Books for Sale
We have a varied selection of used gun related books. The gallery displays several images of each book, inside and out, with the title that corresponds to the book title in the for sale list.
The National Rifle Association 1859-1909
History of The National Rifle Association during its first fifty years 1859 to 1909
By Humphry and Fremantle.
A.P. Humphry, M.V.O. Formerly Lieut.-Col. Commanding Cambridge University R.V. Member of Council, N.R.A.
Lt.-Col. The Hon. T.F. Fremantle, V.D. Formally Commanding The Bucks Battalion, Territorial Force, Member of Council, N.R.A. Member of The War Office Small Arms Committee.
Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge. 1914
First Edition.
Hardback. Blue fabric covered boards & spine with gold lettering to spine and gold illustration on front. 493 pages. Colour plate of Wimbledon Camp protected by tissue sheet. Book condition very good, some light marks on boards and edges; front page hand inscribed E.J. Checkley. No dust jacket. 190mm by 135mm.
First class post within UK: £2.75. Other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £60.00 GBP [Avalable]
The Modern Shotgun
A comprehensive work in three volumes on sporting guns and ammunition
Volume 1 The Gun
By Major Sir Gerald Burrard, Bt. D.S.O., R.F.A. (retired).
Published by Herbert Jenkins, London 1969
First printing 1931
ISBN 0 257 65866 1
Hardback. Blue fabric covered boards & spine with gold lettering to spine. 242 pages including b/w illustrations, diagrams and photographs. Book condition foxing to the boards and spine, some damage to spine. Dust jacket in poor condition – section of rear missing and tears elsewhere. 225mm by 145mm.
“The greatest and most comprehensive work on the subject. A landmark in history of shooting” – Shooting Times
First class post within UK: £2.75. Other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £18.00 GBP [Available]
The Elements of Rifle Shooting
Dealing with the Service Rifle and Open Sight including the Aperture Sight with the No.4 Rifle.
By Brigadier J.A. Barlow C.B.E. Late The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s Own).
Gale & Polden Ltd Aldershot 1951
Fourth Edition.
First published 1932
Hardback. Green covered boards & spine with brown lettering to spine and front. 126 pages, including b/w diagrams and photographs. The book is generally in good condition with some subtle staining on back. Dust jacket fragile and is torn faded and crumpled with some loss. 220mm by 140mm.
First class post within UK: £2.24. Other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £18.00 GBP [Available]
The Gun Trader’s Guide
By Paul Wahl
Published by Greenberg, New York
Revised second edition, 1957
Hardback. Blue fabric covered boards & spine with black lettering to spine. 251 pages including hundreds of entries on rifles, pistols, etc. 255 pp. Plus 22 pages of woodcuts illustrating 101 weapons. The book is generally in good condition with fading to the blue boards, scuffing to top and bottom edges, one page where some text has be underscored in pen and title page inscribed Tim Housden and other text. No dust jacket. 210mm by 140mm.
First class post within UK: £2.75. Other shipping options available, please contact me for further details
Price: £12.00 GBP [Available]
Game Guns & Rifles
Percussion to Hammerless Ejector in Britain
By Richard Akehurst
Published by G. Bell & Sons, London
First Edition 1969
Hardback. Grey covered boards & spine with gold lettering to spine. 176 pages. Including many b/w diagrams and photographs. The book is in good condition. No dust jacket. 255mm by 160mm
History of English gun making from percussion to hammerless ejector.
First class post within UK: £3.35. Other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £16.00 GBP [Available]
Wild and Woolly
An Encyclopedia of the Old West
By Denis McLoughlin
Barnes & Noble, New York 1996
First published 1975
ISBN 1-56619-961-1
1996 Edition hardback with mauve boards, fabric spine with gold lettering to spine; 570 pages in Encyclopaedic format with occasional b/w illustrations. Dust jacket very good, mimimal scuffing to top edge. Binding and pages, excellent. 235mm by 165mm.
“If you are interested in what ARMITAS or BERDACHES might be, or about the pros and cons of gun fighting, the myth of MURIETTA, and the vigors of the VIGILANTES... this book is for you.”
First class post within UK: £4.50 other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £12.00 GBP [available]
A Treasury of Western Folklore
Stories, Ballads and Traditions
Revised Edition
Edited by B A Botkin
Foreword by Bernard DeVoto
Bonanza Books, 1980 Edition
ISBN 0-517-33647-2
Hardback with covered brown boards/spine with gold lettering to spine. 613 pages. Includes musical notations. Dust jacket scuffed and small tears to top and bottom edge; some bleaching to jacket’s spine. Pages & spine excellent. 235mm by 160mm.
“The stories, legends, tall tales, traditions, ballads and songs of the people of the Great Plains and Far West”
First class post within UK: £5.20 other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £8.00 GBP [available]
The Indian Wars
An illustrated history of the conflicts between the North American Indians and the U.S. Army.
By Christopher Chant
Tiger Books International 1998
ISBN 1-85501-972-8
Hardback, boards & spine full colour illustration as on jacket. 128 pages, many b/w original photographs plus colour illustrations, maps etc. Dust jacket has light scuffing to top edge and score mark to back. 300mm by 230mm.
“A lavishly illustrated history of the events and personalities that forged the fate of the North American Indians. Detailed commentary upon the major battles and skirmishes between the U.S. Government forces and the tribes of Indians who were in danger of extinction at the hands of white settlers. Maps of major battles and campains.”
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Price: £8.00 GBP [Avalable]
The West, An Illustrated History
By Geoffrey C. Ward
Co-Author of The Civil War
With Preface by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1996 First Edition
ISBN 0-297-82181-4
Hardback, brown fabric boards & spine with gold lettering to spine. 445 pages, extensive photographs and illustrations including full colour. Dust jacket excellent. 282mm by 240mm.
First class post within UK: £8.22 other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £ 19.50 GBP [Avaliable]
The Gun and its Development
The Classic Collector’s Edition, Ninth Edition
By W.W. Greener
Published by Chartwell Books, INC. Secaucus, New Jersey 1988
ISBN 1-55521-238-7
Hardback. Dark fabric boards & spine with gold lettering to spine. 804 pages illustrated by more than 700 drawings and photographs - the majority of which are fine line engravings which display to full effect the superb craftsmanship of the gun-maker and the beauty of many ornamental firearms.
Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with minor scuffing to top of jacket. 220mm by 155mm.
First class post within UK: £5.20 other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £ 30.00 GBP [Avaliable]
Guns and how they work
By Ian V. Hogg
Marshall Cavendish Ltd 1979 - 1984
Third printing 1984
ISBN 0 85685 4921
Hardback. Dark fabric boards & spine with gold lettering to spine. 185 pages filled with photographs and illustrations in b/w and full colour. The book is in very good condition with tiny scuffs to each corner of boards. The dust jacket has 170mm tear to front.
The book covers the invention of gunpowder; muzzle loaders; breech loaders; revolvers; mechanical machine guns; magazine rifles; automatic machine guns; automatic pistols; guns of WW1 and WW2; rapid fire; sporting guns; new directions; ammunition.
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Price: £8.00 GBP [Available]
Badmen of the West
The First Complete Book of the American Outlaw
The lives and times of Renegades, Bandits, Rustlers, and Gunfighters who made the Wild West
By Robert Elman
Castle Books 1974
ISBN 0-89009-630-9
Hardback. Gold fabric covered boards & spine with silver lettering to spine and front. 256 pages. Illustrated with many original b/w photographs and other illustrations, many in full colour. Book in excellent condition, Dust jacket minimal scuffing to top edge and small patch of label residue bottom right front.
“Books have been written about a few of the most infamous badmen – Frank & Jesse James, Cole Younger, Sam Bass, Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Longley, Wes Hardin, the Dalton Gang, but most of them are based as much on fancy as on fact, and none of them brings together the lives and times of all the badmen.” “”Here for the first time, is a true history in words and pictures, of the notorious American outlaws who blazed across the last half of the nineteenth century in a wave of violence whose like had never been experienced before and was never seen again.”
First class post within UK: £5.20 other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £12.00 GBP [Available]
Shooter’s Bible
New No. 61
1971 Edition
Feature Articles by Leading Gun Experts; Complete Presentation of New Guns and Ammo; 25,000 Items; 8,500 Illustrations; 576 Pages.
Edited by John Olson
Hardback. Red covered boards & spine with silver lettering to spine. 576 pages, including many b/w illustrations, diagrams and photographs. Book in good condition. Dust jacket has some scuffing to edges and is protected by a clear plastic over-jacket. 265mm by 200mm.
“In this, the 61ts edition of the Shooter’s Bible, we have endeavoured to show a complete selection of the firearm and accessories currently available on the American market.
First class post within UK: £4.50. Other shipping options available, please contact me for further details.
Price: £15.00 GBP [Available]
