Blyton (Enid) The Island of Adventure
£225
London, Macmillan, 1948.
First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket.
A very good second impression of the first of the author’s ‘Adventure’ series of books.
Out of stock
Bookseller’s small sticker to front pastedown; cloth slightly marked; jacket a little rubbed at spine ends and corners, but otherwise VG+.
Illustrations and cover design by Stuart Tresilian.
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