Hardcover, maroon simulated leather-bound cover, entitled "Spencer Repeating Firearms" by Roy Martin Marcot, edited by Charles R. Suydam and Gerald Denning, photography by Gerald Denning, published by Northwood Heritage Press of Irvine, California, printed by Taylor Publishing Company of Dallas, Texas, copyrighted by the author in 1983, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 83-060195, ISBN 0-9611494. It begins with a Foreword by Henry M. Stewart Jr, along with a Preface by Percival Hopkins Spencer (1897-1995), the son of Christopher Miner Spencer (1833-1922), the inventor of the Spencer repeating rifle. This is followed by a Table of Contents, and a Prologue: C.M. Spencer: The Boy, The Young Inventor, and His Prototype Rifles. This book itself is a thorough examination of the various Spencer Repeating Firearms and ammunition produced through the years by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company 1862-1868, the Roper Repeating Rifle Company 1866-1868, the Roper Sporting Arms Company 1868-1876, and the Spencer Sporting Arms Company 1883-1889. It is divided into three parts: Part I - Spencer Repeating Rifle Company Rifles and Carbines, with twelve chapters (1 - Military Trials, Initial Orders, and the Formation of the Company; 2 - Model 1860 Spencer Navy Rifles; 3 - Model 1860 Spencer Army Rifles; 4 - Model 1860 Spencer Carbines; 5 - Model 1865 Spencer Carbines and Rifles; 6 - Burnside Model 1865 Spencer Carbines; 7 - Army Ordnance Boards of 1885 and 1886; 8 - Spencer Sporting Rifles; 9 - Springfield Armory Conversions and Repairs; 10 - Post-War Sales, Experimentation and Problems; 11 - Cartridge Boxes, Bayonets and Other Accessories; 12 - Spencer Rimfire Cartridges); Part II - Roper Repeating Rifles and Shotguns, with two chapters (13 - The Roper Repeating RIfle Company; 14 - The Roper Sporting Arms Company; and Interim); Part III - Spencer's Final Forearms Venture, with two chapters (15 - The Spence Sporting Arms Company; 16 - Bannerman's Spencer Shotguns). It concludes with an Epilogue and an Appendix, with the end papers at both the front and back of the book featuring a duotone line drawing of the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company at the Chickering's Building on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The book contains 316 pages, with multiple detailed photographs and corresponding blocks of text, charts, diagrams, along with photographs of key figures and action shots, printed in black ink, with some featured photographs in a duotone format, on a coated white paper stock, measuring 220 mm (w) x 285 mm (h) x 23 mm (d). The corners are pinched on the front and back covers, however, the pages remain pristine, Near extremely fine.
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