1940 Ulrich SIGNED 1st/1st History of COLT REVOLVER Patent Firearms Guns Weapons

1940 Ulrich SIGNED 1^st/1^st History of COLT REVOLVER Patent Firearms Guns Weapons

Colt’s Manufacturing Company is an iconic United States firearms manufacturer. This book by Charles T. Haven and Frank A. Belden is a comprehensive history of the Colt Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from its inception in 1836 to the publication of this book in 1940. They include information on all Colt models, their variations, advertising pamphlets, manufactures, and the use of Colt Revolvers by the Texas Rangers, as well as the favorite Colts of famous gun slingers such as Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, Poker Alice, Samuel Walker, and more!

This 1940 first edition includes nearly 500 photographs of models of the Colt revolver and facsimiles of numerous contemporary and historical documents, and is signed by Arthur L. Ulrich, to whom the book is formally dedicated, and Samuel M. Stone, who was the president of the Colt Manufacturing Company at the time the book was published!

Item number: #41523

Price: $750

HAVEN, Charles T; BELDEN, Frank A.; GRANCSAY, Stephen V.

A History of the Colt Revolver and Other Arms Made by Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. LIMITED EDITION to 100

Details:

• Collation: Complete
  • xxiii, [1], 711, [1]
  • Heavily illustrated throughout
• Reference(s): Howes H-308; Riling 2318
  • “4,625 copies were published; of this number 1,600 were sold to the Colt Manufacturing Co.; of these 1,500 were furnished in the regular (cloth) binding, and [only] 100 were bound in full leather.” (Riling)
• Provenance: Handwritten
  • L. Ulrich
    • Secretary to the Colt Firearm Manufacturing Company, to whom the book is dedicated.
  • M. Stone
    • Samuel M. Stone (1869–1959) was a President of Colt’s Manufacturing Company who saw the company through the build-up to World War I and the end of World War II (1921-1944).
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~11in X 8.5in (28cm x 21.5cm)

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