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Bookcase Of Antique Books. Some first editions, mostly Enid Blyton books, full set of Noddy included.
1st edition and 2nd edition of Five go Adventuring again. 1st edition has the dust jacket.
1st edition of the Treasure Hunters.
Five on Treasure Island published 1951.
Lots of other lovely old books, I am not an expert, selling for a relative, but would guess worth more than listed price. The bookcase is included.
Had a caring owner from smoke and pet free home.
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Wish I could work out what some of them are though I doubt there's any I'm after there. A photo of each shelf would have been much easier to see however!
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It looks like there's around 150 books so they're wanting £10 a book! Seems a lot considering how many are clearly later editions. At least they're throwing in the bookcase!
I'm puzzling over the fact they decided to show a few books in close up and even the insides of a couple yet didn't think to use a decent non-fuzzy photo of the whole lot...
Having read the rest of the listing I can see the person selling has looked at the photo and not the actual items while typing it. There are apparently 27 Famous Five books MINIMUM, so clearly there are some duplicates. There are also some non-Blyton books.
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The picture rather resembles my bookcase though I have more hardbacks and less Dean versions - and I only have about 6 Noddy books! I think the price is somewhat optimistic.
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Er, yes, somewhat. I would think that most people who are interested in collecting Enid Blyton books will already have a good number of those particular books and won't want to spend £1,500 on a huge job lot that contains quite a few duplicates of books they've already got — and people who are only just starting to collect Blytons probably won't be prepared to spend such a huge amount of money in one go even if they don't happen to own any of those books at present!! I'm sure it would be more effective to sell the books as several smaller lots (e.g. per series or theme) for a more reasonable price each.
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Fiona1986 wrote:.. At least they're throwing in the bookcase!
I'm considering emailing the seller to inform him/her that another ebay seller was recently asking £182.70 for just The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters in paperback so they may be possibly undervaluing this large collection...especially with the full Noddy Set included...
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I've already got a complete set of Noddy, so I won't be negotiating for that one. But Anita might want it, of course...
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
Having re-looked at this on a bigger screen it seems quite a rip off. Only the top two shelves look to be originals, the others are nearly all Deans editions which are really easy and cheap to buy! So it's not a bookcase of antique books at all and not worth £1500 (at least not in my opinion anyway).
Betsy's Bear wrote:So how will Royal Mail get that bookcase through the letter box?
How will they get it in the van first to deliver it to the letterbox?
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I'm just an old fashioned girl with an old fashioned mind
Not sophisticated, I'm the sweet and simple kind
I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence
And A̶n̶ ̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶f̶a̶s̶h̶i̶o̶n̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶a̶i̶r̶e̶
The seller, if they manage to sell it, does say 'Free collection in person', although that's not really free as it would cost you to get to Chelmsford.
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Just noticed there's a white spine Five on a Treasure Island there, which MIGHT be worth something...
Meanwhile, I just noticed another thing too — the date stamp down the side. Aside from the fact that I'm pretty sure no modern cameras do that (the last one I had that did was a late 1990s film camera), the date given is 27/10/06. Was this photo seriously taken in 2006, or is it just that the seller has a very old camera with an incorrect date setting?? It's all a bit weird.
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
I noticed the date when I first read the posting and assumed it to have been taken by the original owner of the items thirteen years ago. Some modern cameras can be set to date stamp the actual images, as my latest Sony camera can, although I doubt that being the case here, as why would you want to date it so long ago?
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How will they get it in the van first to deliver it to the letterbox? 
