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Hello all,

Just to drag something up from past discussions, I've had a good recent breakthrough in finding images of some of the rarest D C Thomson & John Leng books. I'm running a fan group over on Facebook, attempting to create an updated version of the Lofts & Adley dating guide.

Images below are taken from newspaper adverts found via the British Newspaper Archives. Please message if you have an actual copy of any of these, it would be great to see them in full colour.

We now have a full run of images for titles such as Billy & Bunny Book, Take Me!, Toddler's Treasure, Tell us a Story, Happy Girls Book, Wendys Story Book etc.


The Boy's Holiday Book



The Jingle Book for Little Ones



Jolly Jinks



Kiddies Box of Books #1



Kiddies Box of Books #2



Kiddies Box of Books #3



Kiddies Playtime #2



Children's Holiday Fun #1



Children's Holiday Fun #2



Children's Holiday Fun #3



Snow White and Rose Red

great research!

My only annotation for anyone updating the Lofts/Adley guide in that 'The story of treasure island' had 2 editions
See here for more detail...

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.co ... ley-d.html

Richard S. wrote: 17 Apr 2022, 21:15 great research!

My only annotation for anyone updating the Lofts/Adley guide in that 'The story of treasure island' had 2 editions
See here for more detail...

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.co ... ley-d.html

I posted the set from my ollection in 2016 not realising there were different issues, I will have to dig them out of the cupboard and check which ones I have got.

Going through old DC Thomson women's papers like Family Star, Red Letter and Red Star Weekly I've noticed a few adverts for Willie Waddle books.

abacus wrote: 18 Apr 2022, 21:13

Richard S. wrote: 17 Apr 2022, 21:15 great research!

My only annotation for anyone updating the Lofts/Adley guide in that 'The story of treasure island' had 2 editions
See here for more detail...

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.co ... ley-d.html

I posted the set from my ollection in 2016 not realising there were different issues, I will have to dig them out of the cupboard and check which ones I have got.

yep, you're looking for 8 books in total - good luck with your (updated) search - especially if, like me, you wanted un-price clipped dustjackets on each volume