BLYTON, Enid (author). Eileen SOPER (illustrator). Five Get Into Trouble. London; Hodder & Stoughton Limited. 1949.

8vo.; publisher’s red linson boards lettered in black, double-page pictorial endpapers in apricot, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [iv], v-viii + 190; with black-and-white illustrations throughout heightened in red and blue; a near fine copy, both externally and internally, without ownership inscription, in an unclipped dustwrapper (6/-) with small nicking to heel and a couple of very short closed edge tears, expertly repaired to the reverse with archival tissue tape, light dusting to flaps and lower panel, foxing restricted to the reverse side, and small, square, and offset mark from removed tape (15mm) to bottom edge of lower wrap; a scarce early title.

First edition of the eighth title in Blyton’s Famous Five series. Here the children venture off on a cycling trip and meet with intrigue at Owl’s Dene on Owl’s Hill.