The Enid Blyton Society

Fiona1986 wrote:

pete9012S wrote: I've just bought a copy from ebay for £4.34 no less!

I got my copy from eBay as well, I think I paid about the same for it.

I finally went through my 300 paypal emails and turns out I only paid £3.74 for my Dossier, including postage.

I couldn't believe it actually, in receipts from 2006 I was buying reasonably sized hardbacks and postage was only around £1. I knew postage costs had risen a lot but seeing it in print... ouch.

I also bought the Dossier from one of the American seller via Abebooks. Very cheap(including postage/shipping) . Cheaper than the U.K sellers.

Clearly, the majority of Americans do not read Enid Blyton.

Could someone please tell me whether this book had a D/W or not? I thought I'd read somewhere there it has, but none of the ones on E-Bay seem to have one, so I'm guessing I got it wrong. I'd like to know for certain though.

I think that I can answer that one, Katharine! Sadly it didn't have one as it would have meant extra expense for the publisher, but both of us would have liked one.

I've never seen a Dossier with a dust jacket but I guess Tony would know for sure.

Edit: I see he was answering at the same time!

Thanks Fiona and Tony.

My parents bought the dossier at the time, and I had forgotten about it until recently, when my obsession with Enid Blyton (and this website) has been revived.

I looked it up on this website and was delighted to find it was by Tony Summerfield! It all comes together. I will have to ask my parents for a loan of it

Interesting about the word 'Dossier' putting people off...it didn't put me off at all - probably because I have been interpreting the meaning of the word wrongly! I always think of 'Dossier' as being a folder of various files and papers - maybe of artwork, or stories - usually something fairly exciting, rather than dull! That described 'The Enid Blyton Dossier' very well - a great book to dip into and cherish - like a massive table full of your favourite food with plates that are always full!

"Dossier" does sound exciting when you think of it like that! Before discovering The Enid Blyton Dossier I'd only come across the word in news reports about dull things, such as collections of documents concerning some government decision!

There was actually no choice with the use of the word 'Dossier' as Hawk Books had already published two books in the same series - The Dan Dare Dossier and The Rupert Dossier.

Yes - I almost bought The Rupert Bear Dossier back in 2000 - but chose The Enid Blyton Dossier instead. That was the start of me being in the EB Society!

I bought the dossier before Christmas and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Well done Tony, I love it!

I've always thought "Dossier" is quite an exciting word. To me it suggests a file of information that the police or detectives would keep on a criminal — which in conjunction with Enid Blyton sounds very intriguing indeed!

Courtenay wrote:I've always thought "Dossier" is quite an exciting word. To me it suggests a file of information that the police or detectives would keep on a criminal — which in conjunction with Enid Blyton sounds very intriguing indeed!

Maybe even tennis write-ups...

I'm afraid that it says a lot about a book which didn't have a very big print run and has certainly never been reprinted, that you can still get new copies of it nearly 18 years after it was published!