Search Results: Authors starting with U from Renaissance Books

London: Souvenir Press. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. (1975). Hardcover. Ex-library. Library labels and markings. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; UK edition. [vi], 186 pages. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 134mm. Illustrated. "With chilling plausibility the authors' research points to evidence that the modern Mayas are the remnants of space explorers whose attempts to colonise our solar system went awry more than 40,000 years ago.. Even more terrifying is their fully documented belief that the extra-terrestrial explorers could be planning a 'rescue' mission that would have cataclysmic results on earth." - from dust-jacket blurb. Contents: Introduction; Unanswered Questions; The Long Counts; Cracking the Code; The Pyramid Cult; The Mystery of the Wheel; The Encroaching Jungle; Man, Maya, and Microbes; Asteroids: Pieces of the Puzzle; The Far Side of the Moon; Antarctica - The First… Read More

London: Cassell and Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1932). First Edition. Hardcover. Spine very faded. Some fading to margins of boards. Previous owner's signature. A few spots of foxing. With front flap only of the dust-jacket.; First English edition. 396 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 140mm. A novel. Text in English, translated from the Norwegian by Arthur G. Chater. "This is the second volume of Sigrdi Undset's trilogy of modern Norwegian life that began with 'The Wild Orchid.' Paul Selmer has settled down to married life and the probems that follow an unwise marriage. We see the development in soul and nature of a strong, impulsive man who cannot be bound by the fetters of middle-class conventionality, yet, bursting them asunder, can only find his freedom in Faith." - from blurb on front flap of dust-jacket. .

Paris: UNESCO. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1958). Softcover. No signatures. Ink number on first leaf. ; 222 pages. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. ; Press, Film and Radio in the World Today; 8vo .

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis. Good with no dust jacket. 1851. First Edition. Half-Leather. Volume Five: [2], 2, 256 pages. Volume Six: iv, 256 pages. (Volumes Five and Six together in one volume) . Published from December 1851 (Vol. V No. 1) to September 1855 (Vol. VI No. 8) . Half leather binding and marbled boards. Red leather spine label with gilt lettering. Marbled page edges. Front board almost detached. Leather split down length of front and rear joints. 1/2" missing to leather at head and tail of spine. Spine leather is very worn and affected with dry rot. Gutters cracked at hinges. Internally . ; 8vo .

London: League of Nations Union. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Softcover. Some rusting to staples.; [8] pages. Self wraps. Page dimensions: 183 x 121mm. Published four years after the formation in 1919 of the League of Nations. "The breakdown of the old order in the Great War has opened the way as never before in all history for the emergence of new ideas."; No. 134; 12mo .

London: League of Nations Union. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Softcover. "League of Nations Union Dunedin Branch" rubber stamp on front cover. Some rusting to staples.; [8] pages. Self wraps. Page dimensions: 184 x 120mm. Published four years after the formation in 1919 of the League of Nations, this leaflet aims to correct popular misperceptions about the nature and structure of the League. "Anything the League does or does not do is always the result of the policy of some government of governments members of the League, and praise or blame should be apportioned accordingly". ; No. 118; 12mo .

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fair with no dust jacket. [1948]. Hardcover. One leaf (pp.49-50) has a large 5" tear with an untidy sellotape repair. Some staining to margins of leaves. Boards rubbed and worn. 3/8" loss of paper at corners of boards. ; No date [1948]. 505 pages. Papered boards with cloth spine. The date on the title page is 1946, on the cover title it is 1948. Slip tipped in at half-title page: "The text of this Catalogue stands as in 1946 but the Alphabetical List contains books in print at 31 March 1948." The catalogue records that most of the annual large Sheet Almanacks from as far back as 1716 ("the earliest for which the Oxford Press possesses the original plates") were still available at a price of 4s. 6d. each (page 95). The Almanacks were first published in 1674. ; 8vo .

London: Victor Gollancz. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 127 pages + 10 illustrations on 8 plates + 4 in-text maps and diagrams. No signatures. Front flap of dustjacket is price-clipped with slight loss of text. Small bookseller's sticker on front endpaper. 1.5" closed tear in front panel of dustjacket. "The Matterhorn, the most spectacular mountain in the Alps, was first climbed by Whymper in 1865. In this anniversary volume, Walter Unsworth, himself a climber, tells the story of all that led up to the ascent, from the earliest attempts to the final successful tragic expedition. "; 8vo .

London: Victor Gollancz. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some fading to ends of spine. Spotting to top page edges. Fading to dust wrapper spine. 1/2 x 1/2" area of rubbing to dust wrapper spine. 1/2" tear at tail edge of rear panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 125, [i], pages + plates. Blue papered boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 216mm x 137mm. "A. F. Mummery has often been called 'The Father of Modern Climbing'. He lived in the latter half of the nineteenth century and, in his youth, made many great climbs with the finest Alpine Guides of the period." - from the dust wrapper blurb.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: George Allen & Unwin. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex libris label, Bruce Godward. Previous owner's signature. Some foxing. Fading to dust-jacket spine. 15mm abrasion at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First printing. 319, [1] pages + frontispiece + 6 illustrations on 3 plates leaves. 3 full page maps and 3 illustrations within the paginated leaves. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm. "Twenty years before Sir John Hawkins and his kinsman Drake harried the Great Armada to its doom, these two same English sea-captains ahd matched their guns against those of Spain in an obscure harour on the Gulf Coast of Mexico - San Juan de Ulua. It was a hard-fought, desperate battle, from which Hawkins and relatively few of his men escaped home. It was also a turning-point in the relationship between England and Spain. The fight at San Juan made the Great Armada… Read More

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. Large shallow bruise near head of spine, otherwise very good.; An edition of 1,000 copies, signed by the author. [18], 212, [3], [1 (blank)] pages. Full leather binding. Gilt illustration to boards. Page dimensions: 208 x 136mm. .

Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. 0838753213 . No signatures.; 170 pages. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Literary criticism. "This study argues for a new reading of Bogan, whose complex position in regard to gender makes her one of the most provocative of the major modernists." - from dust wrapper blurb.; 8vo .

London: George Allen & Unwin. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Some tidy pencil marginalia and underliing. Overall a nice copy of this title. ; First printing. 755, [1] pages + [4] pages advertisements. Red cloth boards with gilt on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 133mm. "'Language and Reality' deals with the problems of language and symbolism which have been in the forefront of philosophical discussion in recent years. It includes two parts, entitled the 'Philosophy of Language' and the 'Principles of Symbolism'. In the solution of the problems, the bearing of linguistic science on debatable points has been studied and the role of Symbolism in the various fields of science, art and religion examined. An attempt is made to formulate a general theory of Symbolism. The central thesis of the book is that problems of knowledge and truth are inseparable from problems of language. The main argument… Read More

Melbourne: Robertson And Mullens. Fair with no dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Fading at ends of spine. Rebound. Good reading copy. ; 249, [7], pages. Green cloth boards. Page dimensions: 206mm x 132mm. Title continues, "The first full-length study of the extraordinary life-story of Edward John Eyre Explorer, Overlander and Pastoralist in Australia." ; 8vo .

London: Trubner & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. Second Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Small 3/8" tear to stub of folding map. Gutter partly split between half-title and folding map, and also between folding map and title page. Later paper spine. At some point the whole boards would have been under a later paper covering, as at present the only remains are the brown paper on the spine and also the same brown paper present as flaps pasted down onto the endpapers, which obscure the text of the advertisement on the rear pastedown. 1/2" chip to blank margin of one leaf. Binding moderately shaky.; lxx, 438, [2 (blank)] pages + 12 pages advertisements + advertisements on endpapers.Contemporary? green papered boards with later paper spine. Page dimensions: 188 x 107mm. Pages vii-xi are a preface to the second edition. The folding map is titled "Illustration of the course of English & German Manufactures to Central Asia", and shows the area from England in the… Read More

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1957). Hardcover. Some foxing to dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; UK edition. Second printing. vii, [1], 100 pages. Red cloth boards. Author quotes from Ortega; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; and the German General Carl von Clausewitz and others. ; 8vo .

London: Unwin. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. 0043410170 . No signatures. A couple of price stickers.; 96 pages. Pictorial papered boards. Page dimensions: 216 x 139mm. ; Studies on Contemporary Europe; 8vo .

London: Faber and Faber. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. (1951). First Thus. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Quite heavy foxing to dustjacket. Some small tears and chips to margins of dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Illustrated edition. 238 pages. Green cloth boards with red panel on spine and red illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 202 x 133mm. Autobiogrpahical reminscences of childhood. ; 8vo .

London: Faber & Faber. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. (1951). First Edition. Hardcover. Dust-jacket with some large chips and tears, some adhesive tape repairs on reverse side. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First printing. 182, [2 (blank)] pages. Turquoise cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 201 x 130mm. Illustrated by A. E. Kennedy. .

London: Faber & Faber. Good in Good dust jacket. (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. 0571110746 . Ex-library. Library labels and markings. Adhesive tape stains to boards and dust-jacket. Adhesive tape on reverse of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 128 pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 136mm. Stories chosen by Kathleen Lines. With a 2 page Foreword by Kathleen Lines. Illustrated by Gavin Rowe. 12 stories. "Here are twelve stories of magic, enchantment and mystery" - from the Foreword, page 7. Contents: Foreword; The Little Fir-Tree; The Christmas Box; The Doll's House; The Christmas Surprise; The Fairy Ship; The Holly Bears a Berry; Tom Tit and the Fir-Tree; The Kissing-Bunch; Christmas at Brock the Badger's House; The Weather Cock; The Three Wise Men; The Fir-Trees and the Christmas Tree. .