Sunny Stories

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Re: Sunny Stories

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To put Francis' "Sunny Stories" bargains in perspective, a couple of lots came up on e-bay recently:

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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121559478601? ... EBIDX%3AIT" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121559496859? ... EBIDX%3AIT" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Sunny Stories

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Those prices for Sunny Stories are ridiculously high, the same person has bought two lots there for just under £80 and that is for 6 magazines! I also saw a copy of Let's Pretend at £360 and it isn't even wearing its dustwrapper. I am glad I don't collect any more, I couldn't afford to buy anything. I am still missing 17 Sunny Stories myself, but I haven't attempted to buy any of them in the last ten years, I am just thankful that I have at least got 536 of them as at these sort of prices it would cost a fortune starting from scratch! :roll:
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I'm grateful I collected most of my Blyton books ten or 15 years ago, when I could still find a few bargains around. At the time I considered that some things I bought were very overpriced, but I had money to burn at the time and so I bought what I wanted. Most of my second and third edition Adventure books with dust wrappers cost around £20 each which I'm guessing is a lot...but I'm sure they would be more expensive now. One of my best buys, which I bought for £12 was Enid Blyton's Omnibus, in very good condition with a very good dust wrapper. These days, I see much worse condition copies like this -

http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/catalog/pr ... v03bf4dcm2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

going for much more money.
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Re: Sunny Stories

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walter raleigh wrote:To put Francis' "Sunny Stories" bargains in perspective, a couple of lots came up on e-bay recently...
Those do look very expensive. I wonder how much these job-lots are going to go for, when people are prepared to pay £40+ for just three magazines! -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Job-Lot-30-Su ... 4ae462f2f9" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Job-Lot-50-Su ... 4ae462f7ce" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Sunny Stories

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Robert Houghton wrote:I'm grateful I collected most of my Blyton books ten or 15 years ago, when I could still find a few bargains around. At the time I considered that some things I bought were very overpriced, but I had money to burn at the time and so I bought what I wanted. Most of my second and third edition Adventure books with dust wrappers cost around £20 each which I'm guessing is a lot...but I'm sure they would be more expensive now. One of my best buys, which I bought for £12 was Enid Blyton's Omnibus, in very good condition with a very good dust wrapper. These days, I see much worse condition copies like this -

http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/catalog/pr ... v03bf4dcm2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

going for much more money.
Yes, the omnibus is one of those books ("The Land Of Far Beyond" is another) that seems to command a premium these days for some reason. I paid a similar price to you Robert for a reasonable copy but mine was without dust wrapper. :(
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