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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.…