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Book. Good+. Hardcover. Red cloth cover with light green illustrated boards showing rupert and friends helping a boy out of a holeSome juvenile colour pencil scribbles to some cut-outs although all appear to be present and not cut-out from book.Corners bumped. Some rubbing to edges. Tanning to spine. .

Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Tourtel, Mary. Very good condition with no wrapper. Coloured pictorial boards and red cloth spine, cover background mainly blue, front cover shows Rupert and Edward on swings with the Nutwood friends. 25mm thick. Two-tone text illustrations. (Originally published 1938 with pictorial spine). Spine bumped, corners bumped and worn. Some slight lifting of surface paper at spine edge of front cover. Inscription in ink and name and address in belongs to box on front pastedown. Some colouring to the painting pages. Two patches of surface paper damage to rear pastedown. Light page browning to contents.

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1953 . Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 8". Mary Tourtel. A charming collection of four Rupert Bear tales, accompanied by 120 coloured figures intended for cutting out and playing with. First published in 1950, this is the 1953 second printing of this charming work.Lofts and Adley, 'The Rupert Index', page 50. The 1953 printing of this work, with 120 cut-outs rather than the 200 referred to by the front board, and with the tale 'Rupert, the Witch and Tabitha' removed, though still mentioned to the title page.This work contains four tales first authored by Mary Tourtel between 1926 and 1932: Rupert in Trouble Again, Rupert and the Old Man of the Sea, Rupert and the Wilful Princess and Rupert Goes Hiking.With monochrome and colour illustrations throughout, none of which have been cut out. n the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards. Boards bright, with bumping to board perimeters and light rubbing to back strip head and tail. Front joint… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co LTD, [1938]. First edition. Hardback. Good. 10" by 7.5". Mary Tourtel. A lovely Rupert volume by the inventor of the bear, Mary Tourtel, the first edition of this illustrated work. The first edition of this uncommon work.A charming collection of Rupert tales by Mary Tourtel, illustrated colourfully throughout in Tourtel's signature style, including with a frontispiece.Rupert Bear is a popular children's comic strip character, a cornerstone of British culture since his first appearance in 1920. He was originally created by Mary Tourtel, in order to win sales for the Daily Express from its rivals, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail.This volume includes a total of seven tales; 'Rupert's Holiday', 'A Christmas Pudding for Rupert', 'Rupert and the Old Miser', 'Rupert's Christmastide', 'Rupert and the Fairy Child', 'Rupert and the Mince Pies', and 'Rupert and the Wise Goat's Party', as well as a selection of Rupert pictures to colour and cut out. Two of the pictures… Read More

Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., London, c. 1937. 124 pp, small quarto, illustrated paste-downs, coloured cut-out illustrations, b&w line drawn illustrations, 'belongs to' section completed in pencil, board corners worn, cloth spine flecked, else very good copy in illustrated, papered boards, with red, cloth spine.. All cut-outs intact.

London, Sampson Low Marston & Co Ltd., undated (1938).. FIRST EDITION (1938), small 4to, 255 x 190 mm, 10 x 8 inches, spine 40 mm (1½") thick, frontispiece in full colour, illustrated throughout in green, blue, red, brown and black and white, text printed in several colours, pages unnumbered but collated and guaranteed complete, original publisher's coloured pictorial glazed boards: Rupert and elephant on swings with badger and rabbits on upper cover, fruit store on lower cover, pictorial endpapers. Tiny bump to both top corners, slightest wear to head and tail of spine, 2 minute grazes to background of coloured frontispiece plus 2 small grazes to inner margin, page edges slightly darkened, otherwise an almost Fine clean unmarked copy in very bright binding. The stories: Rupert's Holiday; A Christmas Pudding for Rupert; Rupert and the Old Miser, Rupert's Christmastide; Rupert and the Fairy Child; Rupert and the Mince Pies; and Rupert and the Wise Goat's Party. Later reprints have red cloth spines,… Read More