All the other series I’ve looked at had paperback editions by the mid-to-late 1960s, so even for The Secret Island which was out in 1938 had a shorter gap. The hardbacks were probably printed many times over – it was common to see 14th or 18th impressions of Blyton’s books in the late 60s, but over thirty years for a new edition seems a very long time. If you thought 3-5 years between the books above was bad, well, the first time these books were republished was in 1971! Yes, a whopping thirty-two years after The Enchanted Wood was published.
The earliest edition and the one I’m least likely to be able to find.
I was looking for something reasonably un-taxing to write this week, and decided that as the Faraway Tree series only has three books (well, four if you include Up the Faraway Tree which is a different format, but even so that only has three editions so hardly adds any complications) so I’m hoping it does prove to be more straight-forward than some of the ones I’ve done.ĭespite there being perhaps slightly longer gaps between books (there are seven years between the first and third books, and twelve years between the first and fourth), and the fourth book being a strip-book put together from Sunny Stories content, all the first editions were illustrated by Dorothy M.
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