Animal Rhyming Stories Series 401

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Ladybird books series 401

REMEMBER: the date listed next to the title is the date of the original 1st edition, not of the book for sale. If no details of a book are mentioned then either I don't have one for sale, or haven't got around to listing it yet.

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Bunnikins Picnic Party, 1940 Matt, 15p, Good, a little grubby, rubbed spine, £2.50

Bunnikins Picnic Party A lovely clean copy of this popular title from the earliest Ladybird Book series 401. Buff boards with blue mono-colour illustration. White endpapers. Pages very clean and tight. Dustwrapper price clipped. Clean, minimal signs of wear. Back flap lists 8 titles. Closed wing ladybird logo. DW now protected in removeable archival wrap.
£19.00

Actual books shown in pictures.
Any shine on pic is the clear dustwrapper protector (removeable).

The First Day of the Holidays, 1940 Matt, 50p, Good+, £3.50

Ginger's Adventures, 1940 Lam, 75p, VG, £4.00

Ginger's Adventures, series 401
buff boards, blue vignette, white endpapers. 2nd of 8 titles listed. Exceptionally clean and tight. DJ not price clipped, very lightly faded, very light signs of wear with a closed 1cm tear on the back. Book Fine/DJ near Fine. �28.00

Smoke and Fluff, 1941 Matt, 30p, Good++ £2.50 Smoke and Fluff , buff boards. Lost its DJ. A pen-mark on the back board, spine missing top 2.5 cms of paper and covered in clear tape. Blue open-winged endpapers and nice clean pages. £3.00 Cover shown below.

Smoke and Fluff A lovely copy, Fine condition, of this popular story in verse from Ladybird series 401, complete with original dustwrapper. Buff boards with blue line drawing to cover. Blue, open-winged ladybird endpapers. Pages clean and bright and tight. Unmarked but for a neat adult's inscription (dated Christmas 1964) on the fly-leaf. Dustwrapper very clean and bright with minimal signs of age or wear - but missing the front flap. This fault is not very noticable as the books is in removable clear archival wrap £12.00

Jeremy's Day in the Country, 1941 None available at present
Bob Bushtail's Adventure, 1941 Lam, 70p, Excellent, £3.50
Bob Bushtail's Adventure, 1941 Matt, 70p, Good+, £3.00 Bob Bushtail's Adventures9th edition,1951. Nearly half the spine cover is missing and the bottom section is loose on one side (see spine picture above, 2nd book from the right).Water stain on eps front and back. Child has written name on fep and edition page and another child on title page. The binding is tight, pages secure and pictures lovely and bright. £6.00 Cover shown below.

Downy Duckling, 1946 Matt, 2/6, Tally 140, old, 'window edition' Good-(worn spine, small scribble on cover, name and stickers on eps), £1.50

Downy Duckling, series 401
buff boards, blue vignette, blue open-wing eps. Open wing logo - although presentation book plate on front eps dated 1964. Tiny book sellers label on eps. 5th of 8 titles listed on back DJ flap. DJ not price clipped, lightly frayed along top and bottom edge. Minor loss head and foot of spine. VG+/VG- £23.00

Downy Duckling 2nd edition, published a month after the 1st edition. Mottled brown textured boards with pasted on colour plate. Line drawing endpapers (tiny neat name in corner). Stitching good but just beginning to loosen. Pages clean and illustrations bright. There is a light ghost-sellotape mark towards the base of spine and on boards and the spine is beginning to peel at the bottom. The dustwrapper is not price clipped. Worn along edges and there is 1.5 narrow rectangle of loss along the spine panel, which stops just short of the letter D of Downy, and a longer tape residue mark (see picture). DW now protected in removeable archival wrap.
£19.00

Piggly Plays Truant, 1946 Matt, 50p, Light wear to edges. Very nice and clean inside. Very Good, £3.50
Piggly Plays Truant, 1946 Matt, 15p, Tally 280, A child has coloured in title on front board, written on back board and taken a bite? out of title page. A pity - reading pages nice and clean. £1.50
Piggly Plays Truant, 1946 Matt, 2/6, rare 'window' edition (just post DJ), Tally 190, scuff marks top and bottom of boards else VG, £6.50
Lost at the Fair,1948 Matt, 40p, Good+, Scuffs top edge of boards £3.50

Lost at the Fair,1948 Matt, 50p, Good, (crack to joint) £2.50

Lost at the Fair, series 401. Book nr Fine, Dustwrapper Very Good+. Dates from around 1960. 6th of 8 titles listed on DJ flap. Blue open-winged ladybird endpapers. The book is very nice and clean - unmarked but for a neat adult's name on the title page. The DJ is not price clipped. Just a little light wear at edges.
£24.00

The Runaway, 1948 Matt, 18p, Tally 320, Front endpaper cut out, else VG, £1.40
The Runaway, 1948 Matt, 15p, Tally 280, Very Good, £4.00
Mr Badger to the Rescue, 1949 Matt, 24p, Very Good, £4.00
Mr Badger to the Rescue, 1949 Matt, 24p, Fair/Good. Rubbed spine,scuffed boards, scribble on ep, £1.00
Bunny's First Birthday, 1950 Matt, 30p, Good, (child's name on endpaper) £4.00
The Bunny-Fluff's Moving Day, 1950 Matt, 18p, Tally 320, Very Good+, £5.00
The Bunny-Fluff's Moving Day, 1950 Lam, 70p, Crack along back hinge else VG £2.50
The Green Umbrella, 1950 Matt, 60p, blemish on cover else VG, £4.00
The Green Umbrella, 1950 Matt, 15p, Tally 320, name on cover,pen mark on back board, binding and spine good, nice and clean inside £1.50
Pippety's Unlucky Day, 1952
Jonathan's Shopping Day, 1952 0
Five Little Kittens, 1956 Lam, 99p, Very Good, £3.50
High Tide, 1956
Now for the modern titles in this series:
Dennis the Dragon, 1980
Dennis the Dragon Finds a New Job, 1983 Lam, 85p, Very Good, £3.50
Gerry the Giraffe, 1983 Lam, 75p, Excellent, £4.00
Mervyn Mouse, 1980 Matt, bumped head and foot of spine else VG £3.50
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