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NICHOLSON (WILLIAM) BIANCO (MARGERY WILLIAMS) The Velveteen Rabbit. Or How Toys Become Real. With Illustrations by William Nicholson, FIRST EDITION, William Heinemann, 1922 image 1
NICHOLSON (WILLIAM) BIANCO (MARGERY WILLIAMS) The Velveteen Rabbit. Or How Toys Become Real. With Illustrations by William Nicholson, FIRST EDITION, William Heinemann, 1922 image 2
NICHOLSON (WILLIAM) BIANCO (MARGERY WILLIAMS) The Velveteen Rabbit. Or How Toys Become Real. With Illustrations by William Nicholson, FIRST EDITION, William Heinemann, 1922 image 3
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NICHOLSON (WILLIAM)
BIANCO (MARGERY WILLIAMS) The Velveteen Rabbit. Or How Toys Become Real. With Illustrations by William Nicholson, FIRST EDITION, William Heinemann, 1922

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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NICHOLSON (WILLIAM)

BIANCO (MARGERY WILLIAMS) The Velveteen Rabbit. Or How Toys Become Real. With Illustrations by William Nicholson, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 7 colour lithographed plates (3 double-page), occasional light spotting, publisher's pictorial boards, decorative rabbit pattern endpapers, dust-jacket (head of spine chipped, not affecting lettering, with short tears into front and rear panels), preserved in velvet-lined cloth solander box, 4to, William Heinemann, 1922

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First edition, the only one with Nicholson's illustrations, in the very scarce dust-jacket - rarely found in such good condition.

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