Chatterbox

Daily Express Annual

One owner

1924 – Date appears as Title of Contents

316 pages, plus endpapers, Title Page and Contents/Illustration page

Frequent illustrations, with a number in colour

Ads on endpages, back cover, and inside both covers

First story – Bushrangers’ Gold

Publisher – Wells Gardner Darton & Co Ltd, 3 & 4 Paternoster Building, London

Printer – Strangeways & Sons, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, WC

Condition – Used, as would be expected for its age

No Dust Jacket

Board covers are frayed – Green binding appears original with spine starting to rip on back. Dark beige paper with a Pears Soap ad glued over back board, and a yellow-bordered photograph of a dog covering the front board. Spine is blank.

Front endpaper (ad plus frontispiece on one folded sheet) - half ripped from the cover

Title page and Contents/Illustrations pages (one folded sheet) - loose and frayed, but intact, snipped at bottom right corner.

Back endpaper with ads is loose

Back cover – coming loose from the bound pages

Pages 1 – 316 are in tidy, bound condition with light foxing on edges and occasionally on pages.

No scribbles or drawings anywhere.

Owner’s name and price pencilled at top of front endpaper.