Buy Enid Blyton Books

Hopefully this page will give you a few pointers about whether to buy brand new Enid Blyton books or try to find secondhand copies. Buying secondhand from a local charity shop is by far the cheapest way to restock your collection, but of course you'll have to hunt around a bit to find every title of every series!

	I've been recommending Navrang for ages now, and still do. They're the simplest solution for buying entire sets of popular Enid Blyton books with just a couple of clicks, and the free worldwide shipping for orders over $50 is simply unbeatable. Excellent customer service too.
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	If you're after older, secondhand books, then I usually have a small selection available. Prices vary wildly due to the nature of collectible books; an almost-new hardback from the nineties can be worth less than a dusty, musty hardback from the fifties or sixties. It depends what's important to you.

Should I buy brand new books, or old secondhand copies?

In some ways nothing beats a brand new paperback with colorful modern covers and that fresh, newly-printed smell, and the knowledge that you're the first person to read that particular copy. If that's what you're after, then try my Amazon aStore or Navrang for the best prices around. But bear in mind that we're now in a "politically correct" era, and modern publishers have decided that some of Enid Blyton's phrases from the 1940s and 1950s are "inappropriate" in this day and age. Phrases like "George was as black as a nigger with soot," while not particularly unusual or upsetting fifty years ago, have been altered to something more acceptable, like "George was black with soot"—hardly a dramatic change, but a change nonetheless.

There are more noticeable changes for those who remember Enid Blyton books from their childhood. The black villain originally known as Jo-Jo in The Island of Adventure is, in modern editions, transformed into Joe—an ordinary white man. Meanwhile, the scene from The Mystery of the Hidden House, in which Mr Goon canes Ern across the palm of the hand, has been deleted entirely; now Ern merely gets a ticking off. And perfectly innocent exclamations of "how queer!" and "ooh, it's such a gay day!" have been updated to "how weird!" and "ooh, it's such a bright day!"...

Despite the changes, which understandably annoy most die-hard Enid Blyton book collectors, the new editions are perfectly readable for the new generation, and even for those adults who are revisiting their childhood. Most changes will go unnoticed unless you compare an old edition side by side with a new paperback.

If you really CANNOT stand to see Enid Blyton's work altered, then stick with pre-1980 secondhand paperbacks, which you can pick up from various online stores including eBay. I usually have a small selection of my own Enid Blyton books for sale that will especially suit residents of the USA because Media Rate shipping is dirt cheap. If you want to get into collecting in a big way, go for pre-1968 hard back books, which are likely to contain all the original text. Also, these old copies will contain the original illustrations as well, which are often far superior and manage to capture the "feel" of the books in a way that modern illustrations don't.

Where to buy new Enid Blyton books

I thoroughly recommend Navrang if you want to buy brand new Enid Blyton books. Navrang is located in Virginia, USA, but their books are shipped from a British printer in India via their Delhi warehouse. So you're getting British books at the cheapest prices anywhere. Navrang also offer free worldwide shipping for orders over $50 USD (or $4.99 for orders under $50 USD), anywhere in the world. Most of Blyton's popular series are available, and you can buy the books individually or as complete sets...

Where to buy secondhand Enid Blyton books

If it's the musty, dusty, fusty yellowed pages you're after, with the original unchanged text and superb illustrations of Ye Olden Days, then there are numerous options online. First of all, check right here for some secondhand Enid Blyton books from my own personal collection. There aren't many, they're just a few spares I have lying around.

If you find nothing of interest there, then try Abebooks. There's no end of books for sale here. Don't forget to refine your searches by using the options at the right of the screen once you get there.

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Then of course there's eBay, which is usually cheaper than Abebooks but you have to have an eBay account to buy anything. And most of the time you have to bid on the books, which doesn't appeal to all. But if you have an account and like to bid, eBay is definitely the best option for secondhand books online.

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Another source is Fetchbook. This is a very nice, Google-like interface that makes it very easy to search out the books you want and allows you to automatically compare prices of new and used copies across the internet, and even gives you shipping information at a glance. Very nice!

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Finally, if you STILL can't find what you're looking for, try a simple Google search. Just press the search button to get started, or type something more specific. You can also use this search tool to search this site...

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