Five on Kirrin Island Again by BLYTON, Enid (1897-1968), [SOPER, Eileen, illustrator]

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Small Octavo, (20 x 14cm) pp.192. With numerous in-text illustrations, some coloured in red, by Soper. Publisher's red leatherette, with black titles to spine, and blue pictorial endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Soper, showing the telescope the wrong way around, priced at 6s. A little light toning and spotting to edges and preliminaries, otherwise a nice clean copy in a bright, clean jacket showing only a little wear to edges. Near fine. The sixth book in the 'Famous Five' series, in which the four children and their dog return to the scene of their adventure in the third book, 'Five Run Away Together.'.