Major Hugh B C Pollard (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Green cloth, 122 pages plus ads. Very slight rubbing to just the tips of the corners otherwise a fine, clean and unmarked hardcover. Bluestem Books is an independent brick-and-mortar bookstore established in 1984.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth over marbled boards. Heavy rubbing and toning overall. Bumps, bruises, and fraying to the corners, spine ends, and edges. The spine label heavily yellowed with some losses. Interior pages unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages.

Condition: Good. 1923. No edition remarks. 122 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Mild water droplets to boards. Mild dents to upper edges of boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good tight square copy with a little browning to end papers and top of block. Presents well - containing many contemporary advertisements.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8VO. 1ST ED 2005 . DARK GREEN CLOTH . 117 PAGES + ADVERTS + INDEX . FINE PLATES . FINE COPY .

Clothbound Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Publishing. vii + 155 pp. with index. Clothbound hard cover spine with deckled board covers and paper labels. Clean, solid copy. Photos available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. First Edition. Original marbled boards over cloth spine, paper label on spine, very good plus. Interesting cookbook for all types of wild game.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. xv + 122 pages + 4 pages of adverts. NO DUSTJACKET. B&W plates. Clean dark green hardback binding with moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends, spine-junctions rubbing. Spine lightly colour-faded. Light browning/greying to page-edges, light browning to endpapers o/w pages clean and tidy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. xvi + 122 pp. + 4 pp. of ads, frontis, b/w illus., tables, index. Bookplate. Green cloth bound hardcover book in v.g. cond., the severly darkened dust wrapper is missing most of the spine altho the title "Shot Guns" near the top is still present, o/w because of the darkening it is poor cond.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition Stated. In marbled 3/4 boards with blue linen spine; paper label on spine and front panel. A crisp, clean copy of this marvelous vintage cookbook using wild game - partridge, pheasant, gouse, woodcock, pigeon, venison, salmon, trout etc.

Cloth. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Major Hugh B. C. Pollard's cookery book of helpful tips for the hunter and sportsman. First edition. A collection of more than two-hundred ideas of how to cook meat and fish, hunted or caught by a sportsman. Written for those "who openly admit that they like the pleasures of the table and who enjoy life", with suggestions on how to cook partridges, pheasant, venison, game, trout and more. Written by Major Hugh B. C. Pollard, an author, journalist and firearms expert, known for his many works on weaponry. In the original quarter cloth binding. Externally, sound with bumping and light loss to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Age toning to the first and last few pages. Previous owner's bookplate and red sticker to the front pastedown. Good. book.

Hardback. Condition: Good Reading Copy. No Jacket. First Edition. 8.75 x 7.75" 156 pages. Marbled boards with blue cloth spine, dustwrapper in mylar sleeve has some wonderful recipes. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

FIRST EDITION Small 4to., quarter bound in blue cloth with marbled paper-covered boards and paper title labels to spine and upper board, in unclipped dust jacket. [vii] + 155pp, indexed. Remains of faint erased inscription to ffep. Light foxing to foredge. Edges of boards lightly rubbed. Paper title labels somewhat foxed. Dust jacket somewhat soiled and damaged - please see photos. Overall VG in Good, Sound dust jacket. (Shelf 200) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Major Hugh B. C. Pollard's cookery book of helpful tips for the hunter, presented here in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. An excellent example, found in the original, unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of more than two-hundred ideas of how to cook meat and fish, hunted or caught by a sportsman. Written for those "who openly admit that they like the pleasures of the table and who enjoy life", with suggestions on how to cook partridges, pheasant, venison, game, trout and more. Written by Major Hugh B. C. Pollard, an author, journalist and firearms expert, known for his many works on weaponry. Bound in the publisher's quarter cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. Externally, lovely, with light bumping and a little rubbing to the extremities. Light offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper is a little worn, with chipping and closed tears to the extremities. Larger tears to joints, with tape repair to the backstrip verso. Light marks to wrap and sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(8.5 x 7 inches). Decorated initial letters to each chapter. A very good copy in a fine early binding by Bumpus of London. Half tan calf, spine with raised bands and twin light and dark brown labels, gilt. Marbled paper on boards.Circular brown calf label, with owners initials, on front board.Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed.Previous owners small neat inscription "C.M.H from K.M.H" on front blank endpaper. Some minor rubbing to extremities but overall a very good copy of this interesting book. In the introduction the author reveals his thoughts on dining. "Really intense and progressive people count the calories in carrots and the vitamins in veal and advise us to live on raw cabbage. This book is not for them, but for the bad lots who openly admit that they like the pleasures of the table and who enjoy life".:

FIRST EDITION. The Sportsman's Cookery Book: Containing more than 200 choice alternatives to the everlasting joint, Country Life, 1926, first edition, some slight wear to the fore edge corner tips, else just about fine in nearly very good dust-soiled dust-wrapper with a closed tear to the upper rear spine fold. The art of cooking partidges, pheasant, grouse, wild fowl, duck, woodcock, snipe, pigeon, hares, rabbits, salmon, trout, et.al. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper.