Billy Bunter's Banknote
Frank Richards
Billy Bunter's Banknote by Frank Richards Volume #2 in the Billy Bunter series about Greyfriars School, published in hardback by Charles Skilton Ltd in 1948. Subsequently reprinted in the 1950s in hardback by Cassell and Company . The Yellow Jacket cover illustrated in this ebook is one of the trademarks of the series of 36 Bunter novels which were published by Cassell and Co between about 1950 and 1965. Because Charles Skilton was a small publisher, and was hampered by the post-war paper rationing, all the Skilton print runs were limited in quantity, for which reason most surviving hardcover editions of this novel are the various printings by Cassell, a much bigger publishing house, to whom Skilton sold or licenced the publishing rights around 1950. Humour. A complete story in one volume, published in 1948. Featuring Billy Bunter and the chums of Greyfriars, an English public school in Kent. Greyfriars School was created in 1908 by the author Charles Hamilton, writing under the pen-name Frank Richards . The stories originally appeared in The Magnet , a British story paper (containing text stories with illustrations), which was published weekly in London by the Amalgamated Press between 1908 and 1940, when publication ceased due to wartime paper shortages. After the war Hamilton continued the stories in other formats. There was a television series, which he wrote, in the 1950s; and a long-running series of novels, published from 1947 until 1965. This publication, sourced…
- Genres
- Adventure
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Pulps for young readers
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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- Internet Archive