VERY Rare find from the library.

[Snow ninja]

My local library has an inter library program that you can request books from other libraries if it's not in stock at mine. Give them a dollar and they track down a book for you to rent and then once you're done, it goes back to the original library.

Asked for a copy of Unrepentant Sinner by Col. Charles Askins. Several days later, it was ready for pickup. Took it home and opened it up to start reading, and found a very surprising note written in front.





The only person that comes to mind is Rudy Etchen that passed away in 2001.

Imagine my surprise to find a signed and dedicated copy.

[JBinMN]

Very cool find!


Our library does that loaning books & such from other libraries as well. I think it is called, "SELCO" here, but that is a local acronym.

Anyway, enjoy the book & Thanks for sharing!

[MaryB]

Make an offer! Sometimes libraries will sell rarely checked out books!

[osteodoc08]

Very cool. Enjoy the read.

Amazing how many American pistoleros of the 20th century were border patrol agents, LEO, military. My hats of to all the fine gentleman serving our country past, present and future.

[jonp]

Nice. Our library does this for free. Inter library loans never cost a penny although I would have no problem pitching in a dollar to get something like that.
I'm with Mary. Make an offer for the book and see what happens. What a find

[Bazoo]

I got a signed and inscribed copy of When Alaska was Free by Knut Peterson off ebay on the cheap. Didn't know it was signed till I got it.

[Texas by God]

I would bet that book was Rudy Etchin’s signed copy! You did good.

[Peregrine]

I very much want to read the book, but it's been impossible to find around here. Eventually someone will digitize it I'm sure...

[Wayne Smith]

I have been using inter-library loans since I was in grad school, and I turned 66 last week. Not a new thing and, to my knowledge always available in public libraries.

[Bent Ramrod]

Col. Askins’ dad, Major Askins, was top notch game shot with a shotgun, and an expert on the guns themselves. For Col. Askins to even acknowledge another expert shotgunner is high praise indeed.

The last chapter in that book, on the Gun Editors, is a must-read. I used to have to submit my written material at work to an outside editorial group, and I fully sympathized with the Colonel’s position on the matter.

Jack O’Connor, in his Last Book, has a chapter on Gun Editors that comes to many of the same conclusions, and Jack was a Gun Editor himself.

[TCFAN]

I bought a copy of that book 30 or more years ago at a gun show.Mine is signed as well. It is a very good read..

[762 shooter]

I have used Inter library several times with great success.

The last time I tried to get " The Hunting Imperative" from inter library, the arses in Yew Nork wanted $20 to ship it to my library in South Carolina.

I can buy the book for $35.

762

[dale2242]

I went to an estate sale at the Hensley & Gibbs shop in Murphy a while back and found a copy of "Six Guns by Keith."
Elmer had signed it to/for Hensley & Gibbs....dale
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[salty dog]

What a great find. I'll be nobody has opened up their E-reader and found a hand written note.