Dillin capt john (6 resultados)

Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. Ribbon marker. Full-leather. Slight discoloration to rear board.

Full-Leather. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Quarto, xx + 130 pp., frontis, b/w photos & illus., index. The origin & development o a purely American type of firearm. A reprint of the 1924 edition done by the Palladium Press for the National Rifle Assoc. Full brown leather bound hard cover book w/raised bands on the spine & all edges gold gilt. Gold gilt decoration & title stamping to the front & rear covers & spine. A slight wrinkle at the head of the spine is the only flaw.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles. Quarto. (10) Foreword i-viii, 124pp. (6) index. Numerous plates. Two small gift inscriptions to the preliminary pages. Some wear to the head and tail of the spine otherwise clean and unmarked with a tight binding.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1998 Edition. A.E.G.

Hardbound. Blue cloth with simple title. viii, 124 pp. with 126 bw plates and some line engravings, 6-page index at rear. An authoritative and exhaustive study, the first of it's kind. 20 chapters detail the history, construction, accessories and lore of the Kentuckt Rifle. Rare in the first edition, first printing of which this must surely be, as there are also 1924 printings claiming this pagination: x, 133 plus 6 page reference index. Chapters include: Foreword; 1. The Name Kentucky; 2. The Evolution of the American Rifle; 3. The Kentucky and Game; 4. The Rifle That was Needed; 5. Where and by Whom the Kentucky Rifle was Made; 6. Materials Used; 7. Characteristics of the Early Rifle; 8. Flintlock Barrels; 9. Who Rifled the Rifles; 10. The Pioneer and his Rifle; 11. Triggers and Sights of Flintlock Days; 12. Powder, Bullets, Velocities and Penetration; 13. The Flintlock as a Practical Arm; 14. The Rifle in the Revolution; 15. Powder Horns and Game Bags; 16. The Rifle and the Redskin; 17. Idenfitication of Kentucky Rifles; 18. Spurious Kentuckys and Forgeries; 19. Reconditioning Flintlocks; 20. The Passing of the Kentucky Rifle. VG, white tape at base of spine (could be removed with hair dryer), bookplate, a solid clean copy.…

1st Edn.. viii - 124 â" (6) 4to portrait frontis and 126 full page plates. Publishers dark red cloth gilt title to the upper cover, with title and rifle vignette to the spine, light surface rubbing to the head and tail of the spine a very good clean tight copy. Riling notes 2 types of bindings one in buckram and " a scarce deluxe edition bound in red fabricated binding with rifle in gilt to back"." Riling 1959: "A standard reference work on the subject, not surpassed to date.".…