Wesson Douglas Bertram Smith (1 results)

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. pp 79, [1]. With a photographic frontispiece of the American Olympic pistol shooting team at Stockholm in 1912. Numerous photographic in-text illustrations and engraved reproduction pattern-plates. Bound in publisher's blue-green cloth decorated in gilt lettering with imprint of a hand clasping a pistol on upper board and circular black spots to represent the bullet holes of the title. Lightly bumped at head of the spine; internally crisp and clean, without old signatures etc. A fine copy. An attractively produced compendium of American pistol and revolver shooting records by Douglas Bertram Wesson. The achievements recorded within, all made using Smith & Wesson firearms, span the breadth of the company's storied history, and are accompanied by photographic documentation an detailed recreations of numerous impressive pattern-plates. Book.