John c downie (15 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair condition with scotch tape to edge of front cover, and rear cover- repairing an edge tear, spine completely covered with tape going an inch over front and rear covers. Covers are lightly toned. Page are toned, small tears to pages at binding staple. See photos whb15E. …

Condizione: Good. 1936. First Edition. 213 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout and colour frontispiece by author. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional moderate marks and staining. Book has slight forward lean.…

Condizione: Good. Book has a lean with some wear to boards. Slight toning to ppages with spotting. DJ has tears/loss to edges with tape repairs.

Condizione: Good. 1936. First Edition. 213 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth and gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Binding remains firm.Pages & plates remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped jacket. Jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 213 pp colour frontispiece, 6 bw plates, blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Spine darkened, cloth a little rubbed and marked, inscription to ffep - sound reading copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket (as issued). 1st Edition. 68p illustrated. Clean, unmarked and in fine condition. See Scans.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Magazine. Octavo. [21]pp. Tied wrappers. Fine. Contributors include John Fuller, Lawrence Sail, Andrew Waterman, Michael Schmidt, C.H. Sisson, George Szirtes, Christopher Pilling, Peter Scupham, Joan Downar, John Mole, Anthony Thwaite, Katherine Middleton, Freda Downie, David Day, and Jenny Joseph.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book measures 22x14cm, Bound in original publishers wrapper. Binding in near fine condition, internally pages clean, A very good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. 1st Edition. Assumed first edition, copyright date 1935, no date to title page. Front panel of wrapper present, rubbed, chipped and sunned with darkened edges. Boards rubbed and marked, ink inscription to front free endpaper, prelims lightly foxed, front joint cracked at half title page. Clean throughout. Good. JOHN C. DOWNIE (illustratore). Book.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 70pp, bw illus, a couple of slight scuff marks to the front cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. Good+ condition (DJ). Reprint edition. 10 pages of introduction plus 213 pages of text, followed by 16 pages of publishers advertisements. Hardcover cloth binding, slightly soiled and worn. Pictorial dustjacket slightly chipped and worn at extremities; protected in archival mylar. Contains a color frontisportrait and numerous black & white plates, illustrated by John C. Downie. July 1937 reprint of the 1936 First Edition. Lightly foxed on page edges. Ranching, Cattle, Sheep, Australia, Farming. Size: Octavo (8vo). Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression, undated but published 1936. Some edge wear, chipping, creasing and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners and folds rubbed with small loss, small biro scribble to front jacket, some overall rubbing and time staining, but overall jacket bright and unsunned. Some slight spotting and yellowing to page block, not price clipped (6s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 255pp, illustrated. A thrilling story for young adults of murder and treasure hunting in the Australian outback. Very little seems to be known about Australian author James M. Downie and his brother the illustrator John C. Downie. Jacket and illustrations by John C. Downie (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 8vo, pp,70, illustrated, pictorial art card covers.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), unpaginated [24]. Publisher's stiff card wraps printed in red to upper, sewn. Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. title page undated, published in 1936 this is the First Edition of this account of Australian Cowboys, covering cattle musters, rodeos, cattle drives in the outback, breaking in horses, etc, this example retains its pictorial dustjacket, just over 8 inches tall 213 pages, with illustrations by the author, the jacket has some signs of wear with closed tears, creases and some mild loss, the reverse of the jacket has been strengthened from rear with gummed brown paper, internally there is heavy foxing on and off throughout, foxing to outer page edges, part of the printing information on the reverse of the title page has been crossed out for some reason (see picture) else in acceptable condition.…