The Castle of Adventure by Enid Blyton
About the Book: 
“What is the story of the old castle on the hill? Who goes there? Who signals from the tower at night? And why…? When Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack set out to the castle to ask these questions, they get some thrilling and totally unexpected answers…”
Genre:  Children’s Classic fiction
Book Type:
Piccolo Collectable 1970s Paperback
A Piccolo book – Pan Books in association with Macmillan London. Appealing to collect all eight of the 1970s Piccolo book series.
Edition:  Piccolo first edition 1975, 2nd Printing   
Size: 18cm x 11cm
Number of pages:  190
Illustrations: Cover illustration by Juliet Stanwell-Smith.
15 black and white illustrations throughout the book.  Text illustrations as the original books by Stuart Tesilian his professional name (Cecil Stuart Hazell Tesilian 1891 -1974). As well as the Adventure series for Enid Blyton, Stuart Tesilian also illustrated Rudyard Kipling’s Animals Stories & All the Mowgli Stories. He was a Second Lieutenant with the Fifth London Regiment and was captured in 1918 and held at Rastatt, Baden Württemberg, Germany on the upper Rhine Plain. He was able to draw during this time and these precious works are held at the Imperial War Museum.
Table of contents. 
31 chapters
Now for the holidays!
The boys come home – and Kiki!
Settling in at Spring Cottage
Tassie and button
The way to the castle
How can they get in?
Inside the caste of adventure
Up in the tower
The eagles’ nest
A curious thing
An unexpected meeting
Jack is left at the castle
The hidden room
Things begin to happen
Things go on happening
Prisoners in the castle
Lucy-Ann has an idea
Philip tells a queer story
Another day goes by
Tassie is very brave
A few surprises
Kiki gives a performance
At midnight
Going into hiding
The adventure boils up
A terrible storm
The secret passage
The other side of the hill
The end of the castle of adventure
 
Biography of Author:
Enid Blyton prolific children’s author. She originally wrote ‘Adventure’ series of eight books during the final years of the second world war, the first one The Island of Adventure being published in 1944 through to 1955 when the final book, The River of Adventure was produced. The series was reproduced by Piccolo in 1970s with a new interpretation for the cover design and using the original text illustrations by Stuart Tesilian.
More information about the Adventure series at https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book-details.php?id=166
CONDITION:
Covers:  Card covers are good, clean with excellent colouring. Small nick out of foxes back. Some slight rubbing and age-related wear. Creasing to spine along front cover gutter and creasing at bottom corner front cover. Slight rubbing to most edges and corners. There is a small square indentation bottom right visible on inside of the front cover fading out by page 20 and a small splodge inside bottom left front cover as per image
Owners inscription on the front free end paper as per image.
Binding: Tight
Spine: Slight bumping along bottom and top edges of spine
Pages.  All pages complete and are age toned, yellowing with no tears or creasing. Author list has ink ticks and lines drawn as per image.
A very good copy of a vintage 45-year-old well-loved paperback.
Books, pamphlets and magazines are pre-owned and pre-loved showing some signs of use. Dust Jackets are graded separately. Photos are included to help you judge the condition.