Author: CAREY, A. Merwyn
Title: American Firearms Makers: When, Where, and What They Made from the Colonial Period to the End of the Nineteenth Century
Description: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 146pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with lightly sunned spine; nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown. A tight and nice first edition of this slim (to cite front jacket panel) "cyclopedia of the makers of American firearms, fully described and alphabetically arranged in more than 2100 entries." An excellent reference. .

Keywords: Antiques & Collecting Military History


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