Ten individual paperback volumes, plus a 32 page booklet, THE STORY OF PUFFIN BOOKS, by Sally Gritten, and an 8 page leaflet, FIFTY PUFFIN YEARS: A celebration in Poetry, by Roger McGough and others. Totalling approximately 2,000 pages, each volume illustrated; all small cr. 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; together within a wide pictorial card slipcase, edges a trifle rubbed, Puffin Books, London, 1991. *'Ten great Puffins of the past for children of the Present [slipcase blurb]. The first Puffin Story Book, Worzel Gummidge, was published in December 1941 The ten books are: Swallows and Amazos, by Arthur Ransome; The Silver Sword, by Ian Serraillier, Stig of the Dump, by Clive King, Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White, Mary Poppins, by P. L. Travers, The Borrowers, by Mary Norton, Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfeild, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, by Norman Hunter, and Worzel Gummidge, by Barbara Euphan Todd. The illustrators include C. Walter Hodges, Edward Ardizzone, Garth Williams, Mary Shepard, Diana Stanley, W. Heath Robinson, a.o.

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Title

PUFFIN 50TH ANNIVERSARY STORYBOOK BOX

Publisher

Puffin Books, London

Publication Date

1991

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Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller Pty Ltd 156 Collins Street, Melbourne Vic 3000 Australia books@kaycraddock.com +61 3 9654 8506 ABN: 16 007 334 312 Director: Kay Craddock Established in 1965, a salon-style bookshop in the heart of Melbourne's central business district. The shop has a large and varied stock of antiquarian and secondhand books, ranging from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, covering most subjects and price ranges. Specialities include fine press and illustrated books, literature, children's books, books about books and militaria.

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Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller Pty Ltd
The Assembly Hall Building, 156 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia

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