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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo, brown cloth binding with dust jacket, one of 500 hardcover copies, " John H Hall's Invention and Development of a Breechloading Rifle with Precision-made Interchangeable Parts, and Its Introduction into the United States Service", illustrated with drawings, index, 369 pages.
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R.T. Huntingtons-Halls Breechloaders is truely a work of art, in that, the book covers all the gross detail as well as the fine details in the Life and work of John H. Hall. From the mundane to the exciting. Huntingtons does a fantastic job in desribing exactly what John Halls trail and tribulations in the pursuit of getting, first the patent for his rifle then to set-up his workshop and the effort in maintaining them. How Hall almost went bankrupt and how hall ended up at Harpers Ferry, Virginia from 1819 to 1841. A must read for any Gun Collecter, History Buff or for that matter just for fun.
