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Buy this book on-line BESTALL**, A[lfred] E[dmeades]: : THE DAILY EXPRESS RUPERT ANNUAL - 1966. [No. 31.]LONDON.BEAVERBROOK NEWSPAPERS LTD.,1966. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.VG. Owner name+address but no price-clip (6/-). Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Alfred BESTALL, illustrated boards; with some negligible shelf-wear to edges,but all the corners inevitably bumped with some reciprocal rubbing and minimal loss to same.Some similar bumping and rubbing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Upper board has minimal indents and some laminate wrinkles (production fault).Top+fore-edge slightly aged and dust-soiled; contents bright,tight and generally clean,closed tear to bottom edges of 6 of the 8 Magic Painting pages,book has a slight lean.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn, 2-115pp [paginated] includes colour strip stories,a die game,completed dot-to-dot puzzle, origami instructions to make doll's house furniture,8pp Magic Paintings - all executed and completed; plus [unpaginated] title page and contents list/table.Cover: Rupert,dog,cat and a mouse in glass-domed flying-saucer type machine, steering with one hand and waving to reader with the other.
First story: Rupert and the Magic Ball (1954); plus 3 others,Rupert and the Secret Boat (1958), Rupert and the Billy Goat (1954),and Rupert and the Spring Chicken (1954).
A particularly scarce year's issue.
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.
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