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Guns on the Early Frontiers; A History of Firearms from Colonial Times to through the Years of the Western Fur Trade
by Russell, Carl P
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. preface by author acknowledgements, Finding List, notes, a glossary of gun terms, bibliography and index. Illustrated frontispiece, showing American Indians using a very early gun. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations, line drawings and maps. Brown coloured cloth coloured boards with gilt coloured illustration to the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A history of the gun/firearm in the early American frontiers. From the arming of the Indian through to small cannons. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the book corners. Shelfwear to the lower, book edges and browning and marking to the paper edges. Fading of the gilt writing of the front panel and spine. The cloth of the boards are also somewhat rubbed and marked. Previous owner has put a number of " 1268 " on the top right-hand corner of the free front endpaper. Rubbing and handling marks to the endpaper is and a few handling marks to the internal pages. This is the First USA Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XVI, 396 pages, last blank,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Weapons; United States; Inventory No: 0103302. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0103302
- Title
- Guns on the Early Frontiers; A History of Firearms from Colonial Times to through the Years of the Western Fur Trade
- Author
- Russell, Carl P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley and Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- BZDB2 American West -- Guns -- History, American Frontiers -- Firearms History; Weapons; United States; Unbranded Russell, Carl P. Guns on the Early Frontiers; A History of Firearms from Colonial Times to through the Years of the Western Fur Trade
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- Weapons;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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