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

Butler and Tanner. London. 1912. Third annual edition (10,000 copies).. pp. xii, 395, (i). Folding map, 20 photographic plates printed both sides, numerous text figures. A very good copy in original cloth. *Comprehensive coverage including a bibliography and list of estate agents for those wishing to emigrate.

Mary's Meadow Press. Ludlow, Shropshire. [1930].. pp. xv, (i), (2)-234, (iv). Photo portrait of the author. Printed paper wrappers, a very good copy.

[Ibadan, Nigeria]. [1964].. pp. 139, (i). Original black paper wrappers, signed presentation inscription from the author, a very good copy. *ODEKU, a neurosurgeon, working at the University Hospital, Michigan, latterly in Ibadan, Nigeria. Inevitably, some of the poems have a medical slant.

John Lane. London. 1923-1929. 2 volumes. . pp. x, (ii), 262, (ii). Frontispiece, 42 plates, 7 figs.; x, 314, (ii). Frontispiece, 63 plates. Original cloth gilt, front joint v.2 weak, fore-edges foxed, else very good copies.

University of Notre Dame Press. Indiana. 1999.. pp. xxi, (i), 235, (vii). A very good copy in dust wrapper.

Elfand Art Publishing. Reigate, Surrey. 1988. Fourth edition.. pp. 480. Thousands of illustrations, mostly in colour. Pictorial boards, small tear at the head of the spine, otherwise a very good copy. *A wonderful compilation of commercial art of the '80s.

HMSO. London. 1911-1912. 21 Parts, of 28.. pp. ii, (3)-14, (ii); 9, (i); ii, 29, (i); 32, (ii); 34, (ii), ii, 8; ii, 13, (i); ii, 15, (i); ii, 17, (i); ii, 104, (ii). 2 folding plates; ii, 19, (i); ii, 26, (ii); ii, 33, (i); ii, 53, (i). Erratum slip; ii, 17, (i); ii, 14, (ii); ii, 41, (i); 32, (ii); (ii), 49, (iii); 18, (ii); (ii), 13, (iii). Amateur binding of cloth with paper spine label, contents overall good, some title-pages a bit creased in the margins, some leaves cropped at the fore-edge without affecting text, two advert leaves with a piece cut out. *A fascinating examination of the teaching of mathematics at the turn of the twentieth century - Higher Mathematics for the Classical Sixth Form - Comparison of Work in Boys' and Girls' Schools - Examinations from the School Point of View - Teaching of Mathematics to Young Children - Educational Value of Geometry - Mathematics at Osborne and Dartmouth - etc. etc. COPAC records many locations for single parts or short runs but only UCL for… Read More

Carr and Co. Carlisle. 1938.. pp. (8) including the covers. All fully illustrated in colour, showing 35 specially designed tins of biscuits. WITH loose 1938 Price List. Stapled within wrappers, top corner of the front cover torn with slight loss not affecting the images, rubbed and a bit dilapidated, but a decent copy.

Corporation of the City of Glasgow. 1914.. pp. iv, 340. Frontispiece, 140 plates, a few text figures. Half calf, a bit rubbed along spine ends and edges, boards a bit speckled, marbled end papers, in very good condition.

. At the top left corner, in ink, the initials PR and the number 11,561, with engraved heraldic device and red paper seal of the City of London, printed in black letter with manuscript details added. Folding into a paper slip case lettered in gilt - COPY OF FREEDOM - CITY OF LONDON. The strip is in very good condition, albeit folded a number of times to fit the slip-case.

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Campbell-Gray. London. 1911. Small oblong folio.. 20 leaves stapled into pictorial wrappers. Wrappers a bit dusty at the edges, small tear in the fore-edge margin of the front cover and succeeding two leaves without loss, top corner of the front cover creased, the art paper a little rippled.

The Times Office. London. 1935.. pp. (viii), 193 including the rear end-papers in the pagination. Folding map of the General Election. Original printed cloth, fore-edge margin of map creased, a very good copy.

. Printed and manuscript, on vellum, with wax seals and tax stamp, completion statement verso and table of wages paid during the five years, first year £6, £20 in year 5. IMAGE SIZE : c. 35½ x 24 cms. c. 14 x 9½ inches. Framed and glazed, plus VAT.

. Printed and manuscript, on vellum, with wax seals and tax stamp. IMAGE SIZE : c. 35½ x 24 cms. c. 14 x 9½ inches. Framed and glazed, plus VAT. TOGETHER WITH : Silver Medallion awarded to Robert Hodgson, prize for French, Nesham Hall, Houghton Le Spring, 1848.

[c.1912]-[1939].. One corner slightly creased, otherwise in very good condition. *The platinotypes date to around 1912, the three photo-cards to around 1939.

Printed and Sold by W. Phillips. London. 1802. Second edition. 4to. . pp. xvi, 232. Contemporary tree calf, foot of spine a little worn, a couple of small holes in the leather of the front board, a little worming at the top edge of the paste-downs of both boards with consequent pinholes in a few succeeding leaves, occasional leaf slightly blotched, overall a decent copy, with the ownership signature of JOHN OWENS of KILMANAWID ?, 1810. *With a section on SLAVE TRADE & SLAVERY, pages 176-180.

For HMSO by Eyre and Spottiswoode. London. 1909. Landscape 8vo. . pp. iv, 285, (v). 98 + 6 bis plates of circuits, many folding. Original red cloth gilt, signature of J. TELACK ?, Barnet Exchange, 1910, one leaf with a lower margin tear without loss, else a very good copy. *COPAC locates three copies - the British Library, NL Wales and Oxford. An astonishingly detailed handbook considering that it was published only 35 years after Bell's first patent for the telephone in 1876.

George Allen & Unwin. London. 1922.. pp. 92, (iv). Frontispiece, 15 plates. Original cloth a little rubbed at the edges else a very good copy.

Constable. London. 1925. 4to.. pp. xii, 82, (ii). Frontispiece and 8 plates, all in colour and tipped-in. Publisher's cloth, slight bruising to spine ends else a very good copy.