Pageant of the Gun; A Treasury of Stories of Firearms: Their Romance and Lore, Development and Use through Ten Centuries by Peterson, Harold L - 1967

Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. foreword by author, special collectors' appendix, a guide to restoring antique arms and index. Brown coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with both black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Brown coloured cloth covered boards with gilt and black coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with black-and-white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "An entertaining and informative history of firearms that vividly conveys all humour, excitement and drama of ten centuries of arms development.  Softening to the backstrip edges with rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Slight cocking of the spine, with age toning and foxing of the textblock edges. Age toning of the pages with original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the free front end paper. A previous owner has placed some numbers to the top edge of the same page. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Numerous tears to the top edge, some with creasing. There is a 2 inch tear to the lower edge of the front panel with associated creasing. Rubbing of the dustwrapper panels and sunning to the rear panel. Browning to the verso of the dustwrapper.  Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [11], 4-352 pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Guns; Sociology & Culture. Inventory No: 0118341. .