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Category - Books and Magazines - Gun Manuals Military

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Gun Manuals Military

ESTATE COLLECTION - FIVE VOLUME SIGNED PRESENTATION SET OF "THE MACHINE GUN" BY COL. GEORGE M. CHINN (RET).

Description:
The Machine Gun. History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and Airborne Repeating Weapons, Bureau of Ordnance Department of the Navy, Washington, 1951-54, 1987 (Vol. I-V).
This five volume set is the most comprehensive publication ever compiled on the history of the machine gun, from the Gatling through aircraft cannons. At the end of WWII, the US Navy Bureau of Ordnance directed Col. George M. Chinn, Ret. USMC to put together the history of the machine gun and Volume 1 was released to the public in 1951, however, the remaining volumes (2-5) remained classified and not released until 1970. This complete Presentation Set is numbered 483 and so marked on every cover sheet, with the author's signature. The classified material cover sheetsl are stamped: "Personal property of Col George M. Chinn". Volume 5 is dated 3 August 1987 as the final part of the presentation set, but unnumbered. 

CONDITION: Very Fne Presentation Edition copies in the original dark blue armorial cloth w/gilt boards. Cover sheet has embossed "Library of EFR" stamp from original owwner.

Complete Set includes:

Volume 1 (698 pages)
History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and Airborne Repeating Weapons.

Volume 2 (232 Pages)
History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and Airborne Repeating Weapons.

Volume 3 (693 Pages)
Development During World War II and Korean Conflict by the United States and Their Allies, of Full Automatic Machine Gun Systems and High Rate of Fire Power Driven Cannon.

Volume 4 (653 Pages)
Design Analysis of Automatic Firing Mechanisms and Related Components.

Volume 5 (720 Pages)
Development of Full Automatic Machine Gun Systems High Rate of Fire Power Driven Cannon, and Automatic Grenade Launchers by the United States and Her Allies, Following World War II, Korean Police Action, and the Vietnam Conflict.


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Price: $750.00