(024187) Beard, Ross E. Carbine: The Story of David Marshall Williams. Lexington, SC: Sandlapper Store, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 315 pages. Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper. DJ price- clipped. Williams, universally known as 'Carbine', has been compared with the likes of Colt and Browning in the field of weaponry, where he holds 52 patents. In 1921, the 20-year- old Williams operated a liquor still in the lowlands near Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was convicted of second- degree murder. In prison he worked on three revolutionary weapons which led to his being granted a fulll pardon in 1929 aftger serving eight years. (Williams, David M., Guns, Weaponry)