Captain Pollard (96 results)

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green Silk Page Marker, 6 Page Note by Jim Casada, B/W Illustrations.

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.

Condition: New. 2005 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1932). SB. 278pp Published Price £11.50 Alfred Oliver Pollard (1893-1960) could be looked upon as a British equivalent of Ernst Junger (Storm of Steel) in that he enjoyed the war, in and out of the trenches; he regarded it as a great adventure. Even killing brought satisfaction. One of his letters to his mother ends: Best of spirits and having a good time. By the way, I have killed another Hun. Hurrah! Well, Cheerio! In another place he writes:My ambition was to be realised. I was to take part in a real charge. With luck I might bayonet a Hun. He writes in a âgung-hoâ colloquial style and his descriptions of the fighting are vivid with all the gory details. There is a touch of Sapper in his writing; at times It reads like an adventure story from âBoys Own Paperâ but the action is real enough. He was no shrinking violet when it came to describing his own part in the action, nor was he averse to quoting from the citations that accompanied his awards - apart from the VC (Gavrelle, 29th April 1917) he was also awarded the MC and bar and the DCM, putting him among the most highly decorated. He enlisted in the HAC in 1914 soon after war was declared and went with the 1st Battalion to France in September 1914; he was commissioned into the battalion in January 1916. Apart from a spell training Americans in 1918 he was with the battalion throughout the war. He was demobilised in February 1919. This is a most enjoyable book.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Undated edition, 1940s authorized economy standards. Firmly bound, heavily faded red cloth bards without a jacket, light handling wear including lightly bumped corners of the cover.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprinted from the 1921 original edition, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Very slight spine slant to the book. The jacket has just light wear at edges. Includes illustrations, appendixes, and an index; 110 pages. Jacket flap has $5.95 publisher's price; no names or other marking in or on the book. 0.

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

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.

Condition: New. 2005 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1932). HB. 278pp Alfred Oliver Pollard (1893-1960) could be looked upon as a British equivalent of Ernst Junger (Storm of Steel) in that he enjoyed the war, in and out of the trenches; he regarded it as a great adventure. Even killing brought satisfaction. One of his letters to his mother ends: Best of spirits and having a good time. By the way, I have killed another Hun. Hurrah! Well, Cheerio! In another place he writes:My ambition was to be realised. I was to take part in a real charge. With luck I might bayonet a Hun. He writes in a âgunghoâ colloquial style and his descriptions of the fighting are vivid with all the gory details. There is a touch of Sapper in his writing; at times It reads like an adventure story from âBoys Own Paperâ but the action is real enough. He was no shrinking violet when it came to describing his own part in the action, nor was he averse to quoting from the citations that accompanied his awards - apart from the VC (Gavrelle, 29th April 1917) he was also awarded the MC and bar and the DCM, putting him among the most highly decorated. He enlisted in the HAC in 1914 soon after war was declared and went with the 1st Battalion to France in September 1914; he was commissioned into the battalion in January 1916. Apart from a spell training Americans in 1918 he was with the battalion throughout the war. He was demobilised in Februar 1919. This is a most enjoyable book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. GOOD/No Jacket. First Edition. 300pp 8.5" x 6" (22 x 15cm) Aviation history recalled through various true stories. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Spine loose at title page. Covers rubbed with fading. Award certificate stuck to front paste-down.

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

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.

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

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.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. BK: as new.

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.

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.

leather_bound. 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.

Good red cloth hardcover with good unclipped dustjacket. 251p. Slight foxing to endpapers, dj edgeworn. Russian (red!) spies, murder, sabotage and thrills galore.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Relatively light wear to boards, considering book is over 100-years old, corners bumped, edges tanned, owner's name top of pastedown, small letters CO on cover, pages are clean, binding is pretty firm, no jacket, as issued. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. NB: Due to the ongoing stupidity of Brexit, parcels sent to the EU may incur customs charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.