Sykes eric anthony (16 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No date, Paladin Press Reprint of a 1942 classic, 96 pages. Hardcover published without a dust jacket. The authors were officers with the Shanghai Municipal Police Deprartment when under British control. The "Contents" read: I. Purposes Of The Pistol: II. Choosing A Pistol; III. Training: Preliminary Course For Recruits; IV. Training: Advanced Methods; V. Pistol and Cartridge; VI. Practical Pistol Ranges; VII. Stopping Power; VIII. Miscellaneous. A fascinating book. Prior owner's name & date. Minor rubbing to the spine ends and corners. Light age toning to the pages. Overall a Near Fine copy with light use. Scarce in this hardcover Paladin edition. (DP).…

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Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A rare first edition hardcover copy without a dust jacket. Not ex-library. Some minor rubbing to the edges of the book cover, a couple of light indentations on the cover, some light page end spotting along with some very light and sporadic page spotting. This is mainly confined to the prelims but there are few instances on the upper sections of other pages also. The binding is good, with no gutter cracking detected. The spine is straight and the vast majority of the pages are clean and bright. No inscriptions or bookplates. pp. 96. Please see photos.…

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First edition of "the first written manual to surface in the field of combat pistol shooting" (Applegate), in which the authors offer their experience wielding pistols with the Shanghai Municipal Police during the 1930s. Rex Applegate, introduction to the 1987 edition. Duodecimo. Illustrations to text. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine ends faded, foxing to edges and a couple of leaves; jacket unclipped, spine slightly darkened and panels soiled, spine ends chipped, a few other chips and closed tears, tape repairs on reverse: a very good copy in like jacket.…

FIRST EDITION, 25 figures to the text, pp. xi, 96, foolscap 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket with a colour-printed design by Schwabe, some very light dustsoiling and the backstrip panel a shade darkened, near fine. A wartime publication, during which conflict both authors served with the SOE - though this guide offers itself more generally to 'those whose lot it is to use the one-hand gun in the course of duty'. It is a thoroughgoing treatise on the subject, by two men who had served with idistinction in the Shanghai Municipal Police between the wars - Fairbairn specialising in hand-to-hand combat and Sykes in firearms. Together they developed the FairbairnSykes fighting knife, manufactured by Wilkinson Sword for use by Commandos in the Second World War (and still used today). Sykes was born Eric Schwabe to parents of German heritage in Eccles; the illustrator of this work, an official war artist in both wars, was his younger brother, a graduate of the Slade. A superb copy of a scarce book.…

Condición: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnThis book, written in 1942, presents an excellent review of standard techniques and some unorthodox methodology in the use of the pistol. Firing positions, loading, unloading, the building of combat ranges, known-distance ranges.. …