Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Enid Blyton. The Island of Adventure. Macmillan and Co Ltd, London, 1944.
Price: US$25.66 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Hardcover. No dustjacket. Heavily worn copy. Hinges cracked, cover significantly loosening from textblock. Cracks to binding. Worn cover with staining/scuffs/bumps. Name inscription at front. Marks/staining to pages. Content readable.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
BLYTON Enid. The Island of Adventure. Macmillan and Co Limited, London, 1944.
Price: US$35.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. cream, red, black pictorial cloth ,spine - minor creasing + sl grubby, creasing front board, + sl offset, corners bumped, 327 pp, b/w Tresilian illusns throughout - some full page, no inscriptions or markings
Seller: Hencotes Books, Penny Pearce, Hexham Northumberland, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A complete set, each in the original pictorial cloth. All have varying degrees of bumping to the boards and some also have some fraying to the spine ends, generally the cloth is quite grubby, some have foxing, browning or soiling to the pages and some have an inscription, but anything more than this is mentioned. The Island of Adventure; 3rd printing 1949, creased to the front board, f.f.e.p. missing. The Castle of Adventure; 4th printing 1951, f.f.e.p. missing. The Valley of Adventure; 3rd printing 1950, address label to the f.f.e.p. The Sea of Adventure; 6th printing 1953. The Mountain of Adventure; 5th printing 1952, end papers missing, spine torn down one side, some pictures coloured. The Ship of Adventure; 5th printing 1954. The Circus of Adventure; 1st printing 1952, spine partly torn. The River of Adventure; 2nd printing 1956, f,f.e.p. missing.
Seller: Knights Rare Books (Est. 1994), Glastonbury, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$295.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL DECORATED CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PRICED AT 7/6, NUMEROUS FULL PAGE BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 8 + 327 PAGES. DUST JACKET IS VERY WORN WITH LOSS, TEARS & ONE PIECE DETACHED [SEE IMAGE] FEW DARK MARKS TO CLOTH SPINE WITH A TEAR TO CLOTH AT TOP LEFT SIDE OF SPINE, VERY OCCASIONAL MINOR MARK TO PAGES. OVERALL THE BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FAIR ONLY CONDITION. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. The Island od Adventure. Macmillan and Co., London, 1944.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp viii, 327. Frontis & illustrations. Original cloth, inscription to ffep. Price-clipped d/w edge-worn with repaired short tears.Small areas of loss to spine ends & corners. A decent copy.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Endi Blyton. The Island of Adventure. Macmillan and Co, London UK, 1944.
Price: US$378.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton with illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. Original pictorial cloth boards with wear and rubbing. Rear top corner of the book has been bent and is creased. Top edges of the pages are lightly folded/dog eared. The contents are clean. Pen dedication on the front paste down. The dust jacket has internal tape repairs and external tape repairs on the spine folds. Light chipping on the edges of the dust jacket. The front flap is creased and is price clipped. Rear flap has crude tape repair.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. The Island Of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., London, 1944.
Price: US$640.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed and inscribed by Enid Blyton to Beryl directly to ffep. Additional Gift inscription dated 1944 to Beryl on ffep. First edition/First printing Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London 1944. VG clean condition internally. Browning to endpages and Browning/Spotting to page edges. Newspaper cutting re: Enid Blyton Signing books (1947) Stuck with brown paper to corners on front pastedown. Cloth covers have darkened with minor wear and few marks. Some mild creasing to spine.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. The Island Of Adventure. Macmillan & Co., London, 1944.
Price: US$1250.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed and inscribed by Enid Blyton to Beryl directly to ffep. Additional Gift inscription dated 1944 to Beryl on ffep. First edition/First printing Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd, London 1944. VG clean condition internally. Browning to endpages and Browning/Spotting to page edges. Newspaper cutting re: Enid Blyton Signing books (1947) Stuck with brown paper to corners on front pastedown. Cloth covers have darkened with minor wear and few marks. Some mild creasing to spine.
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4810.36 + shipping
Description: A full set of all eight 'Adventure' first edition, first printings in the original dust wrappers. All are very good books in very good wrappers. Neat inscriptions to 'Circus', 'Sea', and 'River'. Of the dust wrappers only 'Mountain' is clipped. Rarely presented and sold as a set of first edition, first printings.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom