THE DAILY EXPRESS RUPERT ANNUAL - 1996. [No.61.]**

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.NMINT. No owner inscrptn to ownership name-box/panel and no price-clip 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,tears or splits present - boards virtually scoring/ident-free.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean,mo foxing/spotting or other blemish; contents exceptionally bright,tight and clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,6-108pp [paginated] includes 5 colour strip stories, none of the two colouring-in pages attempted,an untouched spot-the-difference puzzle page,a Who am I? riddle page,an untouched crossword puzzle,similarly for the maze puzzle,as for an encrypted code puzzle,and thea recognition puzzle and a word puzzle too,ALL of these untouched,and a puzzles' solutions page as the last page.Cover: Rupert with Little Bo Peep and his friends in a woodland scene,in front of a castle,and holding a nursery rhymes book.First story: Rupert and the Dragon's Dance,plus 4 others,Rupert and the Lost Sheep,Rupert and the Pirates,Rupert and the Mail Train and Rupert and the Deep Freeze. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. a child's annual,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.
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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 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,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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