RUPERT BEAR COLLECTION
A broken run of Rupert Annuals from 1936 to 1992: 1936-38 facsimile reprints in near-mint condition (publisher's promotional bands); 1945-49 original pictorial paper covers, generally good, some edge ware and rubbing to spines (spines chipped to foot of '45 and '49); 1950-54 original pictorial boards, 1950 lacking spine strip, 1953 more-or-less disbound and lacking rear cover; 1980-89 (two copies of '89) original pictorial boards, good; and 1990-92, 1990 with the dust jacket with poster printed to verso. Ownership signatures to earlier issues, but not to the more recent (no editions from the 1960s and 1970s).
Other Rupert publications: The Big Rupert Story Book, [c.1950] duotone illustrations throughout, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, a few ff. badly torn and chipped; Rupert Story Book, [c.1950], Purnell, duotone and b&w illustrations, original pictorial boards, rubbed; Bestall (A.) and Perry (George, Ed.) A Bear's Life, 1986; Tourtel (Mary) The Monster Rupert [1930s], b&w illus., rubbed and scuffed pictorial boards [&] The Monster Rupert A Story and Picture Book with 120 Cut-Outs in Colour (two copies); also Rupert and the Little Price [1920s], Sampson Low, from The Little Bear Library, plus a quantity of reprints in the same series; one Nutwood Newsletter, some other misc. titles [plus:] Blyton (Enid) five Noddy titles [&] Hodgetts (Sheila) five Toby Twirl titles
[with:] an assortment of non-paper Rupert collectables: plates, bowls, mugs, cup and saucer, bookends by Wedgwood, egg cup, tin-glazed money box, chocolate egg, puzzle game, towel, height chart, lapel badges etc (qty)