Gordon ogilvie (160 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

pamphlet, stiff card covers, 40 pp., ISBN: 185174181X, slight shelfwear to covers, otherwise an excellent, clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. "Gentleman, rogue, adventurer, lover. He was irresistible."; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 442 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Price written in pen on ffep otherwise unmarked, clean and tight. DJ is unclipped, light edgewear, light toning.

Paperback. Condizione: Good - Cash. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. The binding is tilted and creased. Cover has creases. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover. Oversized. First Edition. No DJ. Color pictorial [sunset/sunrise reflecting on water] with yellow upper & spine text. FFEP & upper board paste-down missing Pages soil/spotting/toned with age. Boards rubbed at edges. Spine head & tail crimped/crushed/rubbed. Corners bumped. Color photos within throughout. Else, tight and square. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. RELIGION/POETRY/SHORTSTORIES.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A new edition of the book which was first published in 1973. It tells the story of the South Canterbury inventor who may have been the first person to achieve a powered takeoff. This edition is revised, and contains a new chapter which discusses the reputation of Richard Pearse as it has developed in the years since the book first appeared. The major concern is to explore the originality and far-sightedness of the inventor who had received very little formal training and worked with relatively primitive means. 264 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. 251pp with b/w photos - blue cloth - minor wear to edges - endpapers and content edges lightly foxed - dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and soiled - spine moderately faded.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. Second Edition. Wellington, New Zealand: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1974. SCARCE in the US. Very Good condition in a Good dust jacket. Spine of the jacket is sun faded but all lettering is still easily legible. Square and tight. Sharp corners. Previous owner's bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Light soil to the botton margin of 5 leaves only. NO text or illustrations are affected. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. With 27 illustrations and 7 diagrams. Map endpapers. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue boards. From the dust jacket: "Pearse was the first British aviator to leave the ground in a powered aircraft. But did he really fly? Did he forestall the Wright Brothers? How sound is the evidence? What of his second, V-STOL aircraft? And of his homemade aero engines. The author has pieced together the strange story of this obscure, neglected pioneer of aviation.". Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xiii, 251pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore). …

Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Condizione: Good. Fading/scratches & some creases/scuffs to cover. Name in pen on front cover. Light tanning to pages & creases to corners. Text very good.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Place names have great linguistic and cultural significance, vivifying the landscape and giving it deeper character and interest. Banks Peninsula, Lyttelton Harbour and the Port Hills of Christchurch offer a wonderfully diverse and a kaleidoscopic array of names that speak of the areas's Maori and colonial history and the people who have lived and worked there. Back in 1927 prolific author Johannes Andersen published his classic and important "Place-Names of Banks Peninsula", but much has changed since then: names have dropped out of use or been superseded, spellings have altered, knowledge of origins has improved and large numbers of new names have been added. Award-winning historian Gordon Ogilvie, who has a deep knowledge of this part of New Zealand, has written a comprehensive, fascinating and much-needed successor to Andersen's book. He also extends the coverage of names to the Heathcote and Halswell rivers and includes suburbs like Halswell and Tai Tapu. Engagingly written, brimming with information and enriched with black and white photographs and stunning colour plates, this substantial volume is an important addition to Ogilvie's popular and acclaimed histories of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills. The intriguing background he provides for the place names of this region will delight all those who live there, those who visit and anyone with an interest in New Zealand's past. Engagingly written, brimming with information and enriched with black and white photographs and stunning colour plates, this substantial volume is an important addition to Gordon Ogilvie's popular and acclaimed histories of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 4th Edition. A very clean copy with only very light shelf wear. The Riddle of Richard Pearse is a full-length biography of South Canterbury inventor and early aviator Richard Pearse, whose experimental flights in the early 1900s have long been debated in relation to the Wright brothers. Ogilvie traces Pearse's life from his rural upbringing through his inventive engineering work, reconstructing his attempts at powered flight and the myths that grew around them. The book blends archival research, eyewitness accounts, and technical interpretation to present Pearse as a gifted but solitary innovator whose achievements were both remarkable and often misunderstood.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. A near fine reprint copy with a gift dedication on the half-title page. The dust jacket is intact, slightly faded at the spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book has a small pen name to the ffep, otherwise both the book and jacket in very nice condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Good, edge worn and tanning. Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A very clean copy. The jacket has some edge wear. Ogilvie grew up in Horotane Valley, at the foot of the Port Hills, and his personal connection gave the book a warmth and depth that went beyond academic history. He traced the area's long Maori heritage, its role in early European settlement, and the way the hills became central to Christchurch's identity. The book covers everything from geology and topography to farming, orcharding, and conservation. One of its recurring themes is the work of Harry Ell, the visionary conservationist who championed reserves and scenic tracks across the hills.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Many b&w illstns, endpaper maps. A tidy copy. The dust jacket is intact, slightly faded at the spine.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 544 pages. Description Denis Glover is one of New Zealand's outstanding literary figure s. This first comprehensive biography investigates the turbulent life of this ce lebrated poet., typographer, publisher, wit, sportsman and war hero, and offers an illuminating portrayal of the New Zealand cultural scene during its most vita l decades. Denis Glover: His Life presents a multi-faceted individual with an al most Elizabethan breadth of talents and enthusiasms, whose boistrous, bibulous, aggressive, unpredictable, extroverted and frequently scandalous behaviour maske d a sensitive personality of considerable complexity.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Reprint. The book has only tiny amounts of foxing to the prelims of note. The jacket has one tiny closed tear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very clean copy in a very good jacket. Steel Bros have been involved in road transport since 1878. Beginning at their Christchurch factory with the construction of horse-drawn vehicles s8uch as gigs, drays, coaches, phaetons and ralli carts, mainly for local use, Steel Broshave evolved into a major engineering business, a leading player in the container transport and truck crane market, exporting their products to fifty different countries. (TM). …

Octavo softcover (VG+): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.