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Our Rifles
by Sawyer, Charles Winthrop
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston, Mass: Williams Book Store, 1944. Neat name/address stamp to title page and inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked navy cloth boards, clear gilt lettering on front, slight loss to gilt lettering on spine with slight rubbing to ends, small bump to top of front board and no bumping to corners. 412pp. Begins with a treatise advocating the personal possession of guns and rifles. Then descibes 100s of rifles with their images and technical details from the flint lock to carbines used against us. Also covers present manufacture and manufacturers, rifleman and much more. Actual colour darker navy than image. Very scarce in the UK.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8.5 x 5.75 inches.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020326
- Title
- Our Rifles
- Author
- Sawyer, Charles Winthrop
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Williams Book Store
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Mass
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Guns, America, Shooting, Rifles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
- Size
- 8.5 x 5.75 inches
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About the Seller
Godley Books
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Hyde, Cheshire
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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