Mary Tourtel — Rupert Little Bear More Stories

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A brightly illustrated first edition of this collection of Rupert Bear stories. First edition. Uncommon work. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, as well as colour images and decorations throughout. A collection of delightful stories following Rupert Bear, a well-known British children's comic strip character 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. Titles include: Rupert and the Brigands, Rupert's Christmastide, and Rupert and the Ogres, amongst others. Written and illustrated by Mary Tourtel, a British artist best known as the creator of the comic strip Rupert Bear. Dated from the British Library. Rebacked in quarter cloth with the original pictorial boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Age toning to the extremities. Good . Ill.: Mary Tourtel. Good .