Author: CHAPEL, CHARLES EDWARD
Title: Guns of the Old West : Special Edition Privately Printed for the Member of the Firearms Classics Library
Description: Odysseus Editions, 1995. First Edition: First Printing. Leather. 306 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 2.4: KB#015020: Binding is genuine Red pigskin Saderra leather, Himalaya grain. Endleaves are 300-denier silk moire'. Edges are gilded and spines are brass-die stamped in 22-karat gold. Book was originally published in 1961 by Coward-McCann, Inc. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Content Chapters include: How Guns Began * The Kentucky Rifle and Pistol Head West * Flintlock Pistols on the Frontier * Musket, Rifle and Carbine: American Martial Shoulder Arms * Pepperboxes: Percussion and Cartridge * Pocket-sized Death: Development of the Famous Derringer * The Voice of the Derringer * Twilight of the Derringer * Captain Walker's Gun-Hunt: Early Colt Revolvers * Martial Percussion Hand Gund on the Frontier* and much, much more. : B&W Photographs. Fine with No Dust Jacket as issued .

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