The Enid Blyton Society

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Excellent price for this!

Glad you got it Courtenay .Thought it wouldn't be long before it was snapped up, especially as the other copy on ebay is £90! As luck would have it, Folk seems to be the most expensive of the three, and the one that appears the least!

Sorry, IceMaiden — I did post just now, but then had second thoughts and deleted it in case other people here wanted the book and might be upset with me for snapping it up so fast and gloating about it. But again, thanks for the tip-off — I've been looking for affordable copies of the original Faraway Tree books for a few years and now only have The Folk to go!

Well done Courtenay - that was a great price!

I bet Courtenay grabs the last biscuit on the plate, as well.

You know me too well, Nigel.

IceMaiden wrote:Glad you got it Courtenay .Thought it wouldn't be long before it was snapped up, especially as the other copy on ebay is £90!

That would be the one I'm selling, lol! Its the most expensive book I have listed and is also the one with the most 'watchers'!

Courtenay wrote:Sorry, IceMaiden — I did post just now, but then had second thoughts and deleted it in case other people here wanted the book and might be upset with me for snapping it up so fast and gloating about it. But again, thanks for the tip-off — I've been looking for affordable copies of the original Faraway Tree books for a few years and now only have The Folk to go!

I wondered where your post had gone! I almost deleted mine too thinking perhaps you hadn't got it and would feel worse at me congratulating you I'm very glad you have actually got it after all .

Rob Houghton wrote:

IceMaiden wrote:Glad you got it Courtenay .Thought it wouldn't be long before it was snapped up, especially as the other copy on ebay is £90!

That would be the one I'm selling, lol! Its the most expensive book I have listed and is also the one with the most 'watchers'!

This one Rob?

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The 'watchers' are probably hoping if it's there long enough you'll bring the price down . If it's not shifting, if you put a reserve of the minimum you want for an item (anything over £50) and then start it very very low, say £2.99, I often find it hooks bidders in and it ends up going for more than if you put a buy now price, and if it doesn't make what you want (your reserve price) you don't have to sell either

No - sorry - I thought you were talking about The Enchanted Wood! Here's mine - its actually cheaper, as I don't charge for postage.

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I'm quite happy to leave it up at £90 for a while longer and see what happens. I'm not in any hurry to sell it - and I sold a copy of The Magic Farway Tree without a dust wrapper for £90 a few years ago - mind you, it was a second edition.

Ah... I was hoping for a moment that £90 copy of The Folk really was yours, Rob, and then I could haggle. I'd give you £45 for it.

I'm not going to say whether I'd have accepted or not, or everyone will be haggling with me!!

The Enchanted Wood arrived today — that was quick! It's in excellent condition (only minor wear around the edges of the dust jacket, hardly noticeable) and such a lovely book. I haven't read this one since I was little — have hardly even picked it up for years — and I'm delighted at how much I'm already going "Oh yeah, I remember that...!" It's like a reunion with old friends — well, that's just what it is, in a way. I always loved Silky and Moon-Face especially and wished I could meet them. And I've never forgotten how taken I was with the idea of the Land of Take-What-You-Want.

I felt the same about the characters and settings in The Enchanted Wood books. I longed to find the faraway tree and climb it and meet Silky and Moonface and dodge Dame Washalot's water, and go up the ladder into a land at the top, and eat toffee shocks and pop biscuits, and slide down the slippery-slip! Everything in these books was so real to me, and I can honestly say I felt quite desperate at one time to know I would never be able to climb the tree and meet everyone!

I too have vivid memories of reading the series as a youngster. Whenever I'm deep in the countryside, there's a part of me that still looks out for Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree - or C. S. Lewis's Wood Between the Worlds. Paradoxically, reading about fantasy worlds can enhance one's experience of the real world. As C. S. Lewis said, "[The child] does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted."

Anita Bensoussane wrote:Paradoxically, reading about fantasy worlds can enhance one's experience of the real world. As C. S. Lewis said, "[The child] does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted."

I was thinking of that quote even before I got to the end of your post, Anita — great minds and all that...