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THE STORY OF DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
Written by Muriel Levy. Illustrated by Evelyn Bowmar.
Stock no. 2111392
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. Circa 1958. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Ladybird Series 413. Illustrated buff boards. Full-page colour illustrations. Bumping to corners. Some browning to covers. Wrapper is price-cut with names in ink to front flap; scuffing and edge-chipping, with a little loss; pencil doodles to verso.

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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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CLATTER! CLATTER!! BANG!!!
Written by Dorothy Richards. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 2109684
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 2nd 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Series 474. Pictorial paper boards. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners. Chipping, with couple of tiny splits to top and tail of spine. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Small page margin tear to title page and one other page to text. Illustrations are lovely and bright! Wrapper is price-cut with edge-tears and chips; around 2" loss along bottom of rear cover and spine; other smaller areas of loss to corners etc; some grubby marks.

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BESIDE THE SEA WITH UNCLE MAC
Written by Derek McCulloch. Illustrated by Septimus E. Scott.
Stock no. 2105292
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1952. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Series 455. Blue pictorial paper boards showing girl and boy in a row boat with two men. Full page colour illustrations. Light wear to cover edges. Crease to front cover. Erased pencil doodle to a couple of illustration pages internally. Damp staining to top edge of rear cover and to some pages throughout book. Binding is nice and tight. Wrapper is edge-torn and chipped, with a few pieces of loss to corners and bottom of rear panel. Damp mark to wrapper rear panel. Revised ladybird price sticker of 3/- stuck to front flap of wrapper.

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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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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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