Collected Stories. With an Introduction by V.S. Pritchett. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. First Edition. Pp, xiii 425. Black cloth boards, with devise & title in green; in publisher’s dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Author: “To Edward Ardizzone, from Mary Lavin – a birthday present that may be a bit off target, but with the good wishes of all my family as well as my own, 1972”

With the bookplate of Charlotte Ardizzone, designed by Edward Ardizzone.

Renowned artist & book illustrator Edward Ardizzone illustrated Mary Lavin’s ‘The Second-Best Children In the World’ published in 1972.