Collectible - Very Good First Edition Signed With Dust Jacket

SIGNED! NY: Stackpole and Heck 1949. 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 184 pgs. B/w plates and illustrations. Signed 'Regards from the author. Dick Simmons', no recipient name. Very good in a good dust jacket. Slight musty odor to interior. Contents clean and binding sound. Laid in is a 'guns' bookplate, no name on it and not affixed. Jacket is chipped at spine ends and there is a 3 1/2 inch tear to top of rear panel. Light foxing to jacket. Inquire if you need further information.