What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?

Post by **Anita Bensoussane** » 22 Nov 2015, 22:18

That's lovely, Daisy! It must have made your day.

Daisy · Post by **Daisy** » 22 Nov 2015, 23:02

Thanks folks.... I used to have some Mary Mouse ones back in the day but didn't know these existed.

Rob Houghton · Post by **Rob Houghton** » 23 Nov 2015, 01:26

I have a Mary Mouse one and a Noddy one.

Chrissie777 · Post by **Chrissie777** » 23 Nov 2015, 02:10

Daisy wrote:I bought a non-Blyton book today but the book seller, who knows my tastes, produced from behind his counter two little strip books - "Mr Tumpy plays a trick on Saucepan" and "Mr Tumpy in the Land of Wishes" . I expressed some interest in them and he said I could have them ... and he also knocked off £2.00 from the £12.00 which the other book should have cost. My lucky day, eh?
Looking in the Cave I see they are not first editions as the covers are different but I have no idea of the vintage as there is nothing to indicate this in either of them.

Strip as in comic strip?

Rob Houghton · Post by **Rob Houghton** » 23 Nov 2015, 02:53

Like these -

They have two pictures on each page and some text underneath each picture.

Chrissie777 · Post by **Chrissie777** » 23 Nov 2015, 10:17

Cool!

pete9012S · Post by **pete9012S** » 24 Nov 2015, 21:15

The full Knight set for £7.58
Fingers crossed now that the set contains a good amount of Betty Maxey illustrated editions!!!

Julie2owlsdene · Post by **Julie2owlsdene** » 24 Nov 2015, 21:16

Nice buy Pete.

Post by **Tony Summerfield** » 24 Nov 2015, 23:33

Courtenay wrote:I'm wondering if those stories are Blyton originals at all, Wolfgang — obviously the translated titles aren't the same as the original English ones, but they don't sound like any Noddy stories I'm aware of. Maybe Tony or someone else with more knowledge can track them down.

Yes, the stories are all Blyton originals. On the link below you can see the one you are in most doubt about.

http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... C+Noddy%21" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post by **Tony Summerfield** » 24 Nov 2015, 23:43

Daisy wrote:"Mr Tumpy plays a trick on Saucepan" and "Mr Tumpy in the Land of Wishes" . Looking in the Cave I see they are not first editions as the covers are different but I have no idea of the vintage as there is nothing to indicate this in either of them.

I'm a bit surprised that you have got a different picture as I didn't think that any of these strip books (and there are several in the same format) were reprinted and I have certainly never seen different covers. In the past I have had a few people telling me that they have a strip book that isn't in the Cave, but in every case they have had the same book but the cover is missing and what they are looking at is just the title page which they think is the cover.

Rob Houghton · Post by **Rob Houghton** » 25 Nov 2015, 00:21

That's interesting. I have a strip book of 'Mary Mouse Goes To Sea' which looks exactly like the copy you have in the cave, which you have listed as first edition 1960...but the seller wrote in pencil in the front of my copy 'reprint circa 1964' - though I have no idea how they knew this! Does it depend on the list of titles on the back cover?

Courtenay · Post by **Courtenay** » 25 Nov 2015, 00:29

Our Pete will be in Betty Maxey heaven now... well done.

Thanks for the Noddy link, Tony.

Post by **Tony Summerfield** » 25 Nov 2015, 11:02

Robert Houghton wrote:That's interesting. I have a strip book of 'Mary Mouse Goes To Sea' which looks exactly like the copy you have in the cave, which you have listed as first edition 1960...but the seller wrote in pencil in the front of my copy 'reprint circa 1964' - though I have no idea how they knew this! Does it depend on the list of titles on the back cover?

We are getting into a bit of a muddle here, my fault for doing a couple of quick posts just before I went to bed! I was talking about the Sampson Low strip books, which of course are a completely different format to the Mary Mouse books, and to the best of my knowledge they were never reprinted - although as with everything Blyton I am always happy to learn something new.

The Mary Mouse books are completely different as Brockhampton reprinted them all a number of times and several of them had a change of cover which should be illustrated in the Cave.

walter raleigh · Post by **walter raleigh** » 25 Nov 2015, 11:29

That's a nice buy there Pete! I'd be interested in the dates and impression number of each one. I still have a slight hankering to pin down the exact edition where those Knight paperbacks made the switch from Soper to Maxey.

pete9012S · Post by **pete9012S** » 25 Nov 2015, 13:39

Yes,good point Walter.I will check.
Tony probably knows the answer off the top of his head!
I'm going to re-scan and tidy up up all the Maxey Five illustrations for the Maxey Famous Five illustrations thread.

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