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Schoolboy's Adventure Book

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Shoe Lane Publishing Co:

Seller ID: 007173

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pictorial boards with red cloth spine in matching dustwrapper; 157pp; colour frontis by G.P.Micklewright plus b/w ills. Edges and corners rubbed and worn; internal edges of boards rather grubby; browning to pages; previous owner gift inscription to half-title page. Dustwrapper is rubbed, creased, chipped and torn to edges. Includes 'The Wreck of the Weapon' by E.C. Buley and 'The Secret Ray' by Melton Mowbray. As this book weighs over 750g additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote.
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Collins' Adventure Annual

By: N/A

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London & Glasgow, Collins Clear Type Press:

Seller ID: 007214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Undated. Pictorial boards, no dustwrapper; 192pp; three colour plates. Light rubbing to board edges; small patch of surface lifting and old price in pen to rear cover; foxing to page block edges and endpapers with scattered foxing to pages. Includes 'Rendezvous Creek' by J.S.Fletcher and 'The Ghosts of Nubhor' by Stuart Campbell. As this book weighs over 750g additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote.
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The Flying Annual: Thrilling Stories of the Air

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: The Children's Press:

Seller ID: 007215

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pictorial boards with cloth spine in matching dustwrapper; eight colour plates. Corners rubbed and worn with a couple of chips to board edges; page block edges are foxed and rather grubby; heavy foxing to some pages. Dustwrapper is grubby and foxed with large section missing to front panel affecting all of title; losses to spine end. Includes 'Green Fire' by T.C.Bridges and 'A Yankee at St.Jude's' by R.S.Ell. As this book weighs over 750g additional postage will be required for international delivery, please email for a quote.
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A Handful of Thieves

By: BAWDEN, Nina

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Puffin Books: 1970

Seller ID: 009972

ISBN: 014030472X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial card covers; 140pp. Light rubbing to cover edges; light tanning to pages. 'When the sinister Mr Gribble disappears with Gran's savings, Fred and the other members of the Cemetery Committee embark on a dangerous and hair-raining chase to track down the thief.'
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Avontuur Tussen Twee Torens (The Secret of Spiggy Holes)

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Hoorn, White Raven, West-Friesland: 1967

Seller ID: 003846

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

White Raven Paperback; 128pp; b/w ills; Dutch edition of 'The Secret of Spiggy Holes'. Cover is lightly tanned, rubbed and creased; previous owner name to synopsis page; tanning to pages.
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The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage : The First Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Methuen: 1971

Seller ID: 004672

ISBN: 0416187005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

New edition. Grey cloth boards in pictorial dustwrapper by Peter Archer which states title on spine as 'The Mystery of the Burnt Cottages'; 160pp; b/w ills. Boards are lightly rubbed to edges; previous owner prize inscription to front endpaper. Unclipped dustwrapper is lightly rubbed to edges and corners with light marking, now in removable sleeve The first book in the series about the Five Find-Outers and Dog.
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The Secret of Cliff Castle

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Werner Laurie: 1951

Seller ID: 005633

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light blue cloth boards in matt pictorial dustwrapper; 92pp; b/w ills. Cloth lightly sunned to outer edges and spine ends; light foxing to page block edges. Unclipped dustwrapper (4s 6d net) is tanned and a little marked with rubbing and nicks to edges, large chips to corners; someone has traced over a section of the writing to the rear panel in pen. Originally published under the pseudonym 'Mary Pollock' in 1943.
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The Mystery That Never Was

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Collins: 1967

Seller ID: 006028

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Yellow boards in pictorial dustwrapper; 160pp; b/w ills. Slight crease and lean to spine; light bumping to corners; foxing to page block edges; browning to pages; red top edges have bled a little to rear pastedown and endpaper. Price clipped dustwrapper is sunned to spine, rubbed and creased to edges with a number of chips and splits to edges. One of the Junior Story Books in which four children make up a story to entertain Uncle Rob which then becomes real.
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The Adventurous Four

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Dean & Son Ltd: 1972

Seller ID: 006685

ISBN: 0603032877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Rewards Series. Glazed pictorial boards; 184pp; b/w ills. Light bumping to upper corners; light marking to boards; foxing and small mark to page block edges.
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The Mystery of the Invisible Thief - Being the Eighth Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co Ltd: 1957

Seller ID: 009003

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Red cloth boards with black lettering in pictorial wraparound dustwrapper; 173pp; b/w ills. Significant foxing to page block edges and endpapers; Disney Pluto dog stamp to front endpaper and top edge of page block. Unclipped dustwrapper is grubby and foxed, rubbed and creased with chips and small splits. The eighth book in Enid Blyton's famous Mystery Series.
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The Mountain of Adventure

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co Ltd: 1955

Seller ID: 009514

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pictorial cloth boards, in partial dustwrapper; 327pp; b/w ills. Lean and ridge to spine with light bumping to corners and light sunning to cloth; browning and spotting to page block edges; occasional spotting and light marking to pages. Only the front half of the dustwrapper (front panel and front flap) remains and that is browned and creased with splits and chips. The fifth book in the Adventure Series.
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Secret Seven on the Trail

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Knight Books: 1976

Seller ID: 010931

ISBN: 0340042125

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Twelfth impression. Pictorial card covers; 95pp; b/w ills. Light rubbing and creasing to cover; tanning to pages. Book 4 in the Knight Secret Seven series.
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Secret Seven Adventure

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Knight Books: 1976

Seller ID: 010932

ISBN: 0340041579

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Fifteenth impression. Pictorial card covers; 96pp; b/w ills. Slight curl to book; light rubbing and creasing to cover; tanning to pages. Book 2 in the Knight Secret Seven series.
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The Rat-a-Tat Mystery

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London & Glasgow, Collins: 1957

Seller ID: 012202

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Red cloth boards lacking dustwrapper; 256pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Bumping to corners, sunning to spine; message in pencil to front endpaper. [819: X3]
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The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage - The First Adventure of the Five Find-Outers and Dog

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £22.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co Ltd: 1961

Seller ID: 012233

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth boards with black lettering in pictorial wraparound dustwrapper; 164pp; b/w ills. Very light bumping to corners and light foxing/spotting to page block edges; previous owner gift inscription to front endpaper. Unclipped dustwrapper has significant rubbing and creasing to edges and folds with chipping to corners and small losses to spine ends with tape repair to reverse side; light staining to spine. The first book in Enid Blyton's famous Mystery Series. [819: G2]
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Mister Meddle's Mischief

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Dean & Son Ltd: 1970

Seller ID: 012256

ISBN: 0603032761

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Rewards Series No. 26. Glazed pictorial boards; 184pp; b/w ills. Light rubbing and bumping to corners; light thumbing to pages. [819: X3]
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Secret Seven on the Trail

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Knight Books: 1967

Seller ID: 012870

ISBN: 0340042125

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Very Good

Pictorial card covers; 95pp; b/w ills. Light rubbing to cover edges; slight lean and sunning to spine; initials to intro page; light tanning to pages. Book 4 in the Secret Seven Series.
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The Rubadub Mystery

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Collins: 1959

Seller ID: 012958

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Red cloth boards in wraparound pictorial dustwrapper; 256pp; b/w ills. Light reading crease to spine; tanning to pages. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed, chipped and creased to edges and corners with untidy creased tear to lower right corner of front panel and couple of ragged holes to middle of spine, tape repairs to reverse. The fourth book in the Junior Mystery Series.
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Five on Finniston Farm

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1960

Seller ID: 013068

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Red cloth boards with black lettering in pictorial dustwrapper with first six books to front flap, books 7-17 to rear flap plus advert for Famous Five Card Game.; 183pp; pictorial endpapers; b/w and two-tone ills. Light bumping to boards; erased pencil markings still faintly visible to half-title page. Unclipped dustwrapper is a little creased, rubbed to edges with chipping to spine ends and corners; tear across lower spine has been taped to reverse side; sunning to spine. The 18th adventure in the Famous Five series. [819: F2]
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Five Go Off in a Caravan

By: BLYTON, Enid

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1962

Seller ID: 013069

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

Twelfth impression. Red cloth boards with black lettering, lacking dustwrapper; 192pp; b/w ills. Slight lean to spine. The fifth adventure in the Famous Five Series. [819: K2]
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