Guns and How They Work by Ian Hogg - 1983-10

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Marshall Cavendish, 1979-10-31. hardcover. Very Good/Good Jacket. 25 to 30 cm tall, Quarto, (4to). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

London, England: Marshall Cavendish Books Limited, 1979. Book. Fair. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover book with black cloth boards and dust jacket, first edition, 185pp, weighs 1050gms.This book covers not only the history of firearms and their development, but also describes their workings and components. This is a fair copy with heavy age-related general wear and tear. Dust jacket is in fair condition with moderate shelf wear and has been covered in plastic for protection. Title page has a small piece cut out. Inside pictorial frontispiece has a few areas of sticker residue and a few small tears. There is a small pencil mark and stamp from previous bookshop on the inside front page. Inside pages show minor page discolouration/foxing. Cloth boards are scuffed and show moderate shelf wear to corners, edges and spine..

Cavendish House, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback, third printing, measuring 11 1/2" x 8 3/4", a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket, the text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout, 185pp.

Marshall Cavendish, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Book has slight tanning of pages. Jacket not price clipped. This book covers the history of firearms and development also describes their workings and components. Large book 185pp..

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London England: Marshall Cavendish, 1979. Hardcover. Guns and How They Work. Message to previous owner on title page. Price clipped to D/J. This book covers not only the history of firearms and their development, but also describes their workings and components. Ian Hogg, world famous authority and popular writer, shows guns to be mechanical marvels. The modern machine gun, for instance, can carry out the full cycle of loading, firing, unlocking, extracting, ejecting, re-loading, relocking, and firing again, at the astonishing rate of 20 times per second. Specially commissioned cutaway diagrams open up the inner workings of guns in meticulously accurate detail. And highlighted throughout this lavishly illustrated book are the author's own selection of guns worthy of the title 'famous', as well as an appraisal of some of the more weird and wonderful designs that have characterized firearms development. This is an essential guide for both the enthusiast and the general reader; for anyone, in… Read More

New York: Marshall Cavendish. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0856854921 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .