What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?

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Yes - I think £20 for that book with a wrapper would be about right, IceMaiden. :-)
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Chrissie777 wrote:
Francis wrote:We have a room so piled high with books that only I dare to go in there and even I don't know how many Adventure books there are!
I hope it's earthquake-proof, Francis? :shock:
If I hear a rumble I'll quickly get out the door!
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flattened under a pile of Enid Blyton books...I can think of worse ways to go! ;-)
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'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'

(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)



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Very well done John - I wish my Oxfam was as sensible!
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I hope it's earthquake-proof, Francis? :shock:[/quote]

If I hear a rumble I'll quickly get out the door![/quote]

flattened under a pile of Enid Blyton books...I can think of worse ways to go! ;-)[/quote]

I would have to read myself to death!
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Well done, Ice Maiden! It's definitely a bargain. :D
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Rob Houghton wrote:flattened under a pile of Enid Blyton books...I can think of worse ways to go! ;-)
:lol: That has reminded me of a newspaper story I read earlier this year, when a man (either chinese or japanese if I remember right) died after his lifelong collection of six tons of er, let's say "special interest" magazines fell on him :shock: .
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IceMaiden wrote:That has reminded me of a newspaper story I read earlier this year, when a man (either chinese or japanese if I remember right) died after his lifelong collection of six tons of er, let's say "special interest" magazines fell on him :shock: .
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My Josie, Click and Bun book has arrived. It is the first one I've got of that series, it's flatter than I thought it would be! For some reason I was expecting it to be fatter, like a Faraway Tree book but it's more like a small comic done in book form :D .

I also got a copy of Fun For The Secret Seven in a very good dw for £3.25, and Abebooks sent a 20% off voucher for being with them a year (a nice surprise as I had no idea they did that) and between that and their september sale, I bought the last five Secret Sevens I needed for £20. I've wanted to get those completed for months, half sets annoy me :lol: . A Copy of the Twelfth Holiday Book in a tidy wrapper for £16 at half three this morning :shock: , and finally I caved and bid on a copy of the Sixth Holiday book for £7,that's been on ebay for about eight months in a rather tatty but hopefully mendable wrapper. Phew! :P
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I thought I was bad enough! :lol: Some great purchases, IceMaiden!

I've just 'won' four EB books - all with good wrappers, though some may need slight mending - The Enchanted Wood, The Folk of the Faraway Tree, Adventures of the Wishing Chair and Wishing Chair Again - cost me £38 for all four which I don't think is too bad! I can sell them all for at least 310 each - probably more - so that's what I have in mind! ;-)
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
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Well done, Ice Maiden and Rob! :D
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You are lucky, Rob. If the seller had written the proper title for his item, it would have attracted more potential buyers. The importance of proper advertisement. :lol:

http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/foru ... =10&t=7758" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I stand with justice and the truth. Palestine will be free from the river to the sea.

Learn the history. Do research.

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You're right - hardly anyone 'passing by' would even notice the titles!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'

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Rob and Ice Maiden bust be the champions at finding and buying great books - I haven't bought anything for ages and on the rare occasions I do they always seem to be another edition of one of the Adventure series. Mind you....I have seen a first edition of 'Five get into Trouble' with reasonable dust wrapper. The only trouble is that it is £60!
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Rob Houghton wrote:I can sell them all for at least 310 each - probably more - so that's what I have in mind! ;-)
Either that's a typo, or Rob is joining Stella & Rose in the selling-Blytons-for-mega-quids league... :shock: :shock: :wink:
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