Children's Fiction from Diversity Books, IOBA

Mount Evelyn, Victoria, Australia: Dusty Dog Books, 2006. 277pp. B/white map. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn, author's personal inscription ('To Courtney') and signature to inside front cover. "The sudden appearance of an unexpected stranger and the story he bears from far-off Siberia, plunges Michael into a life and death struggle to… Read more about this item

New York: Golden Press (Western Publishing Company), 1974. 45pp. Delightful colour art illustrations throughout by Mercer Mayer. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated gloss boards have a minor bump to head of spine, small area of surface abrasion to lower foredge corner of front panel and a tiny bump to opposite corner . "One day Sally Ann… Read more about this item

Bittern, Victoria, Australia : Clan Destine Press, 2014. 185pp., plus (iii). Intext, b/white illustrations throughout by Ashlea Bechaz. Book clean and square. Spine firm, slightly colour-faded. Colour-art illustrated (Ashlea Bechaz) card wrapper lightly bumped and splayed only. A personal inscription, signed 'Cheers Fin', on dedication page, else textblock unmarked. Juvenile fiction set in a cattery, with the key character… Read more about this item

Bassendean, Western Australia: Access Press, 2000. (v), + 49pp. plus (iii). Sketch-art endpapers, plus two-colour illustrations throughout (all sketch-art by Lynn Rathbun). Book clean and square. Backstrip firm. Minor rear gutter damage at foot, a colour-art illustration (Marilyn Fahie) on undamaged front board. Textblock unmarked. First Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Imaginative fantasy with a target reader age of… Read more about this item

Australia: Clancy Tucker Publishing, 2017. ii, + 129pp., plus (vi). Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. A personal inscription, signed and dated by the author on title page, else textblock unmarked. This young adult story by award-winning author Clancy Tucker features a young Pat Toomey, his mother, and four sisters fending for themselves… Read more about this item

London and Manchester, U.K. : World Distributors (Manchester) Ltd. , 1966. 183pp. B/white sketch-art frontis, and tail pieces. Book clean and square. Spine lightly bumped. Black illustrations over undamaged brown boards. Yellow tint top edge. Textblock age-toned, else very good. Colour-art illustrated dustjacket slightly edgeworn, with several short closed tears. This 'Bobbsey' title was the second stand-alone title in… Read more about this item

Surrey, U.K.: Worlds Work Ltd., 1970. 62pp plus (ii). Colour-art illustrations throughout by Lillian Hoban (b.1925-d.1998). Book clean. Spine firm, slightly bumped and canted. Colour-art illustrated (Lillian Hoban) boards mildly bumped on foredge corners, else very good. Colour-art illustrated (similar to boards) dustjacket price-clipped, edgeworn, and colour-faded on spine (title still legible). A stand-alone title in the 'I Can… Read more about this item

Seven Oaks, Kent, England: Hodder & Stoughton Childrens Books, 1987. 88pp., b/white sketch-art frontispiece, and like, intext illustrations by Ferelith Eccles Williams throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm, minimally bumped head and heel. Colour-art illustrated (Ferelith Eccles Williams) gloss boards nominally bumped only. Textblock unmarked. This title was the first in the 'Molly Millikins' series by Joan Cass.… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan's Children's Books, 1981. (ix), + 223pp., unpaginated b/white art-drawings throughout (including frontispiece) by Walter Crane (1845-1915). Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over charcoal cloth boards, lightly bumped on heel of spine else boards undamaged. Teal tinted endpapers and textblock top edge. Attached ribbon bookmark. Textblock unmarked. Art-illustrated dustjacket slightly edgeworn and bumped only. 'Christmas-Tree Land'… Read more about this item

St Albans, Herts., and London: Granada (Hart-Davis), 1974. Unpaginated (24 pages). Monochrome, sketch-illustrated endpapers. Colour-art illustrations (Beshlie) on recto pages, with text and small colour illustration on verso pages throughout. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain green boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Art-illustrated (Beshlie) dustjacket price-clipped, and slightly bumped only. Travelling the countryside living a… Read more about this item

Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia: Dent Australia, 1988. 22pp., colour-art illustrations by Pixie O'Harris. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Faint foxing spots to first and last pages, else leaves clean and unmarked. Art-illustrated gloss boards very good+. From the rear panel: "This charming story tells of how Loveleaves, a koala who had been cared for by a human family from a… Read more about this item

Malvern, South Australia: Omnibus Books (Scholastic Australia), 2008. 79pp., b/white art illustrations by D.M. Cornish. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a soft corner crease to rear panel. "The orphan Tamly and his best friend Kym are as different as fire and snow. Kym has magic coming out of her fingers, and Tamly has none… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1979. 56pp., colour-art endpapers, plus like-full page art-illustrations (some two-colour only), all by Ludwig Bemelmans, throughout. Book clean, mildly canted spine and shelfwear. Colour-art illustrated (Bemelmans) boards lightly bumped on lower foredge corner of front board, else very good. Textblock unmarked. Art-illustrated (identical to boards) dustjacket price-clipped, nipped and edgeworn, with a closed tear on rear panel.… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2007. 219pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a soft corner crease to rear panel. "When Patrick saves a litter of greyhound puppies from the canal, he can't bear to hand them all over to the RSPCA . . . Patrick christens his puppy Best Mate, and that's what he becomes… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2006. 328pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a very small, soft corner crease to front panel. "In this spellbinding tale filled with humour, adventure, romance and song, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine invites you to join Aza as she discovers how exquisite she truly is." Book weight approx.… Read more about this item

London: Puffin Books, 2004. 147pp., b/white line-drawn illustrations by Lauren Child. Book clean, square. Spine firm, silver title there-on. Plain green boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket minimally indented. In this, Elmore Leonard's first novel for children, the characters include Antwan, a coyote, and Buddy, an aging doggy movie star. Book weight approx. 260g. *Postage charge will be reduced as… Read more about this item

Australia: Random House, 2002. 278pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Personal inscription "To Sue . . . , ", signed by author, to title page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper has 'Children's Book Council of Australia' sticker to front panel. " . . . the hilarious account of Theodore's astonishing adventures in the bizarre world of the… Read more about this item

Pymble, N.S.W., Australia: HarperCollins, 2006. 168pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Printed card wrapper negligibly marked. "Eleven-year-old Thor is the lowest of the low at a subantarctic whaling station. As a whaler's boy, he spends long, hard days loading coal . . . Until the day a ghostly ship emerges from the mists. It is 'Endurance', carrying Shackleton… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. 174pp., b/white sketch-art throughout by Clyde Pearson. Book clean and square. Vivid metallic-blue title over lightly bumped spine. Light bumps on foredge corners of plain, tan-coloured boards. Text-block clean and very good. Art-illustrated (Clyde Pearson) dustjacket mildly edgeworn, else very good. A stand-alone volume in the Andre Deutsch Children's Books 'Time, Place and Action' series. Set… Read more about this item

Dusseldorf, Germany: Karl Rauch Verlag, 1998. 123pp., colour, plus several b/white, art- illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Matt, art-illustrated boards in excellent condition. " Übertragung ins Deutsche von Grete und Josef Leitgeb. Mit Zeichnungen des Verfassers." A German language edition of the much-loved children's classic by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Book weight approx. 250g. Postage charge will… Read more about this item