Ball, Robert W. D.

Springfield Armory Shoulder Weapons 1795-1968

Norfolk, VA, Antique Trader Books, 1997. (1997). Small quarto (8 3/4" x 11'), burgundy faux leather in pictorial jacket. 264pp. with epilogue and bibliography. Profusely illustrated with photographs in color. A few short tears in the jacket and a light indentation in the jacket cover and the book. The author, a military historian, collector and dealer, cataogues the 255 shoulder arms made by the now defunct armory. Very good/good or better.

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Book number: 19410

Catalogue: Firearms / Guns / Knives

Keywords: Military; Armory; Springfield Armory; Weapons; Shoulder Arms;

Devine, Jason et al.

Amoskeag Auction Company, Inc. Auction No. 96. August 3, 2013

Manchester, Amoskeag Auction Company, Inc, 2013. Stiff wraps. Quarto, glossy pictorial wraps. 292pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with color photography. With a 4 page notice of a future sale, August 3, 2013, laid in. Very good + .

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Book number: 19321

Catalogue: Firearms / Guns / Knives

Keywords: Firearms, Weapons, Guns, Pistols. Rifles, Antique Firearms

Devine, Jason et al.

Amoskeag Auction Company, Inc. Auction No. 92. November 17, 2012

Manchester, Amoskeag Auction Company, Inc, 2012. Stiff wraps. Quarto, glossy pictorial wraps. 288pp. with index. Profusely illustrated with color photography. With a 4 page notice of a future sale, March 29, 2014, laid in. Very good + .

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Book number: 19322

Catalogue: Firearms / Guns / Knives

Keywords: Firearms, Guns, Pistols, Rifles, Weapons, Antique Firearms

Logan, Herschel C.

Underhammer Guns; with a Foreword by Major Hugh Smiley

Harrisburg, Stackpole Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; xiii, (i), 249, (i), index; profusely illustrated with a frontispiece and black and white photographs and line drawings; green cloth lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has light wear at edges and one small abrasion; previous owner's name on free fly leaf and his name stamp on all edges. The definitive work on the subject. The author was a multi-facetted individual, artist, gun enthusiast and scholar researcher. Very good/good +.

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Book number: 16382

Catalogue: Firearms / Guns / Knives

McHenry, Roy C. & Walter F. Roper

Smith & Wesson Hand Guns

Huntington W. Va, Standard Publications, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; (vi), 233, index; a double portrait frontispiece and sixty-four black and white plates with many images of guns; burgundy cloth lettered in gilt in the seldom seen dust jacket; previous owner's name on free fly leaf and all edges, a corporation, with a withdrawn stamp. Jacket is bright with one small abrasion, two short tears and some wear on the fore-edge of the jacket. A history of the Smith & Wesson hand guns including illustrations and detailed descriptions of each model. From the foreword: "Walter F. Roper laid the foundation of the book with data covering the period from 1857 to 1920. This appears in the appendix and was collected by him while employed by Smith & Wesson. He also wrote the final chapter of the text. Smith & Wesson supplied the data in the appendix, covering the period form 1920 down to date and Roy C. McHenry wrote the remainder of the text.". Very good/good +.

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Book number: 16383

Catalogue: Firearms / Guns / Knives

Phillips, Harry and Terry Tyler

Vermont's Gunsmiths and Gunmakers to 1900; Including Inventors & Patentees of Firearms and Accoutrtments, Manufactories and Armories

Dorset, Two Damn Yankees Inc, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. (Dorset: Two Damn Yankees Inc, 2000). Small quarto (8.75" x 11.25"). in glossy pictorial boards. 308pp. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams from various sources in black and white. A litte smudge on the fore-edge, otherwise near fine. Contents include: Gunmakers; Appendices A-D; Index by Town; Bibliography; Addendum; and Index. Detailed histories and biographies. Very good + .

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Book number: 19487

Catalogue: Firearms / Guns / Knives

Keywords: Vermont Gunsmiths; Vermont Gunmakers; Firearms; Antique Firearms