A limited edition of Poor Cecco, illustrated by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Arthur%20Rackham&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arthur Rackham</a>, one of only 105 numbered copies signed by the author, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Margery%20Williams%20Bianco&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Margery Williams Bianco</a>.<ul><li>Margery Williams Bianco (American).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (English).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;George Doran,&nbsp;1925.</li><li>xiv, 15-175, [1] pages.</li><li>Illustrated by Rackham with 7 very large tipped-in color plates with tissue guards and black-and-white images in text.</li><li>Original vellum-like backed blue boards, in original slipcase with the limitation number of the book inked at head of case spine, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut, pictorial endpapers.</li></ul> Margery Williams was born in London but moved to the U.S. when she was nine years old. Her first children's stories were published in London where she lived for a short time, met her husband and had two children, one of whom was a son named Cecco. In 1921 the family moved back to the United States and it was in the U.S. that she wrote her most famous book, The Velveteen Rabbit. Never issued in the UK as a limited edition, Poor Cecco is a notorious rarity in the Rackham world and this is a magnificent copy of the book.

Poor Cecco (signed)

The rarest variant of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Margery+Williams+Bianco&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Margery Williams Bianco</a>'s beloved children's tale, The Velveteen Rabbit.<ul><li>Margery Williams Bianco (American).</li><li>Illustrated by William Nicholson (British).</li><li>New York &amp; London:&nbsp;George H. Doran &amp; Heinemann,&nbsp;1922.</li><li>[8], 19, [1] pages.</li><li>Illustrated with 4 full-page and 3 double-page color lithographs.</li><li>First printing, US issue in a variant (likely trial) UK jacket.</li><li>Original pictorial paper boards, original unclipped (no price) variant pictorial dust jacket (printed in single color, no logo on spine, blank rear panel), color pictorial rabbit endpapers, housed in a custom full leather clamshell box.</li></ul> "The truth is I don't think I've ever found anything as purely 'moving' as the end of The Velveteen Rabbit" – David Foster Wallace This book captures the wistful attachment to our childhood toys through the story of a stuffed rabbit that hopes the love of its owner can make it real. It is one of the great collaborations in modern children's books, with the lithographs and the text equally invoking bittersweet affection: "You were Real to the Boy [...] because he loved you." Later printings did not use lithography to produce Nicholson's drawings, making the first printing especially distinctive in the quality of its lustrous illustrations. This is a remarkable copy of one of the first modern picture books. Scarce, in an unrestored dust jacket, and especially in this variant.

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