The Gun and Its Development by Greener W W, First Edition (6 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 9th Ed. 804pp/illus. A comprehensive history of the fun and its development. + 28 pgs ads. Small piece of dj missing at top. Text clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Condition: this volume has been rebound in a brown snakeskin-like material with new endpapers. Edges of pages are slightly tanned with slight foxing to frontispiece & title page. A small portion of the upper portion of the frontispiece has been torn away minimally affecting the corner of the illustration. Otherwise, a tight, handsome copy. Illustrations: illustrated with full page B&W illustrations & illustrations in text.

Hardcover. Condition: Otherwise very good condition. First edition. "A full .description of firearms .likely to interest the sportsman or inventor. The Author trusts that the notices of Hammerless Guns, Breech-actions, and the Extracts from the Gun Trials, will enable the sportman to decide upon the weapons required for any particular shooting. [and] be of value to the inventor and gunmaker for references." 8vo, 674pp, 14pp ads, with wood engraved illustrations throughout. Brown leather and buckram boards, six compartments on spine with gilt title and deco, binding tight, internally clean.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine, Leather Bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Pristine. ; The Firearms Classics Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Privately printed for members of the Firearms Classics library. Film was prepared from an original 1910 addition. The book was printed and bound by Quebecor graphics/Sherwood. The text paper was especially made for this addition by PH Glatfelter company. The binding is genuine pig skins Saderra leather, Himalayan grain, furnished by the Cromwell leather company. End leaves are 300 denier silk Moire. Edges are gilded and spines are brass-die stamped in 22 karat gold. Absolutely gorgeous book.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, first edition, super octavo, green cloth pictorial gilt, expertly re-cased with the original laid over, lettered gilt and black to upper board, gilt to spine, all edges gilt, later endpapers matching originals, mild foxing to pre-lims but the text generally clean and unmarked, tissue guarded frontis and illustrations throughout, pictorial advertisements and bookseller list to rear as called for, [vi], 674 + xxi, 8 pp. A handsome copy.