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HOW IT WORKS: THE MOTOR CAR
Written by David Carey. Illustrated by David Carey.
Stock no. 1330302
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1966. Good condition.

Ladybird Series 654. Blue pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers grubby, mainly to rear cover. Foxing to textblock. Name in pencil has been partially erased to front free-endpaper. Contents otherwise clean.

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THE MOTOR CAR
No author listed.
Stock no. 1325101
Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd.. Good condition.

A small, shaped book. 13 pages told in verse how a group of children take a motor car. Heavy vertical crease to front cover. Covers rubbed and otherwise lightly creased. Child's name and address in heavy pencil inside front cover. Centre pages are detached but still present. Some grubby marks to pages (small ink splodge to one page).

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THE GOBBLING BILLY
Written by William Mayne; Dick Caesar.
Stock no. 1323107
Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd.. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Originally published in 1959 under the pseudonym Dynely James. The Gobbling Billy is a powerful vintage racing car. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 160 pages. ISBN: 034004232X. Light spotting to covers. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed.

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JOLLY MOTOR RIDES
No author listed. Illustrated by A.E. Kennedy.
Stock no. 2133453
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1st 1930. Good condition.

Cloth spine. Pictorial boards. 4 colour plates by Kennedy. B/w illustrations. Spine is bumped and browned. Grubby marks and scuffs to covers. Binding is weak and starting to break in places. Foxing to outer page edges and page margins. Small name and address label stuck to rear pastedown.

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MICHAEL AND THE OK
Written by Keith Dadds; Jane Dadds. Illustrated by David Kidger.
Stock no. 824404
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of a boy who helps an antique motor car, the OK, to escape from the wreckers and from a ditch full of nettles. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Covers clean. Contents fine. Pictorial wrapper is edge-worn and a little grubby.

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THE NAUGHTYMOBILE
Written by Compton Mackenzie. Illustrated by A.H. Watson.
Stock no. 815564
Published by Basil Blackwell. Very good condition.

Very pale blue boards with pictorial onlay to front cover and black titles. B/w illustrations. Covers unevenly browned.

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