New York: Herb Glass, 1964. First Edition. Very good+ in decorated blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine and on the front board. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with a prior owner's name on the first free end page and dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with a 1/2" triangular chip from the center of the spine area and with rubbing to the extremities. One of only 5,000 copies printed. 132 pages containing index, text and black and white photographs.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB27011
Title: The Arms Collection of Colonel Colt
Author: Wilson, R. L
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Herb Glass
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1964

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.