The Magic Faraway Tree. First De Luxe Edition with jacket. 1981. Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Georgina Hargreaves.

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. 

Publisher: Dean & Son Ltd, London, 1981. First illustrated De Luxe Edition. 
Has 'Dean' the publisher's name on the scroll on front cover. 

Very good hardback with dust-jacket. VERY SCARCE with jacket. 
Laminated pictorial boards, compression to spine ends and bottom corner, no inscriptions, very minor foxing to end-papers and a few edges, tiny crease to corner of some pages otherwise very good.
Jacket has some shelf/edge wear, creasing and chipping with a creased and faded spine, two repaired tears to spine, foxing to reverse side.

117 pp. Colour illustrations throughout by Georgina Hargreaves . 22 x28cm. 

Vintage book that contains golliwogs and ALL THE ORIGINAL TEXT eg: The children in this edition are called Fanny, Dick and Bessie but this was later changed to Franny, Rick and Beth. Dame Slap has become Dame Snap, and no longer practises corporal punishment but instead reprimands her students by shouting at them. I have other first editions in the de luxe series listed.

ALL THE PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. 

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