Enid Blyton – Five On A Treasure Island – First UK Edition 1942
£3,500.00
First edition, first printing of ‘Five on a Treasure Island’. Published by Hodder and Stoughton in London, 1942. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, with its iconic design from the hand of Eileen A. Soper, is strikingly bright on both panels, though has undergone some mild and highly professional restoration at the top and tail of the spine and along the top and tail edges of both panels. It has not been price clipped. The boards are so slightly bumped at the top and tail of the spine. A previous owner’s bookplate to the front pastedown. The internals are pristine and crisp and the text blocks, though slightly toned due to poor paper stock, are mostly free from foxing and the boards have enjoyed some colour retouching. Overall, this is a very good copy of a wildly popular children’s title. Rare in the dust wrapper, due to its inherent fragility.
It is the first book in The Famous Five series. It has been suggested that the book was influenced by L. T. Meade’s 1892 book Four on an Island, which also recounts a story of four related children including a tomboy along with a dog living on a private island with a shipwreck.
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First edition, first printing of ‘Five on a Treasure Island’. Published by Hodder and Stoughton in London, 1942. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper, with its iconic design from the hand of Eileen A. Soper, is strikingly bright on both panels, though has undergone some mild and highly professional restoration at the top and tail of the spine and along the top and tail edges of both panels. It has not been price clipped. The boards are so slightly bumped at the top and tail of the spine. A previous owner’s bookplate to the front pastedown. The internals are pristine and crisp and the text blocks, though slightly toned due to poor paper stock, are mostly free from foxing and the boards have enjoyed some colour retouching. Overall, this is a very good copy of a wildly popular children’s title. Rare in the dust wrapper, due to its inherent fragility.
It is the first book in The Famous Five series. It has been suggested that the book was influenced by L. T. Meade’s 1892 book Four on an Island, which also recounts a story of four related children including a tomboy along with a dog living on a private island with a shipwreck.
