Pollard Hugh Bertie Campbell (80 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 £12.95.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This work covers percussion pistols, arquebus, sporting guns, muzzle loaders, carbines, breech loaders, Colt revolvers, and Smith and Wesson arms, and describes how today's self-loading and automatic arms evolved from the primitive fireworks and hand cannons of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The book contains photographs, illustrations, footnotes, appendices, and an index. This copy is clean and solid.

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

Paperback Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 265 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Secret societies Ireland History 19th century. Secret societies Ireland History 20th century. Secret societies Ireland Political aspects. Ireland History 1910-1921; politics. 1 Kg.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

PF. Condition: New.

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

Paperback Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 265 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Secret societies Ireland History 19th century. Secret societies Ireland History 20th century. Secret societies Ireland Political aspects. Ireland History 1910-1921; politics. 1 Kg.

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. .

Condition: New. In.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 13-208p. incl. col. front., illus : col. plates ; 26cm. Subjects: Hunting -- Great Britain. 1 Kg.

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. .

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 13-208p. incl. col. front., illus : col. plates ; 26cm. Subjects: Hunting -- Great Britain. 1 Kg.

First Popular Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 82, [1] p : mounted col. front., plates (part col. mounted) ; 32 x 26 cm. Subjects; Game and game-birds Great Britain. Birds ; Pictorial works. Birds - Anseriformes. 1 Kg.

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. Octavo, x, 320 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is tan with black print. Boards in tan cloth. Wear to spine caps and corners, light shelf wear. Text block has spotting to top edge, name stamp on front and rear pastedowns, light amount of penciled marginal notation. Illustrated: "With forty-one half-tones and line plates" title page; b&w frontispiece and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1395774. FP New Rockville Stock.

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. .

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the critical Battle of Ypres, a pivotal confrontation of World War I fought in 1914. The author meticulously traces the course of this intense battle, highlighting its significance as a turning point in the war. Through vivid accounts and expert analysis, the book delves into the strategies, sacrifices, and eventual Allied victory that halted the German advance and solidified the Western Front. The author expertly situates the battle within the broader context of World War I, showcasing its impact on the war's trajectory and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable horrors. The insights provided in this book offer a profound understanding of the battle's historical importance, its lasting impact on the war's outcome, and its enduring legacy as a testament to the bravery and perseverance of those who fought. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

First Popular Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 82, [1] p : mounted col. front., plates (part col. mounted) ; 32 x 26 cm. Subjects; Game and game-birds Great Britain. Birds ; Pictorial works. Birds - Anseriformes. 1 Kg.

Condition: New.

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. .

Condition: New.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xii, 324 pages. Original publisher's cloth, spine lettered gilt. The author is described on the title-page as 'Late of the staff of the Chief of Police, Ireland'. His intelligence role in Ireland was just one episode in the colourful life of this devout Catholic, vehement anti-communist and firearms expert. With the bookseller's stamp of 'Dublin Bookshop, 32 Bachelors Walk, Dublin'. Slight foxing to edges of text-block, otherwise a fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request.

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