Gun Collecting
by Charles Edward Chapel
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
-
TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1947. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. G/N, used, HC, pale blue cloth, silver text to spine and silver pistol on upper, b & w frontis, 236 pages. Interior clean, binding tight. There is a sticker on the inside edge of the rear paste-down from a former seller. Spine of exterior is sunned. Slight shelf wear to corners and edges..
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- Bookseller
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002557
- Title
- Gun Collecting
- Author
- Charles Edward Chapel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- GUNS, GUN COLLECTING, WEAPONS, ARMS, BATTLES, FIGHTING
Terms of Sale
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
Biblio member since 2012
TORRINGTON, Wyoming
About PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
We specialize in western history, gun knife and hunting titles. Also try to stock Wyoming history titles. We have a walk-in store on US Hwy 26/85 the most direct route to Fort Laramie National History site..We have what I think is the largest seleciton of weapons titles in SE Wyoming, both new and used. Always looking for good used weapons titles.
Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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