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How to Make a Sock Puppet: Band 2A/Re - Powell, Jilli N on eBay (end time 17-Dec-10 20:20:58 GMT)

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Global Warming for Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) : Elizabeth May, Zoe Caron : 9780470840986

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[EternalOptimist]

For the cat lover

[Spacecadet]

[RichardCranium]

Yeah, but have you got the MoD issue?

The Computer - special M.O.D. edition

This book is without doubt the rarest of Ladyibrd's publications.

The Computer from the How it Works series 654 is quite a common title in its standard trade edition. But this edition was also printed privately for the Ministry of Defence in 1972.

This private edition was limited to 80 - 100 copies and was printed without the usual Ladybird copyright information, and was produced in plain boards.The plain printing style of these 80 editions was at the request of the M.O.D., as they did not want their trainee staff to know that they were learning from a Ladybird book.

We have spoken to an ex-employee of Ladybird who confirmed its printing.

Also:

The Computer was originally produced as part of the How it Works series; it was seen as a useful aid by the MoD for introducing their staff to computers at that time. The same goes for How it Works – The Motor Car. Thames Valley police took a large number of them when police were seen less on-the-beat and had started having patrol cars instead.

That explains a lot.


Full cover including the most important component, the key punch girl:



Edit: link to a GCHQ copy.

[norrahe]

Fro the Troll lover

Linky

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or for the more contentious amongst you

A handbag?

[Spacecadet]

Yeah, but have you got the MoD issue?

The MOD version is a myth, there are articles explaining how ladybird refused to do a print run that small and how the myth came about

Kudos on finding the full cover though, I somehow failed to find it