What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
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That's some dedicated repair job! It doesn't even look like it's the same box! I don't think I'd have even thought such a badly bashed box was mendable
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My Malory Towers books are 1970s Dragon paperbacks but yesterday I came across a Methuen hardback of Last Term at Malory Towers for £1 in a charity shop in Beeston, so at that price I just had to have it. It doesn't have a dustwrapper but it's in good, clean condition with a picture of Darrell on the boards and it's lovely to have the illustrated endpapers by Richard Cribb (or is it Gibb?), the letter from Enid Blyton and the original illustrations by Stanley Lloyd.
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What a great find, Anita.
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Well done, Anita! You can't beat the price of £1 for a hardcover book in a good condition!
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The other day I won 'Mister Meddle's Mischief' - incidentally the first original edition Mr Meddle book I've ever had in a wrapper - and its a very good wrapper too.
The thing I find puzzling though, is the inscription written in the front of the book - 'beryl and Mary Corby, 15 South Road, Histon Cambs 1942'...but its a 1945 edition!
I've never come across that before - and the writing definitely looks genuine - not written by a modern hand!
The thing I find puzzling though, is the inscription written in the front of the book - 'beryl and Mary Corby, 15 South Road, Histon Cambs 1942'...but its a 1945 edition!
I've never come across that before - and the writing definitely looks genuine - not written by a modern hand!
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hearts mad delight,
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I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
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That does sound odd, Rob. Was the inscription put in some years later when the owners had forgotten when exactly they received it, I wonder?
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I think its quite odd, as I've never come across it before (except in very obvious ways, such as a child writing '1899' in an Amelia Jane Dean book etc!
I guess its not important really, and probably has a very simple explanation.
here's the inscription, anyway -
I guess its not important really, and probably has a very simple explanation.
here's the inscription, anyway -
'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: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
The Mystery of the Strange Inscription. Or perhaps someone thought a muddlesome inscription would be appropriate for a book about such a muddlesome character.
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Lucky Star wrote:The Mystery of the Strange Inscription. Or perhaps someone thought a muddlesome inscription would be appropriate for a book about such a muddlesome character.
Good idea!
'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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Obviously a popular book to get all those wartime reprints!
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Perhaps the date refers to when Beryl Mary Corby moved to the address she has written.
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perhaps that's right.
Tony - its amazing how many reprints in just a few short years many of Enid's books had!
Tony - its amazing how many reprints in just a few short years many of Enid's books had!
'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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The parcel service delivered some more books today:
Claudine et les deux jumelles Hachette idéal 1981 Claudine at St Clare's
Vive les vacances Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Christmas stories
Vive Noel Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Holiday stories
Los Cinco en Billycock Hill Juventud 1988 Five go to Billycock Hill
Claudine et les deux jumelles Hachette idéal 1981 Claudine at St Clare's
Vive les vacances Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Christmas stories
Vive Noel Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Holiday stories
Los Cinco en Billycock Hill Juventud 1988 Five go to Billycock Hill
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I'm glad you're continuing to add to your collection, Wolfgang. Are those two titles the right way round?!Wolfgang wrote:Vive les vacances Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Christmas stories
Vive Noel Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Holiday stories
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OF course you're right, Anita, it has to be
Vive les vacances Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Holiday stories
Vive Noel Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Christmas stories
Vive les vacances Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Holiday stories
Vive Noel Hachette 2016 Enid Blyton's Christmas stories
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