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FIVE ON A TREASURE ISLAND
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1328739
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1948. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cream boards with black titles. Plain endpapers. B/w illustrations. 191 pages. The Famous Five's first adventure featuring a ruined castle, a wreck and buried treasure. 5th impression. Spine slightly bumped. Covers very slightly grubby. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is chipped to spine and corners with slight loss and is grubby to rear panel and spine. Foxing on verso of wrapper spine.

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FIVE GO TO SMUGGLER'S TOP
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1328738
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1948. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Burgundy textured boards. Gilt titles. Blue pictorial endpapers. Colour frontis. B/w and two-tone illustrations. 2nd impression. Spine and corners bumped. Dent to lower edge of front cover. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge chipped and torn with some slight loss and slightly grubby to rear panel and spine.

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FIVE RUN AWAY TOGETHER
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1328737
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1948. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Burgundy textured boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Blue, white and black pictorial endpapers. Colour frontis. B/w and two-tone illustrations. 2nd impression. Spine and corners bumped. Fading to top and tail of spine. Spine slightly faded with faint 'enid blyton' transferred from dustwrapper. Foxing to contents and textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso, edge chipped with slight loss to spine and rear panel and spine grubby.

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FIVE ON A HIKE TOGETHER
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1328736
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black titles. Orange and black pictorial endpapers. B/w & two-tone illustrations. 192 pages. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Very light browning to endpapers and light foxing to textblock. Half title-page has been removed. Dustwrapper is slightly edge chipped but only very minimal loss, tiny hole to front edge of spine.

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FIVE ON A SECRET TRAIL
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Eileen Soper.
Stock no. 1328731
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1956. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The 15th Famous Five adventure which all began because of Timmy's wounded ear and the collar he had to wear... Red boards, black lettering. Pictorial blue and black endpapers. Two-tone & b/w illustrations throughout. 182 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso, is edge chipped with slight loss to spine and corners, has a large tear to front spine edge and has a small patch missing to edge of front panel.

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THE RIVER OF ADVENTURE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1328702
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The eighth in the Adventure series. Cream pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. 277 pages. Spine bumped. Some slight scuffing to cover edges. Old tape to pastedowns (also to wrapper flaps), browning to endpapers and light foxing to textblock. Section missing to lower corner of front pastedown (hidden beneath wrapper flap). Dustwrapper is edge rubbed with slight loss to top of spine and has old tape marks to edges and tape to edges of flaps (as mentioned previously).

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MICHAEL BOND'S BOOK OF BEARS
Written by Michael Bond; Jane Hissey; Enid Blyton; Arnold Lobel; et al. Illustrated by Bridget Dowty; Jan Brychta; Maurice Sendak; Meg Rutherford; et al..
Stock no. 1328672
Published by Michael O'Mara books Limited. 1st 1992. Almost very good condition.

Light blue pictorial glazed boards with Paddington featuring. Colour illustrations throughout. 173 pages. ISBN: 1854791117. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Light vertical crease to centre of spine. Front free-endpaper is creased. Some grubby marks to page margins and textblock.

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ENID BLYTON'S LITTLE BEDTIME BOOK ABOUT THE SURPRISING BROOM
Written by Enid Blyton.
Stock no. 1328606
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.; Pleiades Books Ltd.. 1955. Very good condition.

A book of "Holiday" stories: The Surprising Broom; The Little Gold Brooch; The Proud Fir Tree. Large, slim format. Yellow pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn, small splits to top of spine. Tiny patch of surface paper damage to rear cover. Pale page browning else contents clean.

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SHOCK FOR THE SECRET SEVEN
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Burgess Sharrocks.
Stock no. 1328547
Published by Brockhampton Press. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

The Thirteenth Secret Seven story in which quarrels threaten to disband the Secret Seven. But dog-thieves are at work in the village so the children turn detective. Pale blue boards decorated with SS symbol. Two-tone and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped with slight browning to top and tail of spine. Textblock is foxed at top edge. Dustwrapper is edge worn with pencil (heavy) tick marks to title list on rear panel and patch of surface paper damage to front panel.

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THE CIRCUS OF ADVENTURE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1328546
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1952. Almost very good condition.

Cream pictorial cloth, blue titles. B/w illustrations. 316 pages. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Covers grubby. Book leans to one side. Some lower page corner tips lightly creased. Textblock is very slightly grubby.

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THE VALLEY OF ADVENTURE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.
Stock no. 1828767
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Cream pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. The third in the Adventure series. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf worn. Name & date in pencil to front endpaper. Text block browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at edges with slight loss, faded to spine. Slight musty odour present.

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HOLLOW TREE HOUSE
Written by Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Elizabeth Wall.
Stock no. 1328541
Published by Lutterworth Press. 1st 1945. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Peter and Susan run away to the enormous old hollow tree they have discovered in the heart of the wood. Beige cloth, purple title to spine. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Spine slightly bumped. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light foxing (mainly at textblock) else a nice copy. In white pictorial dustwrapper which is slightly grubby and has loss to spine and corners.

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