American Firearms Makers: When, Where, and What They Made from the Colonial Period to the End of the Nineteenth Century
por CAREY, A. Merwyn
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 146pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with lightly sunned spine; nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown. A tight and nice first edition of this slim (to cite front jacket panel) "cyclopedia of the makers of American firearms, fully described and alphabetically arranged in more than 2100 entries." An excellent reference.
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- Livreiro
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 40082
- Título
- American Firearms Makers: When, Where, and What They Made from the Colonial Period to the End of the Nineteenth Century
- Autor
- CAREY, A. Merwyn
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Editorial
- Thomas Y. Crowell Company
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1953
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Books; Military History;
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Galena, Illinois
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