Juvenile 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

Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Western Publishing Company, 1985. A Golden Book. 42pp. Colour art illustrations throughout. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Gloss art-illustrated gloss boards very good+ "Something smells funny on Eternia. Robots from space land with all the knowledge in the universe. Can He-Man stop Skeletor from blowing up the secrets?" Book weight approx. 293g. (This book will… Read more about this item

Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A. : Western Publishing Company, 1985. A Golden Book. 42pp. Colour art illustrations throughout. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Gloss art-illustrated boards very good+. "When Teela longs to learn who her mother is, Skeletor gives her an answer. He-Man must teach Skeletor a lesson and somehow get Teela away from Snake Mountain . . . "… Read more about this item

Millers Point, NSW, Australia: Pier 9, 2011. 159pp. B/white art illustrations by Michelle Dawson, b/white map. Book clean. Spine firm. Remainder stripe to lower textblock edge, slight tanning, else leaves clean and unmarked. Colour-art illustrated card wrapper has a tiny crease to foredge corner, and an approx. 4cm. lineal indentation to rear panel. For secondary school age children. "Historian… Read more about this item

Glebe, New South Wales, Australia: Walter McVitty Books, 1988. 109pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain blue boards have a faint ring to rear panel. Leaves clean. Art-illustrated (Arthur Boothroyd) dustjacket mildly edge-creased head and foot of spine, minor spots to reverse. From the jacket flap: " . . . the absorbing diary of a 14 year… Read more about this item

Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1970. 118pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over nominally bumped spine. Plain blue boards minimally bumped only. Textblock unmarked. Colour-art illustrated (Wolfgang Grasse) dustjacket edgeworn, dampstained area on plain verso (no strike-through), minor nips, and an original seller's sticker affixed to front flap. The setting is Anzac Day morning. Grandma has… 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

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. 190pp. Colour-plate frontispiece, plus intext sketch-art, all by 'Stead'. Book clean. Spine firm, mildly bumped and canted. Illustration on front red board, plus a dampstain on lower plain rear board. An area of minor surface abrading (name removal?), plus 'Xmas 1957 (or 1), Hobart' handwritten on ffep., else textblock edges flecked. Colour-art illustrated ('Stead')… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. 208pp. Colour-plate frontispiece, plus eight b/white full page (two double-page spreads) and a title page sketch-drawing (all by 'Stead'). Book clean and square. Spine firm, lightly bumped on head and heel. Red boards like bumped on foredge corners and foot. Textblock slightly wavy at spine, else very good. Art-illustrated ('Stead') dustjacket edgeworn and nipped,… 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

Fountain Hills, AZ, U.S.A.: Saguaro Books, LLC, 2015. 134pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good. From the rear cover: "Vera Buzarovska (b.1931 Bitola - d. 2013 Skopje) began her writing career in 1962, publishing more than forty works of prose and poetry for both adults and children. Her novels centre mainly… Read more about this item

Leicester, England: The Brockhampton Press No publication date (wejohns website suggests 1953). Unpaginated (48 pages). Side-stapled softcover format. Uniformly illustrated throughout: two colour (olive green and black) sketch-drawings (by 'Kay') above text on each page. Booklet clean and square. Colour-art illustrated ('Kay') card wrapper slightly edgeworn, with a small area of biopredation on front; nipped upper foredge corner, surface… 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

Mount Eliza, Victoria, Australia: Empowering Resources, 2016. 149pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good+. From the rear panel: "When eleven-year old Ebony meets enigmatic Teena, they instantly become much more than the 'default' friends Ebony has grown used to having. Only when the girls come to trust one another fully do… Read more about this item

Melbourne, VIC, Australia: BookPOD, 2012. (vi) + 151pp. Intext b/white sketch-art throughout by Sharyn Madder. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour-art illustrated (Sharyn Madder) gloss boards undamaged. Textblock pristine. Attached blue ribbon bookmark. Illustrated (identical to boards) dustjacket trivially edgeworn and mildly colour faded on spine. Featuring members of her family as some characters in this book, the… 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

London: Fontana Lions, 1979. 124pp., plus (iv). Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper mildly bumped and pressure marked, an original price sticker affixed to rear wrap. Inscribed 'To Fxxxx', signed and dated (3/80) by author on synopsis/review page, else leaves clean but noticeably age-toned. By Pulitzer Prize winner (Drama, 1971), playwright and novelist Paul Zindel (1936-2003),… 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

Singapore: Trafford Publishing, 2012. 68pp., b/white, intext sketch-illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. No dustjacket (as issued). This title was written when the author was ten years of age, and at the time of publication she was just eleven . . . From the rear board: "What would you do if you were… Read more about this item