Their Day in court

by Pollard, Percival

First edition

Price: $45.00
Shipping rates & speeds | 30 Day Return Guarantee Ask bookseller a question | E-mail to a friend

NY: The Neale Publishing Co., 1909. First edition. Cloth, 8vo, 486 pages.. Good. Covers and spine darkened, spine scratched and spotted. Binding is sound, text clean. Joseph Percival Pollard (January 29, 1869 - December 17, 1911) was an American literary critic, novelist and short story writer. Born in Greifswald, Pomerania to English and German parents, he was later educated at Eastbourne College in Sussex, England. His family emigrated to the United States in 1885. After a youthful period in Iowa, he spent much of his life moving back and forth between London, Paris and New York. His best-known work was Their Day in Court, a 1909 book of literary and cultural commentary. His works reflect his dislike for naturalism, and disdain for the commercial tastes of the masses, promoting instead aestheticism and literary impressionism. A good friend of both Ambrose Bierce and H.L. Mencken, Mencken wrote of him warmly in the first series of his work Prejudices, comparing Pollard favorably to contemporary and fellow American aesthete James Huneker. Pollard was also noted as an early advocate of James Branch Cabell and the initial works of Robert W. Chambers

Bookseller Terms of Sale

Moneyback guarantee if not satisfied; notify us within 10 days.