Collector Grade Publications

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founded in 1979

  • publishing important reference gun books

Collector Grade Publications Incorporated
P.O. Box 1046
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada

905-342-3434

About Collector Grade Publications

Collector Grade Publications is a Canadian publisher of in-depth reference books on modern military small arms, founded in 1979 by Toronto-born author and editor R. Blake Stevens. Its first title, North American FALs, grew out of Stevens’ research on Canada’s C1 service rifle, and the company went on to produce detailed histories of the FAL family, the M14, the M16, the Browning High Power, the Browning machine guns and the German MP43/MP44, among many others. Titles such as The Black Rifle, US Rifle M14 and Sturmgewehr! have become standard references for collectors, researchers and machine gun owners.

Collector Grade books are known for chronological layouts built from archival documents and factory records, heavy illustration, sewn bindings and hardcover library-quality construction. Over nearly forty years Stevens edited and produced more than sixty titles, twelve of which he wrote or co-wrote, often working with outside authors such as the late Smithsonian military historian Dr. Edward C. Ezell. Stevens died in April 2018 at age 80. For gun owners and 2A advocates, the catalog remains one of the most thorough documentary records of how modern service rifles and machine guns were designed, adopted and used.

Key Facts

  • 1974: Stevens publishes his first work, a pamphlet on the Canadian Inglis Hi-Power pistol, through another publisher.
  • 1979: Collector Grade Publications is founded, and North American FALs is its first title.
  • 2004: The company publishes Sturmgewehr!, Hans-Dieter Handrich’s history of the MP43/MP44.
  • April 22, 2018: Founder R. Blake Stevens dies at age 80, after editing more than sixty titles.

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