Sylvie & Bruno meet Famous Five, Chalet Girls and the Fat Owl
INSCRIBED in both volumes “with the author’s love” to an Edith Barnes, presentation firsts of Lewis Carroll’s over-long children’s story Sylvie and Bruno of 1889 and its continuation or conclusion of 1893, the original red cloth bindings now uniformly faded to the spines, dampstained to the front of Vol. II and showing repairs to the spine ends of the first volume, was sold for £1400 in a Bloomsbury Auctions sale of July 15.
A job lot of five Enid Blyton titles valued at £30-40 brought a bid of £1250 in a Keys of Aylsham sa…