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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. In the King's Shoes & The Smelly Little Dog (Volume 3) Author: Enid Blyton Illustrator: Pam Storey ISBN-10: 0755443985 ISBN-13: 9780755443987 Pages: Approximately 41 Condition: Very Good This is Volume 3 of Enid Blyton's Magical Stories series, a large-format glossy hardcover picture book containing two charming short stories for younger readers: "In the King's Shoes" and "The Smelly Little Dog." The book is illustrated throughout in full colour by Pam Storey, whose lively, traditional style perfectly complements Blyton's storytelling. Enid Blyton (1897-1968) was one of the most prolific and best-loved children's authors of the twentieth century. She wrote hundreds of books and short stories featuring adventure, magic, fairies, brownies, and everyday childhood experiences. Her work, including series such as The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, Noddy, and The Magic Faraway Tree, has delighted generations of readers and remains widely collected. Pam Storey (also credited as Pamela Storey) is a British illustrator known for her colourful, expressive artwork in numerous children's books, particularly editions of Enid Blyton's stories published in the 1990s and 2000s. Her illustrations for this volume feature the brownie pedlar Twiddles, the King of Brownie Land, children at the seaside, a small brown-and-white dog, and various magical and everyday scenes rendered in a warm, inviting style typical of mid-to-late twentieth-century British children's publishing. The exterior is in very good condition. The spine and edges show slight bumping, consistent with careful handling of a large-format hardcover. There are no tears, significant scuffs, or major marks on the covers. The green checked pictorial boards remain bright, with the full-colour cover illustration of the dog in the red-and-blue bucket, the king's shoes, and the beach ball clearly visible and free from damage. The interior is in fine condition. Pages are clean, white, and unmarked, with no highlighting, writing, stains, or foxing. The colour illustrations are bright and complete, and the text is crisp. The binding is tight and square, with no looseness or splitting. This edition was published by Robert Frederick Ltd. of Bath, United Kingdom, and is part of their Magical Stories series of Enid Blyton titles. It measures approximately 22 × 29 cm, making it an ideal large picture-book format for reading aloud or for young independent readers. The book contains the complete text of both stories with accompanying illustrations on most spreads. A solid, attractive copy of this popular Blyton title that will appeal to collectors of Enid Blyton books, fans of traditional British children's illustration, and families seeking quality classic stories. Pam Storey (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback with white boards. Front illustrated with characters from fairy tales. Minimal shelf wear to boards. Pages tight; clean/unmarked. Unpaginated. Not stated First Edition but no other print info stated. Close to As New condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. The format is approximately 6 inches by 8.25 inches. 219, [1] pages. Illustrations. Decorative cover. No dust jacket present. Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 24 April 1731) was an English writer, merchant and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularize the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted him. Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred worksbooks, pamphlets, and journalson diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism. Published in 1719, when Defoe was in his late fifties, Robinson Crusoe relates the story of a man's shipwreck on a desert island for twenty-eight years and his subsequent adventures. Throughout its episodic narrative, Crusoe's struggles with faith are apparent as he bargains with God in times of life-threatening crises, but time and again he turns his back after his deliverances. He is finally content with his lot in life, separated from society, following a more genuine conversion experience. In the opening pages of The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the author describes how Crusoe settled in Bedfordshire, married and produced a family, and that when his wife died, he went off on these further adventures. Bedford is also the place where the brother of "H. F." in A Journal of the Plague Year retired to avoid the danger of the plague, so that by implication, if these works were not fiction, Defoe's family met Crusoe in Bedford, from whence the information in these books was gathered. Defoe went to school in Newington Green with a friend named Caruso. The novel has been assumed to be based in part on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded in the Juan Fernández Islands, but his experience is inconsistent with the details of the narrative. The island Selkirk lived on, Más a Tierra (Closer to Land) was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966. It has also been supposed that Defoe may have also been inspired by a translation of a book by the Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Tufail, who was known as "Abubacer" in Europe. The Latin edition was entitled Philosophus Autodidactus; Simon Ockley published an English translation in 1708, entitled The improvement of human reason, exhibited in the life of Hai ebn Yokdhan. Robinson Crusoe is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Written with a combination of epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book follows the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. Pedro Serrano is another real-life castaway whose story might have inspired the novel. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and that the book was a non-fiction travelogue. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. Some allege it is a contender for the first English novel. Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning so many imitations, not only in literature but also in film, television, and radio, that its name is used to define a genre, the Robinsonade. Unabridged Version. First Edition thus. Presumed first printing thus.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Very Good Jacket. 48pp. Tips and spine ends are lightly bumped and lightly rubbed. Boards have light scratches. Edges of jacket have creases. Jacket has light scuffs and light scratches. Text is unmarked.