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Buy this book on-line CLIFFORD**, MARTIN [pseud Frank Richards**]: : TOM MERRY'S WEEKLY. [HOWARD BAKER GEM VOLUME No.18.]LONDON.HOWARD BAKER PRESS LTD.,(GREYFRIARS PRESS) 1983. ISBN 070300252X.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,3 colour-block (red,white+blue) facsimile illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright, clean,unblemished,publisher's original, plain green cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,comprising 7 school stories published by The Amalgamated Press,from The GEM 1931 and 1932 respectively,and includes b/w+3 colour- block facsimile reproduction illustrations,b/w facsimile contemporary advertisements and stories.
The writing phenomenon known to the world as Martin Clifford,but who was also well known and much loved by generations of readers as Frank Richards and Owen Conquest,died at his home at Kingsgate in Kent on Christmas Eve,1961,at the age of eighty-six.His real name was Charles Hamilton,and by the time that he died it is conservatively estimated that he had written - under one name or another - the equivalent of one thousand full-length novels.
His work appeared continuously for over thirty years in those famous Fleetway House magazines 'The Gem' and 'The Magnet'.Undoubtedly the most famous of all his immortal creations was Billy Bunter, the Fat Owl of the Greyfriars Remove,whose exploits together with those of Harry Wharton and Co.,appeared in the latter paper from 1908 to 1940.Almost equally well-known was his uniquely memorable character,the Hon. Arthur Augustus D'Arcy, the Swell of St. Jim's,ably supported in GEM stories by Tom Merry, Jack Blake, Talbot (the Toff), Dr. Holmes and many others.
Altogether,the brilliant character studies of boys,masters,and local citizens of which he was capable ensured Charles Hamilton's place in the hall of literary fame.This great story-teller loved
writing for the young and affirmed that no writer could do any better work in life. Certainly,no-one did it better than he.
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