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WILLIAMS, Margery.

The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real.

With Illustrations by William Nicholson.

Publisher: Heinemann, 1922

Stock code: 67969

Price: £15,000 Currency Conversion

First edition, first impression, notable for its chromolithographic illustrations, which were replaced by cheaper, less luminous colour printing in subsequent versions. Copies in dust jacket are rare.

Quarto. Original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 7 colour plates, of which 3 are double-page. Lightly rubbed at extremities, faint spotting to lower edges of boards, spotting to contents. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and spotted jacket with small chips from the corners and a few short closed tears.

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