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Serious Business by B E Spender - 1937

by B E Spender

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Serious Business by B E Spender - 1937

Serious Business

by B E Spender

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  • Hardcover
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Country Life, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1937. First Edition. 150 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated by J H Dowd. Includes illustrated plates. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Plates are clean with minor thumbing and foxing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards are very heavily sunned. Apart from this, they have some moderate edge wear, with moderate bumping and fraying to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Spine is even more sunned than the rest.
  • Bookseller World of Rare Books GB (GB)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Country Life
  • Date Published 1937

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Serious Business

by B. E. Spender

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  • Hardcover
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Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
First edition
Binding
Hardcover
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1
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Rooke Books
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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London: Country Life Limited, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 11" by 8.5". J. H. Dowd. A fine first edition of this charming work by James Dowd and Brenda Spender, reminiscing on childhood through a series of colourful watercolours. The first edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper, uncommon to see in such a nice condition.Illustrated with a colour title page, and many beautiful colour and monochrome illustrations throughout.Collated, complete. A charming and sentimental look at the serious business of childhood, with beautiful watercolour plates throughout depicting serious scenes at the seaside, parks, skating rinks, dancing academies, and more. Brenda Spender contributes a total of nine essays to this volume to accompany Dowd's illustrations.Illustrated by James H. Dowd.Advert for other Dowd and Spender books loosely inserted. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Small mark to the spine. Dust wrapper is smart… Read More
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