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BLYTON**, ENID: : THE CASTLE OF ADVENTURE

LONDON.MACMILLAN,1946.

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UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.[The 2nd of 8 adventures and all of them were illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.] VG-. ,blue inked familial gift presentation inscrptn and date (13th April,1946) to front free endpaper and further owner (recipient) childish handwritten name/ address to top of half-title page. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and generally clean with the usual minimal soiling/grubbing seen when lacking a dw/dj for protection,publisher's original cream cloth bds with colour (black+green) pictorial decorated front bd+spine with bright,crisp,stamped black+green letters to same,all corners minimally bumped, rubbed and with some fraying and plain, generally clean,white eps - inscrptn excepted.Top edges minimally dust-soiled and minimally speckled with blemishes, fore-edges with lightest hint of ageing - very considerably much less than is usual/ normal or encountered - so bright and clean with no foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - minimal foxing/blemishing to text body and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,v-viiipp+1-318pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,31 chapters,profuse part-page and full-page b/w line illustrations by Stuart Tresilian throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w line illustrated frntis to its verso and b/w vignette illustrated title page - both pages minimally foxed/spotted. Author's 2nd title in this series of 8 adventures and quite scarce as a true UK,HB 1st edn - particularly with a dw/dj. Uncommon example with a dw/dj in a book of its age and given the period of production,i.e. 1942-1947 - with wartime paper-rationing, and the poor quality of paper generally used and survival rates of air-raids on domestic and commercial properties i.e publishers+printers.Any dw/dj would have been of substandard quality and fragility and be prone to subsequent disintegration and usually discarded,or be reverse printed - possibly coming from an entirely different book/ title. An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.