The New Rupert Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual , No.19

by Alfred Bestall

$95 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: Express Newspapers, Printed by L.T.A. Robinson Ltd., no date 1954 . Children's Annual FIRST EDITION, association copy. Quarto 25 x 18cm , pp.123. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Name 'Elizabeth Wakefield' in pencil within 'This Book Belongs to' box. The Wakefields were family friends of the author; we have sold copies inscribed to them, and seen hand-written

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