REFERENCE BOOKS

  

THE NEW, ENLARGED 9th EDITION

 Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values By Norm Flayderman
20% larger ~ now over 800 pages... with over 1200 revisions, up-dates, new models and variations... and even more illustrations!
Values for over 4,000 individual antique firearms (c. 1750-1914)
$39.99

Arms Makers of Maryland
Longrifle Series
Signed by the Author
by Daniel Hartzler
SOLD
 

Expanded 11th Edition
North South Trader
Civil War Collector's Price Guide
Updated Prices, New Categories,
New "Fakes" Section
A Must Have for All Civil War Enthusiasts!
$37.95
 

THE BOWIE KNIFE
Unsheathing an American Legend
by Norm Flayderman
with Foreword by James S. Hutchins
Historian Emeritus, National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution
LARGE 9" x 12" FORMAT…… 512 PAGES
245 OUTSTANDING COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS DEPICTING HUNDREDS OF BOWIE KNIVES
Plus 120 black and white illustrations of Civil War
and other nineteenth century photographic images of
soldiers and civilians with Bowie knives
$79.95
- OUT OF STOCK



American Military
Headgear Insignia
by J. Duncan Campbell and
Michael J. O'Donnell
First Edition August 2004
$40.00



Don Troiani's
Regiments & Uniforms
of the Civil War
Art by Don Troiani
Text by Earl J. Coates, Michael J. McAfee and Don Troiani
Introduction by Leslie D. Jensen
$49.95 - OUT OF STOCK


Uniform Buttons of the United States 1776-1865
by Warren K. Tice
$60.00


American Military and Naval Belts
1812 - 1902
by R. Stephen Dorsey
Introduction by Norman Flayderman
$79.95


System Lefaucheau
Continuing the Study of Pinfire Cartridge Arms Including Their Role in the American Civil War
by Chris C. Curtis
Foreward by Norman Flayderman
$44.95


C.S. Armory Richmond
by Paul J. Davies
$89.95



Confederate Belt Buckles & Plates,
by Steve Mullinax
$34.95



Carbines of the US Cavalry
1861-1905
by John D. McAulay
$35.00


Artillery Fuses of the Civil War
by Charles H. Jones
Photos & Design by Mike O'Donnell
$34.95


Round Ball to Rimfire Part II
A History of Civil War Small Arms Ammunition
Federal Breechloading Carbines & Rifles
by Dean S. Thomas
$49.95


Civil War Artifacts
by Howard Crouch
$45.95


Civil War Projectiles II
Small Arms & Field Artillery with Supplement
by W. Reid McKee & M.E. Mason, Jr.
$40.00


Civil War Cavalry
& Artillery Sabers
by John H. Thillmann
$79.95


Historic American Swords
by Howard Crouch
$39.95

2nd Edition
Limited to 750 copies!

 


The US Model 1861
Springfield Rifle-Musket 2nd Edition
by Daniel Hartzler, Larry Yantz  & James Whisker
The US Model 1861 Springfield Rifle-Musket as manufactured by the United States Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, and various private contractors.
This expanded edition has 660 B/W plus 90 more pages and a new
section of secondary martial arms including several that have never been published.
$50.00


Arming the Glorious Cause
Weapons of the Second War
for Independence
by Daniel Hartzler, Larry Yantz
 & James Whisker
A Photographic Study of Confederate Weapons
$44.95


Historic American Spurs
An Identification and Price Guide
A Study of All Types: Western, US Military, Confederate, Civilian, Patents, Racing
by Howard Crouch
$19.95 - Paperback


American Military Saddle,
1776-1945
$59.95


Confederate Saddles
& Horse Equipment
by Ken R. Knopp
$39.95 - OUT OF STOCK


The American Military Spur
by R. Stephen Dorsey
$26.95


Bridle Bits of the American Military,
1776 - 1945
by Kenneth L. McPheeters
& R. Stephen Dorsey
$21.95


Pictorial Encyclopedia of
Civil War Medical Instruments & Equipment Volume I
by Dr. Gordon Dammann
$9.95
- OUT OF STOCK


Pictorial Encyclopedia of
Civil War Medical Instruments & Equipment Volume II
by Dr. Gordon Dammann
$9.95
- OUT OF STOCK


Pictorial Encyclopedia of
Civil War Medical Instruments & Equipment Volume III
by Dr. Gordon Dammann
$9.95


Civil War Medicine 1861 - 1865
Illustrated Living History Series
by C. Keith Wilbur, MD
$14.95
- OUT OF STOCK


Indian-Rubber and Gutta Percha
in the Civil War Era
$39.95


Too Young To Die
Boy Soldiers of the Union Army 1861-1865
by Dennis M. Keesee
$35.00



Civil War Gentlemen
1860 Apparel Arts and Uniforms
by R.L. Shep & W.S. Salisbury
$24.95



Civil War Cooking
The Housekeeper's Encyclopedia
by Mrs. E.F. Haskell
$29.95


Antietam Then & Now
By George E. Adelman and Timothy H. Smith
Paperback - $9.95

Antietam by Frassanito
Antietam
The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day
by William A. Frassanito
Paperback - $16.95

Encyclopedia of the Confederacy
Complete 4 Volume Set
by Richard N. Current
$350.00

Voices of the Civil War: Shenandoah 1862
Time-Life Series 1997
$29.95
 

COMPLETE SET
Time Life Civil War

Time Life Civil War - Set
All 28 volumes - $475.00



    Time Life Civil War Series
    Individual Books for Sale
    $19.95 Each plus shipping

Battles for Atlanta

Gettysburg: the Confederate High Tide

Brother Against Brother ~ The War Begins

Lee Takes Command: From 7 Days to 2nd Bull Run

Confederate Ordeal: the Southern Home Front

Pursuit to Appomattox

Decoying the Yanks: Jackson's Valley Campaign

Spies, Scouts & Raiders: Irregular Operations

First Blood

Tenting Tonight

Forward to Richmond

The Blockade: Runners and Raiders

 




    Collectors Library of the Civil War
    Individual Titles for Sale
    $14.95 Each plus shipping

Campaigning with Grant
 by Horace Porter

Army Life in a Black Regiment
 by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
by George Alfred Townsend

Confederate Operations in
Canada and New York
by John W. Headley

Battlefields of the South:
From Bull Run to Fredericksburgh
 by English Combatant

 

 

Louis L'Amour Collection
Louis L'Amour Collectors Books
* Bound in brown simulated leather, with golden embossed lettering on the spine and cover

*A reproduction of Louis L'Amour's signature embossed into each front cover

$12.95 Each plus shipping

Bowdrie

Ride the River

The Day Breakers ~ 2 copies
1 copy has Gold Gilt Page Edges and previous owners name stamped inside first page

Sackett ~ 2 copies

Fallon

The Sackett Brand

Flint

Sacketts Land

Jubal Sackett

The Shadow Riders

Kiowa Trail

Shalako

Law of the Desert Born

Silver Canyon ~ Gold Gilt Page Edges

The Lonely Men

Son of a Wanted Man

Mojave Crossing

Under the Sweetwater Rim

Over on the Dry Side

Where the Long Grass Blows

Reilly's Luck

 

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