first edition
1922 · London
by Williams, Margery; William Nicholson [Illustrator]
London: Heinemann, 1922. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. [vii], 19 pp. Complete with 7 offset color lithographic plates, of which 3 are double page. Bound in publisher's printed paper-covered boards, patterned endpapers; lacking dust jacket. Very Good; rebacked with most of original spine laid on. Moderate wear, toning, and soiling and minimal foxing to boards. Thumbing and scattered foxing (chiefly to margins) throughout, birthday gift inscription in an old hand to half-title page. The rare first edition of the bittersweet children's tale, much-loved like its protagonist, with beautiful and vivid color illustrations by William (truncated)