BLYTON, Enid. Illustrated by Lewis Baumer.. SILVER AND GOLD.. London Nelson, 1925.

Price: US$45.07 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION (1925), 170 x 130 mm, 6½ x 5 inches, pink cloth, black illustration to upper cover of little girl with dolls, 71 pages. Pretty coloured frontispiece, 30 poems interspersed with charming drawings by Lewis Baumer. Spine slightly faded and with small stain, corners rubbed but not fraying, a couple of tiny tooth marks to lower cover at 1 corner, endpapers lightly browned, margins occasionally thumbed, occasional slight foxing. A good plus copy (lacking dustwrapper). Early Blyton inspired no doubt by the huge success of When We Were Very Young the year before. A new edition of this title appeared in 1927 with illustrations by Ethel Everett. Summerfield Volume I, page 8. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom

Enid Blyton. Silver and Gold. Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York and London, 1925.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: a very good in the original tan cloth with the pictorial central pastedown by MS Everett, pictorial endsheets by Ms Everett, profusely illustrated with charming pictures by this artist and a fine tale for children, with color plates as well, Can be viewed for personal inspection any day at my case No 246 at the Warson Woods antique Mall in Warson Woods Missouri. pretty copy under new mylar dust jacket.

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Blyton, Enid. SILVER AND GOLD. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1925.

Price: US$121.69 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st 1925. Very good condition with no wrapper. Small format, pink cloth, black titles and vignettes. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. A charming book of poetry. Spine is browned, with some light scuffing. Couple of cover edges are unevenly faded. Corners are a little worn. Browning to endpapers. Some foxing internally and to outer page edges. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom

Blyton, Enid. SILVER AND GOLD. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1925.

Price: US$132.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st 1925. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Small format, pink cloth, black titles and vignettes. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. A charming book of poetry. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A couple of small marks to top edge of rear cover. Front free-endpaper has been removed. There is a tiny booksellers sticker to rear pastedown. First few and last few pages are browned/foxed else the contents are clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom

Blyton, Enid. SILVER AND GOLD. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1925.

Price: US$162.24 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st 1925. Very good condition with no wrapper. Small format, pink cloth, black titles and vignettes. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. A charming book of poetry. Endpapers lightly browned. Spine a little faded. Covers bright. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom

Enid Blyton. Silver and Gold. Nelson, UK, 1925.

Price: US$547.25 + shipping

Description: 1st edition 1925. Lovely line drawings by Lewis Baumer. Book is very good++ and bright. Endpapers age toned. The wrapper is very good++ and bright. Light surface rubbing and marking. Conforms to all 1st Edition points as required in the Blyton bibliography.Very uncommon with the wrapper. More images can be taken upon request.Ref 16915

Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom

BLYTON, Enid.. Silver and Gold.. London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1925], 1925.

Price: US$579.44 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, of this "delightful book of verse for children all about the everyday things that make up the life of a child - pleasantly homely or quaintly fanciful" (The Bookman, p. 135), as well as an early work from the prolific author who later became famous for her classic adventure novels. This copy features the original illustrations by Lewis Baumer, including the dust jacket illustration and a colour frontispiece. The Bookman, vol. 69, 1926. Small octavo. Original pink cloth, lettering and vignette to front board in black. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations to text by Lewis Baumer. Bookplate of one Peter A. Greensides to front pastedown and gift inscription dated 1928 to front free endpaper. Top edge foxed, outer leaves lightly browned; couple of short closed tears to jacket, slightly soiled but still bright, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom