Search Results: Titles starting with W from Renaissance Books

Wellington: Sporting Publications. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Some fading and rubbing to covers.; 59, [7] pages + plates. French flaps over card covers. Softcover edition. Page dimensions: 186 x 124mm. New Zealand sport, biography. Rugby and Cricket. .

Dunedin: University of Otago. Good with no dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Bruising and bumping to spine. No dust wrapper.; xii, 307 pages. Contributors include Eric Olssem; Keith Jackson; Colin Newbury; Angus Ross. Subjects include the Treaty of Waitangi; the Royal Navy; The House of Lord; Fiji; New Zealand Foreign Policy.; 8vo .

Waikanae: C. G. Green. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. [c1992]. First Edition. Softcover. Specks of staining to front cover. ; 116 pages. Printed card covers. Page dimensions: 211 x 143mm. Numerous short recollections of work in the New Zealand Meteorological Service, by various contributors. Contents includes: Coasters Stand Together; Inspection Tours; Fijian Staff; Campbell [Island] Servicings. .

Wellington: Unwin Paperbacks / Allen & Unwin. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1986). First Edition. Softcover. 0868616664 . Crease to corner of front cover.; This copy inscribed (to a particular person) and signed by the author. 100 pages. Page dimensions: 209 x 137mm. New Zealand economy, social issues. "New Zealand urgently needs a wages policy geared towards full employment, and strong government measues to deal with the poverty problem." - from blurb on rear cover. ; Signed by Author .

London: Hutchinson & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. Original Wraps. No date (c. 1930) . 128 pages. Softcover. Pages yellowing. No signatures. ; 8vo .

Auckland: Random House. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1999). First Edition. Softcover. 1869413687 . No signatures. ; 219 pages. Page dimensions: 198 x 127mm. Autobiography. "The autobiography offers an insight into the world of a prostitute. Jean Turvey encountered all sorts of people - both customers and co-workers - and each showed her aspects of human nature that she'd never seen before. She learned about their needs and dreams, their hang-ups and vulnerabilities." .

Invercargill: Printed At the Southland Times. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1933]. First Edition. Softcover. Previous owners' name and rubber stamps. Spine rubbed. 20mm loss of paper at head of spine, 10mm tear at tail of spine. ; Uncommon. Cover title: "Waianiwa Jubilee Feb. 1933: 70th Anniversary of the School Established 1863 and 77th of the Settlement Founded 1856". 136 pages + frontispiece + 6 plates. Printed paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 217 x 142mm. [Reference: Bagnall W33]. .

Auckland: Longman Paul. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1975). First Edition. Softcover. 0582717434 . Spine faded. Previous owner's signature on half-title page "P N Simpson". ; [viii], 91 pages. Page dimensions: 185mm x 123mm. This copy signed by the author in blue ink on the title page "Patricia Grace". Short stories. The author's first collection. New Zealand author. Contents: A Way of Talking; Toki; At the River; Transition; The Dream; Holiday; Waiariki; And So I Go; Huria's Rock; Valley; Smoke Rings; Parade; Glossary. ; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Waikaka: Waidale Missionary Trust. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1994. First Edition. Softcover. 56 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 210 x 149mm. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic illustrations. A history of 25 years of the Waidale Missionary Trust. Colour illustration on front cover of "Curious cattle on 'Gracevale Farm' Wendon Valley". .

Cambridge [MA]: John Owen. Poor with no dust jacket. 1845. Disbound. Poor. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Rebound. This book has old dampstains and mould stains to the margins of most leaves. A reading copy only, not in collectable condition. ; Stated "Fourth Edition" on title page, published in the same year as the first edition. xi, [3], 144 pages. Half-leather binding with patterned paper on boards. Boards detached. Spine missing. Leather rubbed and chipped at corners of boards. Internally good. Some foxing and light staining and fingermarks to leaves. Page dimensions: 177 x 103mm. Early inscription on front fly leaf: "To Fanny on her birth-day October 25th 1858". A collection of poetry, edited by Longfellow. Authors include Robert Browning, Shelley, Henry Vaughan, Robert Herrick, Mrs Hemans, and several selections from the prolific poet Anonymous. ; 12mo .

Wellington: John Mackay, Government Printer. Fair with no dust jacket. 1897. First Edition. Softcover. Wrappers detached, and re-attached with paper tape. Wrappers with tears, chips and abrasions. Contemporary owner's signature on front wrapper "? Grace / 6/7/97". Internally very good.; viii, 66 pages + colour frontispiece map + 11 plates + folding map at rear. Pages (iii) - iv follow page viii, as described in Bagnall. Printed pink paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 220 x 139mm. [Reference: Bagnall B757]; 8vo .

Wellington: John Mackay, Government Printer. Good with no dust jacket. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Text block detached from covers. Later boards with original paper wrappers laid down on boards. Some pencil marginalia and underlining. Frontispiece and folding map in very good condition.; viii, 66 pages + colour frontispiece map + 11 plates + folding map at rear. Pages (iii) - iv follow page viii, as described in Bagnall. Later boards with original paper wrappers laid down on boards. Cloth spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 138mm. [Reference: Bagnall B757] .

Blenheim: Graeme Matthews. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (2004). Hardcover. 0473047047 . Gilt stamp on front endpaper. No tears in dust wrapper. ; 204 reprint edition (first publication was in 1998). (112) pages. Numerous colour photographs by Graeme Matthews, with text by James Ritchie. Dimensions: 11 1/2" x 8 3/4". "The most lushly green region I have seen anywhere in the world." - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .

Wellington: New Zealand Geological Survey / Science Information Division, DSIR. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. Previous owner's signature.; 136 pages + colour frontispiece. Illustrated orange papered boards. Page dimensions: 273 x 205mm. Illustrated. At head of title page: "New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research". Series: New Zealand Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 90. ISSN 0077-9628. .

Napier: Cosmos Publications. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1992). First Edition. Softcover. 0908887035 . No signatures. Some rubbing along spine. Bookseller's price sticker to rear wrapper. ; 96 pages. Illustrated card wrappers. Colour illustrations. Page dimensions: 215mm x 230mm. "Waitangi, the Treaty House and its environs, each year becomes the focus for New Zealanders' reflection about their nation's past and its future. Its Bay of Islands location has long been the subject of academic enquiry." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Fair with no dust jacket. 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding poor internally, with spine glue perished and 6 gatherings detached and loose from the binding. Staples rusted. Page 49-112, 257-288 are detached and loose as 6 gatherings or signatures of 8 leaves / 16 pages. Darkening to endpapers. Previous owner's name and rubber stamp. Some rubbing to joints, 8mm and 3mm splits to cloth in front jointComplete but in need of rebinding, ; viii, 312 pages + 32 pages advertisements. Brown cloth boards with gilt and black on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 174 x 112mm. A novel. Selected contents: Leaving Home; Life On The Ocean Wave; Land At Last; The Last Stage Of The Journey; Waitaruna; Big Creek; Ottalie Ewart; Muttontown; Under The Willows; Shearing; No Joke For Mike; The Doctors Letter. [References: Bagnall 347 - "Romance, with appropriate period dialogue, chiefly on an Otago High-Countory run."; Burns (1981)… Read More

Cape Town: Cape Times Ltd.. Fair with no dust jacket. [1917]. First Edition. Softcover. A very rubbed and worn copy, with coloured chalk scribbles on several leaves. Lower 40mm missing to one leaf, pp. 13-14, with loss of a fewletters from the caption to the cartoon. ; 16 pages. Illustrated paper wrappers. Illustrated. NZEF (New Zealand Expeditionary Force) World War One troopship magazine. Page dimensions: 280mm x 211mm. .

London: Faber and Faber. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1965). Hardcover. School library rubber stamps on front endpaper. No other library markings. Small knock to lower corner of front board. Some wear to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Revised edition. "This revised and unexpurgated edition first published mcmlxv". 94, [2 (blank)] pages. Pale yellow cloth boards with crimson lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 203 x 119mm. "The author has made a number of revisions to the text of 'Waiting for Godot' since it was first published and this new edition, complete and unexpurgated, has been authorized by Mr Beckett as definitive." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

Christchurch: Printed by F. W. Larcombe. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Some creasing and marking to wrappers. ; 158 pages + plates. Printed card wrappers. Page dimensions: 183mm x 120mm. "To Kevin Grahame with best wishes from yours in [?] Ed. C Chandler." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Signed by Author .

Porirua: Te Tahuhu o te Matauranga / Ministry of Education. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. 1877266159 . No signatures.; (32) pages. Maori children's book. Text in Te Reo Maori. Colour illustrations throughout. Page dimensions: oblong 296 x 209mm. For young readers, about ages 4-6? "Ahea tatau ka hakari e? A te ata, a te ahiahi apopo pea?"; Series title: Nga Kete Korero; 4to .