More Bobbed Wire

Title: More Bobbed Wire

Author: Glover, Jack

Publication: Sunset, Texas: [Jack Glover], 1967.

Description: First edition of this guide to barbed wire by the barbed wire expert Jack Glover (1924-2015). Includes black-and-white illustrations of almost 300 barbed wire specimens and almost 60 fencing tools. In stapled cream pictorial card wrappers, printed in brown. 9 x 6 inches; 108 unnumbered pages. Laid in is an advertisement for barbed wire specimens from Wire Sales of Bakersfield, California.

Moderate soiling to wrappers and text edges, sunned spine, penned price marking on the front wrapper, and collector's annotations in the text. Good+ or better.

Jack Glover was a collector of the Old West, an artist, a writer, and a bronze sculptor. "More Bobbed Wire" was an expansion of Glover's first guide, titled "Bobbed Wire." In the preface, Glover emphasizes that the illustrations are based on actual samples from barbed wire collections, not from patent filings. Subsequent publications included eleven editions of "Bobbed Wire Bible." For many years, Glover also operated the Cowboy Museum, which contained items from his Old West collection.