Custom Built Rifles
by Simmons, Richard F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Stackpole and Heck, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Presumed first edition, 1949, hardcover with green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 184pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with gilt titles on front board and spine rubbed but still legible, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout and carrying mild mildewy odor. DJ VG with rubbing, toning, mild foxing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B41051
- Title
- Custom Built Rifles
- Author
- Simmons, Richard F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Stackpole and Heck
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Guns & Weapons
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
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