Major Pollard (43 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1999). (1939) 1999 paperback edition. Large 8vo paperback (187 x 268mm). Ppxii,48. Colour plates by Philip Rickman. Covers 5mm (3/16") short of fore-edge - but still a fine unread copy. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. This edition has French-fold card covers which unfortunately fall 3/16" short of the fore-edge. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 12.95.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Pp208, nice copy in damaged dustjacket,

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1993). (1939) 1993 edition. 4to (195 x 272mm). Ppxii,48. Colour plates of game birds by Philip Rickman, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Colour engraving of pheasants to gilt decorated green faux leather, issued without a dust-wrapper. Limited to 2,500 numbered copies. Slight mark to cover but a near fine copy. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. CLEAN COVER AND CONTENT PAGES. See photos for more information. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 367 pages plus indexes (complete). A passive copy. The boards are grubby. They retain a weary elegance. There handling and storage marks and wear all about. They are sure. The contents are very clean, clear, benign, confident, authoritative. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1993). (1939) 1993 edition. 4to (195 x 272mm). Ppxii,48. Colour plates of game birds by Philip Rickman, marbled end-papers, gilt edges. Colour engraving of pheasants to gilt decorated green faux leather. Fine unread copy - still in publisher's box. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. .

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.

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st. (UK) Presumed 1st edition. Owner's name to end paper which is very lightly foxed, no other markigns, Very Good; no dust jacket. Tan cloth with gold spine titles, 380pp, index. 150 illustrations including 74 photo plates, a photo frontis and line dawings in text. This is a guide book written in 1929 for shooting of partriges, grouse, pheasant, woodcock, snipe, blackgame, capercaillie, ptarmigan, hare, wild geese, ducks, shore birds. The begining chapters deal with the GUn, and gernal shooting hints, clothing & equipment. The book begins with a dedication to the Prince of Wales and ends with an index to First Aid and Shooting accidents. There are tips on how to safely hold a gun and the etiquette of the shoot: "Try not to talk until at least after the first bird is shot and the birds can be scared off by human speech"; how to deal with being placed in shooting position next to who previosuly had a shooting accident; how and when to tip; how and when to bring your own dog. This is a fascinating look at this aspect of British country life. There is even a chapter on cooking your pheasant and grouse with recipes. (2.7 JM HOQ 102/1 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

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.

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.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1931). 1931 1st edition. Large 8vo (150 x 241mm). Pp208. Two-colour illustrations by Gilbert Holiday, top-edge gilt. Red buckram, spine titled in gilt. Cloth stained and slightly bumped, slight browning to end-papers and edges. Good, lacks dust-wrapper. Lionel Edwards' copy, his name to end-paper.* This is an interesting and entertaining selection of stories and articles on hunting and horses. Includes some good illustrations. Articles include: The opening meet; The show card; Point-to-pointers; Horse, please; School days; Professor pony; Mode and the Moss-Trooper; Mares' nests; Woolworth horses; A Platonic dialogue; A point of view; A marriage has been arranged. ; Scent lies; The lovely road; Frost and other curses; Potted history. * This copy has a note to the front end-paper, in Edwards' hand, reading, "Lionel Edwards, from Q(?).v. Carl. Christmas 1931." .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 380 pp. Light foxing of the fore-edges and also a smattering in the prelims. Mostly clean. A tight and handsome copy.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 225mm). Ppxv,284. B/w photographs, colour illustrations by Philip Rickman. Brick red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth rather stained else good copy. Lacks dust-wrapper. "The value of Major Pollard's book, is that he tells those of us who do not know, and those of us who may think we do know, almost everything that need be told about the business, as well as the pleasure, of shooting. If you want to know how to set about taking a shoot, great or small; if you want to know the history and the habits and the variations of the game that you mean to shoot; if you want to know how to rear pheasants, how to feed the chicks on the rearing field, how to look after the poults after they have been put out in the wood, how to manage a day's shoot so as to bring the grown birds over the guns in the best possible manner; how to keep down the always-increasing cost of running a shoot - if you want to know all of these things and many others, you could not possibly do better than read this book, and never let it off your shelf so long as you retain an interest in any of these things." (From the introduction by Guy Pollock). Chapters include:- The choice of a shoot; The gun and ammunition; Pheasants; Partridges; Grouse, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan; Snipe and woodcock; Duck; Ground game; Vermin; The diseases of game birds; Some notes on the rearing of pheasants; The cookery of game. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1983). 1983 1st edition. 4to (190 x 255mm). Pp559. Colour & b/w photographs, b/w line illustrations, bibliography. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cased in dark turquoise boards. Very good in slightly grubby dust-wrapper. Based on Major Pollard's History of Firearms, this is essentially a new and far larger book, containing much material unavailable to Major Pollard. "This definitive work covers the history of the gun work covers the history of the gun from its origins to the present day. Claude Blair, Keeper at theVictoria and Albert Museum, leads a distinguished international team of authors who have brought together the most recent scholarship on the subject." Chapters include; a memoir of Hugh Pollard; early firearms; the sixteenth century; the seventeenth century; the eighteenth century and the end of the flintlock; the percussion system; early breech-loading firearms; early repeating firearms; muzzle-loading revolvers; breech-loading and repeating firearms other than revolvers 1810-70; firearms other than revolvers and automatic pistols 1870-1918; cartridge revolvers down to 1918; automatic pistols down to 1918; general survey of firearms: 1918 to the present day; Scottish firearms; Oriental and Levantine firearms; the manufacture and proof of firearms; firearms accessories; air, spiring-air and gas guns; miniature firearms; bibliography. Contributors include; Claude Blair, Howard L. Blackmore; Fr. Irena Grabowska; Ian V. Hogg; Harold L. Peterson, William Reid, Dr. C.H. Roads, A.W.F. Taylerson, Professor Zdislaw Zygulski, Jr., A.R.E. North. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original cloth, pp320, . Forty One half-tone and line plates; 4to 9" - 11" tall. Inquire for postage outside U.k.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 225mm). Ppxv,284. B/w photographs, colour illustrations by Philip Rickman. Brick red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth rubbed and faded, some foxing and use. Good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. "The value of Major Pollard's book, is that he tells those of us who do not know, and those of us who may think we do know, almost everything that need be told about the business, as well as the pleasure, of shooting. If you want to know how to set about taking a shoot, great or small; if you want to know the history and the habits and the variations of the game that you mean to shoot; if you want to know how to rear pheasants, how to feed the chicks on the rearing field, how to look after the poults after they have been put out in the wood, how to manage a day's shoot so as to bring the grown birds over the guns in the best possible manner; how to keep down the always-increasing cost of running a shoot - if you want to know all of these things and many others, you could not possibly do better than read this book, and never let it off your shelf so long as you retain an interest in any of these things." (From the introduction by Guy Pollock). Chapters include:- The choice of a shoot; The gun and ammunition; Pheasants; Partridges; Grouse, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan; Snipe and woodcock; Duck; Ground game; Vermin; The diseases of game birds; Some notes on the rearing of pheasants; The cookery of game. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 320 pp.; b/w plates throughout, tan cloth, 4to.: Sound binding and hinges, one name-plate on front paste-down else unmarked, light bumping to corners of boards, light wear to cloth, errata-slip laid in. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

hardcover. Condition: New. A fine volume of a Palladium Press Firearms Classics Library. New. Still in original shrinkwrap. Fine sewn leather binding with acid-free paper and silk moire endpapers and ribbon bookmark. Bright and clean gilt lettering and edges. First thus.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original cloth, pp320, . Forty One half-tone and line plates; 4to 9" - 11" tall. Inquire for postage outside U.k.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1945). (1939) 1945 edition. Large 4to (245 x 305mm). Ppx,48. Colour paintings by Philip Rickman. Red cloth, titled in black to front board, spine untitled. Slight wear and bumps to cloth, some pages slightly foxed. Very good in tanned and frayed dust-wrapper. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. .

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.

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.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 225mm). Ppxv,284. B/w photographs, colour illustrations by Philip Rickman. Brick red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Price 16s. (Spine stickered 18/-.). Good-plus in foxed and slightly chipped dust-wrapper. "The value of Major Pollard's book, is that he tells those of us who do not know, and those of us who may think we do know, almost everything that need be told about the business, as well as the pleasure, of shooting. If you want to know how to set about taking a shoot, great or small; if you want to know the history and the habits and the variations of the game that you mean to shoot; if you want to know how to rear pheasants, how to feed the chicks on the rearing field, how to look after the poults after they have been put out in the wood, how to manage a day's shoot so as to bring the grown birds over the guns in the best possible manner; how to keep down the always-increasing cost of running a shoot - if you want to know all of these things and many others, you could not possibly do better than read this book, and never let it off your shelf so long as you retain an interest in any of these things." (From the introduction by Guy Pollock). Chapters include:- The choice of a shoot; The gun and ammunition; Pheasants; Partridges; Grouse, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan; Snipe and woodcock; Duck; Ground game; Vermin; The diseases of game birds; Some notes on the rearing of pheasants; The cookery of game. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1937). (1937) undated J.A. Allen re-issue. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Ppxx,139. B/w photograph plates. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight browning and use. Very good in used, slightly spine-tanned Eyre and Spottiswode dust-wrapper *. "A practical contribution to its solution, for all hunting people." * The first edition of this book was issued by Eyre & Spottiswode in 1937. This issue has a new title-page (on glazed paper, unlike the rest of the book, including the stub) tipped to the stub of the original, with J.A. Allen & Co. given as the publishers and "(c) Eyre and Spottiswode, London". The dust-wrapper spine states "Eyre & Spottiswode 10s. 6d. net". The rear panel of the d/w has an advertisement for Budgett's Hunting by Scent, "Revised Cheap Edition", at 8s. 6d. The first edition of Hunting by Scent came out in 1933 and the Revised Cheap Edition of this advert was issued in 1937. The presumption must be that this copy of The Mystery of Scent is the 1937 1st edition reissued later on by J.A. Allen with a new title-page. "The object of this book is to suggest a clearer line of thought about the age-old problem of scent. It is in the main a discussion of the relatively complex conditions which control the diffusion of scent, for we only discern scent by its diffusion. The line I have taken is to try to work out a perfectly simple instrument which will tell the hunting man exactly the percentage of chances of scent on any day at any time. It does. .Despite the accuracy of this method of instrumental calculation there are plenty of points in this book which are open to the widest possible range of argument. It is almost impossible to 'prove' anything connected with the physiological side of scent, and the observer will always find an embarassing range of alternative possiblities. .Anyway, this little book is an attempt to bring the scientific side of it rather closer to some modern scientific theories of our own time. Chapters include: The secretion of the scent; The diffusion of scent; The Scentometer; Adverse factors; The secret of scent; Scent and local conditions; How we smell; How hounds smell; Scent in other animals. Appendices are: Relative humidity in air; Simple hygroscopes. Uncommon in a dust-wrapper. .

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.