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HENDERSON**, JAMES: : THE DAILY EXPRESS RUPERT ANNUAL - 2007. [No. 72.]**

LONDON.DAILY EXPRESS/EGMONT UK LIMITED,2007.

ISBN 9781405231015.

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.[This is the first annual produced by Egmont UK Ltd. The size has been reduced from the annuals,and it is now slightly smaller than those of the 1990's.] FINE+. No owner inscrptn to 'belongs to' name-box/panel and no price-clip (£7.99) to colour pictorial illustrated title page.Bright, clean,crisp,sharp-cornered,glossy/glazed,wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated card boards and repeated colour pictorial illustrated endpapers by John HARROLD; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,splits or tears present.Virtually scoring/indent-free to either board.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents exceptionally bright,tight and clean,solid and sound,near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread,apart from my own collation.Between pp98/99,an inexplicable but small cluster wrinkling impression with no discolouring/staining to the fronts+backs of those 4 pages - as if something had been sandwiched between them.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,illustrated 1st edn,4-99pp [paginated] includes 5 individual,colour-strip stories, activities include a wordsearch,How to Draw Rupert page,a maze puzzle,a Join-the-dots page,a spot-the-difference puzzle,a Rupert's X-word,a Rupert Write your Own story and a colouring-in page,a double-page dice+counter board game,a 1pp Origami instructions+ illus to make a horse's head bookmark,and a memory test puzzle with solutions/answers to foot of same,as last page - ALL these fun pages are untouched and have NOT been attempted.Cover: Rupert running through the village with a basket of comestibles in one hand and a shopping list in the other with various other Nutwood characters/ friends on similar shopping trips extending round to the rear board. First story: Rupert and the Sleeping Village followed by four other stories - Rupert and the Little Train,Rupert and Algy's Misadventure, Rupert and Podgy's Christmas and Rupert and the Metal Horse (this last story has never appeared in a Rupert Annual before.) This annual was the last one in which the "Follow Rupert" artwork appeared,and also the last Rupert annual to be illustrated by John Harrold. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age and its nature, i.e. a child's book,and particulalrly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the single interior fault described that prevents the highest grading.Nevertheless,it really still is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. Want more RUPERT titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogue. 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.Up to now (2007),he 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. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving in a week or so and other times before the quoted 42 days - but not always.

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued, 1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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