Pollard Captain a O (72 results)

Condition: Fair. 1939. New Edition Revised. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with school insignia stamped to front board. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Pages and plates are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier foxing to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Insect damage to front free endpaper. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Splits to joints.…

Condition: Fair. 1937. No Edition Stated. 299 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. The clipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, tears and chips. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Heavy loss to all parts of the dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 192pp, 8vo, hardcover, bound in blue cloth, black lettered, front board has the Hutchinson's Universal Book Club logo on front board, spine faded, cloth marked, NO dust jacket, reading copy only, Hutchinson's Universal Book Club, London, circa 1940s.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Good ++. No Dustjacket. No dustjacket. 252 pages. Red hardback binding - spine lightly colour-faded with white paint mark. Moderate wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Page-edges lightly yellowed, ink name scribbled out to inside of front board o/w pages clean and tidy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. [1946] 192pp. Red publisher's cloth boards (worn, marked and rubbed at edges, rounded at corners & spine tips). Lending sheet on front endpaper but no other library markings. Well-thumbed pages, some spotting. In its original pictorial dust jacket (rubbed and chapped at extremities, a few small scuffs, creasing on spine, shelf wear). Pollard, awarded the Victoria Cross, became a prolific author in later life; once popular many of his titles are now very hard to find, especially in their original dust jackets, although this particular title does turn up from time to time.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Romantic Stories of Air Heroes' by Captain A. O. Pollard. Hutchinson 1937. Spine lightly sunned. Good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. hardback, 252pp, owner's name on endpaper, text clean and tight, red cloth, Very Good / no dustwrapper.

Hard. Condition: Good. First printing. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. A touch of foxing to outermost leaves. 326pp. Illustrated from photographs. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Later Printing. London: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd no date [c.1937 but presumed later]. Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. 85th thousand. Pictorial boards [about 5" x 7.5"], 288 pages. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction page 321]. Bleiler [1978 Checklist page 159 coded T9B for Biological science fiction / Mental aberration]. Good copy with fraying to the spine head, 1/2" tear to the spine heel front corner, scattered mostly light soiling to the boards, text paper fully tanned/browning but not brittle. See photos clphE.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Orange boards undated but printed to war economy standards Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ND. 1946 - WorldCat. Inheritance fraud, murder, the Belgian Resistance, Captain Pollard's romantic thriller has it all. Bar light toning to top of block all is in VG clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Smart red boards showing very light shelfwear only. G+ unclipped d/j, a little worn to edges and dulled to rear. Hard to find in this condition with jacket. 12mo. 192pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First.. Red cloth binding, undated. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

First Edition. Well-kept copy; lbue cloth boards with lettering blind stamped on front board; gilt on spine; spine a touch faded; name and date inked on frot free end paper; department stamp on front pastedown; binding tight. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, b& w photo. illus. frontis., 288 + 8 pp ads. Very Good, with neat former-owner bookplate and light soiling to covers. Photographs gladly provided upon request. Aviation, Military History, British History, Royal Air Force. nslic.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. FIRE-EATER. The Memoirs of a VC. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No Date. A further story about the brillian Air Detective, Wing-Commander David Wilshaw - "the Crasher". The dj (price unclipped) is a bit worn on edges, folds and edges strengthened with tape on the reverse, front hinge taped, illustrated, page edges browning & a bit spotted, vg. 8vo, 272pp. …

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dustjacket. London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. Very Good+/No Dustjacket. Clean blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Very slight wear at spine edges. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Small neatly penned previous owner name on front free endpaper. Illustrated with photo plates of some of the great airplanes of history. 276 pgs. with index. 8vo. Aviation.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Impression. A very good copy in a slightly worn but near very good dustwrapper. Bookplate. 208pp. Illustrated. The story of Bomber Command in the early part of the war.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Tight Firm Clean Copy - Book Club Edition - No Signatures, Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. Not Illustrated. Red Cloth Hard Cover With Black Titles On Spine - Faint Wear. Unclipped Jacket With Rubbing To Edges And Missing Small Chips.…

Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Wartime economy edition. 192pp, green cloth covered boards. Original owner' name on flyleaf, a couple of marks to foredge, otherwise VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This fair hardcover book without issued dust jacket is the stated 1940 edition from Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), LTD. It is not an ex-library copy. The pages of text and B&W photos are complete (back end paper has torn missing top corner), without markings, and still securely bound; while having starter separation between the back of the half title page and the full title page. There is foxing on the first front & final back four or five pages. The sky blue cloth hard board covers with pressed silver titling and airplane image have slightly bent corners, and shelf rubbed dust soiling. The sky blue cloth spine, also with pressed silver titling and airplane image is faintly sun faded; bumped and scuffed at the head & tail with resulting tiny tears; and hand rubbed. Ships by the next day. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket has wear to the corners, edges and top and bottom of the spine. Small tears to the bottom and top edges of the front cover. Covers are grubby. Small tear to the bottom of the rear cover. Browning to the front and rear free pages. Browning to page edges. …

Paper Back. Signed by Author to the ffep Paper covers good despite sunning to the spine and light shelf wear Contents clean Overall good 252pp. book.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No d.j. 1st Edition. 288, [xvi pub. cat.] pp. 24 illustrations. 11 maps. Index. Air Force blue buckram, gilt. No inscriptions, fading, foxing, wear or marks. A lovely complete copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. 300 Pages, 42 Plates. A Soundly Bound Book, Minor Foxing Throughout, Covers Rather Worn But Still Bright, Rear Hinge Starting To Crack But Holding Firmly. Not Ex Library.

1st edn. 8vo. Original yellow lettered green cloth (page edges spotted; extrems lightly scuffed), dustwrapper (extrems scuffed and chipped - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 272, illus with coloured frontispiece and b&w drawings in text (front and rear endpapers and prelims spotted; pages foxed; no inscriptions). …