PARSONS, John E. Henry Deringer's Pocket Pistol.
Item #7175
8vo; 255 pp.; green cloth, without dust jacket; illustrated. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1952. First Edition. Monograph on the pistol whose name, Deringer, became synonomous with pocket pistols. Deringer's manufacturing methods were widely imitated and it was in the court records of a lawsuit instituted by Deringer to stop this imitation, that author John Parsons discovered much of the information here presented. Cloth slightly frayed at head of spine; good or better condition. |
