Ed Mcgivern's Book on Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting and Police Training by Mcgivern Ed (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. The cover has blue cloth. Most of the illustrations are small, b/w photos. The pages are tanned and have a moderate, old paper odor. Seven page margins each have a 1/4 in. closed tear. The spine strip is a little faded in an uneven fashion; its top and bottom edges are a little rubbed and wrinkled; some of the letters in the publisher's name are not legible. DJ: The spine panel has darkened in an uneven fashion, has a vertical water stain, and is chipped on each end. The end of a fold has a 3/8 in. chip; another end has a 7/8 in. closed tear. Other closed tears and chips are smaller. Half of the front flap has a stain. Scans e-mailed upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: G+ (Good Plus). Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Early Edition. Royal blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, minor soil and edgewear, lightly sunned spine, and bumped spine ends and corners. Minor soil to text block. Jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has heavy edgewear, rubbing, soil and creasing; numerous chips and tears; spine is lightly waterspotted and sunned to illegibility; flaps not clipped; $5.00 publisher's price to front flap. Binding somewhat shaken, text clean. Interior toned. Over 525 b/w illustrations. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 484 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. From the personal library of noted firearms authority and writer Gilbert E. Newton, AKA, "Bob Murphy." A clean hardcover in good condition; light shelf wear and rubbing, corners lightly bumped, shaken. No DJ, as issued. INSCRIBED by the author: lengthy gift inscription by the author on front end paper. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Covers slightly rubbed, especially at extremities and bottom edge of front cover; pages toned; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). . 484p. Illus.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. Front hinge mostly cracked; rear hinge with light crack. One date stamp to front pastedown; no other library markings. The classic work on the subject by the respected Montana lawman. With discussion on Pistols; Revolvers; Learning the Shooting Game; Developing Speed and Sure Hitting Ability; Training Methods; Two-Gun Training; Speed with the Single-Action Colt Revolver; Trigger Control; Psychology; Quick Draw; Mutilating Guns as an Aid to Speed; Holsters; Selections of Sights for Various Situations; Long Range Revolver Shooting, etc. Contains quite a bit of material on many of the outlaws of the West. Increasingly difficult to find in First Edition. Edward (Ed) McGivern (1874 ? 1957) was a famous exhibition shooter, shooting instructor and author. He performed extensive research into the art of handgun shooting, particularly with the double-action revolver. McGivern, along with his friend Elmer Keith, were instrumental in pushing the envelope in the early days of magnum revolvers. While Keith was primarily interested in hunting, McGivern was more interested in police use of the revolver. He demonstrated that with proper sights and use, the .357 Magnum could be used on man-sized targets at ranges of up to 600 yards. McGivern experimented with different types of iron sights, including peep sights, and telescopic sights. His preferred type of iron sight for this use was a small-diameter rear aperture and a post with a gold bead for the front. He went on to instruct police agencies, including the FBI, in his shooting techniques. McGivern is a member of the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Hard cover, has tiny skew to binding, previous owner's information blacked out with marker at top of first free endpage, slight bumps to board corners with touch of curving to corners of first and last few pages of text block, very slight bumps to spine ends, some faint shelfwear to edges of boards, faint rubbing with some small spots of soiling to front board, and very slight sunning to spine, otherwise a solid VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dark blue cloth with gold spine lettering. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down with same owner's name on front flyleaf, same owner's name on rear paste down. Front paste down also has a humorous poem about a mouse in a barroom and the courage to confront a cat after slurping spilled bear on the floor. Original dust jacket with top edge trimmed tipped in and folded onto rear flyleaf, rear paste down has a pasted in 1957 photo of author wearing a pair of side arms. Rear end papers have a tipped in publisher's announcement of this book as well as a photo the "two-handed grip." Corners lightly bumped. Contents clean and tight. PayPal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.15.

hardcover, Condition: Good, Kings-Richardson Co., Springfield, Mass., 1938, 8vo., cloth, 484pp., many photos., G $.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Age-related wear, rubbing and handling to boards and board edges. Text on spine and front board is faded. Faint dampstain to top edge and owner's embossed initials on bottom edge. Previous owner's name written on ffep. Toning to pages. Binding tight and text clean.

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Ribbon marker. Full-leather.

Tall 8vo. 484 pp., plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Photo frontispiece, over 525 photo & text illustrations, diagrams. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on front cover, spine (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. (minor chipping head of spine, small tear w/ minor loss at foot of spine, edgewear), NF/G- copy, w/ ownership stamp of Everett H. Runkle (d. 1962), former First Sergeant, Company M, 162nd Infantry, of Corvallis, Oregon, later Lt. Colonel of O.R.C. Reprint edition of this scarce and fascinating work on types of revolvers, target shooting, trick shooting, quick draws, long range shooting, hip shooting, trigger control, holsters, belts, equipment, police training, and much more. McGivern (1874-1957), famous exhibition shooter, is still considered one of the best men with a handgun who ever lived -- he still holds the Guinness world record for emptying two revolvers in less than 2 seconds.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Black pebbled covers; gilt titles dulled and barely visible; corners slightly bumped; front hinge partially cracked; name and price notation on front endpapers; also, endpapers darkened and foxed at edges; internally volume is clean and unmarked; paper very lightly toned.

Leatherbound. Condition: Very Good. Red Leatherbound Limited Edtion from The Firearms Classics Library. Minor shelf wear and handling. Pages are clean and intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Very scarce thus. 484pp. Profusely illustrated from photos, index. Leatherette. A very fine and clean copy. The classic work on the subject by the respected Montana lawman. Pistols; Revolvers; Learning the Shooting Game; Developing Speed and Sure Hitting Ability; Training Methods; Two-Gun Training; Speed with the Single-Action Colt Revolver; Trigger Control; Psychology; Quick Draw; Mutilating Guns as an Aid to Speed; Holsters; Selections of Sights for Various Situations; Long Range Revolver Shooting, etc. "Scarce. Contains quite a bit of material on many of the outlaws of the West" (Adams). [Adams, Six-Guns: 1407]. Book.