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POLLARD, Hugh B.C.. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1930.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, tan cloth with white vellum spine, gilt spine lettering, ix, 183 pp, 14 tissue guarded color plates by illustrators Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace. Copy number 21 of a limited edition of 150 signed by the author. A very good copy with a pair of early bookplates to front pastedown, scuffing to cloth.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
Hugh B.C. Pollard. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930.
Price: US$251.25 + 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$257.69 + 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
Pollard, Hugh B. C.. The Gun Room Guide. Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, London, 1930.
Price: US$325.98 + 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
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$637.79 + 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.