Author:
TOWNSHEND R.B.
Title:
The Complete Air Gunner
Price:
£250.00
Year:
1907
Edition:
1st English Edn,
Publisher:
L Upcott Gill
Summary:
x 88 pages,12+ pages of related adverts many illustrated, 16 full page plates from photographs + a folding plate at the rear of a gun breakdown of a "B.S.A" air rifle + text illustrations. Ownership inscription to the blank verso of the frontis. Publisher's card covers printed in red and black priced at 1/- on front cover with faint sign of removal of label from the price, some light rubbing to the head of the spine. A very good copy of what is an any early book on the subject and quite scarce not listed in Riling. Includes chapter on air guns of the past, the gun of the future, snapshooting and the running man, shooting from horseback telescopic sights etc.
Ref:
22385