The American Dissent: A Decade of American Conservatism.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by William Buckley, "For William B. Ruger Gratefully William F. Buckley." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The recipeint, William Batterman Ruger partnered with Alexander McCormick Sturm in 1949 to establish Sturm, Ruger & Company. Their first product was the Ruger Standard, the most popular .22 caliber target pistol ever made in the US. After Sturm’s death in 1951, and under Ruger’s continued leadership, the company produced one of the widest variety of firearms of any manufacturer in the world.