Colt: The Making of an American Legend (First Edition)

Hosley, William

ISBN 10: 1558490426 / ISBN 13: 9781558490420

Published by University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1996

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. Folio. Blue cloth boards stamped in silver with illustrated endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 254 pages, extensively illustrated. A history of Samuel and Elizabeth Colt and their industrial empire. 254 pages. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation.

Seller Inventory # 4700-Q-Colt

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Colt: The Making of an American Legend (First Edition)
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558490426
• ISBN 13: 9781558490420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Firearms

About this title

Synopsis

Recounts the story of gun manufacturer Samuel Colt and his wife, Elizabeth, beginning with Sam Colt's early failures as both inventor and businessman and then tracing the development in the pre-Civil years of the notorious Colt revolver "The Gun That Won the West" into a global manufacturing export. Sam was an international celebrity and symbol of American enterprise (a Bill Gates of his time), and Elizabeth saw to it that the Colt legacy endured after Sam's death in 1862. Hosely is curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. The volume is nicely written, designed, and produced; inexplicably, there is no index. Accompanying the text are 132 b&w and 72 color illustrations. Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. 10x12" Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About the Author

William Hosley is curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut.