Demeritt Dwight (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. b/w Illustration (illustrator). Second Edition. In green cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 451pp. (shelfwear and rubbing to outer extremities, notes to endpapers, rear inner hinge cracked). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 2nd edition. No DJ. Boards have edge wear, minor scuffs, rubbed/slightly frayed corners/spine. Owner's name inside cover. Underlining in pencil in text. Minor dirt on edge.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. 451pp, illus., some wear to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. Second edition. No dustjacket, bound in green cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and bumps to edges and corners of covers, some browning to edges of interior pages, two small thumbtack-size punctures on back cover, one of which goes into back endpapers (does not affect text.). No Signature.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 28-page softcover with an illustration of snow-covered conifers on the front cover. Good history with an appendix of 5 one-page maps. Light cover wear, faint word "maps" on lower front cover else good plus. Ships in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Numbered 1408 of 1500 copies. Prior owner's name inked in upper right corner of first page, else pages clean; binding tight; minor wear to dustjacket. 209 pages. Illustrated. Size: 8.5'' x 11".

Hardcover. Condition: As New. New & enlarged revised edition. Original quarter cloth (spine) and paste-down paper covered boards, approximately 8 x 10 ¼ inches, index, bibliography, glossy coated paper, illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs. Hardcover, new in dustjacket: tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and never read. Guns; sports; antiques; gunsmithing; black powder; Maine; history; biography; modern Americana ; 438 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good +. Enlarged. Revised edition, near fine hardcover shows bumping to top corners and bookseller sticker at bottom of rear pastedown, in very good + dust jacket that shows exposure toning along spine and spine edges. 438 pages with index and black & whites. Still a good looking copy of this new and enlarged edition of the noted work first published in 1972.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Revised Edition. Quarto. Ochre colored boards fifthbound in a black cloth backstrip with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has very slight bumping at the head and tail of the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 438 pages. Illustrated throughout with photographs, diagrams, illustrations, etc. Dust Jacket - has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the extreme tips of a couple corners. Spine is slightly sunned, but the black lettering is completely unaffected. Slight discoloration on the inside of the dust jacket along the upper edge of the rear cover, near the tip of the outside corner, from water exposure - about 4" long, but 1" at deepest point, and 3/4" deep for the most part. Not noticable from the outside unless you're looking closely for it on account of the light marbled tan of the jacket color. Nice looking copy of a somewhat uncommon book.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Owner's name on front endpage. (Forests, Forestry, Timber Industry).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 451-page hardcover in dark green cloth with title and author's names in gilt on the spine. Revised second edition A very good plus copy with original cover gloss. An unmarked copy in near pristine condition. Uncommon blue-greem jacket is spine and edge-faded, with a short, closed tear and with the title handwritten on the spine: about good, in an archival cover. DeMerritt was a forestry professor at the University of Maine. A research forest near campus was named in his honor. Ships in a box.

Quarter cloth. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good +. New and enlarged edition. Revised edition, hardcover is inscribed, "Best Regards Dwight B. Demeritt Jr January 1998" on the title page, very good + with bumping to top corners, light soil at page edges and some other mild trace wear, in very good + dust jacket that shows exposure toning along spine and some light soil. 438 pages with index and nicely illustrated in black & white. Still a solid copy in jacket of this ".much enlarged edition." with ".500 illustrations and extensive appendices.".

Unknown Binding. Condition: Very Good. Maine State Museum (1973). Limited 1500 copies, being #421. One tip worn, one blunted. Dj slightly soiled, worn, one tiny tear, and mashed at bit top of spine. Light shelf wear.; Maine Heritage Series; 209 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good++. First Edition. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD++ dust jacket. FIRST edition, first printing. Limited edition copy #375 of 1500. A VERY CLEAN COPY. Binding tight and square, no loose pages. Jacket color bright all around. Jacket shows some edge wear and mild chipping, very little material loss. Some evidence of some brief moisture exposure to jacket and cloth board beneath. No toning or sunning. Interior bright and clean. Interior does not show any water stains or moisture exposure. Unclipped. Unmarked on inspection.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. 209 pages, illustrated in b&w. Chapters: Colonial Gunsmiths, John H. Hall, Portland Inventor, Gunsmiths in the New State and the Proof of Their Guns, Mighall Nutting, The Infernal Yankee from Maine, Oxford County Riflesmiths, Gun Making in the Eastern Cities, More Town and City Gunsmiths; A Dangerous Enterprise, The Evans Brother and the Evan Rifle Manufacturing Company, The Lster Survivors. FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET. Ex-library withdrawn. This copy is #1372 of 1500 copies printed. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library Withdrawn.

1/4 cloth. Condition: Fine. Second Edition. Second edition. 4to; x, 438pp; quarter-bound black cloth with yellow boards, gilt-stamped title on spine; glazed stock; b&w illustrations; unclipped b&w pictorial dust jacket without price; offset yellow patch to rear dj, light soiling; fine in very good plus dj. Contents cover the history of the firearms from colonial times through twentieth century firearm technology in Maine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ DJ. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition/Limited Edition. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. A handsome copy of this increasingly scarce first edition of this renowned reference volume. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, frontispiece. 4to. 209pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Limited, numbered edition, this being 144.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 30. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1972 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 30.

hardcover. Condition: Good. The exterior and pages are lightly tanned at the edges. The copy shows minor external wear, but is in otherwise clean condition.

Condition: very good. Photographs and illustrations throughout. A summary of the mechanical and artistic skills of the Maine gunsmith during the years prior to mass production. Limited, numbered small printing, first edition with dust jacket. 209p.