Author: BATES, JOHN DAVIS AND JAMES HENRY SCHIPPERS
Title: The Custom Knife Ii. The Book of Pocket Knives and Folding Hunters. The Guide to the Twentieth (20th) Century Makers' Art.
Description: Memphis, TN: Custom Knife Press, 1974. Hardcover. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS; LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION. Hardcover is faux green leather, with silver lettering on front and spine. signed on front end paper. #213 in a limited series of 500. pages are clean and tight. Extensively illustrated with 100+ b/w photographs and drawings of knives, knives, knives! Sections: History; Production and Design; Decoration; Makers; Sharp Steel; Knife Makers Guild; Guarantees and Catalogs; notes; directory; photo credits. ; B&W Illustrations; 8 1/2 x 11; 112 pages; SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS; LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION. Cover has slight bumping. DJ has sunning, rubbing/scuffing, shelf wear, many small, closed tears and crimps along edges; in a mylar cover. ; Signed by All Authors. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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