A collection of hardback volumes and a periodical concerning the history, development, and technical aspects of firearms. The collection includes W. W. Greener, The Gun and Its Development, Ninth Edition, published by Bonanza Books, New York. This volume is a rewritten edition with additional illustrations, featuring a publisher’s cloth binding and a dust jacket. Also present is Roy F. Dunlap, Gunsmithing: A Manual of Firearms Design, Construction, Alteration and Remodeling, published by Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This work includes technical drawings by Paul Webb and is bound in publisher’s cloth with a pictorial dust jacket. The collection further includes Jaroslav Lugs, A History of Shooting, published by Spring Books, covering target guns, duelling, and exhibition shooting, in a cloth binding with a dust jacket. Accompanying the books is a softcover pamphlet titled Black Powder: The Official Journal of the Muzzle Loaders Association of Great Britain, Volume 27, No. 1, dated March 1980. The books are generally quarto or large octavo in size.
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