The Persecution of Billy Bunter (The Magnet, Volume 78)

Green cloth-covered boards (some minor indentations on spine). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Illustrated, a few in colour. In its original dust jacket (a little rubbed at edges, scuffed around rear upper corner, light compression creasing on rear inner flap). The writing phenomena known wildly as Frank Richards (real name Charles Hamilton) died at his home in Kingsgate, Kent in 1961 - by then it was estimated he had written over a thousand full length novels. His work appeared continuously for over 30 years in the famous Fleetway House magazine, The Magnet. Most famous of all was his immortal creation, Billy Bunter, the Fat Owl of Grayfrairs Remove, whose exploits enchanted readers from 1908 to 1940. Sadly, the war put an end to the Magnet and, although Richards revived Bunter in other formats after the war, they never quite recaptured the evergreen magic of the original, much-loved, boys' paper. It was for this reason that some 35 years later Howard Baker presented the first of his excellent faithful facsimiles. Each facsimile edition contains a complete series of stories from the Magnet's great golden age. This volume reproduces Volume 78 of the Magnet and contains Billy Bunter tales including Bunter's Barring-In, Asking for Trouble and Skinner Tries It On. 4to.