Full set of Famous Five 21 titles with dust jackets.

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Full set of Famous Five 21 titles with dust jackets.

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£80.00.

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That's fairly steep, but it's under £4.00 per book (not counting postage), so it's not exorbitant. Mind you, they're all relatively late editions (1950s/'60s), so I'm guessing some of them won't have all the illustrations and probably none of them have the illustrations with an extra colour as well as the black. Still, I'm sure they'll appeal to someone who has the money and would like them for "nostalgia" rather than "serious collector" purposes. :)
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Not a bad collection when you break it down per book. Even at £20 for delivery (for example) it would be about £5 per book - and would save someone a lot of time in hunting down 21 individual books!
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I agree with both of you.
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Looks like a very good bargain to me. Going by the dates, many of the latter books are first editions, and I should think most of the set do have the added colour on the illustrations, as most are from the 1950's, when colour was still included.
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A few hours left.
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