Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Blyton, Enid. The Secret Seven Adventure. Brockhampton, London, 1950.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Description: Original pictorial boards. A well-read and somewhat grubby first edition of the 2nd Secret Seven book.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. The Secret Seven Adventure. Brock Books Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1950.
Price: US$9.02 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Spine browned with chipping at the top. Corners bumped and rubbed. Page edges a little browned with some spotting. Front and rear free endpapers missing and webbing exposed. Trace of a label having been removed from the final page so may have been in a lending library. The half-title page is browned. Traces of lines drawn with a pencil at the front and rear of the book. Light spots and stains to a number of pages through the book. No jacket. Illustrated by Bruno Kay. First printing.
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. The Secret Seven. The Brockhampton Press Ltd, Leicester, 1950.
Price: US$11.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book square, spine straight, pages tight and complete. V small p/o name to evenly foxed f.f.e.p. Slight foxing to prelims o/w pages clean. Actual photo here.
Seller: Book Realm, Wanneroo, WA, Australia
Enid Blyton. Secret Seven Adventure. Brockhampton Press Ltd, 1950.
Price: US$12.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1950. First Edition. 127 pages. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Enid Blyton. The Secret Seven. The Brockhampton Press Ltd, 1950.
Price: US$12.68 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1950. Second Impression. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Contains colour illustrations throughout. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking and foxing to boards. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Moderate water stains to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. Secret Seven Adventure. Brockhampton Press Ltd., Leicester, 1950.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Leicester: Brockhampton Press Ltd, (1950). First Edition, First Printing - "First Published 1950" on copyright page. 8vo. 127pp. Illustrated two color blue cloth, very good condition (slightly worn and soiled, spine faded, small stain on front cover, few small stains to edges of text block, small "R/2" rubber-stamped blow title page imprint), no dj. The second adventure of the Secret Seven Society, illustrated by George Brook.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
ENID BLYTON. THE SECRET SEVEN [Hardcover] ENID BLYTON. Brockhampton press, 1950.
Price: US$19.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The spine is discoloured. There is creasing/wear to the cover.
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Enid Blyton. The Secret Seven. The Brockhampton Press Ltd, 1950.
Price: US$22.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1950. Second impression. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour illustrations by George Brook. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting, but binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Some additional water marks and staining.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Blyton, Enid. THE SECRET SEVEN ADVENTURE. Brockhampton Press, 1950.
Price: US$81.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1950. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Dark and pale blue pictorial boards with vignettes of children holding hands. Red two-tone illustrations. 127 pages. Spine slightly bumped and some light rubbing to corners. Some light spotting to covers. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers browned. Heavy foxing to textblock, affecting some page margins. Price-cut dustwrapper is worn, torn and creased with some slight loss and tape repairs on verso. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in pictorial light blue cloth boards with blue lettering to front and spine. Unclipped dustjacket (5/-net) in new removable protective clear sleeve. 127pp. Two-tone illustrations throughout (both full page and within text). Not library copy, name/address in black ink to ffep, few marks to pages and boards, marks to rear dustjacket, with missing section to bottom spine. (58/2)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Enid Blyton. The Secret Seven Adventure. Brockhampton Press, 1950.
Price: US$186.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition first printing The front board has minor rubs to the top and bottom. The top and bottom right hand corners are slightly bumped. The spine is straight.The rear board has some minor rubs to the top edge. The inside boards are clean and bright. The front end paper has an inscription. The rear end paper has minor fox marks to the bottom right hand edge. The internal pages are clean and bright. Dust wrapper/ The front cover has a rear 6cm along the spine edge. the top edge has a 1/2cm chip. There is a crease running along the top edge with a 1cm chip on the front flap corner. There is a 4cm tear to the bottom spine hinge. There is a crease attached. The bottom right hand corner has 1 2cm chip. The spine has rubs with some loss. The title is rubbed. There is also a 2cm chip on the top edge. There is minor loss to the bottom edge not affecting publisher stamp. The top of the back cover has four tiny closed tears and a crease with rubs. all four corners have tiny chips. The front and rear flaps have curled on the top edges. Price cut. The rear of the jacket is clean.
Seller: Barely Read Books, Limpsfield, United Kingdom
Enid Blyton. The Secret Seven Adventure. Brockhampton Press, London, 1950.
Price: US$219.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1950 hardcover with dust jacket. 1st edition. The book is in very good condition. clean, square and tight. inside front cover, and sub title page have prev owners stamps and writings. other than those two pages the book is very clean. The dust jacket is in good condition. clean and bright. chips and tears to extrenities, see photos. sent via Fedex
Seller: edward syndercombe, Pretoria, GAUTE, South Africa
Price: US$315.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOTH BOOKS ARE FIRST EDITIONS & FIRST PRINTINGS. FIRST TWO BOOKS IN THE SECRET SEVEN SERIES, BOTH HARDBACKS BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDINGS WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS, SECRET SEVEN HAS BEEN PRICE CLIPPED & THE ADVENTURES HAS THE PUBLISHERS PRICE INTACT AT 5/-NET, SEVERAL ILLUSTRATIONS TO BOTH BOOKS. EACH MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. FEW MINOR CHIPS TO EDGES OF JACKETS WITH SOME CREASES, SMALL TEARS OR MINOR MARKS TO JACKETS, FEW MINOR MARKS TO CLOTH COVERS, LIGHT BROWNING TO ALL ENDPAPERS WITH SMALL SURFACE ABRASIONS PROBABLY FROM A BOOKPLATE REMOVAL & WITH AN INSCRIPTION TO FRONT ENDPAPER OF THE SECRET SEVEN, SMALL CHILDS INSCRIPTION TO INNER FRONT FLAP OF THE SECRET SEVEN, OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING MOSTLY TO PAGE FORE-EDGES. PLEASE NOTE: THE DUST JACKETS HAVE A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT MAY SHOW SOME WRINKLES OR REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. OVERALL THE BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD 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