Buy this book on-line BLYTON**, ENID: : FIVE HAVE A MYSTERY TO SOLVELONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1962. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.Owner's name to half-title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Slight ageing and light foxing to fore-edges.Dw/dj slightlty rubbed+creased top and bottom edges.Some creasing and rubbing also to head+foot spine/backstrip. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,184pp with b/w illus by Eileen Soper.The twentieth and penultimate FIVE'S story.
Eileen [Alice] Soper (b. 1905 - d.1990) Daughter of George Soper under whom she studied and was artistically trained.She first exhibited at the Royal Academy at the early age of 15.She derived much of her subject matter from her father's garden,in the house her father built and which along with her sister she lived and inherited,the greater part of her life.She and her sister have maintained and preserved it as a nature sanctuary.A painter of wildlife,children,portraits and miniatures,and engraver.She was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists,and elected to the RMS (Royal Society of Miniature Painters,Sculptors and Gravers) in 1972. Eileen is most remembered for her collaboration with Enid Blyton,notably for the 'Famous Five' series (1942-1963) - though she also published her own children's books in the 1940s,and then working mainly on her wildlife illustrations from the 1950s onwards,based on the wildlife in her garden.
Enid Blyton's books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into other languages more often than any other children's author.She wrote over 600 books and hundreds of short stories, including favourites such as 'The Famous Five','The Secret Seven','The Magic Faraway Tree','Malory Towers' and 'Noddy'. Born in London in 1897,Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and adored dogs,gardening and the countryside.She died in 1968 but remains one of the world's best-loved storytellers.
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