Chums Annuals (An Early Collection) Various. Biography,Children's & Illustrated,Single Subject Collections

Three massive volumes (image 1) as follows: 1. 1927 - 1928 (image 3). 832 pages., 2. 1935 - 1936. Image 4. 411 pages, and: 1936 - 1937. 412 pages. Image 5. The set very heavy at 8 kg. 32 x 25 x 18 cm. Sold as one collection. [Chums was a boys' weekly newspaper started in 1892 by Cassell & Company and later, from 1927, published by Amalgamated Press. The publisher gathered the weekly paper into monthly and annual editions. The monthly versions were published on the 25th of the month, and up to November 1920 included all the content of the weekly editions. From then on, the monthly editions had all the story content of the weeklies, but left out the covers. This left a gap which was then filled by short stories, articles and even serials that were not included in the weekly edition. The serial ceased publication in 1941]. Features an early serial "For Lawrence and Arabia", by John Sylvester. See also our ABE Listing # 008415 "Chatterbox Annual" for 1901. [John Edward Gunby Hadath MA FRSA was an English schoolmaster, lawyer, company promoter, songwriter, journalist, and author of boarding school stories. He is best remembered for over seventy novels of which over two-thirds were set in English Public Schools, as the short story here].