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BEAKY THE GREEDY DUCK
Written by Noel Barr. Illustrated by P.B. Hickling.
Stock no. 1331067
Published by Wills & Hepworth. 1966. Very good condition.

Ladybird Series 497. Orange pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, covers rubbed. A few light fingermarks to front endpapers and a light mark to margin of page 12. Contents otherwise clean.

THE DISCONTENTED PONY
Written by Noel Barr. Illustrated by P.B. Hickling.
Stock no. 1331065
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1952. Good condition.

Ladybird Series 497. Pale green boards with square pictorial onlay to front and black titles. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners are bumped and well worn. Covers are grubby and dampstained. Rear joint is broken. Some light marks to prelims else contents clean.

BUNNIKIN'S PICNIC PARTY
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 1331064
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 10th 1950. Very good condition.

Ladybird Series 401. Brown boards with black titles and colour pictorial onlay to front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped, spine slightly faded. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Contents clean.

THE ZOO
Written by M.E. Gagg. Illustrated by Barry Driscoll.
Stock no. 1331063
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1967. Good condition.

Ladybird Series 563. Red pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Bold, easy to read text. ISBN: 072140054X. Spine and corners bumped, covers edge worn. Grubby marks to prelims and child's heavy pencil writing to rear pastedown has been erased (but still evident). Contents are clean.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Written by L. Du Garde Peach. Illustrated by John Kenney.
Stock no. 1331047
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 561. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Child's name in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Contents otherwise fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed.

IN THE WILDERNESS WITH UNCLE MAC
Written by Derek McCulloch. Illustrated by Septimus E. Scott.
Stock no. 1331045
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 455. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations. Spine bumped. Some light foxing and fingering else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and lightly scuffed.

IN THE TRAIN WITH UNCLE MAC
Written by Derek McCulloch. Illustrated by W.C. Watson.
Stock no. 1331044
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 455. Buff pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Spine bumped. Child's name in biro to front endpapers. Some light foxing else contents bright and clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and lightly foxed, light biro mark to rear panel.. Tally 130 to rear flap.

THE STORY OF SHIPS
Written by Richard Bowood. Illustrated by Robert Ayton.
Stock no. 1331043
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 601. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly browned. Evidence of removal of a label to title-page. Light crayon scribbled to first text page. Contents otherwise bright and clean! Dustwrapper is edge rubbed. Creased and grubby to rear panel. This is the last title on rear flap.

A THIRD BOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Roland Green.
Stock no. 1331042
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1958. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 536. Buff boards with brown titles and vignette of a tit on a branch to front. A Ladybird Senior. Brown ladybird patterned endpapers. Colour illustrations. Spine is bumped and slightly browned. Contents are fine. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed, evidence of removal of a small label to rear panel and a small tear to rear flap. Last title listed on rear flap is British Wild Animals.

A SECOND BOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Allen W. Seaby.
Stock no. 1331040
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1954. Good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 536. Light grey boards with colour vignette and titles. Colour illustrations throughout. Spine and corners bumped. Some pale foxing to covers. Light pencil marks to front cover have been mostly erased. Substantial crayon marks and doodles to rear cover. Inscription in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Contents are clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge rubbed, grubby and creased to rear panel.

RED RIDING HOOD ALSO GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS
Written by Gilda Lund. Illustrated by J.H. Wingfield.
Stock no. 1331036
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1966. Very good condition.

Ladybird Series 413. Red pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 072140197X. Covers edge worn, base of spine split. Initials to front pastedown. Some light finger creases but contents clean. Tally 180 to rear cover.

THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Rowland Hilder; Edith Hilder.
Stock no. 1331010
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1958. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Grey boards with green illustration to front. Brown open-winged ladybird design endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Slight browning to spine. Small scratch mark to front cover. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, slight mark to rear panel.