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BOB BUSHTAIL'S ADVENTURE
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 1811380
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 401. Revised verses. Buff boards with square pictorial onlay to front. Colour illustrations. Minor fading to rear board. Otherwise boards clean and bright. Browning to endpapers. A few grubby marks to margins (minor). Contents generally nice and clean. Dustwrapper is rubbed at spine and corners and slightly creased to rear panel.

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SMOKE AND FLUFF
Written by W. Perring; A.J. Macgregor. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 1310713
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. circa 1955. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

Series 401. Buff boards with colour vignette and titles. Spine and corners bumped. Small, faint damp mark to corner of front board and a small brown spot to rear cover. Contents excellent. Price-cut dustwrapper is faded to spine, worn to edges with some small closed tears and has some surface paper damage to lower 1" of front.

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BOB BUSHTAIL'S ADVENTURE
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 1310188
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 6th 1948. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 401. Orange boards with square pictorial onlay to front and titles. Lower spine and lower rear corner slightly bumped. Name in blue biro to front endpaper. Heavy foxing to endpapers and page margins. Green pictorial wrapper is foxed.

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BOB BUSHTAIL'S ADVENTURE
Written by A.J. Macgregor; W. Perring. Illustrated by A.J. Macgregor.
Stock no. 2105226
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 7th 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird series 401. Brown boards with square pictorial onlay to front and titles. Colour illustrations throughout. Revised verses by Perring. Fading and foxing to a couple of cover edges. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Heavy creasing to just two pages. Wrapper is chipped/nicked to edges, with a few scuffs and grubby marks.

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THE ADVENTURES OF WONK - THE SECRET
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.
Stock no. 1305288
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 417. Green boards with colour vignette and titles. Also contains: THE NIGHT WATCHMAN. Spine bumped, small split to front edge of spine. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly worn at corners and is grubby, large splash mark to rear panel.

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THE LADYBIRD COLOURING BOOK OF DINOSAURS
No author listed. Illustrated by B.H. Robinson.
Stock no. 384851
Published by Ladybird Books. 1978. Very good condition.

Ladybird Series S779. Pictorial paperwraps. B/w line drawings to colour with facing colour illustration to copy from. ISBN: 0721430562. One picture partly coloured (and neatly), rest of contents untouched. Some light foxing to covers and old ink price (30p) to top edge of front cover.

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THE LADYBIRD COLOURING BOOK OF SOLDIERS & CASTLES
No author listed. Illustrated by Robert Ayton; Frank Humphris.
Stock no. 384852
Published by Ladybird Books. 1978. Very good condition.

Ladybird Series S779. Pictorial paperwraps. B/w line drawings to colour with facing colour illustration to copy from. ISBN: 0721430589. Three pictures coloured in, the rest untouched. A few light foxspots to rear cover. Old ink price (30p) to top edge of front cover.

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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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