John Willie Adventures Of Sweet Gwendoline HC 2nd Edition

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Experience six cartoon adventure serials (including a previously unpublished, but, alas, unfinished 40-page story): Sweet Gwendoline (1946-50); The Escape Artiste (1949); The Missing Princess (1951-52); The Wasp Women (1951-52); The Race for the Gold Cup (1958); and The Golden Idol (previously unpublished)! Plus: A selection of illustrations done for Robert Harrison's magazines (Beauty Parade, Eyeful, Flirt, Titter, Whisper and Wink) in the late 1940s-including "The Diary of a French Maid" (complete + 2 unpublished episodes); 36 black & white reproductions of drawings and paintings (circa 1935-50), mostly from original artwork (34 of which are previously unpublished); 31 watercolors (in full-color), all from original artwork (12 of which are previously unpublished); the First (?) "John Willie" illustration from "London Life" (1935); 3 "Illustrated Letters" from the artist about "tying-up" and "shutting-up" various things; and an expanded biographical introduction, containing much new information about J.W. (including 4 previously unpublished photographs of the artist)! All of this comes in a handsomely printed, large-sized (8-3/4" x 11-1/4" x 1-3/8") hardcover volume of 368 pages that weighs over 3-1/2 pounds!