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

Wake Editions. New York. 1952.. pp. 128. 5 photograph plates. Pictorial paper wrappers dusty with some marks and darkened by age, otherwise a good copy. *With an annotated Check-List of Aiken's work.

Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. Wien. 1871. 4to.. pp. (ii), 106. 7 lithographed plates on 6 sheets [2 folding]. Quarter cloth and marbled boards, joints broken and text loose in the case, plates with some foxing, ex-libris Anatomy School Library, Cambridge with occasional marginal stamp.

W. & R. Chambers. London and Edinburgh. 1865.. pp. 32. Folded loose as issued, the front and rear pages dusty, small tear in the rear cover without loss, good copy.

For J. Mawman. London. 1825. 4to.. pp. vii, (i) blank, 326. Engraved frontispiece, a couple of text woodcuts. Early half calf and marbled boards, spine ends and edges rubbed, a little wear to top corners, frontispiece with image browned and offset to title, heraldic bookplate of [JOHN?] WODEHOUSE [1826-1902], KIMBERLY (sic), dated 1838 [somewhat puzzling as Wodehouse was created Earl of Kimberley in 1866), ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN, Darwin scholar and bibliographer, with his purchase notes at the front. *GARRISON-MORTON #2074 - 'Includes a detailed description of the paralysing effects of curare'.

T. Fisher Unwin. London. 1924.. pp. xx, 502. Frontispiece, coloured folding map, 170 photographic illustrations. Original blue cloth, small tear in the gutter on the front blank, otherwise an excellent copy.

Ward, Lock, and Co. London, St. Helier. [1880].. pp. viii, (ii) Advertisement, 192, (ii), 40 Guide Book Advertiser, (xii) Advertisements. 4 maps [3 large and folding], many woodcut illustrations, some full-page. Original printed boards, some wear to the edges of the spine and corners, joints intact and contents clean, overall a very good copy.

William Ware, George Street, Bath. 1899. 16mo.. pp. (xxiv). With linen-backed folding map, approx. 54 x 44 cms. The text printed in blue and stapled into a cloth case, the folding map pasted onto the front board, a faint damp-mark in one of the folds of the map, staples rusted, else a very good copy. *COPAC/WORLDCAT no copy. The text gives advertisements for Wares cycles, his list of Hire Charges and Charges for Lessons [ 10/6 for six lessons, including the cycle ], Repairs, Storing and Cleaning, Lighting-Up Times, Records for 1898, Legal Hints, General Hints, Postage Rates and Table of Gears.

Issued to the Subscribers by Phillimore & Co. London. 1904-1906. 2 volumes.. pp. (viii), 196; (viii), 152. Original cloth, very good copies. *LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies each, initialled by Phillimore. Forming part of Phillimore's Parish Register Series, vol. XLVI Warw. vol.II and vol.LXII Warw. vol.III.

HMSO. London. 1929.. pp. 23, (i). 2 text figures. An early photo-copy in paper covers, a very good copy.

Edward Arnold. London. 1897.. pp. x, 92, (ii) blank, (ii) Advertisement. Original cloth, uncut and unopened, Paget's inscription to SIR CLIFFORD ALLBUTT, a couple of neat library stamps but a very good copy overall. *Paget was Lecturer in Public Health at Owens College, Manchester - this work is an examination of the value of having efficient, permanent public records in medicine.

Methuen. London. 1929. First edition. 4to.. pp. xiv, (ii), 416. Original cloth in torn dust wrapper, lower corners of the boards slightly affected by damp below the wrapper [the contents untouched], light marginal foxing.

Macmillan. London. 1876. New Edition.. pp. (x), 388. Frontispiece and 3 plates, engraved chapter heading vignettes. Original publisher's blue cloth with front board decorated in black and gilt, spine gilt, the spine repaired with the original laid back, the rear board spotted, occasional marginal mark, overall a firm, clean copy.

Raphael Tuck & Sons. London, Paris, New York. No date [1916].. pp. 143, (i) Raphael House Library of Gift Books. Frontispiece and 11 plates, all coloured, profuse text line drawings. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine sunned, two plates reattached each with a very small marginal tear without loss, one of them slightly bruised along the fore-edge, else a good copy.

Hardy Plant Farm. Enfield, Middx. [1938]. Fourth edition.. pp. 119, (i) Index. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and line drawings in text. Quarter roan, spine wearing at the foot, else a very good copy. *A catalogue of plants available from Perry; only Kew has a copy of this title re. COPAC.

Collins. London. 1960.. pp. 318, (ii). Map. Unclipped dust wrapper, not a particularly scarce title but a very nice copy. *Dust wrapper - 'It was John Barrow who persuaded Ogilvie to leave the research unit at Pretoria and to work day and night to evolve and build an electric shark barrier at Aguada da Boa Paz.' Jenkins (1920-2001) was a South African journalist, novelist and screenwriter. His wife Eve Palmer, with whom he collaborated on several works, wrote numerous non-fiction works about Southern Africa. Jenkins was either born in Port Elizabeth South Africa or Pretoria to Ernest Jenkins, an editor, and Daisy Jenkins. At age 17, he wrote and had published A Century of History, which received a special eulogy from General Jan Smuts at the Potchefstroom centenary celebrations. Smuts also wrote the book's introduction. Jenkins subsequently won the Lord Kemsley Commonwealth Journalistic Scholarship, which took him to Fleet Street, where he spent World War II as a war correspondent. While working… Read More

Robert Cadell. Edinburgh and Whittaker. London. 1831. 48 volumes.. All with engraved frontispiece and title with vignette. Half green morocco by HAYDAY, boards and end-papers marbled, all edges gilt, some slight scuffing to some of the spine ends, a very good set. *HAYDAY had long seen that it was desirable to make printed books open freely and lie flat; his attention is believed to have been drawn to this matter by seeing Bagster's polyglot bibles, which were bound by Joseph Welsh of 10 Queen Street, Golden Square, in what was known as 'Bagster's Renowned Binding.' These books were made flexible, and covered with purple pin-headed sealskin with a blind tool ornament. In his own binding he sewed the books all along every sheet, and to remedy the extra thickness that would be caused by sewing with thread, used silk, and to equalise the thickness rounded the fore edges more than was customary. To make the back tight he dispensed with the ordinary backing of paper, and fastened the leather cover down… Read More

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Printed by Richard Field for John Bill and William Barret. London. 1616. 4to. in 8s. Fourth edition. . pp. (lxiv), 456, (x) The Table, (ii) blank. BOUND WITH : WHITE, John. Contemporary calf, now dilapidated, joints weak and boards holding by the cords, one early leaf in the first work torn without loss, a single worm-hole in the fore-edge margins of the first few leaves, one leaf in the second work with a paper flaw in the lower corner not affecting text, this work lacking one leaf [Mm8 pp. 545/6], offered as a good working copy. A Defence of the Way to the Trve Chvrch against A.D. his Reply. etc. etc. Printed for William Barret. London. 1614. 4to. First edition. pp. (xxxviii), 557, (i).

Frederick Warne. London. 1949 (reprint).. pp. 144. 64 coloured plates by MABEL E. STEP, and 79 plates from photographs and drawings. A very nice copy in the original cloth gilt.

The Golden Cockerell Press. London. 1946. LIMITED EDITION of 750 copies, no. 482.. pp. (iv) blank, 150, (vi) blank. Frontispiece and 10 text engravings by JOHN O'CONNOR. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, top edge gilt, uncut, very good copy.