"Five Dolls In A House" By Helen Clare, Illustrated By Cecil Leslie (First published by Bodley Head in 1953 - This edition by Puffin Books, 1964) - Part 2

Only a very brief biography is available on this British artist - Cecil Leslie (1900-1980) - even though she had many fine art exhibitions in the twenties and thirties as well as illustrating many children's books in the fifties and sixties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Mary_Leslie

The author, Pauline Clarke (1921-2013) is using the name Helen Clare for this and all the Five Dolls books that were published between 1953 and 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Clarke

"Five Dolls In A House" By Helen Clare, Illustrated By Cecil Leslie (First published by Bodley Head in 1953 - This edition by Puffin Books, 1964) - Part 1

"Stuart In Tibet" By Neil Buckley, Cover and Illustrations By Edward Osmond (Published by George Newnes Limited, London 1949) - Part 2

"Stuart In Tibet" By Neil Buckley, Cover and Illustrations By Edward Osmond (Published by George Newnes Limited, London 1949) - Part 1

Powerful and dynamic illustrations by British artist Edward Osmond (1900-1981). I was really excited to find this book among hundreds of other dusty and musty books in a local second-hand shop - and it's a first edition as well! Here is a biography on the artist from the Bear Alley blog 2007: https://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/edward-osmond.html?m=1

"The Sumner Intrigue" By Frank Swinnerton (Cover artist unknown) - (Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, London 1955)

Frank Arthur Swinnerton (English author, born 1884-1982). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Arthur_Swinnerton

"Taken At The Flood" By Agatha Christie (unknown cover artist) - (First published by Collins in 1948, this edition by Fontana Books, 1963)

"After The Funeral" By Agatha Christie (unknown cover artist) - (First published in 1953 - this edition by Fontana Books 1958)