[Comprising:] The Island of Adventure; The Castle of Adventure; The Valley of Adventure; The Sea of Adventure; The Mountain of Adventure; The Ship of Adventure; The Circus of Adventure; The River of Adventure.
London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1944; 1946; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1952; 1955.
A complete set in exceptional condition. An exceptionally rare and complete set of the Adventure books; all the illustrated dust-jackets with prices intact, none of the books with ownership names, inscriptions or juvenile scribblings, only two dust-jackets with minor restoration.
Generations of children have grown up with Blyton's Adventure stories of Jack, Philip, Dinah and Lucy-Ann, together with Jack's intelligent and talkative parrot Kiki. They have the most extraordinary adventures not only in England, Scotland and Wales but also abroad — Austria, Greece, the Middle East and even Tauri-Hessia!
'Whether dealing with forgers, gun-runners, Nazis, traitors, mad scientists or thieves, they frequently find themselves in desperate situations. Their adventures are a step up from those of the Famous Five in that they involve aeroplanes, motor-boats, a cruise-ship, seaplanes and helicopters'. The Enid Blyton Society
First editions, first impressions; 8 vols (complete); 8vo (205 x 140 mm); illustrated by Stuart Tresilian, small, light thumb-marks to some margins of 'Sea of Adventure', otherwise very bright and near-fine internally; publisher's cloth in varying shades of yellow and light ochre, with stunning illustrations (different from the jacket) in dark brown and blue, all exceptionally bright, offsetting to free endpapers from flap folds in sixth title, light tape mark to upper endpaper of seventh title, pictorial dust-jackets, also illustrated by Treselian, small closed split to head of rear spine fold to second title, minor chipping to spine extremities to third, forth, fifth, seventh (this one with professional restoration to head of spine), spotting to verso of last jacket but only evident on the recto of the flaps inside, otherwise in exceptionally good condition.
Generations of children have grown up with Blyton's Adventure stories of Jack, Philip, Dinah and Lucy-Ann, together with Jack's intelligent and talkative parrot Kiki. They have the most extraordinary adventures not only in England, Scotland and Wales but also abroad — Austria, Greece, the Middle East and even Tauri-Hessia!
'Whether dealing with forgers, gun-runners, Nazis, traitors, mad scientists or thieves, they frequently find themselves in desperate situations. Their adventures are a step up from those of the Famous Five in that they involve aeroplanes, motor-boats, a cruise-ship, seaplanes and helicopters'. The Enid Blyton Society
First editions, first impressions; 8 vols (complete); 8vo (205 x 140 mm); illustrated by Stuart Tresilian, small, light thumb-marks to some margins of 'Sea of Adventure', otherwise very bright and near-fine internally; publisher's cloth in varying shades of yellow and light ochre, with stunning illustrations (different from the jacket) in dark brown and blue, all exceptionally bright, offsetting to free endpapers from flap folds in sixth title, light tape mark to upper endpaper of seventh title, pictorial dust-jackets, also illustrated by Treselian, small closed split to head of rear spine fold to second title, minor chipping to spine extremities to third, forth, fifth, seventh (this one with professional restoration to head of spine), spotting to verso of last jacket but only evident on the recto of the flaps inside, otherwise in exceptionally good condition.
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