Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: Author, 2009. Octavo, card covers. pp (viii), 153. Colour photos. Fine copy. This is an accurate descriptive bibliography of all the US and Canadian first editions (with comment on some later printings) of all of L.M. Montgomery's published books. Not just a dry reference book, it includes an account of the author's experiences over the years in solving the puzzles - particularly the tricky Canadian issues. This the only reference work available today that will reliably enable you to tell a LMM first printing from a later 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.

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.

London: Religious Tract Society, no date, 1916. Octavo, 19.5 cm, blue pictorial cloth stamped in gren, black, and yellow, spine has author & title in gilt within a gilt frame. pp 256, (16, ads) + colour frontispiece with tissue guard + title leaf with colour decorative border, lettering in blue & red + 2 other colour plates. Yellowing to endpapers and page edges; Xmas, 1916, ink gift inscription at front; else a VG clean, bright, tight and unrubbed copy, very attractive. A volume in The Girl's Library series. First edition? First ed. was RTS [1910]. The pseudonym not identified by Libraries Australia. A story for girls set in Tasmania.

London: James Nisbet, 1885. Octavo, original dark blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, blind and gilt, black endpapers. pp (viii), 431, (1), (1 leaf excised), (3-8, ads) + frontispiece and illustrated half title + 4 plates. Book a little leaned; spine and spine lightly darkened, with nicks at head of spine; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired with coloured rice paper; tidy ink name on recto of frontispiece; occasional small soil spots in text margins; fore edges have a tide mark (scant penetration to text margins); just a little leaned; generally VG otherwise, now tight in the binding; unworn. Scarce in first edition.

New York: Cupples & Leon, 1917. Light brown decorated boards stamped in black with heart-shaped colour illustated label. pp 48 + 8 colour plates. Numerous line drawings. Just a little leaned, minor wear to spine ends, minor soiling to covers; clean and unworn VG+ copy otherwise of this charming little edition illustrated by Johnny Gruelle (Raggedy Ann creator). Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

London: Heinemann, 1927. Fourth printing (first was in 1913). Quarto, brown coth lettered and decorated in gilt, yellowish top page edges. pp (44) + frontispiece and 43 other colour plates tipped to tan card, all with captioned tissue guards. A few vignette drawings in text. A fine, bright copy, no owner names, no creases to plates nor tissue guards. The light tan dust jacket has a tan stain and narrow chip along front spine fold; chips at spine ends (no lettering lost); fingernail-size chip to lower outer corner of front panel; VG otherwise. Only a few of the illustrations had been previously published, mostly as line drawing sketches. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1978. Octavo, 116, [4] pp, illustrated by the author, blue boards. Long signed ink nscription by the author on the title page, a fine copy. Pictorial dust jacket has yellowing to top margin of rear panel, else fine, flap price intact. The poet's first novel for children, a fantasy adventure tale.

New York: Viking, 1978. Dark blue cloth. Fine copy. Dust jacket has flap price inked out, rear panel softly rippled, else fine. Reprint from a rare hand-coloured copy of the 1857 original held by the Pierpont Moegan Library. Wonderful illustrations.

Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1931. Octavo, pp (12), unpaged, stapled in paper covers. Illustrations in colour throughout by Lilian Sturges. Covers have light soiling, softly creased, one inch split at top spine fold; VG otherwise. Verses by Fisher, with Bible quotes from the New Testament. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

London: Dean and Son, no date (1963). Octavo, red morocco grain cloth, spine lettered in black. pp 184. Text paper yellowed, as always, small crease at foot of spine, else fine and bright, no owner names. Dust jacket (no flap price) has shallow chips across spine ends (no lettering affected); slight rubbing at folds; small tears and nicks, very small chips, to panels; one inch tear to front flap; Good +, colours bright, respectable in appearance. No SBN in book. Rear panel of jacket lists 8 Biggles books, this one is last.

London: Blackie, no date (ca. 191-). Blue pictorial cloth stamped in yellow, black and green. 8 plates. 1916 pencil ownership at front, else a VG clean, bright and tight unworn copy.

London / Toronto: Blackie / William Briggs / Copp Clark, 1899. Blue pictorial bevel edge cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, mustard, and light olive, olivine page edges, grey endpapers. pp 384. 32, ads + 12 plates. Lacking the front free endpaper; flecks of light spotting to covers; minor rubbing to spine ends; else a bright, tight, VG+ copy, inner hinges not cracked, quite nice. Actually published in 1898. 1.2 kg parcel

London: Pitman, no date, 1937. Beige pictorial cloth stamped in blue & black. 256 pp + 4 plates. Page edges yellowed, else fine. Dust jacket has chips at spine ends with loss of most of "Eskimo" at head; chips and tears to panels; old internal tape repairs; good. A later printing of the UK edition. A novel for younger readers set in the Melville Peninsula, a volume in the publisher's New Juvenile Library series. This edition was first published in 1937, first edition in 1921.

London: Religious Tract Society, no date. Later printing. Octavo, 19 cm, green decorated cloth stamped in blind, front cover lettered in lilac, spine in gilt, colour pictorial label on front cover. pp (3)-250, (8, ads) + colour frontispiece and one other colour plate; one illustration in text. Mild wear to spine tips; cover label has rubbed creases and lacks a piece; endpapers and text paper yellowed; Hamilton, Ontario, contemporary new bookstore rubber stamp at front; VG tight and unworn copy otherwise. A volume in the Every Boy's Bookshelf series.

Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1962. Quarto, 48 pp, lilac illustrated boards. Bruise at foot of spine, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has minor wear at ends of very lightly darkened spine, ink digits on lower front flap, VG otherwise. Colour illustrations.

London: Blackie, no date. Ca. 1920s reprint. Blue cloth stamped in black and orange, pictorial spine, four plates. Page edges yellowed, else fine. Jacket dusty on rear panel, two scarcely noticable scratches on front panel, else fine.

London: Blackie, no date. Ca. 1920s? reprint. Blue cloth stamped in orange and black, spine illustration. pp 384 + 4 plates. Yellowing to page edges, creased nick to fore edge of four leaves at rear, else fine, no owner names. Jacket has light soiling to rear panel, else fine. Very nice copy.