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Boothroyd, Geoffrey.
A Guide to Gun Collecting.
Publisher: Arco Publications, London and Watford;
Date of Publication: 1961
Stock Code: 14720
First edition. Duodecimo, pp., 192. Publisher’s original unclipped pictorial dust jacket; publisher’s original laminated boards, replicating the jacket design. Bookplate of R. H. Walton to front paste-down. Inscribed in ink from the author to Walton on front free end-paper dated February 1962; further inscription dated 1972 to half-title. Soiling and light toning to jacket, joints and extremities worn. Shelf-wear to extremities of binding but otherwise bright. Light scattered foxing to edges but contents clean and neat. A very good copy in like jacket. A studied work on collecting firearms, inscribed from the author to another author of works on guns. R. H. Walton was chairman of the Northumberland Pistol Club, and author of The True Book About Firearms (1965). £40.00