Search Results: Titles starting with T from PATRICK POLLAK RARE BOOKS

Jonathan Cape. London. 1939 (reprint of 1934).. pp. 491, (i). Portrait frontispiece, 9 folding maps, 17 illustrations on 11 plates. A very good copy in original cloth, no dust wrapper.

Chatto and Windus. London. 1935.. pp. viii, 372. Coloured frontispiece, 12 plates and map. In a Boots Library binding of blue cloth, serviceable if not wildly attractive, contents a bit foxed at the ends, else in very good condition.

Wm. R. Warner & Co. Philadelphia. [c.1877].. pp.16. Original printed wraps, all corners faintly creased, a very good copy.

Reginald E. Booker, 'Truth' Buildings, London. Printed by Charles Wyman, London. 1886-1892. 3 volumes.. pp. 72; 72; 62. 4 colour-printed plates and many line illustrations in text in the 1886 and 1887 issues, 7 plates [4 tinted and 3 in colour, 1 double-page] and many text illustrations in the 1892 issue. Original decorative wrappers, occasional little tear in the edge, staples rusting, otherwise in excellent condition. *FRANCIS CARRUTHERS GOULD [1844-1925], satirist and political cartoonist, began his working life in a bank, moved to the London Stock Exchange but started to contribute regularly to TRUTH in 1879. All the coloured plates in the above are by him, also many of the text illustrations, some of which are printed in colours. The entire text of these periodicals is written in doggerel verse.

Reginald E. Booker, 'Truth' Buildings, London. Printed by Charles Wyman, London. 1886-1892. 3 volumes.. pp. 72; 72; 62. 4 colour-printed plates and many line illustrations in text in the 1886 and 1887 issues, 7 plates [4 tinted and 3 in colour, 1 double-page] and many text illustrations in the 1892 issue. Original decorative wrappers, occasional little tear in the edge, staples rusting, otherwise in excellent condition. *FRANCIS CARRUTHERS GOULD [1844-1925], satirist and political cartoonist, began his working life in a bank, moved to the London Stock Exchange but started to contribute regularly to TRUTH in 1879. All the coloured plates in the above are by him, also many of the text illustrations, some of which are printed in colours. The entire text of these periodicals is written in doggerel verse.

. Fastened with a paper clip at the top edges, the clip rusty, and traces of a rusty clip at the lower edge, otherwise in very good condition. *'Whether any one or a combination of the above schemes is possible in your Locality is, of course, a matter which you and your fellow-townspeople are alone competent to decide, but we sincerely trust that every City, Town and Village in the Kingdom, will endeavour to raise funds by some means or other to help forward this great attack upon this dread disease.'

Printed for R. Whitworth, Bookseller; and sold by R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, in Pall Mall, London. Manchester. [1749]. 12mo. . pp. viii, 132, 48 pages engraved tables. Late nineteenth century morocco, flat-backed, the spine wearing along the edges, joints intact, the title laid down with name cut from the upper margin not affecting text, else in very good condition. *The last gasp of the Julian Calendar before the adoption of the Gregorian in 1752. An early ms. marginal note refers to this change.

For T. Cadell and J. Murray. London, and W. Creech. Edinburgh. 1775. 12mo.. pp. (viii), 400. Original sheep, rubbed, worn and suitably ink marked, a light damp mark affecting the top edge for the first 100 or so pages, a reasonable copy. *With the author's signed authentication at the front of the book. NO COPY in the BL.

Pavia. 1794. Elephant folio. 10, of 14, plates only.. Comprising 7 outline plates and 3 fully engraved plates, lacking the full plates numbers 1 to 4. All plates engraved by FAUSTINO ANDERLONI. The outline plates are on heavy paper, SHEET SIZE : 62.5 X 47 cms. The full plates have been cropped to within the plate mark for tab. 5 and short of the plate marks for tabs. 6 and 7. All plates are foxed and spotted, the outline plates have an old and faded damp-mark in the top gutter corner, the full plate for image 5 is torn in the lower left corner with a very small bit of loss affecting the image and has two adhesion spots in the left border with tiny bits of loss not affecting the image. The plates are sewn together in a dismantled atlas, condition as above. Offered as a collection of plate from this renowned and beautiful atlas, no text. *Plates 1-3 describe the cerebral nerves, 4 and 5 the glossopharyngeal nerves, and 6 and 7, the cardiac nerves. *GARRISON-MORTON #1253 - HEIRS OF HIPPOCRATES… Read More

A. & C. Black. London. 1923.. pp. 80. Decorated titles and initials. Publisher's cloth, spine faded, a very good copy, inscribed by Collins - 'To Friends at 'The Firs', Plympton, in Memory of a Devonshire Sunday.....'.

Eveleigh Nash & Grayson. London. No date [c.1920].. pp. [297], (i) blank, (ii) Advertisment. Publisher's blue cloth of the series - Nash's Famous Fiction Library, now faded, spine ends rubbed, signature of R[ICHARD?] GARNETT on the front free end-paper, else a very good copy. *RICHARD GARNETT (27 February 1835 – 13 April 1906) scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist (historical linguist) and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum. He entered the British Museum in 1851 (the year following his father's death) as an assistant librarian. In 1875, he became superintendent of the Reading Room, in 1881, editor of the General Catalogue of Printed Books, and in 1890 until his retirement in 1899, Keeper of Printed Books.

Northamptonshire Printing & Publishing Co. Kettering; Bemrose and Sons. London. [1936]; 1903.. pp. viii, (ii), 45, (i). Portrait frontispiece and four plates; (x), 250. Frontispiece, 24 plates, 2 text figures. TALES : original cloth-backed boards, lower corners bumped and worn at the front, a little chewing of the end-papers by silverfish, two of which are neatly squashed on the rear end-papers, joints firm and contents clean; MEMORIALS : original white cloth now grubby, joints cracked but holding, top edge gilt, uncut, contents clean, both offered together as very good working copies.

The Holywell Press. Oxford. 1907.. pp. 63, (ix) Advertisements. With a loose insert advertising MAY'S DRUG STORE. Original printed and decorated wrappers, uncut, signature of MAY SICKARD on the front cover, inscription in ink on title - 'Presented by the O.U.D.S. for R. Herle Nicholson for use in Miss Mordern Grey's production. All other use of this version is reserved by the O.U.D.S.'. A very good copy. *Only one copy is recorded by COPAC, at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham.

Offprint from The Mining Magazine, June, July and August, 1928. . pp. 23, (i). 23 illustrations, mostly from photographs. Original wraps with cancelled library stamp on front cover, else a very good copy.

HMSO. London. 1929.. pp. 34, viii. 3 photographic figures. Original printed wrappers with stamp on front cover and title, a very good copy.

Office du Livre. Fribourg. 1967. Folio.. pp. 239, (i). 77 fine plates of carpets, mostly in colour, 30 monochrome photographs of carpet patterns on 10 plates, map and text figures. Publisher's coarse hessian, dust wrapper and slip-case, the wrapper torn at the lower front edge with loss and a little wear to the front spinal edge, a few little edge nicks, the book itself in excellent state.

The Crime Club for Collins. London. 1963.. pp. 192. Without the dust wrapper, else a very good copy.

The Computer Journal. The British Computer Society. London. 1959-1960. Vol.2. 4to.. pp. iv, 206, v-vii. Text figures. Binder's cloth a bit marked, else a very good copy. *Containing 20 articles, 10 papers read at the First Conference of the British Computer Society, June 1959, and much Correspondence.

G. Doin. Paris. 1948. 3rd. edition.. pp. 240. 106 figures. Original wrappers, uncut and partially unopened, head of backstrip worn, else a good copy.

The British Launderers' Research Association. London. 1935.. pp. vii, (i), 184. 7 figures. Very good in original cloth.