9780234776094 - Great Fur Opera: Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1970 von Searle, Ronald; Dobbs, Kildare (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. McClelland and Stewart January 1970 Binding: Hardcover.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Gold embossed hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket is slightly scuffed and marked, and edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are a little bumped. Pages are clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Ronald Searle (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11.25 inches. 128 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrations. The DJ has some wear and soiling. From fur factories to chain stores -- a witty and irreverent glance at the three-hundred-year history of the Hudson's Bay Company, North America's oldest continuing commercial enterprise. Ronald William Fordham Searle CBE RDI (3 March 1920 - 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University). In WWII, he was taken prisoner. He was liberated in late 1945 with the final defeat of the Japanese. After the war, he served as a courtroom artist at the Nuremberg trials and later the Adolf Eichmann trial (1961). Searle designed the 1992 delegates medal for the FIDEM XXIII Congress London. It depicted a half-length bust of the renaissance medallist Pisanello and was struck by the Royal Mint. Other notable medals were "Searle at Seventy" (1990) and "Kwai 50th Anniversary" (1991), both struck by Thomas Fattorini Ltd, and "Charles Dickens" (1983) struck by the Birmingham Mint. His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. He was an early influence on John Lennon's drawing style which featured in the books In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs CM OOnt (10 October 1923 - 1 April 2013) was a Canadian short story and travel writer. He spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. After the war he worked in the British Colonial Service in Tanganyika. Dobbs came to Canada in 1952 and became a teacher, editor for Macmillan of Canada, managing editor of Saturday Night, and book editor of The Toronto Star Weekly. In 2000, he was awarded the Order of Ontario. In 2013, Dobbs received the Order of Canada from the Right Honourable David Johnston. The Hudson's Bay Company is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, it became the largest and oldest corporation in Canada, before evolving into a major fashion retailer, operating retail stores across both the United States and Canada. The company's namesake business division is Hudson's Bay, commonly referred to as The Bay. After incorporation by English royal charter in 1670, the company was granted a right of "sole trade and commerce" over an expansive area of land known as Rupert's Land, comprising much of the Hudson Bay drainage basin. This right effectively gave the company a commercial monopoly over that area. The HBC functioned as the de facto government in Rupert's Land for nearly 200 years until the HBC relinquished control of the land to Canada in 1869 as part of the Deed of Surrender, authorized by the Rupert's Land Act 1868. At its peak, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of the English- and later British-controlled North America. By the mid-19th century, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling a wide variety of products from furs to fine homeware in a small number of sales shops (as opposed to trading posts) across Canada. These shops were the first step towards the department stores the company owns today.