The Mantons: Gunmakers

First American edition. Colour portrait as frontis. Numerous illustrations, diagrams and photographs, most in black-and-white, some in colour. Price-clipped dust jacket in fair condition with noticeable age-toning, curl to upper edge, wear to base of spine and corners, three half-inch edge tears and creasing to end of front and rear flaps. The book itself is in very good condition with small abrasion to FFEP and vertical crease to RFEP. Blue cloth covers are clean with no loss to gold-stamped lettering and design. Only faint tanning to inside pages with no ownership marks, inscriptions or underlining. Not ex-library. Binding is firm. 300 pages. s118.