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Here's Ken signing copies:

I also wondered if the jacket was a near contemporary addition to try to shift unsold copies but the 2/6 price was the initial 1939 price according to the advertising lists I've seen.

Yes Phil, it does have the colour plate.

No problem Hawkeye. If it's permissible I can try to upload an image of Ken's signing session. It's hard to tell if the copies on display are jacketed because the image is so poor but the white border on the bottom of the front cover illustrations seem ...

...and here's the front flap:

I have the book in front of me now and I was slightly mistaken. There is an illustration on the back cover and a printed price (2/6) on the inside front flap - no synopsis though.

I'm uploading some photos below, there's a jacket protector which I'm loath to remove so they're not fantastic quality ...

Interesting...No Hawkeye it's an original, well certainly not a home-made affair in the sense that it appears definitely contemporary and professionally printed.

I'll dig it out in the next day or so but, from memory, it reproduces the front cover and spine of the boards but the back cover and ...

Thanks Hawkeye - I'll dig it out and post a picture when I can.

Incidentally, there's an article on the British Newspaper Archive showing that Ken spent a couple of days in the book department at Lewis' Department Store in Manchester signing copies, with an accompanying photograph of Ken in situ ...

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I've been lurking in the shadows for a fair while but I thought I'd contribute. I may be one of the buyers of the £20 buy it now eBay copies of The Adventures of Fudge mentioned above - actually it was £19.39 so presumably the seller was setting prices by the year of publication that day ...