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

University Press. Cambridge. 1949. First edition.. pp. (viii), 33, (v). Original printed wrappers, a very good copy.

Reprinted from 'The General Practitioner'. February 6th and 13th, 1909.. pp. 18, (ii). Disbound, blind-stamp of THE AMBIDEXTRAL CULTURE SOCIETY and WITH COMPLIMENTS in the top margin of page 1, very good copy. *The Ambidextral Culture Society was founded by Jackson in 1903. In 1905 he published 'Ambidexterity or Two-Handedness and Two-Brainedness', with a Foreword by Baden-Powell who stressed the value of ambidexterity to the military. As so often, a high moral tone crept into the discussion and provoked the inevitable backlash against cranks, much as took place within and against the Vegetarian Society. The paper above opens with the remark - 'Certain members of the medical profession seem bent on an endeavour to crush the Ambidextral Culture Society, and to cover its supporters with the opprobrium that is usually meted out to cranks and fanatics of the most rabid type.' SEE Tamara Thornton. Deviance, Dominance and the Construction of Handedness in Turn-of-the-Century Anglo-America IN Moral… Read More

The Imprint Publishing Co. London. 1913. February. 4to.. pp. viii, 17-32, 81-158, (ii). 6 coloured plates and many text illustrations. Later cloth-backed boards, paper covers bound in but very dilapidated, text clean, a working copy. *Important for the essay by WALTER CRANE My Books for Children; DIBDIN On Printer's Devices; J. H. MASON The Printing of Children's Books, etc.

Arts & Boeve. Nijmegen. 1996. 2 volumes.. pp. xvi, xiv, 500; xii, viii, 510. Original cloth, as new, in shrink-wrap.

Richard Bentley and Son. London. 1873.. pp. (viii), 301, (i). Steel-engraved frontispiece. Publisher's decorated blue cloth, all edges gilt, glazed yellow end-papers, a few bleached patches on each board, else a very good copy.

F. Lewis. Leigh-on-Sea. 1970. 4to. . pp. 80. Coloured tipped-in frontispiece, 89 plates, full-page text woodcut, 2 text figures, pedigree. Dust wrapper with a small tear in the lower edge, typed letter from the publisher 'with compliments', long, chatty letter to the recipient from Bertram Jacobs, light off-setting of frontispiece to title, a very nice copy.

Irat Services and the Goethe Institute. London. 1977.. pp. 100. 41 illustrations. Original wrappers, a very good copy. *With the Exhibition Checklist held at the National Theatre, sponsored by The Goethe Instiitute.

C. Arthur Pearson. London. 1897.. pp. viii, 195, (i), 8 Catalogue [1897]. Publisher's green cloth, joints weak and rear free end-paper cut out, otherwise a very good copy.

Chez le Sr. Jaillot Géographe ordinaire de Roi Joignant les Grands Augustins. A Paris. [1775]. 12mo.. pp. (iv), 143, (i) Privilege. Large folding engraved map. Text is engraved, each page with a ruled border, title with central vignette, the Avertissement leaf before title is signed in ink by Jaillot. Contemporary cats-paw sheepskin, worn at all edges and corners and joints weak, contents very good, the rear end-papers with a contemporary ms. route from Paris to Calais, totalling the distance and the cost, including overnight stay, cheese and servants.

Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1879. 2 volumes.. pp. 312;288. Without the half-titles. Later buckram, very good copies. *See NOTE to v.I : ' 'Roderick Hudson' was originally published in Boston in 1875; but, as the book here appears, it is a reproduction, made with my full assent, of a revised and amended edition lately issued in London.'

Macmillan. London. 1920. 2 volumes.. pp. xxxi, (i), 441, (iii). Portrait frontispiece; xi, (i), 529, (iii). Portrait frontispiece, 1 folding facsimile. Publisher's cloth, uncut, very good copies. *1500 COPIES ISSUED.

W. Collins Sons. London. 1917.. pp. (vii), 118. Portrait frontispiece. Original cloth with front free end-paper removed, else a very good copy.

Francis and John Rivington. London. 1845. New edition.. pp. vii, (i), 371, (i). *SPCK binding of black calf with the Society device on the front cover, a trifle worn at the head of the spine and the top corner of the rear board, else a very good copy with the binder's pallet at the lower edge of the front board - J. Smith, Binder, 15 Albion Buildings, Bartholomew Close, 1844.

George Philip & Son. London. 1890. Second edition.. pp. xx, 273, (i). Portrait frontispiece, 8 plates, folding map, text illustrations. Full calf prize binding, the boards weakening, contents very good.

For the College at the University Press. Cambridge. 1930.. pp. 49, (iii). Original printed grey paper wrappers, a very good copy.

John Murray. London. 1882. Seventy-eighth thousand. . pp. xx, 148. Profuse woodcut illustration. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt device on front cover now rubbed, covers dull and a bit marked but joints intact, a couple of gatherings strained, a very good working copy, quite scarce and nicely illustrated.

Macmillan. London. 1946. First edition.. pp. iv, 144. Dust wrapper unclipped, with a few edge nicks and a bit of wear to the lower front corner, else a very good copy.

Printed for Private Circulation by Douglas & Foulis. Edinburgh. 1935. Sm.4to. . pp. (xii), 153, (iii). Frontispiece, 37 photographic plates, woodcut title vignette. Original gilt-lettered cloth, presentation inscription from John and Margaret [Jameson], July 1935. *TOGETHER WITH : Service of Dedication of stained glass windows in St. Aidan's Church, Bamburgh, June 8th. 1936, pp.8. Three windows were installed, dedicated to the memories of Andrew Jameson and Betty Hodgkin, grandchildren of A.L. Smith, Master of Bailliol. COPAC records the National Library of Scotland and British Library only.

The Hope Trust. Edinburgh. 1907. . pp. viii, 272. Portrait frontispiece and 16 plates. Original cloth with presentation label from the Hope Trust, a very good copy.

Methuen. London and New York. 1986. . pp. xxxvi, 528, (iv). Coloured frontispiece, 16 coloured plates, 56 black & white plates, 2 text illustrations, 10 maps. Dust wrapper, a very good copy.