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Published by Country Life Limited, 1948
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1948. Reprinted. 69 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Previous owner's inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends with splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Staining to both boards.
Published by Country Life, London, 1936
Seller: Joy Norfolk, Deez Books, IPSWICH, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. J H Dowd (illustrator). 74pp. With 84 charming pencil drawings and descriptions. This is the October 1936 Popular edition. In clean and sound condition but missing its dust wrapper. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. 9"x11.5" 74 p. Book.
Published by Country Life Limited, 1942
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 9th impression. Boards have light fading. Hinges are a little cracked. Content is clean and bright. No DJ.
Published by Country Life Ltd., 1941
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Boards are worn and marked.minor markings.tightly bound. good copy. Reprint.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.[Restored]22-11-2019. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Country Life Limited, London, 1932
Seller: Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative, Clevedon, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. J. H. Dowd (illustrator). 1st Edition. In yellow cloth boards with blue and black lettering and illustration on front and spine. Spine is faded. Corners bumped and scuffed, spine crushed and torn at top and bottom (about 1 cm). Boards quite marked. Inscriptions on front endpapers. Small amount of tanning to endpapers and prelims. Some foxing to rear endpapers. Text is clean. Binding fairly tight. Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings. No dust jacket.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941
Seller: Ystwyth Books, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 5th or later Edition. Good copy. Cloth cover a little foxed at edge. No inscriptions.
Published by Country Life Ltd, 1934
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. General shelf/age wear, peeling and fading to backstrip. Pages clean, NO foxing or markings, binding sturdy.
Publication Date: 1948
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
1948, London, Country Life Ltd., 4to, reprint, ppx + 79, black and white illustrations, pictorial grey cloth in dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is torn and mended around edges, otherwise good.
Published by Country Life, 1948
Seller: Tilly's Bookshop, Haydock, MER, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dust jacket shows age related nicks, creasing and minor tears to edges, in a clear protective wrapper, price clipped, 69pp text + 79pp drawings,
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933
Seller: Ed's Editions LLC, ABAA, West Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. popular edition. Popular edition from September 1933.No dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards are very faded and have moderate soiling and rubbing, and extensive silverfishing on spine. Front boards is slightly bowed. Binding is good. Page edges have dark spot stains and toning.Pages are unmarked, with toning, and some age-related dark spots here and there. A few pages have creased corners. 78 pages. LO.
Country Life, 1948, tela, 29x23, 69 pp. Book.
Published by Country Life Limited, 1949
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within south Africa. 2nd edition. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, marked and edge worn. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, there is a previous owners signature on the front end page. Clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*07/09/2022. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Edisud/ Eddif, London, 1937
Seller: Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative, Clevedon, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition and printing. In good bright green cloth boards, dark titles to front and gilt titles to spine. The boards are a little loose and with slight collapsed hollow; unmarked; spine ends and corners bumped. Lightly tanned end papers; fairly clean cut edges. ?he text block is straight; quite tightly bound and unmarked - very good plus - and features b/w and colour sketches and drawings. No dedications etc. Without jacket.
Reprint (hardback). 4to (28cm by 22cm), xi, 72pp. 83 b&w plates by J H Dowd. Original grey/green cloth. Slight spotting to the endpapers and the edges of the text block, gift inscription to the front free endpaper; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.
Reprint (hardback). 4to (28cm by 22cm), xi, 72pp. 83 b&w plates by J H Dowd. Original grey/green cloth. There are a couple of minor marks to the binding, and light foxing to the edge of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.
Published by Country Life, 1948
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1948. Reprinted. 79 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Dowd. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards with minimal shelf wear. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing.
Published by Country Life, New York, 1938
Seller: Books & Bygones, Reading, United Kingdom
Book
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Dowd, J.H (illustrator). Reprint. Text 73 pages. Plates 73-76 detached. Torn page on 12, no loss. No plate 25,36,47, 57, is written 51 and 589 not written in at all Ends at 83. therefore sold as such.
Published by Country Life, London, 1947
Seller: Stephen Dadd, Ashford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. J. H. Dowd (illustrator). Reprint. 70pp. HARDCOVER Sml. gift inscription to ffep. Light foxing to prelims. O/w very clean internally. Strong binding. Very clean external cloth. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. **A smart copy. Size: 4to - over 93/4" - 12" tall. Book.
Published by Country Life Limited., 1943
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1943. Reprint. 72 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Slight staining to front board. Wear marks overall.
Published by London: Country Life, 1938
Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dowd, J. H. [and] Brenda E. Spender. People of importance. Popular edition, reprinted. London: Country Life, 1938. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Beige cloth, bumped with a few surface marks. Blue frame, illustration and lettering. Boards slightly bowed. Binding strong. Front pastedown has ownership signature and stamped address. Decorated title page. 83pp., b/w illustrations throughout. Ownership address stamp on rear pastedown also. Contents clean and bright. James Henry Dowd was born in 1884. He worked as a draughtsman, etcher and painter. Dowd was a regular contributor to the The Daily Graphic and in 1906 began to have his work published in Punch Magazine. As Mark Bryant points out: "He (Dowd) was also the magazine's first illustrator of film criticism, continuing in this post for more than three decades and also drew theatre caricatures." Dowd also produced drawings for The Bystander and The Strand Magazine. He also designed posters for London General Omnibus Company and London Underground Electric Railways. According to one critic he was "one of the early pioneers of the vital expressive line that seems to be part of the subject, instead of merely illustrating it." Dowd provided the drawings for several books including the highly acclaimed Important People (1930) and People of Importance (1934). James H. Dowd died in Epsom on 16th March 1956. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.
Published by Country Life Limited, London, 1936
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Brenda E. Spender (illustrator). Reprint. (4) V (1) the pagination is somewhat erratic -- 17 pages of text at the beginning which is an introduction by Brenda E. Spender, then the rest of the book is pages of illustration of children doing various things and small stories about small people as text at the rear of the book are various empty pages for own sketches and own notations about their own special people. The text is illustrated with copious black-and-white illustrations by both the author and Brenda E. Spender. Yellow coloured cloth covered boards with blue coloured illustration and blue coloured embossed titles and decoration to the front panel and blue titles to the backstrip. A book about children, that was first published in 1930, that delights in the special world of children. Bumping and rubbing of the back strip edges and book corners. Sunning and marking of the back strip; with, stains and marks to the book panels  particularly the rear panel. Age toning of the text block edges and pages with light scattered foxing throughout. Offset tanning to the end pages. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Brenda E. Spender. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 0290076.
Published by Country Life Ltd; Charles Scribner's Sons, London; New York, 1936
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
First Edition
grey/green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. J H Dowd (illustrator). Popular Edition. By the authors of Important People First published October 1934, popular edition published October 1936, xi, 72pp interspersed with 83 pages of black & white drawings, some spotting to endpapers, occasional spotting internally, ink gift inscription dated 1938 to inner endpaper, grey/green cloth with blue lettering to spine and blue lettering and illustration to upper board, some small stains to boards, no dust jacket. Size: Quarto. Illustrated.
Published by Country Life Ltd & Scribners, London & New York, 1945
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pen Sketches By Brenda E. Spender. Pencil Drawings By James H. Dowd (illustrator). Reprint. LONDON : 1945. [ First published in 1930.]. Hardback. Illustrated; pen sketches by Brenda E. Spender, and pencil drawings by the author. Original pale yellow cloth; spine & cover dark blue lettered. No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. Minor wear and dulling. GOOD. 78 pages, plus 76 illustrated leaves. Plus blank pages: "For your sketches in pen or pencil" [p. 67-69] "Some sayings of more important people" [p. 71-72] "Notable events in the lives of your most important people" [p. 73] "Friends of importance to important people" [p. 78]. **Lg. heavy book - extra postage required. Folio; approx. 12 x 10 inches. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, C.H.S., Cumberland, D.L.S. Everyman, G. K. C., Keswick, Inklings, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Published by Country Life Books, London, 1947
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. J.H. Dowd (illustrator). Torn jacket in poor condition.
Published by Country Life Limited, 1935
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Cover is faded and worn, mainly around the spine and corners.
Published by Country Life Ltd, 1938
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Signed
Condition: Good. 1938. Reprinted. 72 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Grey cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Signed by the author with dedication to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.
Published by COUNTRY LIFE, LONDON, 1947
Seller: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. BRENDA E. SPENDER (illustrator). THE BOARDS ARE LIGHTLY RUBBED AND THE CORNERS ARE BUMPED. THE FFEP HAS A PRESENTATION CARD TO IT. THERE IS LIGHT TO MILD FOXING THROUGHOUT. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.
Published by Country Life and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936
Seller: Deja Vu Books, Poplar Grove, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. Dowd, J. H. (illustrator). 1st Popular Edition. Gray hardcover binding with green imprint of child's face and title on front - clean, square and tight. DJ has some shelfwear but protected from further damage in clean Brodart jacket. Front flap bottom corner clipped, but not price-clipped - $3.00 on flap. Beautifully illustrated in b/w throughout - two pages are stiffer paper, darker background as published. 83 pages. This is a book not only about children but it IS children - different children doing different things in different circumstances. Follows the book Important People first issued in 1931, this volume contains many drawings chosen from Dowd's sketch books.
Published by Country Life Limited, London, 1938
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pencil drawings by J.H. Dowd (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Firmly bound, illustrated green cloth boards. Small scuffing and dust spotting on the spine. Foxing on closed page edges. Marks on some pages inside. No jacket. Second printing of the 1936 Popular Edition.
Published by London, Country Life / New York, Charles Scribner, 1934
Seller: Pallas Books Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, Netherlands
halfcloth, 4to 72 pp. text, 83 plates short texts with drawings; good condition.