BLYTON, Enid. The Castle of Adventure. With Illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1946. 12mo, [x] 251pp. Gray cloth stamped in green. 18 full page and numerous smaller b&w illustrations. Spine ends a tad worn and lightly frayed, corners a bit rubbed, endpapers and first and last leaves aged, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (spine ends and corners lightly chipped, spine sunned).

First US edition. The second book in Blyton’s Adventure series. Philip, Dinah, Jack and Lucy-Ann when they go to stay in a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, just below a strange old castle high up in the mountains. Together with the little wild girl, Tassie (and Philip’s pet fox cub, Button), the children can’t resist climbing up to the castle and seeing if they can find a way inside. But things take a sinister turn as they discover the hide-out of a gang of men who are using the castle for their own purposes — and suddenly the children are prisoners in the castle. Can they find a way to get word to the outside and uncover the gang’s nefarious plans?