Crisp, clean book with no defect. An update of a classic in the field -- Volume 2 only. Includes new powders, bullets and loads for 206 rifle and handgun cartridges. Volume 2 is essentially the ballistic tables used to implement what's covered in the first book. 1025 pages, plus additional blank pages designed for owner's notes. View More...
Two crisp, beautiful, high quality auction catalogs spiral bound to lie flat. Printed on high quality paper and illustrated lavishly with color photographs. Much information also accompanies each item. Includes Marlin/Whitney-Kennedy; Winchester; deringers, Smith & Wesson; sporting rifles and knives; German/Japanese/European military; Colt; sporting pistols; Civil War arms; Sharps rifles; and U.S. Military/Indian War among many others, 660 collective pages. Unused absentee bid forms included. View More...
Very scarce little booklet which has clearly never been used. Illustrated by the author with drawings of examples from the various school of muzzleloading rifles, as well as technical drawings of the mechnism, projectiles, and various types of flints. Text offers historical context, plus an explanation of the various types and instructions on the powder charge, patching, the ball, the flint, priming, firing and troubleshooting. 24 pages. Two like copies available. View More...
Very nice clean book marred only by a small crease to lower front corner. No names or writing. Dustjacket is likewise clean and shows no tears or chips, just a small bit of creasing at two top corners. Looks very handsome in brand new mylar and has not been price-clipped. Book measures 8-3/4" tall and 11" wide and has 208 pages. Pritned on coated paper and beautifully illustrated primarily in full color.Chapters cover the evolution of the revolver, the early development of the metallic cartridge, patent vs, patent, Remington cartridge conversions, the Thuer conversions and experiementa... View More...
Book itself is crisp and clean with no names or writing and no bumps or soil to light grey boards. Paper of jacket is uncommonly crisp with just a few small edgetears that practicall ydisappear in brand new mylar cover and small light stain to front at bottom third next to spine not affecting image. Oversized at 9"x11". Illustrated nicely throughout with instructive black and white photographs. Billed as the first book devote solely to Confederate revolvers and pistols. 250 pages. View More...
Crisp clean book gently kept by previous owner -- no names or writing. There's a small spot of wear to the top corner next to spine of dustjacket and two errant marks to back of jacket, but no tears or chips -- beautiful inside and out. Light blue boards are pristine as are pages which are printed on quality coated paper. Beautifully illustrated with black and white photos and also some in color (see photos). Covers the history orf the Charles Parker company the Hammer Gun and others; grades varieties and identifications; dedicated collectors and Parker guns of special interest; buying and c... View More...
Four out of six issues of this out-of-print magazines, all in clean condtition. Published by John Baird who also published the more widely circulated Buckskin Report. These are much less common. Issues include Jan,/Feb.; March/April; May/June and July/August. Among the topics are these:the Burgess Rifle, gallery loads for the forty-five-seventy; the emotions of the hunter; Winchester black powder shotguns; two hundred yard sharpshooting; shooting paper patched bullets; the Remignton Rolling Block and cast bullets, black powder, and accuracy. Four issues each also available from 1980 and 1981... View More...
Crisp, as new book with no defect of note. No names or writing, no tears or chips, no price-clip, and looks most handsome in brand new mylar cover. Book is illustrated with charts and large black and white photographs. The mission of this book is to instruct hunters before they spend too much money for an inferior optic. Text is divided into three parts: telescopic sights, binocular and scoping sights, and high tech and the past. Book measures 6-1/4" x 9-1/4" and has 255 pages. View More...
Very clean reprint softcover of a book originally published in 1878. Illustrated with numerous drawings which correspond to listings of makers and descriptions. Book is clean with just some light toning to edges of front cover. Measures 8"x11". Unpaginated. View More...
ITEM # 8163 COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY REVOLVERS U.S. ALTERATIONS BY C. KENNETH MOORE PUB 1999 BY ANREW MOWBRAY PUBLISHERS 110 PGS 8 1/2 X 11 HARD BACK GLASED BOARDS . EXTENSIVE TEXT AND MANY B, & W ,PHOTOS TELL OF THE COLT SAA ALTERED FOR THE U.S. ORDINANCE DEPT. STARTING IN 1894 . MUCH HARD TO FIND HISTORY ON THIS VERY RARE COLT VARIATION BOOK IN FINE CONDITION , CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT . NO D.J. AS ISSUED [ FIREARMS / SHOOTING SPORTS ] View More...
ITEM # 8469 GAMEMASTERS OF THE WORLD BY CHRIS R . KLINEBURGER PUB 2010 BY SKYHOURSE 772 PGS 7 3/4 X 9 1/2 HARD BACK HUNTING AND EXPEDITIONS AROUND THE WORLD THE GAME THEY TOOK THE PEOPLE THEY MET THE COUNTRY THEY TRAVELED MANY B&W AND COLOR PHOTOS EXTENSIVE TEXT HUNTING STORIES AND MORE GIFT INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND A SECOND SINED BY THE BOOK PROJECT COORDINATOR BOOK CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT NO MARKS OR TEARS COVER FINE BUT FOR BUMP AT BOTTOM OF SPINE NO D.J. [ SHOOT SP. ] View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW book. Small bump to lower front edge from having been packed too tightly. Otherwise pristine. A different look at the M1 carbine -- its development, contracting history and production process, as well as a look at the machinery used to make military stocks during WWII. Lavishly illustrated with 157 photos, many of which are rare. Also contains 200 short bios of people who who made the M1 plus technical info. 208 pages. Indexed. View More...
Very nice clean book with no bumps to boards and no names or writing. Only fault is a shadow from a small price sticker that fell off the upper right corner of the half title page. Book is bound in sturdy blue cloth with no print to spine -- just to face board. Book measures 6-1/4" x 9-1/2" and has 95 pages. Topics of chapters are these: Eli Whitney; How To Identify Eli Whitney Flintlock Muskets; Eli Whitney Jr.; New Haven -- Hub of the Arms Industry; The Heroic Age of Invention in New Haven; Simeon North, Patriarch of the United States Pistol Makers; Connecticut Manufacturing Companies Found... View More...
Very nice clean book, tightly bound with no names or writing. Book measures 8-1/2" x 11" and has 88 pages. Only fault is a light crease to lower back corner. Book is illustrated throughout with black and whtie photographs and technical drawings. View More...
ITEM 6561 AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE AMERICAN LONGRIFLE ITS ART AND EVOLUTION BY DAVID HANSEN PUB 2013 194 PGS 13 1/4 X 11 1/4 HARD BACK ISBN 978-0-9885955-0-7 TEXT AND A WEALTH OF CLOSE UP COLOR PHOTOS TELLS A HISTORY OF THE LONGRIFLE , A UNIQUE AMERICAN ART FORM BOOK IS NEW IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP , NEVER OPENED View More...
Crisp, as new copy. Dustjacket protected by brand new mylar cover. Part of the Classic Weapons Series. Has not been price-clipped. Illustrated with black and white photos and technical drawings. Monograph tracing the devlopment of the Schmeisser from the MP18 through to the MP38 and 49. Also covers other German automatic weapons such as copies of the British Sten and the MP43 an 44 assault rifles. Even featuers the MP44 Krummlauf designed to fire around corners. 64 pages. The 88 FlakPak from this series also available. View More...
Very handsome book reprinted from the 1900 original. The green boards are pristine as are the outer edges. The book is also tightly bound and has no names or writing. There is, however, a blank bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. Topics include the evolution of shooting, schools for shooting, the formation of guns, gun sights, style, the shape of the stock, pigeon shooting, heat of gun barrels. cap testing, shutgun patterns, and hidden dangers in the field.. The second part of the text is about experienced shooters who share their techniques. Book is illustrated, measures 7" x 10" a... View More...
ITEM # 8468 HILL COUNTRY BY GENE HILL PUB 1978 BY E.P. DUTTON 166 PGS 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 HARD BACK STORIES ABOUT HUNTING AND FISHING AND DOGS AND GUNS AND SUCH BASED ON THE AUTHORS YEARS IN THE FIELD AND HIS REFLECTIONS ON THE OUTDOOR LIFE 1 ST ED 5 TH PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION CLEAN AND BRIGHT , NO MARKS OR TEARS D.J. IN MYLAR IS SOLID BUT SHOWS SOME SOILING [ SHOOTING SPORTS ] View More...
Very clean, attractive book previously owned by a collector who kept it very gently. Boards are pictorial with a laminated finish and designed without a dustjacket. Covers Imperial Era Army & Navy Markings; Imperial colonial markings; Weimar Army unit markings; police unit markings; inspection and acceptance of pistols 08; and miscellaneous military and police markings; Includes five appendices and a glossary of German terms. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and drawings. Written for the researcher and collector. Measures 8-1/2: x12" and has 148 pages. View More...
Originally published in 1892 by Bradlee, Whidden and is reprinted here in 1946. Book itself is not only crisp and clean, but comes encased in its clamshell box. The book itself is seen from time to time, but never have we seen one in the box. Box is absolutely pristine with like label affixed to spine. Book, too, is clean and attractive -- former owner's name to front free endpaper is the onlt fault. It reads thus, "Stott's Armory Collection , Richard R. Bringer, Dustjacket is bright and clean, but does show some tiny tears to edges and two 1" ones at lower back edge. Looks most handsome t... View More...
