8vo. xx, [1], 201pp. With photographic frontispiece of Eliphalet Remington, The Boy Gun Maker. Original publisher's pictorial cloth. Lightly rubbed. Internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of a guide to gunmanship, intended for a juvenile readership, by American experimenter Archie Frederick Collins (1869-1952). Known for his interest in radio and wireless telephony, Collins produced over 100 books on technical subjects, among them The Boy Scientist (1925), The Book of Wireless Telegraph and Telephone (1922), and The Radio Amateur's Handbook (1922).