Rendall Robert (32 results)

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 127 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear.…

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 127 pages. Green jacket over cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ink underlining throughout. Boards are edge worn and scuffed; faded to spine. 127 pp.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with minor age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Previous owner name to ffep. Good DJ with some edge wear and tears.

Blue Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Postage reduced within the UK.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Very Fine original grey cloth, in Very Fine DW.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1951. First edition. 63pp. Robert Rendall (1898-1967) was a Scottish poet, and amateur naturalist who spent most of his life in Kirkwall, Orkney. Orkney Variants is his second collection of poems, and is divided into the following sections: Poems in Dialect, Orkney Variants, Poems in English, and Tailpiece. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some tape staining near the top of the spine and top edge of up to about 2" of the boards (this has been taken from tape holding an old protective cover for the dustwrapper). The contents are tight and clean with a name on the top edge of the front free endpaper. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some light soiling and the spine is faded. There are two scrapes that have caused some small holes near the fore edge of the front of the wrapper. It is in a removable clear plastic fronted protective cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition in fine slipcase. Beautiful Folio Society illustrated binding. ; 274 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second impression. Poems from Orkney, his first collection. VG, no inscriptions, in edge-worn, marked, sunned, good DJ.

New York / London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. First edition. Hardcover book complete in its original dust jacket. 22 cm. 184 pp. Contains black-and-white illustrations. In near fine condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, pages bright. Light shelf wear.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1957. First edition. 47pp. Robert Rendall (1898-1967) was a Scottish poet, and amateur naturalist who spent most of his life in Kirkwall, Orkney. Shore Poems is his second collection of poems, and is divided into the following sections: Shore Poems, People and Places, and Other Shores. The poems record feelings evoked by the sights and sounds of an Orkney shore, to which are added occasional poems on people and places, and a few pieces of religious verse. The book is bound in the original grey cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some tape staining near the top of the spine and top edge of up to about 2" of the boards (this has been taken from tape holding an old protective cover for the dustwrapper). The contents are tight and clean with a name on the top edge of the front free endpaper. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some light soiling and the spine is slightly sunned. The wrapper is in a removable clear plastic fronted protective cover.…

Near fine first edition hardback in a worn and clipped dustjacket. There is some light edge foxing, the text is otherwise clean and crisp. Illustrated, 223.

No binding. Condition: Fair. No Description.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 1, No. 1. Only issue produced. Pulp magazine. Edited by Alexander Samalman. Cover art reprinted from various Standard Magazines pulps. Includes Three Detective Stories: "Partner's Payoff" by Roger Dee; "The Murder Tap" (novelet) by M. E. Chaber; "Vengeance Is Not Enough" by Bruce Elliott. Three Western Stories: "Time for Violence" by Hascal Giles; "Hawk in the Sunlight" by Robert Stephens; "Brandy on Their Minds" by Paul Rendall Morrison. Three Storts Stories: "Cheese Champ" (novelet) by Bill Erin; "Diamond Outcast" by T. W. Ford; "They're Dead at Cooperstown" by Fletcher Flora. Three Science Fiction Stories: "Earth Person Singular" by Charles A. Stearns; "King Lode Revisited" by Herbert D. Kastle; "Bannion's Cave" by Margaret St. Clair. Twine dents; minor losses; minor soiling; tanning; a little bent at lower end from poor stacking. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 200p. The first edition in d/w. "A personal record of the Orkney shore in which it is portrayed as having a dominant influence on the Orcadian way of life. A chapter discusses Orkney's tradition in natural science, and 5 appendices describe records of local marine life". The book is clean, tight and unmarked apart from "With the Author's Compliments & kindest regards 29-11-60 on the fep; the protected unpriceclipped d/w is very good, though the spine is darkened. See Scans.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1960. First edition. 200pp. Robert Rendall (1898-1967) was a Scottish poet, and amateur naturalist who spent most of his life in Kirkwall, Orkney. This book is a personal record of the Orkney shore, including observations on its marine fauna and biographical notes on early Orkney naturalists. It also presents the shore as having a dominant influence on the way of life in the islands. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some spots of tape staining near the top of the spine and top edge of up to about 2" of the front board (this has been taken from tape holding an old protective cover for the dustwrapper). The bottom of the spine is lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean and the author has flat signed the half-title page. There is a name on the top edge of the front free endpaper. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some light soiling and the spine and top 1/2" are slightly faded. The wrapper is in a removable clear plastic fronted protective cover. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine.The illustrated dust jacket is unclipped, with moderate shelf wear and a minor 1cm loss at the bottom of the spine. Very clean and tidy, and firm, throughout. A scarce on the wild shore-life of the Orkney Islands.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publisher - The Kirkwall Press, Kirkwall, 1951. 1st ed. Very good condition, slight foxing to page edges. Unclipped jacket with tears to corners and creasing to upper edge, staining to upper right corner and areas of spine, also mild edge wear. 'A Second Book of Orkney Poems by the author of "Country Sonnets"' - front flap. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp 48.Originalcloth. The slightly over-sized d/w creased to top edge. Foxing to endpapers. Very nice. Seldom seen . The author's first book.

2nd Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 200 pages illus. 23 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p. 176-178. Subjects: Marine biology Scotland Orkney History. Seashore biology Scotland Orkney. Seashore ecology Scotland Orkney. Seashore life Orkney. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First edition. 200pp. Original green boards with gilt lettering to spine. No inscriptions. VG in a slightly discoloured unclipped dustwrapper. [a personal record of the Orkney shore in which it is portrayed as having a dominant influence on the Orcadian way of life. A chapter discusses Orkney's tradition in natural science, and 5 appendices describe records of local marine life].…

2nd Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 200 pages illus. 23 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p. 176-178. Subjects: Marine biology Scotland Orkney History. Seashore biology Scotland Orkney. Seashore ecology Scotland Orkney. Seashore life Orkney. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Green cloth. A smattering of speckles top edge, but internally clean and tight though pages toned. Jacket faded with some foxing with a chip lower spine. A very good, rare copy.