Books on Firearms and Guns
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    Adler, Dennis:  Colt Single Action From Paterson To Peacemakers.  New York: Chartwell Books, Inc., c2007, 2011. Reprint of 2011. Fine in fully illustrated, wrap-around paper covered boards with yellow and white text on the spine. An oblong octavo of 8 3/8 by 10 7/8 inches with printed end sheets of line drawings of hand guns. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 309 pages including an index and text. Each page is illustrated from color photographs of Colt revolvers.
    TB32305  $40.00




  • Bellesiles, Michael A.:  Arming America The Origins of A National Gun Culture.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/2 simulated green leather and black paper covered boards with broad gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine dust jacket with the wrap-around band containing reviews by Peter S Onuf, Michael Kammen, Robert J. Spitzer and Michael Zuckerman. A review copy in beautiful, unread condition. 603 pages including an index, chapter notes and text.
    TB17964  $17.50




  • Caryon, Lucian:  The Colt Gun Book.  New York: Arco Publishing Co., 1961. First Edition, First printing. Fine in decorated pink cloth covered boards with reinforced cloth hinges. In a very good+ dust jacket with some light rubbing and wear to the folds and to the ends of the spine area. 142 pages followed by a one page ad. With extensive photogarphs through-out.
    TB09300  $17.50



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    Chepel, Charles Edward:  Guns of the Old West.  Fairfax: The National Rifle Association, 1995. Special Edition by The Firearms Classics Library. Fine in decorated red leather covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped on the spine and on the front and rear boards with the edges of the text block in gilt. Without a dust jacket as issued. This is a reprint of the book originally published by Coward-McCann, Inc. in 1961 and written by one of this country's leading firearm's experts of the twentieth century. 306 pages containing an index and bibliography. An extremely handsome book in bright red leather. It can quite aptly be called a collector's edition.
    TB30458  $25.00



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    Chidsey, Donald Barr:  Goodbye To Gunpowder.  New York: Crown Publishing, n.d. c1963. First Edition. Very near fine in charcoal gray cloth covered boards with metallic red text stamping on the spine and with silver and red decorations on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2" with light rubbing to the cloth at the corners of the spine and tips of the boards. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with 1/8" deep chipping across the top edge of the spine, two chips at the top edge of the rear panel and two short closed tears with related creasing at the upper edge of the front panel. 224 pages including an index, a list of sources by chapter and text. Illustrated with line drawings and reproductions of earlier works of art.
    TB27476  $15.00



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    Cristie, Manson & Woods International, Inc.:  Colt Christie's Rare and Historic Firearms.  New York: Cristie, Manson & Woods International, Inc., 1981. First Edition. Fine in heavy, printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. Without a dust jacket as issued. 177 pages followed by a Christie's bid sheet, a general index and an index of gunmakers, etc. Illustrated throughout from photographs in both color and black and white. A catalog of 115 lots most of which are Colt pistols. A very clean and bright publication with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30860  $30.00




  • Demmin, Auguste:  An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour From the Earliest Period to the Present Time.  London: George Bell & Sons, 1877. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in a recently rebound tan cloth binding over boards with a brown leather spine label with gilt text. The text block has been recently sewn to replace the original double stapled binding. The pages of the text block are very slightly tanned at the edges and exhibit quite a few notations, check marks and numbers in the margins of the pages in pencil. A small 12mo measuring 7 3/8" tall by 5" deep overall containing 595 pages including an index which is followed by a number of pages of advertisements from the publisher. This volume is illustrated with over 2,000 sketches providing the reader with some of the most bizarre looking early weapons and contraptions employed in war.
    TB19039  $175.00



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    Edwards, William B.:  The Story of Colt's Revolver The Biography of Col. Samuel Colt.  Harrisburg: The Stackpole Company, c1953, 1957. Second Printing of June 1957. Very good+ in its original green cloth covered boards with dark green text on the spine and with dark green and light green text on the front board. A small quarto of 10 5/8 by 7 7/8 inches with handwriting on the top edge of the text block as well as light dust staining and mild foxing to the upper quarter of the front and rear boards. The contents are clean, tight and exhibit no foxing or tanning. 470 pages including an index, appendices, bibliography and text. Illustrated from black and white photographs and line drawings. Tipped in at the rear of the book is the rear flap from the dust jacket. A clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB30859  $40.00



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    Finer, Peter:  Peter Finer: Seventh Catalogue (Antique Arms and Armor Catalog).  London: PF Peter Finer, (2005). First Edition. Fine in black cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A quarto of 11 5/8 by 8 1/4 inches with marbled paper end sheets. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. Unpaginated, but containing over 200 pages. Illustrated throughout with images from color photographs. A perfect copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB31451  $45.00



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    Goldsmith, Dolf L.:  The Browning Machine Gun Volume I.  Colbourg, Ontario: Collector Grade Publications, Inc., 2005. Limited Edition. Fine in simulated, black leather like cloth over boards with bold gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 10 7/8 by 8 1/2 inches. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. Volume I only of three. One of only 500 copies of a special author's edition signed and inscribed by the author on the title page and this copy is identified as number 310. 518 pages including a bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with images from black and white photographs.
    TB32043  $200.00



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    Haven, Charles T. and Frank A. Belden:  A History of The Colt Revolver and the Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940.  New York: William Morrow & Company, 1940. First Edition, 1 of 100 bound in full leather. Very good+ full, dark green leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and designs in the compartments. The front board is decorated with gilt text and the image of an early Colt pistol in gilt. The leather turn-ins are decorated with gilt dentelles. There is a light green silk placement ribbon sewn in at the head of the spine. The top edge of the text block is gilt and the end sheets are marbled paper. A small quarto measuring 10 5/8 by 7 7/8 inches with rubbing to the leather at the joints and to the tips of the boards and with the fly title and rear end sheets slightly foxed. There is some scuffing to the front and rear boards. Without a dust jacket as most probably not issued with one. According to Ray Riling in his bibliography: Guns and Shooting: "4,625 copies were published; of this number 1,600 were sold to the Colt Manufacturing Co.; of these 1,500 were furnished in the regular (cloth) binding, and 100 were bound in full leather." 711 pages including an index. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and line drawings. Considered by Howes to be "quite scarce". (Howes, H-308; Riling, 2318)
    TB29098  $450.00



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    Hill, Tracie L.:  Thompson: the American Legend The First Submachine Gun.  Cobourg, Ontario: Collector Grade Publications, (1996). First Edition, First Pringing. Fine in simulated, black leather like cloth over boards with bold gilt text on the spine. An oblong octavo of 8 1/2 by 11 inches with illustrated end sheets. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. 584 pages including a bibliography, appendices and text. Illustrated with 456 images from black and white photographs. A very fine, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32044  $250.00



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    Jinks, Roy G.:  History Of Smith & Wesson No Thing of Importance Will Come Without Effort.  North Hollywood, Calif.: Benfeld Publishing, Inc., 1977. Third Printing. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with bold silver colored text stamped on the spine and front board. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with several short closed tears across the ends of the spine area and at the upper and lower edges of the panels. 290 pages including an index and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and line drawings.
    TB27084  $50.00




  • Kalman, James M. and C. Meade Patterson:  A Pictorial History of U. S. Single Shot Martial Pistols.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, n.d.. First Edition, Limited Edition. Very near fine in brown and tan buckram cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and with gilt decorations on the front board. There are modest spots of foxing on the lower edges of the boards. In a fair to good price clipped dust jacket with numerous tears and chips around the edges. An oblong quarto measuring 11" tall by 14" deep unpaginated but containing 44 full color plates. Signed by both the artist and the author of the text and this copy is numbered 2,154 out of only 2,500 copies printed.
    TB18672  $35.00



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    Kauffman, Henry J.:  The Pennsylvania Kentucky Rifle.  Harrisburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, c. 1960. Reprint, Thrid Printing. Fine in light brown cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and on the front board. A quarto measuring 11" by 8 1/2". In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with the spine area faded. 374 pages including an index, glossary, biographies of gun makers and text. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and black and white photographs and reproductions of original invoices, and advertisements.
    TB26553  $60.00



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    Nonte, Major George C.:  Walther P-38 Pistol.  El Dorando, AR: Desert Publications, c. 1975. Sixth Printing. Fine in heavy, printed, paper wraps over an adhesive binding with black text on the spine and with black text and the drawings of a P-38 on the front panel. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". Without a dust jacket as issued. 85 numbered pages of text illustrated with line drawings and black and white photographs.
    TB27333  $25.00




  • Peterson, Harold L.:  American Silver Mounted Swords 1700-1815.  Washington, D. C.: Privately Printed, 1955. First limited edition. Very good+ in heavy printed paper wraps with several coffee (?) stains on the front panel and with the spine area well tanned. Without a dust jacket in a stapled binding. "A Catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art." 59 pages of text illustrated with photographs and sketches. Laid-in is a small slip of paper on which is typed "Compliments of The Armor and Arms Club of New York City."
    TB19156  $60.00



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    Sharpe, Philip B.:  The Rifle In America.  Fairfax, Virginia: The Firearms Classics Library of The Nation Rifle Association, 1995. Special Collector's Edition. Fine in full black leather pigskin covered boards with gilt text and decorations between five raised bands on the spine and with gilt borders and decorations on the front and rear boards. The end sheets are silk, all edges of the text block are gilt and there is a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. A small quarto measuring 10 1/2" by 8". 641 pages of text including an index, an index of illustrations, appendices and illustrated throughout with line drawings, steel engravings and reproductions of photographs. A special, facsimile reprint of the first edition of this title which was originally printed in New York in 1938 by William Morrow and Company. An extremely handsome, tight, clean and crisp copy with no prior owner's marks, notations or book plates.
    TB24370  $75.00



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    Trefethen, James B. and edited by James E. Serven:  Americans And Their Guns.  Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 1967. First Edition, First printing. Fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and front board. In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket with a 1.5" closed tear at the lower edge of the front panel. A quarto measuring 11 1/4" high by 8 7/8" deep overall containing 320 pages including an index, text and illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout.
    TB18507  $20.00



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    Wasson, R. Gordon:  The Hall Carbine Affair An Essay In Historiography.  Danbury, Conn.: Self-Published, 1971. Limited Edition. Near fine in 1/4 blue morocco leather and dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt borders on the boards. The top edge of the text block is in gilt. The leather on the spine is slightly faded to a dark green and there is a small 1/4" scuff mark to the spine, else fine. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained within a fine cloth covered slip case. One of only 250 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies printed. This copy is identified as one of the lettered copies being copy "E". 249 pages of text including an index. John Pierpont Morgan was alleged to have sold to the U.S. Government, during the War Between the States, arms which had been condemned giving him a profit that would have been exorbitant even for first class weapons. The author takes issue with the claims made against Morgan and brings to light documentation which had previously been supressed.
    TB27531  $200.00



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    Wilson, R. L.:  The Arms Collection of Colonel Colt.  New York: Herb Glass, 1964. First Edition. Very good+ in decorated blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with a prior owner's name on the first free end page and dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with a 1/2" triangular chip from the center of the spine area and with rubbing to the extremities. One of only 5,000 copies printed. 132 pages containing index, text and black and white photographs.
    TB27011  $100.00



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    Wilson, R. L.:  Steeel Canvas The Art of American Arms.  New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in royal blue paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and with the author's initials on the front board. There are small hints of shelf rubbing at the tips of the boards and at the heel of the spine. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket. An advance review copy with the publisher's review material laid-in at the front of the book. An oblong octavo measuring 8 1/2 by 10 3/4 inches containing 384 pages including an index, bibliography, appendix, glossary, text and illustrated with hundreds of color photographs by Peter Beard, G. Allan Brown, Douglas Sandberg and Jonathan Shorey. A nice copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB28890  $50.00






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