THE DAILY EXPRESS RUPERT ANNUAL. [1979.]**

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip (originally £1.30p) to colour pictorial illustrated title page.The diagonal price-clip has cut acoss some of the story's text on reverse.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated card boards and colour pictorial illustrated endpapers by John HARROLD; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Corner tips minisculely bumped and gently turned inwards,some minor,minimal superficial drawing indent impressions and laminate wrinkles/ creases to front board,less so to rear board; but includes a laminate wrinkle/crease and a scored line and to top edge,a couple of small dents.The rear,top corner tip of the spine/ backstrip's rear-facing edge with a miniscule rub and reciprocal paper loss.Top+fore-edges aged/toned - as usual/normal; contents bright,tight and generally clean - some page-edge toning,but no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, no nicks or tears present.Both the paper-folding activities have amateurish child-like,red felt-tip ink colouring-in to them.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,4-115pp [paginated] includes 4 colour strip stories,a 2pp and a 1pp Origami instructions+illus to make Rupert's paper party hat or bag and a fold-a-bowl respectively.Cover: Rupert,with a brown face, waving to reader,holding onto a dragon with his right hand, sitting on a tree branch watching the Conjuror performing, surrounded by other Nutwood friends/characters extending round to rear board.First story: Rupert and the Penguins,plus 3 others - Rupert and the Moon Moths,Rupert and the Ice Skates,and Rupert and the Capricorn.
Described hard but fairly and honestly.
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John Harrold took over the illustrating of the Rupert character as Alex CUBIE had retired,and who'd illustrated the previous annuals from 1974 until 1978.
John Harrold was born in Glasgow,1947,and studied art there at the Glasgow School of Art situated in the Charles Rennie Mackintosh building.His first job as a Rupert illustrator was on 'Fun to Cook with Rupert' (drawn in 1973,published 1974).The editor,Frederick Chaplain,was impressed and invited him to work for the Daily Express.His first story,Rupert and the Worried Elves,began on 14 October 1976,and in the same year he produced games pages for the annuals.This copy was his 2nd annual,and is the last of smaller format edns,he has drawn the covers and end-papers for the annuals since this.Up to now (then 1997),has been illustrating the little bear's adventures for longer than Mary Tourtel,and those children who were brought up on his first adventures are now mature adults.
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