Derrydale Press
Pages: 408
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Trim: 7 x 10½
978-1-58667-138-9 • Paperback • June 2016 • $39.95 • (£30.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
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A former English professor and Shakespearean scholar, Michael McIntosh was also widely known as one of the best-known gun and sporting writers in the world. His writings appeared in numerous shooting and gun-dog magazines and he wrote more than a dozen books, including Best Guns, Wild Things, Robert Ruark’s Africa, and Shotguns and Shooting. He died in 2010.
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. On the Cusp
2. Fox Gun Company, Baltimore
3. Matters of the Heart: Fentress
4. Pigeons in the Park
5. Philadelphia Arms
6. A Difficult Birth
7. A Gun for Teddy, Guns for the Grand
8. New Guns, New Men
9. Matters of the Heart: Ellen
10. "The Most Perfectly Proportioned Small-Gauge Gun"
11. Over Here, Over There
12. Triggers, Accolades & Flare Guns
13. Singular Guns
14. "The Finest Car in the World"
15. Super-Fox
16. El Dorado & the Grail
17. Pleasure Palace, House of Cards
18. Quiet Days in Pleasantville
19. Savage Years
20. Specials & Oddments
21. Matters of the Heart: Velma
22. Sunset and Evening Bell
Appendix I: The Paper Trail
Appendix II: Chronology
Appendix III: Grades & Models by Year
Appendix IV: Sources
Appendix V: The Fox Gun Reborn
Index