The Enid Blyton Society

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

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??

Too late everyone I have just bought it. Thanks for the tip Rob.

The cover looks blue I think.... the copy I got new in 1947 is yellow. How often were they changed I wonder?

Lucky Star wrote:Too late everyone I have just bought it. Thanks for the tip Rob.

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.

My copy is hard backed green boards. Reprint 1956.

I'm fairly sure mine is green, 1949.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We could always take our copies to B&Q and get the Pantone shade for true accuracy . We should also measure the books in width and height just to be accurate...

You have too much time on your hands, Fiona!

Fiona1986 wrote:We could always take our copies to B&Q and get the Pantone shade for true accuracy . 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...

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!