can anyone suggest some books with pics.

[Craig Tx]

I use Alibris Books http://www.alibris.com/  alot.

They carry both new and used.

You can also find out of print books as well.


Craig

[tall bear]

I have bought a ton of books from Abe books.Most of what i've bought are used and out of print.They usually have a broad range of prices which is nice since I'm not a book collector just need the reference material.

Mitch

[Mike R]

For early guns [rifles] the already mentioned Shumway's RCA v1&2 is the standard.  Also mentioned, the Grinslade book on fowlers. You might also consider the new book "Of Sorts for Provincials" which has alot of military & militia/civilian  guns from the F&I War period [mid 1750s-60s]--and Ahearn's book on Muskets of the Revolution--which includes alot of earlier pieces.  Hamilton's of Colonial Frontier Guns shows trade guns of the early period [17th -mid 18th cent].

[James Kelly]

abe may have 4 or a dozen different prices for the same thing, each from a different dealer.
I found out the expensive way that it is good to search for the book by name.
Example--you look up key word "Kentucky Rifles" and find one book you want out of maybe 30 or 100 listed.
Next step is to repeat the search, but this time search for the specific title of that book.
This time there might be more choice of bookstores, hence prices, for that specific book.
May not entirely make sense but that's the way it is.  
I don't know how any site could have better prices than abe, as they have so very many different dealers selling thru them.
I also use abaa.org, Antiquarian Book Dealers. More limited selection but sometimes a slightly different selection.

[ridjrunr]

James,Thanx for the input.I've looked at abe and it looks pretty good.I see what you mean aboout checkin both ways.   ridjrunr