American Firearms Makers; When, Where, And What They Made From The Colonial Period To The End Of The Nineteenth Century
by Carey, A. Merwyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: THomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953. HB. Tan cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 146 pp. plus 7 full-page plates at rear. Illustrated endpapers. No marks in book, binding tight. Minor soiling edges of text block. In an unclipped ($5.00) dust jacket that shows light chipping top and bottom of spine. Book condition VG in VG DJ.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JP7546
- Title
- American Firearms Makers; When, Where, And What They Made From The Colonial Period To The End Of The Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Carey, A. Merwyn
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- THomas Y. Crowell Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
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- History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Parker's Rare Books
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Ontario, Wisconsin
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Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...