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UK: James Barrie. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Everything you ever wanted to know about the fur trade. Maroon boards with bright gilt titling to spine. In the original publishers' pictorial (b/w) dustjacket. Price Clipped. The dustjacket has been heavily repaired with masking tape to the edges, etc, by a former owner as there was originally chipping to edges of d/j, and some loss to the top of the spine, etc, - the masking tape overlaps to the front of the d/j but has been coloured to match and amazingly (in MY opinion) has actually improved the d/j. Top edge red. Slight light 'tanning' to the page fore-edges. No inscriptions, (ix) + 185 pp. Coloured frontispiece plus 15 black and white illustrations at the end of book. Hinges sound, internally, apart from a little light foxing to the endpapers, this is a Very Clean, tight and bright, and overall the whole book is Good Plus/VG. The contents include : - The Fur Trade; Furs Generally; Furs in… Read More

James Barrie, 1956. 1st edition. Hard covers. V.g./No Jacket. Owner's bookplate.

James Barrie, 1956. 185 pages. Frontispiece is illustrated with a full colour plate of an advertisement for mink. Illustrated at the end of the book with 15 pages of b/w photographic plates. Pages and endpapers white and clean. Endpaper lightly yellowed where dust jacket ends. Book is tight. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Conrer lightly bumped. Black and white pictorial dust jacket not price clipped. Edges lightly worn. VG+/Good. Hard Cover.

Paperback. Good. Some foxing/browning of pages, first edition 1956, clean copy Offered by the UK charity Langdon Supporting men & women with disabilities

1956. LINKS, J.G. THE BOOK OF FUR. [London]: James Barrie, 1956. 8vo., maroon cloth in dust jacket; 185 pages plus plates. Full-color frontispiece & 16 photographic illustrations. First Edition. Joseph Gluckstein Links was an art historian and son of the furrier Calman Links, where he worked in the business with his father. This title is considered one of the first books on furs for the amateur on the subject. Links was also director of the Hudson's Bay Company and president of the British Fur Trade Association. Signed presentation from Links on the front endpaper: "To Nika Cohn (Cole?), from his old friend and colleague, Jos. Links. April 1957." Near fine (covers bright, contents clean & tight); minor edgewear (some rubbing spine) d/j. $125.00.

James Barrie ., 1956-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. in x in x in. Hardback without dust cover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age.