JUST WILLIAM...

The covers you see here are from a boxed set of four WILLIAM BROWN books by RICHMAL CROMPTON (and are also sold individually).  The illustrations on numbers two to four are from the original 1920's dustjackets by THOMAS HENRY, while number one is from an original dustjacket from the '40s.  The SUNDAY TIMES described the series as "Probably the funniest, toughest children's books ever written", but the stories were originally aimed at adults and appeared in HOME magazine in 1919 before being collected into book form, the first of which appeared in 1922.  There were 38 books in all, the last one being published posthumously in 1970.  The earliest ones are the funniest though, and if you've never read any before, you should give 'em a try before you fall off the twig 

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