AN ENDURING MAGIC
67. The Enchanted Wood BLYTON, Enid
Newnes, 1939. First edition. Original green cloth lettered in black in rare pictorial dustwrapper with colour illustration by Dorothy Wheeler. Colour frontispiece and numerous line drawings in the text by Dorothy Wheeler. A near fine copy in a very good dust- wrapper indeed, which is bright and mostly crisp with a little wear to the spine ends and corners and a closed tear to the rear panel, internally reinforced. An exceptional copy of the rare first book in the Faraway Tree series. [45807] £9,500 The first book in the immensely popular Faraway Tree series. Published in small numbers and read voraciously, the first edition is now very rare.
“In the middle of the Enchanted Wood stands the great Faraway Tree”
68. The Magic Faraway Tree BLYTON, Enid
Newnes, 1943. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt in the wraparound pictorial dustwrapper by Dorothy Wheeler. Illustrated throughout in line by Wheeler. A near fine copy, bright and crisp, in a very good dustwrapper. The jacket is fresh, bright and attractive, with minor chips to the spine corners, and some creasing and closed tears. Small bookseller’s stamp to front free end- paper. [44410] £7,500 The second of the Faraway books featuring the inhabitants of the Enchanted Wood and the adventures of Jo, Bessie, Fanny and Dick in the magical lands that appear at the top of the eponymous tree. A fragile wartime production and one of the most popular children’s stories of the twentieth century.
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