Richards (Frank)

Billy Bunter's Own, signed and inscribed "To Ruth, with love from Frank Richards" on front free endpaper, with typed letter signed by Richards to Ruth pasted onto flyleaf, reading "Very many thanks for a very pleasant little letter, which I was very pleased indeed to receive. I am glad that you like my books, my dear, and glad that your Daddy remembers the old Gem and Magnet which I used to write so many years ago. It is a pleasure to send you my autograph, which I enclose with this letter. I am also enclosing a copy of 'Billy Bunter's Annual", which I should like you to accept as a present from the author", laminated dust-jacket, blue cloth, clipped newspaper articles pasted onto back pastedown, 4to, Madeville Publications, n.y.