A HISTORY OF FIREARMS from Earliest Times to 1914 by Carman, W.Y - 1955

St. Martin's Press. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No dust jacket. Former Library book.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1970. 4th Impression. 207 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Marking to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Sticker to front flap. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks and foxing overall.

Dover Publishing, Reprint 2004. Softcover (14 x 22 cm), xv, 207 pages. ISBN: 0486433900. Good condition. Covers bumped, scuffed, creased. Front cover and page fore edge soiled.

London.: Routledge & Kegan Paul., 1970. xv, 207pp, illustrations. DW has slight shelf wear & a lightly tanned spine.. Reprint.. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1963. 3rd Impression: 1963 . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 207 pp. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stains on top edge. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.

London Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1970 4th imp.. 8.5 x 5.5 ins. In maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and design to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w some rubbing to edges and corners. Price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Else a clean and tight copy. 207pp. 33 B&W illustrations within text. The author traces the use of firearms beginning with the earliest uses of instruments of taking actual fire to the enemy, then the development of gunpowder and other explosive propellants.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1955. Book. Illus. by Illustrations. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/G, used, hc, brick colored cloth with gilt text to spine and gilt canon on upper, v-xv, 207 pages. Interior clean no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. There is a small brown rectangle of discoloration on the ffep from unknown material. DJ is price clipped, small tear to top edge of the lower at the spine, the bottom edge of the spine has a pasted on sticker showing the book came from St. Martin's Press. DJ enclosed in protective sleeve..

London: Routledg & Keegan Paul, 1955. First Edition. . Clloth. Vg/G+. 207pp. Illus. Size: 8vo

New York: St Martin's Press, 1955. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. xv, [1], 207, [1] pages. Name of previous owner in ink on fep. Cover has a gilt decoration on the front and has some edge wear and soiling. Some page soiling. Somewhat cocked. Includes 33 illustrations, as well as Acknowledgments, a Glossary, and an Introduction. Chapter 1 covers the Use of Fire in War, Petroleum and Naphtha, The Development of Cannon, Early Experiments, English Artillery on the Continent, Giant Guns, Henry the Eighth's influence and Elizabethan Cannon; The Seventeenth Century, Slow Development: Modern Methods; Variations of Cannon; Unusual Materials and Types; Drawn and Self-Propelled Guns, Machine-Guns--First Attempts at Multiple Fire; Puckle's Revolving Gun; The Maxim Gun; Handguns, Muskets and Rifles; The Smooth Bore; Rifled Firearms; Breech-Loading Guns; Multiple Fire; Carbines; Pistols and Revolvers; Single Shot; Multiple Shot; Experiments: Wall Pieces and Curriers; Unusual Pistols;… Read More