CANADIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1799-1939
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1922
641 ALLAN, Luke, pseud. of William Lacey Amy.
THE RETURN/OF BLUE PETE/BY/LUKE ALLAN/AUTHOR OF "BLUE PETE: HALF- BREED," "THE LONE TRAIL,"/"THE BLUE WOLF," ETC./McCLELLAND AND STEWART/PUBLISHERS [printer's marks] TORONTO/ [1922?]. Half-title. c. 1922 George H. Doran Co.
i-viii, 9-267 pp. 190x128 mm.
Orange coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in blind on a black ornament within a black rectangle,
all within an ornamental border in blind; spine bears title,
printer's mark & author in blind on a black ornament, publ. in
black.
F.f.l. New York, Doran [1922] (NUC); also London, Jenkins, 1922
(EC, Watters); 1923 [1922] (BM); this ed. [1922?].
One of the many sequels to Blue Pete: half-breed (see no. 634).
642 BRERETON, Frederick Sadleir, 1872-1957.
A/Boy of the Dominion/A Tale of Canadian Immigration/BY/LT.- COLONEL F.S. BRERETON/Author of "Tom Stapleton, the Boy Scout" "With Shield and Assegai" &c./ ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM RAINEY, R.I./BLACKIE & SON LIMITED/ LONDON AND GLASGOW/ [1922]. Half-title.
[1]8, 2-238 i-viii, 9-367 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. 183x120 mm.
P. iv list of other titles by the author.
Blue fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author stamped
in blind on a yellow rectangle & pict. ornament in light green,
black & yellow; spine bears title & author in black, pict.
ornament in light green, black & yellow. (Library label pasted
over probably the publ. name).
F.f.l. 1913 [1912] (BM); 1912 (EC); this ed. [1922] (EC).
Brereton was chiefly noted as a writer of English boys' adventure stories with a war setting. (Carpenter). In this book with a Canadian setting he concentrated on homesteading in northern Ontario rather than war. However, the young hero is in the Brereton mold being incredibly brave, capable, sensible, honest, etc., etc. There is also the conventional villain, the conventional legacy from England and the conventional love of the free life of Canada. At the end, the author states: 'That is the way with Canada, red tape has scarcely an existence; it is merely a bad memory imported from the old country.'
643 BURGESS, Mrs. Palmer G.
TALKS ON NEW CHUMS/ [dbl. rule] /FOR YOUNG CANADIANS/For Leaders of Junior Organizations/BY/MRS. PALMER G. BURGESS/ [dbl. rule] /Issued by the/ Baptist Home Mission Board of Ontario and Quebec/Canada Congregational Missionary Society/Forward Movement of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church/Board of Home Missions and Social Service of the Presbyterian Church/Co- operating through/The Canadian Council of the Missionary Education Movement/ [rule] / (Copyright, Canada, 1922, by the Canadian Council of the Missionary Education Movement)/ [all within a dbl. border].
c. 1922 Canadian Council of the Missionary Education Movement.
1-30 pp. Pl. 1 pl. 246x186 mm.
Gray wrappers. Front bears title & author printed in black, a
half-tone photograph, all within an ornamental black border.
No earlier listing has been found.
A multicultural handbook for a church youth meeting to introduce and welcome children from other countries. The specific ethnic groups included are Ukrainian, Italian, Swedish, Oriental and British. A pageant is included.
644 COLE, Carol Cassidy, pseud. of Carol M. (Cassidy) Manchee.
VELVET PAWS AND/SHINY EYES/Adventures of a little/Canadian Boy in Natures [sic] / Wonderland - among/furry friends and/feathery./BY/CAROL CASSIDY COLE/ [publ. device] /TORONTO/HODDER AND STOUGHTON/LIMITED/ [1922]. Half-title. c. 1922 Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd., Toronto.
i-viii, 1-152 pp. 174x118 mm.
Frontis., full-page & text illus. signed Dudley Ward/22.
Books for little listeners.
Olive green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears col. pict.
paper onlay with title printed in red, outlined in black &
author in black, both within a rectangle, sub-title in blue,
series title in white, all against a yellow background; spine
bears title, rule, author & publ. stamped in black.
Fraser John Crocker from Cousin Isabel, Xmas 1924.
F.f.l. 1922 (Can Cat); also pub. Toronto, Musson, 1922 (Watters).
A little boy who has been cruel to wild animals is turned into an elf. He learns the ways of animals and birds, learns their language and travels with the wild geese. Is it all just a dream?
645 CURWOOD, James Oliver, 1878-1927.
Steele of the Royal/Mounted/ (PHILIP STEELE) /A Story of the Great Canadian Northwest/By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD/AUTHOR OF/"The River's End"; "The Valley of the Silent Men";/"The Honor of the Big Snows"; "God's Country and/The Woman." Etc./ [ornament] /A.L. BURT COMPANY/Publishers New York/Published by arrangement with COSMOPOLITAN BOOK CORPORATION/ [1922] [all within 4 rectangles, all within a border]. Half-title.
c. 1911 Cosmopolitan Book Corp.
[i-x], 1-307 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 185x118 mm.
Frontis. & 3 pl. are stills from the photoplay Steele of the Royal
Mounted.
Dark blue coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in gold; spine bears title, ornament, author & publ. in
gold.
To Pa from Nelson. Xmas 1926.
F.f.l. as Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill
[c. 1911] (NUC); f.f.l. in this ed. [1922] (US Cat).
A highly romanticized view of the Mounties.
646 DICKIE, Donalda James, 1883-1971, comp.
The Canadian Poetry Book/A Book of Modern Verse/Chosen and adapted by/ D.J. DICKIE/A Supplementary Volume to/THE TEMPLE POETRY BOOKS/ [publ. device] / LONDON AND TORONTO/J.M. DENT & SONS LIMITED/ [1922?]. Half-title.
Pr. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., Ltd.
1-111 pp. 174x124 mm.
The Temple poetry books; p. ii list of series titles, graduated
from Nursery numbers to Shakespeare and Milton.
Gray wrappers. Front bears title, pict. ornament, ornaments,
publ. & place within rectangles, all within a border.
F.f.l. [1922] (NUC); 1923 (Can Cat); this ed. [1922?].
The poems have obviously been chosen for their appeal to the young. Authors included in this anthology are: D. Anderson, J.W. Bengough, J. Blewett, E. Brownlow, W.W. Campbell, B. Carman, G.H. Clarke, H. Coleman, I.V. Crawford, W.H. Drummond, J. Edgar, A. Gordon, N. Holland, J. Hunter-Duvar, P. Johnson, A. Lampman, F.R. Livesay, E.R. Macdonald, I.E. Mackay, C. Mair, J. McCarroll, J. McCrae, L.M. Montgomery, S. Moodie, M. Pickthall, B. Redpath, C.G.D. Roberts, F.G. Scott, R.W. Service, R. Stead, E. Wetherald. The appendix (pp. 97-110) includes author notes.
647 ERSKINE, Laurie Yorke, b. 1894.
RENFREW OF THE/ROYAL MOUNTED/BY/LAURIE YORKE ERSKINE/ GROSSET & DUNLAP/Publishers New York/By arrangement with D. Appleton-Century Company/ [1922]. Half-title. c. 1921 Sprague Pub. Co., c. 1922 D. Appleton & Co.
[i-viii], 1-256 pp. 186x125 mm.
Frontis.
Red net-grain cloth. Front board bears title, badge of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police & author stamped in black, within a
border in blind; spine bears title, pict. ornament, author &
publ. in black. Pict. endpapers printed in dark blue.
F.f.l. New York, Appleton, 1922 (BM, NUC, US Cat); also New York,
Grosset & Dunlap [1922] (NUC).
Erskine was an educator and writer, born in Scotland. His stories of Renfrew of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were published in seven volumes, 1922-36. (Am A&B). In this first one Renfrew relates his experiences to a group of young teenaged boys.
648 FRASER, Donald Andrew, 1875-1948.
The THREE KINGS/AND OTHER VERSES/FOR CHILDREN/BY/DONALD A. FRASER/ [pict. ornament] / [rule] /CUSACK PRINTING COMPANY/VICTORIA, B.C./1922/
1-64 pp. 224x148 mm.
Frontis. & text illus., some illus. are photographs.
Stiff cream wrappers. Front bears title, sub-title, author &
pict. ornaments, all within rectangles, all printed in brown &
signed J.S. McMillan; back bears pict. ornament printed in
brown.
Presentation copy: To Miss Katie Eastman with the compliments of
Donald A. Fraser. April 28, 1930.
F.f.l. 1922 (NUC, T&C).
Some of the poems are reprinted from the author's Pebbles and shells (see no. 509).
649 HENRY, Edwin Arthur, 1866-194-?
LITTLE FOXES/Stories for Boys and Girls/By/E.A. HENRY, D.D./Pastor, Deer Park Presbyterian Church, Toronto/Introduction by/CHARLES W. GORDON, D.D., LL.D./ (Ralph Connor)/Thomas Allen/366-378 ADELAIDE STREET, WEST/TORONTO/ [1922].
c. 1922 Fleming H. Revell Co.
1-160 pp. Pl. frontis. 186x121 mm.
Frontis. signed Charles Livingston Bull.
Olive green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, rules,
author & ornaments within rectangles, all stamped in black, all
within a border in red; spine bears title, ornament, author &
publ. in black.
F.f.l. [1922] (Can Cat, T&C); also pub. New York, Revell [1922]
(NUC, Watters).
The Reverend Edwin Arthur Henry, a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, was born at Montreal, Quebec. His book of sermons for children, Little foxes, appears to be his only publication for the young. (Can WW 1936/37). In the Preface, he tells us that these simple stories were written for his youthful parishioners because he, as a child, 'wondered what the preacher was talking about.'
650 McKISHNIE, Archibald P., 1875-1946.
OPENWAY/BY/ARCHIE P. McKISHNIE/Author of "A Son of Courage",/"Love of the Wild" etc./TORONTO/THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY/LIMITED/ [1922]. Half-title.
c. 1922 Musson Book Co., Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd., Toronto.
[i-viii], 1-233 [234] pp. 188x122 mm.
Frontis. & 5 full-page illus. signed Dudley Ward/22.
P. [234] list of other titles by the author.
Light orange fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title stamped
in blind, outlined in black, author & 2 pict. ornaments in
black, all on a brown ornament, pict. ornament in black, all
within a brown border; spine bears title, rule, author & publ.
in brown.
F.f.l. [1922] (Can Cat, NUC, T&C, Watters).
A young boy and an old trapper daily see the dramatic lives of the creatures of the forest that surround the settlement of Openway in Kent County, Ontario. It is a highly realistic look at nature lore. The boy, who loves all creatures, yet has to trap and hunt to help his family.
651 MACMILLAN, Cyrus John, 1882-1953.
CANADIAN/FAIRY TALES/BY CYRUS MACMILLAN/With Illustrations by MARCIA LANE FOSTER/And an Introduction by JOHN GRIER HIBBEN [pict. ornament signed MLF] /LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD/ [1922?]. Half-title.
1st pub. 1922; pr. Butler & Tanner, Frome & London.
[A]8, B-O8 i-xvi, 1-203 [204-08] pp. Pl. frontis. + 25 pl.
249x182 mm.
Col. frontis. & 11 col. pl.
P. ii list of other titles by the author; pp. [205-08] adverts.
Dark blue coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears a circular,
pict. ornament stamped in gold within an ornamental border &
borders in blind; spine bears title, rules, author, illus.,
pict. ornament, publ., & ornamental rules in gold. T.e. blue.
Foredges & bottom edges uncut. Pict. endpapers printed in
reddish brown.
F.f.l. 1922 (BM); also pub. Toronto, Gundy, 1922 (Can Cat, T&C,
Watters); this ed. [1922?].
Contents: How Glooskap made the birds; Rabbit and the grain buyers; Saint Nicholas and the children; The fall of the spider man; The boy who was called Thick-head; Rabbit and the Indian chief; Great Heart and the three tests; The boy of the red twilight sky; How Raven brought fire to the Indians; The girl who always cried; Ermine and the hunter; How Rabbit deceived Fox; The boy and the dragon; Owl with the great head and eyes; The tobacco fairy from the Blue Hills; Rainbow and the autumn leaves; Rabbit and the moon-man; The children with one eye; The giant with the grey feathers; The cruel stepmother; The boy who was saved by thoughts; The song-bird and the healing waters; The boy who overcame the giants; The youth and the dog-dance; Sparrow's search for the rain; The boy in the land of shadows. The retellings are similar in tone to those in Canadian wonder tales (see no. 609). It is also as attractively bound and illustrated.
652 MARCHANT, Bessie (Mrs. J.A. Comfort), 1862-1941.
HARRIET/GOES A-ROAMING/BY/BESSIE MARCHANT/Author of "Island Born", "No Ordinary Girl", &c./Illustrated by Leo Bates/BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED/ LONDON GLASGOW BOMBAY/ [1922]. Half-title.
[1]8, 2-168 1-256 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. 183x115 mm.
P. 2 list of other titles by the author.
Light green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title, pict.
ornaments & author stamped in black, pict. ornament in b&w.,
spine bears title, author & publ. in black & pict. ornament in
b&w.
F.f.l. [1922] (BM, EC).
A restless English girl finds herself in Alberta, and becomes involved in by now a rather old-hat plot of missing wills, a well- defined villain, and an even more predictable hero.
653 PECK, George Wilbur, 1840-1916.
PECK'S BAD BOY/AND HIS PA/COMPLETE EDITION/BY/GEO. W. PECK/ [rule] / Illustrated/ [rule] /TORONTO/THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY/LIMITED/ [1922?].
Pr. Hunter-Rose Co., Ltd., Toronto.
i-viii, 17-328 pp. 188x119 mm.
Text illus.
Yellow coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & ornaments
stamped in dark green, within a light green ornament & pict.
ornament in dark & light green, author in light green within a
light green ornament; spine bears title, author, publ. & rules
in dark green & rules in light green.
To Ronald, From your loving sister Win. Xmas 1922.
F.f.l. Chicago, Belford, Clarke, 1883 (AC, Blanck, NUC); this ed.
dated by provenance [1922?].
Peck was an American journalist and then became owner of The Sun (known also as Peck's Sun) in Milwaukee. In 1882 he began to write and publish in it the humorous adventures of Peck's bad boy and his pa, which became immensely successful and boosted The Sun to a big nation-wide circulation. The humorous sketches told of the many and often rather brutal tricks played by Hennery the Bad Boy upon his (usually) drunken father or upon the long-suffering Grocery Man. Broad, even coarse, in their humour, they were nevertheless vigorously written and often very funny. They were certainly enjoyed by all ages for many years after their initial appearance in the pages of The Sun. (DAB). This continued popularity explains a Canadian edition.
654 POUND, Bunny (i.e. Marjorie Reynolds Pound), b. 1911.
LILA and the/WATERFALL/FAIRIES/By BUNNY POUND/ (AGED 11 YEARS) / VANCOUVER/BRITISH COLUMBIA/ [Cowan Brookhouse, Limited] 1922/
Pr. & publ. Cowan Brookhouse, Ltd.
[1-16] pp. 199x122 mm.
Beige wrappers. Front bears title, author, place & date printed
in black, pict. ornament in green, all within a black ornamental
border & border.
Presentation copy to Mrs. R.L. Reid.
F.f.l. 1922 (NUC, Watters).
The young author was the daughter of A.M. Pound, the critic and bibliophile. Her little story shows a child-like total belief in fairies.
655 ROBERTS, Charles George Douglas, 1860-1943.
CHILDREN/OF THE WILD/BY/CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS/AUTHOR OF "KINGS IN EXILE," "THE/FEET OF THE FURTIVE," ETC./New York/THE MACMILLAN COMPANY/1922/ Half-title.
c. 1913 Macmillan Co., pub. September 1913.
[i-viii], 1-300 pp. Pl. frontis. 184x120 mm.
Frontis. signed Paul Bransom.
Dark blue dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears pict.
ornament, title & author stamped in gold; spine bears title,
pict. ornament, author, publ. & rules in gold.
Signed copy: The "Babe" in this book is "Me". Charles D.G.
Roberts.
F.f.l. as Babes of the wild, London, Cassell, 1912 (BM, NUC,
Pomeroy) (see no. 681); f.f.l. as Children of the wild, 1913
(NUC, Pomeroy, Watters).
Contents: The little furry ones that slide down hill; The black imps of pine-top; Young Grumpy and the one-eyed gander; Little Sword and the ink-maker; Rocked in the cradle of the deep; Teddy Bear's bee tree; The snowhouse baby; Little Silk Wing; A little alien in the wilderness; What he saw when he kept still; The little villager and his unfriendly guests; The baby and the bear; The Little Sly One; The daring of Stripes Terror-Tail; Dagger Bill and the water babies.
656 ROBERTS, Charles George Douglas, 1860-1943.
IN THE/MORNING OF TIME/BY/CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS/Author of "The Kindred of the Wild," etc./TORONTO/McCLELLAND AND STEWART, LIMITED/ PUBLISHERS/ [1922]. Half-title.
c. 1922 Frederick A. Stokes Co.
[i-viii], 1-311 pp. 187x126 mm.
Dark blue dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears title &
author stamped in orange; spine bears title, rule, author &
publ. in orange.
Presentation copy to A.M. Pound, April 23, 1925: 'I have read
this book with keen interest myself!' Charles G.D. Roberts.
F.f.l. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1919 (Pomeroy, Watters); this ed.
[1922] (Can Cat, T&C).
An unusual book giving an insight into prehistoric time. Monsters and semi-human creatures and early humans are blended into a romantic adventure story.
657 SCOTT, G. Firth.
DARING DEEDS OF/POLAR EXPLORERS/TRUE STORIES OF THE BRAVERY, RESOURCE,/ENDURANCE & ADVENTURES OF EXPLORERS/AT THE POLES/ BY/G. FIRTH SCOTT/AUTHOR OF "FROM FRANKLIN TO NANSEN," "THE ROMANCE/OF AUSTRALIAN EXPLORING," "COLONIAL BORN," &c., &c./WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS/LONDON/SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LIMITED/ 38 GREAT RUSSELL STREET/1922/ Half-title.
Pr. Riverside Press Ltd., Edinburgh 1922.
[A]4, B-Q8, R4 9-264 pp. Pl. frontis. + 8 pl. 207x138 mm.
Col. frontis. signed J.F. Campbell.
Daring deeds library; pp. 9, 10 & 14 adverts.
Gray fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title stamped in black
& col. pict. ornament within a black border; spine bears title &
author in blind on a gold rectangle, publ. in gold, col. pict.
ornament within a black border.
F.f.l. 1922 (NUC); 1921 (EC).
According to the author's listing in the BM, he wrote several books on exploration.
658 SETON, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946.
WILD ANIMAL/WAYS/by/ERNEST THOMPSON SETON/Author of/"Wild Animals at Home," "Wild Animals I Have Known"/"Two Little Savages," "Biography of a Grizzly"/"Life Histories of Northern Animals,"/"Rolf in the Woods" "The Book of Woodcraft."/Chief of the Woodcraft League of America./ [pict. ornament] /With 200 Drawings by the Author/Garden City New York/Doubleday, Page & Company/1922/ Half-title.
c. 1916 Ernest Thompson Seton; pr. Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.
i-xiv, 1-247 pp. Pl. frontis. + 7 pl. 192x135 mm.
Pp. 244-47 list of other titles by the author with 1st date of
publication given for each; last date given is 1918.
Dark gray dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears pict.
ornament stamped in black; spine bears title, pict. ornament,
author & publ. in gold.
F.f.l. 1916 (NUC, Wadland).
Contents: Coaly-Bay, the outlaw horse; Foam, or the life and adventures of a razor-backed hog; Way-Atcha, the coon-raccoon of Kilder Creek; Billy, the dog that made good; The wild geese of Wyndygoul; Jinny, the taming of a bad monkey.
659 SETON, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946.
WOODLAND TALES/BY/ERNEST THOMPSON SETON/ [pict. ornament] /WITH
100 DRAWINGS/BY/THE AUTHOR/AUTHOR OF "WILD ANIMALS AT HOME,"
WILD/ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN," "TWO LITTLE SAV-/AGES," "BIOGRAPHY OF
A GRIZZLY," "LIFE/HISTORIES OF NORTHERN ANIMALS," "ROLF IN/THE
WOODS," "THE BOOK OF WOODCRAFT."/CHIEF OF THE WOODCRAFT LEAGUE OF
AMERICA/GARDEN CITY NEW YORK/DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY/1922/ [all
within a triple border].
Half-title.
c. 1905, 1920, 1921 Ernest Thompson Seton; c. 1903, 1904 Century
Co., pr. Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.
i-xvi, 1-238 pp. 196x135 mm.
Pp. 236-38 list of other titles by the author.
Dark gray dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears pict.
ornament stamped in black; spine bears title, pict. ornament,
author & publ. in gold.
F.f.l. New York, Doubleday, Page, 1921 (NUC, Wadland).
Even if the Preface did not inform us that this book was intended specifically for children, Seton's tone here would make it clear. The short stories and parables are sentimental and often cute with a considerable amount of anthropomorphism. The most appealing parts of the book are the sections on 'Things to see' and 'Things to do' in the different seasons.
660 WALLACE, Dillon, 1863-1939.
The Story of Grenfell/of the Labrador/A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell/By/DILLON WALLACE,/Author of "Grit-a-Plenty," "The Ragged Inlet/Guards," "Ungava Bob," etc., etc./ ILLUSTRATED/McCLELLAND AND STEWART, LIMITED/TORONTO/ [1922]. Half-title.
c. 1922 Fleming H. Revell Co.
1-237 pp. Pl. frontis. + 7 pl. 186x122 mm.
Frontis. & pl. are photographs.
Labrador tales of Dillon Wallace; p. 2 list of other titles by the
author.
Gray coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in dark red, pict. ornament in dark red & green; spine
bears title, ornament, publ. & author in dark red. Original
dustjacket.
F.f.l. [1922] (Rhodenizer (p. 433), T&C).
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940) born in England, was a doctor, a medical missionary and an author. Most of his life was devoted to the advancement of his medical work in Newfoundland and Labrador. (Macmillan). Grenfell's most popular book, and one with considerable appeal for the young is Adrift on an ice-pan (1909).
1923
661 BAIRD, Frank, 1870-1951.
ROB MACNAB/A Story of Old Pictou/By FRANK BAIRD/Author of/"BOY NUMBER NINE," "ROGER DAVIS, LOYALIST," ETC./Illustrated by/C.W. JEFFERYS/ [pict. ornament] /ROYAL PRINT & LITHO LTD./PUBLISHERS [printer's marks] HALIFAX/ [1923]. Half-title.
c. 1923 Frank Baird.
[*]4, [1]12, 2-1012, [11]6 (last leaf blank) [i-viii], 1-250 pp.
Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. 188x111 mm.
Blue coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, sub-title &
author stamped in gold; spine bears title, author, publ. & rules
top & bottom in gold (rubbed).
F.f.l. [1923] (Can Cat, NUC, T&C, Watters).
The Foreword is dated 1923. Baird was born in New Brunswick. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1901. From 1901 until 1951 he held pastorates in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, as well as high offices in his denomination. (Rhodenizer p. 382). The sub-title of Rob McNab is a good indication of its contents. Pictou was the chief home in the Maritimes of the Scottish settlers who arrived on the ship the Hector in 1773. The life of the settlement, its religious beliefs and differences, and the founding of the Pictou Academy are related by a young Scottish boy 'Hector Davie'.
662 BENNETT, Ethel Hume (Patterson), b. 1881.
Camp Ken-jockety/BY/ETHEL HUME BENNETT/Author of "Judy of York Hill"/WITH ILLUSTRATIONS/ [publ. device for Houghton Mifflin] /TORONTO/THOMAS ALLEN/ BOSTON AND NEW YORK/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY/1923/ Half-title.
c. 1923 Ethel Hume Bennett; pr. Riverside Press, Cambridge.
[i-viii], 1-311 pp. Pl. frontis. + 2 pl. 187x122 mm.
Pl. signed Harold Cue.
Green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title, pict. ornament
& author; spine bears title, author & publs.
F.f.l. 1923 Toronto, Allen (Can Cat); also pub. Boston, Houghton
(NUC, US Cat, Watters).
Mrs. Bennett was born at Toronto, Ontario. (Rhodenizer p. 419). In Camp Ken-jockety, a spoiled, wealthy American girl adjusts very quickly to a cottage holiday in Georgian Bay with friends of her father. This is a good example of the author's novels for the young in that there are no strong tensions either in character development or in plot.
663 COLE, Carol Cassidy, pseud. of Carol M. (Cassidy) Manchee.
DOWNY WING AND/SHARP EARS/Adventures of a little/Canadian Boy among/little wild friends in/Natures [sic] Wonderland/BY/CAROL CASSIDY COLE/Author of "Velvet Paws and Shiny Eyes"/ [publ. device] /TORONTO/HODDER AND STOUGHTON/ LIMITED/ [c. 1923]. Half-title.
c. 1923 Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd., Toronto.
i-viii, 1-152 pp. 175x118 mm.
Frontis., full-page & text illus. signed M. Sankey.
Binding as no. 644 except for title & sub-title.
For Audrey, with love, from Uncle Ira, Christmas, 1923.
F.f.l. Toronto, Musson, 1923 (Can Cat, Watters); this ed. [c.
1923].
A companion volume to the author's Velvet paws and shiny eyes (see no. 644).
664 GRAHAME, Gordon Hill, b. 1889.
LARRY/or The Avenging Terrors/BY/GORDON HILL GRAHAME/Author of "The Bond Triumphant"/TORONTO/THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY/LIMITED/ [1923]. Half-title.
c. 1923 Musson Book Co., Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd., Toronto.
[i-vi], 1-311 [312] + [i-ii] pp. 187x122 mm.
Frontis. & full-page illus. signed M. Sankey.
Young Canada series; pp. [312] & [i] at end adverts. One advert.
is for Hodder & Stoughton.
Light blue coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & sub-
title stamped in blind on orange, author in orange; spine bears
title, sub-title, rule, author & publ. in orange.
F.f.l. [1923] (Can Cat, NUC, Watters); US Cat lists a Hodder &
Stoughton ed. in square brackets.
Hill came into prominence in Canadian letters when his first novel, The bond triumphant, won Hodder and Stoughton's Canadian Prize Novel Contest in 1922. It was a historical romance for adults. Little is known of his life. He was a resident of Lakefield, Ontario and of Toronto. He served in World War I and was an inveterate traveller. (Thomas). Larry; or, The avenging terrors is a school story set around Peterborough, Ontario. It is a mild story, complete with a school bully who gets his just desserts at the hands of the hero Larry and his boon companions. The blurb in the advertisements [page 312] erroneously describes this book as 'the first story of Canadian Boarding School Life for boys to be presented.' It is equally erroneous in comparing this book to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and Kenneth Grahame's The golden age.
665 HEMING, Arthur Henry Howard, 1870-1940.
SPIRIT/LAKE/BY/ARTHUR HEMING/Author of "The Drama of the Forests"/WITH ILLUSTRATIONS/BY THE AUTHOR/ [pict. ornaments] /TORONTO/THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY/LIMITED/ [1923] [all within a dbl. border]. Half-title.
c. 1923 Musson Book Co., Ltd.
i-xii, 1-280 pp. Pl. frontis. + 18 pl. (incl. in paging) 188x120
mm.
5 pl. are printed on both sides.
Olive green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears pict. ornament
within a border stamped in blind; spine bears title, ornament,
author & publ. in gold. Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. New York, Macmillan, 1907 (BM, NUC); this ed. [1923] (Can
Cat).
Heming was born at Paris, Ontario and became a well-known painter and author. He was especially noted for his interpretation of Canadian wilderness life in both art forms. (Macmillan). Spirit Lake is a simply, but vividly told story of a group of Saulteaux Indians. It was very popular in its time, selling well in foreign countries.
666 MACMURCHY, Marjory (Lady Willison), d. 1938.
THE CHILD'S HOUSE/A Comedy of Vanessa from the Age of/Eight or Thereabouts until she had/Climbed the Steps as far as Thirteen/BY/MARJORY MACMURCHY/ MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED/ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON/1923/ Half-title.
Pr. Billing & Sons, Ltd., Guildford & Esher.
[A]4, B-P8, Q10 i-viii, 1-243 pp. 185x124 mm.
Black coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears border stamped in
blind; spine bears title, rule, author & publ. in gold.
F.f.l. 1923 (EC, NUC); also pub. Toronto, Macmillan (Can Cat,
Watters).
Marjory MacMurchy was an author and journalist born at Toronto, Ontario. (Macmillan). The sub-title of The child's house is a reasonable description of its episodic contents as a well-loved, well-to-do child, with a sensitive original mind, moves from childhood to young adolescence. For its period, the style is noticeably sophisticated. Although the book has been listed as a juvenile, it fits more aptly into the category of a book about childhood.
667 MARCHANT, Bessie (Mrs. J.A. Comfort), 1862-1941.
RACHEL OUT WEST/BY/BESSIE MARCHANT/Author of "Harriet Goes a- Roaming" "Island Born"/"The Youngest Sister" &c./Illustrated by H. Coller/BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED/LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY/ [1923]. Half-title.
[1]8, 2-168 1-256 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. 184x116 mm.
P. 2 list of other titles by the author.
Beige fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author stamped
in brown, pict. ornament in orange & brown; spine bears title,
author & publ. in brown, pict. ornament in orange & brown.
F.f.l. [1923] (BM, EC).
Rachel is a typical Marchant girl as she performs brave and generous deeds and helps to clear her brother's name from criminal charges. The setting is northern British Columbia.
668 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
EMILY/OF NEW MOON/BY/L.M. MONTGOMERY/Author of "Anne of Green Gables," "The Story Girl," "Rainbow Valley,"/"Rilla of Ingleside," "Anne's House of Dreams," etc./WITH FRONTISPIECE IN COLOUR BY/M.L. KIRK/TORONTO/McCLELLAND AND STEWART, LTD./PUBLISHERS/ [1923?]. Half-title.
c. 1923 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., pr. Hunter-Rose Co., Ltd.
[i-viii], 1-351 pp. Pl. frontis. 190x125 mm.
Col. frontis.
Dark blue dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears col. pict.
onlay with title & author printed in brown; spine bears title,
ornament, author & publ. stamped in gold.
F.f.l. New York Stokes, 1923 (NUC, Russell); this ed [1923?] (Can
Cat, NUC, Russell).
According to her journal, Montgomery turned to the Emily books with considerable relief. 'I want to create a new heroine now - she is already in embryo in my mind - she has been christened for years. Her name is Emily. She has black hair and purplish gray eyes. I want to tell folks about her' (Selected journals, vol. II, p. 390). The Emily books (the sequels Emily climbs and Emily's quest) are obviously more autobiographical than any of her other works. Emily's determination to be a writer certainly matches that of Montgomery herself.
669 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
RAINBOW VALLEY//BY/L.M. MONTGOMERY/Author of "Anne of Green Gables," "Anne of the Island,"/"Anne's House of Dreams," "The Story Girl,"/"The Watchman," etc./ [3 lines of quotation] /WITH FRONTISPIECE IN COLOR/BY M.L. KIRK/TORONTO/ McCLELLAND AND STEWART, LIMITED/PUBLISHERS/ [1923]. Half-title.
c. 1919 Frederick A. Stokes, Co.
i-x, 1-341 pp. Pl. frontis. 191x130 mm.
Col. frontis.
Light green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears col. pict. paper
onlay with title & author printed in black; spine bears title,
rule, author & publ. stamped in gold. Foredges uncut.
F.f.l. New York, Stokes, 1919 (NUC, Russell); this ed. [1923]
(NUC).
About the children of Anne of Green Gables. Their lives are not as dramatic as Anne's early years were, but Montgomery is able to recycle some of her old material by introducing the minister's rather mischievous children, whose high spirits are acceptable only because they have no mother.
670 ROBERTS, Charles George Douglas, 1860-1943.
IN THE/MORNING OF TIME/BY/CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS/AUTHOR OF/"THE HEART OF THE ANCIENT WOOD,"/"THE WISDOM OF THE WILDERNESS,"/"THE FORGE IN THE FOREST,"/"A HISTORY OF CANADA,"/"COLLECTED POEMS,"/ ETC., ETC./ [publ. device] /MCMXXIII/LONDON AND TORONTO/J.M. DENT & SONS LTD./ Half-title.
Pr. Temple Press, Letchworth.
[*]5, A-U8 1 p.l., i-viii, 1-320 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl.
187x129 mm.
The pl. are by various illus.
Olive green dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears ornament
within a border both stamped in blind; spine bears title,
ornament, author & publ. in blind.
See no. 656.
The illustrations add considerably to the primitive atmosphere of the text.
671 ROBERTS, Theodore Goodridge, 1877-1953.
TOM AKERLEY/His Adventures in the Tall Timber and at/Gaspard's Clearing on the Indian River/RELATED BY/Captain Theodore Goodridge Roberts/Author of "The Fighting Starkleys," "Comrades of the Trails,"/"Red Feathers," etc./ILLUSTRATED BY/ Ernest Fuhr/ [publ. device] /BOSTON/L.C. PAGE AND COMPANY/ (INCORPORATED) /MDCCCCXXIII/ [all within 5 rectangles, all within an ornamental border]. Half-title.
c. 1922 Perry Mason Co., c. 1923 L.C. Page & Co., 1st imp. 1923;
pr. C.H. Simonds Co., Boston, Mass.
[i-viii], 1-283 + [i-viii] + 1-12 pp. Pl. frontis. + 4 pl.
188x123 mm.
P. [ii] list of other titles by the author; pp. [i-viii] & 1-12 at
end adverts.
Olive green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & sub-
title stamped in dark green, author in blind & pict. ornament in
orange & dark green, all within a dark green border; spine bears
title, author, publ., rule & place in orange, & pict. ornament
in orange & dark green. Foredges uncut.
Signed copy: This yarn was first published in the Youth's
companion, of Boston, under the title "Sons of Liberty"
Theodore Goodridge Roberts April 8th? 1932 (my first serial
written after the war. T.G.R.)
F.f.l. 1923 (NUC, US Cat, Watters).
The advertisement on page [ii] at end describes this title as appealing to 'boy readers.' It has an unusual plot for its time in Canada being the story of an officer of the 'Dominion Air Force' who assaults his superior officer and flees in a government airplane to the New Brunswick woods.
672 TRAILL, Catharine Parr (Strickland), 1802-1899.
Canadian Crusoes/A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains./By Catharine Parr Traill [printer's marks] / [rule] /Edited by Agnes Strickland and Illustrated/by G.A. Nelson [printer's marks]/ [rule] / [rule] /McCLELLAND AND STEWART/PUBLISHERS [printer's marks] TORONTO/ [1923]. Half-title.
c. 1923 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., pr. Warwick Bros. & Rutter Ltd. Toronto.
[1]8, 2-198, 202 (surrounding 218); (frontis. is a cancel for leaf
2 of sig. [1]) 1-323 pp. Pl. frontis. 209x130 mm.
Full-page illus.
Light green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in black, pict. ornament in black & orange; spine bears
title, author & publ. in black, ornament in orange. Original
dustjacket.
See nos. 094, 097; this ed. [1923] (Can Cat).
673 WALLACE, Paul Anthony Wilson, b. 1891.
Baptiste Larocque/Legends of French Canada/BY/PAUL A.W. WALLACE/ [pict. ornament] /TORONTO/THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY/LIMITED/ [1923]. Half-title.
c. 1923 Musson Book Co., Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd., Toronto.
1 p.l., i-viii, 1-129 pp. 186x120 mm.
Orange paper on boards. Front bears title, sub-title, author &
pict. ornament as t.p. printed in black; spine backed in brown
cloth bears title, author, ornament & rules printed in black on
an orange paper label. Pict. endpapers printed in black on
green. Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. [1923] (Can Cat, NUC, T&C, Watters).
Contents: The legend of the Percé Rock; The legend of the phantom fleet; The legend of Cadieux; The legend of Father Labrosse; The midnight Mass; The priest who lost one hundred years; The haunted house of Charlottetown; A ghost for forty dollars; A tale of the loup-garou; A tale of the fi-follett; The legend of the Sault au Récollet; How the devil got his cat; The devil builds a church; The devil and the candle; The story of Rose Latulippe; The fiddler of Mardi Gras; The demon of Anticosti; The legend of Vente-au- diable; The wandering Jew; The man who danced with the northern lights; Ti-Jean and the unicorn; Ti-Jean gets the moon; Ti-Jean and the black bag; Ti-Jean and the white cat; Ti-Jean goes to heaven. These excellent folk tales and legends are unfortunately recounted in the kind of 'Franglais' also indulged in by the Canadian poet, William Henry Drummond.
1924
674 BAIRD, Frank, 1870-1951.
PARSON JOHN/OF/THE LABRADOR/A STORY WHICH TELLS ALSO OF/THE EXCITING ADVENTURES OF/BOY NUMBER NINE, TOM BADD,/AND OTHER BOLD CHARACTERS/BY/FRANK BAIRD/AUTHOR OF "ROGER DAVIS, LOYALIST"/ETC., ETC./ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE SOPER, R.I./LONDON/THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY/4, BOUVERIE STREET, E.C. 4/ [1924]. Half-title.
Pr. William Clowes & Sons, Ltd., London & Beccles.
[A]8, B-Q8 1-246 [247-56] pp. Pl. frontis. + 7 pl. 193x123 mm.
Pp. 2 & [247-56] adverts.
Dark blue coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in gold; spine bears title, author & publ. monogram in
gold. Original dustjacket.
Dec/28 To Herbert from the Vicar with all best wishes.
F.f.l. [1924] (BM, Can Cat, EC, Watters).
The story of a Doctor Barnardo boy swept overboard on to an island off the coast of Labrador, and rescued by a missionary to Labrador, Parson John. Although the boy, called 'Boy Number nine' and his Eskimo friend have a dangerous and stirring adventure, the book is chiefly memorable for its insights (often humourous) into the characters of the Labrador fishermen. The phrase 'boy number nine' in the sub-title is a title that precedes this book, according to Rhodenizer (p. 418), but beyond this mention, no listing has been found for it.
675 BRERETON, Frederick Sadlier, 1872-1957.
How Canada was Won/A Tale of Wolfe and Quebec/BY/LT.-COLONEL F.S. BRERETON/Author of "The Great Aeroplane"/"Tom Stapleton, the Boy Scout"/&c. &c./ Illustrated by William Rainey, R.I./BLACKIE & SON LIMITED/LONDON AND GLASGOW/ [1924]. Half-title.
Pr. Robert Maclehose & Co., Ltd.
[A]8, B-2A8, 2B4 1-391 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. 183x117 mm.
P. 4 list of other titles by the author.
Green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & ornaments
stamped in yellow, sub-title & author in black, pict. ornament
in brown, blue, yellow & black signed Hassall within a black
border; spine bears title, author & publ. in black, pict.
ornament in blue, brown, yellow & black within a black border.
F.f.l. 1909 [1908] (BM, NUC); 1908 (EC); this ed. illus. by
William Rainey [1924] (EC).
The long struggle between the French and the English culminates in the battle of the Plains of Abraham, and yet another young hero knows the path to the top of the cliff and so is responsible for Wolfe's victory.
676 COWPER, Edith Elise.
GIRLS ON THE/GOLD TRAIL/A STORY OF STRANGE ADVENTURES/IN THE NORTHLANDS/BY/E.E. COWPER/AUTHOR OF/"MAIDS OF THE MERMAID," "PAM AND THE COUNTESS"/"THE MYSTERY OF SAFFRON MANOR"/ETC., ETC./THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD./LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK/ TORONTO, AND PARIS/ [1924].
[1]8, 2-208, 214 iii-vi, 9-327 [328-32] pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl.
186x126 mm.
Pl. are signed Kay.
Pp. [329-32] adverts.
Basket-weave patterned cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in black & pict. ornament in red & black; spine bears
title, author & publ. in black & pict. ornament in red & black.
F.f.l. [1924] (BM, EC).
According to her listing in the BM, the author was a prolific writer for the young, especially girls. In Girls on the gold trail, three teenagers, two girls and a boy, leave northern Saskatchewan to recover their father's gold from the area around Great Slave Lake. It is a trip filled with danger from both enemies and natural hazards.
677 DICKIE, Donalda James, 1883-1971.
ALL ABOUT/CANADA/FOR LITTLE FOLKS/BY/D.J. DICKIE/ [publ. device] / TORONTO/J.M. DENT & SONS LTD./ [1924]. Half-title. Pr. Temple Press, Letchworth.
[A]8, B-D8 1-64 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. 196x132 mm.
Col. frontis. & pl., text illus. are photographs.
Dent's Canadian history readers, book I.
Red fine diaper cloth. Front bears series title stamped in black
on white, pict. ornament in b&w., author, title, 'Book One',
arms of Canada, place & publ. in black; spine bears 'Canada'.
Dated by Preface [1924].
This little reader is charmingly Canadian in content, showing the Indian people, the Eskimos, the new Canadians of the period, as well as pictures of people and places across the country. A strong link with Britain is also evident.
678 JUDSON, Clara (Ingram), 1879-1960.
MARY JANE/IN CANADA/BY/CLARA INGRAM JUDS0N/AUTHOR OF/"THE MARY JANE SERIES," "THE JUNIOR COOK BOOK"/ILLUSTRATED BY/CHARLES L. WRENN/ [publ. device] /PUBLISHERS/BARSE & HOPKINS/NEW YORK, N.Y. NEWARK, N.J./ [1924].
c. 1924 Barse & Hopkins.
3-208 + [i-vi] pp. Pl. frontis. 185x119 mm.
Full-page illus.
The Mary Jane series; pp. [i-vi] adverts.
Green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, pict.
ornament & author; spine bears title, rule, author & publ.
F.f.l. [1924] (NUC, US Cat).
Mrs. Judson was a prolific American writer for children. She was chiefly noted for her Mary Jane series. Mary Jane was an inveterate traveller, visiting most of the major countries of the world. In Canada, Mary Jane visits Toronto, Quebec City and Montreal.
679 MACDONALD, Alexander, b. 1878.
The White Trail/A Story of the Early Days of Klondike/BY/ALEXANDER MACDONALD, F.R.G.S./Author of "The Quest of the Black Opals"/"The Lost Explorers" &c/ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIAM RAINEY, R.I./BLACKIE & SON LIMITED/ LONDON AND GLASGOW/ [1924]. Half-title.
c. 1908 H.M. Caldwell Co.
[1]8, 2-248, 254 i-vi, 7-392 pp. Pl. frontis. + 8 pl. 192x130
mm.
Dark green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title, sub-title
& author stamped in black & pict. ornament in black, cream, gray
& light brown, all within a black border; spine bears title,
author & publ. in black, pict. ornament in black, cream & light
brown within a black border.
Arnold Ridgway, Grade XB. Attendance and Punctuality, Strathcona
Academy, June, 1933.
F.f.l. 1909 [1908] (BM); 1908 (EC); also pub. New York, Caldwell,
1908 (NUC); this ed. possibly [1924] (EC).
Macdonald was born in Scotland, but lived in Australia for many years. (Marcie Muir, A bibliography of Australian children's books, vol. I). Judging from his entry in the BM he wrote travel books as well as adventure stories. The author's Preface states that The white trail 'is a story from life, and not a single character mentioned therein has been created to fulfil the purpose of the storyteller's art.' However, the contents are cast in fictional form with plenty of conversations. The Preface also gives the author's intention as that of encouraging 'energy and initiative, and a broader sympathy for humankind, in the youth of our land ...'
680 MARQUIS, Thomas Guthrie, 1864-1936.
THE KING'S WISH/By/T.G. MARQUIS/Clip Cut Decorations by L. Hummel/ [rule] / THE RYERSON BOOKSHELF/ [rule] /THE RYERSON PRESS/TORONTO/ [1924] [all within a dbl. border]. Half-title.
c. 1924 Ryerson Press.
[*]4, [1]8, 2-108, 114 (last leaf blank) [i-viii], 1-165 pp. Pl.
2 pl. 207x132 mm.
Pl. are a centrefold printed in black on orange paper.
The Ryerson bookshelf.
Yellow coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, author &
pict. ornament within a border stamped in blind; spine bears
title, author, series & ornaments in black. Endpapers printed
in black on orange.
Presentation copy: To L.O. Cameron with compliments of T.G.
Marquis, Toronto, August 2, 1924.
F.f.l. [1924] (Can Cat, NUC, OCCL, Watters).
Here Marquis turns from his usual historical fiction and historical works to enter the realm of fantasy. It is a highly original tale of a young shepherd boy and his powerful, magical harp. The comments on wars and governments give the tale a feeling of allegory. Few such works were created for children in Canada at this time. It is also noteworthy for its attractive make-up - again a rarity for its time.
681 ROBERTS, Charles George Douglas, 1860-1943.
BABES/OF THE WILD/BY/CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS/ [pict. ornament] /WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS/BY/WARWICK REYNOLDS/MCMXXIV/LONDON & TORONTO/J.M. DENT & SONS LTD./ Half-title.
Pr. Temple Press, Letchworth.
[A]8, B-Q8 i-vi, 1-249 pp. Pl. frontis. + 7 pl. 205x147 mm.
Olive green dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears pict.
ornament stamped in gold within a border in blind; spine bears
title, ornament, author & publ. in gold. T.e. green.
F.f.l. London, Cassell, 1912 (BM, NUC, Pomeroy, Watters).
This edition lacks the last three stories contained in no. 655.
682 ROBERTS, Theodore Goodridge, 1877-1953.
The Oxbow Wizard/BY/THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS/ [ornaments] / GARDEN CITY NEW YORK/GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC./1924/ Half-title.
c. 1924 Doubleday, Page & Co., c. 1920 Torbell Co., pr. Country
Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.
[i-vi], 1-121 pp. 187x116 mm.
Frontis. signed F. Thornburgh.
White wrappers. Front bears col. pict. ornament within black
borders, title, author, rules & 'A Book for Boys' printed in
black on yellow, ornaments in b&w., back bears list printed in
black of 62 titles in 'paper covers' of which this is no. 60;
spine bears No. 60 & title printed in black. (Library label
covers another word).
Signed copy: First pub. in The Open Road. Theodore Goodridge
Roberts, April, 1932.
F.f.l. 1924 (NUC, Watters).
A teenager finds a book of Sherlock Holmes stories and applies the great detective's deductive reasoning to the mysteries that occur around him in his trapping and Indian environment. The setting is probably New Brunswick.
683 ROBERTS, Theodore Goodridge, 1877-1953.
THE RED PIROGUE/A Tale of Adventure in the/Canadian Wilds/RELATED BY/ Captain Theodore Goodridge Roberts/Author of "The Fighting Starkleys," "Comrades of the Trails,"/"Red Feathers," "Tom Akerley," etc./ILLUSTRATED BY/Frank T. Merrill/ [publ. device] /BOSTON/L.C. PAGE AND COMPANY/ (INCORPORATED) / MDCCCCXXIV/ [all within 5 rectangles, all within an ornamental border]. Half-title.
c. 1922 Street & Smith Corp., c. 1924 L.C. Page & Co., 1st impr.
Jan. 1924; pr. C.H. Simonds Co., Boston, Mass.
[i-viii], 1-272 + 1-8 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. 188x124 mm.
P. [ii] list of other titles by the author; pp. 1-8 at end
adverts.
Green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title stamped in
black, author in blind, both against a pict. ornament in red,
orange & black; spine bears title & author in gold, rules &
pict. ornament in black, publ. & place in red. Foredges uncut.
Signed copy: Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Vancouver, April 9th,
1932.
F.f.l. 1924 (NUC, Watters).
The advertisements are for books for children and young people. The rather weak storyline involves an eighteen-year-old youth and an eleven-year-old girl. The setting is New Brunswick.
684 SAUNDERS, Marshall, 1861-1947.
JIMMY/GOLD-COAST/OR/THE STORY OF A MONKEY AND/HIS FRIENDS/ [dbl. rule] /BY/MARSHALL SAUNDERS/AUTHOR OF "BEAUTIFUL JOE"/ [dbl. rule] / PHILADELPHIA/DAVID McKAY COMPANY/WASHINGTON SQUARE/ [1924] [all within a border]. Half-title.
c. David McKay Co.
[A]8, B-U8 (1st leaf blank) i-x, 11-319 pp. 186x125 mm.
Frontis. & full-page illus. signed M. Sankey.
Green diagonal fine-ribbed cloth. Front board bears title, sub-
title, rule & author stamped in gold; spine bears title, rule,
'Author of' & publ. in gold, rules top & bottom in blind.
F.f.l. Toronto, Hodder, 1923 (Can Cat, T&C, Watters); this ed.
[1924] (NUC, US Cat).
An African monkey tells the story of his life and that of his master who is a professional thief. The setting is urban Nova Scotia and Saunders here gave a warm picture of happy, well-to-do child life with an unusual portrayal of a black servant who plays a key role in the story.
685 SHERMAN, Robert Stanton, b. 1889.
MOTHER NATURE/STORIES/BY/R.S. SHERMAN/WITH NUMEROUS/ ILLUSTRATIONS BY/MAUD SHERMAN/and THE AUTHOR/ [pict. ornament] / MCMXXIV/TORONTO & LONDON/J.M. DENT & SONS LTD./ Half-title.
Pr. Temple Press, Letchworth.
[*]4, A-P8, Q10 (1st leaf blank) i-vi, 1-259 pp. Pl. frontis.
204x147 mm.
Col. frontis., text illus.
Red coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears pict. ornament stamped
in gold; spine bears title, pict. ornament, author & publ. in
gold. Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. 1924 (Can Cat, NUC).
Watters lists the author's name as Ralph S. Sherman; NUC gives Robert Stanton Sherman. Many of these very short nature stories are tinged with fantasy and/or anthropomorphism. The setting is British Columbia.
686 STRINGER, Arthur John Arbuthnott, 1874-1950.
LONELY O'MALLEY/A Story of Boy Life/BY/ARTHUR STRINGER/WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY/FRANK T. MERRILL/ [pict. ornament] /McCLELLAND & STEWART/PUBLISHERS [printer's marks] TORONTO/ [1924]. Half-title.
c. 1905, 1924 Bobbs-Merrill Co.
2 p.l., i-xii, 1-383 pp. 186x115 mm.
Frontis., full-page & text illus.
Grayish green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title &
author; spine bears title, ornament, author & publ. Original
dustjacket.
F.f.l. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1905 (NUC); this ed. [1924] (Can
Cat, Watters).
The OCCL describes this book as 'a sentimentalization' of Stringer's boyhood in Chatham and London, Ontario. The young hero is presented as something of a combination of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and George W. Peck's Peck's bad boy and his pa.
1925
687 BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael, 1825-1894.
THE/WORLD OF ICE/OR/The Whaling Cruise of "The Dolphin"/AND/The Adventures of Her Crew in the Polar Regions/By/Robert Michael Ballantyne/Author of "The Dog Crusoe and his Master," "The Young Fur-Traders,"/"The Gorilla-Hunters," "Ungava,"/"The Coral Island,"/&c./ [rule] /NEW EDITION/ [rule] /THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD./LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK/ [rule] /1925/
[1]8, 2-208, 214 i-viii, 9-327 pp. Pl. frontis. + 7 pl. 186x129
mm.
Col. frontis. & pl. signed W.H.C. Groome.
The Ballantyne books.
Green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears series title
surrounding a pict. ornament within an ornamental border; spine
bears title, author, pict. ornament & publ. within an ornamental
border.
See no. 113.
688 BENNETT, Ethel Hume (Patterson), b. 1881.
Judy's Prefect Year/BY/ETHEL HUME BENNETT/Author of 'Judy of York Hill,' "Camp Ken-Jockety," etc./ [publ. device] /TORONTO/THOMAS ALLEN/BOSTON AND NEW YORK/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY/1925/ Half-title.
c. 1925 Ethel Hume Bennett; pr. Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass.
[i-vi], 1-288 pp. Pl. frontis. 187x119 mm.
Frontis. signed F.M. Rines.
The Judy books.
Light brown coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, pict.
ornament & author; spine bears title, author, rule & publ.
Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. 1925 (Can Cat, NUC, US Cat, Watters).
A sequel to the author's Judy of York Hill (1922). The above title also describes life in a girls' boarding school in Toronto. It is chiefly concerned with the daily round of school life with some tension caused by a clash of character between Judy and a new girl.
689 BOURINOT, Arthur Stanley, 1893-1969.
Pattering Feet/A Book of/Childhood/Verses/BY/ARTHUR S. BOURINOT/Drawings by/ Alan B. Beddoe/1925/THE GRAPHIC PUBLISHERS/OTTAWA, ONTARIO/ Half-title.
c. 1925 Arthur S. Bourinot; engr. Crabtree Co., Ltd., Ottawa.
3-79 pp. 193x132 mm.
Text illus.
P. 11 list of other titles by the author.
Orange paper on boards. Front bears title, sub-title, author &
pict. ornament, stamped in brown; spine of brown cloth bears
title, author, ornament & publ. device in gold.
F.f.l. 1925 (Can Cat, NUC, T&C, Watters).
Bourinot, born at Ottawa, Ontario, was a noted poet and author. He won the Governor General's award for poetry in 1949. He was also editor of the Canadian poetry magazine, 1948-54 and of the Canadian author and bookman 1953-54. (Macmillan). His children's poetry is modelled on that of Robert Louis Stevenson's A child's garden of verses.
690 CLARKE, George Frederick, 1883-197-?
Chris in Canada/BY/G.F. CLARKE/Illustrated by W.E. Wightman/BLACKIE & SON LIMITED/LONDON AND GLASGOW/ [1925]. Half-title.
[1]8, 2-148 1-224 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 185x121 mm.
Pl. listed for p. 184 faces p. 192.
Beige fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author stamped
in dark blue & pict. ornament in dark blue & yellow; spine bears
title & author in dark blue & pict. ornament in dark blue &
yellow. (Black ink probably covers the publ. name).
F.f.l. 1925 (Can Cat, Watters).
Clarke was an author and a dental surgeon, born at Woodstock, New Brunswick. (Rhodenizer p. 918). Chris of Chris in Canada is the younger son in an English family who emigrate to a farm in New Brunswick. The author is decidedly pro-British.
691 DEERING, Fremont B., pseud of John Henry Goldfrap, 1879-1917.
THE BORDER BOYS/ALONG THE ST. LAWRENCE/ [dbl. rule] /By FREMONT B. DEERING/ [rule] /AUTHOR OF/"The Border Boys Across the Frontier," "The Border/ Boys with the Mexican Rangers," "The Border/Boys with the Texas Rangers," "The Border/ Boys in the Canadian Rockies," "The Border/Boys on the Trail."/ [pict. ornament] / [dbl. rule] /A.L. BURT COMPANY/Publishers New York/Printed in U.S.A./ [1925] [all within a dbl. border].
c. 1914 Hurst & Co.
1-313 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 full-page illus. not incl. in paging.
183x121 mm.
Full-page illus. signed C[harles] L. Wrenn.
Bluish gray coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears pict. ornament
stamped in red & black, title & author in black, all within a
red border; spine bears title, rule, author & publ. in black,
pict. ornament in red & black.
To Nilon. With Many Happy Returns of the day. 14 years old.
Year 1925, Nov. 28th. From Aunty Anna & Uncle Arnion.
F.f.l. New York, Hurst, 1914 (US Cat); this ed. [1925] (US Cat).
Goldfrap was an American journalist and writer of books for boys. (DNAA). The Border Boys are typical youths of the American series phenomenon of the early twentieth century - intelligent, brave, noble, wealthy, humane, etc. Indeed they are super youths. In this particular title, the author gives some reasons for the importance of the St. Lawrence River, some of its history, and glimpses of Quebec City and the towns and islands of the river.
692 EVANS, Lawton Bryan, 1862-1934.
The/TRAIL BLAZERS/PIONEERS/OF THE/NORTHWEST/ [pict. ornament] /By/ LAWTON B. EVANS/Illustrated By/OLIVER KEMP/ [logo of publ., Milton Bradley Company] /Springfield, Massachusetts/ [1925] [all within an ornamental border].
c. 1925 Milton Bradley Co.
i-vi, 1-282 pp. Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. 183x118 mm.
Red net-grain cloth. Front board bears title, author &
'Expedition of George Rogers Clark'; spine bears title,
ornament, author & publ. monogram. Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. [c. 1925] (NUC, US Cat).
A fictionalized account of George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818, frontiersman and military leader who fought the British and their Indian allies during the U.S. War of Independence.
693 HEMING, Arthur Henry Howard, 1870-1940.
THE/LIVING FOREST/BY/ARTHUR HEMING/ [publ. device printed in red, within borders embossed in blind] ILLUSTRATED/BY/THE AUTHOR/GARDEN CITY NEW YORK/DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY/1925/ [all within a black & red dbl. border]. Half-title.
c. 1925 Doubleday, Page & Co., pr. Country Life Press, Garden City, New York.
i-xii, 1-268 pp. Pl. frontis. + 15 pl. 199x135 mm.
Col. frontis. & pl.
Green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in dark green; spine bears title, pict. ornament, author
& publ. in dark green. Foredges & bottom edges uncut.
F.f.l. 1925 (NUC); also pub. as The living forest; two boys in the
Canadian woods. New York, Doubleday, 1935 (NUC, Watters).
A story of heroism and villainy, mingled with a great deal of nature lore. The time is 1891 and the setting moves hundreds of miles across the Canadian wilderness.
694 IRWIN, Violet Mary, b. 1881.
THE/SHAMAN'S REVENGE/BY/VIOLET IRWIN/Based on the Arctic Diaries of/ VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON/Illustrated by/GEOFFREY GRIER/New York/THE MACMILLAN COMPANY/1925/All rights reserved/ Half-title.
c. 1925 Vilhjalmur Stefansson & Violet Irwin; pub. Aug. 1925; pr. Berwick & Smith Co.
i-xii, 1-286 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 full-page illus. (not incl. in
paging) 186x121 mm.
P. ix is a map of the territory (the Eastern Arctic) in which the
events of the story occurred.
Green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears circular pict.
ornament, title & 'Irwin and Stefansson'; spine bears title,
ornament, 'Irwin and Stefansson' & publ.
F.f.l. 1925 (NUC, T&C).
This is somewhat of a sequel to Stefansson's and Irwin's Kak the Copper Eskimo (see no. 705). Kak is now sixteen years of age and has devoted himself to the Arctic explorer Stefansson, here named Omialik. This story of the clever, evil shaman and Omialik's desertion by his treacherous sea captain is only slightly marred by the author's comments and English adages applied to Eskimo life.
695 MARC, Elizabeth.
WITH PUCKER TO/THE ARCTIC/A STORY FOR YOUNG READERS/BY/ ELIZABETH MARC/THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD./LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK/TORONTO, AND PARIS/ [1925].
[1]8, 2-168, 174 i-viii, 9-264 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 185x117
mm.
Pl. signed E. Brier 24.
Blue fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title, author & pict.
ornament; spine bears title, author, pict. ornament & publ.
F.f.l. [1925] (BM, EC).
Elizabeth Marc was a British writer for children. In With Pucker to the Arctic, three English children (one a boy scout) find themselves aboard a ship headed for the Canadian Arctic. It is an action-packed story with many a cliff-hanging situation. The author's tone is cosy and intimate with many interjections to her readers. However, her comments are on situations; they are not admonitions as in much of 19th century children's literature. The author evidently researched Eskimo customs (that is the ones likely to appeal to or amuse children), although she does imply a respect for them. The Eskimo family is shown as loving and caring, and the English girl as feisty as her brother and friend. The book is dedicated to the Boy Scouts of Llanelltyd.
696 MARCHANT, Bessie (Mrs. J.A. Comfort), 1862-1941.
Daughters of the/Dominion/A Story of the Canadian Frontier/BY/BESSIE MARCHANT/Author of "A Girl of the Pampas" "Island Born"/"Rachel Out West" &c./ Illustrated by William Rainey, R.I./BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED/LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY/ [1925]. Half-title.
[A]8, B-Y8 1-352 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 185x105 mm.
P. 2 list of titles in 'The girls' library.'
Blue fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author stamped
in black & pict. ornament in black & yellow; spine bears title,
author, publ. in black, pict. ornament in black & yellow.
See no. 512; this ed. [1925] (BM, EC).
697 MILNE, Alan Alexander, 1882-1956.
when/we were very/young/ [rule] /by/a.a.milne/mcclelland & stewart/ [1925] [all in hand lettering & all within a pict. border signed Ernest H. Shepard]. Half-title.
c. 1925 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1st Canadian ed., Feb. 1925;
pr. Warwick Bros. & Rutter, Ltd., Toronto.
i-xiv, 1-101 pp. 192x122 mm.
Some illus. are signed Ernest H. Shepard or E.H.S.
Red coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, rule, author &
pict. ornament within a border, all stamped in gold; spine bears
title, ornament, author & publ. in gold. Bottom edges uncut.
Pict. endpapers printed in black. Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. London, Methuen, 1924 (BM, H-S).
Some of these verses were first published in Punch in 1924. The complete collection was published later in the same year under the now famous title, When we were very young. It was an immediate, even sensational, success, in both Britain and America. (Doyle).
698 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
EMILY CLIMBS/BY/L.M. MONTGOMERY/Author of "Anne of Green Gables," "Anne's/ House of Dreams,"/"Emily of New Moon," etc./WITH FRONTISPIECE IN COLOR BY/M.L. KIRK/TORONTO/McCLELLAND AND STEWART, LIMITED/ PUBLISHERS/ [1925?]. Half-title.
c. 1925 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., pr. Warwick Bros. & Rutter, Ltd., Toronto.
[i-viii], 1-312 pp. Pl. frontis. 192x122 mm.
Col. frontis.
Olive green dotted-line-ribbed cloth. Front board bears col.
pict. paper onlay with title & author printed in black; spine
bears title, ornament, author & publ. stamped in gold.
F.f.l. New York, Stokes, 1923 (NUC, Russell); this ed. [1925?]
(Can Cat, Russell).
Second of the Emily trilogy, this book chronicles much of the oppression which Montgomery herself had felt as a female and as a woman with professional aspirations.
See coloured reproduction of the frontispiece on the back over of this catalogue.
699 NIVEN, Frederick John, 1872-1944.
PENNY SCOT'S/TREASURE/BY/FREDERICK NIVEN/Author of S.S. Glory/ ILLUSTRATED BY ARCH. WEBB/Boys' Edition/ [publ. device] /LONDON AND GLASGOW/COLLINS' CLEAR-TYPE PRESS/ [1925]. Half-title.
[A]4, B-2M4 1-276 [277-80] pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 200x135 mm.
Col. frontis., pl. in sepia.
P. 2 & pp. [277-80] lists of series books.
Light brown fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in black & pict. ornament in orange & black; spine bears
title, author & publ. in black, pict. ornament in orange &
black.
F.f.l. 1918 (BM, EC, Watters); this ed. [1925] (EC).
Niven was known as a novelist in England before he settled permanently in British Columbia in 1920. His novels had both British and Canadian settings. His best known is his historical romance of the Selkirk Settlement, Mine Inheritance, published in 1940. (OCCL). Although 'Boys' Edition' appears on the title-page of Penny Scot's treasure, there are no youthful characters in the plot. Still this tale of a 'treasure hunt' in northern Alberta would have had appeal for young readers.
700 OSBORNE, Marian (Francis), 1871-1931.
FLIGHT COMMANDER/STORK/AND OTHER VERSES/by/MARIAN OSBORNE/ with illustrations by/E.A. KERR/TORONTO THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED/ [1925] [lines 1-7 in ornamental lettering, words separated by dots & ornaments, all within a pict. ornament; in line 8 words separated by dots; all within an ornamental border]. Half-title.
c. 1925 Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd., pr. Hunter Rose Co., Ltd.
[i-viii], 1-48 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 216x172 mm.
Col. frontis. & pl., text illus.
Red coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, sub-title,
author, pict. ornament & illus. stamped in gold; spine bears
title & ornaments in gold. Pict. endpapers printed in black.
Front flyleaf wanting.
F.f.l. [1925] (Can Cat, NUC, T&C, Watters).
Mrs. Osborne, poet and dramatist, was born at Montreal, Quebec. (Macmillan). The verses have no Canadian content; they are very much in the sentimental mode of the period.
701 ROBERTS, Charles George Douglas, 1860-1943.
The House in/the Water/A BOOK OF ANIMAL STORIES BY/CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS/Author of/"The Kindred of the Wild," "Red Fox,"/"The Heart of the Ancient Wood," "The Forge/in the Forest," "The Heart That Knows," etc./ [pict. ornament] / [on the left] Illustrated/and/ [on the right] decorated/by/ [on the left] CHARLES/LIVINGSTON/ BULL/ [in centre] and/ [on the right] FRANK/VINING/SMITH/THE PAGE COMPANY/PUBLISHERS [printer's marks] BOSTON/ [1925] [lines 1, 2, 4 & 2nd last printed in red, all within a border]. Pict. half-title.
c. 1908 L.C. Page & Co., 1st imp. May 1908; 6th imp. 1925; pr. C.H. Simmonds Co., Boston.
i-viii, 1-301 + [i-vi] pp. Pl. frontis. + 29 pl. (incl. in
paging; printed tissue between frontis. & t.p.) 195x132 mm.
Col. frontis.
P. ii list of other titles by the author; pp. [i-vi] adverts.
Olive green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in gold on a col. pict. ornament within a triple gold
border within a dbl. border in blind; back bears ornament in
blind; spine bears title & author within scrolls, pict.
ornament, publ. & place in gold. T.e. green. Foredges uncut.
Pict. endpapers printed in green. Original dustjacket.
Presentation copy to A.M. Pound: Dear A.M.P. "The Boy," in the
House in the Water story, is partly myself much glorified,
idealized. Ever your C.G.D.R. Aug. 19, 1928.
See no. 502.
702 SAUNDERS, Marshall, 1861-1947.
BEAUTIFUL JOE/ [dbl. rule] /By MARSHALL SAUNDERS/New & Enlarged Edition, Illustrated by/J. NICOLSON, A.R.E./ [dbl. rule] /JARROLDS Publishers LONDON/ Limited, 10 and 11 Warwick Lane, E.C./1925/ Half-title.
c. 1893 & 1907 American Baptist Publication Society; pr. John Wright & Sons, Ltd., Bristol.
[*]8, A-S8, T4 (last leaf blank) i-xvi (pp x-xi are numbered vi-
vii) 11-303 pp. Pl. frontis. + 9 pl. (frontis. wanting)
208x165 mm.
3 pl. are in colour; a pl. is listed for p. 332 but appears
opposite p. 232.
Light green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title,
ornament & author within a quadruple border, all stamped in
blue; spine bears title, ornament, author, publ. & quadruple
rules top & bottom in blue.
F.f.l. Philadelphia, American Baptist Publication Society, 1894
(Blanck, NUC).
The Introduction by Hezekiah Butterworth is that of the original edition. He acknowledges the manuscript 'as offered for prizes to the Humane Society' and links it (quite rightly) with Anna Sewell's Black Beauty (1877). This story of a homely, but gentle, mistreated dog was Saunders' most successful work and became an international bestseller.
703 SETON, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946.
BILLY/and other stories/from/Wild Animal Ways/by/Ernest Thompson Seton/Being the Personal Histories of/Billy/Atalapha/The Wild Geese/of Wyndygoul/Jinny/HODDER & STOUGHTON LIMITED LONDON/ [1925] [pict. ornament opposite lines 8-12; words in line 4 separated by dots]. Half-title.
Pr. Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich.
[1]8, 2-88 1-128 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 185x137 mm.
Pl. signed Ernest Thompson Seton.
Olive green fine diaper cloth. Front board bears circular pict.
ornament stamped in light brown & black, title & author in black
on a light brown rectangle, all within a black border; spine
bears title & author in black.
Elizabeth, Christmas 1925.
F.f.l. [1925] (BM, EC, NUC).
704 STABLES, William Gordon, 1840-1910.
IN REGIONS OF/PERPETUAL/SNOW/A STORY OF WILD ADVENTURES/BY/W. GORDON-STABLES M.D C.M/ (SURGEON ROYAL NAVY) /AUTHOR OF "THE CRUISE OF THE SNOW BIRD," "FROM POLE TO POLE,"/"THE CRUISE OF THE GREAT SNOW BEAR," "IN A/GREAT WHITE LAND," ETC., ETC/ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY AUSTIN/WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED/LONDON, MELBOURNE AND TORONTO./ [1925]. Half-title.
Pr. Butler & Tanner, Selwood Printing Works, Frome & London.
[A]8, B-U8 (title-leaf is a cancel; leaf 2 of sig. A is wanting)
1-316 [317-20] pp. (p. viii is numbered in roman rather than
arabic) Pl. frontis. + 5 pl. 188x120 mm.
Col. frontis. & pl.
Pp. [317-20] adverts.
Blue diagonal fine-ribbed cloth. Front board bears title,
ornaments & author within a rectangle & ornament, all stamped in
gold, all within borders & ornamental borders in blind; spine
bears title, author, ornaments & publ., all within rectangles,
all in gold, ornaments in blind.
F.f.l. 1904 (BM); this ed. [1925] (EC) & dated by adverts.
Two English families (including children and young people) winter in Canada's Northwest as training for an expedition to discover the North Pole. The Indians they encounter are divided into 'good' ones and 'bad' ones. The story has the quality of a tall tale and is a departure from the author's usual style.
Another edition as above except: (1) on t.p. there is a period after the second ETC., but no period after Toronto; (2) binding is dark green; (3) adverts. are different.
705 STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962 and IRWIN, Violet Mary, b. 1881.
KAK/THE COPPER ESKIMO/BY/VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON/AUTHOR OF/"MY LIFE WITH THE ESKIMOS" "THE FRIENDLY/ARCTIC" "HUNTERS OF THE GREAT NORTH"/"THE NORTHWARD COURSE OF EMPIRE" ETC./AND/VIOLET IRWIN/ILLUSTRATED/ [pict. ornament] /GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD./ LONDON CALCUTTA SYDNEY/ [1925]. Half-title.
Pub. 1925 George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., pr. Riverside Press Ltd., Edinburgh.
[A]8, B-N8 1-208 pp. 185x123 mm.
Frontis. & full-page illus.
P. 2 list of other titles by Stefansson.
Gray sand-grain cloth. Front board bears title stamped in blind
on black, authors & pict. ornament in black; spine bears title,
sub-title, pict. ornament & publ. in black, authors in blind.
F.f.l. New York, Macmillan, 1924 (Can Cat, NUC, Watters); also
pub. London, Harrap, 1924 (EC); this ed. [1925].
Stefansson, the famous Arctic explorer, was born in Manitoba of Icelandic parents. He was considered to be the last of the old school of Arctic explorers who worked with dog and sledge. His findings and theories about the Arctic are described in his many books for adults. (Macmillan). Kak the Copper Eskimo is a novel for children and it is chiefly a light-hearted story of Eskimo boy life (Kak is somewhat of a Tom Sawyer of the North). The jocular style, fairly common in children's books of the 1920s, is doubtless due to Violet Irwin.
706 WALLACE, Archer, 1884-1958.
STORIES OF GRIT/BY/ARCHER WALLACE/Author of "Canadian Heroes of Mission Fields Overseas"/"Overcoming Handicaps," "Blazing New Trails," Etc./With an Introduction by/TAYLOR STATTEN/Secretary of National Boys' WORK BOARD/ [publ. device] / TORONTO/THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY/LIMITED/ [1925]. Half-title.
c. 1925 Musson Book Co., Ltd.
i-x, 1-133 [134] pp. 188x120 mm. P. [134] adverts.
Orange coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
within a border; spine bears title, author, publ., ornament &
rules.
Presentation copy: To Ernest & Doris [?] Archer Wallace, Xmas
1928.
F.f.l. [1925] (NUC, T&C, Watters).
Wallace was born in England and educated at the University of Toronto. For many years he was Associate Editor of the United Church of Canada Sunday School publications. His factual stories are of an inspirational nature; Stories of grit, for example, is about overcoming physical and other handicaps. His books were very popular in their time, and many were translated into other languages. (Rhodenizer p. 391).
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