Guns on the Early Frontiers; A History of Firearms from Colonial Times to through the Years of the Western Fur Trade
de Russell, Carl P
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Librería
-
melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. preface by author acknowledgements, Finding List, notes, a glossary of gun terms, bibliography and index. Illustrated frontispiece, showing American Indians using a very early gun. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations, line drawings and maps. Brown coloured cloth coloured boards with gilt coloured illustration to the front panel and gilt coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A history of the gun/firearm in the early American frontiers. From the arming of the Indian through to small cannons. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and to the book corners. Shelfwear to the lower, book edges and browning and marking to the paper edges. Fading of the gilt writing of the front panel and spine. The cloth of the boards are also somewhat rubbed and marked. Previous owner has put a number of " 1268 " on the top right-hand corner of the free front endpaper. Rubbing and handling marks to the endpaper is and a few handling marks to the internal pages. This is the First USA Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XVI, 396 pages, last blank,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Weapons; United States; Inventory No: 0103302. .
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0103302
- Título
- Guns on the Early Frontiers; A History of Firearms from Colonial Times to through the Years of the Western Fur Trade
- Autor
- Russell, Carl P
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Dust Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- University of California Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Berkeley and Los Angeles
- Fecha de publicación
- 1957
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 American West -- Guns -- History, American Frontiers -- Firearms History; Weapons; United States; Unbranded Russell, Carl P. Guns on the Early Frontiers; A History of Firearms from Colonial Times to through the Years of the Western Fur Trade
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Weapons;
Términos de venta
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
Sobre el vendedor
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
melbourne, Victoria
Sobre Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Preguntas frecuentes
Categorías de este libro
- Países y culturas Norteamérica Estados Unidos Oeste
- Historia Historia occidental Historia de los Estados Unidos
- Pasatiempos y manualidades
- Pasatiempos y manualidades Coleccionismo Numismática Armamento
- Pasatiempos y manualidades Coleccionismo Numismática Pistolas
- Países y culturas
- Historia militar Weapons
- Tecnología científica Tecnología Ordenadores e Internet Programación informática C ++