POLLARD, H. B. C., and Phyllis Barclay-Smith

BRITISH & AMERICAN BIRDS; With a chapter on Shooting in America by Eugene V. Connett. Illustrated by Philip Rickman

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First Derrydale edition (trade editions were published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in London and by Scribner’s in New York), 1/125 copies (this #28) on hand-made paper, signed by the illustrator and with his initialed pencil remarque on the lower margin of the frontispiece. 4to. x, 48 pp. 20 color plates by Rickman, tissue guarded. Siegel 145. Tan quarter-pigskin (spine darkened and a little eroded, front joint cracking, spine ends a little chipped) and gilt stamped cloth, gilt spine title. A good copy, the interior fine. Item #67796

Price: $400.00