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WESSEX, GREAT TORRINGTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. ENID BLYTON LIVED AT 'GREEN HEDGES' FROM 1938 ONWARDS AND HELD "STORY PARTIES" FOR HER YOUNG READERS; THE EXTERIOR IS SHOWN ON THE TITLE PAGE WITH THE CHILDREN ARRRIVING AND THE COVER SHOWS HER READING ALOUD TO HER EAGER AUDIENCE, MINOR SIGNS OF AGE AND USAGE. NO INSCRIPTIONS. JACKET: QUITE GOOD BUT HAS CHIP TO THE BACK AND A COUPLE OF CLOSED TEARS. PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS. Seller Inventory # 001035
Title: A STORY PARTY AT GREEN HEDGES
Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON, LONDON
Publication Date: 1949
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: GRACE LODGE
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, Australia
Illustrated Laminated Boards. Condition: Very good-. Dorothy Hamilton (illustrator). Corners a little bumped. Seller Inventory # 021867
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Lodge, Grace (illustrator). First Edition. Boards have fading to the spine. Staining around the edges of the front panel. Ring stain to the centre of the rear panel. Bumping and rubbing to the corners with heavy dent to the bottom edge of the front panel. Page edges browned with some staining to the bottom edges. Small name to the invitation panel on the front free endpaper. Sum in red crayon to the rear pastedown. Large stain affecting pages 86 to 88. The illustrations have been coloured in on eight pages. Corner creasing and light staining to a few other pages. No jacket. Illustrated by Grace Lodge. First printing. Seller Inventory # 014538
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn, Age Spots and So. No Jacket. Grace Lodge (illustrator). First Edition. Seller Inventory # 055236
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Book_Attic, Newark on Trent, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hodder and Stoughton; 1949. Hardcover - no dust cover. Green cloth covered boards with illustration to front. Boards marked. Spine sunned and some sunning to front edges. Corners bumped and rubbed. Shelf wear evident to top and bottom of spine. Guttering to top front split. Inscription to FFEP. Illustrated by Grace Lodge. Colour illustrations. Some age spotting throughout. A well read and loved book. Seller Inventory # 0104629
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Peakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA, Sheringham, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Grace Lodge (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 1st ed. Green boards; damp marked to front board edge, rear board, and to page edges; G; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 81530
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Peakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA, Sheringham, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Grace Lodge (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 1st ed. Green boards; Boards are quite good, but contents have been used and abused! Some pages are coming away from spine, with closed tears going into page; pages are soft from use; occasional brown mark; one page has a stamp saying this book is the property of Lewis's of Leicester (this was a department store) ; occasional small corner torn off page - not affecting text; Maybe the staff's children were allowed to play with this book! ; Green Hedges; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 85594
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Peakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA, Sheringham, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Grace Lodge (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Hbk no d/w; illus boards; Good; ; eps coloured in, scribble on back eps, corner missing form one page (no text affected) ; drawing on back board; 1st edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 24729
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Bibliodditiques, IOBA, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Grace Lodge (illustrator). Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Green coverboards are sunned around edges and corners are bumped. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 126 pp. Seller Inventory # 5862
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1949. First Edition. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. B&W and one colour illustrations throughout. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and soiling to boards. Moderate sunning to spine. Seller Inventory # 1713367349LEE
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: powellbooks Somerset UK., Ilminster, SOM, United Kingdom
Hard Cover/Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Grace Lodge (illustrator). First Edition. The green boards of this book are grubby with bumps to the corner ,there is also a dedication on the fep. Seller Inventory # 01538
Quantity: 1 available