners folded due to thin paper, One page has a 30 x 30 mm loss otherwise in nice condition with no lines nor notes.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1921. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 186pp + 41pp catalogue to front & rear. Soft grey card covers with colour illustration laid onto front, minor rubbing/chipping to edges/spine, slight tearing to spine ends. B&W and colour illustrations, including many full page, some tipped-in, and lots of adverts throughout. This issue includes articles on John Drinkwater, Cromwell & Lincoln, Rudyard Kipling, Gustave Flaubert, sculpture, architecture, jewellery, history, nature and lots more. Includes iIllustrations by Arthur Rackham (tipped in), G C Drinkwater, Eden Philpotts (tipped in), R J Swan, John Singer Sargent, M H Lawrence (tipped in), Mabel Lucie Attwell, Max Beerbohm, C L Stampa, G D Armour, Doris M Palmer, Leo Bates (tipped in), H M Bateman, Edmund Blampied, Jean De Bosschere, Alice B Woodward (tipped in), Anne Anderson and many many more. Also includes adverts for Swan Fountpens, Esterbrook pen nibs, the Burlington Engraving Co, the Grout Engraving Co,… Read More

New York: W. Jennings Demorest, 1882 - 1883. First printing. Leather_bound. Very Good. 810 pages nov 1882 to october 1883 with index. Full brown leather bound with reinforced corners 4 raised bands to spne Gilt edging and titles to spine. 24 issues of the magazine bound together. Lots of fold out embroidery patterns etc. Beautiful condition - slight overall browning to pages from ages is the only thing to note. Leather corners a bit rubbed.

Reynolds & Co., Samuel French. Paperback. Very Good. 64 pp French's funny recitals, part I: a collection of new and hitherto unpublished humorous recitations. Damp stain to rear cover. Some of spine missing

Wellington, New Zealand: The Tararua tramping Club, 1939. First printing. Staplebound. very Good. various volumes incomplete 48 magazines

Wellington, New Zealand: The Tararua tramping Club, 1930. First printing. Staplebound. very Good. 12 magazines 4 pages to each.

Wellington, New Zealand: The Tararua tramping Club, 1928. First printing. Staplebound. very Good. Vol. 1 No. 2 December 15 1928. 4 pages. Ink smudge to front page. Vertical fold (from posting?)