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.

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.

Toronto: Stoddart, 1984. Octavo, glossy illustrated boards without jacket, as issued. pp [32], unpaged. Colour illustrations. Ink gift inscription, else fine. Poetry for children.

Toronto: Stoddart, 1984. Octavo, glossy illustrated boards without jacket, as issued. pp [32], unpaged. Colour illustrations. Fine copy. Inscribed by the author "For Laura, and made her smile...Best wishes, Irving Layton, Nov. 30, 1985". Poetry for children.

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.

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.

Toronto: Key Porter, 2004. Oblong octavo, glossy colour pictorial boards. pp [32]. Excellent colour illustrations. A fine, jacketless copy.

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.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1963. 12mo, green boards. pp 127 + colour frontispiece. Light rippling to front free endpaper from removed label, else fine. Price-clipped dust jacket has nicks and small tear, very small chips, VG otherwise. A novel for young people set in Alberta.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Toronto: Thomas Nelson, 1970. 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.

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.

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.