CANADIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1799-1939
192-?
623 BINDLOSS, Harold, 1866-1946.
In the Misty Seas/A Story of the/Sealers of Behring Strait/By
Harold Bindloss/Author of "True Grit," etc./S.W. PARTRIDGE & CO.,
LTD.,/GROSVENOR GARDENS,/ VICTORIA [printer's marks] LONDON./
[192-?].
[A]8, B-U8 (The collation probably matches that of the 1st ed.,
but this reprint is bound in 16s & ignores previous sigs.) 1-
320 + [i-xvi] pp. Pl. frontis. 183x130 mm.
Col. frontis. signed Stanley L. Wood.
Pp. [i-xvi] adverts.
Light green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears pict.
ornaments within a border, all stamped in blind; spine bears
author & title in gold, pict. ornament, publ. & vertical rules
in blind.
F.f.l. [1905] (BM); this ed. dated by adverts. [192-?].
Two English seafaring boys lost in Vancouver harbour are rescued
by a Canadian sealing vessel and taken on as crew members to the
sealing grounds. Among other events, they experience the rivalry
between American and Russian sealers. As in so many of such
hunting tales, the young are shown as feeling revulsion at the
slaughter of the animals.
624 RALPHSON, George Harvey, 1879-1940.
BOY SCOUTS/IN A MOTOR BOAT/OR/ADVENTURES ON THE/COLUMBIA
RIVER/By/G. HARVEY RALPHSON/Author of BOY SCOUTS IN AN AIRSHIP/BOY
SCOUTS IN A SUBMARINE/BOY SCOUTS ON A MOTOR CYCLE/BOY SCOUTS IN
MEXICO/ [pict. ornament] /Chicago/M.A. DONOHUE & COMPANY/ [192-?].
c. 1912 M.A. Donohue & Co.
3-246 + [i-vi] pp. Pl. frontis. 184x125 mm.
Frontis. signed Lawrence '12.
Pp. [i-vi] adverts.
Light brown coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & sub-
title stamped in dark green & pict. ornament in black & green;
spine bears title, rules, author & publ. in dark green & pict.
ornament in green & black.
Arthur James Simpson Jr. Dec. 25, 1929.
F.f.l. [c. 1912] (NUC); NUC notes that the 1912 ed. has
'illustrated lining papers'; this ed. dated by adverts. [192-?].
Ralphson was an American author. The plot of Boy scouts in a
motor boat involves a former trading post built by the North West
Company in Hudson's Bay Company territory which is now British
Columbia.
625 ROCKWOOD, Roy, pseud.
THROUGH THE AIR/TO THE NORTH POLE/OR/The Wonderful Cruise of the
Electric Monarch/BY ROY ROCKWOOD/AUTHOR OF "THE RIVAL OCEAN
DIVERS," "A SCHOOLBOY'S/PLUCK," ETC./ [rule] /ILLUSTRATED/NEW
YORK/ CUPPLES & LEON CO./ [192-?].
c. 1906 Cupples & Leon.
[i-iv], 1-240 + [i-xii] pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 186x124 mm.
Frontis. & pl. signed Nuttall.
Pp. [i-xii] at end adverts.
Beige coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in black, pict. ornament in blue & black, all within a
black border; spine bears title, ornaments, author & publ.
within a circle, all in black.
F.f.l. [1906] (NUC); this ed. dated by adverts. [192-?] (many
titles listed were first pub. between 1908 & 1924).
Roy Rockwood was a pseudonym used by Edward Stratemeyer. Other
writers such as Howard Garis and Leslie McFarlane also used this
pseudonym. (Johnson). Through the air to the North Pole is on the
order of a Tom Swift invention story. Two boys go in an airship
built by a Professor to find the North Pole. Here they meet
ferocious, fire-worshipping Esquimaux and ferocious arctic
animals.
626 TRAILL, Catharine Parr (Strickland), 1802-1899.
LOST IN/THE BACKWOODS/BY/MRS. TRAILL/THOMAS NELSON AND SONS,
LTD./LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK/ [192-?].
[1]8, 2-188 i-viii, 9-288 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 186x115 mm.
Col. frontis. & pl. signed Scott Rankin.
Light green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title, author &
swastika, stamped in black, ornament & rules in blind, all
within a black border; spine bears title, author, swastika,
publ. & rules in black, rules & rectangles in blind.
Christmas Greeting with my love 1925 Auntie Ann. Toronto.
First pub. as Canadian Crusoes (see no. 413); this ed. dated by
provenance [192-?].
1920
627 DOUGLAS, David, 1823-1916.
ON THE GREAT FUR/TRAIL/A STORY OF THE OLD TRAPPING DAYS/BY/ DAVID
DOUGLAS/WITH FRONTISPIECE BY/STANLEY L. WOOD/LONDON/ "THE BOY'S
OWN PAPER" OFFICE/4 BOUVERIE STREET/ [1920].
Half-title.
[A]8, B-Q8 1-252 [253-56] pp. Pl. frontis. 185x121 mm.
The B.O.P. library; pp. 2 & [253-56] adverts.
Brown coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, author &
pict. ornament, all within a border; spine bears title, author,
pict. ornament & monogram of the Religious Tract Society.
F.f.l. [1920] (BM, EC).
David Douglas was a Scottish publisher. (WWW 1916/28). On the
great fur trail is a story of the rivalry between the Hudson's Bay
Company and the North West Company. The two rival teenagers
involved are employees of the Hudson's Bay Company. The cover,
showing a boy reading a book, is obviously the cover for the
series.
628 EMBREE, Beatrice Minnie, b. 1886.
The Girls of Miss Clevelands'/By/BEATRICE EMBREE/ILLUSTRATED BY E.
ELIAS/ [publ. device] /TORONTO/THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY/LIMITED/
[1920].
Half-title.
c. Musson Book Co., Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd.
[i-x], 1-181 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 188x120 mm.
Red coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, rule & author
within a rectangle, all within a border; spine bears title,
rule, author & publ.
Dorothy E. Eyre, with love from Auntie Mabel, Christmas 1920.
F.f.l. [1920] (BM, NUC, T&C, Watters).
A boarding school story set in Toronto. The girls come from
different parts of Canada and the United States. The book has no
particular focus, being vignettes of schoolgirl life, the girls
being the offspring of well-to-do parents.
629 MCKISHNIE, Archibald P., 1876-1946.
A Son of Courage/By/Archie P. McKishnie/Author of Love of the
Wild,/Willow, the Wisp, etc./ [pict. ornament] /TORONTO/THOMAS
ALLEN/ [1920] [all within a dbl. border].
Half-title.
c. 1920 Reilly & Lee Co.
1-284 pp. Pl. frontis. 191x125 mm.
Black coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in gold; spine bears title, rule, author & publ. in
gold.
F.f.l. [1920] (OCCHL, Watters); also pub. New York, Reilly & Lee
[1920] (NUC, US Cat); Rhodenizer & T&C give the 1st date of
publication erroneously as 1910.
McKishnie was born at New Scotland, Ontario. He was a journalist
and a novelist. (Macmillan). The boy hero of A son of courage
really deserved the whole book to himself. However, like so many
Canadian authors of the period, McKishnie attempted too much in
one book including such tiresome staples as lost wills,
reformations in character, and romance. Still, the book is
unusual for its time in its portrayal of a Tom Sawyer-like boy
character.
630 MAETERLINCK, Georgette (Leblanc), 1869-1941.
The Children's Blue Bird/By/Georgette Leblanc/(Madame Maurice
Maeterlinck)/Translated by/Alexander Teixeira De
Mattos/Illustrated by/Herbert Paus/McClelland and Stewart/
Publishers Toronto/1920/
Half-title.
c. 1913 Curtis Pub. Co., c. 1913 Dodd, Mead & Co.
[i-viii], 1-182 pp. Frontis. + 8 pl. 200x149 mm.
Col. frontis., pl. printed on both sides in blue; pl. between pp.
94 & 95 erroneously reversed & placed between pp. 102 & 103.
Blue dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears col. pict. paper
onlay & title, author & ornaments stamped in gold; spine bears
title, author & publ. in gold.
F.f.l. with above tr. & illus. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1913 (NUC, US
Cat).
The blue bird was first published as a play in Paris in 1909. It
was written by the Belgian dramatist and symbolist poet, Maurice
Maeterlinck (1862-1949). It is an allegorical fantasy conceived
as a play for children and is concerned with a search for
happiness. (Carpenter). The blue bird is a symbol of happiness
and at the end, is found in the children's own home. The play is
probably the most original and, in its own time, the most popular
one written for children. Although not frequently performed
because of its large cast, the children's names and the blue bird
as a symbol became widely known. In its narrative form by Mrs.
Maeterlinck it would have been a natural and popular choice for
reprinting in Canada.
631 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
FURTHER/CHRONICLES/OF AVONLEA/Which have to do with many
personalities and events in/and about Avonlea, the Home of the
Heroine of Green/Gables, including tales of Aunt Cynthia, the
Material-/izing of Cecil, David Spencer's Daughter, Jane's/Baby,
The Failure of Robert Monroe, The Return of/Hester, The Little
Brown Book of Miss Emily, Sara's/Way, The Son of Thyra Carewe, The
Education of/Betty, The Selflessness of Eunice Carr, The Dream-
/Child, The Conscience Case of David Bell, Only a/Common Fellow,
and finally the story of Tannis of/the Flats./All related by/L.M.
MONTGOMERY/Author of "Anne of Green Gables," "Anne of
Avonlea,"/"Anne of the Island," "Chronicles of Avonlea,"/"Kilmeny
of the Orchard," etc./Illustrated by/JOHN GOSS/ [publ. device]
/BOSTON [ornament] THE PAGE/COMPANY [ornament] MDCCCCXX/ [all
within 3 rectangles, all within a border].
Half-title.
c. 1920 Page Co., 1st imp. March 1920; pr. C.H. Simonds Co.,
Colonial Press, Boston.
i-xvi, 1-301 + [i-vi] + 1-12 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. (1 pl.
wanting) 188x125 mm.
P. ii list of other titles by the author; pp. [i-vi] & 1-12 at end
adverts.
Light brown dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears col.
pict. paper onlay, title & author stamped in gold within borders
in blind; spine bears title, author, publ., rules & place in
gold. Foredges uncut.
F.f.l. 1920 (NUC, OCCL, Russell).
These short stories were published by L.C. Page Co. without
Montgomery's consent and involved her in a lawsuit that according
to the editors of her Journals, lasted eleven years. Montgomery
did win.
632 WALLACE, Dillon, 1863-1939.
Troop One of the/Labrador/BY/DILLON WALLACE/Author of "Grit A-
Plenty," "The Ragged/Inlet Guards," etc., etc./ILLUSTRATED
BY/CLYDE FORSYTHE./ [publ. device]/ NEW YORK CHICAGO/Fleming H.
Revell Company/LONDON AND EDINBURGH/ [c. 1920].
Half-title.
c. 1920 Fleming H. Revell Co.
[i-ii], 1-234 + [i-iv] pp. Pl. frontis. + 4 pl. 188x119 mm.
P.[ii] list of other titles by the author; pp. [i-iv] adverts.
Gray coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, author & rule
stamped in dark blue, round pict. ornament in black against
orange, outlined in blue, all within a blue border; spine bears
title, author & publ. in blue, round pict. ornament in black
against orange.
Bonnie with fond love & Christmas greetings, Maurice, 1922.
F.f.l. [c. 1920] (NUC).
A doctor in Labrador starts the first Boy Scout Troop there.
However, the adventures are typical of other northern stories with
a slight mystery to be solved.
632a WATSON, Elizabeth C.
[cover title] [col. pict. ornament] /The Metropolitan/MOTHER
GOOSE/by/Elizabeth C. Watson/Illustrated by/Emma
Clark/Metropolitan Life Insurance Company/Canadian Head Office,
Ottawa/ [col. pict. ornament] / [1920?] [all within a col.
ornamental border].
[1-20] pp. (incl. wrappers) 190x132 mm.
Col. illus.
Light orange wrappers.
F.f.l. New York, Metropolitan life insurance co. [1920?] (NUC);
this ed. [1920?].
The text consists of traditional nursery rhymes.
633 WHITE, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946.
THE MAGIC FOREST/A Modern Fairy Story/BY/STEWART EDWARD WHITE/
AUTHOR OF "THE CLAIM JUMPERS," "THE WESTERNERS,"/"THE BLAZED
TRAIL," "CONJUROR'S HOUSE,"/"THE FOREST"/ [pict. ornament] /NEW
YORK/ GROSSET & DUNLAP/PUBLISHERS/ [1920] [all within a triple
border].
Ornamental half-title.
c. 1902 Stewart Edward White; c. 1903 Macmillan Co., pub. Oct.
1903.
[B]8, C/D8, E8, [F]8, G-H8, [I]-[K]8, L8 (sig. C/D is signed C on
the recto of leaf 1 and D on the recto of leaf 8; sig. E is
signed on the recto of leaf 8; sigs. G-H are signed on the recto
of leaf 6; sig. L is signed on the recto of leaf 3) 1-146 [147-
56] pp. Pl. 6 pl. (incl. in paging) 186x124 mm.
Pl. are signed [Joseph Michael] Gleeson; full-page & text illus.
Pp. [147-56] adverts.
Green coarse diaper cloth. Front bears title, pict. ornament,
author & rules; spine bears title, pict. ornament, author, rules
& publ.
Christmas, 1920.
F.f.l. 1903 (AC, NUC); this ed. [1920] (US Cat).
White was an American author chiefly noted for his adventurous
outdoor life (prospecting, sailing, lumbering, travelling, etc.)
which he used as settings for his adult books. (Kunitz). The
magic forest appears to be his only children's book. Here a nine-
year-old boy sleepwalks his way off a Canadian Pacific train in
northern Ontario and is rescued by Indians. When he finds his way
back to a train and is asked where he has been, he replies 'In
fairyland.'
1921
634 ALLAN, Luke, pseud. of William Lacey Amy.
BLUE PETE:/HALF-BREED/A STORY OF THE/COWBOY WEST/BY/LUKE
ALLAN/HERBERT JENKINS, LIMITED/3 YORK STREET, SAINT JAMES'S/
LONDON S.W. I [printer's marks] MCMXXI/ [all within a dbl.
border].
Half-title.
Pr. Love & Malcomson, Ltd., Redhill, Aug. 1920.
[A]8, B-C12, D-E8, F-N12/8 1-256 pp. 184x119 mm.
Light blue coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, sub-
title & pict. ornament within a dbl. border, all stamped in dark
blue; back bears publ. device in dark blue; spine bears title,
sub-title, author, publ. & rules, all in dark blue. Original
dustjacket.
F.f.l. 1921 [1920] (BM, Watters); 1920 (EC).
William Lacey Amy, born at Sydenham, Ontario, was a journalist and
author who travelled extensively in many parts of the world. He
chiefly used the pen name, Luke Allan. In 1921 he began a series
for which he created a half-breed ex-cattle rustler, Blue Pete,
who became an undercover agent for the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police. The last of the series was published in 1950. (OCCHL).
Blue Pete: half-breed, the first of the series, begins in the
Cypress Hills just north of the Montana border with a
confrontation between Constable Mahon of the Mounted Police and
Blue Pete, fleeing for safety to Canada. He becomes the Mountie's
friend. On page 2, the printer states that 21,500 copies of the
book have been printed. The 'Publisher's Foreword' is dated 1920.
635 DUGMORE, Arthur Radclyffe, 1870-1955.
TWO BOYS [pict. ornaments] /IN/ [pict. ornament] BEAVER-LAND/A
Book of the Woods [ornaments] /Written, Illustrated & Designed/By
[pict. ornaments] /Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore/ [pict. ornament]
F.R.G.S. [printer's mark] F.R.P.S/Author of "Adventures in Beaver
Stream Camp"/"Camera Adventures in the African Wilds"/"Romance of
the Newfoundland Caribou"/"When the Somme Ran Red"/ [pict.
ornament] "Bird Homes" Etc./HODDER AND STOUGHTON/London New York
Toronto/ [1921] [lines 1-3 printed in red, all within 2
rectangles].
Pict. half-title with text by the author.
Pr. Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.
[i-iv], 1-246 pp. 188x123 mm.
Frontis. & text illus., each page of text is within a border.
Olive green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in black, pict. ornaments in brown & yellow; spine bears
title, author & publ. in black, pict. ornaments & ornaments in
black & brown.
F.f.l. 1920 (BM); also pub. New York, Doubleday, Page, 1920 (NUC);
this ed. [1921] (BM).
A sequel to the author's Adventures in Beaver Stream camp (see no.
613). Here the boys, for reasons of health, spend five months in
northern Ontario studying the habits of beavers. The rather
extensive sections on nature lore are interspersed with a trapping
mystery, a villain and a brief look at northern police work in the
early 1920s.
636 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
RILLA/OF INGLESIDE/BY/L.M. MONTGOMERY/Author of "Anne of Green
Gables," "Anne of the/Island," "Anne's House of Dreams," "Rain-
/bow Valley," "The Story Girl," "The/ Watchman," etc./ [4 lines of
quotation] /WITH FRONTISPIECE IN COLOUR BY/M.L.
KIRK/TORONTO/McCLELLAND AND STEWART, LIMITED/PUBLISHERS/ [1921].
Half-title.
c. 1921 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., pr. Hunter-Rose Co., Ltd.
[i-viii], 1-370 pp. [pp. vii-viii] are blank. Pl. frontis.
191x128 mm.
Col. frontis.
Dark blue fine diaper cloth. Front board bears col. pict. paper
onlay with title & author printed in blue; spine bears title,
rule, author & publ. stamped in gold.
A presentation copy for Alfred Myrick Pound signed: 'More power
to your elbow!' Yours fraternally L.M. Montgomery 1921. (Pound
was a well-known collector of Canadiana who donated his
collection to the UBC Library).
F.f.l. [1921] (Can Cat, NUC, Watters).
This is one of the few Canadian novels of World War I.
Montgomery's American publisher, Stokes & Co., complained that it
was "too gloomy". There was also an intimation that Montgomery
had not "taffied up" enough the U.S. contribution to the war.
(Selected journals, vol. II, p. 404). The book is also unusual
because it features the point of view of women and children rather
than men. There has been some doubt as to the first date of
publication of Rilla of Ingleside; 1920 has been given. However,
in volume 5 of Montgomery's original journals held at the
University of Guelph, Ontario, her entry for Saturday, September
3, 1922 reads: 'Rilla of Ingleside came today - my eleventh
book.'
637 ROBERTS, Charles George Douglas, 1860-1943.
JIM/THE STORY OF A BACKWOODS/POLICE DOG/BY/MAJOR CHARLES G.D.
ROBERTS/New York/THE MACMILLAN COMPANY/1921/All rights reserved/
Half-title.
c. 1918 Charles G.D. Roberts; c. 1919 Macmillan Co., pr. J.S.
Cushing, Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood Press, Norwood, Mass.
[A]8, B-N8, [O-P]8 (last 4 leaves blank) 1-216 pp. 191x125 mm.
Brown fine diaper cloth. Front board bears pict. ornament stamped
in dark brown & blue; spine bears title, sub-title, rules &
author in dark brown, pict. ornament in dark brown & blue.
(Library label covers probably the publ. name).
1st pub. in The ledge on Bald Face (see no. 611); 1st pub. in this
ed. 1919 (NUC, Pomeroy).
Contents: Jim; the story of a backwoods police dog; The eagle;
The mule; Stripes the unconcerned. Jim has been trained by his
owner, the Deputy Sheriff of Nipsiwaska County, and they are a
formidable pair in solving crimes and tracking down criminals.
638 SAXBY, C.F. Argyll.
THE SETTLER OF/SERPENT CREEK/A TALE OF THE CANADIAN PRAIRIE/
BY/C.F. ARGYLL SAXBY, M.A., F.R.G.S./WITH FRONTISPIECE BY/ARTHUR
TWIDLE/LONDON/"THE BOY'S OWN PAPER" OFFICE/4 BOUVERIE STREET/
[1921].
Half-title.
Pr. Northumberland Press Ltd., Thornton St., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
3-254 pp. Pl. frontis. 183x117 mm.
P. 4 advert. for Every boy's bookshelf.
Light reddish brown coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears border
stamped in blind; spine bears title & author in gold, ornaments
& publ. monogram (i.e. Religious Tract Society) in blind.
F.f.l. [1921] (BM, EC, NUC).
The adventures of a twenty-year-old and a sixteen-year-old
homesteading near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Although there are
typical adventures with wild animals and Indians, the focus of the
plot is on foiling the villain who wants their land for the gold
on it. An unusual character for the time and setting is a woman
doctor.
639 SULLIVAN, Alan, 1868-1947.
BROTHER ESKIMO/BY/ALAN SULLIVAN/ILLUSTRATED BY/GEORGE AVISON/
[publ. device of Century Co.] /McCLELLAND & STEWART/PUBLISHERS
TORONTO/1921/
Half-title.
c. 1921 Century Co.
[i-viii], 1-249 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 186x122 mm.
Gray coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in black, pict. ornament in blue & black; spine bears
title, author & publ. in black, pict. ornament in blue & black.
F.f.l. 1921 (Can Cat, NUC, Watters); also pub. New York, Century,
1921 (NUC).
Edward Alan Sullivan, born at Montreal, was a mining and technical
engineer as well as an author. His engineering work took him to
the Canadian north and west where he gathered background for his
light fiction. In his heyday as a writer Sullivan was widely read
and reviewed. He wrote four books for children. (OCCL). In
Brother Eskimo, two young Eskimo boys are separated from their
families and have to survive on their own. The boys are well
contrasted - the older with the spirit and skills of the
traditional hunter, and the younger with yearnings to draw and to
carve. The tone is often avuncular (that is, the author addresses
the reader directly), a technique that was common in children's
books until the late 1950s.
640 TOWNSEND, Eric W.
[cover-title] [on the left] THE/BOYS'/FRIEND/LIBRARY./ [on the
right] No/586./ [on the left] 4D/ [on the right] SON O'/THE WILD!/
[rule] /A MAGNIFICENT STORY/OF THE BOXING RING./BY/ERIC W.
TOWNSEND./ [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., The Fleetway House,
Farringdon Street, London, 1921] [all against 2 pict. ornaments, 1
signed H.M. Lewis; lines 1-4 on the left & lines 3-4 & 7 & rule on
the right printed in white, all against a red backgound].
1-64 pp. 175x135 mm.
Verso of front wrapper & recto of back bear adverts.
Wrappers. Back is white & bears adverts., spine bears series no.,
series title, price & title printed in black.
The boys' friend library, no. 586.
No listing has been found. Dated through adverts. & perpetual
calendar Dec., 1921.
Chiefly a story of boxing in the lumber camps of Ontario. The
hero has an Indian father and a 'beautiful English mother.' Pages
106 to 120, a short story without Canadian content: The fatal
ship.