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Five on a Secret Trail Enid Blyton Vintage First Edition 1956 scarce with Dust Jacket

Five on a Secret Trail Enid Blyton Vintage First Edition 1956 scarce with Dust Jacket

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Five on a Secret Trail by Enid Blyton Vintage Children's book First Edition Hardback with Dust Jacket.

This super Vintage Enid Blyton Famous Five book is a First Edition from 1956 of the ever popular Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. Scarce with Dust Jacket. (Illustrated by the artist Eileen Soper, who was also famous for designing porcelain figures of wartime children for Royal Worcester in the 1940's era.)

In 'Five on a Secret Trail' you can join Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy the dog in their fifteenth grand adventure for more fun and thrills.

The old ruined cottage -- the strange boy --the weird noises and the lights -- and the Five on the trail of something they don't understand!

This vintage children's book dating from the 1950's era has been quite well loved but still makes a great display and a nice collectable book with the hard to find original jacket this book is in good condition. Great to add to your own nostalgic bookshelf of collectable vintage first edition children's books. The illustrator Eileen Soper created some attractive two-tone illustrations for this book, in vibrant blue and red along with the usual charming black and white line drawn illustrations of 1940's and 1950's era children she was so adept at.

Difficult to find these early vintage Enid Blyton's books in good condition as they were so very much loved by children, and read over and over again...

I know I read mine, each one about a hundred times over. The nostalgic charm never fails as we visit an England of the past through the eyes of the fun- filled Five, Julian, Dick, George, Anne and adorable Timmy the Dog, and of course lots of scrumptious fun!

If you loved the Famous Five what fun to collect some of the original hardback books and maybe share the stories for bedtime with your own children or grandchildren.

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Kitty's Reader Notes & Book Snippet

An Enid Blyton Famous Five Story full of exciting adventures and narrow escapes! "Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy the Dog.. It all began because of Timmy's wounded ear and the cardboard collar he had to have...The ruined cottage, the weird noises and lights and the strange boy...Mysterious happenings, hidden secrets, surprises and thrills.'"

This fab vintage Famous Five book still has original price of 7s 6d net to inner dust cover, not price clipped.

Full colour dust jacket design by the well respected children's book's illustrator Eileen Soper, she also modelled porcelain figures for the Royal Worcester Porcelain factory.


ILLUSTRATED: Black and White and two-tone (Line drawn illustrations by Eileen Soper)

BOOK HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Hardback
  • Illustrated
  • First Edition
  • Collectable
  • Vintage Children's Book

BOOK ERA:

  • 1950's Vintage Children's Books

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Author Bio & Publication

Read about the life of Enid Blyton and browse more super vintage Enid Blyton books.

Enid Blyton (1897 - 1968) was a prolific children's author and wrote over 600 wonderful story books for children including the Famous Five Series.

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Limited
Date: 1964
Edition: First Edition - 4th Printing
Binding: Hardback
Dust Jacket: Yes ( Full Colour)

Illustrated by Eileen Soper

Condition Notes: GOOD

GOOD:

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This is fresh from the attic in good vintage condition .

The dust jacket is rubbed at the corners and slightly frayed in places.

Light bumping to the red cloth underneath the jacket which actually looks quite fresh although some fading to the spine. (The dust jacket was actually inside the book being used as a bookmark when I bought this one)

Robust condition. Interior pages are firm and reasonably clean with no messy graffiti of any kind except for a previous child owner's name and address neatly written on a blank page inside the book.

She must have been very thrilled with this present for 'Xmas 1960'.

The exterior of the text block is tanned with shelf wear but no heavy foxing. The book has been read before and shows slight wear to pages but no creasing or scribbles.

The attractive illustrated endpapers are slightly toned in places.

Overall nearly very good especially as scarce dust jacket present but not quite.

Not price clipped.

Original Price of 7s 6d on interior flap of dust jacket

Nice Reading copy and Good Vintage collectable First Edition Enid Blyton book.

Please remember this pre-owned vintage book has been loved before and condition is graded taking this into consideration.

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SIZE: Height 19 cms x Width 12 cms.
FORMAT: Hardback
PAGES: 182 pages with 1 page ad. for 'The Famous Five Club'.

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