I saw a first edition of Big Game Rifles and Cartridges sell for $300 a few years ago. It is definitely out of the "Friends of the Library" league.
In the late 1980s, I was helping a friend set up a display at a Safari Club show in Reno. A woman showed up with a large rented truck. She unloaded 2 overstuffed leather couches and a couple of easy chairs, a couple of glass-fronted bookcases and a coffee table. Then she filled the bookcases with good editions of a great many gun & hunting books. When the show started, she was there in a classy tweed suit, selling books to the footsore attendees. I bought a copy of John Taylor's "African Rifles and Cartridges" and a copy of Naramore's "Principles and Practices of Loading Ammunition". It sure looked like she knew her customers and her specialty niche. Is she still in business?
