Xiv,[2],403 pages, many plates, cloth, very good. The author was a Marine Corps officer, aeronautics engineer, gunsmith and writer. From the introduction: "The first edition of this book was published in 1940. The first revised edition was published in 1947. In this, the second revised edition, the values in the text itself have been left as they were in the 1947 edition in order to avoid the necessity of resetting the type for the whole book and making the price of the text prohibitive."

USMC UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS WEAPONS PISTOLS REVOLVERS RIFLES