TRAPDOOR SPRINGFIELD: THE UNITED STATES SPRINGFIELD SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE 1865-1893

WAITE, M.D "Bud" & B.D.ERNST

Published by The Gun Room Press, Highland Park, NJ, 1980

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # 009090

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TRAPDOOR SPRINGFIELD: THE UNITED STATES SPRINGFIELD SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE 1865-1893
• Publisher: The Gun Room Press, Highland Park, NJ
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.98 kilograms
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