Five On Kirrin Island. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1947. First Edition. Dark blue boards, spine lettered in black, pictorial end-papers printed in dark blue and black. In publisher’s dust jacket. Light chipping to rear of jacket with a little loss, neat gift inscription to second endpaper otherwise a nice bright copy.

Illustrated with full coloured frontispiece and several semi-coloured drawings throughout the text  by Eileen Soper.

Also issued in maroon boards, this copy is the dark blue issue. The printing error to the front cover of the dust jacket & frontispiece shows the telescope the wrong way round. This was corrected in the third edition. 

The sixth book in the Famous Five series.