‘Before there were Ladybird books’. The earliest books
Collecting pre-1940s Ladybird books
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Collecting pre-1940s Ladybird books
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Vintage Ladybird books are famously hard to date because the dating conventions usually used by booksellers rarely work with Ladybird books. The following pages will help you take a book and work out its date. They WON’T help you work…
Read moreIs it just me or have ‘first editions’ become a more significant feature of the book collecting world in recent years? When I first started collecting Ladybird books, I heard of people who seemed interested only in first editions, but…
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How to identify first editions Here you can read an introduction to these lists. The introduction explains the background and the problems encountered when trying to identify first edition Ladybird books. If you find an earler edition, please let me…
Read moreAs all collectors know, Ladybird Books can be harder than most to accurately date. For the most part, the only date in a vintage Ladybird Book is on the title page – and that date is the date of the…
Read moreCinderella rides again – facsimile editions In the comments of my TV blog post , a number of people, perhaps not surprisingly, called for favourite old Ladybird Books to be re-issued. I didn’t like to say so, but actually, over recent years,…
Read moreOne of my favourite TV programmes has to be Antiques Road Trip. I never miss one and am quite happy to watch repeats. I just find the format works really well, so when a BBC researcher got in touch to…
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One of my nerdy pleasures in life is when someone contacts me and asks me if I can help them to identify a book that they remember from childhood. I’m often only given fragments to piece together – they might…
Read moreHave you ever been to Hay-on-Wye? If you love books, you have to visit at least once. And once is never enough. Hay is a very small, pretty town just across the Herefordshire border, in Powys, Mid-Wales. The area is…
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