Search Results: Authors starting with C from PATRICK POLLAK RARE BOOKS

Leonard Smithers. London. 1899. [Seventh edition?].. pp. (viii), 31 (numbered and printed rectos only, (ii) blank. Quarter white cloth over light brown cloth covers, uncut, one early leaf with a couple of small tears in the fore-edge margin, the following leaf with one small tear, no loss to either, in all other ways a very good copy, with Wilde's name in the title but not on the spine.

Les Presses Universitaires de France. Paris. 1929.. pp. VIII, 326, (ii). 53 figures. Original cloth, front free end-paper cut out, else a very good copy.

Albin Michel. Paris. [1920-1936]. 12 volumes. . Profusely illustrated. Contemporary French bindings of imitation calf, all in very good condition. *OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR AVAILABLE - PLEASE ENQUIRE.

L. N. Fowler. London. No date [c.1940s?]. Revised and Authorized.. pp. 128. Limp cloth wrappers now worn and creased at the edges, a very good working copy. *Presentation inscription from LYDIA HAWKINS, to her friend JANET NEWBURY, July 1940, with a 4 page autograph letter offering spiritual help - '..... can quite understand about atmosphere, but you can alter all that dear ! Just say 'The love of God through me pleases them' and in time they will all be so different'. Loosely added is a fine lino-cut of Adam and Eve. EMILIE CADY - Harriet Emilie Cady (July 12, 1848 – January 3, 1941) was an American homeopathic physician and author of New Thought spiritual writings. Her 1896 book Lessons in Truth, A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Christianity is now considered one of the core texts on Unity Church teachings. It is the most widely read book in that movement. It has sold over 1.6 million copies since its first publication, and has been translated into eleven languages and braille. WIKI.

T. Fisher Unwin. London. 1899. . pp. xi, (i), 179, (i). Original cloth, spine faded, one gathering a bit weak, a couple of top corners slightly creased, else 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.

Calderdale Leisure Services. 1988. Folio.. pp. (vi), 2, 156, (ii). Illustrations in text from photographs. Text in typescript. Original pictorial wrappers, rear cover a trifle foxed and with the original recipient's name and address impressed, a loose leaf format held at the spine by a plastic clip, a very good copy. *COPAC does not record a copy.

Macmillan. London. 1886. Thirteenth edition.. pp. xii, 319, (i), 32 Catalogue. Original cloth, presentation label, good copy.

Yelf Brothers. Isle of Wight. 1930. L4to.. pp. 52, (ii). Coloured frontispiece and 20 plates. Printed paper wrappers, top corners of the first few leaves slightly creased, a good copy.

Printed by William Clowes. By Authority. [1819].. pp. x, (ii), 13-63, (i) Imprint. Large folding plate before title, half-title discarded. Contemporary half calf, spine rubbed at ends and edges, plate offset to title and with early repair verso to fold without loss, foxing throughout. *SCARCE - no copy recorded by COPAC/ESTC but OCLC WORLD CAT. records a copy at the British Library.

L. Upcott Gill. London. 1908. Sm.8vo.. pp. (viii) Advertisements, x, (ii), 212, (iv) Advertisements. Ads. also on all the end-papers, rectos and versos. Folding map, frontispiece and 10 plates. Original decorated cloth, ex-library with pocket on the front paste-down, neat stamp on the verso of each plate and in final text margin, call number in gilt on the spine which is a bit rubbed, front joint weak, but a good copy overall.

Brisbane. Australia. 1967-1976.. An incomplete run of this publication, consisting of VOLUMES 3-10 incl. [c.24-26 nos. per volume] plus v.2 [nos. 17,19-26], v.11 [nos.1-18 incl., lacking 11], up to v.8 - 4to. with c.pp.8-10, remainder folio, c.pp.4, per issue. Vols. 3-10 in cloth, remainder loose as issued.

The Bodley Head. London. 1949.. pp. 297, (iii). Very good copy in original cloth.

W. Heffer & Sons. Cambridge. 1912.. pp. vii, (i), 61, (iii) blank. Original cloth, uncut, a small brown mark in the fore-edge margin of the first few leaves diminishing towards each end, else a very good copy. *COPAC gives copies in the British Library, London Library and Cambridge.

H. Georg. Genève-Bale. 1885. Deuxième Édition, Considérablement Augmentée.. pp. XVI, 594. Uncut and mostly unopened, in the original printed paper wrappers, the stitching perished and most of the gatherings now loose, old library stamp on the front wrapper and title, signed at the head of the front wrapper by SIR CLIFFORD ALLBUTT.

Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1957. First edition.. pp. 256. Dust wrapper unclipped, a very good copy.

Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode. Published by Parker a.o. London. 1853. . pp. xix, (i), xi, (i), 128. Additional engraved title, 2 handcoloured lithographs. Original red cloth of the series, spine faded and worn at the ends with loss at the foot, school-library book-plate and a barely visible stamp on the top edge of the book-block but no other sign of library use, engraved title a little foxed with a couple of very small edge tears, contents very good.

Macmillan. New York. 1937. First edition.. pp. xiv, (ii), 229, (i). Original cloth, book-plate and signature of J. DIXON BOYD, ex-libris Anatomy School, Cambridge, with neat stamp and call number on title *GARRISON-MORTON #1354

J. Russell Smith. London. 1872.. pp. xxv, (i), 294, (i) Index, (iii) blank. Wood engraving of Highgate Cemetery by CLEGHORN, plate of St. Andrew's Cemetery. a few armorial bearings in text. Original cloth, a very good copy. *This is the second of a two volume work, complete in itself. With an extensive Subscribers' list, including Mrs. Charles Dickens.

Printed and Sold by J. D. Bird. Cardiff. [1810?]. . pp. xix, (i) 211, (i) Errata. 6 folding tables. Contemporary half calf rubbed and a bit worn, spine gilt, end-papers renewed some time ago, presentation inscription from the author to MRS. W. NICHOLL, one of the folding tables with an old vertical repair which has resulted in the loss of a few letters to each side of the repair, one leaf with lower corner torn not affecting text, apart from these faults, the text is clean and bright. *COPAC locates 6 copies; it is very scarce in commerce.