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Treasury of Verse

Posted: 08 Jan 2018, 16:07
by Rob Houghton
Always a book worth having - its quite a big book - annual size - with dust wrapper, and full of Enid's poems, with beautiful illustrations. Late 1970's.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Enid-BlytonT ... SwT2daGqpP

Re: Treasury of Verse

Posted: 08 Jan 2018, 22:17
by John Pickup
I've got that book and the illustrations are superb. Well worth having.

Enid Blyton's Treasury Of Verse 1979 - Excerpt

Posted: 01 Mar 2018, 10:28
by pete9012S
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Copies available under £3 inc postage on ebay when I looked this morning!

Here's some snowy excerpts from this lovely book:
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More info in the cave:

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Re: Treasury of Verse

Posted: 01 Mar 2018, 10:49
by Anita Bensoussane
Thanks for that, Pete. 'Fairy Snow' and 'Jack Frost' are two of my favourite Enid Blyton poems, beautifully expressed and imaginative.

My copy of Enid Blyton's Treasury of Verse has picture boards and no dustwrapper. I love the cover, which is the same as the dustwrapper shown above, but of course I don't have the "flaps" so I hadn't seen the information on those before. The publishers have named Real Fairies as Enid Blyton's first book when it ought to be Child Whispers, but overall they give a refreshingly positive account of her talents and achievements. I wonder whether Gillian Baverstock, who wrote the introduction, also helped compile the other information?

Re: Treasury of Verse

Posted: 01 Mar 2018, 11:02
by Eddie Muir
Thanks for posting the information, Pete. The cover is superb. :D

Re: Treasury of Verse

Posted: 01 Mar 2018, 12:04
by Rob Houghton
Yes - interesting, Pete! I don't have a dust wrapper version either, as mine is the printed boards version, so I hadn't read the flaps either. :-D I love how they say 'during her lifetime she wrote over 400 stories'...! Presuming they mean over 400 short stories, I would have said that was a vast underestimation! Must be well over 1,000 surely!! :-D

Re: Treasury of Verse

Posted: 01 Mar 2018, 12:57
by pete9012S
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Here are 'the flaps' for the casual viewer.

Re: Treasury of Verse

Posted: 02 Mar 2018, 01:06
by IceMaiden
I've seen these a few times but haven't got a copy yet. They seem to vary a lot in price, there was one for £1.55 with free postage a while back and I've also seen it at the over £30 mark! I love the cover on this book, it's wonderfully drawn and I have a soft spot for harvest mice as I used to keep them.