Buy this book on-line BLYTON**, ENID: : THE MOUNTAIN OF ADVENTURELONDON.MACMILLAN,1949. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.[The 5th of 8 adventures and all of them were illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.] FINE/VG++. Neat,blue ink owner inscrptn: name/address+contemporary date to foxed/ spotted ffe but no price-clip (8s. 6d. NET) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Miniscule chipping with reciprocal loss to both head+foot of dw/djs' spine/backstrip - letters unaffected; all corners also minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss.Top front corner with an approx 1.5" closed tear on crease of front fold of inner flap of dw/dj.Top edges minimally and very faintly dust-soiled and with lightest of any ageing,fore-edges also similarly and very lightly aged - considerably much less than is usual/normal or encountered - so bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - one dog-ear reading crease to pp39/40 top corner, otherwise appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original cream cloth bds with colour (blue+black) pictorial decorated front bd+spine with bright, crisp,stamped blue+black letters to same and plain white eps with minimal,sporadic spotting/foxing to both free endpaperss; but both pastedowns foxing-free.Spine /backstrip with a few mottled/foxing(?) spots and without any splits,tears or any fraying.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-viiipp+ 1-326pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,contents list/table,30 chapters, profuse full-page,chapter head+tail pieces and part-page b/w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w illus frntis to it's verso,and title-page with b/w vignette illustration and date,1949.
The same much-loved characters are here again - Philip,Dinah,Jack,Lucy-Ann,Bill Smugs - and,of course,Kiki,the telkative, comical parrot.Snowy the white kid is a newcomer,and so is Sally,the slow-worm,a great pet of Philip's,the boy whom all creatures love.
They go for a summer holiday in the Welsh mountains - and fall,as usual,headlong into a most extraordinary adventure. What is going on inside the mountain? What causes the rumbling and the earth-shaking - and the curious clouds of crimson smoke? Who lives there and why? Where is the entrance? Thousands of boy and girl readers will be eager to follow Philip and his companions through all the dangers and surprises they have to face before the mystery is solved.
An important and welcome addition to the Enid Blyton adventure story canon for all Blyton fiction collectors/officianados.
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