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A FLASK OF SEA WATER. Illustrated by Laszlo Gal.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Oxford, 1989. Quarto, pale blue boards. [32] pp. Light erasure to upper outer corner of front free endpaper; minute rubbing to spine tips, outer corners; else fine in fine jacket. A fairy tale by the noted Canadian poet / artist (as P.K. Irwin), with good colour illustrations by an internationally acclaimed Canadian illustrator. 0195407040.
Book ID: 6650More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
A FLASK OF SEA WATER. Illustrated by Laszlo Gal.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Oxford, 1989. Quarto, pale blue boards. [32] pp. Advance copy for review, with rubber stamp on front free endpaper. Fine in fine jacket. A fairy tale by the noted Canadian poet / artist (as P.K. Irwin), with good colour illustrations by an internationally acclaimed Canadian illustrator. 0195407040.
Book ID: 42910More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A SPIDER DANCED A COSY JIG. Illustrated by Milo Malish. Edited by Elspeth Cameron
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Stoddart, 1984. Octavo, glossy illustrated boards without jacket, as issued. pp [32], unpaged. Colour illustrations. Ink gift inscription, else fine. Poetry for children.
Book ID: 51381More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ADVENTURE AT MOON BAY TOWERS. Illustrated by Patricia Cupples
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1974. Pictorial boards without jacket, as issued. 32 pages. Ex library, with rubber stamp on title page crossed out in ink, pouch removed at rear, otherwise mainly fine. A scarce juvenile by the noted Canadian literary writer.Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 44359More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
AFAR IN THE FOREST; or, pictures of life and scenery in the wilds of Canada. By Mrs.Traill
Book ID: 43707More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
ANDREW TOLLIVER. Illustrated by Lewis Parker
Toronto: Macmillan, c1965. Unindicated ater printing. 16mo, lime green boards. pp (10), 105, [5]. Large 1980 ink gift inscription at front, text paper a little toned as always, else fine. Near fine jacket has mild rubbing, tiny nicks. Buckskin Books 11. A novel for young people, the late Canadian literary author's first book. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 47048More details Price: USD $17.50 USD $15.75 -
BASHFUL BOB AND DOLEFUL DORINDA. Illustrated by Dusan Petricic
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Key Porter, 2004. Oblong octavo, glossy colour pictorial boards. pp [32]. Excellent colour illustrations. A fine, jacketless copy.
Book ID: 46875More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
BESIDE A NORMAN TOWER. With illustrations by A.H. Watson
Boston: Little, Brown. Second printing, Nov., 1934, same month as first. Blue illustrated cloth stamped in black, lettered in light green. pp (xii), 247. Vignette and full page line drawings in text. Spine a bit sunned; light foxing to endpapers; yellowing and slight foxing to page edges; else a VG+ unworn copy, no owner names. Jacket has small chips at head of lightly yellowed spine, all flap corners clipped; small chips and tears to panels; VG otherwise, still attractive in appearance. A children's story set in England.
Book ID: 42728More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
COLD ADVENTURE. Illustration and cover design by Merle smith
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Copp Clark, 1959. Light blue cloth. pp (6), 168, [2]. Fine copy. Dust jacket has nicks to ends of lightly yellowed spine, small rubbed tears to ends of flap folds, VG otherwise. A novel for teenagers about ice fishing on Lake Winnipeg by a Winnipeg author of Icelandic descent whose father was a lake fisherman in Gimli. Watters p.315. Good illustrations.
Book ID: 44362More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
COT AND CRADLE STORIES. Edited by Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 42861More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
DEWDROPS
Edition: First Edition
New York: Carlton Press, 1981. Beige cloth. 63 pp. Fine copy, signed by the author, in fine jacket. Stories for children by this German- Canadian author. Uncommon vanity press publication. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Octavo.; Signed by Author 0806216832
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Book ID: 22772More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
DICK KENT, FUR TRADER
Akon, Ohio: Saalfield, c1927. Brown boards. pp (2), 223, [7]. Frontispiece illustration. Pulpy text paper yellowed as always, ink gift inscription and small thin spot from erasure at front, else fine. Dust jacket has small chips and tears, VG otherwise, attactive. The fifth Dick Kent Mountie yarn for young readers, set in the frozen north. Northland Series. Saalfield 3341. ; Octavo
Book ID: 44774More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
Fanfan, Joujou et Compagnie
Edition: First printing
Montréal: Librairie Granger frére, 1945. Card covers, pp (80). Text paper tanned, else fine. A book for younger readers, a volume in the Bibliothèque de la Jeuness Canadienne series.. This was Canadian scholar and frequent reviewer of French-Canadian literature W.E. Collin's copy. It has his catalogue card laid in. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47543More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
FIFE AND DRUM AT LOUISBOURG. Illustrated by Clyde O. De Land
Toronto: Musson, 1899. Beige pictorial cloth, front cover stamped in red and black, spine in gilt, top edges gilt. pp (8), 307 + frontispiece with tissue guard and three other b&w plates. Spine lightly darkened; Xmas, 1916, ink gift inscription at front; bit of foxing to leaves adjacent to the plates and occasional mild text soiling; in all still a VG unworn copy of this historical adventure novel for boys by a Nova Scotia author. A later Canadian issue made from plates of the Boston: Little, Brown, 1899, first edition, as was the 1899 Morang first Canadian issue. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54817More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
FLIGHT COMMANDER STORK and Other Verses. With Illustrations by E.A. Kerr
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Macmillan, 1925. Red linen grain pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, illustrated endpapers. pp (8), 48 + 4 colour plates; numerous line drawings in text. Small light spot on rear cover, light tanning to pp 14-15, else VG+ clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. A scarce volume of verse for children by this Canadian author. Nice illustrations.; Octavo
Book ID: 28474More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
FLY BY NIGHT. Pictures by Maurice Sendak.
Edition: First printing
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. Octavo, pp viii, 31. Grey cloth. Light yellowing to inner margins of endpapers, else fine. Dust jacket has nicks at head of spine, short red marks to lower rear panel, else fine, flap price intact.The poet's last book for children, a prose piece. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Book ID: 43261More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
FOOD FOR THE EAGLE. Study Material by Jennifer Harvey.
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Thomas Nelson, 1970. Inscribed by Author.; Cream pictorial boards printed in black, lettered in green. (viii), 152 pp. Illustrations by Michael van Elsen. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in a large black ink calligraphic script to the front free endpaper. Soft vertical crease to front free endpaper and first few leaves, else fine, without jacket (as issued, I believe). A novel of the Vikings published for use in Canadian schools.; Octavo; Signed by Author.
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 15487More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
FOR THE OTHER BOY'S SAKE & other stories
Edition: First Edition
Philadelphia: Charles H. Banes, 1896. Green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and dark green. pp 374, [2] + frontispiece with tissue guard + 6 other plates. Head and tail vignettes in text, title page in red and black. Book just a little leaned; spine lightly darkened; small spots to rear cover; front inner hinge cracked but firm; bit of foxing to rear endpapers; yellowing and minor foxing to rear endpapers; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. 11 stories for younger readers, including "The Little Page", about a boy working as a page in Parliament in Ottawa and "The Two Kaloosas", about Indians in Nova Scotia. Good illustrations by Jane Hovey Allen. Her fourth book.
Book ID: 43017More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
GALACTIC WARLORD
Edition: First US printing
New York: Atheneum, 1980. Bue cloth. (127) pp. Light shelf rubbing to lower edges of covers, else fine in fine jacket, no owner names, flap price intact. Canadian author's first novel, and the first volume of the Last Legionary quintet. Science fiction for younger readers.
Book ID: 20181More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
GARBAGE DELIGHT
Toronto: Macmillan, (copyright 1977). Third printing. Quarto. colour pictorial boards without dust jacket, as issued. 64 pp. Fine copy, no previous owner marks. Verse for children, with colour and black & white illustrations by Frank Newfeld. 0771595921
Book ID: 42280More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50