Dillin captain john (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good slipcase. Fourth. Good + brown cloth hardcover (no dust jacket if issued) shows rubbing along spine and small notation at last page of index, in good slipcase missing an inch or so at spine head area and with rubbing, soil and tape mends at top and bottom edges.154 pages with illustrations and followed by index. Solid copy of this fourth edition of the noted ".study of the origin and development of a purely American." type of firearm.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Dust Jacket. GUNS. Privately printed for members of the Firearms Classic Library. 130pp + many plates. Index. Drawings. Detailed study. Full leather gilt-stamped with gilt edges. Moire silk endpapers. Ribbon marker.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVERY GOOD hardcover, no dust jacket. Special edition privately printed for the members of The Firearms Classics Library. Clean pages. AEG. 4lo. 124 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Text and photographs are clear. There is some loosening of the spine, binding in the back. There is wear to the cover, spine, and edges.

Zustand: Very Good. 124 pages plus 6 page reference index. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR KENDRICK SCOFIELD ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white photographs and illustrations throughout. Gilt title and decoration on blue cover. Corner and edge wear and fray, minor foxing throughout. Rubbing along spine and edges of blue cloth covers. Unmarked pages and text. Record # 853722.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. A study of the origin and development of a purely American type of firearm, together with accurate historical data concerning early Colonial gunsmiths, and profusely illustrated with photographic reproduction of their finest work, 124 pages plus 126 full page plates and reference index. The rare first edition. Cloth binding, gilt title on front cover, frontispiece photograph of John Shell riflemaker. Cloth a little worn at tips of corners and base of spine, small stains on a few pages endpapers professional replaced, invoice from Oregon Bookbinding Co. laid-in. Howes D342.…

Original Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Third Edition, Revised. Signed twice by the author, on the title-page and with an inscription on the flyleaf, noting his age at the time to be 92. The slipcase is present, worn at the edges as is also the gold paper label. Signed By the Authors.

Leather Bound. Zustand: Near Fine. 1998. Signed by Author on blank page. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. 124 pages. Burgundy leather. The binding is genuine pigskin Saderra leather, Himilaya grain. Endpapers are 300-denier silk moire. Edges are gilded and spines are brass-die stamped in 22-karat gold, ribbon bookmark. The National Rifle Association. 6607L.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. 154+pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding very bright and clean. Modest rubbing to spine ends. Comes in original slipcase w/ wear to extremities. Illust. w/ b/w photo reproductions. Contents nice.

Second edition. Original cloth, fine condition. [6], VIII,133, [6] pp., photographic plates. Signed by author on verso of the foreward to the second edition. This is a reprinting of the 1924 first edition, with no change to the title page. The only indications that this is not that edition are the different collation (133 pp. v. 124) and the presence of a leaf with a forward by Henry M. Stewart, following the title page, which identifies this as the second edition, with an acknowledgement of George N. Hyatt who is said to have started work on this project in 1938. There are far fewer listings for this issue than the first edition, but it is not clear if that is a function of scarcity or of cataloguers not going beyond the title page to date this book. Howes D342 puts the date of a reprint as 1946. Riling 1959: "A standard reference work on the subject, not surpassed to date.".…

First Edition. Quarto. 124 pages of text, 126 pages of glossy Black and White images of the rifles as well as tools used in their production, early advertisements, etc. The extensive photographs of the variations of the Kentucky rifle are the reason this work has never been superseded. Laid in is a letter dated September 20, 1928 from the National Rifle Association to William C. Schwab of New York City with a desire to discuss together again the fine points of the Kentucky Rifle. Only 550 were bound of this first edition. Bound in blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, spine plain, light rubbing front cover, two bumped corners, spine evenly faded, scattered foxing to title page only. Typed letter laid in from the National Rifle Association of America. A very good copy. [Howes D-342].…