A word of caution. If you think that buying a high priced Gerald Swan annual or book on Ebay -or from sellers that charge Ebay prices- and that means you can sell it for more -forget it.
Interest in the albums is quite low but people do get sucked in my the "VERY rare" and "extremely rare" claims of sellers. There is a conner out there whose copy of one album has been £1000 for a very long time...no one biting! Having hit financial insecurity I found that none of the sellers would buy good quality copies of the albums that, according to them, can be priced high and they will be snatched up. I was told more than once "its a buyers (ie Seller's) market".
It was good to find a roughly A6 Swan story comic and as they were never dated the best the seller could do was "1940s-1950s" and even though it is No. 58 it does not appear in Gifford's guides (as he included other story papers that is odd). I believe this is post war but needs more research.
The stories, as you will see, are typed and obviously pasted up columns of text with the odd lovely illustration.
Below: The Pixie Policeman and illo enlargement
As with Swan comics the Fairies Albums were all reprinted material from the A6 booklets and I have a few of those and they always make me smile!
So how much did I pay? £5.00 and I can tell you now that I only paid that because I wanted an example for my archive. I would love to say that this is going to make me a fortune IF I resold it but I won't and since there were no takers on Ebay other than me for this one I think I'd be letting myself in for a big disappointment if I did try a re-sell!!
That Fairies cover looks like a Norman Pett.
ReplyDeleteProbably David Williams but none of the illoes are credited --though they are in the albums!
ReplyDeleteDavid Williams, hmm, I shall - as a friend of mine once put it - imwestigate. From what I can see, a similar style.
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