Ray Riling
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Raymond "Ray" Riling a Philadelphia builder and arms collector, was an important arms book collector, dealer, author and publisher from the 1940s into the 1970s.
Riling's annotated bibliography
Guns and Shooting, New York: Greenberg, 1951, although issued and reprinted (in 1982) in limited editions (of 1,500 and 500, respectively), remains in wide use as the standard reference in the out-of-print arms book trade. It contains over three thousand numbered and chronologically-arranged descriptions of books related to small arms
from the fifteenth century through 1950, as well as several other useful lists. Similarly, his Powder Flask Book (1953) is the standard reference in that collecting field. Riling's wife, Beatrice Davis Riling (1904-1962), collaborated on these two works.
The Ray Riling Arms Book Co. no longer remains in the mail order business.
Riling's annotated bibliography
Bibliography
Bibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...
Guns and Shooting, New York: Greenberg, 1951, although issued and reprinted (in 1982) in limited editions (of 1,500 and 500, respectively), remains in wide use as the standard reference in the out-of-print arms book trade. It contains over three thousand numbered and chronologically-arranged descriptions of books related to small arms
Small arms
Small arms is a term of art used by armed forces to denote infantry weapons an individual soldier may carry. The description is usually limited to revolvers, pistols, submachine guns, carbines, assault rifles, battle rifles, multiple barrel firearms, sniper rifles, squad automatic weapons, light...
from the fifteenth century through 1950, as well as several other useful lists. Similarly, his Powder Flask Book (1953) is the standard reference in that collecting field. Riling's wife, Beatrice Davis Riling (1904-1962), collaborated on these two works.
The Ray Riling Arms Book Co. no longer remains in the mail order business.