Secret Island 1946
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Secret Island 1946
Anyone who wants a copy of this - snap it up now! Only £6.90 and free postage.
The cover is described by the owner as 'poor' - because it appears to be stained and marked. But the price is brilliant for this early edition! For some reason its listed as 'The Secret Garden' lol
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Secret-Ga ... SwTM5Y48~6
The cover is described by the owner as 'poor' - because it appears to be stained and marked. But the price is brilliant for this early edition! For some reason its listed as 'The Secret Garden' lol
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Secret-Ga ... SwTM5Y48~6
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Re: Secret Island 1946
Brought to us by the same seller that had Enid Blyton's famous Peter Rabbit series??Rob Houghton wrote:For some reason its listed as 'The Secret Garden' lol
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Re: Secret Island 1946
Too late everyone I have just bought it. Thanks for the tip Rob.
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Re: Secret Island 1946
The cover looks blue I think.... the copy I got new in 1947 is yellow. How often were they changed I wonder?
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- Rob Houghton
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Re: Secret Island 1946
Glad someone did - as I've heard so many on here bemoaning the fact its hard to come by! I guess maybe the stained cover put people off - but its still an extremely good price these days! Hope the cover isn't too bad!Lucky Star wrote:Too late everyone I have just bought it. Thanks for the tip Rob.
My own personal copy (which I picked up in a bookshop in Stratford-on-Avon for £3 about 15 years ago) has blue boards. It's from 1941 - so maybe the boards just changed randomly, perhaps even the same editions.
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
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Re: Secret Island 1946
My copy is hard backed green boards. Reprint 1956.
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Re: Secret Island 1946
I'm fairly sure mine is green, 1949.
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Re: Secret Island 1946
I actually have that 1946 edition myself, and the boards are green!
Checking out my files I see I have described the 1946 copy as apple green and the 1949 one as dark green - it is also twice as fat as the very thin 1946 copy.
Checking out my files I see I have described the 1946 copy as apple green and the 1949 one as dark green - it is also twice as fat as the very thin 1946 copy.
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Re: Secret Island 1946
Yes - now you say that I can picture it more clearly. It is a darker green than the one on eBay and it's quite big as well.
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"Listen to its terrible groans and creaks!" yelled Julian, almost beside himself with impatience.
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Re: Secret Island 1946
Slight correction... mine is a reprint dated January 1947 and although it is rather yellow now, it may have been a pale orange years ago! I think one could call it "well loved" and of course long since lost its dust wrapper.Daisy wrote:The copy I got new in 1947 is yellow. How often were they changed I wonder?
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Re: Secret Island 1946
I wonder why the 1946 version was so thin? War standards? My 1941 edition (light blue boards) is very fat with good thick pages.Tony Summerfield wrote:I actually have that 1946 edition myself, and the boards are green!
Checking out my files I see I have described the 1946 copy as apple green and the 1949 one as dark green - it is also twice as fat as the very thin 1946 copy.
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Re: Secret Island 1946
We could always take our copies to B&Q and get the Pantone shade for true accuracy . We should also measure the books in width and height just to be accurate...
"It's the ash! It's falling!" yelled Julian, almost startling Dick out of his wits...
"Listen to its terrible groans and creaks!" yelled Julian, almost beside himself with impatience.
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"Listen to its terrible groans and creaks!" yelled Julian, almost beside himself with impatience.
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Re: Secret Island 1946
You have too much time on your hands, Fiona!
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Re: Secret Island 1946
I'm sure there's a Journal article in there somewhere...Fiona1986 wrote:We could always take our copies to B&Q and get the Pantone shade for true accuracy . We should also measure the books in width and height just to be accurate...
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Re: Secret Island 1946
I don't have much time at all... it would just be like me to procrastinate by doing something like that, rather than shopping for a pram etc!
"It's the ash! It's falling!" yelled Julian, almost startling Dick out of his wits...
"Listen to its terrible groans and creaks!" yelled Julian, almost beside himself with impatience.
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