Search Results: Titles starting with P from Renaissance Books

London: The Studio of Design and Illustration Supply Agency. Good+ with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to preliminary leaves. Front hinge starting. Some bumping to ends of spine. 1/8" tears along tail of spine. 1/8" tears to corners of boards. ; 202, [1], pages. Green cloth boards with gilt illustration. All page edges gilt. Dimensions oblong: 306mm x 210mm. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

Dunedin: P. M. T.. Good+ with no dust jacket. [1986]. First Edition. Softcover. No signatures.; Uncommon. No date. [24] pages including covers. Punk Anti-Fanzine. With comic art. Includes local review of Sonic Youth's third album "EVOL" (1986). Other contents include an apocalyptic view of the year 1999, advertisements for Tape Swaps, an interview with Dutch punk band B. G. K. "balthasar gerards kommando".; 8vo .

Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co.. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1957. Hardcover. No signatures. Flecking to cloth boards. ; Fourth revised edition. 143, [1] pages + 25 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. Grey cloth boards, red panels and gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 208 x 146mm. Text in Norwegian. .

London: Routledge. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (2010). First Edition. Hardcover. 0415775728 . Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Library stickers and labels at tail of spine and on rear board and rear endpaper. ; xii, 260 pages. Illustrated papered boards. Page dimensions: 234 x 153mm. "Exploring the ocean's place in human history, this wide ranging book draws together the long and varied physical, economic, cultural and political history of the Pacific, from Prehistory through to the present day. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to show the changing viewpoints of those who explored, exploited and settled the Pacific, including the inhabitants of its Asian and American rim-lands. The book draws on new research in a variety of areas, such as early Pacific migrations, impacts of European colonization, the effects of climate change, and current economic and political developments. It provides a uniquely broad overview that will be of vital interest to students… Read More

Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. [1935]. First Edition. Softcover. Rubbing and some foxing to covers.; 64 pages. Printed thin card wrappers. Page dimensions: 185 x 124mm. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Pacifism Contrary to Holy Scripture; Pacifism Contrary to the Teaching of History; Pacifism Contrary to the Principles of the Reformed Faith; Pacifism and the Changed Character of Modern War; Pacifism, if it became Common in the British Empire, would Increase the Danger of War, and would Endanger the Safety of the Empire. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall J275] .

London: Headley Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1915]. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Pencil marginalia on a few pages. Spine slightly skewed. Overall a nice copy. ; 119 pages + [1] pages advertisements. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 166 x 103mm. "Now, although war is always war, the reaction upon the metropolitan people of any large commonwealth will vary immensely with its nearness or remoteness, its character and its extent" - page 7. Military history, World War One. Contents: In Time of War; For What Are We Fighting?; What has Pacifism to say?; Religion and the making of War; Democracy and Foreign Policy; Democracy and War; Peace by Force; On Hating the Enemy; Fighting Religiously; On Non-resistance; Why Not Peace Now?; Towards Humanity. [Seller ref: Knightcol]; 16mo .

Auckland: Reed Books. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (1995). Softcover. 0790004186 . Name clipped from upper margin of first leaf. Some wear to corners of covers. ; Enlarged edition of the author's first book. 240 pages + plates. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 245 x 1765mm. "Now Philip Holden has revised and enlarged the book, adding stunning colour photographs and more than fifty pages of new material." .

London: Macmillan and Co,. Fair with no dust jacket. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume Two only. Extensive old water and mould stains to rear board and rear pastedown endpaper. Dampstains slightly affecting the outer blank margins of the maps at rear. Cloth boards rubbed and worn at corners. Cloth torn horizontally along tail end of spine. Some bubbling to cloth on front board. Some dampstains to front endpaper.; Volume Two only of two volumes. Title continues: "A Description of their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition with some discussion of their Ethnic Relations". x, [2], 374 pages + colour frontispiece + 68 black-and-white photographic plates + 8 tables (7 folding) + 4 folding maps. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine, gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 220 x 137mm. Top page edges gilt. Ethnography, Borneo. Numerous photographic illustrations of tribes people, various activities. Also illustrated with in-text figures. Looked at… Read More

London: Andrew Melrose. Very Good in Good dust jacket. (1954). First Edition. Hardcover. Dust-jacket with chips to corners and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; This copy with an autograph letter by the author loosely included. The letter is on paper blind-stamped with Lethbridge's Treverbyn address. The letter reads: "My Dear Tit, / This book came out while we were away & so I haven't had time to send of many copies yet. It has actualy started selling fairly well. The publisher's blurb says it is about the Picts but it is really much wider than that. Wordie [polar explorer Sir James Wordie] says its good which he hardly ever does about books. / Love from all in haste / Pop. / Cat brought in another rabbit last night & sicked it up!" Also with autograph inscription by the author on the half-title page: "Christopher Lethbridge / from / his / father". 208 pages + colour frontispiece + 21 black-and-white… Read More

London: The Studio Publications. Fair in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Boards worn with some marks and stains. Heavy foxing to top page edges. Some tears and chips to margins of dust-jacket. Some adhesive stains to edges of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1941 third impression, of a title first published in 1934. 80 pages. Tipped in colour frontispiece and 33 tipped in plates, some colour. Red papred boards with black cloth spine. Illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 250 x 185mm. "The author, Philip de Laszlo, painted more than two thousand portraits. His sitters included Royal Personages,Popes and Presidents and the great of Europe and America." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

London: George Routledge & Sons. Good with no dust jacket. [1884]. First Edition. Softcover. No previous owner's names. Foxing and staining to covers. Small loss to corners of front cover. Paper spine worn with 50-60% loss. Moderate patchy foxing. No colouring from previous owners. ; No date [1884].80 pages. Paper wrappers with colour illustration on front cover. Colour illustrations on frontispiece and title page. Page dimensions: 248 x 177mm. .

Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1937). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, General Assembly Library New Zealand, reference department. Gilt library stamp on front board. Previous owner's ex-libris label on front endpaper "Dr CNS McLachlan". ; 40 pages. Bound in green cloth boards, with the original printed paper wrappers bound in. Also several blank leaves bound in at rear. Red leather lettering piece on spine. 13 illustrations. Contents: The Cockabully; A Nest-Building Fish (Rockfish); The Sucker Fish. ; 8vo .

Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. (1944). First Edition. Hardcover. Small gift card pasted to front endpaper. Dust-jacket has chips and tears to spine and margins, and plastic adhesive tape "repairs". Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; This is copy 287 of a limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the editor on the limitation page "Alfred Eccles". [viii], (13)-120 pages + portrait frontispiece + 7 plate leaves. Without the Errata slip. Blue cloth boards with black title on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 213 x 136mm. New Zealand history / biography. The illustrations include 2 plates showing 15 Maori hei-tiki found at Murdering Beach, Otago. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall T436 - "Murdering Beach, coaching, Maori tracks, etc."] .

Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1944). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex libris bookplate of Fred B. Butler, linocut? of shipwreck. Unrelated? newspaper clipping on Jean M. Stewart tipped in at front endpaper. Some marginalia and underlining. Typed index of names appearing in "A Pakeha's Recollections [. . .]" pasted onto rear endpaper, with manuscript annotation "all these indexed onto cards / F. B. B." Manuscript genealogical chart of Murray Gladstone Thomson family on blank rear fly leaf. ; This is copy 226 of a limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the editor on the limitation page "Alfred Eccles". [viii], (13)-120 pages + portrait frontispiece + 7 plate leaves. Without the Errata slip. Blue cloth boards with black title on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front board. Page dimensions: 211 x 135mm. New Zealand history / biography. The illustrations include 2 plates showing 15 Maori hei-tiki found at Murdering… Read More

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Good with no dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Paper spine rubbed. 3/8" chips at ends of spine.; xii, (292) pages + folding map. Pink papered boards. ; Overseas Economic Surveys; Ex-Library; 8vo .

London: Headley Brothers. Fair with no dust jacket. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Gutters split at hinges. Heavy rubbing to spine cloth and margins of boards. Internally good. ; xxiv, 276 pages + plates + frontis. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 224mm x 140mm. "[After some days illness in bed at Cairo, the journal begins.] Sunday. I rose from my couch, and determined to have done with care. The morning drive down the long avenue of acacias to the Pyramids was a pleasant change to counting flies on the ceiling." - the opening sentences. ; 8vo .

London: Blackie & Son. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature "Cecil C. Palmer / 1941". Fading to dust-jacket spine. Three 30mm tears to margins of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Uncommon with dust-jacket. [2 (blank)], ix, [1], 242 pages + frontispiece + 15 plates. Maps on endpapers. Pink cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 195 x 131mm. "This is an account of a spiritual pilgrimage through the Holy Land, by one who went with his mind prepared by a study of its history, as told in the Bible and many other chronicles, but who was unconvinced of the truth of Christianity. His realization of the Past in what he say with his own eyes made a profound effect upon him. [. . .] Throughout the book the Holy Land as it is to-day, in the grip of racial passions and hatred and terror, where Arab, Englishman… Read More

Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1976). First Edition. Softcover. 0908564155 . Previous owner's signature.; 142, [1 (advertisement)], [1 (blank)] pages. Blue illustrated card wrappers. Page dimensions: 183mm x 120mm. "Life was hard enough for Sam Jamieson without Jack Voot's lechery and Miriam Breen's jealousy. The life at Kurikino erupted into a sensation of murder and blackmail, turning his life into a nightmare from which the efforts of Tinny Entwistle, Gigglejuice Saunders and the Remittance Man could not save him. But Spud McGhee had an idea." - publisher's blurb. By the author of "Came a Hot Friday", "Predicament" and "The Scarecrow". .

Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. 0908564155 . Owner's signature "Peter Wells 15/5/79". Some fading to spine and margins of boards. Lacking the dust-jacket.; 142 pages + [1] page advertisements. Blue papered boards. Scarce hardcover edition. (A more commonly found softcover edition was also issued in 1976). Page dimensions: 183mm x 120mm. "Life was hard enough for Sam Jamieson without Jack Voot's lechery and Miriam Breen's jealousy. The life at Kurikino erupted into a sensation of murder and blackmail, turning his life into a nightmare from which the efforts of Tinny Entwistle, Gigglejuice Saunders and the Remittance Man could not save him. But Spud McGhee had an idea." - publisher's blurb. By the author of "Came a Hot Friday", "Predicament" and "The Scarecrow". .

Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1976). First Edition. Softcover. 0908564155 . No signatures. Some creasing to spine. A nice copy of this title.; 142, [1 (advertisement)], [1 (blank)] pages. Blue illustrated card wrappers. Page dimensions: 183mm x 121mm. "Life was hard enough for Sam Jamieson without Jack Voot's lechery and Miriam Breen's jealousy. The life at Kurikino erupted into a sensation of murder and blackmail, turning his life into a nightmare from which the efforts of Tinny Entwistle, Gigglejuice Saunders and the Remittance Man could not save him. But Spud McGhee had an idea." - publisher's blurb. By the author of "Came a Hot Friday", "Predicament" and "The Scarecrow". .