The first Ryrie Study Bible I bought was in 1997. It was a burgundy bonded leather edition It was a good bible, but I used it alot and eventually as bonded leather is prone to do, it started falling apart. It was then that I bought this bible off of Walmart.com in 2005. When I opened it I was amazed at how nice the leather was. This was easily the best leather I had ever seen on a mass produced bible.
Well there isn't much more to say about this than I did on an earlier post except the leather is par excellence. I don't know if Moody has changed the leather they use since 2005. If you want to be safe, buy an older edition off of eBay. Below I'll post some more photos.