Whipped Cream Difficulties

I’m still a little behind documenting recent acquisitions, but I should be caught up in a week or two. Just in time for a new batch.

I thought I’d document some books I bought new. Not ABE purchases: those will be the next post.

After the jump…

Winchester Commemoratives and Winchester Commemoratives Volume II by Tom Trolard. I wrote a little about these books after our last Tulsa trip, and finally made the purchase. Mr. Trolard successfully (as far as I know) documented every Winchester commemorative rifle in every variant from 1964 (when Winchester produced the first one) through 2006 (when the Winchester plant in New Haven closed up shop).

The pages for the most part (except for some preface material in the front) consist of a two-page spread showing an exemplar of the gun in question and providing production information. For example (I think this counts as fair use) here’s the pages on the Texas Ranger Commemorative.

Mr. Trolard died in 2007. Volume II was completed by his family and published in 2009.

These are pretty lavish books. It isn’t cheap to publish an entire book of color photographs.

I don’t own any Winchester commemoratives (yet). But the photos are pretty to look at, and the books are worth having around to settle questions about a specific one you might run into at the fun show.

Should you buy them? As I said, they ain’t cheap. I paid $200 for the set. Only you can really judge: are you that interested in this esoteric area of collecting? I guess I am. If you’re that person, comminvest94 (at) yahoo.com. He’s a nice guy and ships fast.

U.S. Handguns of World War II: The Secondary Pistols and Revolvers, Charles W. Pate (affiliate link).

Charles Pate is a respected collector and expert. In this book, he documents all the guns that were not the 1911 that were used in WWII. There’s a pretty bewildering array of them: the S&W Victory Model and Model of 1917, the Colt .38 Super, and even some High Standard and H&R pistols and revolvers.

Bought new from Amazon because I figured it would be a valuable reference. Also, I have something in the works that’s covered in this book.

(Sorry, Bones. I don’t have it yet. When I get it off layway, I promise you there will be a post here.)

Next time: some older historically significant books. Including (I hear you sighing out there) another Samworth.

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