What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Yes - I think £20 for that book with a wrapper would be about right, IceMaiden.
'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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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
If I hear a rumble I'll quickly get out the door!Chrissie777 wrote:I hope it's earthquake-proof, Francis?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!
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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
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
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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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Very well done John - I wish my Oxfam was as sensible!
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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
I hope it's earthquake-proof, Francis? [/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!
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.
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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
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 .Rob Houghton wrote:flattened under a pile of Enid Blyton books...I can think of worse ways to go!
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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
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 .
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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 .
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 . A Copy of the Twelfth Holiday Book in a tidy wrapper for £16 at half three this morning , 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!
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 . A Copy of the Twelfth Holiday Book in a tidy wrapper for £16 at half three this morning , 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!
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I thought I was bad enough! 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!
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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'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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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Well done, Ice Maiden and Rob!
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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
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.
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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
You're right - hardly anyone 'passing by' would even notice the titles!
'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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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
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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Re: What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?
Either that's a typo, or Rob is joining Stella & Rose in the selling-Blytons-for-mega-quids league...Rob Houghton wrote:I can sell them all for at least 310 each - probably more - so that's what I have in mind!
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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)