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POLLARD, Captain Hugh B[ertie] C[ampbell]. Automatic pistols.

London. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, [1920]. First edition.
8vo. ix, [1], 110pp. With a frontispiece and a further 15 plates. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Contemporary inked gift inscription to half-title.
The first edition of a survey of automatic pistols by British Army officer Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard (1888-1966), known for his intelligence work during the Irish war of independence, and for contributing towards the outbreak of the Spanish civil war.
£ 50.00 Antiquates Ref: 33010