Buy this book on-line ROBINSON**, IAN - Edited by: : THE DAILY EXPRESS RUPERT ANNUAL - 2002. [No.67.]UK.EXETER,DEVON,PEDIGREE BOOKS LIMITED,2002. ISBN 1902836197.
UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn. FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£6.99).Bright,clean,crisp,sharp-cornered glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by John HARROLD,illustrated boards which are virtually indent-free; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,4-109pp [paginated] includes colour strip stories,fairy cakes recipe,an untouched, unattempted spot-the-difference puzzle,an unattempted who is missing? puzzle,an unattempted Rupert's Crossword puzzle page,a colouring-in page (which offer to colour in,has been declined and therefore untouched),another memory puzzle,and a puzzle's solutions page with some words crossed out of the crossword clues. NONE of the activity/fun pages touched or attempted.Cover: Rupert sat in snow,with a lion jumping up and licking Rupert's face,surrounded by other Nutwood characters/friends,round to rear board.First story: Rupert and the Broken Wand,plus 5 others; Rupert and the Artist, Rupert and the Whizz Watch,Rupert and the Cloud Catchers,Rupert and the Christmas Play and Rupert and the Christmas Fairy.
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 (2002),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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UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.FINE. Owner's ink handwritten name (in childish scrawl) to 'belongs to name-box/panel inscrptn but no price-clip (£6.99) to colour pictorial illustrated title page.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, glossy/glazed,wrap-around colour pictorial illustarted card boards and repeted colour pictorial illustrated endpapers by John Harrold; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creases to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - boards virtually indent-free.A small 1cm closed tear to lower edge of front free endpaper,towards spine's gutter fold.Top edges with a short,narrow,longitudinal blemish, fore-edges bright and clean and without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound,one dog-ear reading crease to top corner pp71/72,5 various interactive activities.UK,slim Qrto HB, no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,4-109pp [paginated] includes 6 colour illustrated stories,a completed missing character grid puzzle,a colouring page - untouched,a completed X-word, completed Spot-the-difference puzzle,a memory puzzle not attenpted and grid untouched,and a Fairy Cakes recipe,and a colour pictorial illustrated solutions/answers page as last page; plus [unpaginated] an illustrated contents page to reverse to front free endpaper,and a colour illustrated title page.Cover: Rupert dressed in a winter coat,sat in snow with a toy lion licking his face surrounded by various,numerous other Nutwood characters/friends extending round to the rear cover.First story: R and the Broken Wand,others include R and the Artist,R and the Whizz Watch,R and the Cloud Catchers,R and the Christmas Play, and R and the Christmas Fairy. Even with some of the puzzles completed,still and acceptable and collectable example,and would prevent the book being graded as FINE+.
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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 -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 (then 2002),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.
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