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THE CRICKET TERM
Written by Antonia Forest.
Stock no. 1330542
Published by Puffin Books; Penguin Books Ltd. 1981. Very good condition.

It is busy summer again at Kingscote School. Nicola Marlow is coaching her team with a steely determination to beat the senior girls in the inter-form cricket cup, and her twin sister Lawrie is just as determined to get the part she really wants in the school play. A Puffin paperback. Pictorial cardwraps. 255 pages. ISBN: 0140311378. Light creases to covers. Pale page browning else contents clean.

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VILLAGE AND TOWN
Written by S.R. Badmin. Illustrated by S.R. Badmin.
Stock no. 1830571
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1942. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 16. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour and b/w lithographs. Second issue. Covers lightly edge-rubbed, worn at spine with split to top & tail. Light mark to rear cover. Approx 1" square loss to lower spine edge of rear cover. Some foxing to contents.

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BUTTERFLIES IN BRITAIN
Written by Richard Chopping. Illustrated by Richard Chopping.
Stock no. 1329646
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1945. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 29. Pictorial paperwraps. Staples are rusty. Last title listed inside front cover is Famous Ships (39).

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THE THORNY PARADISE
Written by Edward Blishen.
Stock no. 1329199
Published by Kestrel Books; Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Writers on writing for children. Essays by distinguished writers on their craft or on special aspects of it. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. 175 pages. ISBN: 0722654634. Spine and corners bumped. Pale page browning and foxing. Small, light mark to rear free-endpaper. White dustwrapper is just a little yellowed and edge rubbed.

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FAMOUS SHIPS
Written by Frank C. Bowen. Illustrated by Frank Mason.
Stock no. 1324318
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1946. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 39. Pictorial paperwraps. B/w and colour lithographs throughout. Unpaginated. Foxing to covers. Covers slightly edge worn. Staples rusty. Pencil tick marks and other annotations to title list inside front cover.

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ABOUT A MOTOR CAR
Written by Phyllis Ladyman. Illustrated by Phyllis Ladyman.
Stock no. 1324317
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1948. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book no. 38. Paperwraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. A few light marks to covers.

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A HISTORY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
Written by Margaret Potter; Alexander Potter. Illustrated by Margaret Potter; Alexander Potter.
Stock no. 1324316
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1946. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial paperwraps with brown border and red title to front. Colour lithographs and b/w drawings. Puffin Picture Book No. 37. Slight rubbing to cover edges and slight fading to spine. Some page corners slightly creased. Contents clean.

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BRER RABBIT
Written by Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrated by Walter Trier.
Stock no. 1324313
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1945. Fair condition.

Puffin Picture Book no. 34. Oblong format. Pictorial paper wraps. Colour lithographed illustrations. Printed by Delittle, Fenwick & Co. Front cover has large pieces of loss to edges. Covers are slightly grubby and foxed. Foxing and fingering to contents but generally clean.

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COUNTRY HOLIDAY
Written by Margaret Scott-Brown. Illustrated by Leo Dowd.
Stock no. 1324312
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1944. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No.33. Colour pictorial paperwraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. Slight browning to pages else contents clean.

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WATERWAYS OF THE WORLD
Written by W.J. Bassett-Lowke. Illustrated by Laurence Dunn.
Stock no. 1324311
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. Circa 1944. Almost very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 32. Pictorial paper wraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. Foxing to covers, textblock and first few/last few pages.

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U.S.A. THE STORY OF AMERICA
Written by Hazel H. Hallinan. Illustrated by James Holland.
Stock no. 1323951
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1942. Fair condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 23. Pictorial paper wraps. Colour and b/w lithographed illustrations. Printed/lithographed by W.S. Cowell. Front cover is detached and slightly edge chipped. Covers lightly foxed. Light page browning else contents clean.

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MARVELLOUS MODELS AND MODELS TO MAKE
Written by W.J. Bassett-Lowke. Illustrated by Paul B. Mann.
Stock no. 1323949
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1945. Almost very good condition.

Colour pictorial paperwraps. Colour lithographs and b/w drawings. Puffin Picture Book No. 19. Staples rusty. Covers slightly grubby and foxed. Some light creasing to inner margins.

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