Trapping

Ist edition of 2nd printing. 1st edition,1st printing was in 1936. 234 pages with 12 illustration and 2maps. William Sherly ( Old Bill ) born during the American revolution was a child of the early frontier. He became a missionary to the Osage Indians and married an Osage girl. He was a master trapper and guide. He was a guide for the Sibley survey of the Santa Fe trail in 1865 and some years later was a guide for two Fremont expeditions. Old Bill along with Bridger, Carson, Meek, Glass and... Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 229 pages; Folding map present. Price clipped dust jacket with tape repair on reverse side and minor edgewear. .

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (1962), 1962. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [4], v-xv, [3], 3-234, [6] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine; green topstain. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with six plates, two maps, and a drawing on the title page. With an introduction by William Brandon. This book was first published in 1936 in North Carolina. A biography of a trapper, surveyor, and denizen of the American wilderness. Jacket... Read more about this item

London: Sampson, Lowe, et al.. FINE book. Cover lettering in brown & gilt. 8"x5", xii,194pp.. [1882]. Hardcover. FINE book. Flawless but for scuffed tips and frayed spine ends. NO OTHER FLAWS. Every other page with Murray decorations. . All three text block edges tinted a light green. Book stays tightly closed when stood on its spine. It's been read with care, if at all. .

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. new. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 234 pages, b&w illustrations. Light green top edge. Edge wear, light rubbing to dust jacket, spine faded. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 850764

A very good hardcover in a very good jacket. Clean and the binding is excellent. Drawings by Ron Pittard throughout. A complete guide to the successful use of traps and traplines, lures, baits and scents.

Paperback / softback. New.