Search Results: Titles starting with M from Renaissance Books

[s.l.]: [s.n.]. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1946]. Ephemera. Some foxing.; Sheet of facsimile signatures. 18 signatures, including the manager R. Howard. Autographs include W. R. Hammond (Captain); R.G. Gibb; L.B. Fishlock; A.V. Bedser; N.W.D. Yardley; W.J. Edrich; Joe Hardstaff; Cyril Washbrook. On a sheet of paper with printed title "M.C.C. Tour in Australia & New Zealand 1946-47". Dimensions: 203 x 139mm. A similar sheet with signatures in the same positions (the original?) is held in the collection of the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum, registration number 1989.2149. .

Wellington. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Softcover. [iv],184 pages. 3 illustrations. Card wrappers. Page dimensions: 239 x 154mm. The Pacific Charger stranded on Baring Head near Wellington, New Zealand in May 1981. This is the published report of the Court inquiry. The ship was a new ship on its maiden voyage. She was 455 feet long, with a gross tonnage of 10,241 tons. ; 8vo .

Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited. Good with no dust jacket. [1937]. First Edition. Softcover. Unpaginated [16] pages. Page dimensions: 178 x 127mm. Souvenir booklet produced by the Orient Line for the MCC Cricket club's tour of Australasia. Foxing to wrappers. Some rusting to staples. ; 16mo .

Glasgow: A. Bryson & Co. Fair with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition. Softcover. Original paper spine mostly missing. Spine taped with plastic adhesive tape. ; xxviii, 139, [i], pages. Green paper wrappers. Page Dimensions: 214mm x 135mm. Cover title: "New Book On Draughts."; 8vo .

London: Herbert Jenkins. Fair with no dust jacket. (1934). Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Gutters broken at hinges. Quite heavy rubbing and staining to cloth boards. Moderate fraying to edges and ends of spine cloth. ; 312 pages + [8] pages advertisements. "Ma Brown is a strong, virile character, capable of holding her own in a brawl with any man, yet she is a woman - with a woman's heart and a woman's failings. A really remarkable novel." - from advertisement at rear.; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Whitegate, Co. Clare, Ireland: Ballinakella Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1990). First Edition. Softcover. 0946538263 . No signatures.; 79, [1] pages. Card wrappers. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 217 x 152mm. Family history. .

London: Hutchinson & Co.. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. [1942]. First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Small contemporary bookseller's sticker on front endpaper "Hyndman's / Dunedin". Spots of foxing to page edges. Adhesive tape stains to margins of dust-jacket. Some small chips to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 160 pages + frontispiece + illustrations on 12 plate leaves. Blue cloth boards with red lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 183 x 122mm. A biography of General MacArthur of the United States Army. "His epic defence of the Philippines will remain in the annals of history for all time, and his appointment as Allied Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific war zone has been welcomed by all the United Nations." - from dust-jacket blurb. ; .

Leicester: Ulverscroft / F. A. Thorpe Publishing. Good with no dust jacket. (1995). Hardcover. 0708934390 . Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Clear plastic tape to spine and margins of boards. Clear plastic tape reinforcing gutters at hinges. ; Large print edition. [x], 365, [9 (advertisements)] pages. Illustrated boards. Page dimensions: 217 x 138mm. Romance fiction, a novel. "Veronica's job was antiques, and when she received a letter from two old ladies somewhere up in the hills of New Zealand's South Island, saying they had some for sale, off she went. But they had warned her that there wa a dragon nephew there too, who wouldn't take kindly to the idea." - from blurb on rear cover. Series: Ulverscroft Large Print Series: Romance. .

Christchurch: Simpson & Williams. Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Softcover. 1" chip at corner of front wrapper. 1/2" and smaller tears to edges of wrappers. 1 1/2" and 1" loss at ends of paper spine. Staples rusting. ; Printed paper wrappers. A short novel. "To you whose lines have fallen in pleasant places, on whose paths in life fortune has beamed with gracious smiles, the following narrative will possess little interest. Surrounded as you are with home comforts, troops of friends, and social pleasures, your severest pang, perchance, arising from satiety, you are utterly unable to estimate aright the strenuous struggle for existence maintained by the penniless poor." - the opening sentences. [References: Bagnall W350 - "Containing some views of the social outlook from the proletarian standpoint"; Burns p. 8. - "A new immigrant to Lyttelton in the 1870s and unemployed joins the gold rush to the West Coast".] ; 12mo… Read More

Christchurch: Simpson & Williams. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. General Assembly Library, New Zealand. New Zealand Collection. Gilt library stamps on spine and front board. ; 55, [1] pages. Nicely rebound in green cloth boards with red panel on spine. Without original printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 169 x 113mm. A short novel. "To you whose lines have fallen in pleasant places, on whose paths in life fortune has beamed with gracious smiles, the following narrative will possess little interest. Surrounded as you are with home comforts, troops of friends, and social pleasures, your severest pang, perchance, arising from satiety, you are utterly unable to estimate aright the strenuous struggle for existence maintained by the penniless poor." - the opening sentences. [References: Bagnall W350 - "Containing some views of the social outlook from the proletarian standpoint"; Burns p. 8. - "A new immigrant to Lyttelton… Read More

Beograd [Belgrade]: Jugoslovenska Stvarnost. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. (1979). First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Minor creasing to covers.; 193, [6] pages. Page dimensions: 200 x 139mm. Medjunarodina Politika 1979. Text in English translation. "The contributions in this edition, written between 1949 and 1953 with the exception of the first one, deal with a number of subjects relating to the history of the Macedonian people's liberation struggle and the workers' and socialist movement in Macedonia" - from the Introductory Note. .

London: The Queen Anne Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1974). First Edition. Soft Cover. 0362001820 . Owner's signature. Some rubbing to ends of spine with 1/8" loss of paper at head of spine. ; 144 pages + plates. Printed card wrappers. Page dimensions: 180mm x 110mm. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Dunedin: A. H. & A. W. Reed. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1937]. First Edition. Hardcover. Fading to spine leather. Some fading to boards. No signatures.; This copy is number 67 of a "Special Extra-Illustrated De Luxe Edition", signed by G. H. Cunningham on the limitation leaf. 159, [1] pages + limitatation leaf (following the title leaf) + portrait frontispiece + 28 illustrations on 13 plate leaves. Publisher's green leather boards with gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped lettering on front board. Green bookmark ribbon. Top page edges dyed green. Page dimensions: 215 x 138mm. Military history, biography, World War One. Selected chapter titles: Life in the Squadron; Experiences as a Fighting Pilot; Forced Landing; Home Service at Biggin Hill; Home Training with Fighter Squadrons; A Narrow Escape; Shot Down; Balloon Bursting; Armistice; Training with the New Zealand Air Force; Pioneer Air Mail Flights; Development of Air Services; Types of Aeroplanes Flown by Mac.… Read More

Paekakariki: Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop. Fine with no dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Softcover. 1869420675 . A clean copy. ; 24 pages. Signed by the author, dated Dunedin 2006. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; Signed by Author .

London: Macmillan and Co.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copies, New Plymouth Public Library. Some library labels and markings. 15mm split to cloth in front joint of each volume. Narrow split to gutter at front hinge of each volume. Volume One with 5mm loss of cloth along edges of lower corners of boards. Some leaves unopened in Volume One. Library call numbers at tail of spines. Complete with all maps.; Two volumes (complete). Volume One: [4], vii- xix, [1], 569, [1 (blank)] pages + [2] pages advertisements + frontispiece + 11 maps (most with some colour, 2 folding). Another 3 maps within the paginated leaves (2 in-text, 1 full page); Volume Two: x (first leaf blank), 576 pages + 4 maps (2 colour full page, 1 folding black and white, 1 large folding colour (1 colour tint) map at rear). An additional 1 in-text map within the pagination. Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spines. Page dimensions: 229 x 152mm. "Since William Ellis… Read More

London: The Religious Tract Society. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1870]. Hardcover. 6mm tear at head of spine. 6mm tear at tail of spine. Binding a little shaken, with splits to gutters on either side of the gatherings (groups of 8 leaves) at pages 129-144 and 145-160. Gutters starting at hinges. Overall quite a tidy copy.; No date (Preface dated 1870). 576 pages. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt lettering and illustration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 183 x 122mm. Frontispiece and other illustrations (some full page) accounted for within the pagination. 1 full page map of Madagascar (page 16). "In writing this book my object has been to describe, in popular form, what is known respecting Madagascar, - its physical aspects, its animal and vegetable life, its people - their habits, language, and religious beliefs." - from the Preface. .

London: Ward, Lock & Co.. Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1958). First Edition. Hardcover. Front free endpaper torn out. A few 3/8" and smaller tears to margins of dust wrapper. Some staining to rear panel of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 192 pages. Blue papered boards. A sea story for children. "In this splendid sea story, Lilia Fowell, daughter of a London shipowner, recalls the incidents of her young days and tells how, in order to avoid an enforced marriage, she stowed away in one of her father's ships bound for Australia. After being deserted by the captain and crew during a storm, she and the young mate, with the help of a few passengers, brought the derelict boat to Perth, Western Australia, to find their difficulties were only just beginning. This is a first-rate tale of the period when sail was fighting a losing battle with steam." ; 12mo .

Auckland: Stephen Chan. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1974). First Edition. Softcover. No signatures. Moderate bump to head of spine. Moderate rubbing to margins of wrappers. No tears or chips to wrappers.; [viii], [80] pages. Dimensions: 9 3/4" by 6 5/8". Poetry. The author's second book.; 8vo .

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Fair with no dust jacket. 1938. First Thus. Hardcover. Unsightly 2" piece of cloth missing from tail of spine. Otherwise very good. Small ink notation on front endpaper. Some abrasions to front endpaper where earlier pencil price has been erased. Moderate foxing to page edges.; This copy inscribed by the author on the title page: "To George from Alice / A real happy Xmas to you, And lots of others to come. Ion L Idriess / 1938". vii, [3], 253, [1 (blank)] pages + [4] pages advertisements + frontispiece + maps on endpapers. Orange cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Black rule on spine and black border on front board. Page dimensions: 180 x 120mm. Vignette illustrations at the head of each chapter. The true story of the author's Robinson Crusoe-like adventures on a deserted isle. An earlier version that was disguised as fiction was published by Cornstalk Publications in 1927. That version was the author's first… Read More

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Fair with no dust jacket. 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. This copy lacking the colour frontipiece and front free endpaper. Small loss of cloth and tears at head of spine. Large paper label on rear board - "United Ancient Order of Druids. Auckland Lodge, 158. Free Library (Established 1884). No. 177". Bookplate on front pastedown "Fred B. Butler". Some marginalia on title page. ; xlviii, 332 pages + extra title page with vignette illustration + 13 in-text wood engravings. Lacking the colour frontipiece "Destruction of the 'Tanjore'". Original green blind-stamped cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 188 x 108mm. Top page edges gilt. The first edition was published in 1829 with the title: "Personal Narrative of a Mission to the South of India, from 1820 to 1828". This second edition of 1844 has a new preface by the author, and additional material on the history of missions in… Read More