Search Results: Titles starting with H from Renaissance Books

London: MacMillan. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. 0333246985 . No signatures. Some fading to edges of boards. Crease along spine. Some fading to dust wrapper spine. No tears. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xii, 288 pages. Brown cloth boards. Page dimensions: 215mm x 135mm. "This comprehensive study provides a critical survey of the whole range of Well's fiction, including the novels, the scientific romances and the short stories." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .

Sydney: The Naval Historical Society of Australia. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Some rubbing and creasing to paper spine. Some marking to wrappers. ; [iv], 108 pages. Illustrated card wrappers. Page dimensions: 212mm x 138mm. Number 509 of 1000 copies.; 8vo .

Dunedin: Association Churches Of Christ In New Zealand. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1970). First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Some creasing to wrappers. 1/2" tear to rear wrapper. ; 88 pages. Card wrappers. Page dimensions: 213mm x 134mm. "A. L. Haddon arrived in New Zealand in 1927 to become Principal of the Churches Of Christ College, established that year. He served as Principal for 35 years and gave distinguished leadership to the Association Churches of Christ. For 24 years, he edited 'The New Zealand Christian', the monthly paper of that communion." - from the inner wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .

London: T. Fisher Unwin. Good with no dust jacket. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels, and markings. Narrow splits to gutters at hinges.; First edition in English. 336 pages + colour frontispiece 12 black and white plates. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 220 x 142mm. Top page edges gilt. Biography of the German zoologist and naturalist Ernst Haeckel 1834-1919). Text in English, transalted by Joseph McCavbve. With introduction and supplementary chapter by the translator. .

London: Watts & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Softcover. Chips and teas to paper spine. Foxing to wrappers. Internally good. Ink number on title page.; 128 pages. Printed paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 213 x 146mm. Illustration on front wrapper. ; Rationalist Press Association Extra Series, No. 2.; 8vo .

Timaru: G. F. Ward & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1948]. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some rubbing to edges of spine and boards.; [vi], (11)-57, [2] pages. Green papered card boards. Page dimensions: 161 x 117mm. Light-hearted account of European settlement in Otago. "Meanwhile Dunedin was progressing slowly for the upliftment of its inhabitants. One improvement was the building of a good bridge across the Water of Leith. For a long time the people had to put up with a very rickety structure which spanned these waters. Dr. Hocken, in his history of Otago, relates that this bridge was so dangerous that it was a common sight to see adults walking on all fours across it." - page 30. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall W317.] .

The Author. Good with no dust jacket. (1991). First Edition. Softcover. 0959798307 . A couple of adhesive stickers to wrappers. 1/4" tear in rear wrapper. ; Number 1587 of an edition of 2000 copies. Signed by the author. The memoirs of a taxi-driver (cab driver). 121 pages. Ex-libris bookplate of Paul Aubin.; 8vo .

Auckland: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. 0195580818 . Small <1/4" stain to fore page edges. Light vertical crease along dust wrapper spine. A couple of 1/2" tears and a 1/4" tear to edges of dust wrapper. Moderate rubbing to edges of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 204 pages. Green papered boards. Signed by the author in blue ink on the title page. A science fiction novel by New Zealand author Maurice Gee. "[...] Susan is spirited off down a disused mineshaft into the world of O, and is taken prisoner by Odo Cling and the Deathguard." - from dust wrapper blurb.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

London: Robert Hale. Fair in Fair dust jacket. (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Fading to dust wrapper. Brown paper reinforcement to inner margins of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 187 pages. A novel by a New Zealand author.; Ex-Library; 8vo .

Dunedin: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. [1949]. First Edition. Softcover. Rubbing to covers. Rusting to staples.; 64 pages. Orange wrappers. Page dimensions:183 x 123mm. Sport, Cricket. .

Zaltbommel, Netherlands: European Library. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 9028845798 . Previous owner's address label, and typed annotation on sticker on front endpaper. ; [80] pages. Blue illustrated boards. Page dimensions: oblong 204 x 144mm. 76 illustrations reproduced from old b&w postcards. .

Christchurch: Caxton Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Fading to dust-jacket spine. 1/2" tear at head of rear panel of dust-jacket. Moderate rubbing to corners of dust wrapper. Dust-jacket is not price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 51, [5 (blank)] pages. Green and brown papered boards. "Lovely in limbs laid long and the bone- / Wide sockets alive with sky, with sea; / No stranger walks among buttress, snow peak / And cave in this blue iron spine but will turn." - from the poem "Moore Exhibition". .

Dunedin: Square One Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. (2007). First Edition. Softcover. 0958270953 . This copy signed by both author and illustrator, with a short inscription. 108 pages. Page dimensions: 208mm x 143mm. Poetry by Trevor Reeves, with colour illustrations by his Judith Wolfe. .

London: Edward Lloyd. Poor with no dust jacket. 1896. Hardcover. Ex-Library with library stamps and markings. Owner's signatures. Gutters split exposing spine webbing. Adhesive tape repairs to front gutter and to joint of title page on Volume One. ; Volume One: xiv, [2], 286 pages + colour frontis + colour plates. Volume Two: xiv, [2], 302 pages + colour frontis + colour plates + 8 folding maps. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 181mm x 122mm. ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Dunedin: Hocken Library, University of Otago. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1967). Softcover. Previous owner's signature.; 1967 facsimile reprint of an 1849 publication. (14) pages. Stapled. Page dimensions: 128 x 101mm. "The face of the country is everywhere rugged and hilly, and densely wooded throughout." ; Hocken Library Facsimile No. 2.; 24mo .

London: John W. Parker. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Some rubbing to spine and boards. 14mm chip to cloth at head of front joint. Narrow splits to gutters at hinges. Damp stain to upper margin of front endpaper. Owner's signature on title page "William Campbell". Later owner has added author's name to title page. ; This copy has a piece of paper with two printed notices regarding the Canterbury Association pasted to the front endpaper, the notices are both dated Jan 12, 1850, the first with address 41 Charing Cross and the second with address 1 A Adelphi Terrace. viii, 493, [1 (blank)] pages + [2] pages advertisements "Books Suitable for Emigrants". Original blind-stamped green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 166 x 104mm. This work by E. J. Wakefield was published anonymously as by "A Late Magistrate of the Colony. Who Resided There During Four Years." [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall… Read More

London: Boswell Printing & Publishing Company. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some fading to spine. Rubbing to ends of spine. Spotting to top page edges. Some bumping to edges of boards. ; 95 pages. Blue cloth boards. No date [c. 1925]. Page dimensions: 212mm x 134mm. ; 8vo .

London: George Bell And Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1875. Second Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Some knocking to ends of spine. Spotting to page edges. Rear gutter starting. Pencil notes on the front free endpaper. Series of 1/8" splits to cloth along the front and rear spine joints. Some marking and creasing to boards. ; xvi, 423 pages + folding table of concords + advertisements. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 177mm x 110mm. "It is classified by Dr. Bleek as one of the Zangian genus of the middle branch of the Bantu languages. That is to say, it belongs to one of the subdivisions of that great family of Negro languages, which carries on the work of grammatical inflexion by means of changes at the beginning of the word, similar to that whereby in Kafir, 'umuntu,' a man, becomes in the plural 'abantu,' people." - from page one. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1916. Hardcover. Scattered insect worm-holes, particularly to the preliminary leaves, the index leaves and rear advertisements, and to the boards. 1/8" loss of cloth at head and tail of spine. Early cloth repair to lower corners of boards. Endpapers replaced, obscuring the advertisements on the original pastedown endpapers. The replacement endpapers also with some insect worm-holes. ; Uncommon. [2 (advertisements)], x, 344, [8 (advertisements)] pages. Printed papered boards with cloth spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 121mm. "The subject of this book is principally the prevention of disease in mothers and their childred during their sojourn in a tropical country, and it embodies the result of many years' experience in India." - page v, Preface to First Edition. "The present edition of the 'Handbook for Wives and Mothers' has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date, without changing… Read More

Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas. Good with no dust jacket. 1871. Hardcover. Corner missing from paper spine label. Some foxing. Owner's signature in pencil.; Third edition. xviii, [4], 486 pages + [2], 24 pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with printed paper spine label. Page dimensions: 176 x 113mm. Text is in English. Selected chapter titles: The Earlier Ionic Philosophers; The Pythagoreans; Heraclitus; The Atomists; Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; Stoicism; Epicureanism; Neo-Platonism; Christianity and Scholasticism; Descartes; Spinoza; Locke; Hume; Leibnitz; Berkeley; Wolff; The German Illumination; Kant; Schelling; Hegel. ; 8vo .