Complete Secret series with dj

[sixret]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ENID-BLYTON- ... %7Ciid%3A1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

£185. Can make your best offer. £150? £30 for a book, is it a good price especially for Secret Island with dj? I’m not sure.

[Moonraker]

They look in pretty poor condition to me. I wouldn't pay anything like that amount.

[Rob Houghton]

Hmmm...I wouldn't say they were in 'poor' condition - maybe 'standard' condition for such books. Its quite rare to see The Secret Island in a dust wrapper (I'd say about 1 book in 10 has a wrapper) and fairly difficult to find Spiggy Holes' in a wrapper, too. Most books even without a wrapper would be on sale for maybe £15 - £30 each depending on edition (first editions even more obviously) and books in this series with a wrapper will usually be between £45 - £100 or more...so I'd say the price for all five books was pretty fair.

[Courtenay]

I'd say they were in fairly poor condition too — not unacceptable, but I wouldn't jump up and buy them even if I wanted to collect this series, which I don't at present. At the current price they're £37 per book, which is a lot. I'd rather hold out longer and buy each one individually in better condition, even if they cost more each and were harder to find.

[John Pickup]

I'd rather hold out longer and buy each one individually in better condition, even if they cost more each and were harder to find.

Looking at them, so would I.

[Rob Houghton]

Well, someone bought them anyway. They really were a good price, to be honest. At least two of these books are very rare with a dust wrapper in any condition!

[IceMaiden]

They've been relisted, at £175 now or make an offer

[Moonraker]

Well, someone bought them anyway. They really were a good price, to be honest. At least two of these books are very rare with a dust wrapper in any condition!

Hen's teeth are rare, too....

[sixret]

They've been relisted, at £175 now or make an offer

The listing ended today.

[Eddie Muir]

Hen's teeth are rare, too....

[Rob Houghton]

Hen's teeth are rare, too....

True!

But I still think these five books are very hard to find in dust wrappers. I still haven't found a reasonable priced copy of The Secret Island in a DW.

[Wolfgang]

Hen's teeth are rare, too....

Though they're probably rare by intent as we already stated http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/foru ... th#p320741

[Courtenay]

Oh yes, I'd forgotten the hens' teeth discussion! (In Australia we also say something is "rare as rocking horse manure", except we'd more likely use a ruder word than "manure". )

Meanwhile, this looks like a decent deal for The Secret Mountain in a reasonable dust jacket: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Secret-M ... 2617691877" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I would buy it myself if it wasn't for the fact that I haven't yet read the book and don't know if it will be one I like enough to want to buy a "collector's" copy!

[pete9012S]

Meanwhile, this looks like a decent deal for The Secret Mountain in a reasonable dust jacket: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Secret-M ... 2617691877" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

please don't hit me with a string of links to bargain copies going on eBay.

[Courtenay]

That's not a "bargain copy", Pete. I simply went looking just to see for myself what was available on eBay and I stumbled across one of the reportedly rarer ones that I thought others here might like to know about too.