Rupert Annual, 1974, RUP 23, (Copy 3).

1st Thus,. Hardcover. GD+/GD+/ND. Box X07 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* RUP 23, Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1974* Publisher: Beaverbrook Newspapers for the Daily Express.* Binding and cover condition: Colour laminated illustrated cover, yellow title to face with squared pattern in black. Minor bumps & rubs to corners and to head & tail of spine. Small splits at head & tail of spine. Rupert and snow scene to front board with black cat in the foreground by Alex Cubie. Minimal light impression marks to front & one very small crease to rear board. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Crisp & tight with minimal reading wear, no name in ?belongs to? panel and title page price un-clipped showing shelf price of 60p. Dedication & some small pencil marks to title page. Puzzles and activities untouched but some crayon marks and scribbles to one or two pages. Some slight fox marks to prelims & fore-edge. GD++* Illustrations: Colour illustrations throughout.* Pages: 114 pp. text. i pp advertisement and solution to puzzle at rear.* Description: With fantastic colour illustration of a fishing harbour at twilight named ?Rupert at The Fishing Haven,? (first by Alex Cubie) on end papers (unmarked). An entertaining annual packed with colour illustrated picture stories featuring Rupert and his friends in ?Rupert and The Iron Spade,? ?Rupert and Jenny Frost,? ?Rupert and The Secret Path,? ?Rupert and The Little Bells,?; plus puzzle and details of how to make ?Rupert?s paper yacht?.* A NEAR VG copy but with cover and contents faults reducing it to GD++* RUP 23.