B47 THE LAST PHARISEE [1959]

THE LAST | PHARISEE | THE LIFE AND TIMES OF | RABBI JOSHUA BEN HANANYAH | A FIRST-CENTURY IDEALIST | By | JOSHUA PODRO | Foreword by ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem] VALLENTINE, MITCHELL | 37 Furnival Street, London, EC4

Collation: [All6 B–Dl6, 64 leaves.

p.[1] THE LAST PHARISEE; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] copyright notice, author’s advertisement, printer’s and binder’s notices; p.5 CONTENTS; p.[6] blank; pp.7–10 FOREWORD; pp.11–117 text; pp.118–119 APPENDIX; pp. 120–124 A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; pp.125-128 INDEX.

21.5 × 13.9 cm. Bulk: 0.9 1.4 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in dull red cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [rule] | [swelled decorative rule] | [rule] | The | Last | Pharisee | [rule] JOSHUA | PODRO | [rule] | [swelled decorative rule] | [rule] | Vallentine | Mitchell

Price: 16s. Number of copies: 2,000 (not all bound up). Published 1 June 1959 in yellow-brown dust-jacket printed in dark brown.

Note: Graves’s contribution is the Foreword (pp.7–10).