Mary Lavin. The Second-Best Children in the World. Longman Young Books, London, UK, 1972.

Price: US$40.15 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Hardcover first edition, 1972, Longman Young Books, London UK. This book is in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in very good+ condition - not price-clipped; very mild edge wear.

Seller: Secondhand Books 'n' Things, Ross Creek, VIC, Australia

Lavin, Mary. The Second-Best Children in the World. Longman Young Books, London, 1972.

Price: US$44.91 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Lovely colour illustrations to every page.Original pictorial white boards. Tight and clean. Unpaginated. Front endpaper large corner clipped. Jacket not price clipped £1.35 net with just very light edgewear. In clear protective sleeve. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes or inscriptions. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.

Seller: Soin2Books, Kidderminster, WORCS, United Kingdom

Lavin, Mary. The Second-best Children in the World. Longman Young Books, London, 1972.

Price: US$57.75 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Lovely copy of this rather rare title whose only fault is some light brown marks (see picture) to both front and back free endpapers. No writing, scribbles, jammy finger prints. A wonderfully clean and neat and shiny book and of course illustrated by the much-loved Mr Ardizzone.

Seller: Black Box Books, ASHFORD, United Kingdom

Lavin, Mary. The Second Best Children in the World. Longman Young Books, London, 1972.

Price: US$64.16 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Excellent copy, some slight damp to closed edges, otherwise great Size: 12mo 0.0

Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom

Ardizzone, Edward; Lavin, Mary. The Second-Best Children in the World. Longman, Young, 1972.

Price: US$352.90 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: LAVIN, Mary [Edward ARDIZZONE, Illus.] London: Longman Young Books, 1972 Crown 4to., white boards lettered in black, with colour illustration by Ardizzone to both upper and lower covers (repeating those on p. 18 and 27); black lettering to spine; in repeat dust wrapper (£1.35 net); [unpaginated]; printed on white cartridge paper, with 34 colour wash drawings in sepia line; some very light spotting to upper portion of boards; mild compression to foot of spine; else a near-fine,  very clean copy, in like dust jacket which has some corresponding markings to the upper portion, and a couple of small stains to lower panel. A very fresh example. Provenance: Printer's file copy, with sticker marked W. S. Cowell, Ltd., together with their emblem of a seahorse, affixed to the front paste-down. With boxes 'Text, illustrations, cover, binding, jacket' all sometime ticked in blue biro.  First edition, signed by the illustrator, presumably for the printer to the ffep. The book is dedicated in part to the author's granddaughter, Kathleen MacMahon, who is herself also a novelist.  Mary Lavin was an Irish writer best known for her adult novels and short stories. The Second-Best Children in the World was her first book for children, and tells the tale of three characters and their adventures around the world.  Rare signed.

Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom