Buy this book on-line BLYTON**, ENID: : THE SEA OF ADVENTURELONDON.MACMILLAN,1948. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[The 4th of 8 adventures and all them were illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.] FINE/NFINE.Neat owner inscrptn and no price-clip (8s. 6d. NET) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Miniscule chipping with reciprocal loss to both head+foot of dw/djs' spine/backstrip letters unaffected; all corners also minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss.Top edges minimally and very faintly dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing,fore-edges also similarly aged - considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original cream cloth bds with colour (blue +black) pictorial decorated front bd+spine with bright,crisp,stamped blue+black letters to same and plain white eps with minimal spotting/foxing to ffe; but both pastedowns foxing-free.Boards/covers and spine/backstrip without any nicks,splits or tears.UK,8vo HB+dw/ dj,1st edn,v-xpp+1- 320pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,contents list/table,31 chapters, profuse full-page,chapter head+tail pieces and part page b/w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w illus frntis to it's verso,title page with b/w vignette illustration and date,1948.
'The Sea of Adventure' tells how Jack, Lucy-Ann,Dinah (and Kiki the parrot,of course) go off for a holiday together,with their old friend Bill Smugs.
Bill is in danger from his enemies.He must "disappear" for a while,so what could be better than to visit the lonely bird- islands on the far-off northern sea,in company with the four children and Kiki? And then,of course,they sail straight into Adventure! What is going on among these lonely islands? Bill can guess - and pays for for his guessing - and then the four children are left all alone on Puffin Island,expecting the enemy to come and capture them.Thrills and alarms,excitement and shocks come one after the other,until even the reader's heart begins to beat as fast as Lucy-Ann's.Kiki makes friends with Huffin and Puffin,the two tame puffins,and has as big a share in the adventure as anyone.
An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados.
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