LADYBIRD BOOKS SERIES

The iconic Ladybird Books series of illustrated and informative childrens and young adults books.
Distinctive for their uniform format, with high quality illustrations and pleasing typography.

All these fortunabooks.com prices are in New Zealand dollars, and there is a minimum order required of NZD$20 excluding postage.


BARR Noel 
The Discontented Pony
cover image of The Discontented Pony, for sale in New Zealand

Illustrated by P. B. Hickling.
Series 497

VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket, name to free end paper.
$15 A/A
Ladybird Books, assumed first, undated, 51pp.
[#4434 ]



BARR Noel. 
Tiptoes the Mischievous Kitten
cover image of Tiptoes the Mischievous Kitten, for sale in New Zealand

Illustrated by P. B. Hickling.
Series 497

VG hardback in VG price clipped dust jacket.
Small childs name to rear fep, price clipped dust jacket handling soiled with very minor surface insect damage.
$10 A/A
Ladybird Books, assumed first, undated, 51pp.
[#4435 ]



CLEGG Joyce B. and illustrated by John Kenney 
Tootles the Taxi and other Rhymes

Undated early edition, cover image has a dog and two children on pavement waving at Tootles. The dog has no leash. The book has a New Zealand decimal price label which dates its date of sale to after July 1967. Rear cover list of titles has numbers 3,7,9,10,11 in Series 413.
Book 9 in Series 413

G hardback with no dust jacket
$25 A/B
Wills and Hepworth Ltd, undated, 51pp.
[#3290 ]





PEACH L. Du Garde 
Captain Scott
cover image of Captain Scott a Ladybird Book, for sale in New Zealand

Illustrated by John Kennedy.
Adventures from History Series 561

VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Jacket spine very faintly faded, and some rubbing to edges.

Rear flap of jacket lists 16 titles ending with this one
$25 A/A
Ladybird Books (Wills & Hepworth) 1963 first edition, 51pp.
[#4686 ]



VESEY-FITZGERALD Brian 
A Second Book of British Birds and their Nests
cover image of A Second Book of British Birds and their Nests, for sale in New Zealand

Illustrated by Allen W Seaby.
Series 536
With full page colour paintings of the birds.

VG hardback in VG dust jacket which is priced clipped otherwise excellent, complete and intact
Book has former owners stamp on the page facing the title.
Dusty page edges
$15 A/A
Wills and Hepworth 1954 First Edition, approx 51pp.
[#4498 ]




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