Loughborough; Wills & Hepworth Ltd /Ladybird Books, 1946., 1946. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION. Small octavo, pp [56]. 25 full-page illustrations in colour by Kiddell-Monroe, plus vignettes to title page and chapter title leaves. Publishers' veined green paper-covered pictorial boards with titles and vignette in darker green, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Patterned endpapers. Minor nicks to spine tips; corners lightly bruised. Ownership inscription with address to verso ffep. Jacket surface soiled to rear white panel with moderate loss to lower edge and corners. A Very Good copy in Good jacket. Ladybird series 417. Two short adventure stories (The Secret and The Night Watchman) published as an additional title in the Adventures of Wonk series featuring Peter and his koala bear friend Wonk. Scarce, particularly in jacket.

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Bookseller: Keel Row Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 6493
Title: The Adventures of Wonk: The Secret
Author: Levy, Muriel (Auntie Muriel)
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Loughborough; Wills & Hepworth Ltd /Ladybird Books, 1946.
Date Published: 1946
Keywords: Children's

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Vignette: A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...