The Modern Gunsmith: A Guide to the Amateur and Professional Gunsmith in the Design and Construction of Firearms, with Practical Suggestions for All Who Like Guns (Two Volumes). This item is unavailable.
Published by Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, NY, 1954
- Used

Seller: JW Barker Books & Antiques, Natchez, MS, U.S.A.JW Barker Books & Antiques
AbeBooks seller since April 22, 2025
Association member: IOBA
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 96.28
Item description from seller
Revised edition, very good + hardcovers shows rubbing to edges, bit of soil at page edges and thin strip of mild stain at top edges of portion of front pastedowns, in very good dust jackets (price at flaps) that shows mild exposure toning along spines, mild soil and edgewear that includes closed tears and shallow open chipping. Two volumes combine for 850 pages illustrated in black & white with an additional 68 pages supplement at rear of volume II. Still an attractive set of this ".most authoritative work ever written on gunsmithing and gun-making.".
Seller Inventory # 33471
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Modern Gunsmith: A Guide to the Amateur and Professional Gunsmith in the Design and Construction of Firearms, with Practical Suggestions for All Who Like Guns (Two Volumes)
- Author
- Howe, James Virgil
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 1954
- Condition
- Very good +
- Dust jacket
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcovers
- Edition
- Revised with supplement.
- Seller catalogs
- Guns & Hunting