Quarto; pp; xiii, (i), 249, (i), index; profusely illustrated with a frontispiece and black and white photographs and line drawings; green cloth lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has light wear at edges and one small abrasion; previous owner's name on free fly leaf and his name stamp on all edges. The definitive work on the subject. The author was a multi-facetted individual, artist, gun enthusiast and scholar researcher.