FITZPATRICK, Kathleen. They Lived in County Down. London: Chatto and Windus. 1938. 8vo. Second impression of this revised edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in green to the spine, in the charming dust jacket designed by ‘E.B.S’. An excellent example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean and fine but for faint pencil signature to front endpaper. The dust jacket price-clipped, very gently bumped to extremities but a fine copy overall.
A smart example of this charming tale of four children growing up at Rowallan, an old house in the shadows of the Mourne Mountains in County Down, written about children, for adults. Originally published in 1905 by Methuen under the title The Weans of Rowallan, and was republished here ‘as the result of a publisher’s whim—he fell in love with one of the characters’. The reissue came in 1937; this is the second impression of 1938 of that reissue. Uncommon, especially in the jacket.
FITZPATRICK, Kathleen. They Lived in County Down. London: Chatto and Windus. 1938. 8vo. Second impression of this revised edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in green to the spine, in the charming dust jacket designed by ‘E.B.S’. An excellent example, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean and fine but for faint pencil signature to front endpaper. The dust jacket price-clipped, very gently bumped to extremities but a fine copy overall.
A smart example of this charming tale of four children growing up at Rowallan, an old house in the shadows of the Mourne Mountains in County Down, written about children, for adults. Originally published in 1905 by Methuen under the title The Weans of Rowallan, and was republished here ‘as the result of a publisher’s whim—he fell in love with one of the characters’. The reissue came in 1937; this is the second impression of 1938 of that reissue. Uncommon, especially in the jacket.
