That's the main thing that makes older editions so expensive, of course. I grew up on the Dean versions and although I don't much like their covers, I love Rene Cloke's illustrations. But it's very satisfying to have the Dorothy Wheeler ones as well, for a different interpretation. I couldn't say which I like better!The Enchanted Wood (first edition 1949)
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Re: The Enchanted Wood (first edition 1949)
I think it was revealed in another discussion that there were a few very minor edits in the Dean editions, but certainly not to the extent of changing the children's names and bowdlerising Dame Slap as in the modern versions. That's the main thing that makes older editions so expensive, of course. I grew up on the Dean versions and although I don't much like their covers, I love Rene Cloke's illustrations. But it's very satisfying to have the Dorothy Wheeler ones as well, for a different interpretation. I couldn't say which I like better!
That's the main thing that makes older editions so expensive, of course. I grew up on the Dean versions and although I don't much like their covers, I love Rene Cloke's illustrations. But it's very satisfying to have the Dorothy Wheeler ones as well, for a different interpretation. I couldn't say which I like better!Society Member
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Re: The Enchanted Wood (first edition 1949)
What I want to know, is if the Faraway Tree books are so expensive in their original editions because of things like Dame Slap (utterly ludicrous) , why are the Wishing Chair books not the same? As they also have Mr Grim who canes his pupils and various mention of someone getting or deserving a good spanking too, which I depressingly assume has been cut out of modern editions. Urgh how I hate this butchering of Enid's books, it shouldn't be allowed and wouldn't be with other author's work. Imagine the uproar if Dickens's Oliver Twist was suddenly removed from the workhouse into a palace and fed caviar instead of gruel just because we're not still in a workhouses and gruel time? It wouldn't be accepted yet it seems it's fine to do it if it says Enid Blyton 
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