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Pollard, Captain A. O.
Fire-Eater: The Memoirs of a V.C. [Gift inscribed by the author to the illustrator].
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. (Pubishers) Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1932
Stock Code: 7889
Association copy. Second Impression. Octavo, pp., 278. Illustrated including 6 drawings by Adrian Hill. Publishers’ maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Spine lightly sunned and boards a little rubbed. Gift inscribed to front free endpaper: “To Adrian K. G. Hill with grateful thanks, A. O. Pollard”. A little minor scattered light foxing, mainly to edges and prelims, otherwise a very good copy. First hand account of the Great War from 1914 to demobilisation in 1919, by Honourable Artillery Company member Alfred Oliver Pollard, winner of the Victoria Cross for valour. Artist Adrian Keith Graham Hill (1895-1979) enlisted with the Honourable Artillery Company in 1914 and from 1917-19 produced 180 pen-and-ink drawings for the Imperial War Museum depicting the devastation of war and the work of troops in the trenches. A really excellent association copy being inscribed as it is by Pollard, winner of the Victoria Cross (with his signature) to Adrian Hill, the first artist commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to record the conflict on the Western Front. £300.00