Search Results: pleasures and treasures firearms by ricketts howard

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Purple pictorial boards, solid binding, spine faded. Unmarked. In scuffed and soiled slipcase. ; 8.40 X 8.0 X 0.50 inches; 128 pages .

Weidenfeld And Nicolson, 1967. Hardcover. Good. 1967. Reprinted. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white and colour photographs and illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. fair to good in poor box. 128, profusely illus. (some color), sm stains lower ins corner of text (no pgs stuck), sp scuffed, box worn & stained & tears. Includes chapters on gunpowder and matchlocks, wheel locks and snaphaunces, French flintlocks (1600-1700), English flintlocks (1700-1800), duelling, and the percussion cap.

HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1967 (1964)* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.* Binding and cover condition: Textured cloth with colour photograph to face, black title to spine & face. No bumps, minor rubs, spine worn. GD* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. B/w illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, throughout.* Pages: 128 pp. text* Description: One of the Pleasures and treasures series. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white photographs. Beginning with the primitive matchlock, the author describes the progressive inventions of the wheel-lock, flint-lock and percussion-cap and the development of the revolver'. Chapters are as follows. i) Gunpowder and Matchlocks, ii) Wheel Locks and Snaphaunches, iii) French flintlocks 1600-1700, iv) English… Read More

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1965. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Large chip to upper front edge of DJ and some rubbing to corners. Some mild rubbing to book edges. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 128 pages. . Reprint. Hardback.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 3rd prtg 1970. 128pp illustr decoraterd boards fine endpapers v sl .

G.P. Putnam's Sons, Publishers-, 1962. Hardcover/ pub.1962/ VG condition/128 pages- The gun is the instrument of death. (C92028). Hard Cover. Good.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. Illustrated, Hardbound, good

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Includes slipcase in acceptable condition. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.