BLYTON, Enid (author). Eileen SOPER (illustrator). Five Get Into a Fix. London; Hodder & Stoughton. 1958.

8vo. Original red cloth pictorially blocked and lettered in black,  pictorial endpapers, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [viii] + 182 + [ii]; illustrated by Eileen Soper in line accented in red, or blue; a very good copy with a strip of lateral offset marking to covers extending to both boards and spine to a total length of circa 10cm; internally very fresh and crisp with a vertical strip of toning to inner gutter of free endpapers and light speckling to edges of book block, without ownership inscription, protected by an uncommonly fresh and unhandled, near fine, and unclipped, jacket (7/6), with tiny wear to forecorners and two unobtrusive diagonal creases to lower panel.

First edition of the seventeenth book in the Famous Five series of adventures involving Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy the Dog.  Set in the Welsh mountains, the friends enjoying tobogganing and skiing until strange smouldering events on the opposite hill disrupt their quiet.