Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Blyton, Enid. Real Fairies. J. Saville & Co. Ltd, London, 1923.
Price: US$94.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. 55. Brown cloth boards with titles to front board and spine in gilt, no dust jacket. Light bumping to the corners and spine ends, with ink name of Kathleen B. Snook to the head of the front endpaper. Endpapers and the first and last two leaves foxed, with light foxing to the fore-edge of the text block, book slightly cocked. Still a very good copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Blyton, Enid. Real Fairies. J.Saville & Co, London, 1923.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tan cloured cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front cover. Edgeworn. Neat inscription on ffep. A series of poems and verses. A very early book in remarkably good condition.
Seller: Bounteous, Buckingham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Enid Blyton. Real Fairies [True First Edition]. J. Saville & Co. Ltd., London, 1923.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of this scarce publication; probably Blyton's second, third or fourth publication (as opposite the title page is a note of 'By the same Author' - Child Whispers [1922] and Responsive Games [1923]. Also previously published were a number of contributions to Teachers' World. This copy is a true First Edition, dated 1923, a small Hardback in clean light brown cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board and no dust jacket. Very small cloth puncture to spine but unusually the book is in VG + or, near- FINE condition. Consisting 55 pages of the author's poems on soft white paper - all, except 'Pretending' which was published previously in Punch magazine, are first appearances of the poems. The sewn binding is firm, nothing loose or cracking, clean throughout. There is no inscription but an unobtrusive, not easily visible, impressed address to the front free end-paper: Selwor, East Bay, Colchester. Selwor is Rowles backwards but there is no apparent link to the Blyton/children's book illustrator, Daphne Rowles. There is a little faint spotting to the top edges of some pages in the first half of the book. Clean end-papers. 30% price reduction now applied.
Seller: Stoneman Press, York, YK, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. Real Fairies. J. Saville & Co, 1923.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on covers and spine. 11cm x 17cm. Minor wear to edges of covers. Endpapers slightly darkened. Neat name and date on front endpaper. Fore edge slightly foxed. Contents clean, but faintly tanned.
Seller: The Children's Bookshop, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. Real Fairies. J. Saville & Co, 1923.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Orange covers. Black lettering on covers. Black decoration on covers. 11cm x 17cm. Front cover worn at edges and a little soiled. Back covers worn and soiled, with a horizontal splash/scuff. Spine strip worn with some loss at base. Name on front endpaper. Some soiling to edges of page block. Contents tanned and a little finger-marked at edges.
Seller: The Children's Bookshop, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. REAL FAIRIES. J. Saville & Co. Ltd., 1923.
Price: US$175.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1923. Very good condition with no wrapper. Brown cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. A book of poetry. Small format. Enid Blyton's second book. Corners bumped. Endpapers very lightly browned. Page 23 has skillfully repaired closed tear. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. REAL FAIRIES. J. Saville & Co. Ltd., 1923.
Price: US$451.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1923. Very good condition in a dustwrapper in fair condition. Brown cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. A book of poetry. Small format. Enid Blyton's second book. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Endpapers lightly browned, some foxing to contents else clean. Very scarce pictorial wrapper is edge worn with several sections of loss, small red pen mark to slightly grubby rear panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom