Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2019 9:27:54 GMT
Specific Firearms
These are the gold standards of book collecting, but only if they are of significant quality. I’ll look through a reference book for a gun I can’t identify, but I’ll open up one of these if I want to know about the different types of pins used in the 1903A4 rifle. You have to be weary about these books because some of them are more centered on disassembly/ reassembly and use of the firearm instead of being actually about the firearm’s history and variants itself. This example is shown through my sentence about Patrick Sweeney’s Gun Digest book about the Glock and Desert Publications is somewhat guilty of this. A company that specializes in these types of books are Collector Grade Publications out of Canada. They can sometimes be a bit pricy, but their books are some of the best books about individual small arms or series of small arms out there. Absolutely essential for collectors, they cover most everything you would need to look up about a specific firearm.
Autographed books are a great addition to the library, especially if they’re autographed to you and they increase in value if you ever want to sell them. Top left is from Frank Iannamico, right is from Dolf Goldsmith, and bottom is from Ian Skennerton. I actually met all these authors and bought their books from them at various gun shows, another great place to buy gun books. But usually someone selling gun books at a gun show will know their worth so you might have to pay full price, instead of finding them at a used book store where the owner might not anything about guns and put a lower price on them.
