CANADIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1799-1939
1936
819 BENNETT, Ethel Hume (Patterson), b. 1881.
A Treasure Ship/of Old Quebec/By/ETHEL HUME BENNETT/Author of
"JUDY OF YORK HILL,"/"CAMP CONQUEROR," ETC./Illustrated by/HAZEL
BOSWELL/ [pict. ornament] /TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF
CANADA/LIMITED, AT ST. MARTIN'S HOUSE/1936/
Half-title.
c. 1936 Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd., pr. Quinn & Boden Co., Inc.,
Rahway, N.J.
[i-viii], 1-266 pp. 205x139 mm.
Frontis. & full-page illus.
Blue coarse diaper cloth. Spine bears title, ornament, author &
publ. Foredges & bottom edges uncut. Pict. endpapers printed
in light blue.
F.f.l. 1936 (Can Cat, CBI); also pub. New York, Dodd, Mead (CBI,
NUC, Watters); London, Lovat Dickson [1936] (BM).
Four English young people (two boys and two girls) search for a
family treasure in Quebec, a search that involves the past.
Although the story is strongly plotted, it also serves as a paean
of praise for the magnificent beauty of Quebec City and the
picturesque aspects of the Quebec countryside.
Another edition as above except: (1) imprint is Dodd, Mead &
Company, New York, 1936; (2) c. 1936 Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc., (3)
binding is purple cloth; (4) front board bears title, pict.
ornament & author; (5) bottom edges are cut.
820 HEATON, Hugh.
The Story of/ALBERT/the/CAMEL'S SON/by/HUGH HEATON/ILLUSTRATIONS
by/H.E.M. SELLEN/The Heaton Publishing Company/McClelland and
Stewart, Limited/ Toronto/ [1936] [lines 1-6 in ornamental
lettering].
Half-title.
c. 1936 Heaton Pub. Co.
[1-41] pp. 159x121 mm.
Col. illus.
Verso of p. [41] bears a list of titles in 'This Series'; it is
also a rear flyleaf; recto of p. [41] bears a verse from the
author's Madam Hen and Little Horace.
Light brown paper on boards. Front bears title, illus. & author
printed in dark brown & col. pict. paper onlay. Col. pict.
endpapers.
F.f.l. 1936 (Can Cat, Watters).
Rhodenizer (p. 413) notes that Hugh Heaton of Toronto was noted
for his Annual & Commercial Handbook of Canada. Albert's
curiosity generally gets him into trouble, but at the end it makes
him a hero. The text is in verse.
821 M[cLaren], A.C.
[cover-title] [pict. ornament] /THE
ESCAPADES/OF/'JUBILEE'/VANCOUVER'S/ BABY BEAR/Drawings by
Margot,/Rhymes by A.C.M./ [pict. ornament] /Copyright applied
for./ [Vancouver, B.C., 1936?].
1-16 pp. (incl. wrappers) 227x152 mm.
Text illus.
Yellow wrappers.
Front wrapper bears in mss. July, 1936.
The entry in NUC is for the UBC copy; no other listing has been
found.
A bear cub's adventures in Stanley Park, told in verse.
822 YOUNG, Egerton Ryerson, Jr., 1869-1962.
WHEN THE/BLACKFEET WENT SOUTH/AND OTHER STORIES/by/E. RYERSON
YOUNG/ [ornament] /LONDON/THE BOY'S OWN PAPER OFFICE/4, BOUVERIE
STREET, E.C. 4/ [1936].
Pr. Wyman & Sons, Ltd., London, Fakenham & Reading.
[A]4, B-Q4 1-128 pp. Pl. frontis. + 1 pl. 183x115 mm.
Frontis. & pl. signed Yolland.
Blue coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears ornament; spine bears
title, author & R.T.S. (Religious Tract Society). Original
dustjacket.
F.f.l. [1936] (BM, EC).
Contents: When the Blackfeet went south; Ameequan, the Indian
scout; Three Scars, the medicine man; The smoke of rebellion;
Trapped; The silver-black fox skin. The first story, When the
Blackfeet went south, is the longest and most important of these
tales of Canadian Indians. It is chiefly a story of a contrast of
character between two Indian youths and eventually a Christian
influence on the tribe. This influence explains the book's
publication by the Religious Tract Society.
1937
823 CAHILL, James.
FLYING WITH THE/MOUNTIES/BY/JAMES CAHILL/A. & C. BLACK LTD./4, 5 &
6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.I/ [1937].
Half-title.
Pub. 1937; pr. Morrison & Gibb Ltd., London & Edinburgh.
[1]8, 2-168 i-viii, 1-248 pp. (p. vii is misnumbered viii) Pl.
frontis. + 3 pl. 202x137 mm.
Air adventure series; p. ii list of series titles.
Light blue coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears a pict.
ornament stamped in dark red; spine bears title, printer's mark,
author, pict. ornament & publ. in dark red.
F.f.l. 1937 (BM, EC); this ed. [1937] (NUC).
A teenaged pilot convinces his Mountie uncle of the usefulness of
airplanes in hunting down criminals. The setting is northern
Alberta.
824 DICKIE, Francis Joseph, 1890-1967?
HUNTERS OF THE WILD/By/FRANCIS DICKIE/AUTHOR OF "THE MASTER
BREED"/"LAST VOYAGE OF THE CASCO"/"UMUNGMUK [sic] OF THE
BARRENS"/With illustrations by/C. AMBLER/ [publ. device]
/LONDON/THE LUTTERWORTH PRESS/4, BOUVERIE STREET, E.C.4/ [1937].
Half-title.
Pr. Ebenezer Baylis & Son, Ltd., Trinity Press, Worcester &
London.
[1]8, 2-88 1-125 pp. 195x127 mm.
Frontis. & full-page illus.
Orange coarse diaper cloth. Spine bears title, author & publ.
stamped in cream. Original dustjacket.
Presentation copy: To Mrs. R.L. Reid ... Francis Dickie, Sept.
8th, 1937.
F.f.l. [1937] (BM, Can Cat, EC, Watters).
An Airedale castaway mates with a giant black wolf of the Yukon
and their life together provides a strong background for a
perceptive look at the animal life of the northern lands of
Canada.
825 DICKSON, Helen, pseud. of Helen Mary Greenwood (Campbell)
Dickson Reynolds, b. 1884.
Wide World Story Books - No. I/ [rule] /YOSHIO/A JAPANESE BOY IN
CANADA/BY HELEN DICKSON/Illustrated by Ruth Westcott/THOMAS NELSON
AND SONS, LTD./ LONDON, EDINBURGH, PARIS, MELBOURNE/TORONTO, AND
NEW YORK/ [1937].
1st pub. in this series Oct. 1937.
[1]4, 2-144 i-iv, 5-112 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 190x133 mm.
Col. frontis. & pl., text illus.
Wide world story books, no. 1.
Green coarse diaper cloth. Spine bears title, author & publ.
F.f.l. 1937 (BM, Can Cat, Watters).
Mrs. Reynolds, born at Regina, Saskatchewan, was a prolific writer
of children's books. She wrote books under the pen names Dickson
Reynolds (the surnames of her two husbands) and Helen Dickson.
(Rhodenizer p. 420). Yoshio is a Japanese boy whose father is a
cod fisherman living on a little island off the coast of British
Columbia, not far from Vancouver. It is a simple, kindly story of
the child's school life, adventures and friends, both young and
adult. The Foreword states that the author wrote the book 'with
the underlying motive of helping to promote friendly feeling
between Canadian and Japanese children.'
826 GREY OWL, pseud. of Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, 1888-1938.
THE TREE/by/WA-SHA-QUON-ASIN/ (GREY OWL) / [publ. device] /LOVAT
DICKSON LIMITED/PUBLISHERS/LONDON/ [1937].
Half-title.
1st pub. in separate book form 1937; c. 1937; pr. J. & J. Gray,
Edinburgh.
[A]8, B-D8 1-63 pp. 195x127 mm.
Frontis. is a portrait of the author; full page illus. are signed
G.O. (i.e. Grey Owl).
P. 2 list of other titles by the author.
Brown paper on boards. Front bears title, author & pict. ornament
printed in white; back bears pict. ornament in white; spine
bears title & author in white, publ. device & publ. in brown.
Pict. endpapers in brown.
Eric Fairham 1937.
F.f.l. 1937 (BM, BNB); this ed. [1937] (NUC).
The tree is taken from the author's Tales of an empty cabin, 1936.
This simply told story of the life cycle of a prairie tree over
hundreds of years also encompasses the destruction of the
traditional life of the Blackfoot Indians. Its touches of
anthropomorphism and fantasy add to the impact of the vignette.
827 LLOYD-OWEN, Frances.
THE/GNOME'S KITCHEN/A Story of Woodland Animals/By/FRANCES LLOYD-
OWEN/Illustrated by/ERNEST ARIS/ [pict. ornament] /GEORGE G.
HARRAP & CO. LTD./LONDON BOMBAY SYDNEY/ [1937].
Half-title.
1st pub. 1937 George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., pr. Jarrold & Sons
Ltd., Norwich.
[A]8, B-Q8 (last leaf blank) 1-254 pp. Pl. frontis. 196x135 mm.
Col. frontis.; full-page & text illus.
Beige fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title stamped in red &
pict. ornament in red & black; spine bears title in red, author,
pict. ornament, publ. initial & publ. in black, pict. ornament
in red & black. Original dustjacket.
Presentation copy: To Mr. Scott with thanks for his help and
encouragement. Sincerely, Frances Lloyd-Owen.
F.f.l. [1937] (Can Cat, NUC, Watters).
The author was a Canadian born at Toronto. (Rhodenizer p. 413).
In this woodland fantasy, Tip the gnome returns, after many years
of travelling, to the Canadian woods. Here he befriends the
animals, helps a prospector, and arranges a truce between the
small animals and the great horned owl. At the end of this
episodic, slow-moving story, he settles down for the winter.
828 McKISHNIE, Archibald P., 1875-1946.
DWELLERS OF/THE MARSH REALM/By ARCHIE P. McKISHNIE/Full page
Illustrations by/FRANZ JOHNSTON, A.R.C.A., O.S.A./ [pict.
ornament] /CHICAGO M.A. DONOHUE & CO. NEW YORK/ [1937].
Half-title.
c. 1937 M.A. Donohue & Co.
1-79 pp. Pl. frontis. + 11 pl. 241x170 mm.
Green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, author &
illus. stamped in gold & pict. paper onlay; spine bears title in
gold.
F.f.l. [1937] (Can Cat, CBI, NUC, Watters).
Contents: Swamp-Coon and Old Man Turtle; Daddy Long-Neck; Goggle
Eyes, the bullfrog; Goggle Eyes visits Old Man Turtle; Amberorbs
owl; Merry Eyes fox gets into trouble; Long-Neck flies into
danger; Mr. Snipe delivers invitations; The truce banquet; Brownie
and Loper have an understanding; Marsh realm chooses a teacher;
Croaker Crow tries his hand at teaching. These are talking animal
stories in the style of the American writer of cute,
anthropomorphic animal stories, Thornton Burgess. However
McKishnie's have a stronger background in natural history.
829 MACMURCHY, Marjory (Lady Willison), d. 1938.
THE LONGEST WAY/ROUND/by/LADY WILLISON/ (Marjory MacMurchy)
/Author of The Child's House, Golden Treasury of/Famous Books,
etc./ [publ. device] /TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF/CANADA
LIMITED, AT ST. MARTIN'S HOUSE./1937/
Half-title.
c. 1937 Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd.
[i-x], 1-325 pp. 190x128 mm.
Dark green coarse diaper cloth. Spine bears title, Lady Willison
(Marjory MacMurchy) & publ. stamped in yellow.
F.f.l. 1937 (BM, Can Cat, NUC, Watters).
'This story is written for girls, and for mothers, grandmothers,
aunts and everyone else who loves a girl' (p. [v]). Letty Bye
(aged fourteen when the story begins) is a piece of perfection in
her behaviour. She is finally rewarded with a small inheritance
which allows her and her mother to be together. The setting is
urban (probably Toronto) and, for a children's book, it has a
large and interesting cast of characters. It is more simply
written than the author's The child's house.
830 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
ANNE OF/WINDY POPLARS/by/L.M. MONTGOMERY/McCLELLAND AND STEWART
LIMITED/PUBLISHERS TORONTO/ [c. 1937].
Half-title.
c. 1937 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd.,
Toronto.
[i-viii], 1-301 pp. 190x121 mm.
P. [ii] list of other titles by the author beginning with Mistress
Pat & ending with Anne of Green Gables.
Light green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
stamped in reddish brown; spine bears title, rule, author &
publ. in reddish brown. Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. New York, Stokes, 1936 (NUC, Russell); this ed. [c. 1937].
Anne's life before her marriage, when she was writing love letters
to Gilbert Blythe. It was published in England under the title
Anne of Windy Willows.
831 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
JANE OF/LANTERN HILL/by/L.M. MONTGOMERY/McCLELLAND AND STEWART
LIMITED/PUBLISHERS TORONTO/ [c. 1937].
Half-title.
c. 1937 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co. Ltd.,
Toronto.
[i-vi], 1-297 pp. 190x126 mm.
P. [ii] list of other titles by the author beginning with Anne of
Windy Poplars & ending with Anne of Green Gables.
Green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author;
spine bears title, rule, author & publ. Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. New York, Stokes, 1937 (NUC, Russell); this ed. [c. 1937]
(NUC).
The first part of the book is set in Toronto, but Jane's idyllic
life begins only when she is able to join her father in Prince
Edward Island.
832 O'BRIEN, Jack, 1898-1938.
SILVER CHIEF/TO THE RESCUE/BY/JACK O'BRIEN/Author of/Silver Chief,
Dog of the North/Valiant, Dog of the Timberline/Alone Across the
Top of the World/Illustrations by KURT WIESE/THE JOHN C. WINSTON
COMPANY/Chicago Philadelphia Toronto/ [1937] [lines 1-9 within a
pict. ornament].
c. 1937 John C. Winston Co.
i-viii, 1-235 pp. Pl. frontis. + 4 pl. 215x140 mm.
Col. frontis. & pl., full-page illus.
Silver fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title, author & pict.
ornament stamped in dark blue; spine bears title, author & publ.
in dark blue. Pict. endpapers printed in dark blue on silver.
F.f.l. [1937] (CBI, NUC).
A sequel to the author's Silver Chief, dog of the north (see no.
805).
833 VOADEN, Herman Arthur, b. 1903, ed.
St. Martin's Classics/ [rule] /A BOOK OF PLAYS/FOR SCHOOLS AND
COMMUNITY/ DRAMA GROUPS IN CANADA/EDITED BY/HERMAN VOADEN,
M.A./Director of English/and of/The Play Workshop/Central High
School of Commerce, Toronto/Editor of "Six Canadian Plays"/ [publ.
device] /TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF/ CANADA LIMITED, AT
ST. MARTIN'S HOUSE/1937/ [all within an ornamental border].
Half-title.
c. 1935 Macmillan Co. of Canada Ltd.
iii-xx, 1-316 + [i-ii] pp. 169x110 mm.
St. Martin's classics; pp. [i-ii] adverts.
Red coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears publ. device stamped
in black & gold within a border in blind; spine bears series
title, title, publ. & ornamental rules in black.
F.f.l. 1935 (Can Cat, NUC, Watters).
Contents: The land of heart's desire by William Butler Yeats; The
marriage proposal by Anton Chekhov; The toll-gate by George
Herbert Clarke; Brothers in arms by Merrill Denison; The tents of
the Arabs by Lord Dunsany; She was no lady by St. John Ervine; To
the dead man by Charles Dickens, dramatization by K.W. Edge; Low
life by Mazo de la Roche; Fantastic flight by Sidney Box; The no
'count boy by Paul Green; The sweeps of ninety-eight by John
Masefield; Ile by Eugene O'Neill. Voaden was born at London,
Ontario and has had a long career as a teacher and a playwright.
He also edited several collections of plays, the most important
being Six Canadian plays (1930). (OCCL). The Foreword states that
'What is Canadian is not necessarily worthy of praise. We must
learn to be thoughtfully and kindly critical to plays that come to
us from our own writers, as well as from other countries.' George
Herbert Clarke, Merrill Denison and Mazo de la Roche are Canadian
writers.
1938
834 BOOG-WATSON, Elspeth Janet, b. 1900 and CARRUTHERS, Janet
Isabel.
BEYOND THE SUNSET/A BOOK OF EXPLORERS/By/ELSPETH J. BOOG-
WATSON/and/J. ISABEL CARRUTHERS/With an Introduction by/F.S.
SMYTHE/
[4 lines of quotation] /OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS/LONDON: HUMPHREY
MILFORD/ [1938].
1st pr. 1934; 1938.
[A]8, B-M8 1-192 pp. 183x118 mm.
Text illus., maps & photographs.
Beige coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears pict. ornament
stamped in dark red; spine bears title in dark red. Pict.
endpapers printed in red.
F.f.l. 1935 [1934] (BM); 1935 (NUC); this ed. [1938] (EC).
Elspeth Boog-Watson was born in Scotland and became an educator
and a writer of informational books. (AWW). This book of
exploration includes chapters on the search for the Northwest
Passage and on other explorers such as Cartier.
835 BOSWELL, Hazel, 1882-1979.
French Canada: PICTURES AND STORIES/BY HAZEL BOSWELL/ [3 lines of
quotation] /1938 [printer's mark] PUBLISHED BY THE VIKING PRESS
[printer's mark] NEW YORK/AND THE JUNIOR LITERARY GUILD
CORPORATION/ [1st 2 words and date in ornamental lettering].
Half-title.
c. 1938 Hazel Boswell; 1st pub. July 1938; pr. H. Wolff.
1-82 pp. 161x231 mm. Full-page col. illus.
Yellow sand-grain cloth. Front board bears title; spine bears
title, author, rules & publ. (Library label pasted over
probably the publ. name). Pict. endpapers printed in gray and
black.
F.f.l. 1938 (NUC); also pub. Toronto, Macmillan, 1938 (Can Cat).
Up to the age of eighteen Hazel Boswell spent most of her summers
on the seigneurie of Lotbiniere (at Point Platon, about forty
miles from Quebec), the residence of her maternal grandfather,
Henri Gustav Joly de Lotbiniere (1829-1908). When he became
Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia in 1900, a position that
he held for six years, she accompanied him and her grandmother to
Government House, Victoria. She then studied art in Paris and got
back to Canada in time for service through the First World War and
the following reconstruction period up to 1925. After a period of
educational work in Labrador, she went to reside in Quebec city.
Her sympathetic understanding of the French Canadians makes her
French Canada (1938) more than a mere guide book for tourists.
(Rhodenizer p. 87). Places, people and incidents that are
peculiarly French-Canadian are briefly described and illustrated
with 'the type of drawing and design that the French Canadian
women make for their hooked rugs and other work' (p. 6). The book
was republished in Canada in 1967.
836 CLAY, Charles, 1906-1949?
YOUNG/VOYAGEUR/By/CHARLES CLAY/OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS/ LONDON
TORONTO NEW YORK/1938/
Half-title.
c. 1938 Oxford University Press.
i-x, 1-409 pp. 190x133 mm.
Blue coarse diaper cloth. Spine bears title, rule, author & publ.
stamped in brown. Pict. endpapers printed in dark red on blue.
F.f.l. 1938 (Can Cat, NUC, Watters).
Clay was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba. After educational and
missionary work among the Indians of Manitoba, he joined the
editorial staff of the Winnipeg Free Press and became literary
editor in 1931. He gave weekly book reviews for teenagers over
twenty-nine radio stations from Halifax to Vancouver. (Rhodenizer
pp. 426-27). His Young voyageurs is a lively story of the fur-
trading days of 1775, with youthful fictional characters and
historical characters such as Joseph Frobisher who became one of
the great fur traders and who was an original partner in the North
West Company.
837 GREY OWL, pseud. of Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, 1888-1938.
SAJO ET SES CASTORS/par/GREY OWL/ (Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin: Hibou Gris)
/Traduit de l'anglais/par/CHARLOTTE/ET/MARIE-LOUISE
PRESSOIR/ILLUSTR+ DE DESSINS ORIGINAUX DE L'AUTEUR/PARIS/NELSON,
EDITEURS/25, RUE DENFERT-ROCHEREAU/LONDRES, EDIMBOURG et NEW-
YORK/1938/
Half-title.
1st pub. 1935.
[1]/216, 3/4-15/1616 (sigs. are signed on the rectos of leaves 1 &
9 with successive numerals) i-x, 1-246 pp. 155x100 mm.
Bibliothèque Nelson illustrée, no. 6.
Red morocco cloth. Front & back boards bear a border stamped in
blind; spine bears title, author, ornament & publ. in gold.
See no. 814.
Page iv describes Grey Owl as a 'trappeur canadien de race
indienne.'
838 RICHARDS, Milton, pseud. of Milo Milton Oblinger, b. 1900.
Dick Kent,/Fur Trader/ [dbl. rule] /By MILTON RICHARDS/ [rule]
/AUTHOR OF/ "Dick Kent with the Mounted Police"/"Dick Kent in the
Far North"/"Dick Kent with the Eskimos"/"Dick Kent and the
Malemute Mail"/ [pict. ornament] / [dbl. rule] /THE SAALFIELD
PUBLISHING/COMPANY/Akron, Ohio New York/ [1938] [all within a dbl.
border].
c. 1927 Saalfield Pub. Co.
[i-ii], 1-223 pp. 185x118 mm.
Frontis.
Dick Kent series.
Gray fine-dotted-diaper cloth. Front board bears title, pict.
ornament & author, all within a border; spine bears title, rule,
author & publ.
F.f.l. New York, Burt, [1927] (CBI, NUC); this ed. [1938] (CBI
lists 6 vol. of the series repub. in 1938).
Dick and his friend Sandy are American youths who render
assistance to the Royal North West Mounted Police. At the end of
the story he and his Indian friend, Toma, will become Mounties.
839 RICHARDS, Milton, pseud. of Milo Milton Oblinger, b. 1900.
DICK KENT/ON SPECIAL DUTY/ [rule] /By MILTON RICHARDS/ [dbl. rule]
/ AUTHOR OF/"Dick Kent with the Mounted Police," "Dick Kent in/the
Far North," "Dick Kent with the Eskimos,"/"Dick Kent, Fur Trader,"
"Dick Kent with the/Malemute Mail."/ [pict. ornament] / [dbl.
rule] /THE SAALFIED PUBLISHING/COMPANY/Akron, Ohio New York/
[1938?] [all within a dbl. border].
c. 1928 Saalfield Pub. Co.
[i-ii], 1-228 pp. 198x133 mm.
Frontis.
Northland series.
Dark blue fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author
within a border; spine bears title, rule, author & publ.
Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. [1928] (NUC); this ed. dated by adverts. on dustjacket
[1938?]; according to CBI the 'Submarine boys series' were pub.
between 1933 & 1937.
Here Dick Kent and his two friends are recruits in the Royal North
West Mounted Police. At the end of the story they are assigned to
special duty.
840 RICHARDS, Milton, pseud. of Milo Milton Oblinger, b. 1900.
Dick Kent/With the Eskimos/ [dbl. rule] /By MILTON RICHARDS/
[rule] /AUTHOR OF/"Dick Kent with the Mounted Police"/"Dick Kent
in the Far North"/"Dick Kent, Fur Trader"/"Dick Kent and the
Malemute Mail"/ [pict. ornament] / [dbl. rule] /THE SAALFIELD
PUBLISHING/COMPANY/Akron, Ohio New York/ [1938] [all within a dbl.
border].
c. 1927 Saalfied Publishing Co.
[i-ii], 1-227 pp. 198x128 mm.
Frontis.
Dick Kent series.
Light green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & pict.
ornament stamped in black, author in blind, all within a black
border; spine bears title, author & publ. in black.
F.f.l. New York, Burt [1927] (NUC); this ed. dated as no. 838.
Dick and friends and two members of the Royal North West Mounted
Police are on the trail of a murderer in the Arctic.
841 ROBINSON, Gertrude, b. 1876.
[pict. ornament] /ROBEEN/BY/Gertrude Robinson/ [pict. ornament]
/Illustrated by/ Julian Brazelton/1938/E.P. DUTTON & CO., INC./NEW
YORK/
Half-title.
c. 1938 E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st ed.
3-258 pp. 204x133 mm.
Frontis., full-page & text illus.
P. 4 list of other titles by the author with reviews.
Gray fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & pict. ornament
stamped in dark brown; spine bears title, ornament, author &
publ. in black. Pict. endpapers printed in black & gray.
F.f.l. 1938 (CBI, NUC).
Gertrude Robinson was an American writer. Her books for the young
were chiefly in the area of historical fiction. Robeen is an
English boy adopted by Indians. His adventures cover a
complicated series of incidents and involve many Indian tribes as
well as the French. The setting is chiefly what is now New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
842 VANCE, Marguerite, 1889-1965.
CAPITALS/OF THE WORLD/BY/MARGUERITE VANCE/ [ornament] /THOMAS Y.
CROWELL COMPANY/PUBLISHERS [printer's marks] NEW YORK/ [1938] [all
within a dbl. border].
Half-title.
c. 1938 Thomas Y. Crowell Co., pr. Robert Teller Sons & Dorner.
1-127 pp. 231x150 mm.
Text illus. are photographs; several map outlines.
Beige coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, author &
pict. ornaments stamped in dark red; spine bears title, author &
pict. ornament in dark red. (Library marking covers probably
the publ. name).
F.f.l. [1938] (CBI, NUC).
Ottawa is included in Capitals of the world and is described as
'like a bit of England transplanted to the banks of the Ottawa
river ... .'
1939
843 DICKSON, Helen, pseud. of Helen Mary Greenwood (Campbell)
Dickson Reynolds, b. 1884.
Wide World Story Books - No. 6/ [rule] /RED BLANKET/BY/HELEN
DICKSON/Author of "The Family at Sunshine Ranch"/and
"Yoshio"/Illustrated by Kathleen Shackleton/ THOMAS NELSON AND
SONS LTD/LONDON EDINBURGH PARIS MELBOURNE/TORONTO AND NEW YORK/
[1939].
1st pub. 1939.
i-iv, 5-127 pp. Pl. frontis. + 3 pl. 191x129 mm.
Col. frontis. & pl., text illus.
Wide world story books no. 6.
Light blue coarse diaper cloth. Spine bears title, author & publ.
stamped in dark blue.
F.f.l. [1939] (Can Cat, EC, NUC).
A simply told story of a Cree Indian boy (a Treaty Indian) who
wants to learn the wisdom of the white men while keeping to the
ways and traditions of his own people. The setting is loosely the
Canadian prairie and the time is that before the advent of the
automobile and the wheatfields.
844 DOUTHWAITE, Louis Charles, b. 1878.
Corporal of the Mounted/BY/L. CHARLES DOUTHWAITE/Illustrated by R.
Elvis/ BLACKIE & SON LIMITED/LONDON AND GLASGOW/ [1939?].
Half-title.
1st issued 1939.
[1]8, 2-148 1-224 pp. Pl. frontis. + 2 pl. 182x121 mm.
Red coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author; spine
bears title, author & publ.
F.f.l. 1939 (BM, EC); this ed. [1939?] (NUC).
Douthwaite was born in Yorkshire. At an early age he prospected
for gold in the Hudson's Bay area, a background he was fond of
using in his stories. (Lofts). His Corporal (Steer) of the
Mounted (that is, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) not only
always 'gets his man', but actually solves mysteries to do so.
845 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
Anne of Ingleside/ [swelling rule] /by/L.M. MONTGOMERY/ANGUS AND
ROBERTSON/SYDNEY [printer's marks] LONDON/1939/
Half-title.
c. 1939 Frederick A. Stokes Co., pr. Halstead Press Pty Ltd., 9-19
Nickson St., Sydney.
[A]8, B-T8, U6 [i-iv], 1-312 pp. 182x123 mm.
P. [ii] list of other titles by the author.
Orange fine diaper cloth. Front board bears title & author; spine
bears title, printer's mark, author & publ. monogram. T.e.
mottled brown. Original dustjacket.
F.f.l. 1939 (Russell); also pub. New York, Stokes, 1939 (NUC,
Russell, Watters); Toronto, McClelland, 1939 (Can Cat, Russell).
Anne and Gilbert's life at their second home, Ingleside, with
their five young children. This was Montgomery's last Anne novel,
but in terms of sequence it precedes Rainbow Valley and Rilla of
Ingleside. Here Anne is seen as a mother and as an important
person in the community. The most powerful incident in the book
is not concerned with Anne's family (here upsets are quickly and
happily resolved), but with the recollection of a neighbour's
funeral.
846 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
ANNE/OF INGLESIDE/by/L.M. MONTGOMERY/McCLELLAND & STEWART
LIMITED/Publishers Toronto/ [1939?].
c. 1939 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd.
[1]16 (signed 1* on the recto of leaf 5), 2-716 (signed on the
recto of leaf 1 & with the corresponding numeral and asterisk on
the recto of leaf 5), 816 (signed 8 on the recto of leaf 1, 8*
on the recto of leaf 3, & 8** on the recto of leaf 7), 920
(signed 9 on the recto of leaf 5 & 9* on the recto of leaf 9),
1016 (signed 10 on the recto of leaf 1 & 10* on the recto of
leaf 5). [i-iv], 1-323 pp. 200x132 mm.
The Cavendish library.
Blue coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears 'C' (for Cavendish)
within a rectangle, stamped in silver; spine bears title,
author, publ. & rules in silver. Original dustjacket; back
bears list of Montgomery titles in the Cavendish library.
See no. 845; this ed. [1939?]; Russell gives [194-?].
This and nos. 847 and 848 are identified as part of the Cavendish
library series by (1) a script 'C' inside a rectangle stamped on
the front cover of each and (2) the words 'The Cavendish Library'
and an identical listing of titles beginning with Anne of Green
Gables and ending with Magic for Marigold on the back of each of
the three dustjackets. Dating of the Cavendish library issues
accurately seems now to be impossible since the publisher's
records no longer exist. Russell lists Cavendish editions for the
titles listed on the dustjackets, nos. 302, 340, 386, 416, 445,
468, 486, 505, 521, 547, 548, 560, 588, and 602. Each listing is
dated individually with dates ranging from late 1930s to 1962.
Anne of Ingleside is in the series and since its original
publication occurred during 1939, that is the earliest possible
date for this and the next two items. They may, however, have
been issued as late as the 1950s. Since the letter 'C' on the
front covers is stamped in a different colour on each of these
three, and since the covers are also of a different colour, there
may have been more than one issuing of titles in this series.
847 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
ANNE OF/WINDY POPLARS/by/L.M. MONTGOMERY/McCLELLAND AND STEWART
LIMITED/PUBLISHERS TORONTO/ [1939?].
c. 1936 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd.,
Toronto.
[i-ii], 1-301 pp. 190x130 mm.
The Cavendish library.
Yellow fine diaper cloth. Front board bears 'C' (for Cavendish)
within a rectangle stamped in reddish brown; spine bears title,
author, publ. & rules in reddish brown. Original dustjacket.
Dated as no. 846.
848 MONTGOMERY, Lucy Maud, 1874-1942.
MISTRESS PAT/A Novel of Silver Bush/by/L.M. MONTGOMERY/McCLELLAND
& STEWART, LTD./PUBLISHERS TORONTO/ [1939?].
Half-title.
c. 1935 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., pr. T.H. Best Co., Ltd.,
Toronto.
[i-x], 1-338 pp. 192x128 mm.
The Cavendish library. P. [ii] list of other titles by the
author.
Red fine diaper cloth. Front board bears 'C' (for Cavendish)
within a rectangle stamped in blind; spine bears title, author,
publ. & rules in gold. Original dustjacket.
See no. 815, this ed. dated as nos. 846, 847.
849 RATHBORNE, St. George Henry, 1854-1938.
Canoe Mates/IN CANADA/OR/Afloat on the Saskatchewan/ [dbl. rule]
/BY ST. GEORGE RATHBORNE/ [swelling rule] /The Goldsmith
Publishing Company/Chicago/ [1939].
Half-title.
[i-ii], 1-238 pp. 183x121 mm.
Light green coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, author
& pict. ornament; spine bears title, author & publ.
See no. 560; this ed. [1939] (CBI).
ADDENDUM:
The numbering shows that nos. 527a and 632a turned up after the
indexing of this catalogue had been linked with the sequential
numbering. They have, however, been inserted into the sequence and
fully indexed. Just before going to press, the following book was
discovered. A full description is appended but it does not appear
in the indexes.
DENISON, Muriel (Goggin), 1885-1954.
SUSANNAH/A LITTLE GIRL WITH THE MOUNTIES/By MURIEL DENISON/
Illustrated by/MARGUERITE BRYAN/ [pict. ornament] /DODD, MEAD &
COMPANY/NEW YORK 1938/
Half-title.
c.1936 Dodd, Mead & Co., pub. Oct. 1936; 6th pr. Nov. 1938.
i-x, 1-299 pp. 203x153 mm.
Frontis., full-page & text illus.
Red coarse diaper cloth. Front board bears title, sub-title
& author; spine bears title & author. (Library label covers
probably publ. name). T.e. blue. Foredges uncut.
F.f.l. 1936 (NUC); also found as Susannah of the Mounties, New
York, Random House, [c. 1936] (NUC).
Muriel Denison was a Canadian writer (Rhodenizer, p. 421). Six-
year-old Susannah has been sent to Regina to spend the summer with
her uncle who is a Mountie. After an act of bravery she wins her
heart's desire - to wear the uniform of a Mountie. The book was
made into a film starring Shirley Temple. There were several
sequels.