What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
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About 40 or so - that's just 'Sea of Adventure' !
Actually a quick count adds up to 48 hardbacks with 12 'Sea of Adventure' mostly with dust wrappers.
Actually a quick count adds up to 48 hardbacks with 12 'Sea of Adventure' mostly with dust wrappers.
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That's very impressive Francis, well done. Which book out of them all is in the best condition?
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I have a pristine edition of the Mountain of Adventure'. A second impression issued in the same year as the first and the condition is so good I daren't touch it! It is interesting that this book sold so well that they reprinted it in the same year. By the time this book came out the demand (considering that most children and their families could not afford books in the 1940s or 1950s) was tremendous.
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Sounds like you have made good investments with those purchases Francis!
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I'm building a 'corner' in Adventure books until they all come crashing down and I am buried underneath.
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What a way to go...
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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)
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)
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I can see the headlines now -
MAN CRUSHED BY AVALANCHE OF ADVENTURE BOOKS DIES HAPPY!
MAN CRUSHED BY AVALANCHE OF ADVENTURE BOOKS DIES HAPPY!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
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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hearts mad delight,
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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Francis wrote:I'm building a 'corner' in Adventure books until they all come crashing down and I am buried underneath.
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Awwwwwpete9012S wrote:
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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)
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)
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Lovely Pete!
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Poor Francis - we've already written his obituaries!!
Still many more books to add to your 'corner' Francis, before it topples!
Still many more books to add to your 'corner' Francis, before it topples!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
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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hearts mad delight,
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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I’m sure Pete’s excellent offerings made Francis smile. They certainly brought a smile to my face.
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Have I misread this Francis or have you really got 40 copies of Sea of Adventure?!Francis wrote:About 40 or so - that's just 'Sea of Adventure' !
Actually a quick count adds up to 48 hardbacks with 12 'Sea of Adventure' mostly with dust wrappers.
Start building an igloo from them, this charity shop did with the copies of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' they were inundated with:Rob Houghton wrote:Poor Francis - we've already written his obituaries!!
Still many more books to add to your 'corner' Francis, before it topples!
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Wow. That igloo is fantastic!
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- Francis
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I have just emerged from the towering pile of Adventure books without harm but I suspect that Pete's brilliant satire might one day become true. The rumour that I have 40 copies of 'Sea of Adventure' is rather exaggerated as I only have 12 copies (so far). I had better go out a-looking once more.pete9012S wrote:
Francis wrote:I'm building a 'corner' in Adventure books until they all come crashing down and I am buried underneath.
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