Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1965. Brown illustrated boards. pp 232. Illustrations in colour & b&w. Bibliographical descriptions at rear of the original books. Fine in near fine jacket. Selections from English children's books 1765-1830 found in Toronto famous Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. 1.5 kg parcel

London: Blackie, no date (1922 or 1923). Green pictorial cloth stamped in black & white. pp 256, (32, ads) + 5 (of 6) plates. Lacking the plate at p. 48, ink names at front, else a VG clean, tight, unworn and attractive copy. 14 stories.

London: Macmillan, 1887. Small octavo. Original green fine ribbed decorated cloth stamped in black, blind and gilt, black endpapers. (viii), 180, [4, ads] pp + frontispiece and illustrated title with tissue guard and 6 other plates by Walter Crane. Book a little leaned; cloth wear at spine tips repaired; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired with black paper; all of spine gilt flaked away but stamping still clearly visible; tissue guard creased; VG clean copy otherwise. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced

London: Collins, 1972. Yellow boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. A monkey story by the author of the MARY POPPINS books

London: Amalgamated Press, 1941. Five issues. 8 page British comic for a juvenile audience printed in red and black on newsprint, folded once horizontally to make quarto pages. Light yellowing as always, VG clean & unworn copies otherwise. No. 1413, 26 April; no. 1417, 24 May; no. 1418, 31 May; no. 1420, 28 June, no. 1423, 09 Aug. Charlie Chaplin appears on each front cove. Pitch and Toss and Their Pets battle Nazis, amongst other adventures. Ceased publication in 1942. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.

Cedar Grove, NJ: Dar-Web, Inc, 1971. Brown boards. pp xviii, 184 + plates. Index. Light yellowing to page edges; a few pencil annotations in text; else fine in jacket. A descriptive bibliography, it includes periodicals.

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1982. Oblong octavo, stapled, in glossy illustrated card covers. Creases to front cover, VG otherwise, no owner names.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, c1920. Later printing ca 1941. Quarto, light blue cloth, colour pictorial label on front cover, illustrated endpapers, b&w illustrations. Tidy owner name in the provided printed space, yellowing to page edges, sunning at spine ends and to top quarter of rear cover, a bright and unworn VG+ copy otherwise. The price-clipped jacket is poor, with large chips, significant losses.

London: Ward, Lock, 1911. Octavo, blue decorated cloth stamped in light green and red, gilt lettered, grey illustrated endpapers. pp 248, (6, ads) + frontispiece by Thomas Maybank. Spine lightly darkened, small light spots to rear cover; yellowing to page edges; offset tanning to first and last page from yellowed endpapers; just a few small tan spots in some bottom page margins; else a VG+ nice copy of this edition in a pretty binding. A fairy story by this blind County Donegal Northern Irish poet and novelist. It as first published in 1857.

London: Collins, 1963. Squarish 12mo, blue pictorial boards, blue on white illustrated endpapers, text printed in blue, colour illustrations. pp 64. Small white fleck on rear cover, light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has minute rubbing to tips of slightly yellowed spine, else fine, a nice copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

New York: Scribner, 1975. Cloth & boards. pp 376 + plates; index. Front free endpaper neatly removed, else fine. Jacket has sunning to red spine letters, small tear, VG otherwise.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980. Blue boards. pp (xii), 195 + frontispiece; plates. Light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Red dust jacket has spine sunned to pink, else fine.

New York: Arco, 1978. Maroon cloth. pp 503 + plates; index. Ink owner name at front, rubber stamped initials to lower page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has creases to front flap, VG otherwise. Includes at rear a descriptive bibliography of the Alger books, a must for anyone seriously dealing in on collecting them.

Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1974. Yellow cloth. pp (viii), 263. Illustrated, index. Fine copy. Dust jacket has small tears to spine ends, split to upper front spine fold externally repaired; good.

Harmondsworth, England: Puffin Books, 1976. Later printing of the Puffin trade paperback (first was Faber, 1963). Octavo, card covers. A fine copy. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a Canadian author & impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading, with the inscribee's tidy ink name and date at front. "For____, Lord of the Whale, best wishes from Ted" and with Hughes' ink name in full on same page. Stories for children.

London: Bodley Head, 1968. Octavo, blue boards. pp 188. Library discard, with pouch and tape at rear, a few rubber stamps, price-clipped dust jacket has tape residue to lower spine; else a VG clean and unworn copy. Three essays and checklists of these authors of books for children. Bodly Head Monographs series.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, c1919. Octavo, light blue cloth lettered in gilt and blind. pp (297) + frontispiece; other illustrations in text. A fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has creased tear, small corner chips, at foot of spine; mild rubbing and crease at head of spine; creases and tear along lower rear panel; VG otherwise, colours bright, attractive. Scarce in dust jacket. A novel about a rough and tumble boy, a real Dennis the Menace, who is reformed by the hired girl.

London: Blackie, no date (ca. 1895?). Early printing (first was in 1890). Blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, orange, pale blue, mustard, and black. 4 plates (frontis. in colour). Rubber stamps and ink notation to front endpapers; yellowing to page edges; 9 x 1 cm black ink streak to fore edge with only very shallow penetration into text margins; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Author was the grandmother of Nevil Shute (Norway).