26.
Noddy and his Car
by
Enid Blyton
with illustrations by
Beek
Published by Sampson Low circa 1952
Yellow pictorial glazed boards.
Dustwrapper repeats cover design.
Dustwrapper heavily worn and creased, with 2cm loss at base of front flap.
Covers worn at edges.
Corners bumped.
Belongs To box neatly completed.
Close to VG internally, but some intermittent fingermarking to page edges.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
27.
Peekaboo Park
by
Emily Bolam
with illustrations by
Emily Bolam
1st edition,
published by Campbell Books in 2015
Light blue pictorial paper-covered boards.
15cm x 15cm.
4 flaps to lift.
Bight clear pictures.
Covers slightly bowed.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
28.
Pinocchio
by
Carlo Collodi
with illustrations by
Charles Folkard
Reprint,
published by J. M. Dent in 1949
Green embossed cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
Picture onlay to front cover.
13cm x 18cm.
First reprint in this edition.
Dustwrapper soiled and a little worn, front-flap price-clipped.
Covers slightly faded at top and bottom edges.
Some light foxing to prelims and to edges of page block.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
29.
Rabbit's Nap
by
Julia Donaldson
with illustrations by
Axel Scheffler
Reprint,
published by MacMillan in 2003
ISBN: 0333987381.
Paperback.
20cm x 24cm.
Tales from Acorn Wood.
Name written neatly on front endpaper.
Otherwise clean and unmarked.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
30.
Raise the Drawbridge
by
Beryl M. Jones
with illustrations by
Geoffrey Evans
Published by Western Mail and Echo in 1952
Grey cloth-covered boards.
Red lettering on covers.
Pictorial endpapers.
Dustwrapper worn at edge, and missing front flap replaced with plain paper.
Minor wear to covers.
Gift dedication on half-title.
Pages faintly tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
31.
Robert the Spy Hunter
by
Lettice Cooper
with illustrations by
Patricia Frost
1st edition,
published by Kaye and Ward in 1973
ISBN: 0718201876.
Front endpaper pasted down.
Old tape marks on back endpaper and dustwrapper flaps.
Some fingermarking.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
32.
Shipwrecks, a 3-dimensional Exploration
by
David Hawcock
with illustrations by
Garry Walton
1st edition,
published by Tango Books in 1993
Contains a mixture of pop-up, lift-the-flap and fold-out paper engineering, used to illustrate the text on shipwrecks and their exploration.
All pop-ups etc. seem to be in good working order.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
33.
Sir Walter Raleigh
by
L. Du Garde Peach
with illustrations by
John T. Kenney
Reprint,
published by Wills & Hepworth in 1957
Light brown pictorial paper-covered boards.
Dark blue lettering on covers.
Dark blue decoration on covers.
Series 561, original price 2'6.
Blue ladybird pattern endpapers.
Ladybird logo on reverse of front endpaper is black open-wing version.
Titles list on dustwrapper back flap has ten entries, ending with David Livingstone.
Minor wear to edges of dustwrapper.
Dustwrapper spine faded.
Book itself near fine.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
34.
Smoke and Fluff
by
Angusine Jeanne MacGregor
with illustrations by
Angusine Jeanne MacGregor
7th edition,
published by Wills & Hepworth in 1949
Blue paper-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
Black decoration on covers.
Picture onlay to front cover.
Minor wear to edges of duswrapper.
Some light foxing and tanning to dustwrapper flaps and to reverse of dustwrapper.
Covers clean and unmarked.
Binding sound.
Contents slightly tanned, but otherwise generally VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
35.
Smoke Jumpers
by
Nels Jorgensen
Published by The Children's Press circa 1955
Blue cloth-covered boards.
Silver decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper worn and soiled.
Light wear to covers.
Name and address on front pastedown and on inside of front dustwrapper flap.
Pages heavily tanned.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
36.
The Children's Book of Hymns
by
Cicely Mary Barker
with illustrations by
Cicely Mary Barker
Published by Blackie
Quarto.
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Gilt decoration on covers.
84 pages.
Undated, presumed circa 1940s.
Original publisher's price on dustwrapper flap given as 8/6 net.
Light wear to dustwrapper.
Covers clean and unmarked.
Gilt bright.
Binding tight.
Foxing to prelims, edges of page block, and to page edges.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
37.
The Gift
by
V. Suteyev
with illustrations by
V. Suteyev
Published by Foreign Languages Publishing House Moscow circa 1955
Translated from the Russian by Ivy Litinova.
Paperback.
Quarto.
Yellow pictorial covers.
"Literature for Children and Youth. For Tiny Tots."
One of a series of books produced in the Soviet Union during the 1950s for export.
An activity book containing flaps, pictures to colour, puzzles etc.
Light wear to covers and edges.
The detached, moveable strip for the "TV" page is present and in good working order.
The moveable strip for the "train" page is missing.
The various flaps and "cut here" lines have been used but, apart from the missing strip noted above, all the parts appear present and in working order.
Two of the puzzles have been completed.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
38.
The Gift of Umtal
by
Joan Smith
1st edition,
published by Julia MacRae in 1982
ISBN: 086203101X.
Brown covers, gilt lettering.
Dustwrapper flaps has closed tears on it.
Label removed from front endpaper.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
39.
40.
The House that Jack Built
by
Joan Tate
with illustrations by
Joan Tate
1st edition,
published by Pelham Books in 1976
ISBN: 0720709156.
Red leatherette covers.
Label removed from prelims.
Some minor damage to dustwrapper flaps, where they were previously glued to the inside of the covers.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
41.
The Iron Lily
by
Barbara Willard
Published by Kestrel in 1975
ISBN: 0722660405.
Dark blue cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on spine.
Light wear to edges of dustwrapper.
A few tape marks on pastedowns and dustwrapper flaps.
Label removed from front pastedown.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
42.
The Ladybird Book of Nursery Rhymes
by
Auntie Muriel
with illustrations by
Robert Knight
Reprint,
published by Wills & Hepworth circa 1959
Light brown paper-covered boards.
Green lettering on covers.
Green decoration on covers.
Undated; back flap of dustwrapper shows list of other titles in series 413 starting with this title and ending with "Red Riding Hood also Goldilocks and the Three Bears", which was first published in 1958.
Book appears to be printed on art paper (glossy).
Front cover repeats dustwrapper design, but in monochrome green.
Dustwrapper back flap has square open-wing ladybird logo in blue, above the series title-list.
Dustwrapper front flap neatly price-clipped.
Very light wear to edges of dustwrapper.
Endpapers show a diagonal chequerboard pattern of nursery rhyme characters printed in blue.
Reverse of front endpaper, facing title page, reads "Series 413".
Oval closed-wing ladybird logo in blue on title page.
Fine condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
43.
The Little Lord Jesus
by
Lucy Diamond
with illustrations by
Kenneth Inns
4th edition,
published by Wills & Hepworth in 1955
Light brown paper-covered boards.
Purple decoration on covers.
Dustwrapper price-clipped, and has small, neat gift dedication on front flap.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
44.
The Magic Moth
by
Virginia Lee
with illustrations by
Richard Cuffari
1st edition,
published by Longman in 1972
ISBN: 0582164729.
Cream bindings, gilt lettering on spine.
Back flap of dustwrapper re-attached.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
45.
The Ox and the Ass at the Manger
by
Jules Supervielle
with illustrations by
Muriel Broderick
1st Thus edition,
published by Hollis & Carter Ltd in 1945
Pictorial covers.
13cm x 19cm.
Dustwrapper price-clipped, worn at edges and a little soiled.
Neat gift dedication on dustwrapper front-flap.
Book itself VG.
Very Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
46.
The Red Goddess
by
Sidney Charles George
1st edition,
published by Warne in 1939
Orange boards, decorated and lettered in black.
Coloured frontispiece, no other illustrations.
Boards slightly faded.
Dustwrapper poor - front flap missing, edges ragged and loss from top and base of spine.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
47.
48.
The Spartan Twins
by
Lucy Fitch Perkins
with illustrations by
Lucy Fitch Perkins
5th edition,
published by Cape in 1946
Octavo.
Brown cloth-covered boards.
Black lettering on covers.
151 pages.
One of the 'Twin' series, which Lucy Fitch Perkins began writing in the 1930s to encourage children to appreciate other cultures.
Dustwrapper a little worn, old sellotape marks on flaps.
Library markings removed.
Endpapers renewed.
Pages lightly tanned.
Some creases and fingermarking at front of book.
Reading condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
49.
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers
by
Beatrix Potter
with illustrations by
Beatrix Potter
Published by Warne in 1965
Light green paper-covered boards.
Dark blue lettering on covers.
Picture onlay to front cover.
Dustwrapper worn, creased and soiled.
Repair to closed tear on dustwrapper back flap.
Light wear to edges of covers.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)
50.
The Travelling Man
by
Marie Joseph
1st Thus edition,
published by Guild Publishing in 1990
Brown covers, gilt lettering.
Small tape marks on covers.
Piece missing from front flap of dustwrapper.
Label removed from front endpaper.
Contents VG.
Good condition
(Search score: high, Confidence: high)