The BASH STREET KIDS - 1986.

UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn. FINE. No owner inscrptn but price-clip to colour pictorial cartoon illustrated sets of immaculate endpapers+ pastedowns.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,paper-covered boards with red lettered with black outline to white background title and yellow year date with black outline to white background and colour pictorial cartoon illustration to front,a bright,crisp,clean red spine/backstrip with black outlined yellow letters and black lettered white panel without sunning or fading to same,rear board with colour pictorial cartoon illustration; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks,tears or splits present. Corner tips/edges of both head+foot of spine's gutter's fold/crease minisculely rubbed with minimal paper loss. Colour pictorial cartoon of characters in a charity bed race - the school kids in beds being pushed by school staff,Dennis the Menace pushing Gnasher,his dog,in the dog's kennel to the rear of the race,to the front board,rear board illustration of the Teacher exhausted on the bed that is now being pushed by the school kids who are declared the winners of the race,as they arrive and finish at the school.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned with some minimal,sporadic spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any page' corner tips - appears unread other than my own collation.UK, slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,92pp [unpaginated] includes profuse colour,pictorial Bash Street cartoon strips,6 single-page colour 'IF I WAS GRANTED JUST ONE WISH...' cartoons,double-page 'FREAK FOOD' cartoons,double-page colour cartoon 'Ye Olde Bash St. Kids',4pp rhyming 'Match of the Day' cartoons,single-page colour cartoon 'TIP-TOP TOOTHBRUSHES',double-page colour caroon of BASH STREET KIDS IN THE FUTURE', single page of puzzles - none of which attempted so unused/completed,a Spot the Hidden Kids,and the last two pages as a Beanotown cartoon Marathon race.
4th ANNUAL and the last of the bi-annual issues before its yearly publication in the following years.
An uncommonly high grade example of an uncommon publisher's 4th annual,with first cartoon strip 'Paper Caper'. Visually the exterior appearance is spectacular for a book of it's age and nature, i.e a child's book,and even internally,the book is virtually pristine and in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.
The Bash Street Kids are a group of nine characters in Bash Street School,and are the main protagonists of the comic strip,from The BEANO comic.The strip, created by the legendary Leo Baxendale as 'When the Bell Rings',first appeared in issue No.604 (dated February,1954).It became The Bash Street Kids in 1956 and has become a regular feature,appearing in every issue.Originally and previously known as THE BASH STREET KIDS BOOK' it commenced in 1980,and ran bi-annually for the first 4 issues,and then resumed publication every year from 1989 - no annual in 1988 - ceasing in 2010 with 26 annuals in total.
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