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Guns of the American West
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Arms and Armour P. 01/02/1985, 1985
ISBN 10 : 0853686769
ISBN 13 : 9780853686767
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Etat : Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. . N° de réf. du vendeur 7719-9780853686767
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Guns of the American West
Edité par
Arms and Armour P. 01/02/1985, 1985
ISBN 10 : 0853686769
ISBN 13 : 9780853686767
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Vendeur : Bahamut Media, Reading, Royaume-Uni
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Etat : Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee. N° de réf. du vendeur 6545-9780853686767
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Guns of the American West
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Arms & Armour Press, London, 1985
ISBN 10 : 0853686769
ISBN 13 : 9780853686767
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Vendeur : Horsham Rare Books, Horsham, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very good grey cloth hardcover, slight bump to top corner. No inscriptions or marks. Very good uncliopped dust jacket slightly faded to spine. Traces the history of the revolvers, pistols, rifles, and other firearms used in the West from 1776 to 1900 ; Black &White photographs and drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 192 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 18437
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Guns of the American West
Edité par
Arms and Armour Press, 1985
ISBN 10 : 0853686769
ISBN 13 : 9780853686767
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Vendeur : Crappy Old Books, Barry, Royaume-Uni
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Hardback. Etat : Very Good. The American West has been mythologised so thoroughly that even the dust seems to have an agent. Cowboys, outlaws, sheriffs, cavalrymen, buffalo hunters, gamblers, prospectors, lawmen, drifters, legends with hats ? all of them have been marched through paintings, dime novels, films and television until the six-shooter itself practically needs a screen credit. Joseph G. Rosa?s Guns of the American West steps into this crowded saloon and does the useful thing: it looks at the hardware. Not the heroic squinting. Not the orchestral sunset. Not the fellow leaning on a bar and saying something grave about justice. The guns. The actual objects around which so much mythology has been built: revolvers, rifles, shotguns, carbines, repeating arms, military weapons, sporting pieces, working tools, status symbols, and occasionally extremely poor life choices made in metal. This is a book for anyone who understands that the West was not won by one generic ?cowboy gun? waved around in slow motion. Firearms changed, improved, misfired, jammed, intimidated, impressed, disappointed and occasionally behaved exactly as advertised at the worst possible moment. Colt, Winchester, Remington, Smith & Wesson and the other grand names of American gunmaking appear here not merely as brands but as characters in the theatre of frontier history. Some were elegant, some brutal, some ingenious, and some seem to have been designed in the belief that what a dangerous situation really needed was more moving parts. Rosa is especially valuable because he knew the difference between legend and mechanism. A gun in a Western is a moral instrument: it proves courage, settles disputes, and makes a pleasing noise just before the credits. A gun in history is a manufactured object with calibre, loading system, range, weight, reliability, cost, maintenance needs and a user who may or may not know what he is doing. That last detail, as history repeatedly demonstrates, is rather important. The pleasure of the book is in watching the romance of the West become more interesting, not less, when pinned to facts. The famous revolver is still famous, but now it has dates, variants and mechanical limitations. The repeating rifle remains dramatic, but also acquires production history and ammunition concerns. The frontier becomes less like a painted backdrop and more like a place where technology, money, fear, violence, practicality and advertising all rode together, probably arguing about who got the best horse. There is, inevitably, a rich irony in the West?s obsession with liberty being so often expressed through catalogue orders, patents, army contracts and mass production. The rugged individualist may have stood alone against the horizon, but his equipment arrived through a supply chain. Even myth needs distribution. This Arms and Armour Press copy is in Very Good condition, which is pleasingly tidy for a book about objects that spent much of their cultural life being dropped in dust, holstered badly, waved dramatically and blamed for human temperament. Crappy Old Books offers it for collectors, military-history readers, Western enthusiasts, firearms historians, and anyone who suspects that the truth behind the legend usually has a serial number. N° de réf. du vendeur 7098
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Guns of the American West
Edité par
Arms & Armour Press, 1985
ISBN 10 : 0853686769
ISBN 13 : 9780853686767
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Fine large hardback copy in fine jacket. B&w photos. N° de réf. du vendeur 049745
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GUNS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
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Arms & Armour Press, United Kingdom, 1985
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ISBN 13 : 9780853686767
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Vendeur : Occultique, Northampton, NORTH, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Comprehensive and extensively illustrated study which explores the development of the weapons used by the pioneers of the American West from the early flintlocks to the automatic pistol during the period 1776-1900. Arms & Armour Press, London 1985. illus 192pp hb dw fine. N° de réf. du vendeur 007302
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