1946 The New Rupert Book

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Brightly illustrated in colour throughout. A collection of stories about Rupert, a bear who lives with his parents in a house in Nutwood, a fictional idyllic English village, where he finds himself in lots of adventures with his other anthropomorphic friends. Storis include: Rupert and the Blue Mountain, Rupert and the Rocket Plane, and Rupert and the Magic Dart. Created by Mary Tourtel, a British artist best known as the creator of the comic strip Rupert Bear. Written and illustrated by Alfred Bestall, a British author who wrote and illustrated Rupert Bear for the London Daily Express, from 1935 to 1965.