FIRSTS ONLINE Winter 2020

3. BLYTON, Enid
Signed Contract For My Third Enid Blyton Book
London: N.p., 1953
4pp. typed legal document, horizontal fold across centre.
Some old staining across the lower portion of the document, which is
otherwise very well preserved.
Legal contract dated 1 December 1953, SIGNED BY ENID BLYTON.
The contract is an agreement between Darrell Waters of Darrell Waters
Ltd., the company set up by Enid Blyton in 1950 to handle her affairs;
a representative of the publishers Latimer House Ltd., and Enid Blyton
herself. Under the terms of the contract, Latimer House undertake to
pay a royalty of five per cent to Blyton for the publishing rights to My
Third Enid Blyton Book, which was eventually published in 1955.
A very scarce piece of signed Blyton ephemera.
£1,250 (plus 20% VAT to EU purchasers)
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