Swearengen, Thomas F.

Tear Gas Munitions: An Analysis of Commercial Riot Gas Guns, Tear Gas Projectiles, Grenades, Small Arms Ammunition, and Related Tear Gas Devices

Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, (1966). 1st Edition. Black & white photographs, diagrams. Full cloth. Quarto. xxvi, 569 pages.

INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Swearengen on front free endpaper. A detailed textbook for police on various non-lethal weapons available to maintain the public peace. Published at a time of increasing civil unrest in the 1960s, when it was also understood that "the use of firearms cannot be tolerated in dealing with civil disturbances.". Signed by Author.

Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Bound in rust colored cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Shallow bumps to lower fore corners of boards, hint of soil to jacket spine.

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