Secret Island 1946

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Secret Island 1946

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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

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Rob Houghton wrote:For some reason its listed as 'The Secret Garden' lol ;-)
Brought to us by the same seller that had Enid Blyton's famous Peter Rabbit series?? :lol: :wink:
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Too late everyone I have just bought it. Thanks for the tip Rob. :D
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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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Lucky Star wrote:Too late everyone I have just bought it. Thanks for the tip Rob. :D
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!

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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My copy is hard backed green boards. Reprint 1956. :)

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I'm fairly sure mine is green, 1949.
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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.
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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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Daisy wrote:The copy I got new in 1947 is yellow. How often were they changed I wonder?
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.
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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.
I wonder why the 1946 version was so thin? War standards? My 1941 edition (light blue boards) is very fat with good thick pages. :-D
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We could always take our copies to B&Q and get the Pantone shade for true accuracy :lol:. We should also measure the books in width and height just to be accurate...
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:lol: You have too much time on your hands, Fiona! :wink:
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Fiona1986 wrote:We could always take our copies to B&Q and get the Pantone shade for true accuracy :lol:. We should also measure the books in width and height just to be accurate...
I'm sure there's a Journal article in there somewhere... :lol:
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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!
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