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DEEP SEA MOKEY
Written by Grace Couch. Illustrated by Grace Couch.
Stock no. 1323342
Published by Collins. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format, 6.5 X 9". Green paperboards with pictorial front board. Orange cloth spine. Delightful colour illustrations throughout. The underwater adventure of a little toy donkey. Some light foxing to rear cover. Small white mark to lower edge of front cover. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Small brown marks to top edge of most pages. Stitching has been pulled causing contents to be loose. Dustwrapper is edge worn with small tears, some light browning and foxing and verso very browned.

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ABOUT MAPS
Written by Peter Hood. Illustrated by Peter Hood.
Stock no. 1323332
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Pictorial paperwraps. Puffin Picture Book No. 67. Colour and b/w illustrations. Slight foxing to covers and to first few and last few pages.

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INSECT LIFE
Written by Arthur Smith. Illustrated by Arthur Smith.
Stock no. 1323331
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 66. Pictorial paperwraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. There is a library label (unused) stuck to the inside front cover. Otherwise a nice, clean copy.

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BUILDING A HOUSE
Written by Richard Leacroft. Illustrated by Richard Leacroft.
Stock no. 1323326
Published by Penguin. 1st 1949. Very good condition.

Colour pictorial paperwraps. Colour lithographs and b/w drawings. Puffin Picture Book No. 60. A few small, light marks to covers. Publisher's price sticker of 2/- to front cover. Contents clean.

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THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE
Written by Isabel Alexander. Illustrated by Isabel Alexander.
Stock no. 1323324
Published by Penguin Books. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book no. 58. Pictorial paper wraps. colour and b/w illustrations. Covers slightly browned at edges. Staples rusty. Pencil no. (58) erased from front cover.

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WOODWORKING FOR CHILDREN
Written by John Dumayne. Illustrated by John Dumayne.
Stock no. 1323323
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1945. Good condition.

Puffin Picture Book No. 57. Pictorial paperwraps. B/w illustrations. Some rubbing to spine. A couple of pages have been roughly opened resulting in slight loss at page edges. Penguin price alteration sticker to title list inside front cover. Pale page browning.

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DOGS
Written by Maurice Wilson. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson.
Stock no. 1323322
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

Puffin Picture Book 56. Oblong format, paperwraps. Colour and b/w lithograph illustrations throughout. Some browning to cover edges. Staples rusty. Some pale browning to contents.

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BIGGLES SWEEPS THE DESERT
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323321
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1947. Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

The Biggles Squadron versus the Nazi ace, Von Zoyton, in the battle of the Libyan air route. Blue cloth. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped. Wear and discolouration to lower edges of covers. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with slight loss to spine and corners and large piece of loss to top edge of rear panel. Rear panel and spine are also a bit grubby.

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BIGGLES TAKES A HOLIDAY
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323319
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, red titles and panther vignette. 8 full-page illustrations. 190 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn with minimal loss and small tears. Spine of wrapper is faded, rear panel is a little grubby.

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BIGGLES' SECOND CASE
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323316
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles and vignette to front. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. The case of the pirate U-Boat. Spine bumped. Browning to endpapers and inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to preliminary pages and to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and just a little grubby to rear panel.

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NODDY AND THE FARMYARD MUDDLE
Written by Sophie Smallwood. Illustrated by Robert Tyndall.
Stock no. 1323305
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blyton's Granddaughter writes a new classic Noddy adventure! Larger format. Blue glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9780007318018. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just a little creased at edges.

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THE NEW HOUSE MISTRESS
Written by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer.
Stock no. 1323298
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

The Captain Series. Pictorial boards and spine. B/w frontis. 94 pages. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers partly browned. Contents clean.

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