Goddard, William H.:The Government Models The Development of the Colt Model of 1911
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Boston: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. Format is 7.75 inches by 10.75 inches. Volume I ONLY. xi, [1], 390 pages. Ma… Mehr…
Boston: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. Format is 7.75 inches by 10.75 inches. Volume I ONLY. xi, [1], 390 pages. Maps in pocket on back cover Cover has wear and soiling. Inside the front cover is stamped the following statement: This book is distributed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. It is the property of the society or organization to which it has been issued as provided by statute. It must not be appropriated by any individual member. This is the second volume in order of publication. The first published volume, The Gold Star Record of Massachusetts, is the companion volume to the present work and together they constitute the report of the Commission. There is also a statement on page "x" that "The Commission believes that it would require another volume as large as this to adequately describe the activities of the various civilian organizations, and an immense amount of research to gather and select the material which would be needed to compile such a work." The Commissioners also commented that these civilian organizations were significantly involved in the efficient handling of the influenza epidemic. It is not clear whether this latter effort was ever completed. The two publications which together constitute the Report of the Commission can, and should, be considered as individual and separate works. On April 6, 1917 after a series of provocations, America entered the war on the side of the Allies which included France, Italy, Great Britain and Russia. Massachusetts played a large role in the war effort. The 26th "Yankee" Division, made up largely of Massachusetts National Guard units, was the first full US Army division to deploy to France. The 26th fought in six campaigns. The Massachusetts National Guard also mobilized Company L, 372d Infantry Regiment composed of African American soldiers from Boston and Cambridge.Thousands of Army recruits were processed and trained at Camp Devens, while recruits for the Navy were processed through the Boston Naval Shipyard. Several dozen military installations and activities were established in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts State Guard, the state militia that replaced the National Guard serving in France, recruited women to serve as nurses marking the first time women served in the militia. Hundreds of factories in the state manufactured weapons, clothing, shoes, and equipment for both American and Allied armies. Large numbers of women entered the work force and, for the first time, women were allowed to enlist in the US Armed Forces. On the home front, individual citizens and voluntary associations supported the war effort by purchasing war bonds, collecting metal for reuse, planting gardens, and sending letters and parcels to troops overseas. World War I changed Massachusetts, the nation and the world. Rapid wartime social change brought political transformations such as the 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting alcohol, and the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. Despite not joining the League of Nations, the United States emerged as a world power, and the new maps of Europe and the Middle East drawn after the Armistice created issues that still resonate today. Over 189,000 Massachusetts men and women served in the US Armed Forces with some serving Allied forces during the war. Massachusetts paid a steep price with the death of 5,775 of its sons and daughters who died in service. After the war, hundreds of veterans died from their wounds or from exposure to gas., The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1931, 2.5, E-321a: Arms and Armour Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Arms and Armour Press, London, UK.. 1976. 216 pgs. Illustrated with over 300 b/w illus from photographs and drawings. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The full story of the Colts London Armoury, its five years of existence and details the revolvers he produced. Soon after establishing his Hartford factory, Colt set out to establish a factory in Europe and chose London. He organized a large display of his firearms at the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Hyde Park, London and ingratiated himself by presenting cased engraved Colt revolvers to such appropriate officials as Britain's Master General of the Ordnance. At one exhibit Colt disassembled ten guns and reassembled ten guns using different parts from different guns. As the world's leading proponent of mass production techniques, Colt went on to deliver a lecture on the subject to the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in London. The membership rewarded his efforts by awarding him the Silver Telford Medal. With help from ICE secretary, Charles Manby, Colt established his London operation near Vauxhall Bridge on the Thames River and began production on January 1, 1853. On a tour of the factory, Charles Dickens was so impressed with the facilities that he recorded his favorable comments of Colt's revolvers in an 1852 edition of Household Words. The factory's machines mass-produced its parts that were completely interchangeable and could be put together on assembly lines using standardized patterns and gauges by unskilled labor as opposed to England's top gun makers making each part by hand. Colt's London factory remained in operation for only four years. Unwilling to alter his open-top single-action design for the solid frame double-action revolver that the British asked for; Colt scarcely sold 23,000 revolvers to the British Army and Navy. In 1856 he closed the London plant and had the machinery, tooling, and unfinished guns shipped to Hartford. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 216 pages ., Arms and Armour Press, 1976, 3, Sony Music Canada Inc, 2016-05-27. Audio CD. New. Brand New, FACTORY SEALED, Sony Music Canada Inc, 2016-05-27, 6, Chicago, IL: The System Company, 1905. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has wear, soiling and some discoloration.. 156 p. Includes illustrations. Glossary. "In revising and rearranging the series of articles written for "System: so that they might be published in book form, the writer has endeavored to enlarge them sufficently to make the work complete, and to establish such a continuity and relation between them as to lead the reader on ins sequence, step by step, in such as way as not only to enable to but to cause him to gather a comprehensive understanding of the questions involved. This is an early work on modern industrial organization, which had an impact on the mobilization of war production during the First World War and subsequently. Woods' theory on factory organization, increased production and quality control. The author was trained at the Boston Institute of Technology and then worked with the Westinghouse Compnay, the Pope Manufacturing Company, the Pennsylvania Reaper Company, and--at time of publication, with INternational harvester Company., The System Company, 1905, 2.5, Edwynn Houk Gallery, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. SIGNED COPY New York: Distributed Art Publishers 2016. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. 128 pages with numerous black and white photographic images by Nick Brandt throughout. SIGNED by Nick Brandt to the bottom corner of the title page. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a tight clean copy in a Fine dust jacket with signs of slight shelf wear at edges and corners. Nice Copy! SIGNED Three years after the completion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged Land, Nick Brandt returned to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent's natural world and its animals. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs-showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras-placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands and quarries. The contemporary figures within the photographs seem oblivious to the presence of the panels and the animals represented in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Inherit the Dust includes this new body of panoramic photographs along with original portraits of the animals used in the panoramas, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. There are also two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa, and behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt's elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs., Edwynn Houk Gallery, 2015, 4.5, E-327: Andrew Mowbray Pub. Very Good. 1988. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Andrew Mowbray Pub, Lincoln, RI. 1988. 293 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The most authoritative source on the development of the world's most popular military pistol. Includes an illustrated description and analysis of all the variations, including rare factory models. A beautiful color section shows a wide selection of the most exciting Colt M1911s ever made. One hundred and ten pages of complete factory shipping records allow individual pistols to be researched by serial number! These records include all martial and thousands of commercial big frame Colt autos through the last Transition Government Model of 1924. Carefully designed for quick reference and distinctive appearance, Goddards "The Government Models" is a must for every enthusiast of Colts and military firearms. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 293 pages ., Andrew Mowbray Pub, 1988, 3<
