Enid Blyton, Eileen A. Soper
Collection of The Famous Five
Hodder & Stoughton
1942 - 1963
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A complete first-edition series of The Famous Five, children's adventure novels and short stories written by Blyton and illustrated by Soper.
- Sold as a set of 21.
- Enid Blyton (British).
- Eileen A. Soper (British).
- London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963.
- Color frontispieces to numbers 2 - 6 in the series, numerous black and white or monotone full-page illustrations and vignettes within the text, Five Have A Wonderful Time with the original The Famous Five Club bookmark that was only available with this first edition.
- Illustrated dust-jackets by Soper.
Condition Report
GoodSome with spotting to text block edges with a few minor instances of slight encroachment to a few page extremities.
Small chip to head of half-title of Five Run Away Together.
Seven with some fading or minor marking.
The first title with a partial tear to upper spine fold of but entirely original and not restored.
Professional restorations to third, fourth, fifth more evident to the third, minor to the fourth and fifth.
Small closed tear to sixth, tape shadows to reverse of seventh (from previous protective cover) with small close tear to rear spine fold.
Rubbing to extremities of eleventh, slight rubbing to extremities of twelfth.
Minor chips to edges of thirteenth with creasing to rear panel.
Rubbing to extremities and minor chips to head of spine and ends of flap-folds to fourteenth.
Historic tape reinforcements to spine ends and heads of flap folds of fifteenth.
Small closed nick to upper panel of sixteenth.
Short tear to base of rear spine fold and a couple of minor chips to seventeenth.
Minor rubbing to extremities of eighteenth.
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