The Boy Next Door by Enid Blyton
1951. First edition thus. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Gilbert Dunlop. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.