THE DAILY EXPRESS RUPERT ANNUAL - 1992. [No 57.]

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.FINE+.Handwritten, ink dated 1992 Christmas gift presentation inscrptn to belongs to box/panel but no price-clip (£4.75) to colour pictorial illustrated title page.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy/glazed,sharp-cornered,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated card boards and pictorial coloured endpapers by John HARROLD; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped,with a couple of horizontal laminate wrinkles/ creases to same - virtually the only production(?) fault - looks almost as new.Boards are virtually indent-free.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents exceptionally bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,no nicks or tears,and no foxing/spotting present.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,6-92pp [paginated] includes 5 colour strip stories,a competently and neatly coloured colouring page completed and with owner's written blue felt-tip ink stencilled RUPERT name beneath,an untouched spot-the-difference puzzle,publisher's colour pictorial illustrated advert for other Rupert strip stories in the Daily Express newspaper with puzzle's solution and 3 b/w Rupert figures to colour-in untouched,at foot of same,as the last page.Cover: Rupert,with a white+brown face,holding a lit lantern in one hand and a wrapped present under his other arm,in front of Father Christmas handing out a present from his sack to Gregory.Other Nutwood friends/characters in the background extending round to rear board.First story: Rupert and the Falling Leaf,plus 4 others - Rupert and the Wool Gatherers,Rupert and the Sea Urchin,Rupert and the Gardens Mystery,and Rupert and the Missing Snow.
An exceptional example of a pre-owned and carefully cared for item for a discerning collector's own collection.
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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 edn was his first annual,and 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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