Search Results: ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Firearms & Weapons from KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)

New York, New York: Studio Book - Viking Press. Good with no Dust Jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. 134 pages: 9 x 12 in.: 4: KB#005817: LCCN# 65-17169. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Black cloth boards are worn along spine edge, spine edge of front board has some white/black streaking on it, and front flyleaf is starting to separate from spine; it has been repaired with archival tape. Rest of book's pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Illustrations and black & white photographs are beautiful and detailed. "Endeavoured to provide a convenient visual reference book for the student who, at the moment, is obliged to consult a large assortment of catalogues - not always readily available - in order to locate existing specimens of some particular gun, or to trace examples of some unusual mechanism." .

Odysseus Editions. Fine with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1995. First Edition: First Printing. Leather. 306 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 2.4: KB#015020: Binding is genuine Red pigskin Saderra leather, Himalaya grain. Endleaves are 300-denier silk moire'. Edges are gilded and spines are brass-die stamped in 22-karat gold. Book was originally published in 1961 by Coward-McCann, Inc. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Content Chapters include: How Guns Began * The Kentucky Rifle and Pistol Head West * Flintlock Pistols on the Frontier * Musket, Rifle and Carbine: American Martial Shoulder Arms * Pepperboxes: Percussion and Cartridge * Pocket-sized Death: Development of the Famous Derringer * The Voice of the Derringer * Twilight of the Derringer * Captain Walker's Gun-Hunt: Early Colt Revolvers * Martial Percussion Hand Gund on the Frontier* and much, much more. : B&W Photographs .

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press. Very Good. 1977. First Edition: Fourth Printing. Soft Cover. 270 pages: 7.5 x 9 in.: 1.8: KB#011415: Covers and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Boye takes readers through each stage in the design and fabrication of a knife, showing how the process is completed, from cutting the blank from new or used steel to tempering the blade to grinding, polishing, and coating to the addition of the handle." : B&W Photographs .