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BEAKY THE GREEDY DUCK
Written by Noel Barr. Illustrated by P.B. Hickling.
Stock no. 441354
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 497. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. A little bumping to cover edges. Name in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing to a few page margins. Pictorial wrapper is faded to spine and edges, with red crayon scribble to front panel and name in ink to top of front panel. Ned the Lonely Donkey is last title on rear flap.

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THE ADVENTURES OF WONK - GOING TO SEA
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 381091
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 6th 1946. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 417. Grey boards with colour vignette and titles. Also contains: THE NEW FISHING NET. Spine and corners bumped. Some faint evidence of erased pencil writing to top margin of title-page. Otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper has top 1.5" missing to both front and rear panels (and spine), remainder of wrapper is torn and grubby, tape repairs on verso.

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THE ADVENTURES OF WONK - GOING TO SEA
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 439303
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1941. Very good condition.

Series 417. Cream boards with colour vignette and titles. Also contains: THE NEW FISHING NET. Spine bumped. Light fingering to some page margins. 2cm closed tear (nearly invisible) to lower edge of 2 pages of contents. Overall, a splendid copy of a very scarce book. (Catalogue to rear only advertises books printed in 1941).

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JEREMY'S DAY IN THE COUNTRY
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 438207
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Series 401. Buff boards with square pictorial onlay to front and titles. Bumping along couple of cover edges. Some light green pencil colouring to front endpaper. Free front endpaper has an extensive ink drawing of a person to it. Some of the b/w illustrations above text to text pages have the characters tails coloured with biro. Ink tick and cross marks to other ladybird titles page to rear of book. Pictorial wrapper has ink underlining to titles on rear flap, edge-tear to front flap, and a few other smaller edge-tears and nicks. Name in pencil written across front of front panel. A few other smaller marks to wrapper. Overall, still a good copy of this scarce item.

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THE FLICKERDICK
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 436310
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 3rd 1948. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 474. A Tasseltip Tale. Pictorial paper boards. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. Top of spine has roughly 1/2 cm missing. Gift inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. 2" tear vertically up one page, next to spine. Contents are still bright. Pictorial wrapper is price-cut, edge-chipped, with a few inch edge-tears, that have been repaired to verso with sticky tape. Some small pieces of loss to corners. Grubby marks to rear panel. Overall, still a very good copy of this rarer ladybird title.

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THE STORY OF DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Evelyn Bowmar.
Stock no. 378830
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 9th 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 413. Illustrated buff boards. Full-page colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Some grubby fingermarks to page margins else contents clean. Dustwrapper is price-cut, edge rubbed and creased with a 1" tear to lower corner of rear panel.

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THE FLICKERDICK
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 435543
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1947. Good condition.

Ladybird Series 474. A Tasseltip Tale. Pictorial paper boards. Spine and corners are bumped and worn. 1cm to base of backstrip is chipped away. Front joint split, binding is weak. Some light scuffing to covers. Small tear hole to top of spine. Contents are lovely and bright and clean.

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THE FLICKERDICK
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 435130
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1947. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 474. A Tasseltip Tale. Pictorial paper boards. Some light wear to corners and cover edges, and a few marks to rear cover. Contents are beautifully bright and clean. Pictorial wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with 1.5" loss to base of spine, top of spine torn for 1.5". A few other closed tears that have been repaired with sticky tape to verso. Some small surface paper patches of damage.

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MR. MOLE'S HOUSE WARMING
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 435133
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1947. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A Tasseltip Tale. Ladybird Series 474. Pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Spine is bumped. Light wear to cover edges and corners. Pictures are lovely and bright. A couple of light margin marks. Pictorial wrapper is a bit creased, edge-torn and chipped, with 1" loss to base of spine, 1.5" loss to rear flap and a large repaired tear to rear panel.

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A LITTLE SILK APRON
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 435131
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 474. A Tasseltip Tale. Pictorial paper boards. A few patches of sticky tape residue to rear cover and small patch of surface paper damage. Corners are bumped and worn. Contents are tight, bright and clean. Pictorial wrapper is badly torn to rear cover and spine and has been messily put back together; alot of creasing to rear panel, patch of surface paper damage to top of front panel. Large closed repaired tear also to front panel.

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THE ADVENTURES OF WONK - GOING TO SEA
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 434700
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 3rd 1943. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Series 417. Blue boards with colour vignette and titles. Also contains: THE NEW FISHING NET. Spine is a little bumped and browned. One hinge internally is slightly pulled. Contents are lovely and bright. Pictorial wrapper is foxed and browned to verso; also has small tape repairs to verso; some chipping to edges and a few small patches of loss to top and tail of spine, also has tear hole to spine in middle, with a little loss. Small patch of loss also to top of front panel. Still a nice copy of this rarer item.

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A LITTLE SILK APRON
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 739689
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1947. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 474. A Tasseltip Tale. Pictorial paper boards. Spine and corners slightly bumped and worn. Small patch of surface paper damage to rear cover. Contents are detached from covers but very clean. Wrapper is edge creased and torn with a few pieces of loss to front corners, grubby with light pencil marks to rear panel.

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