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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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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, London, 1938
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dowd, J.H. (illustrator). Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Popular edition, 83pp, delightfully illustrated by Dowd throughout. Jacket is tanned at spine and worn at edges with a 4cm tear to rear lower edge and a few marks to both front and rear. Printed cloth boards are a little rubbed at edges and bumped at corners. Endpapers tanned, page block foxed, plus some minor foxing to internal pages and previous owner's name penned to FEP. Contents are clean, text is clear and illustrations bright. AD. Used.
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.
Published by Published by Country Life Ltd., London Reprinted Edition . 1943., 1943
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hard back binding in publisher's original pale olive cloth covers, turquoise title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover with illustration of a child's head. 4to 11'' x 8½''. Contains printed pages of text with monochrome drawings throughout. Shallow rubs to the corners, a few tan age spots to the front end papers, small neat message to the top of the front free end paper 'Mummy - from Joy Xmas 1944' and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. DRAWING & CRAFTSMANSHIP.
Published by Country Life, 1941
Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, Tywyn, United Kingdom
Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VG copy overall clean looking boards. Pages are clean and binding tight. No previous ownership markings. 71 pp illustrated throughout.
Published by Country Life Ltd, 1947
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1947. Reprinted. 79 pages. No dust jacket. Grey illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Ownership plate stuck to front free endpaper. Minor tear to page 29-30. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Boards are bowed. Minor wear marks to boards.
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. Pub by Country Life, 1948. NOT exLib. VG+ cond. hardcover, no dj. Pale green cloth over bds w/ blue pict dec & lettering on cover & spine. Light bumping to upper right corner. Wonderful illustrations in b&w. 69pp. Square, straight, tight & clean, overall VG+ cond. We also have the companion volume, "Important People," & we'd be happy to combine postage. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Published by Country Life, London, 1948
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Book
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Spender, Brenda E (illustrator). Beautifully Illustrated book about the wonderful world of Children. Many Pen & Ink Illustrations by Brenda E. Spender and Pencil Drawings by J. H. Dowd. Includes Children with Animals and at the Fair. Buff cloth cover with Dark Blue Lettering, Portrait of a Child and Linear Border to front. Blue lines & Lettering to spine. 79 Pages, 11 1/4" Tall, 800g. 1948 Reprint of the Popular Edition. No inscriptions apart from a monogram on ffep. Jacket has some edgewear & chipping and a small piece missing at top of spine. Also a small area of surface damage near top left where an old price label has been removed (about 1/2") and a small closed edge tear. Unclipped, original price 12/6. Jacket protected in removable clear plastic wrapper. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.