BLYTON, Enid (author). Eileen SOPER (illustrator). Five On A Secret Trail. London; Hodder & Stoughton Limited. 1956.

8vo.; original red linson boards lettered in black, double-page pictorial blue endpapers, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [viii], 9-182 + [i]; illustrated in black and white accented in blue; a crisp, clean copy with speckling to edges of book block and vertical strips of offset-toning to free endpaper, as usual, in a clean and bright, unclipped dustwrapper (7/6) with light rubbing to folds, a short closed lower-edge tear (10mm) now expertly repaired to the reverse with archival tissue tape, and a small chip to spine head at lower joint and to one forecorner.

First edition. The fifteenth adventures of the Famous Five in which they are warned away from an old ruined cottage from which weird lights and noises emanate.