Gun Room Guide by Pollard Hugh (29 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: good. First edition. Quarto. 29 cm x 23 cm. Green cloth. 182pp Gilt lettering to spine.12 color illustrations and eleven black and white illustrations by Philip Rickman Some toning to end papers. Wear at head of spine.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, quarto, green cloth bevelled edge boards, lettered gilt to a lightly faded spine, part faded to rear boards and two very small faded spots to bottom left of upper board, binding remains tight, the text clean and unmarked, twelve tissue guarded colour plates by Philip Rickman and H Frank Wallace, 183pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First British printing. Tall 4to. Frontispiece color illustration with printed tissue guard. ix, 183 pp. 12 color plates and B & W illustrations. Original green cloth binding. The green cloth is faded in spots corresponding to small DJ chips, non authorial inscription front paste down, scattered light foxing, else very good in a good DJ with some overall discoloration and several small chips, primarily at the backstrip extremities.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1930). 1930 1st edition. Large 4to (222 x 290mm). Ppx,183. Colour paintings, b/w illustrations by Philip Rickman & H.Frank Wallace, rough-cut pages. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Quite used - fading and staining to cloth, spine slightly shaken, edges and end-papers browned. Good only. Comprehensive guide to British game shooting and gamekeeping with many goodcoloured plates. Appendices including ageing and sexing of game, useful tree and shrub species for coverts and details of ammunition. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace (illustrator). Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace. Hardcover. Foxing on first six pages - front free end paper-title page and text blocks. Fading to book. Chips head/heel and extrenities.

1st ed. 1st edition, 1930. Some scattered light foxing; owner's name; green cloth, with badly faded/browned spine; spine slightly bumped. 12 col. plates by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace, & B&W illustrations by Philip Rickman. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dustjacket).

Hard Cover. First U.S. Edition, First printing. SUNNING TO SPINE AND PART OF BOARDS, OTHERWISE FINE BOOK - HINGES STRONG, INTERIOR CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT. ALL COLOR PLATES PRESENT IN FINE CONDITION. DUST JACKET IS NEAR-FINE TO FINE WITH ORIGINAL $25.00 PRICE. OWNER NAME. Uncommon in dust jacket. Illustarted by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace.

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. ix, [1], 183. 12 colour plates by Philip Rickman and H.Frank Wallace mounted on cream leaves matching text and with captioned tissue-guards, and monochrome illustrations within the text by Philip Rickman. Publishers' emerald green cloth with bevelled boards and gilt titles to spine in unclipped cream pictorial dust-jacket. Boards very slightly bruised to edges, and cloth lightly soiled at extreme top edge. Free endpapers lightly toned next to jacket flaps as usual; a little scattered light foxing, mainly to text-block edge and prelims. Jacket toned to spine,creased to edge, and lightly surface soiled, with 9 cm tear at upper joint and small loss at spine tips. A very good copy in a very good jacket. Comprehensive guide bringing the reader up to date with modern developments in technical discoveries and management, and covering the choice of where to shoot, the weaponry and ammunition available and various game to pursue from pheasants to vermin, with a chapter on the cookery of game. Scarce in the fragile dust-jacket.

Condition: Fair. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. 4to hardcover. ix+183pp. Illustrations. Fair book. No dust jacket. Boards and pages have dampstaining and soiling from soot. Bookplate on front pastedown. Plate facing page 95 detached. (Hunting, Shooting) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

FIRST EDITION, QUARTO, 12 COLOUR PLATES BY PHILIP RICKMAN AND FRANK WALLACE. THREE QUARTERS CHESNUT MOROCCO FINE BINDING BY BAYNTUM-RIVIERE, SPINE GILT, WITH ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER BOUND IN AT THE BACK. T.E.G. FRONT JOINT RUBBED AND STARTING, VERY GOOD.

First Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. 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. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Illustrated By Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace (illustrator). First Edition. Brown cloth hard cover with cream vellum spine - a few light blemishes to edges of cover/gilt lettering on spine fading/bumped/Good. ix+ 183pp., including b/w illustrations and with additional tissue guarded colour illustrations. Content Good+. 'This edition is limited to 225 copies numbered 1 to 150 and 1A to 75A, each copy signed by the author. Numbers 1A to 75A are reseved for sale in the United States of America'. This is number 26. (1559g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace (illustrator). 1st Edition. 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. Signed by Author(s).

Quarter Green Leather/Marbled. Condition: Fine. Philip Rickman and H Frank Wallace (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, ix, 183pp, illustrated with 12 colour plates mounted on card with captioned tissue guards and 11 black & white drawings, for and bottom edges roughly trimmed, inner endpapers tanned, recent quarter green leather and marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers to match,spine has raised bands with gilt decoration and gilt lettering on red panel. Size: Quarto. Shooting.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. PROVENANCE: From the library of John Frederi CHAYTOR BRINTON, book plate to front pastedown. Physical description: ix, 183 p. : mounted col. front., illus. 11 mounted col. pl. ; 29 x 23 cm. Notes: Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Subject: Shooting. Game and game-birds. Fowling. Hunting. Hunting sports-General works, light literature. English. Other names: Rickman, Philip b. 1891. Wallace, Harold Frank 1881-1962. Genre: Illustrated, text. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace (illustrator). First Edition. VG/Fair, cream pictorial dj with black titles on tarnished spine, dj has some wear and tear particulary a missing bit at spine top where titles had been, contents are clean and unmarked, small quarto 183 roughcut pp. Weight 1500g so a well overweight and oversized book that will require extra shipping charges. Extensively illustrated with full colour plates of game animals, all with tissue protectors. Also some b/w illustrations relevant to colour plates. 12 chapters covering every aspect of hunting for game, plus various empirical appendices on guns, seasons and gamekeeping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1X 183 pages, 4to,14 full page colour plates by Phillip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace, this edition limited to 225 copies signed by the author bound in 1/4 vellum a vg copy. Chute 524.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rickman, Philip; Wallace, H. Frank (illustrator). First Edition. 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]. Signed by Author.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. PROVENANCE: From the library of John Frederi CHAYTOR BRINTON, book plate to front pastedown. Physical description: ix, 183 p. : mounted col. front., illus. 11 mounted col. pl. ; 29 x 23 cm. Notes: Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Subject: Shooting. Game and game-birds. Fowling. Hunting. Hunting sports-General works, light literature. English. Other names: Rickman, Philip b. 1891. Wallace, Harold Frank 1881-1962. Genre: Illustrated, text. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace (illustrator). First Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edit. ix; 183 pages. 14 mounted colour plates by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace. Light foxing mainly to page edges and mounts of the plates. Original vellum backed buckram boards. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 225 copies. A most hansome looking book.

30x23 cm. Original 1/4 vellum with brown cloth, very mild discoloration to spine. TEG, the other two edges untrimmed. No dust jacket. Limited edition, this being #72A out of 225 copies, all of which were signed by the author. Copies 1A to 75A were reserved for sale in the United States. ix, 183 pp., 12 full-page color plates by Philip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace. Riling 2091, Chute 564 (not recording the deluxe edition.).

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Philip Rickman; H. Frank Wallace (illustrator). First edition. 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. signed by author. book.

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. 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).

Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1930. Illustrated with tipped in color plates by Rickman and Wallace, and drawings. 9" x 11.5". 183 pp. Green cloth, darkened spine, light fraying at the head of the spine, endpapers darkened. An impressive, large format book, with chapters on shotguns, cartridges, natural history, rearing and shooting pheasant, partridge, blackgame, grouse, capercailzie, duck, snipe, woodcock, ptarmigan, also red deer, roe deer and fallow dear, deer stalking, ground game, vermin, diseases of game birds, varieties of plumage of pheasant, partridge and grouse, game cookery, etc. Internally very good, covers good.

1st Edn, 1X 183 pages, 4to,14 full page colour plates by Phillip Rickman and H. Frank Wallace, apart from browning to front and rear end papers and some light spotting, a vg+ copy in dj. light dust soiling no loss of dj.

Houghton and Mifflin: MCMXXX. 168p. Appendix. Quarto. #67A of a Limited Edition of 225 copes. Very good to fine copy with vellum spine and cloth boards with a very small amount of bubbling where the cloth meets the vellum spine near the top margin of the front board. GM.

FIRST EDITION. THE GUN ROOM GUIDE, Houghton-Mifflin, 1930, first edition, some light soiling to the vellum spine, else a near fine copy in the publishers original binding. Illustrated. Of 225 SIGNED copies, this is one of 75 for the American marketplace.