Waite Bud (9 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This is in very good minus condition as the covers and spine habe light wear, There is a sticker on the front end page with the former owners information on it and the pages are clean. The dust jacket has several tears, light soiling and a light stain on the front top right corner and it is in a high quality Demco protector. This may not fit in a priority envelope so there may be extra charges for priority or shipping outside the USA. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Good +. First edition. Very good +, oversized blue cloth hardcover with inscription by author Ernst on title page and a musty smell shows bit of rubbing at cover edges, bumping to corners, touch of soil and foxing at page edges and some other light trace wear, in good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows soil including some odd coloring along spine, corner wrinkle at top of front flap, bit of staining and edgewear that includes closed tears and open chipping. 213 pages loaded with black & whites and bibliography at rear. Solid inscribed copy in jacket of this ".first complete story of the Trapdoor Springfield.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good/good, used, black colored binding with gilt text to spine, gray colored end papers, iv-vii, 213pp plus appendix to rear. Interior clean, no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Dust jacket is rubbed, chips at the head of the spine, tear and wrinkles to the top edge of the upper near center, tiny tears to corners, dj is not price-clipped but is sunned. DJ enclosed in Brodart sleeve. from the library of Michael Penz.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp: 215. Bound in pictorial dust jacket, and black cloth boards. The gun that became the first breech-loading rifle of the United States Army, for twenty years in the later part of the nineteenth century. The authors studied the documents related to the experiments and tests of this rifle, and comparable guns. They recorded the alterations, and variations used. The is full of drawings, photographs, and other illustrations that help tell the story of this rifle. A very good copy in dust jacket. The jacket has internal tape repair at the spine ends, and along the top edge.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Dark blue cloth, lettered in gold foil. Vertical crease to front flyleaf, otherwise as issued. Color pictorial dust jacket VG with 1" closed tear at top front panel corner and related creasing to upper front panel, a few short closed edge tears, now in mylar. Stated 2nd edition. vii,215 pp., illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 215 pages, oversize, photos, illustrations, Very good hardcover in slightly torn and frayed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 214 pages, oversize, photos, illustrations, charts, Fine hardcover first edition in dust jacket.

Second edition (as stated upon copyright page). viii, 215 pages. Hardcover: H 28.5cm x L 22.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with slight soiling; some nicks, short tears, and bumping/creasing at edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Dark blue cloth lightly rubbed; spine's gilt stamping remains bright; boards' top fore-edge corners well bumped with interior leaves slightly affected likewise. Pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. Copyright page specifies ISBN 088227281 which is invalid. Evidently this Gun Room Press second edition was published the same year as the first issued by Beinfeld Publishing, Inc. As both editions share the same pagination is seems likely that the content is unaltered and the only difference is the imprint. ISBN 0088227281.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Second edition. 2nd edition, 6th printing, 1999, near fine, oversized (9 by 11 approx.) blue cloth hardcover shows bit of bumping to bottom corners and pencil shadow at top edge of rear pastedown, else tight and clean, in very good dust jacket that shows rub scarring and small open chips at bottom corner of rear panel from sticker removal of some sort most likely and edgewear thatincludes closed tears and scotch tape reinforcement at spine tail of jacket reverse. 213 pages nicely illustrated in black & white and with bibliography that follows. Still a pleasing copy of this look ".the gun which, despite all obstacles, became the first breech-loading rifle of the United States Army and which for 20 years remained the army's warhorse.".…