The Magic Faraway Tree. First De Luxe Edition with jacket. By Enid Blyton. Illustrated by Georgina Hargreaves.
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
Publisher: Dean & Son Ltd, London. First illustrated De Luxe Edition.
Very good hardback with dustjacket. VERY SCARCE with jacket.
Laminated pictorial boards. No inscriptions, some foxing to endpapers. Pages very good. Jacket is chipped at edges with a faded spine, some creasing, and a large repaired tear to the front. Foxing/stains to flaps. Minor marks.
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 others in the de luxe series listed.
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