Buy this book on-line BLYTON**, ENID: : THE Second HOLIDAY BOOK.**LONDON.SAMPSON LOW,MARSTON & CO.,LTD.,[nd. circa 1949.] ISBN No ISBN.
UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st.[Variant binding?] VG+.Owner name in childish handwriting to ffe and also a handwritten,blue ink,familial (Grandma+Grandpa Xmas 1949) Christmas gift presentation inscrptn+date to top right-hand corner of half-title page.Bright,crisp,clean, publisher's original navy blue cloth boards with dark blue cloth blind spine with bright,crisp, blocked gilt decoration (3 children in beach attire and a dog,running at the seaside) and gilt letters to front cover,the original gilt letters to spine/backstrip oxidised leaving letters' blocked impression,spine also dulled; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present.Slight,minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting to pictorial red+white illustrations by Hilda Boswell,illustrated endpapers.All corners bumped with inevitable but miniscule rubbing and wear.Top+fore-edges aged/toned - as usual/normal - cheap paper stock - but without foxing/ spotting; contents particularly bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.UK,Qrto HB minus dw/dj,1st,5-192pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,30 short stories and 9 interactive activities (puzzles,things to make or do),profuse 3-colour block (b/w+colour - one from either green,orange,lilac,yellow,red,or blue) illustrations throughout the text,4pp of back-to-back full-page,full colour illustrations by Grace Lodge and similarly,4pp back-to-back nature illustrations by Noel Hopking - 4 each in total for each artist - interspersed within the text.Some illustrations uncredited with no initials,some just initialled but deciphered and identified,others include named: Mary K. Lee (M.K.L), Betty Ladler (B.L.),Narroway [W.E.], Sylvia I Venus (S.I.V),Eileen Soper (EAS),Hilda McGavin,R. Brown,Grace Lodge and Hilda Boswell. Plus [unpaginated] half-title and b/w vignette illustrated title page.
A highly collected and prolific children's book author/illustrator,and a collectable item in Blyton's usual style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Blyton canon.
Believed published for the Christmas market,to be given as gifts.
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