Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$216.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardback, large heavy 4to, later green cloth binding with gilt title on brown leather label to spine, later endpapers, all edges speckled, no jacket, a very good tightly bound copy, some tiny pencil tick marks to margin in a very light and easily erasable hand, b&w illustrations throughout, 694pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good clean tight copy. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.
Seller: 3rd St. Books, Springfield, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hundreds of black and white photographs; two book plates of previous owner on front free end page.
Seller: Charles Bartman, Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 694 Absolutely the best encyclopedia of all types of arms & armor. I've made more money from this book than any other. good, ex-library, first edition
Seller: Antiques & Art, Piedmont, SD, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, all edges red. Profusely illustrated with 875 photo-engravings illustrating over 3500 different kinds of weapons. 700 pages describing over 10,000 different kinds of arms and armor. This book, widely considered the classic book in the field, is an indispensable resource and reference tool for anyone interested in arms and armor. To describe the worldwide range and variety of weaponry, Stone drew upon the more than 4,000 items in his private collection of Eastern arms and armor, as well as the European arms collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a variety of other sources. This "glossary" format makes it easy for anyone to locate material on the astonishing variety of weapons covered. . Gilt on spine mildly faded, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. . B&W Illustrations. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (viii), 694 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Large quarto. 694 pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Very near fine. A detailed reference for both European and Asian arms and armor.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: One of 35 Deluxe Bound Copies, #6. Illustrated. 694 pp. 1 vols. Large 4to. ONE OF 35. Bound in full black morocco, gilt stamped central medallion of helmet on upper cover, t.e. g., fine Illustrated. 694 pp. 1 vols. Large 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/35. Bound in publisher's deluxe gold-stamped leather, protected by mylar jacket. Top-edge gilt. Frontispiece. Elaborate publication, profusely illustrated with b/w photographic reproductions of arms & armor of various countries. Illustrations are from the author's own photographs and drawings, museums and some books. In alphabetical order. Includes bibliography. Minor age wear, scuffing and staining on binding. Tail of spine and corners rubbed. Small part on bottom edge and inner fold of mylar missing. Slight age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Tight copy with binding in overall very good, interior in near fine condition. 1 of a limited edition of 35, bound in the exquisite publisher's trade deluxe binding. Scarce.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.