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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 16 Nov 2017, 22:42
by Francis
About 40 or so - that's just 'Sea of Adventure' !
Actually a quick count adds up to 48 hardbacks with 12 'Sea of Adventure' mostly with dust wrappers.
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 16 Nov 2017, 23:36
by pete9012S
That's very impressive Francis, well done. Which book out of them all is in the best condition?
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 16 Nov 2017, 23:42
by Francis
I have a pristine edition of the Mountain of Adventure'. A second impression issued in the same year as the first and the condition is so good I daren't touch it! It is interesting that this book sold so well that they reprinted it in the same year. By the time this book came out the demand (considering that most children and their families could not afford books in the 1940s or 1950s) was tremendous.
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 17 Nov 2017, 01:02
by pete9012S
Sounds like you have made good investments with those purchases Francis!
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 17 Nov 2017, 23:53
by Francis
I'm building a 'corner' in Adventure books until they all come crashing down and I am buried underneath.
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 18 Nov 2017, 00:28
by Courtenay
What a way to go...
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 18 Nov 2017, 01:31
by Rob Houghton
I can see the headlines now -
MAN CRUSHED BY AVALANCHE OF ADVENTURE BOOKS DIES HAPPY! 
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 18 Nov 2017, 12:47
by pete9012S
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 18 Nov 2017, 13:47
by Courtenay
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 18 Nov 2017, 17:36
by Daisy
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 18 Nov 2017, 18:00
by Rob Houghton
Poor Francis - we've already written his obituaries!!
Still many more books to add to your 'corner' Francis, before it topples!
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 18 Nov 2017, 18:14
by Eddie Muir
I’m sure Pete’s excellent offerings made Francis smile. They certainly brought a smile to my face.
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 20 Nov 2017, 00:40
by IceMaiden
Francis wrote:About 40 or so - that's just 'Sea of Adventure' !
Actually a quick count adds up to 48 hardbacks with 12 'Sea of Adventure' mostly with dust wrappers.
Have I misread this Francis or have you really got 40 copies of Sea of Adventure?!
Rob Houghton wrote:Poor Francis - we've already written his obituaries!!
Still many more books to add to your 'corner' Francis, before it topples!
Start building an igloo from them, this charity shop did with the copies of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' they were inundated with:
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 20 Nov 2017, 09:06
by pete9012S
Wow. That igloo is fantastic!
Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Posted: 20 Nov 2017, 22:56
by Francis
I have just emerged from the towering pile of Adventure books without harm but I suspect that Pete's brilliant satire might one day become true. The rumour that I have 40 copies of 'Sea of Adventure' is rather exaggerated as I only have 12 copies (so far). I had better go out a-looking once more.
Awwwww