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Hugh B.C. Pollard. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, Boston, 1930.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarto. Green cloth. 182pp Gilt lettering to spine.12 color illustrations and eleven black and white illustrations by Philip Rickman Some age-toning to endpapers.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
POLLARD, Hugh B.. The gun room guide. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1930.
Price: US$81.03 + shipping
Description: Some scattered light foxing; owner's name; green cloth, with badly faded/browned spine; spine slightly bumped. 12 col. plates by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace, & B&W illustrations by Philip Rickman. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Pollard, Hugh B. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930.
Price: US$85.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardback, quarto, green cloth bevelled edge boards, lettered gilt to a lightly faded spine, part faded to rear boards and two very small faded spots to bottom left of upper board, binding remains tight, the text clean and unmarked, twelve tissue guarded colour plates by Philip Rickman and H Frank Wallace, 183pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Hugh B. C. Pollard. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Limited, London, 1930.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace. Hardcover. Foxing on first six pages - front free end paper-title page and text blocks. Fading to book. Chips head/heel and extrenities.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$102.56 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1930). 1930 1st edition. Large 4to (222 x 290mm). Ppx,183. Colour paintings, b/w illustrations by Philip Rickman & H.Frank Wallace, rough-cut pages. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fading and staining to slight shaken spine, staining to boards, edges and end-papers browned. Good only. Comprehensive guide to British game shooting and gamekeeping with many goodcoloured plates. Appendices including ageing and sexing of game, useful tree and shrub species for coverts and details of ammunition. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
POLLARD Hugh. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1930.
Price: US$125.31 + shipping
Description: 1X 183 pages, 4to,14 full page colour plates by Phillip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace, apart from browning to front and rear end papers and some light spotting, a vg+ copy in dj. light dust soiling no loss of dj
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.20 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. ix, [1], 183. 12 colour plates by Philip Rickman and H.Frank Wallace mounted on cream leaves matching text and with captioned tissue-guards, and monochrome illustrations within the text by Philip Rickman. Publishers' emerald green cloth with bevelled boards and gilt titles to spine in unclipped cream pictorial dust-jacket. Boards very slightly bruised to edges, and cloth lightly soiled at extreme top edge. Free endpapers lightly toned next to jacket flaps as usual; a little scattered light foxing, mainly to text-block edge and prelims. Jacket toned to spine,creased to edge, and lightly surface soiled, with 9 cm tear at upper joint and small loss at spine tips. A very good copy in a very good jacket. Comprehensive guide bringing the reader up to date with modern developments in technical discoveries and management, and covering the choice of where to shoot, the weaponry and ammunition available and various game to pursue from pheasants to vermin, with a chapter on the cookery of game. Scarce in the fragile dust-jacket.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
POLLARD HUGH. THE GUN ROOM GUIDE. LONDON EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, 1930.
Price: US$166.66 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, QUARTO, 12 COLOUR PLATES BY PHILIP RICKMAN AND FRANK WALLACE. THREE QUARTERS CHESNUT MOROCCO FINE BINDING BY BAYNTUM-RIVIERE, SPINE GILT, WITH ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER BOUND IN AT THE BACK. T.E.G. FRONT JOINT RUBBED AND STARTING, VERY GOOD.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Hugh B.C. Pollard. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930.
Price: US$249.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 183pp, gift inscription to free front end paper, no other inscriptions, copy number 106 of a 150 copy limited edition, signed by author to inside of half title page. Boards are in very good order, just some very light rubbing to edges. Tipped in colour illustrations, all tissue guards are in place and undamaged. Hinges are tight, no turned over page corners, little internal wear, just some spotting largely to rear and edges of pages which carry the plates, plates not affected. Overall a very nice condition copy. Happy to supply photos on request. Heavy book, please inquire for postage outside the UK.
Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom
Pollard, Hugh B. C.. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1930.
Price: US$256.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. Large 4to. Limited edition of 150 UK copies signed by the author of which this is number 148. A very good copy in a quarter vellum binding. Top edge gilt. No ownership inscription and little foxing. Pp.ix,183. 14 tissue-guarded colour plates. 11 black and white illustrations. Chapters on e.g. the gun, ammunition, the various game birds and animals, vermin, diseases of game birds, cooking game etc.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$282.04 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, ix, 183pp, illustrated with 12 colour plates mounted on card with captioned tissue guards and 11 black & white drawings, for and bottom edges roughly trimmed, inner endpapers tanned, recent quarter green leather and marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers to match,spine has raised bands with gilt decoration and gilt lettering on red panel. Size: Quarto
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Hugh B.C. Pollard. The GUN ROOM Guide. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1930.
Price: US$288.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/Fair, cream pictorial dj with black titles on tarnished spine, dj has some wear and tear particulary a missing bit at spine top where titles had been, contents are clean and unmarked, small quarto 183 roughcut pp. Weight 1500g so a well overweight and oversized book that will require extra shipping charges. Extensively illustrated with full colour plates of game animals, all with tissue protectors. Also some b/w illustrations relevant to colour plates. 12 chapters covering every aspect of hunting for game, plus various empirical appendices on guns, seasons and gamekeeping.
Seller: Rivermead Books, Southampton., United Kingdom
Pollard, Hugh P.C.. The Gun Room Guide (LIMITED EDITION). Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1930.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarter vellum spine with gilt titles over plain brown cloth boards; 4to; 183pp; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; illustrated with 14 color plates with captioned tissue guards plus 11 drawings by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace; from a limitation of 225 total copies with numbers 1a to 75a (27a) available to the American market and the remaining 150 elsewhere, all signed by the author. Simultaneously published by Houghton Mifflin in Boston & New York plus Eyre and Spottiswoode in London. With chapters on guns, ammunition, pheasants, grouse, partridges, capercaillie & waterfowl, ground game, various deer species, vermin, bird plumage, diseases of game birds plus the cookery of game. A beautiful book in nice condition with light rubbing to front cover plus the usual light soiling to the vellum spine; internally quite clean.
Seller: David Foley Sporting Books, Dallas, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$322.84 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. PROVENANCE: From the library of John Frederi CHAYTOR BRINTON, book plate to front pastedown. Physical description: ix, 183 p. : mounted col. front., illus. 11 mounted col. pl. ; 29 x 23 cm. Notes: Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Subject: Shooting. Game and game-birds. Fowling. Hunting. Hunting sports-General works, light literature. English. Other names: Rickman, Philip b. 1891. Wallace, Harold Frank 1881-1962. Genre: Illustrated, text. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Pollard, Hugh B. C.. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, London, 1930.
Price: US$324.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, vellum spine. ix, 183pp. Number 16 of a limited edittion of 225. Signed by the author. Illustrated. A few spots to margins. An attractive copy. [R27]
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
POLLARD, Hugh B.C. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre & Spottiswoode, (London), 1930.
Price: US$352.55 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ix; 183 pages. 14 mounted colour plates by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace. Light foxing mainly to page edges and mounts of the plates. Original vellum backed buckram boards. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 225 copies. A most hansome looking book
Seller: Roger Collicott Books, Widecombe in the Moor, DEVON, United Kingdom
POLLARD Hugh B.C.. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre Spottiswoode, 1930.
Price: US$353.83 + shipping
Description: IX 183 pages, 4to, illus in colour by Phillip Rickman And H Frank Wallace, limited to 225 signed copies, bound in 1/4 vellum, small nick to edges of spine, vg.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$364.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. PROVENANCE: From the library of John Frederi CHAYTOR BRINTON, book plate to front pastedown. Physical description: ix, 183 p. : mounted col. front., illus. 11 mounted col. pl. ; 29 x 23 cm. Notes: Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Subject: Shooting. Game and game-birds. Fowling. Hunting. Hunting sports-General works, light literature. English. Other names: Rickman, Philip b. 1891. Wallace, Harold Frank 1881-1962. Genre: Illustrated, text. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; Quarter cream vellum cover and brown cloth boards is rubbed at corners with modest scuffing but clean and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Signed and numbered on limitations page, this being #32A of 225 copies (only 75 are numbered with an "A" and were reserved for the United States of America). Pages are very modestly toned but clean and in very good condition. ; Signed by Author
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$634.58 + shipping
Description: Beautifully illustrated with full colour plates, this is a signed Limited Edition copy of Hugh Pollard's celebration of game shooting. The first edition of this signed Limited Edition work from Hugh Pollard, a British firearms expert and journalist known for his intelligence work during the Irish War of Independence. This copy is number 3A of seventy-five copies reserved for sale in the United States of America, and is signed by Pollard to the limitation page.Illustrated with fourteen full colour plates depicting birds and deer, from artists Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace, each retaining their original captioned tissue guard. Collated, complete.Discussing recent developments in customs and traditions when it comes to shooting, Pollard explains that 'the fundamental essence of the sport has not changed, but in our own time we have seen changes in detail and in practice' that will be discussed in the work.With chapters dedicated to ammunition, the gun, the choice of a shoot, the cookery of game and diseases of game birds, this is a lovely copy of a beautifully illustrated and informative study of the sport of shooting. In the publisher's original quarter vellum binding, with cloth covered boards. Light discolouration to vellum, with minor rubbing to cloth of rear board. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Signed and numbered by author to limitation page. Pages clean and bright, with plates retaining their original captioned tissue guard. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Pollard, Hugh B.C.. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, London, 1930.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Rickman, Philip. First edition, no. 45A of 75 deluxe copies for America, signed by the author (edition of 225). Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace. ix, 183 pp. 1 vols. 4to. One of 75 Copies for America. Attractive copy of this beautifully illustrated work, documenting best practice in the shooting sports in Britain in the interwar years. Chute 564 (not recording the deluxe ed.) Quarter vellum and cloth boards, t.e.g. Minor soiling to spine, some occasional traces of foxing. Fine Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace. ix, 183 pp. 1 vols. 4to First edition, no. 45A of 75 deluxe copies for America, signed by the author (edition of 225).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.