King John and the Magna Carta, 1969, Series 561 (later style covers)

£4.00

King John and the Magna Carta was the 27th title in the 561 series, colourfully written by L du Garde Peach and illustrated by John Kenney.  This book was never issued with a dustwrapper – at least, not until the facsimile editions started to appear in around 2015.

In this colourful telling of the life and times of bad King John, writer L du Garde Peach and artist John Kenney seem to be enjoying themselves – both text and illustrations dance along in lively fashion.  Yet the long-running collaboration between these two men was coming to an end.  They would go on to illustrate only two more books together.

This copy:

In the late 1970s this book was reissued with the cover you see here, rather than the full-page illustration of the early editions.  The cover style is the only change.  So you may not remember the cover picture, but inside it’s the original version.

This book has matt boards is in excellent condition, inside and out.  The only fault is a mark on the back cover, which you can see in the photos.  The pages are  tight and clean.  It dates to the mid to late 1970s and has the original price of 24p on the back.

 

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Weight 0.11 kg