first edition
1967 · New York
by Russell, Carl P.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and bright orange cloth covered boards with a gilt on green title block on the spine and a gilt stamped decoration on the front board. In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket with one inch closed tear to the upper edge of the rear panel. "A guide in picture and text to the equipment of the trappers and fur traders who opened the Old West from the 1820's to the 1840's." A small quarto measuring 9 1/4" by 6 1/4" containing 448 pages followed by an index. Illustrated throughout with more than 400 drawings and sketches of tools, weapons and implements used by the fur traders and mountain men of the era. (Inventory #: TB27723)