Economics of Fashion by Paul H. Nystrom - 1928

E-063: Ronald Press. Good. 1938. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Ronald Press Company, New York, 1928. 521 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Front hinge repaired. An exhaustive treatment of the history of fashion and more specifically the nitty gritty of manufacture, design, sizing marketing etc. Includes numerous sizing tables, photographs and facsimiles of fashion styles in various historical period. Also includes an extensive bibliography and index. "Fashion is one of the greatest forces in present-day life. It pervades every field and reaches every class. … It has always been a factor in human life but never more forceful, never more influential and never wider in scope than in the last decade, and it gives every indication of growing still more… Read More

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth. xiii, 521 pp. One hundred forty-seven illustrations, thirty-nine tables. Spine shaken and darkened, rubbing to extremities, some light spotting and soiling to boards. Some scuffing to edges of text block. Rear hinge cracked.

Ronald Press, 1938. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. signed. Signed by Author(s)inscribed by the author "to the? memories of a pleasant year at? columbia university. Paul H Nystrom may 21, 1941 new york city".the jacket is shelf rubbed and edge worn. the book has no other inscriptions and the binding is excellent. a small bookseller sticker on the front end page.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

ECONOMICS OF FASHION, Ronald Press Company, 1928, first edition, spine ever so slightly tanned, else a tight vg+ copy of this landmark volume in the genre. Replete with illustrations, charts, graphs, photos, etc.