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  • Blue Peter lapel badge

    £4.00

    We can’t tell you where or when this was created. Let your imagination go wild and pretend that your favourite Blue Peter presenter stole them from BBC Television Centre before it ceased to be the most significant buiding on Wood Lane, W12. A 2cm in diameter lapel badge. Condition: As new and waiting patiently at…

  • Bod’s New Leaf by Alison and Lo Cole

    £5.00

    Contender Entertainment, 2003. 16cm by 16.5cm white illustrated boards. In 2002 and 2003 Contender published Bod’s Way and Bod’s New Leaf , written by Alison Cole and illustrated by Lo Cole. The books revived their parents’ much-loved creation – the book and TV character Bod.  The books explore the quirky world of Bod and his…

  • Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole

    £7.00

    Methuen and Co, 1982. Reprint paperback. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour images throughout. A Magnet Book. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Features Bod on a snowy Christmas Eve, taking a present to…

  • Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole 1975

    £10.00

    Methuen and Co, 1975. First paperback edition. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. This first paperback edition came a decade after the…

  • Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole First edition 1965

    £18.00

    Methuen and Co, 1965. First edition. Hardback 16cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Bod on BBC followed the Coles’ classic Fingerbobs and…

  • Elaine of La Signe by Ursula Moray Williams First edition 1937

    £12.00

    Ursula Moray Williams was a Children’s author and this title is one of her earlier books. First edition, lacking dustwrapper, published by Harrap, 1937. 20cm x 14.5cm blue boards. 254 pages. Colour frontispiece and black and white drawings illustrated by the author. Condition: Lacks dustwrapper, there is foxing in the pages and page 33 is…

  • Nogbad Comes Back! by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin 1972

    £15.00

    Kaye & Ward, 1972. First edition  thus of this paperback reprint of title first published in hardback in 1966. Edmund Ward ‘Starting to Read’ Books Number 4. 19cm by 15cm, 47 pages. Noggin is a kind king, married to kind queen Nooka but Nogbad the Bad is unkind. Condition: Bottom edge has a dent and…

  • Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes

    £3.00

    Faber, 2008. Reprint. 20cm by 12.5cm, 124 pages. First published in 1967 and sub-titled “A Handbook for Writing and Teaching.” Condition: covers slightly edge-worn and pages uniformly browned.

  • Puffin Post Vol 8 No.2 1974 ed. Kaye Webb

    £5.00

    Published by Puffin (Penguin) Books, Puffin Post was the magazine of The Puffin Club, which was the brainchild of Puffin Books’ editor, Kaye Webb. The club was born in 1967 after Kaye persuaded Sir Allen Lane, the owner of Penguin Books, that the club would make children into adult readers. This edition from 1974 measures…

  • The Observer’s Book of Birds by S. Vere Benson 1968

    £12.00

    Frederick Warne, 1968. Third reprint of the 1965 Revised Edition. Brown boards, 14.5cm x 9cm, 223 pages with b&w plus colour illustrations throughout. Condition: Slightly faded and worn boards but clean contents in somewhat soiled, edge-worn, chipped and torn dustwrapper. See photos.

  • The Tale of Driver Grope by Richard Ingrams and Ralph Steadman

    £28.00

    Dobson, 1969. First edition. 29cm by 21cm blue boards illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. It might have been published by a children’s publisher but this is a title for adults to read, digest and act on. Richard “Private Eye” Ingrams wrote this messed up fairy tale of greed, capitalism, and environmental concerns. Ralph Steadman provided…