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Five Go to Billycock Hill.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1957. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Small Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182 [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red or blue, by Soper. Publisher's red cloth, with black titles to spine and upper, and blue pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, priced at 7/6. Pencil ownership to verso of fly-leaf. Light spotting to edges and endpapers, with some minor tape burns to endpapers and jacket flaps; otherwise internally clean. Minor wear and bumping to cloth. Jacket toned to spine, with minor wear to edges. Very good. The 16th book in the 'Famous Five' series, in which the four children and their dog encounter various mysteries while on a camping holiday. Item #76057
Price: £45.00
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