THE DAILY EXPRESS RUPERT ANNUAL - 1967. by BESTALL,A[lfred] E[dmeade]**:

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.GOOD.Residue of owner's pencilled name partially erased,price-clipped [originally 6/-).Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Alfred BESTALL,illustrated bds; with some negligible shelf-wear to edges,but all the corners inevitably bumped with some reciprocal rubbing and minimal loss to same.Laminate breaking,cracked in a couple of places to spine/ backstrip.Some minimal paper illustration missing at foot of same and round towards foot of rear bd Approx 1/2" of top of spine/backstrip missing.Upper bd has minimal scoring/ indentations.Top+fore-edge slightly aged; contents bright,tight and generally clean,Magic Painting pages have been removed,a closed tear to bottom edge of pp17/8 and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Described hard but fairly and honestly.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/d,as issued,1st edn,4-114pp [paginated] includes colour strip stories,2pp origami instructions to make a rabbit or hare; plus [unpaginated] contents list/table recto of ffe,title- page and contents list/table and publisher's advert to verso of rear free endpaper.Cover: Rupert and a few friends on a snow-covered hill slope, pulling a dog on a sledge.First story Rupert and the Lost List (1957-8) - plus 3 others,Rupert and the Jackdaw (1958),Rupert and Floppity (1958),and Rupert and the Carved Stick (1958). Alfred Edmeades Bestall (1892-1986),born Mandalay, Burma,the son of a Methodist minister.Studies art on a scholarship at the Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts,and afterwards at the Central School of Arts and Crafts,London.After serving in Flanders during WW1 (1915-19),he worked in Fleet Street, contributing humorous illustrations to 'Punch', 'The Tatler', 'The Bystander', 'Passing Show' and various lesser magazines. In 1936 he took over the Daily Express series of Rupert Bear strips (created by Mary Tourtel and first appeared in the paper on 8th November,1920.) from her and by the time he retired from morning paper work in 1965, he had produced over 270 Rupert adventures.He continued to draw for the 'Rupert' annuals until 1973. Want more RUPERT titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogue.
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