Search Results: Titles starting with N from Renaissance Books

Wellington: T.P.R Printing Company. Fair with no dust jacket. First Edition. Softcover. Creasing to wrappers. Staples rusted. Creasing to leaves. ; 39 pages. Card wrappers. Page dimensions: 220mm x 139mm. B&W illustration of the T.S.S. Maunganui.; 8vo .

Auckland: N. Z. Crete Veterans Association. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Rubber stamp on front cover. ; 128 pages. Green printed covers. Page dimensions: 208 x 143mm. Illustrated. Includes advertisements. .

Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (2012). First Edition. Hardcover. 0752464019 . Ex-library. Library labels and markings. Dust-jacket in clear plastic, taped to boards and endpapers.; 238, [2 (blank)] pages + 32 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Page dimensions: 233 x 152mm. "In 1937, Ursula Bower visited Nagaland at the invitation of a friend, and on a dispensary tour encountered the Naga people. She was so taken was with their striking dignity, tribal pride, and unique culture that she arranged to live among them to write an anthropological study. But she became more than an observer—living alone among them, Ursula was integrated into their village life, becoming their figurehead when in 1944 the Japanese invaded the jungles of Nagaland from Burma. The Nagas turned to her for leadership and with the support of General Slim, her Naga guides were armed and trained to patrol and repel the Japanese incursions. The Nagas’ courage… Read More

Christchurch: Nag's Head Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0908784694 . This copy is number 47 of an edition of 80 numbered copies. [64] pages. Blue cloth boards with printed paper label on front board. Page dimensions: 153 x 98mm. Loosely included is an advertisement / order form for this title. Also loosely included is a note [on this title] from the publisher R. S. Gormack - "Hardly worth sending but a single copy is all I have. A large order already supplied to an Auckland bookseller has cleared out the edition - much to my surprise, as it was something of a non-book. p.s. Plenty cricket books left!" .

Harrow: Sun & Health Publications. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Crease to rear endpaper.; Pictorial papered boards. Page dimensions: 299 x 216mm. Black and white photography (plus some colour).; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

London: Panther Books. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (1967). Softcover. No signatures. Moderate foxing. Joints rubbed creasing to spine. ; 1967 paperback reprint. 202, [6] pages. Page dimensions: 178 x 119mm. "The Solarians have become Spaers with a civilisation based on robots instead of slaves, while the Earthmen have burrowed deep into the ground, roofed over their cities, and are terrified of everything outside their caves of steel. Now the first murder for two hundred years has been committed, but who has killed whom?" - from blurb on rear cover. Series: Panther Books #1016. .

Windhoek, Namibie: Gamsberg Macmillan. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. (1995). Hardcover. 0868482854 . Previous owner's small rubber name stamp on front endpaper.; 1995 reprint of a work first published in 1986. 128 pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 212 x 135mm. Colour & b&w illustrations. Botany, Africa. Text in English. .

London: William Clowes and Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Some fading and light rubbing to wrappers.; (514)-516 pages (i.e. a total of 3 pages). An offprint from the Geographical Journal, Vol CXXIV Part 4, December 1958. Original blue printed paper wrappers. Stapled. Page dimensions: 246 x 155mm. "Every Australian schoolboy recognizes Matthew Flinders, Commander of H.M.S. Investigator, as the British seaman who first circumnavigated his island continent. Few, if any, however, realize the extent to which Flinders was responsible for naming Australia. His part has been studied, but has remained clouded with doubt. It is believed that this note, based upon his unpublished 'Journal,' may establish his contribution." ; 8vo .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Some library labels and markings. Vertical crease to middle of spine. Some small 5mm tears and chips to cloth at head and tail of spine. Lacking the dust-jacket. ; First printing. xvi, 310 pages + frontispiece + 26 plates. Original black cloth boards with blue lettering on spine and front board. llustrated front endpaper. Page dimensions: 222 x 143mm. Captioned tissue guard present for all plates including frontispiece. Contents: Foreword by Hugh Ruttledge; Innocents from Nepal - and London; The Secret Shrine; The First Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath-Gaumukh); The Second Crossing of the Watershed (Badrinath-Kedarnath); The Second Nanda Devi Venture. Illustrations: North Face of the East Peak of Nanda Devi; Angtharkay, Shipton, Passange, Tilman and Kusang; Alaknanda River above Joshimath; Landslip; Peaks of the Southern Rim of the Nanda Devi Basin from the "Sunderdhunga… Read More

London: George Routledge & Sons. Poor with no dust jacket. 1897. First Thus. Original Wraps. 155 pages + frontis + 5 plates + 2 pages advertisements. Rear wrapper missing. Margins of front wrapper heavily chipped. 1/2" chips in margins of several leaves. Reading copy. Text complete. ; 12mo .

London: Nash & Grayson. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. (1931). First Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing and dust stains. Some creasing to the folding map at the rear. Fading to tail of spine. Large losses to dust wrapper at ends of spine and top of rear panel. Tears ans some loss to top of front panel of dust wrapper. ; 279 pages + frontispiece + 11 plates + folding map. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 212 x 137mm. Military history. "A brilliant, and at the same time scholarly, accoutn of Napoleon's Marengo Campaign in the spring of the year 1800." - from dust wrapper blurb. Provenance: Hardwicke Night, with his bookplate "The Library of Hardwicke Knight" on front endpaper. [Seller Ref: KnightCol]; 8vo .

London: John Lane The Bodley Head. Fair with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards, rubbed, faded and stained. Fair. Internally good. ; Two Volumes. Volume One: xxxviii, [2], 316 pages + colour frontis + plates. Volume Two: viii, [2], 371 pages + colour frontis + plates + advertisements. Orange cloth boards with gilt decoration. Top page edges gilt. Title pages in printed in red and black ink. Page dimensions: 220mm x 137mm. ; 8vo .

London: George Bell and Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English. Xix, (1) , 288 pages + (4) pages advertisements. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Top edges gilt. Some staining to cloth covers. Some wear to edges of boards. Minor bumping to corners of boards. Some dampstains to endpapers. Owner's bookplate. Gutters intact. Internally clean and very . ; 8vo .

London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1822. Hardcover. Some chips to margins of paper spine label. Later endpapers. ; Volume One only of two volumes. Fifth edition. Title continues: "The Opinions and Reflections of Napoleon on the Most Important Events of His Life and Government, In His Own Words." xxviii, 512 pages + portrait frontispiece + portrait plate. Binding appears to be later blue cloth boards with original printed paper spine label laid down. Paper spine label has "28s. Boards." O'Meara was Napoleon's surgeon. .

Oxford: Pen-in-Hand. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Knocks to lower corners of boards, with heavy 1/2" creasing to boards. Some foxing. Dustjacket is price-clipped. ; First edition in English. xix, [1], 283 pages + frontispiece + plates. Blue cloth baords with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 136mm. Text in English, translated from the French by Louis B. Frewer. The period of Napoleon's captivity on St. Helena. .

Oamaru, New Zealand: Published by the Author. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Unbound. [viii], 64 pages. Unbound. A couple of the contents pages are printed in the wrong place (i.e. out of order). Illustrated. Printed from hand-written sheets. "The gaming rules I currently use are 'Elan 3' by Phillip A. Jones. [. . .] I have chosen these Aussie-rules as they appear to be the refined distillation of the international Wargames Research Group rules, but much improved allowing scope for complexity whilst remaining simple." - from the Preface. ; 8vo .

London: Macmillan and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1865. Hardcover. Lacking the large folding "Map of Arabia" from Volume One. Otherwise very good. Rebound. Later endpapers.; Second edition. Two volumes. Volume One: xii, [2], 466 pages + frontispiece (medallion portrait) + 2 folding plans. Lacking the large folding "Map of Arabia". Volume Two: vi, 398 pages + 2 folding plans. Rebound in half black leather, with red cloth lettering pieces on spines. Page dimensions: 217 x 132mm. .

London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davis. Good with no dust jacket. 1829. Hardcover. Spine leather rubbed and deteriorating. Heavy rubbing to leather along the front joint. 1/8" missing to leather along tail end of spine. Moderate foxing to maps and plates. Some repairs to folding map at rear. Gutter broken at rear hinge. Loss of marbled paper from along edges of boards. 19th century engraved bookplate of Thomas Somers Cooks on front endpaper. ; Third Edition. xii, 445, [1] pages + 8 plates + 2 folding maps. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Page dimensions: 185 x 111mm. "You request of me to keep a journal, and transmit to you a narrative of my expedition, as you say, through the most desolate countries, and at the most dreary season of the year. I comply with your wishes, not because the countries are at this time nearly as you describe them, but because they present some highly interesting recollections, not only of ancient but of modern times." - page 1. ; 8vo .

London: Remington & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing and marks to boards. 1/8" chips to cloth at tail of spine and at head corners of boards. 1/4" chips to cloth at tail corners of boards. Owner's signature dated 1884 in coloured pencil on title page. Gutters intact at hinges. Narrow split to gutter between final text leaf and the advertisement leaf. ; viii, 574 pages + [1] page advertisements. Original green cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Dimensions: 8 5/8" by 5 3/8".; 8vo .

Christchurch: Capper Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. (1972). Hardcover. No signatures. 1/4" section of fading at tail of spine. Some marking to dust wrapper. 1" x 3/8" chip at head of dust wrapper spine. 3/4" tear at head of front fold of dust wrapper. A couple of 3/8" tears along top edge of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; Reprint of the 1842 edition. viii, 142 pages. Maroon papered boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 214mm x 132mm. "Famous today for his paintings of early New Zealand, Charles Heaphy also wrote an enthusiastic account of his early years in New Zealand, when as Artist for the New Zealand Company, he assisted in the establishment of Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .